The San Diego County Community Coalition: [SDCPJ] Timebank? Community via Alternative Currency -- Meeting this Sat 6/4. Time Banking Mtg. Notes Sunday, May 29th 10am Grant Hill Co-op Members present: Andrea Carter, Praba, Holly Hellerstedt, Cathy Mendonca, David Krimmel, Paul, Penny, Cara Cadwallader, Joan, Joseph, Fred, Mariah Gayler Meeting Facilitator: Andrea Carter Notetaker: Cara Cadwallader Timekeeper: Mariah Gayler 10:10am Agenda for meeting discussed/set: "Who" will the timebank serve?
Andrea referred to the "TimeBanks USA" Resource Book for addressing a visioning strategy for our local timebank: People: Who will the timebank serve? As a group, we also discussed: our initial first steps; how we will ensure responsibility and accountability along the way; what our organizational leadership model will look like; and how to prioritize our goals. Mariah shared her experiences with "Berkeley BREAD" - a smaller timebank group can equate to less services offered. We agreed that: We questioned: Do we want to include bartering goods for services?
Solutions offered: Other thoughts/ideas: Resources: Memorable quotes: TimeBanks Community Directory - Please Read Instructions Carefully! | Community Directory. NCTB North County San Diego Time Bank. Get started In order to give and receive services in exchange for "time" you need to be registered and approved in the time bank management web app. You do not need to sign up for anything to use this site, participate in our discussion group, or do good old fashioned volunteer work. New members receive (1) hour once their account is approved and (1) hour after placing their first service ad "offering".
By signing up you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the official policies of the NCTB. Sign up Learn more Time banking is a form of "pay-it-forward" bartering where individuals and organizations exchange services (and sometimes goods) for "time" aka "time dollars" which are "earned" and "spent" on services with any member of the time bank. (1) hour = (1) time dollar. Occupying, and Now Publishing, Too. Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesRead all about it: Chelsea Potter distributed the first issue of The Occupied Wall Street Journal near Zuccotti Park Saturday morning. Just before noon, Chelsea Potter stood on the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street holding a sheaf of newspapers and offering them to passers-by.
“Excuse me,” she said to a man in a tan raincoat. “Would you like a copy of The Occupied Wall Street Journal?” The man accepted the paper without breaking stride then looked at it as he continued walking. Over the last two weeks, as people participating in a protest called Occupy Wall Street have called attention to what they say are inequities in the economic system, the ways in which news organizations have covered the protests have been a subject of hot debate. Some protesters have wished aloud for reporting more in line with their own conception of themselves. Now, they have their own newspaper. The four-page broadsheet includes a story by Mr. Mr. Ms. Paul Krugman: Panic of the Plutocrats. Occupy Wall Street.
Major Unions Join Occupy Wall Street Protest. Occupy Wall St.: A New Generation of Dissenters. If the Occupy Wall Street protesters ever choose to recognize a person who gave their cause its biggest boost, they may want to pay tribute to Anthony Bologna. The Day Clyde Haberman offers his take on the news. Deputy Inspector Bologna, to be more precise, was the senior New York police officer who on Sept. 24 blasted pepper spray at four female demonstrators, knocking them to the sidewalk in pain. An oft-viewed video of that moment offers no evidence of their having posed a threat or doing anything more sinister than shouting. That pepper shot in the face was a vital shot in the arm for the nascent anti-Wall Street movement. Its takeover of Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan had begun a week earlier, drawing some attention but not a lot — for a reason. Inspector Bologna’s improvidence was a game changer. On the weekend of Sept. 24, Zuccotti Park occupiers could be counted in the many dozens.
It must be said about Mayor Michael R. Mr. That’s not it at all. City Councilwoman Gale A. America’s ‘Primal Scream’ There are differences, of course: the New York Police Department isn’t dispatching camels to run down protesters. Americans may feel disenfranchised, but we do live in a democracy, a flawed democracy — which is the best hope for Egypt’s evolution in the coming years.
Yet my interviews with protesters in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park seemed to rhyme with my interviews in Tahrir earlier this year. There’s a parallel sense that the political/economic system is tilted against the 99 percent. Al Gore, who supports the Wall Street protests, described them perfectly as a “primal scream of democracy.”
The frustration in America isn’t so much with inequality in the political and legal worlds, as it was in Arab countries, although those are concerns too. Three factoids underscore that inequality: ¶The 400 wealthiest Americans have a greater combined net worth than the bottom 150 million Americans. ¶The top 1 percent of Americans possess more wealth than the entire bottom 90 percent. "Occupy Wall Street" and Inequality. Occupy Wall Street Protests a Growing News Story. Aryans - Arya - Vedic Civilization - Vedas - Sanskrit - Arya Samaj - Haryana Online - India.
Aryan is an English word derived from the Sanskrit, and Vedic term Arya, meaning noble. One of the meanings of this term refers to a hypothetical single group of people who spoke the parent language of the Indo-European languages. German philologists believed that the Germanic group originated from the steppes north of Historic Khwarizm, and this Germanic group followed the Aryan group into Iran before splitting from Arya. It then migrated north to the Black Sea, where they again moved north to the Baltic lake.
Thus, German philologists concluded, the German people have a direct ancestry with the people of the Arya region in Iran. Aryan Race Another meaning refers to the Aryan race, a presumably more or less directly descendant ethnic group of this original Aryan group. These hypothetical ancestors were given the name Aryans, from the Sanskrit and Avestan word Arya, which means "noble person". The culture of the Aryans (Indo-Iranian view) The Aryan Invasion Theory Iran. Geraniums vs. Smokestacks San Diego's Mayoralty Campaign of 1917. By Uldis Ports ... it is well known that public improvements requiring the acquisition of large property must recede population; otherwise they are impossible.1John Nolen In 1908, John Nolen, a nationally respected landscape architect and city planner, wrote and illustrated a book, San Diego, A Comprehensive Plan For Its Improvement, primarily at the request of citizen George White Marston.
Nolen wrote to Marston that San Diego "has no wide and impressive business streets, practically no open spaces in the heart of the city, no worthy sculpture. " As a solution, he proposed more open space for public use and the conversion of certain streets into boulevards, or prados, with large boulevards connecting the bayfront, civic center, and Balboa Park.
Nolen warned that if the planning of San Diego's growth "is haphazard you will lose many of the advantages that nature has presented to you as a free gift. "2 By 1920, San Diego's city population numbered 74,683. The growth of San Diego continued. Twelve who shaped San Diego : a series of thirteen one-hour radio programs (Audiobook on Cassette, 1978. "Stickiness" and the Wisdom Economy. Stop talking about the knowledge economy. Start building a wisdom economy. We know we're in the middle of seismic shifts in the way the world operates. We don't know where they'll end up, or where any of us will be when the dust settles, if it ever does. Will we have a job? A pension? A home? We do know, though, that we'll need to be more resilient, more adaptable, and more responsible to face the future. Part of that process is a series of conversations with others who are trying, in different ways, to do the same.
Casting its shadow over the discussion was the state of the economy. One particular comment, out of many insightful and heartfelt observations, struck me. Over the last decade the political axiom has been that to gain competitive advantage in a globalised economy, the UK must increase its knowledge and skills. And so it came to pass - almost. With limited capacity to make things and no obvious reason why our thinking should be considered superior to others', the knowledge economy suddenly looks less like Shangri-La and more like a cul-de-sac. From a knowledge economy to a wisdom economy. Our world is undergoing a series of convulsions.
We don’t know where they’ll end up, or where any of us will be when the dust settles, if it ever does. Will we have a job? A pension? A home? Someone to care for us in old age? We do know we’ll need to be more resilient, more adaptable, and more responsible to face the future. In recent weeks I’ve been engaged in a series of conversations with others who are trying, in different ways, to do the same.
Many of these conversations boil down to the same big issue: we need more intelligent ways of coping with structural changes in society. In the knowledge economy dog eats dog. Over the last decade the political axiom has been that to gain competitive advantage in a globalised economy, the UK must increase its knowledge and skills. But China and India and the rest turned out not just to be good at making things cheaply, but just as good as us at thinking and research and creating things.
This is where a wisdom economy comes in. Origin of the name California. California, called the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, originally referred to the entire region composed of the Baja California peninsula now known as Mexican Baja California and Baja California Sur, and upper mainland now known as the U.S. states of California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. After Mexico's independence from Spain, the upper territory became the Alta California province.
In even earlier times, the boundaries of the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean coastlines were only partially explored and California was shown on early maps as an island. The Sea of Cortez is also known as the Gulf of California. From the novel Las Sergas de Esplandián[edit] California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by Spanish author Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. See also[edit] An urban sustainability, green building, and alternative transportation community.
The Naming of America. AMERICA, we learn as schoolchildren, was named in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, for his discovery of the mainland of the New World. We tend not to question this lesson about the naming of America. By the time we are adults it lingers vaguely in most of us, along with images of wave-tossed caravels and forests peopled with naked cannibals. Not surprisingly, the notion that America was named for Vespucci has long been universally accepted, so much so that a lineal descendant, America Vespucci, came to New Orleans in 1839 and asked for a land grant "in recognition of her name and parentage. " Since the late 19th century, however, conflicting ideas about the truth of the derivation have been set forth with profound cultural and political implications.
To question the origin of America's name is to question the nature of not only our history lessons but our very identity as Americans. The Maya Connection And what of this elemental meaning? Vespucci's Good Name Naming the New World. OskiCat Production Server /All Locations. Path to Paradise: History of Urban Planning in San Diego. Edge, Encounter, Common Ground: Borders and the Public Realm. On the second day of the SPUR study trip to San Diego, we visit the U.S. -Mexico Border Station, an imposing and unlovely network of automobile checkpoints, fences, administrative offices, detention areas, parking lots, and a single pedestrian passageway from Tijuana to San Ysidro: one way in, one way out.
As SPUR study trip members are prone to do, we spill out of the bus to gesticulate energetically at areas of particular interest. We converse animatedly in groups. We point and shoot with our cameras. And we attract the notice of border security guards, filming us in turn on closed circuit television, swooping down as if from nowhere to tell us to move along and, even more imperatively, to STOP TAKING PICTURES or our cameras will be confiscated IMMEDIATELY and we will be detained for HOURS OF QUESTIONING. Welcome to the 21st century, where the border is definitely not in order. A 15-foot high corrugated metal fence runs along the border and into the Pacific Ocean at Imperial Beach.