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California Action Alert on Employment & Disability

April 13, 2009

Dear Advocates, AB 1269 is important for Californians with disabilities who want to or do work. If you're unfamiliar with Medi-Cal's California Working Disabled Program, please see the following text link that describes the current program. http://www.chiip.org/longdesc/medi-cal_brochure_english.html AB 1269 adds desperately needed improvements to California's Medicaid Buy-In Program that were vetoed by the governor two [...]

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My dad's finally online

April 12, 2009

No, this doesn't mean you'll be able to email him. I just talked him into letting me post some of his poetry to the web. You can read his poetry at EarthCommUNityILoveYou.org. I'll be adding quite a bit over this next week, so keep coming back to read more.

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ShopInBerkeley is closing

March 20, 2009

I've been running the web directory ShopInBerkeley.com for about eight years. My goal has always been to provide high quality, free and low cost web pages to Berkeley businesses. For the past year or two I've been evaluating the need for ShopInBerkeley.com, and have come to the conclusion that the value of the web site [...]

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Wind Powered Art Vehicle/Kinetic Sculpture

January 12, 2009

Here's a video of a great kinetic sculpture that walks along a beach powered by the wind.

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January 1st is Public Domain Day

January 1, 2009

January 1st is Public Domain Day, the day many works take their place in the ultimate destination for all works which were previously under the temporary copyright monopoly. Wallace McLean has continued his Public Domain Day tradition by publishing an extensive list of authors whose works are now in the public domain.

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Two hundred people can commute...but how would Lenin do it?

July 10, 2008

Great poster on the ferry. Be sure to click on the larger image to see all the details. The options shown in the poster are: By car, by bus, by light rail, and by bike. Very descriptive. Then, there's Lenin in Seattle: A guy found this in the former Czechoslovakia, bought it for its artistic [...]

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Happy 5th of July

July 8, 2008

Enough said.

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pi tie

May 19, 2008

I made a pi tie at Zazzle.com. They are like CafePress.com: you can add text and images to many different types of products. Mr. Schroeder and I will be sporting them next March 14 (that's pi day, 3/14). You can order them online, and I got mine in only two days. Helps to work 30 [...]

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Wahoo, I'm moving back to Berkeley !!!

May 12, 2008

Yes, it's true. After a "year abroad" in Pleasant Hill, I'm moving back to Berkeley. I've been accepted into the Walnut House Cooperative. The Coop is a non-profit owned 22-unit apartment house just north of downtown Berkeley on Walnut Street. I'm impressed by the selection process (realistic number of people interviewing, timeline) and the fact [...]

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