Who Rules Oakland? Part 1., Corporate Directors and the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce By Darwin BondGraham and Adrian Drummond-Cole [Download a pdf of this article for end notes, higher resolution images and print layout.] The Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit "business league" organization, chartered under Section 501 (c) 6 of the IRS Code. The goal of a business league is to promote political conditions in which their members can obtain lucrative government contracts, avoid local and state taxes, pass off operating expenses onto the public, and privatize public goods. The membership of most chambers of commerce is split between two kinds of businesses. Large banks are a good example of this latter category of members in that they frequently participate in local chambers to promote local branches and ensure access to local housing, consumer, and business lending markets. Most of these companies have large dollar stakes in the Bay Area and California markets. 1. Who Rules?
Why Gardening Makes You Happy and Cures Depression - Articles - Permaculture College Australia Robyn Francis While mental health experts warn about depression as a global epidemic, other researchers are discovering ways we trigger our natural production of happy chemicals that keep depression at bay, with surprising results. All you need to do is get your fingers dirty and harvest your own food. In recent years I’ve come across two completely independent bits of research that identified key environmental triggers for two important chemicals that boost our immune system and keep us happy - serotonin and dopamine. What fascinated me as a permaculturist and gardener were that the environmental triggers happen in the garden when you handle the soil and harvest your crops. Getting down and dirty is the best ‘upper’ – Serotonin Getting your hands dirty in the garden can increase your serotonin levels – contact with soil and a specific soil bacteria, Mycobacterium vaccae, triggers the release of serotonin in our brain according to research. Harvest 'High' - Dopamine Robyn Francis 2010 Share:
The Cancer in Occupy - Chris Hedges' Columns The Cancer in Occupy Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By Chris Hedges The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. Black Bloc adherents detest those of us on the organized left and seek, quite consciously, to take away our tools of empowerment. Because Black Bloc anarchists do not believe in organization, indeed oppose all organized movements, they ensure their own powerlessness. In Zerzan’s now defunct magazine Green Anarchy (which survives as a website) he published an article by someone named “Venomous Butterfly” that excoriated the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN). “Of course,” the article went on, “the social struggles of exploited and oppressed people cannot be expected to conform to some abstract anarchist ideal. Solidarity becomes the hijacking or destruction of competing movements, which is exactly what the Black Bloc contingents are attempting to do with the Occupy movement.
Whose streets? Oakland’s shadow government presses City Hall to end the occupation by Adrian Drummond-Cole and Darwin BondGraham Not considering local law enforcement sufficient protection against the 99 percent, downtown Oakland “business improvement districts,” or BIDs, hire private security firms to patrol public space. These riot clad Alameda County Sheriff deputies were protecting the property of the 1 percent on Oct. 25, the day Oscar Grant Plaza was reclaimed after the encampment had been brutally destroyed by police from 17 local jurisdictions. – Photo: Jay Finneburgh In a letter addressed to Oakland’s Mayor Jean Quan on Nov. 8, two little-known entities, the Lake Merritt/Uptown District Association (LMUDA) and Downtown Oakland Association (DOA) implored Mayor Quan to “step up and provide cohesive, common sense leadership.” Who are the LMUDA and DOA? The privatization of public administration The Lake Merritt/Uptown District and Downtown District are two of nine BIDs established in Oakland since 2001. Before joining SKS, J.C.
How to Create a CSS3-Only Tab Control Using the :target Selector Do we need another tab control? Probably not, but this example demonstrates the power of the CSS3 :target selector. We’re going to build an attractive animated tab control using HTML5 and CSS3. Essential Features You’ll find many CSS3-only tab controls throughout the web. not displaying any tab content if you link to the page without a hash selector, i.e. you link to mypage.html rather than mypage.html#tab1.not highlighting the active tab. This solution overcomes those problems — view the demonstration page… What about IE6, 7 and 8? Were you expecting modern CSS3 effects to work in a browser released in 2001? You therefore have two options: Don’t offer legacy browser support. The HTML Here’s our basic HTML5 code. <article class="tabs"><section id="tab1"><h2><a href="#tab1">Tab 1</a></h2><p>This content appears on tab 1. This is different to HTML tab code you’ve seen before. The CSS First, we’ll style the article container. This is followed by the sections. We can now style the tabs.
Concerning the Violent Peace-Police I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York. I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs. While I have never personally engaged in acts of property destruction, I have on more than one occasion taken part in Blocs where property damage has occurred. (I have taken part in even more Blocs that did not engage in such tactics. It is a common fallacy that this is what Black Blocs are all about. I was hardly the only Black Bloc veteran who took part in planning the initial strategy for Occupy Wall Street. This is why I feel compelled to respond to your statement “The Cancer in Occupy.” Let me just lay out a few initial facts: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. All this is secondary. I am appealing to you because I really do believe the kind of statement you made is profoundly dangerous. 1) they are not part of us 1. 2. 3.
So it's OK then ? New details surface from 'Occupy Oakland' protester Scott Olsen's past By Sergio Quintana SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Members of "Occupy Oakland" had a march Friday in support of two veterans who were also injured in the demonstrations. They honored former Marine Scott Olsen and Army Ranger Kayvan Sabeghi. Since his injury, Olsen brought international attention to the Occupy Oakland encampment. "He suffered a brain injury from a teargas projectile fired at him, and he's just now recovering his speech." He was honored by Veteran's For Peace and the Occupy San Jose group on this Veterans Day. They point to a website, which is no longer active, called IHateTheMarineCorps.com. "I know Scott I met him between his first and second tours in Iraq and I tried to talk him out of going back a second time," said Johnson. According to a story published by Reuters, Olsen also received an administrative discharge from the Marines, instead of an honorable discharge. Diane Layfield participated in San Jose's Veterans Day Parade. (Copyright ©2014 KGO-TV. Tags:
Report predicts demise of OS-centric app storefrontsGoMo News Rating: Bring on D2C and HTML5 Market Analyst, Juniper Research has just released a new report that predicts the demise of OS-centric app storefronts in favour of HTML5 and direct-to-consumer (D2C) models. “The closer integration between web-based apps and handsets should mean that the advantage that native apps have is reduced,” the report claims. Most do not possess the scale of traffic to make D2C a viable option: in most cases, the storefront will continue to be the optimal discovery and distribution mechanism.” The report also concludes that most network operator storefronts will struggle to attract developers due to lack of scale. By contrast, the introduction of operator billing across leading storefronts – such as the Android Market and Ovi Store had led to a dramatic rise in revenues. Additionally, the mass deployment of in-app billing options has meant that – for many storefronts – post-download revenues had surpassed those of PPD (Pay-Per-Download).
The Psychopathology of a Liberal OWS! Baiter [Since Chris Hedges, a columnist at the website truthdig published the provocatively titled, "The Cancer in Occupy" four days ago, there has been boocoo Internet debate and some vigorous responses, for example, this one at Counterpunch. Occasional Fire on the Mountain essayist SKS, who wrote a widely read piece on this blog on the problems of infiltration and provocateurs in OWS!, posted this angry reply to Hedges on Facebook. FotM republishes it with his permission to help it get the wider circulation it deserves.] The Stockholm Syndrome of Occupy:Chronicle of a Death Foretoldby SKS I do not want to repeat what many have said, more eloquently or timely. Ever since the Oakland Commune came into national consciousness with their successful strike in November, liberals who initially became infatuated with Occupy Wall Street! Naomi Wolf launched perhaps the first notorious salvo of the liberal commentariat, when, going all in with her arrest cred, she called OWS! So why Stockholm Syndrome?
Police clash with 'Occupy Oakland' protesters - Americas Police have fired tear gas at protesters from the "Occupy Oakland" movement in the US city of Oakland in California. Thursday's clashes followed a peaceful rally which shut down Oakland's port, the fifth busiest cargo facility in the country. Protesters called for a general strike to protest economic conditions and police brutality. An estimated 5,000 people gathered for the demonstration against what they call corporate greed. The port, which handles about $39bn a year in imports and exports, stopped operations after being swarmed by thousands of the marchers. While the city was not shut down by the protest, as had been the aim of the demonstrators, many businesses chose to remain closed on Wednesday. "At this time, maritime operations are effectively shut down at the Port of Oakland. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds, reporting from Oakland, said the mostly peaceful events had been marred by sporadic "scuffles and fistfights" between protesters. Teacher walkout Oakland 'example'
LibreOffice developer shows prototype Android and HTML5 ports The Document Foundation (TDF) announced plans last year to create mobile and cloud versions of LibreOffice. A preliminary iOS porting effort that was undertaken earlier in 2011 demonstrated the viability of the project and showed that the open source office suite could have a future beyond the desktop. In a presentation this week at the FOSDEM conference, SUSE developer Michael Meeks shed some light on the current status of the porting project. The presentation slides, which he published on his blog, offer insight into some of the underlying technical details and the rationale for some of the high-level design decisions. Reusing code The LibreOffice developers aim to maximize the amount of code that is shared between the desktop, mobile, and cloud variants of the office suite. Due to the inherent complexity and sophistication of an office suite, writing a separate version for each environment or rewriting from scratch in a form that is more conducive to portability would be impractical.
Riot police fire projectiles, arrest dozens of Occupy Oakland protesters This post has been corrected; please see bottom for details. Riot police from a number of Bay Area departments fired tear gas and other projectiles and arrested dozens of demonstrators early Thursday to break up Occupy Oakland protests that had drawn thousands of participants. Officers moved in near the protesters' City Hall encampment, where tents resprouted after officials last week ordered them razed. The police action came after a predominantly peaceful day of protest that attracted more than 7,000 people. The evening appeared to be winding down peacefully when protesters declared victory at the Port of Oakland at 9 p.m. Wednesday--after authorities confirmed that a shift of workers scheduled to start work at 7 p.m. had been canceled. PHOTOS: Occupy Oakland Demonstrators managed to gain entry to an empty building that had housed the Traveler's Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that assists the homeless but had suffered funding cuts. Diet pills killed actor Bubba Smith