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ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:34:57 -0700
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 on fox news and on cnn a few weeks ago.

  i think it made the washington post too.

> --- Tamar Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > good lord, ken, where did you hear this?
> >
> > >  is very telling that the terrorist group
> hesbolla
> > >  volunteered to help him get his film on more
> > screens
> > >  in the middle east. i think it speaks volumns.
> > -------------------------------
> > >  since we are politicing, i noticed with intrest
> > that
> > >  john kerry made a statement that he believed
> life
> > >  started at conception and not a peep from NOW.
> > more
> >
> > everybody is entitled to their own opinion on this
> > topic, the tricky part
> > is whether a person would impose his or her
> reality
> > on others.
> >
> >
> >
> > >  hang in mag. i know you have your hands full
> with
> > >  your advocacy position there.
> >
> > yep, three meetings a month. It's been hard these
> > last three months, not
> > enough money to do anything with, but that changed
> > on july 2nd. we have
> > gotten 500,000 so we can go ahead and do the
> > sidewalk survey, where they
> > will literally hire a company to walk every mile
> of
> > sidewalk in oakland,
> > and log in a computer program where there is a
> tree
> > or utility pole pulling
> > up the sidewalk and that way the city can have a
> > logical plan of attack for
> > repairing sidewalks, and they can then determine
> > whether the tree is the
> > city's responsibility or home owners or business'
> > responsibility.
> >
> > Then there is also the disabled residental parking
> > zone program.
> > The recreation and parks are trying to make all
> > parks at least somewhat
> > accessible for kids, and that takes money as
> well..
> > Then in october is the disability arts display,
> and
> > I was shocked at how
> > much it ended up costing the commission. We came
> out
> > in the red. the year
> > before we made equal money as to what we put into
> > it.  We have to find more
> > partners to co-sponser this.
> >
> > Last month we had a demonstration of an evacuation
> > chair, a guy with cp was
> > safely bumped down a flightof marble steps. Kyle,
> > what do you know about
> > such things from the feds? I can't see being
> safely
> > bumped down more than
> > three flights in this in an emergency.
> > I saw a fascinating program on pbs about the
> > skyscraper race, and how over
> > in asia they have to be built with heavy winds in
> > mind, and that there they
> > encourage folks to use elevators that have been
> > designed for such use, also
> > their staricases arte much wider over there so
> there
> > aren't going to be
> > people getting crushed to death.
> > mag
> >
>
>
>
>
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