“Kávé / Coffee” by csgzs

Amateur PR flacks come up with better material:

But the highlight of the McGee/Kozelek testimony was the part where Kozelek lit up a big flatscreen and showed an “example” of public access programming: about a minute of people engaging in various extremely lewd acts at a bar or party. Yes, folks — it was serious porn, right there in the Statehouse, where god-fearing legislators just got through raising the moral tone of Ohio’s strip clubs.

We were warned to look away if we were easily offended, but as far as I could tell everyone (including 100% of the committee) summoned the strength to watch the whole thing.

Of course Mr. McGee didn’t say, and no one on the committee asked, just exactly which PEG channel on which cable system had carried this minute of debauchery, or how it made its way into OCTA’s porn collection, or what exactly the committee was supposed to learn by seeing it. But it sure got everyone’s undivided attention. And isn’t that what great TV is all about?

On the substantive side, a few legislators got to ask the cable people serious questions…

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A statewide survey of Ohio voters shows that the public supports most K-12 school funding proposals made by Governor Ted Strickland, believing that the state system of funding public schools is broken and needs to be fixed.

Public Attitudes on K-12 School Funding in Ohio: The System is Broken and Needs to be Fixed

In June, a regional workforce summit will take place in Illinois. Here are some of the questions participants will explore in a World Cafe format:

Let’s assume we wanted to develop a national reputation as a learning region. What would that mean? What are the characteristics of a “learning region”?

What would our region look like if every child could read and comprehend well by the third grade? How would our responsibilities as adults change?

What steps would we need to take to reduce our high school drop outs by half over the next five years? How would we work together differently?

A workforce development board is coordinating the effort.

What would it look like if we followed up the extravagance of the $3 million Voices and Choices with something that was more home grown, low cost, and focused?

Consider:

1. David Cooperrider at Case Western Reserve created appreciative inquiry as a powerful set of tools to guide innovation. Why are we not using this approach more broadly across the region? We probably have more people trained in this discipline than any other place on the planet.

2. The Illinois workforce board is using Turning Technologies response systems (located Youngstown Business Incubator) to measure their results.

Invitation from Norm Roulet:

The next chance to check out the Inner Circle restaurant, explore the historic Hough Bakeries complex, participate in planning the surrounding neighborhood, and enjoy some great Hot Sauce Williams BBQ is this Friday, June 1, 2007. - please join us… invite friends… spread the word!

More on the Open House and pictures are found here

More on the Hough Bakeries complex here

Please RSVP to norm@realneo.us if you can join us, and let us know if you will have lunch.

It’s always great to have new people experience and MTB session. It’s even better when they share it:

I kept hearing Judge Pianka bring up initiatives that are really helping people to not come to his courtroom. I could tell he really delighted in those things (Gateway Church is partnered with one of the initiatives called Fresh Coat Cleveland). But, I could also hear in his voice a disappointment in the number of defaulted loans and bankrupticies that he had been listening to. Here’s a couple of things he note:

In the 27 years in his courtroom, there have never been as many eviction notices as what there are now. He attributed this to the number of sub-prime loans that people took out.
The city pays out $2.7 million dollars per year to keep up the mowing, cleaning, etc., on those homes that default and have nobody living there.

The only thing I know to do is to now take that dialogue and begin to form in my mind how Gateway Church can be part of some long-term solutions. I’m glad that we are a part of one in Fresh Coat Cleveland, but I can’t tell you how badly I long for Gateway to be creative in finding long-term solutions for the city…

I know how difficult it is for him to get away, so I’m grateful for him coming and asking the questions he did (once he warmed up). Maybe there’s a Gateway series in the future…
An Ongoing Conversation from Gateway Church » Meet the Bloggers…

Great thought to start the day with:

Albert Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.” A Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein’s scientific theories transformed the world’s understanding of the universe and its workings, so we can believe that these words come from his personal experience and helped him to explore both science and life itself. He offered us an example of what can be learned by looking deeply into nature to reach a deeper understanding of all life and by following our ideas to their logical conclusions in our minds before acting upon them in the world.

When we apply this quote to our lives, we can see that we cannot create abundance by staying in a consciousness of poverty, nor can we gain a sense of power in our lives while identifying ourselves as a victim. Situations begun from anger or fear can have little chance of reaching a state of peace and trust unless someone involved can conceive of that possibility and act upon it…

If you click thru for the rest of the article, you’ll see that it closes with something you hear at BFD often—”What do you think?”

DailyOM - Stepping Out From Where We Were

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