The Yacht America. Set to sail today in San Francisco
Friday, May 20, 2011
TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Sunday In NYC
The second TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon is this Sunday in New York City, and promises good food and fun, and working wifi!
This time, the location is Pier 94, at Pier 94, at 755 12th Ave, at 55th St. & 12th Av., in New York. A location that overlooks the Hudson River, and perfect for anyone who wants to take a dip after one of Michael Arrington's interviews.
Over 500 programmers are expected at this year's Hackathon, and you can visit this page (click) for more information.
Arianna Huffington Talks With Arrington
In the post AOL TechCrunch world, what would TechCrunch Disrupt be without a talk with Huffington Post founder and AOL content chief Arianna Huffington.
Think Michael will get this kind of treatment from Ms. Huffington:
Probably not.
Stay tuned.
This time, the location is Pier 94, at Pier 94, at 755 12th Ave, at 55th St. & 12th Av., in New York. A location that overlooks the Hudson River, and perfect for anyone who wants to take a dip after one of Michael Arrington's interviews.
Over 500 programmers are expected at this year's Hackathon, and you can visit this page (click) for more information.
Arianna Huffington Talks With Arrington
In the post AOL TechCrunch world, what would TechCrunch Disrupt be without a talk with Huffington Post founder and AOL content chief Arianna Huffington.
Think Michael will get this kind of treatment from Ms. Huffington:
Probably not.
Stay tuned.
May 21 Doomsday: Harold Camping Blames Gays, Crits San Francisco
In the video below, the Oakland-based Camping says...
"It's always been Homosexuality to some degree. But never where it is accepted in country after country, state after state. We've wonder what is really going on that this is accepted so rapidly, and all over the World. That is a tremendous sign that we are at the threshold of Judgement Day....It was always very interesting to me, that here is Family Radio that is insisting on the truth of the Bible and trying to tell the whole World living right next door to San Francisco. How interesting that God has placed us here, right in the cesspool.
Here's the video:
Well, it seems all of this "complex math" that led Camping to the May 21st Doomsday was really basically done to give some justification for his own issues with Gays.
Geez.
Judgement Day May 21, Harold Camping In Oakland, CA
Well, it looks like Oakland's got a center-stage position in this story of Judgement Day May 21, The End Of The World 2011, or The Rapture, or The Apocalypse, or whatever.
Harold Camping, the founder of Family Stations, Inc., and the producer of the assertion that the end of the World was coming, well, tomorrow, Saturday, May 21st, is based not in San Francisco, as I reported in my video-blog denouncing his prediction...
But is right here in Oakland, California.
According to a company profile dated December 6, 2010, Family Stations, Inc, is located at 290 Hegenberger Rd., Oakland, CA 94621, United States.
The number is (510)568-6200, (510)568-6190 fax, and the website is at http://www.familyradio.com
Now don't go down there bugging the man, please. Just because he made a prediction you and I don't agree with doesn't translate into idiotic behavior from you. It's Friday, find something else to do.
After all, it's not the end of the World.
Harold Camping, the founder of Family Stations, Inc., and the producer of the assertion that the end of the World was coming, well, tomorrow, Saturday, May 21st, is based not in San Francisco, as I reported in my video-blog denouncing his prediction...
But is right here in Oakland, California.
According to a company profile dated December 6, 2010, Family Stations, Inc, is located at 290 Hegenberger Rd., Oakland, CA 94621, United States.
The number is (510)568-6200, (510)568-6190 fax, and the website is at http://www.familyradio.com
Now don't go down there bugging the man, please. Just because he made a prediction you and I don't agree with doesn't translate into idiotic behavior from you. It's Friday, find something else to do.
After all, it's not the end of the World.
Oakland Coliseum Vs. Golden State Warriors Litigation Update
The interesting news of litigation between the Oakland Coliseum and the Golden State Warriors mentioned in my last blog post just became more interesting. It was hard to get any good intel from what has been a closed-session conversation as of Apr 15, 2011. And one document that was, at one point on the Coliseum's website and referring to this legal battle, was interestingly removed.
But some light emerged at the website of Keker &Van Nest, and one lawyer named Daniel Purcell, who claims:
And I put that in image form, in case Mr. Purcell was urged to take down the text by his client (and the same text appears on the profiles of three other Keker lawyers too). It's here now.
So the Coliseum got $32.25 million from the Warriors? What was it used for? What was the problem to start with?
Thanks to Keker's lawyers, we have some new information not noted anywhere else online, at least thus far.
Stay tuned.
But some light emerged at the website of Keker &Van Nest, and one lawyer named Daniel Purcell, who claims:
Golden State Warriors v. Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum: We represented the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority in a series of disputes with the coliseum's professional basketball team. These disputes, involving tens of millions of dollars, arose over more than ten years and involved miscellaneous claims and cross-claims. Over the course of four arbitrations, we collected $32.25 million for our client.
So the Coliseum got $32.25 million from the Warriors? What was it used for? What was the problem to start with?
Thanks to Keker's lawyers, we have some new information not noted anywhere else online, at least thus far.
Stay tuned.
Overstock Oakland Coliseum Naming Rights Controversy Update
UPDATE: Oakland Coliseum vs. Golden State Warriors new litigation information.
The title above is about perfect because the City of Oakland and the County of Alameda allowed the Oakland - Alameda County Coliseum Authority to take just $7 million for a naming rights agreement for the Oakland Coliseum that was worth much more, and let them do it even as Overstock.com is involved in, to this day, and with the same County of Alameda in a court battle where the County seeks $15 million in damages over alleged fraudulent pricing practices by the company.
The deal - which in a very irresponsible editorial, the Oakland Tribune actually, strangely, praised - was done netting no better monies than were raised in 1998 for the Network Associates Coliseum naming rights deal.
That was at $7 million.
If now former Oakland City Attorney John Russo is correct about the City of Oakland taking actions and making decisions that are "morally questionable," then it seems the Overstock.com naming agreement falls into that category.
Something is clearly wrong. This blogger has asked not one, but three Oakland City Auditors to look at the Oakland Coliseum, and each one, from Norma Lau to currently and sadly Courtney Ruby has come up with some kind of excuse.
Ruby's claim is lack of resources, but that didn't stop her from looking at the ABC Security issue, or fiscal issues over at the City Administrator's Office last year.
For some political reason, the Oakland Coliseum is shielded and protected from real scrutiny from most organizations, save for the Alameda County Grand Jury.
Last year, the Grand Jury looked at the Coliseum, but only from the narrow point of view of the failure to hire a full-time executive director. The Coliseum Authority balked at the need for one, and also brushed off calls for the kind of long range planning that was done by the Oakland Coliseum before the Authority existed.
Really, it did.
In a report that you can see with a click here, the Coliseum Authority wrote:
Let's stop there for now.
Doesn't "The Joint Powers Agreement's stated purpose is to issue bonds to construct and acquire public capital improvements at the direction of the City and The County" call for long range planning? Of course it does.
It's too bad the Alameda County Grand Jury didn't call on this blogger to testify, not that I asked them to do so. But, when I worked as Economic Adviser to Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris, Bob Quintella, who was then the President Of The Oakland Coliseum, with Peerless Coffee head George Vukasin as chair of the Coliseum Board, took me on a mini-tour of his office, complete with a presentation of a large map of the property the Coliseum owned, and future plans for its use.
The Business Plan written by Ezra Rapport, the Oakland Deputy City Manager who brought the Raiders back to Oakland, that was prepared for the Coliseum Authority in 1996, and read religiously by this blogger, called for not just an executive director, but for some kind of planning activities to be done.
Also, the original resolution that formed the Coliseum JPA, called for the addition of a 20-person board of private sector people, on top of the current eight public officials. But that part of the resolution has never been enabled.
In other words, the elected officials don't seem to want the input of Oakland and Alameda County's private sector. Otherwise, why have such a provision go 15 years without being implemented?
The operation of the Oakland Coliseum Complex raises a lot of questions, and another is this: why is documentation referring to "ongoing litigation" with the Golden State Warriors no longer available online?
Just another question.
Stay tuned. This is a mess.
The title above is about perfect because the City of Oakland and the County of Alameda allowed the Oakland - Alameda County Coliseum Authority to take just $7 million for a naming rights agreement for the Oakland Coliseum that was worth much more, and let them do it even as Overstock.com is involved in, to this day, and with the same County of Alameda in a court battle where the County seeks $15 million in damages over alleged fraudulent pricing practices by the company.
The deal - which in a very irresponsible editorial, the Oakland Tribune actually, strangely, praised - was done netting no better monies than were raised in 1998 for the Network Associates Coliseum naming rights deal.
That was at $7 million.
If now former Oakland City Attorney John Russo is correct about the City of Oakland taking actions and making decisions that are "morally questionable," then it seems the Overstock.com naming agreement falls into that category.
Something is clearly wrong. This blogger has asked not one, but three Oakland City Auditors to look at the Oakland Coliseum, and each one, from Norma Lau to currently and sadly Courtney Ruby has come up with some kind of excuse.
Ruby's claim is lack of resources, but that didn't stop her from looking at the ABC Security issue, or fiscal issues over at the City Administrator's Office last year.
For some political reason, the Oakland Coliseum is shielded and protected from real scrutiny from most organizations, save for the Alameda County Grand Jury.
Last year, the Grand Jury looked at the Coliseum, but only from the narrow point of view of the failure to hire a full-time executive director. The Coliseum Authority balked at the need for one, and also brushed off calls for the kind of long range planning that was done by the Oakland Coliseum before the Authority existed.
Really, it did.
In a report that you can see with a click here, the Coliseum Authority wrote:
The Authority disagrees with this finding. This recommendation will not be implemented directly by the Authority for the following reasons: The Joint Powers Agreement under which the Authority operates by agreement of the City of Oakland and The County of Alameda as well as the Management Agreement among the Authority, the County and The City, delegates limited power to the Authority. The Joint Powers Agreement's stated purpose is to issue bonds to construct and acquire public capital improvements at the direction of the City and The County...
Let's stop there for now.
Doesn't "The Joint Powers Agreement's stated purpose is to issue bonds to construct and acquire public capital improvements at the direction of the City and The County" call for long range planning? Of course it does.
It's too bad the Alameda County Grand Jury didn't call on this blogger to testify, not that I asked them to do so. But, when I worked as Economic Adviser to Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris, Bob Quintella, who was then the President Of The Oakland Coliseum, with Peerless Coffee head George Vukasin as chair of the Coliseum Board, took me on a mini-tour of his office, complete with a presentation of a large map of the property the Coliseum owned, and future plans for its use.
The Business Plan written by Ezra Rapport, the Oakland Deputy City Manager who brought the Raiders back to Oakland, that was prepared for the Coliseum Authority in 1996, and read religiously by this blogger, called for not just an executive director, but for some kind of planning activities to be done.
Also, the original resolution that formed the Coliseum JPA, called for the addition of a 20-person board of private sector people, on top of the current eight public officials. But that part of the resolution has never been enabled.
In other words, the elected officials don't seem to want the input of Oakland and Alameda County's private sector. Otherwise, why have such a provision go 15 years without being implemented?
The operation of the Oakland Coliseum Complex raises a lot of questions, and another is this: why is documentation referring to "ongoing litigation" with the Golden State Warriors no longer available online?
Just another question.
Stay tuned. This is a mess.
End Of The World May 21st, Harold Camping, Dominate Search
After Saturday, May 21st, or what the Christian Radio Broadcaster Harold Camping calls 'End Of The World May 21st,' Camping should consider a job in Internet Marketing. As of this writing, Mr. Camping's wild, prediction, driven by his own homespun math and logic, only loosely based on The Bible, have come to dominate search.
Now, not less than five search terms related to Mr. Camping's work are among the Google Trends: "End Of The World May 21st," "may 21 doomsday," "may 21 rapture," "judgement day," amd "judgement day 2011."
On top of that, "Harold Camping" has been a Twitter top trend.
And all of that for something that will turn out to be just another day, as I predict:
But it's wild that, of all people, Harold Camping would earn this much attention. But, basically because he's the only person saying it, and because digital media has amplified his voice, it's hard to turn anywhere without hearing about "End Of The World May 21st," or anything else.
And if you think it's bad now, wait until Friday progresses.
Stay tuned.
Now, not less than five search terms related to Mr. Camping's work are among the Google Trends: "End Of The World May 21st," "may 21 doomsday," "may 21 rapture," "judgement day," amd "judgement day 2011."
On top of that, "Harold Camping" has been a Twitter top trend.
And all of that for something that will turn out to be just another day, as I predict:
But it's wild that, of all people, Harold Camping would earn this much attention. But, basically because he's the only person saying it, and because digital media has amplified his voice, it's hard to turn anywhere without hearing about "End Of The World May 21st," or anything else.
And if you think it's bad now, wait until Friday progresses.
Stay tuned.
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