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Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - "Offering" - The First Minute of a New Day
Jimmy Heath - "Fau-Lu" - Time and the Place
The Angelic Gospel Singers - "Touch Me Lord Jesus"
The Angelic Gospel Singers - " My Sweet Home"
Al Wilson - "I Stand Accused" - Searching for the Dolphins ( Read more... )
No Ways Tired
Soul music and other music for the soul
With your host/dj Lawrence Daniel Caswell
Monday mornings from 9-11(est)
89.3fm in Cleveland
Online at http://www.wcsb.org
All Boarded UpRead more here.
"TONY BRANCATELLI, A CLEVELAND CITY COUNCILMAN, yearns for signs that something like normal life still exists in his ward. Early one morning last fall, he called me from his cellphone. He sounded unusually excited. He had just visited two forlorn-looking vacant houses that had been foreclosed more than a year ago. They sat on the same lot, one in front of the other. Both had been frequented by squatters, and Brancatelli had passed by to see if they had been finally boarded up. They hadn’t. But while there he noticed with alarm what looked like a prone body in the yard next door. As he moved closer, he realized he was looking at an elderly woman who had just one leg, lying on the ground. She was leaning on one arm and, with the other, was whacking at weeds with a hatchet and stuffing the clippings into a cardboard box for garbage pickup. “Talk about fortitude,” he told me. In a place like Cleveland, hope comes in small morsels.
[...]
And in December, just when local officials thought things couldn’t get worse, Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, posted a record number of foreclosure filings. The number of empty houses is so staggeringly high that no one has an accurate count. The city estimates that 10,000 houses, or 1 in 13, are vacant. The county treasurer says it’s more likely 15,000. Most of the vacant houses are owned by lenders who foreclosed on the properties and by the wholesalers who are now sweeping in to pick up houses in bulk, as if they were trading in baseball cards. "
What about prescribed medications?
we stopped paying for internet a few months ago. been using someone’s wifi on bridget’s mac, which is not my steez. i have wedding photos, but it’s a pain in the ass to post them here, right now. check them out in my facebook albums (and add me while you’re at it).
in other news, this morning bobby womack was nominated for induction into the rock and roll hall of fame. yeah, it’s not sure he’ll get in. but, the induction ceremony will be in cleveland (for only the second time) in april of next year.
he'd better get in.
two other things:
one.( this morning's no ways tired. )
check me out monday mornings 9-11, 89.3fm in cleveland. online at wcsb.org
two.
in case you missed it: tmibh – OBAMA (the pres is you, the pres is me).
and this: OBAMA AT 16.
- Mood:
okay
the little bit written here is just the tip of the iceberg.
"Womack, a Cleveland native, and his four brothers went from singing gospel songs to forming an R&B group called the Valentinos, mentored by Sam Cooke. Two of their hits in the early '60s -- "Lookin' for a Love" and "It's All Over Now" -- were covered by the J. Geils Band and the Rolling Stones, respectively. In the '70s, a solo Womack notched several Top 40 singles, including "That's the Way I Feel About Cha." Womack also was a sought-after session guitarist whose handiwork can be heard on Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds," among other tunes. Womack penned hits for other artists, too, including Wilson Pickett's "I'm a Midnight Mover.""
it's off the raw black power 7" coming out on insect Records later this month. Available on iTunes (and whatnot) soon...
cover by tim kerr!
yep.
- Location:cleveland, the big o
- Mood: working
good stuff.
Social Network Justice
One of the pleasures of selling social network analysis software and services is seeing what clients do with the new knowledge and tools we provide to them.
Several years ago I started working with an economic justice organization in a major U.S. city. Their focus is on tenant's rights and eliminating slum housing conditions. They had been working with their city attorney gathering information on a group of slumlords that owned apartment buildings that had a long list of continuously unresolved violations that were affecting the health of the tenants and their children.
They wanted a new way to analyze and visualize their data. Since the slumlords were keeping their activities covert, it made sense to uncloak their network using the data my client had gathered along with other available public data. Instead of mapping jihadi terrorists, the economic justice organization would be mapping economic terrorists.
[edit:i'm not so interested in the management/organizational aspects of his work. i am. but i am more interested in his network mapping software, how it works, and other potential applications.
thinking about this stuff, reminds me of tufte, and of the second essay in delany's times square red, times square blue. and really, other, visual ways of expressing delany's argument.]
and now it's yours.
i'm doing aright. anyone know anything about information science? itself, not library science? anyone do work, or know about work similar to this? Recommendations about grad programs? about the field(s) in general?
been thinking alot about morgan freeman's character in the dark knight. or, his job, really. his job, and valdis krebs' job. he runs orgnet.com.
i'm ready to learn something new.
- Location:cleveland, ohio
