I find this to be an extremely clever use of open market resources. Category 4, a local web design and hosting firm (I worked with them when implementing the new Virginia Film Festival website) is offering a Barack Obama WordPress theme. Here is the message that went out from Cat4’s CEO:
In the past year Category 4 has been developing a lot of Wordpress-based web sites for our clients. We recently decided to expand our reach by developing some free custom themes. Our first free theme, “Probama” went live for public download today. It’s a theme for bloggers who want to support Barak Obama and his campaign for President. In addition to a beautiful visual style, it includes some cool features, such as:
• Control panel options for Flickr, Youtube and Feedburner
• Subcategory dropdown menus
• Author-highlighting and gravatars in the comments section
• Custom archives page
• Latest-post highlighting on homepage
• Dynamic subpage menus
• RSS integration with BarackObama.com
• Additional print.css stylesheet
You can learn more about the theme and download it from the Cat4 site.
From March 13-16, the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, OFFSCREEN, and University Democrats, are sponsoring a film festival marking five years of occupying Iraq. All events are free and open to the public; discussions will follow each screening. The sponsors encourage everyone to come, regardless of their opinions on the Iraq occupation or political affiliations.
WHERE: Kaleidoscope Room in Newcomb Hall, on the main grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. (#30 on this map.)
WHEN: March 13, 14, 15, 16. Events begin at 7 p.m. on the first three nights and 5 p.m. on the final day.
Continue reading ‘“Five Years Too Many in Iraq” Film Festival’
As if there wasn’t enough to do on March 4, Charlottesville Parks and Rec has scheduled a public forum to discuss the Master Plan Project for the western end of McIntire Park. The meeting runs from 6:30 to 8:30 in City Council chambers, and yes, that is the same time as both the Old Lynchburg Road Citizen information meeting and the UVA Medical Center update . A copy of the Park Forum agenda is posted below.
As has been reported, the City of Charlottesville has entered into a Land Lease with the Piedmont Family YMCA that provides for the construction of a community recreation center within McIntire Park. A provision of this land lease requires the City to conduct a master plan process that will determine the exact location of the YMCA within this portion of McIntire Park. This process will produce a conceptual master plan that will:
1) Locate the YMCA facility within a pre-defined area on the west side of McIntire Park
2) Identify other potential recreational improvements on the west side of McIntire Park reflecting the needs and values of the community.
To that end, upon completion of a six week Request for Proposal (RFP) process, the City has retained the services of a landscape architectural firm. Rhodeside-Harwell will assist the City in facilitating a community-driven process that will update the park master plan for the portion of McIntire Park west of the Norfolk Southern Railway. The March 4 meeting is only the first of several community engagement meetings designed to create open discussion of this project. The current schedule is as follows:
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Those of you who work or live near the University Medical Center may find this interesting. Note that this unfortunately overlaps with the Old Lynchburg Road Citizen information meeting:
U.Va. Officials Give Update on Medical Center Plans
On Tuesday, March 4, the University of Virginia will host “Changing the Health Care Landscape: A Preview of New Facilities at U.Va.’s Medical Center.” Designed to give residents an update on Medical Center plans, the meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the Rivanna/Albemarle Room of the Courtyard Marriott located at 1201 West Main St.
At the meeting, R. Edward Howell, Vice President and CEO of the Medical Center, will describe how the new buildings and new technologies reflect the changing face of medicine.
In addition, Luis Carazzana, a senior facility planner in the University’s Office of the Architect, will describe the buildings and infrastructure that will support the new Medical Center model.
The meeting, scheduled to run from 7 to 8 p.m., will include displays, resource guides and light refreshments. Ample free parking is available at the Courtyard Marriott.
To offer suggestions of topics for discussion or to gain more information, please contact U.Va.’s Community Relations Office at 924-1321 or via communityrelations@virginia.edu.
I (finally) attended my first Parks and Rec meeting last night as a Board member, and I hope to blog about it this weekend. Until then, I thought it important to get this information out to those who may not have seen it, particularly my neighbors in the Fry’s Spring area.
Citizen information meeting
Old Lynchburg Road Safety, Sidewalk, & Drainage Project
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Cherry Avenue Christian Church
1720 Cherry Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22903
The City of Charlottesville is excited to invite you to attend an informational meeting about the improvement to the Old Lynchburg Road corridor from the South City Limits to Jefferson Park Avenue. Come and see preliminary plans and share your ideas and concerns. This meeting will be most constructive with all participants present for the entire duration. Representatives from the City of Charlottesville and the Consultant Study Team will be on hand to discuss and receive input on a variety of citizen concerns including drainage, traffic calming, and pedestrian/ bicycle facilities.
Project information including displays showing the proposed preliminary design and potential property impacts will be available at the meeting.
If you have any questions, please contact Tony Edwards, City Engineer, at 970-3182 or email Tony at edwardst AT charlottesville.org.
Smith Magazine is sponsoring a contest to tell a complete memoir in just six words. Many of these have already been collected in a book Not Quite What I Was Planning, but they are also still accepting submissions on their website. My own contribution is linked below:
What happens if I press this?
This Sunday, Feb. 24th at 3:00 P.M., Chief Billy “Red Wing” Tayac of the Piscataway Nation will speak at UVA issues affecting today’s American Indians. The event, open to the public with no admission charge, is sponsored by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, the American Indian Student Union, the National Native American Law Student Association, and the Office of the Dean of Students of UVa.
Chief Tayac has been an Indian activist for several decades, participating in many indigenous struggles, including Wounded Knee, Gankineh, Big Mountain, OK’a, Gustafson Lake, and the Salvadorian Indian and Ecuadorian Indian Movements. Chief Billy Tayac is currently working to assist Spanish speaking Indians who are suffering a new era of economic invasion resulting from NAFTA and the unregulated practices of many multinational corporations based in the US. Once again Indian people are being forced off their land. Chief Tayac is a voice for Indian people everywhere and an inspiration to all of us.
Additional information can be found at the AISU website.
My friends at the CCPJ are sponsoring two very interesting events this week. To begin, a free screening of Uncounted on Feb. 21 at 7:00 at Sojourner’s Church, 1017 Elliott Ave. The film is a nonpartisan look at election fraud and error, with a focus on the elections of 2004 and 2006 and the problems created by the expanded use of DRE (directly recording electronic) voting machines. Both Charlottesville and Albemarle residents vote on DREs. More information can be found at CCPJ.
News of a CCPJ Feb. 24th event can be found at this post.
The Charlottesville Office of Voter Registration has posted the results of the February primaries as a PDF. The results are broken down by precinct, and it’s very clear to see how Obama swept them all. I was standing out in the freezing rain at my precinct for the last two hours, manning a table for the local Dems, and I have to give the Ron Paul guy due credit. He had been out there since 6:15 AM and was still there as I packed up close to 7:00 PM. We talked a bit, I learned more than I ever wanted to about the gold standard, and his candidate came in a respectable third.
February 5 is Super Tuesday, and though Virginia will not be voting until a week later, the results of that twenty-two state voting blitz could do much to determine the next nominee of each party. So if you’re not already invited to a friend’s Super Tuesday party — complete with 50′ plasma TV and ready snacks — then hopefully you have already RSVPed for the Road Back PAC “Super Duper Tuesday” gala at Gravity Lounge. For more Democratic Party events, visit CVilleDems.org
If you don’t have $30 burning a hole in your pocket, but still want to spend at least part of the evening with like-minded folk, then you may wish to attend an alternative event titled “Left of Center on Local Food”. LOC is a group for the young Dem-curious, and this event focuses on the local food movement. Left of Center can be found on the web at LeftofCenterCVille.org.
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