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For safety-conscious New Yorkers: CraneWatch b.v0.8

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:04:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An interactive social mashup site where New Yorkers can research construction sites in their neighborhoods, find current information on safety violations, report street-level observations, and submit news and photos. Very intelligent use of social web technology.

Clip Source: www.unlimited-solutions.com

If you spot something, say something!
beta v0.8

Why CraneWatch?

A series of crane-related construction accidents – including one on Sept. 4 at 600 West 42nd Street - has left New York City residents, workers and visitors scared and skeptical of the safety of many of the construction sites they pass every day on the streets of Manhattan. Revelations about unanswered 311 complaints, safety violations and the lack of adequate inspection and permitting has contributed to a need for timely information about crane safety.

That's why we, as concerned New Yorkers, have developed CraneWatch, an impartial, non-governmental Web site dedicated to monitoring the safety of New York City cranes and construction sites.

Getting information about a crane is easy on CraneWatch.com - just click the markers on the interactive map to see a summary, or click on the crane's address to see detailed information about it, including names and contact information for the site owner and construction manager.

Tags: safety, nyc, resources, social, 2.0, web, mashup, maps, cool, via:twitter

The Resentment Strategy

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:19:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "What the G.O.P. is selling, in other words, is the pure politics of resentment; you’re supposed to vote Republican to stick it to an elite that thinks it’s better than you.
And when Mr. Bush turned out not to be that smart after all, and his presidency crashed and burned, the angry right — the raging rajas of resentment? — became, if anything, even angrier. Humiliation will do that.
That said, the experience of the years since 2000 — the memory of what happened to working Americans when faux-populist Republicans controlled the government — is still fairly fresh in voters’ minds. Furthermore, while Democrats’ supposed contempt for ordinary people is mainly a figment of Republican imagination, the G.O.P. really is the Gramm Old Party — it really does believe that the economy is just fine, and the fact that most Americans disagree just shows that we’re a nation of whiners.

But the Democrats can’t afford to be complacent. Resentment, no matter how contrived, is a powerful force.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Can the super-rich former governor of Massachusetts — the son of a Fortune 500 C.E.O. who made a vast fortune in the leveraged-buyout business — really keep a straight face while denouncing “Eastern elites”?

Can the former mayor of New York City, a man who, as USA Today put it, “marched in gay pride parades, dressed up in drag and lived temporarily with a gay couple and their Shih Tzu” — that was between his second and third marriages — really get away with saying that Barack Obama doesn’t think small towns are sufficiently “cosmopolitan”?

Yes, they can.

But don’t be fooled either by Mr. McCain’s long-ago reputation as a maverick or by Ms. Palin’s appealing persona: the Republican Party, now more than ever, is firmly in the hands of the angry right, which has always been much bigger, much more influential and much angrier than its counterpart on the other side.

What’s the source of all that anger?

Columbia - Visit 2

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:37:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu

Directions

By New York City Public Transit:

Five bus lines (the M4, M5, M11, M60, M104) and one subway line (the #1) serve the Columbia neighborhood. The M60 bus is a direct link between the campus and LaGuardia Airport. The subway stop for the campus is Columbia University/116th Street. Please note: if you begin your subway journey on the #2 or #3 express train, be certain to transfer at 96th Street to the #1 train, as the #2 and #3 trains turn away from Manhattan’s Upper West Side before 116th Street.

For More Information

Feel free to contact the Visitors Center at (212) 854-4900 for additional information.

Columbia - Visit

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:27:06 GMT

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Clip Source: wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu

Tours

Tours begin the week of September 8 and end the week of December 1. There are no tours Monday, November 3 and Tuesday, November 4. There are no tours Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28.

Mondays 1pm
Wednesdays 12pm
Thursdays 10:30am

Please meet at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery located at 310 Dodge Hall. There is no need to reserve a space.

Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City offers Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing.

http://arts.columbia.edu Webmaster

AI - Fashion Design

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:59:24 GMT

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Clip Source: ai.fashionschools.com

The Art Institute of New York City

Prepare yourself for a creative career at The Art Institute of New York City, one of over 40 Art Institutes located in major cities across North America. We’ll help take you there with a real-world, hands-on education in design, media arts, fashion & the culinary arts. Just imagine: preparing for a career you’ll love. Becoming the professional you’ve always known you could be.

Programs Offered:

Art & Design Technology (Fashion Design)

In the Fashion Design program, you’ll develop skills in design and patternmaking. You’ll learn both traditional and computer generated design as you develop your own sense of design and style. Graduates are prepared to seek entry-level employment such as costume designer, assistant fashion buyer, fashion designer, or seamstress.

The Art Institute of New York City

75 Varick Street, 16th Floor

New York, NY 10013-1917

AI - Visit

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:57:27 GMT

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Clip Source: ai.fashionschools.com

The Art Institute of New York City

75 Varick Street, 16th Floor

New York, NY 10013-1917

FIT - Visit 2

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:45:34 GMT

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Clip Source: fitnyc.edu

Mailing address:
Fashion Institute of Technology
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street
New York City 10001-5992

Ecuador Giving U.S. Air Base the Boot

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:34:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.democraticunderground.com

Prevailing Nationalism, Investment From Elsewhere Make American Presence Obsolete

MANTA, Ecuador -- When U.S. officers stationed in this humid coastal city give reasons they should continue their decade-old airborne surveillance mission, they talk not only about fighting drug runners on the open seas but about the $71 million they've spent to renovate and maintain the city's airport, and the $6.5 million they inject each year into the local economy.

But the government of Ecuador has decided, and Washington has apparently agreed, that one of the most important foreign outposts in the United States' war on drugs will close. The 450 U.S. Air Force personnel and contractors stationed at a military base that shares the airport's runway will be leaving next year.

"This is a problem for us of sovereignty," Larrea said. "It's as if we had a base in New York. This would be incomprehensible for North Americans."

Alaska Native & AT&T Bid 2.9 Billion

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:09:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.allbusiness.com

Native corporations leap into wireless

By Pounds, Nancy
Publication: Alaska Journal of Commerce
Date: Sunday, February 25 2001

A trio of Alaska Native corporations is working together to enter the wireless industry and plans to serve major markets that include Los Angeles and New York.

However, some critics are questioning the outcome of the process that helped the consortium acquire rights to those markets.

Arctic

Officials from Alaska Native Wireless believe the bids represent the largest acquisition ever of federal communications licenses by a minority-controlled entity.

Alaska Native Wireless, with its partner AT&T Wireless, was the high bidder on almost $2.9 billion in wireless licenses covering 43 markets with a total population of 71 million. Markets include Los Angeles, New York City, Denver, Tampa, Fla., Cleveland, Jacksonville, Fla., Minneapolis, New Haven, Conn., and Portland, Ore.

Rock Hall will honor music innovator Les Paul

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:32:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In 1952, Gibson introduced the Les Paul model, which became the instrument of choice for musicians such as Duane Allman, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.

"It's not just his innovation and his musical playing, but sort of the residual effects of that guitar," Stewart said. "It's become the beginning point for so many people in music, particularly rock music."

Paul still performs weekly at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. He was inducted into the early influence category of the Rock Hall in 1988.

Paul is only the second living recipient of the annual American Music Masters award, which began in 1996 to pay tribute to artists who helped change American culture. Jerry Lee Lewis was the first living recipient in 2007. Past recipients include Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters and Sam Cooke.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Rock Hall will honor music innovator Les Paul

CLEVELAND - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will pay tribute to the "father of the electric guitar" this fall.

Les Paul will be honored at the annual American Music Masters series, a weeklong event that begins Nov. 10, Rock Hall officials said Tuesday. A tribute concert — artists will be named later — is scheduled Nov. 15 at Cleveland's State Theater.

Paul, 93, is hoping to attend, said Rock Hall President and CEO Terry Stewart.

Paul began playing guitar as a child and by 13 was performing semiprofessionally as a country-music guitarist. He later made his mark as a jazz-pop musician, recording hits like "How High the Moon" with his wife, singer Colleen Summers, better known as Mary Ford. They divorced in 1964.

He built a solid-body electric guitar in 1941 — an invention born from his frustration that audiences were unable to hear him play.

Tags: les paul, gibson, rock, guitar

AMAZING URBAN MINIATURES

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:14:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Super-realistic miniature dioramas

Clip Source: alanwolfson.net

"TIMES SQUARE HOTEL ROOM" (1982)
13 3/8 x 18 1/2 x 20 inches

Tags: miniature, diorama, urban, new york city

Ignorant VP candidate makes fatuous appeal to "Founding Fathers"

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:29:50 GMT

clipped by: Spiritualmonkey
clipper's remarks: Typical Dominionist Christians trying to rewrite history to make this country exclusively Christian.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Question: Are you offended by the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?

Palin: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I'll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.

The pledge, of course, was not written until 1892 and the words "under God" were not added until the 1950s. From Wikipedia:

The Knights of Columbus in New York City felt that the pledge was incomplete without any reference to a deity. Appealing to the authority of Abraham Lincoln, the Knights felt that the words "under God" which were from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address were most appropriate to add to the Pledge. In New York City on April 22, 1951, the Board of Directors of the Knights of Columbus adopted a resolution to amend their recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of each of the meetings of the 800 Fourth Degree Assemblies of the Knights of Columbus by addition of the words "under God" after the words "one nation."

Tags: sarah palin, christianity, dominionism, pledge of alegience, history, founding fathers, knights of columbus

The Pace of Life Project

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:33:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.richardwiseman.com

Ever wondered what your birthday says about you? Or why men and women find different jokes funny? Or how to tell if someone is lying? If so, you need some Quirkology in your life.

Prof Richard Wiseman has announced the results of an international study in collaboration with the British Council to measure the speed of life. You can read about the work below, and find out if you are living life in the fast lane by completing our short quiz here.

The experiment was conducted by British Council researchers who secretly timed thousands of pedestrians’ speed of walking in city centres across the globe, including London, Madrid, Singapore, and New York.

Tags: pace of life project, quirkology, socialology, urbanology, no bacon smelled

Sons of Liberty~Patriots, Anarchists, or Terrorists?

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:23:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One thing is certain about the Sons of Liberty organization: it gave American colonists a voice and vital chance to actively participate in the independence movement.

Finally, the decision on the Sons of Liberty comes down to a variation on an old saying, "one man's terrorist is another man's patriot." The ultimate conclusion must be left to the individual.

Clip Source: www.earlyamerica.com

SONS OF LIBERTY, or Sons of something altogether different? I suppose it all depends on a particular individual's point of view.

Shrouded in secrecy, the origins of the Sons of Liberty are in dispute. Some historical sources claim that the movement began in New York City in January 1765. A more popular claim is that the movement began in Boston, Massachusetts through the leadership of one Samuel Adams (a well known American Revolutionary firebrand) in early 1765

Was this an early terrorist action or a patriotic action. Surely, the answer lies with perspective. If you were a British official, this action was treasonous and punishable by death. If you were an American colonial citizen, this event would be seen as a glorious action of the freedom fighters worthy of praise, pride, and acclaim.

During a series of protests linked to the Sons of Liberty, colonists burn and sack the house of the Massachusetts lieutenant governor, Thomas Hutchinson.

Tags: liberty, freedom

The Real Reason for the Government's Pre-emptive strike on the Twin Cities

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:13:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They don't want any witnesses.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The city has agreed to pay $2,007,000 to end a lawsuit brought by 52 people who were swept up in a mass arrest along a Midtown sidewalk during a protest against the invasion of Iraq.

They were charged with blocking pedestrians, but videotapes show that at their most annoying, they might have slowed a few people carrying coffee into work. Public order did not seem to be in unusual danger that morning — certainly nothing that called for rounding up 52 people, or spending millions of dollars.

Only two people were tried; they were acquitted, and charges against the other 50 were dismissed.

The arrests were made on April 7, 2003, during the opening days of the invasion of Iraq and right after the city persuaded the Republican Party to hold its 2004 convention in New York. The people arrested said their rights to free speech had been abused, and sued the city and the police.

Tags: i-witness, video, you tube, news, nyt, police, oppression, liberty, freedom, constitution