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To: Mannie who wrote (31141)	12/27/2003 12:56:01 AM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

scoot- ps....Well #7 starts construction today! the "total project sponsorship" is a great idea. especially since you are able to do them so inexpensively. it's good for the people of moderate to ample means but it can be a good incentive for us of lesser resources too. i don't know if you're familiar with the dean campaign's web structure... you'd have to be closely following their website and weblogs to see what they're doing... but they have a great thing going that is a good model for what you're doing too. being a bottom-up model, the grassroots participants have requested it themselves - not howard's campaign managers... there are comments sections that people continually brainstorm with each other on -- (blogs). also, people are continually setting up their own sub-sites and local or mutual-interest sites, i.e., dykes for dean, okies for dean, etc., etc., etc. -- they set fundraising goals and solicit donations for their sub-groups and then turn it over to the campaign. it's a way that the $10 and $20 donors can feel more empowered. it would be neat to see CTH become interactive and use a blog for brainstorming. really silly and stupid ideas come out of it (also brilliance)... that's what brainstorming does. for example, someone like JLA will come on with derogatory comments and someone else comes up with the idea of "feed the troll goal" which means that for every derogatory post, everyone will make a donation to the "feed the troll goal" - even if it's only ten bucks... after a while, the derogatory poster ends up being the fundraiser (ha ha). that's just one small example of a stupid brainstorming idea that ends up being brilliant. if you go with the bottom-up management model you have to trust the bottom line (people power) -- you have to give up your own power and control of what you thought your dream was -- but in return, you unleash the power of the "network" of people power. if you have a worthy vision (which you and yen definitely possess) you can keep the "network" focused. i'd really love to see the NNBM use this kind of group effort with CTH. most of us can't afford to sponsor a complete project, but it would give us great satisfaction to see a "shared" NNBM plaque on a "complete project". NNBM already has our own blog (here on SI) so it would be easy for us to brainstorm and help each other set the goal, the timeline and the methods to fund a "total project sponsorship" for Care To Help. check your "network for good" proceeds, for the first $50 contribution toward the "NNBM Well" from me and give us an idea of what a "total project sponsorship" will cost. we can do it! run this idea by your webmaster too. let him know that you want to be able to set up a blog or message-board and a way for small groups of like-minded people to unite and sponsor "total projects" for the Care To Help non-profit efforts. even people and kids with no financial means can help by soliciting and helping with the web work, communications, flyers, mailings, etc., etc., etc. i think i may even be able to milk some small donations out of my offspring and partner for an idea like this. <g> ok. i feel more empowered now. thanks. <g> -lepolv86 ps- lavar arrington just got a 60 million dollar contract but he is not my offspring - don't get any silly ideas. <vbg>

To: Mannie who wrote (31141)	12/28/2003 12:05:17 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

hi scoot- mclulu's is still here and very busy. took a picture of it for you <s>. we were to go out to coranados island yesterday but we experienced the tail end of a storm and it was very windy - i'd say 40 to 50 mph so we couldn't go out. this morning i woke early and went out to the malecon to take a picture of the sunrise. i tried to get the sunrise, and waves spraying against the rocks (it's still really windy) and a pelicon diving, all at the same time. i must have taken 12 shots and then just when the sun was breaking over top of the mountains, my batteries quit on me. <grrrrrr> i was sure i had packed my battery charger - but didn't (ng), so i'm going to have to try and find someone who has one and who will recharge my batteries. maybe a local real estate office will do it. have started another book - snow falling on cedars. it's a novel based on historical facts and takes place on san piedro island, north of puget sound. tom read it first and can't get the characters out of his mind even now. hope you're getting lots of skiing in. drink more tequila, .... okay! -rosiita