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Sherman Skolnick's Report. Business Planning & Marketing Software for Small Business — Palo Alto Software - Palo Alto Software. About Us. The Center for Media & Social Impact at American University, formerly the Center for Social Media, is an innovation lab and research center that studies, designs, and showcases media for social impact. Focusing on independent, documentary and public media, the Center bridges boundaries between scholars, producers and communication practitioners across media production, media impact, public policy and audience engagement. The Center produces resources for the field and academic research; convenes conferences and events; and works collaboratively to understand and design media that matters. The Center’s activities include: The Center was founded in 2001 by Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor in the School of Communication at American University.

The Center’s work has been supported by the Annie E. Contact Information: Center for Social Media3201 New Mexico Ave. Wright Leadership Institute | Personal Development Training | Chicago, IL | Milwaukee, WI. Forensic Audit Resources | Mortgage Audit | Loan Audit. Certified Forensic Loan Auditors, LLC - Servicer Information. Homeownership Education Learning Program | USA Help.

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Lighthouse Consulting Group. Plans & Pricing - GitHub. Tv8point1.org. Aims: We are an internet based "Television" production co-operative located in Lake County California. We at TV8point1.org recognize that we are on the cusp of a revolution in many areas, global economics, food supply, energy supply, human relationships, health care, sustainable living and the list goes on and on. We also realize that if we are to thrive in what is sure to be a maelstrom over the next few years, we must prepare ourselves now. It is to this end that the all volunteer staff of TV8point1.org has launched it's campaign to "Make Connections and Build Community". We believe that if we act as a "pivot point" and use our expertise and personal resources to bring together a network of other organizations within and without Lake County, that we can help to bring together a community of Lake County residents with the express purpose of taking care of our own needs with little or no "outside" intervention from government entities.

Inspiration: Outcomes so far: Unexpected outcomes: Welcome. Transition Culture. Becoming a Transition Initiative. Midwest Permaculture. Superadobe - What is Superadobe? Superadobe (sandbag and barbed wire) technology is a large, long adobe. It is a simple adobe, an instant and flexible line generator. It uses the materials of war for peaceful ends, integrating traditional earth architecture with contemporary global safety requirements. Long or short sandbags are filled with on-site earth and arranged in layers or long coils (compression) with strands of barbed wire placed between them to act as both mortar and reinforcement (tension). Stabilizers such as cement, lime, or asphalt emulsion may be added.

This patented and trademarked (U.S. patent #5,934,027, #3,195,445) technology is offered free to the needy of the world, and licensed for commercial use. This concept was originally presented by architect Nader Khalili to NASA for building habitats on the moon and Mars, as “Velcro-adobe”. Cal-Earth believes that the whole family should be able to build together, men and women, from grandma to the youngest child. Safety Standards and Comfort. Superadobe & Permaculture Design Certification - Cal-Earth. Join us for the 4rd Annual Combined Superadobe and Permaculture Course! Check out the pictures from the previous training Cal-Earth Institute and Midwest Permaculture are combining their recognized and established certificate trainings for a rare and powerful learning opportunity.

Having delivered over 45 PDC courses, Midwest Permaculture is an internationally recognized provider of quality permaculture trainings. Their full PDC curriculum will be delivered to students at this combined training so that they will learn their Permaculture Design Certificate. A Combined Training: Nader Khalili and the team at Cal-Earth have focused for many years on studying the simplest of forms and elements and crafting a way to take the earth beneath our feet and turn it into beautiful, lasting and inexpensive homes. Permaculture takes this same kind of contemplative focus to study the area surrounding a building. Prerequisite Studies for this Training Both trainings include pre-training studies. Workshops - Learn to Build with Superadobe - Cal-Earth.

Education and training are essential to Cal-Earth's vision. We believe that shelter is a basic human right and that every person should be able to build a home for him or herself. For those interested in learning to build with the earth, Cal-Earth offers intensive workshops throughout the year. Give us a few days of your time and we will teach you hands-on how to build your home, your school, or your community with the earth beneath your feet. Don't have four days or one week to spare? Try a weekend introductory workshop first--the tuition can be applied to any longer program in the future.

Cal-Earth also offers the opportunity to participate in a long-term apprenticeship course following completion of one of our workshops. What happens during a Cal-Earth Workshop? What are the subjects taught? Topics Covered: Staying On-SiteShort term accommodation at Cal Earth is offered in our emergency shelter domes, at no additional cost. "first plant your seed then rely on the almighty" - Rumi. Cal-Earth - The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture. Thebajasun. Hacking the system: How to land meetings with anyone you want. I’m convinced I have a strategy that allows me to get a meeting with any person I want, no matter how famous, rich, busy, or difficult they are to reach.

Why? Because I’ve tried it, and my success rate so far is 100%. It just doesn’t fail. When I was interviewing founders for my book, Startups Open Sourced, I had a few names on there that I just shouldn’t have been able to get access to. It’s one thing to reach out to my immediate network and get meetings, but there were people who I didn’t have any connections in common with and it was a crapshoot at best to think I could get them to respond to one of my e-mails, let alone agree to give me one to two hours of their time for an in-depth interview.

I only discovered the hack as I wrote the book though. It came from an unsuspecting place. That’s only one of a few very interesting things I discovered about LikeALittle. Here’s the answer I got from Evan: 3 important rules to follow Rule one: Find a schedule and stick to it. DOUBLE BREAK | GALLERY & ART SHOP!! POLITICAL EQUATOR 3. Summer Salon Series 2011: What does a city need? | San Diego Museum of Art. Thursdays, June 2 through September 1, 5:00 - 9:00 pm. "The chief worth of civilization is just that it makes the means of living more complex; that it calls for great and combined intellectual efforts, instead of simple, uncoordinated ones, in order that the crowd may be fed and clothed and housed and moved from place to place. Because more complex and intense intellectual efforts mean a fuller and richer life. They mean more life. Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enought of it.

" -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Okay, so what does a city need? The answers are not easy to come by and they are not always agreed upon, but they are part of an important conversation that applies to us all. Below are the scheduled themes and presenters for the 2011 Summer Salon Series. The Summer Salon Series is sponsored by Wells Fargo and Westfield Horton Plaza. June 2: Shelter Featuring: Omar Lopez, Councilman Todd Gloria June 9: Dialogue. Casa Familiar. Double Break Grand Opening | AGITPROP. Announcing the Grand Opening of Double Break – Gallery // Shop June 17, 2011 6-10PM SAN DIEGO, June 7, 2011–Break-Break! A call-to-arms! Take heed; this message is priority! When uttered over radio frequencies, Break-Break raises the alarm, alerting listeners to an event in their midst.

It is a directive to listen up and pay attention. Inspired by this urgent communiqué, artists Matt Coors and Louis M. Schmidt are pleased to present Double Break, a new art gallery/shop in Banker’s Hill unlike anything currently available in San Diego. Brought to you by two local residents and recent graduates of UCSD’s MFA program, Double Break enters into San Diego’s vibrant creative community, extending and adding to what is already established. Double Break will open its doors on Friday, June 17, 6-10PM! *Images courtesy of Louis M. National Charrette Institute | Support Provided in Part by a Grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation In October of 2003, a unique event took place at the Princeton offices of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Experienced leaders from a range of disciplines came together to discuss best practices in public involvement and collaborative decision-making processes.

For the first time ever, professionals from the fields of Public Health and Safety, Land Use and Transportation Planning, Restorative and Community Justice, Community and Political Process, and Facilitation and Collaborative Organizational Management met to discuss the challenges they face in their efforts to improve the health of communities through collaborative efforts. Participants represented diverse organizations including AmericaSpeaks, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Interaction Associates, The Great Valley Center, and The RAND Institute. National Charrette Institute | NCI Charrette System Training in Practice. Ilana Preuss, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency What has a multi-disciplinary team, stakeholder input, feedback loops, and a clear implementation plan -- but is not a charrette? A different model for helping communities get development that meets their vision: the technical assistance workshop. The smart growth program in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) applies this charrette-like model in the Smart Growth Implementation Assistance (SGIA) program.

Through SGIA, EPA supports local, regional, and state leaders that are trying to implement smart growth policies. The assistance model is based on many elements of the NCI Dynamic Planning process and the NCI charrette. Over its first two years, the SGIA process has generated more successful implementation of smart growth policies than previous EPA programs with localities. Background EPA’s smart growth program kicked off the SGIA program in 2005.

The program has three primary goals Applying the Dynamic Planning Process. National Charrette Institute | The Charrette as an Agent for Change. New Urbanism is a holistic approach to healthy transformative community change. It challenges all development conventions, including codes, transportation standards, and finance mechanisms. It also challenges peoples’ perceptions regarding growth, for example, “density done right can make things better.” Early on, New Urbanists recognized that success required that everyone affected by the outcome be included in the planning effort from the beginning. The answer is the Charrette. The Charrette is a multi-day planning process during which an interdisciplinary professional design team creates a complete and buildable smart growth plan that reflects the input of all stakeholders who are involved by engaging them in a series of feedback loops.

Charrettes offer much more than just a quick fix. The Nine Principles of the Charrette Process The term "charrette" is overused and often misused. 1. A charrette creates a long-lived plan based on each individual’s unique contributions. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The Smart Growth Manual (9780071376754): Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon. The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems (9781576753798): Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, Steven Cady. CNU Michigan - Books. New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide, 4th Ed. | New Urban Network. Ensenada Vacation Rental - VRBO 307636 - 2 BR Baja California Norte Condo in Mexico, Nearly in the Ocean -- 2 BR/2 BA, Beach Vacation. Ensenada Vacation Rental - VRBO 108486 - 3 BR Baja California Norte House in Mexico, Secluded Beach Home in the Baja Paradise. Ensenada Vacation Rental - VRBO 70350 - 1 BR Baja California Norte Apartment in Mexico, Mountain Top Oceanfront Estate - Ensenada/La Bufadora.

Nezahualcóyotl. Nezahualcoyotl: Texcoco's philosopher king (1403–1473) Jim Tuck In the Mesoamerican civilizations that preceded the Spanish Conquest, intellectuals usually derived from the priestly caste rather than from the ranks of warriors and statesmen. But there was one exception: a man with the tongue-twisting name of Nezahualcoyotl. (Approximate pronunciation: neza-howl-coyotl.) Luis Valdez, professor of Chicano studies at the University of California at Berkeley, describes Nezahualcoyotl as "a philosopher king, and one of the greatest poets America has ever produced. " He was a man who appears almost a precursor of Frederick the Great -- a ruler-philosopher who found time to mingle intellectual pursuits with war and statecraft. Unlike other high-profile figures from the century preceding the Conquest, Nezahualcoyotl was not an Aztec. The late 12th century saw another migration to Central Mexico.

Though Nezahualcoyotl was born heir to a throne, his youth was not marked by princely luxury. But Nezahualcoyotl refused to walk into the trap. Nezahualcoyotl. Nezahualcoyotl (Classical Nahuatl: Nezahualcoyōtl, He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar, he had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals.

However, he allowed human sacrifices to continue in his other temples. Early life[edit] The reconquest of Texcoco[edit] The campaign was divided into three parts. One army attacked Acolman to the north and the second Coatlinchan to the south. A contingent led by Nezahualcoyotl himself was intended to attack Acolhuacan, only after providing support, upon request, to the first two armies. Achievements[edit] Monument to Nezahualcoyotl in the city of the same name Texcoco has been called "the Athens of the Western World"—to quote the historian Lorenzo Boturini Bernaducci.

Legacy[edit] List of urban planners. Index of urban studies articles. Urban studies is the term for a diverse range of disciplines and approaches to the study of all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. This includes among others: urban economics, urban planning, urban ecology, urban transportation systems, urban politics, sociology and urban social relations.

This can be contrasted with the study of rural areas and rural lifestyles. A[edit] B[edit] Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism - Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall - Biennial of Towns and Town Planners in Europe - bicycle-friendly - built environment C[edit] car-free zone - car-pool lane - Central business district - city - City limits - community - community currency - community emergency response team - commuting - Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat - congestion charge - consumerism - co-housing - cultural diversity - cultural activities D[edit] {Defining and Developing A City} E[edit] F[edit] farmers market - flash mob G[edit] H[edit] I[edit] J[edit] K[edit] L[edit]

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