I actually have live photos of Eiko the twister at Rockage the event, a month ago, with DJ Coco dressed in an Eiko costume
Balloon art by Eiko Okura
and1: compare “let’s play two” (Ernie Banksism) with “IKO IKO” Meters/Dead dealio.
andand: it would be pretty funny if because of this post someone consufes DJ Coco with Dr. John, who say dis:
The song was written and recorded back in the early 1950s by a New Orleans singer named James Crawford who worked under the name of Sugar Boy & the Cane Cutters. It was recorded in the 1960s by the Dixie Cups for Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller’s Red Bird Records, but the format we’re following here is Sugar Boy’s original. Also in the group were Professor Longhair on piano, Jake Myles, Big Boy Myles, Irv Bannister on guitar, and Eugene ‘Bones’ Jones on drums. The group was also known as the Chipaka Shaweez. The song was originally called ‘Jockamo,’ and it has a lot of Creole patois in it. Jockamo means ‘jester’ in the old myth. It is Mardi Gras music, and the Shaweez was one of many Mardi Gras groups who dressed up in far out Indian costumes and came on as Indian tribes. The tribes used to hang out on Claiborne Avenue and used to get juiced up there getting ready to perform and ‘second line’ in their own special style during Mardi Gras. That’s dead and gone because there’s a freeway where those grounds used to be. The tribes were like social clubs who lived all year for Mardi Gras, getting their costumes together. Many of them were musicians, gamblers, hustlers and pimps.
Today I am shedding up on “low income housing tax credit” sometimes referred to as “lie-tech” or “lit-C”. Dig? I have a list of 31 TLA three-letter acronyms on the topic. And since this is a music column, it brings to mind RZA and Wu Tang Clan. There was also a band in SF on Prawn Song Records called Alphabet soup.
First, the meal, your acronyms. (Then, the dessert, the music):
AFR applicable federal rate
AHIC Affordable Housing Investors Council
AMI area median income
ASC accounting standards codification
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CRA Community Reinvestment Act
DDA difficult development area
EITF Emerging Issues Task Force
FASB Federal Accounting Standards Board
FHA Federal Housing Administration
FSA federal savings association
GP general partner
HCA housing credit agency
HCDA Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
HERA Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 HOLA Home Owners Loan Act of 1933
HR House of Representatives
HTC historic tax credits
HUD U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development IRC Internal Revenue Code
until this moment RZA probably thought HUD was a movie
IRS Internal Revenue Service
LIHTClow-income housing tax credit
LLC limited liability company
LP limited partner
PHA public housing authority
PWI public welfare investment
QAP qualified allocation plan
QCT qualified census tract
RETC renewable energy tax credits
USC U.S. Code
RZA (pronounced “risa” like “the son also risa” the hemmingway joint) is Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, 45, from Brownsville, where they probably have a fair amount of Section 42 housing. I question it here, and for the elderly. Diggs?
Will it take a “samurai showdown” between The Residentialists and the Pro Developer Establishment, to shed a little light on Stevenson House deal?
edit to add: I admit, I am kind of frontin’ regarding Hip Hop. I don’t actually know Hip Hop as I do speed metal or skronk, for instance. I have to crib on the internet to distinguish RZA from GZA or Ol’ Dirty Bastard; I am more like a Michael Franti kind of guy. Although at Gunn in the championship years, we were early adopters of Sugar Hill Gang, during warmups. Anyhow, it turns out that Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, RZA, spend formative years not in Brooklyn but Hill District of Pittsburgh, working his pop’s convenience store; maybe Hill District of Pittsburgh is a better place, compared to Stevenson House or South Palo Alto, for Low Income Housing Tax Credit investments. Here’s a little sumpin sumpin on that area:
In 1996, the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) was awarded a $26.6 million grant to redevelop the 460-unit HOPE VI complex called Bedford Dwellings. Working with the Hill CDC, the Bedford Resident Council and the City of Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), and HACP selected McCormack Baron Salazar, the developer of Crawford Square, to redevelop the Bedford site.
This development aimed to remove blight and to replace the dilapidated apartments with units designed as townhouses that blended in with the existing architecture of the surrounding neighborhood. Based on input from the residents’ desire to not be relocated more than once, the final redevelopment plan was implemented in phases.
Also in the late 90s came the redevelopment of the former Allequippa Terrace – a 1940s-era public housing complex. The first phase was completed in 2003 with 639 townhouses, about 70 percent of them low-income housing; a sub-phase was completed in 2010 which included 86 housing units.
The $90 million second phase will result in nearly 450 townhomes and apartments — the majority market-rate — office, retail and recreational spaces.
These Hope VI housing developments: Crawford Square, Bedford Hill and Oak Hill, have brought more economic diversity to the neighborhood. However, displacement of existing residents has been a major concern. The Greater Hill District Master plan outlines anti-displacement strategies to assure that current residents are able to enjoy the redevelopment of their neighborhood.
Bingo: Feel me this: anti displacement stragies (ADS?) Maybe we needs, at the very least, not just to “pull” the proposal, unlucky number 7 from tomorrow’s consent calendar, we need to add an ADS, an “anti-displacement strategy”. Yo. Word.
and1: or and3:
1) What is the history of LIHTC in Palo Alto?
2) What is the history, anywhere, of LIHTC for seniors?
3) What are comparable Stewart Company LIHTC, in San Francisco.
This looks like mere shark bait; we are using these 120 seniors to lure in these “savvy investors”.
Announcing: The RZAdentialists. We got game. We got teeth.
two hours later: I’ve got 20 other things to work on, and have posted twice since this, but circling back to the Stevenson case, I am re-reading the CMR and took these notes: 1) a for-profit entity managing a non profit seems to violate the PC ordinance, which specifies that Stevenson project is a non profit, period.
2) “an interpretation of the PC ordinance is required” see also our two hour discussion of the term “building envelope”
3) “which would continue”, the senior housing emphasis, with the changes, but for how long? typical LIHTC projects have sunsets, meaning that after 15 or 30 years it could revert to market rate.
4) CMR report references “a for profit entity that pays taxes must own the project” but here they are forming an entity to AVOID paying taxes. Seems contrived.
5) see also CMR 3176 — I have not seen, (dated 11/5/2012 see the link) but searching it sends me to:
6) CMR #4606 from April, 2014, i.e. recent relevant history, 4/7/14 regarding a TEFRA hearing that was posted in Weekly by advertisement in March, 2014. $23 M from CMFA California Municipal Finance Authority. If a public hearing was necessary for a bond issuance (which I am presuming failed? or what?) why is consent calendar sufficient here? As cited in the published notice of March 21, 2014 in the Palo Alto Weekly, the public hearing is simply an opportunity for all interested persons to speak or to submit written comments concerning the proposal to issue the debt and the nature or location of the facility to be financed; however there is no formal obligation on the part of the borrower or the Council to respond to any specific comments made during the hearing or submitted in writing.
7) was there a TEFRA hearing? And why wasn’t that recent history referenced in this weeks staff report?
8) TEFRA is Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1983
9) the current staff report, that is flawed and should not be approved without pulling, says that the house was built in 1968 “and now requires renovation”. More true is that, according to the staff report in 2012, the City of Palo Alto no fewer than nine times, between 1991 and 2012 has allocated funds totaling $1.2 for maintenance at Stevenson.
I had forgotten, but, besides the doubles of 1960 Topps Minnie Minoso that I am fixing to trade Gerardo for a haircut (or two?), as I inspect my manifest of the 76 cards I had in that binder, there were two older, and rarer and assuredly more tradeworthy Minnie, and that I if Cooperation did not had elevated our Orestes fellow former South Sider, to the pantheon with the Mays, Aaron, Koufax, Feller, Greenberg, Cy Young and “the purloined Gehrig.”
1954 Redman Orestes Minoso aka Minnie:
If you only have 2 cards from a set, like the 1953 Topps, 11 years before I was born and 19 years before I recall watching baseball and buying packs, its a good synecdoche to have Minnie Minoso and Enos Slaughter, “Country” as compared to “Cuba”, known I picked up somewhere along the way for a Mad Dash around the bases to win the 1946 Series for…wait for it..the Cards:
1952 Redman Yogi Berra
I was a Giants fan from 1970 or so on, but would have picked up somewhere some respect for the Dodgers, especially during the integration era and the value of a card, I would have spied at these trade shows, circa 1975-1978, of a Pee Wee Reese:
1953 Redman Pee Wee Reese, Brooklyn
Likewise or more to the point I would have read about Bobby Thomson and the shot heard round the world; he died in 2010 at 86.
1949 Remar Billy Martin of Oakland Oaks, of PCL, putout by bread company:
The oldest modern era bubble gum card in my set is or was a 1949 Bowman Bob Feller:
1951 was the start of the Topps dynasty and that year featured smallish cards you, people older than me but younger than my dad, could play a game with; here, getting dealt a Warren Spahn is a “ball”:
Phillies star hurler Robin Roberts (who might have been on the mound when eventual newscaster of same name was born, in 1960) was elected to the Hall of Fame, after 286 wins and 2,000+ strikeouts, a 7-time All Star, in 1976 or during the time that I was reading Baseball Digest and going to card shows, influencing this purchase decision:
1952 Topps
Meanwhile I might have seen batting champ Tiger George Kell on the also rans on the Hall of Fame balloting, although he was not inducted until The Veterans’ Committee i 1983, after I had stopped being active in the hobby. My cards sat in my parents’ house during college. Steve Cohen and I went to an occasional show in the late 1980s. I would think most of the increase in value for the hobby or industry as a whole occurred during my collecting years, or between 1975 and 1990. Kell:
A timeline:
First national broadcast of color television The Roses Parade, 1954;
I was born, 1964.
I bought this card, a 1955 Bowman Willie Mays, with “Color TV” stylings, in 1974 or so;
February, 1, 2008, about 7 years ago, it and everything else on this page disappears from the house I was renting in Barron Park.
This is probably my favorite baseball card, all time.
later that day, at new Starbucks at Edgewood, near closing, first day of daylight savings…
1954 Topps Ted Williams
1954 Topps Duke Snider
1954 Topps Duke Snider
I had three 1956 Topps in that set, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson (my only Jackie Robinson) and a Roger Craig (some people call it a rookie card; I sent mine to him while he was the Giants skipper and asked him to pass on word to Mike Remlinger that he was the only guy with “Wah Hoo Wah” and “Humm Baby” on his side):
this is not my actual card
1959 Topps but in so-so shape:
I lost 7 Mayses all in, or all out, but at least I have several more from the sixties and seventies, 1963 thru 1972. It was the PSA article about “Mays sets” that inspired this bad body.
Here’s a better image
1959 Topps Sandy Koufax
Minnie Minoso has been one of my all-time favorite players for close to 40 years. I never saw him in his prime, but I collected his cards in their prime. I sometimes think about trading Gerardo the barber for a cut. (The internet claims that a 1960 Topps Minnie Minoso goes for about $15 near mint but up to $250 mint).
Minnie famously came out of retirement for one game so that he could say he played in five decades.
Rob Syrett said he would do a tribute illustration.
I am popping in on Gerardo next. I guess I need a cut. I left my Minoso at my mujer’s.
and1: the barber is 552 Ramona, the lobby of Cardinal Hotel.
The Times obit mentions that President Obama, who like me is from the South Side, issued a statement about Minnie’s demise:
President Obama said in a statement that “Minnie may have been passed over by the Baseball Hall of Fame during his lifetime, but for me and for generations of black and Latino young people, Minnie’s quintessentially American story embodies far more than a plaque ever could.”
edit to add, three weeks later: today I did go get a hair cut from Gerardo, who repeated his story of having since Minnie Minoso since his Marinau days, in Cuba. I ended up paying for a hair cut and gifting him a 1960 Topps Minoso as a tip. Meanwhile I got into an interesting discussion with Palo Alto Rotarian Dave McKenzie about “Citizens United” and other topics, although I think this may have irritated the other man, also a Rotarian, who was trying to enjoy his haircut.
Now the race is on and here comes MONEY up the backstretch TRUTH AND LIGHT are going to the inside, now that, Palo Alto, horse of Stanford, 1890, driven by Marvin, is a different color, shape, of plasticity of things
Stevenson House is a 120-unit senior non-profit housing that staff recommends be turned to a for-profit limited partnership, granted a Planned Community zoning exemption, be given $1 M of tax payers money from SUMC (Stanford hospital expansion hush money slush fund) so that a huge real estate developer with offices in San Francisco called John Stewart can get $35 M in federal incentives to upgrade the plumbing in the buidlings — which I toured, which our fine, very nice, cute, livable — they want to move the sink from the south side of a tiny but sufficient bath to the north, blah blah blah. In recent times we have at least the perception of corruption at City Hall, collusion between staff and developers, kowtowing — and in the case of the June, 2014 Santa Clara Grand Jury Report, obvious examples of this — that the slick and incentivized developers find the most arcane and convoluted arguments to always get their way. The staff says “let it fly” in a staff report which the Council is being asked to rubber stamp Monday, March 9 – next week, in four days — but I would think that 3 of them — and I know that a couple have been approached — should pull this, and let it see a little light of Democracy and process.
Surely, we should be cautious. It does occur to me to compare this to Dartmouth College Case, the formation of corporate law — we don’t want to tamper with the affairs of a corporation — but on the other hand the writing is on the wall that money interests make a mockery of Democracy. Is Stewart a legitimate good player here, or preying on the elderly for their own gain? It looks like a Trojan Horse to privatize and then gentrify the beautiful site. What is best for the 120 seniors? That it involves a PC, that it involves $1 M of our SUMC money, that it is arcane, that in numerous instances recently money preys on our social institutions — schools, parks, Little League, Maybell — this calls out for a little extra trip around the track of scrutiny.
Come to City Hall and Council Monday, March 9 and see for yourself or speak out. The opportunity to speak on this issue will be around 8:45 p.m. If you show up at 5:30 there is a rally produced by Joe Simitian, which includes free pizza, about Buena Vista, (an initiative to preserve low income housing for 400 people).
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This is fishy enough that Council should pull from Consent Calendar
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My violation is that I claim the Weekly has a pro-Developer bias!
note: This is my backing up something I wrote two minutes ago on Palo Alto Weekly comment board, where 5,000 plus people have read a report about monkey business at Stevenson House, the 120-unit senior non-profit housing that staff recommends be turned to a for-profit limited partnership, granted a Planned Community zoning exemption, be given $1 M of tax payers money from SUMC (Stanford hospital expansion hush money slush fund) so that a huge real estate developer with offices in San Francisco called John Stewart can get $35 M in federal incentives to upgrade the plumbing in the buidlings — which I toured, which our fine, very nice, cute, livable — they want to move the sink from the south side of a tiny but sufficient bath to the north, blah blah blah. In recent times we have at least the perception of corruption at City Hall, collusion between staff and developers, kowtowing — and in the case of the June, 2014 Santa Clara Grand Jury Report, obvious examples of this — that the slick and incentivized developers find the most arcane and convoluted arguments to always get their way. The staff says “let it fly” in a staff report which the Council is being asked to rubber stamp Monday, March 9 – next week, in four days — but I would think that 3 of them — and I know that a couple have been approached — should pull this, and let it see a little light of Democracy and process.
Surely, we should be cautious. It does occur to me to compare this to Dartmouth College Case, the formation of corporate law — we don’t want to tamper with the affairs of a corporation — but on the other hand the writing is on the wall that money interests make a mockery of Democracy. Is Stewart a legitimate good player here, or preying on the elderly for their own gain? It looks like a Trojan Horse to privatize and then gentrify the beautiful site. What is best for the 120 seniors? That it involves a PC, that it involves $1 M of our SUMC money, that it is arcane, that in numerous instances recently money preys on our social institutions — schools, parks, Little League, Maybell — this calls out for a little extra trip around the track of scrutiny.
The headline refers to the numerous instances that I have posted on PAW and then had my ideas deleted. The Weekly is not a marketplace of ideas but a slaughterhouse. The Weekly deletes ideas and manipulates reality for its own gain.
Come to City Hall and Council Monday, March 9 and see for yourself or speak out. The opportunity to speak on this issue will be around 8:45 p.m. If you show up at 5:30 there is a rally produced by Joe Simitian, which includes free pizza, about Buena Vista, (an initiative to preserve low income housing for 400 people).
Re: “Merchants of Doubt”
People
me Today at 12:35 PM
To
Peter Drekmeier
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Timothy Gray Tom DuBois Eric Filseth John Fredrich Nancy Shepherd Sidney Espinosa Wayne Douglass Chris Gaither Sea Aram James
good call.
I recommend it as a co-bill with nearby Guild showing “What we Do in the Shadows” about the effect of high tech on aging vampires. Review: ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ a Vampire Comedy
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Review: ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ a Vampire Comedy
The film, directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, is set in New Zealand and follows four ghouls who have problems adapting to the modern world.
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Mark W
From: Peter Drekmeier
To: Peter Drekmeier
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 9:01 AM
Subject: “Merchants of Doubt”
Hi Folks,
This looks like a good film that I thought might interest you.
-Peter
Merchants of Doubt
Come see this award-winning film showing how a small group of “pundits for hire” have sown doubt about scientific findings — starting with denial of the health effects of tobacco, toxic chemicals, and now, climate change. With a satiric touch, this documentary lifts the curtain on “spin” and the industries that pay for it.
Saturday, March 7 — 7:00 pm
Trinity Church
330 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park
Free — registration not required, but seating limited to first 200 guests.
Sponsored by Acterra.
Just today, for about an hour, I was talking with a nice lady from Stevenson House, about elder care. 2. Earlier today, for one hour, I held a vigil at Lytton Plaza, re Susan O’Malley “Community Advice”. 3. Pretty consistently, since 1977, as Student Body President of Terman, and on-going 37 years, I fill my dance card with various “human relations” matters, some more formal than others. Auto-didact, mostly.
President, Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto
concert promoter / artist manager / blogger
I’ve fairly consistently been involved in civic engagement since 1977 when Cheryl Putt Preising my classmate tapped me on the shoulder at brunch and suggested I run for Terman Junior High Student Body President.
And my business started as a social experiment as much as for-profit, to bring people together. It was a reaction to Rodney King Riots, and first Gulf War; it’s also a spin-off of Bay Area Action / Earth Day.
I also spoke in August, 2014 to Council, about Ferguson, MO and how it relates to here, about the continuum of neighborhood watch and uniformed public safety. I spoke for 2 minutes Nov. 25, 2014 to a group of 100 Stanford students who had marched to 250.
I’ve admitted in public, I think it was housing element sub-committee, the strain of my 40 % rent (delta).
I worked in 2009 with Claude Ezran to produce the first World Music Day.
I think we can do better, even here, on Gideon v. Wainwright*. I wrote about “Sean Berry Case,” here, as an aberration of justice.
And see below, re “healthy community”:
This is my response to 1, 2, and 3 combined: I can explicate if interviewed for position by Council an example of what I do privately and how I am perceived:
To (list of 32 names including me)
I just voted. I voted for a single candidate for council. I voted for you. Last night, a friend of Sam’s committed suicide. This is very troubling. There are serious issues in Palo Alto. Of all the candidates, I think you are best suited to address them.
Sincerely,
Scott Rothstein, 735 La Para Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
I got about 2,100 votes, and {approximately} 9,000 all-time.
I’ve written more than 100 articles on my Plastic Alto blog on these issues (and another 1,000 on the arts, 500,000+ words all in; some of it may have been read by, and partially influenced, even by Chaos Theory, if indirectly, current leadership and their / our utterances, and “Our Palo Alto”).
(Community Services element of the Comprehensive Plan) — I own a hard copy of
*I’m gonna chat here a wee bit and provide supplemental material in the form of this link, if you are in the electronic realm of Plastic Alto the blog and not for instance on the panel of 7, 8 or 9 council members being handed hard copy of this, embed of a panel featuring not Adlai Stevenson of Illinois but Bryan Stevenson of Alabama, on Gideon: are we as fair to the poor as we claim to be?
“transcript”here means I’ve re-typed the contents of my application, which was 80 percent hand-written, while sitting on the 7th floor of 250 Hamilton, aka City Hall or City Clerk / Mayor’s office. Initially I felt the Rothstein statement was sufficient to prove my credential as an HR commish. Either way, I will keep on keepin’ on, or as my rabbi (JM) says, “you may not finish your work, but you can’t stop either.”
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 