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RiverJazz festival kicks off second year at SteelStacks in Bethlehem
Instead of a five-day festival, this year's RiverJazz is a series of free and ticketed shows that begins with a free concert at 6 p.m. May 10 by the Eric Mintel Quartet on the Air Products Town Square.
What hasn't changed is that it will offer top national talent, highlighted by 14-time Grammy Award winner Bela Fleck and banjo-player extraordinaire playing with The Marcus Roberts Trio on May 23 and former "Tonight Show" bandleader (and former Allentown resident) Kevin Eubanks on May 25, the final day of the fest. Both play in the Musikfest Cafe at the ArtsQuest Center.
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Forget Final Fantasy XV, Final Fantasy Versus XIII is the real savior of Square-Enix's limping role-playing series! And it's still in development according to Square-Enix's Yoichi Wada.
How could it not be magical? A blend of high-fantasy and urban life starring a brooding spiky-haired young man with a big sword? And it's all born of the mind of Tetsuya Nomura? It's got a wide open world and sprawling cities filled with people to explore? Why that sounds like the winning formula that made not just series milestone Final Fantasy VII but the entire Final Fantasy franchise the beloved institution it is today. Or at least was until about two years ago when Final Fantasy XIII turned the series into an emblem for Square-Enix's decline as a creative superpower. Yes, Final Fantasy Versus XIII will save the day.
That is, of course, if it ever gets released. It was announced in May 2006, months before Final Fantasy XII for PlayStation 2 was even released in the US. Since then, it's only appeared in a handful of trailers and songs from its soundtrack have popped up here and there. At this point, Final Fantasy Versus XIII has taken over Duke Nukem Forever's crown as the king of vaporware.
Hence why Kotaku's report on Friday seemed so plausible. Japan correspondent Brian Ashcraft said that multiple sources confirmed that Final Fantasy Versus XIII had been cancelled but Square-Enix, and that the game's death was kept quiet so as to not cause the company embarrassment or fluctuation in shareholder confidence. Other sources indicated that the Final Fantasy Versus XIII staff—whose past work includes Kingdom Hearts II and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children—was folded into the team creating Final Fantasy XV, though it was unclear if the game that was Versus XIII was simply being rebranded as XV. There's precedence for this. The 2011 PSP game Final Fantasy Type 0 was originally titled Final Fantasy Agito XIII.
Square-Enix CEO Yoichi Wada put the rumors to bed on Tuesday though. The executive said via Twitter (via MCV), "I've seen rumors that FFVXIII has been cencelled. The rumors aren't true. I've actually been in a recent presentation about the game and I've seen it."
Excellent news. Kingdom Hearts II was a spectacular game, so Versus XIII's pedigree is strong. There are still many questions about the game to be answered though. Is it still a PlayStation 3 exclusive? Will it be rebranded as Final Fantasy XV? Will it be out before the PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720 hit shelves? Tetsuya Nomura told GameInformer in May, "We would like to ask for your patience on an official announcement for this title." Patience can only be worn so thin!
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Love this Gordon's ad. Love love love love. Life mag, July 5, 1937.
First, I love the stem glass, especially the stem, but also the bowl. The other glassware, the ice bucket, the martini pitcher. All lovely, and all items I now covet. I love that the martini has a bit of color to it, perhaps from the vermouth that was used.
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But I also really love the bottle. Let's look at that in fancy giant size.
Check out the detail! The weird cap with the wire-twist enclosure. The juniper berries. The boar's head. The words NEW JERSEY embossed on the bottle side. And, of course, the proof: 94.4. (If Wikipedia is accurate, bottlings sold in continental Europe are sold at 94.6, or 47.3% abv.)
Some hot stuff here, folks. These are the gems that keep me coming back to this feature.


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Don't wait for a party! We cook this up, let it cool, and store it in a pitcher in the fridge.
Stir well and microwave one or two cups at a time for a special treat for one or two.
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Student Affairs
As the name implies, Student Affairs is the organizational unit that is concerned with the daily care, feeding, governance, health, and well-being of all of Widener students whether they are living and learning on campus, or commuting.
Once students move into their residence halls and start attending classes on campus, the staff of Student Affairs become the best source of news, information, and guidance about all things Widener and Widener Pride for students — and their parents.
From a business perspective, Student Affairs includes the following organizational units and working groups:
- Parent Network
- Residence Life
- Student Life
Facilities operated under the aegis of Student Affairs include:
- University Center
- Pride Recreation Center
The staff in Student Affairs work to see that everything done in the classroom, in residence halls, in co-curricular programs, in relationships, and in knowledge gained reflects the Widener experience: academic quality and career preparation and a commitment to community service. From the first Pride Experience to the pride of graduation day, they will provide the tools and resources for students to be their best selves and achieve their potential.


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The southbound lanes of S. 27th St. from Capital Parkway closed this morning for resurfacing. Once those lanes are completed, they will be reopened, and the northbound lanes closed. The closure of the northbound lanes is now expected to take place at 6 a.m. Wednesday, August 26.
The detour route is Capital Parkway to "A" Street to 27th Street.
The night time closure of the 27th and Capital Parkway intersection for resurfacing is scheduled for the evenings of August 27th, 28th and 29th. The intersection will be closed those nights from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. The detour for these closures is Capital Parkway, to Randolph St., 33rd St. and Capital Parkway.


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The "30 Rock" series finale doesn't air until Jan. 31, but for the cast of the acclaimed sitcom, the fun ended last month when they wrapped production on the series after seven seasons on NBC. Cast members Tracy Morgan, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Jack McBrayer and Jane Krakowski came together Thursday night for what is hoped will be the first of many reunions.
The entire ensemble sat down with Jimmy Fallon for a lengthy look back at the series. It was an unusual format for a late-night talk show – more "Oprah" than "Late Night" – but for "30 Rock" fans it was a treat. Each cast member shared a favorite clip from the series, and there were even some very, very mild spoilers about the upcoming finale.
As Fey explained that whenever a cast member was filming his or her final scene, everyone would gather around to watch. When Fey filmed her final scene, she was quickly surrounded by about a hundred cast and crew members even though she was "running on a treadmill for five seconds" with no lines.


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Health experts call on EU to impose total ban on use of mercuryPublished by MAC on 2007-01-11
Health experts call on EU to impose total ban on use of mercury
by Constant Brad, Associated Press
11th January 2007
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Health and environmental experts called on the European Union on Wednesday to push for a global ban on the use of mercury, warning that the highly toxic chemical continues to pose severe health risks.
In a report, a pan-European group of health care experts, professionals and activists called on the 27-nation EU to step up efforts to rid the continent of mercury, which it said continues to be used in everything from dental fillings to medical devices such as thermometers.
"Even if we stopped all mercury production and spills and emissions today, our global food supply would still be contaminated for years to come," said Genon Jensen, director of the Health and Environment Alliance, who presented the report to EU lawmakers at the European Parliament.
The report calls for a "general restriction on all remaining uses of mercury in products."
The EU's executive Commission has called for a ban on exports of mercury from 2011 and the European Parliament is backing a phase out of mercury in measuring devices, except barometers and antique instruments. The EU governments have yet to give their approval.
The European Commission said it would push for a worldwide agreement to reduce human and environmental exposure to mercury at a United Nations Environment Program meeting next month in Nairobi, Kenya.
The EU is the world's biggest exporter of mercury, which is gradually being phased out by industry.
The group's report claims that low-level exposure to mercury by pregnant women is dangerous for the unborn child. "Mercury has long been recognized as a major source of toxicity in children causing reduced cognitive functioning, including reduced IQ," Dutch pediatrician Gavin ten Tusscher told EU lawmakers.
He added that even low exposure to the chemical "can cause damage to the developing brain of the fetus and infant."
Similar conclusions have been made in other studies conducted worldwide. Scientists say mercury poisoning can be fatal and even small amounts can damage the nervous system. Elevated mercury levels have been linked to learning disabilities and developmental delays in children and to heart, nervous system and kidney damage in adults.
Jensen called on the EU to launch a public education campaign to better inform about the risks of mercury, notably to pregnant women. The report reiterated that harmful human exposure to mercury is mainly through the consumption of certain types of fish.
Traces of mercury are found in nearly all fish and shellfish. Released through industrial pollution, mercury falls and accumulates in streams and oceans as a more toxic form, methylmercury. This can pass through the blood barrier and into the placenta, posing a particular risk to pregnant women and children.
However, health experts stress that people should not avoid eating fish altogether.
"We are simply saying that it's better to eat smaller fish that are lower in the food chain and therefore less contaminated with mercury," Jensen said.
The European health experts called on the EU however to push for a total global ban at the U.N. talks in Nairobi, warning that mercury emissions could be rising.


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When Terrell Suggs spoke at last year's mandatory minicamp, his voice barely rose above a whisper.
His first in-depth interview since the Super Bowl season was absent of colorful sound bites and shtick, a major departure from Suggs' normal fun-loving and quick-quipping persona.
Whether it was intentional or not, the message was sent and it would be reinforced throughout the 2014 season. Suggs, who had become the undisputed defensive leader with Ray Lewis retired and Ed Reed playing elsewhere, was taking his new responsibilities seriously.
"It was a big period of adjustment, and I was more focused on losing [Lewis and Reed] from a brother standpoint, not as a football standpoint," Suggs said Wednesday after the Ravens' second mandatory minicamp workout.
"I had those older guys around to build, and it was a period of adjustment. It was weird, and it [extended] onto the field — not having those guys there. But, the most [important] thing we can learn from last year about those guys not being there is those guys were once-in-a-lifetime guys and all we can be is ourselves. They're not going to come walking through the door to help us win another championship, so all you can be is yourself, and that should be enough."
Asked if he plans on having a little more fun this season, Suggs flashed a wide smile, winked and said, "We'll see, we'll see."
If the first two days of this week's minicamp are any indication, Suggs is well on his way. His voice has reverberated around the practice field at the Under Armour Performance Center. He's traded barbs with a number of the Ravens' offensive players, including backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor and wide receiver Steve Smith, and even playfully challenged offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak.
"Sizz is still himself. You know, he's going to come out and run his mouth, but he's going to give you everything he's got — 110 percent," said wide receiver and kick returner Jacoby Jones. "He's going to be here in practice, he's going to come off the ball hard [and] make a lot of tackles. Everybody leads differently, and he's a guy that will show by example. But when it's time for him to talk, he talks."
Suggs, a six-time Pro Bowl selection who turns 32 in October, is the Ravens' longest-tenured player. In February, he signed a four-year, $28.5 million contract extension that he hopes will allow him to retire with the only NFL organization he's ever known.
As he prepares for his 12th NFL season, Suggs sounded excited and motivated after an uneven 2013 campaign by both his and the Ravens' standards.
"I feel great. To be totally honest with you, it's all in your mindset. If you think you're old, you're going to train old and then you're going to perform old. I'm 31, but I feel like it's Day One for me, so I just need to go out there and have fun," said Suggs, the Ravens' all-time leader in sacks (941/2) and forced fumbles (29).
"You're going to always have something to prove when you're playing this game. You never want to hit your cruising altitude; you always want to be ascending with your game. You can always get better. That's what I'm going to continue to try to do. There were some things we identified that we all could have done better last season, and definitely finishing strong is one of them for us as a team and myself."
Limited to eight games in 2012 after tearing his right Achilles tendon during the offseason, Suggs entered training camp last year in the best shape of his career. It showed early, as he had nine sacks and 60 tackles over his first eight games, emerging as a midseason NFL Defensive Player of the Year candidate.
But Suggs struggled in the second half of the season, going six consecutive games without a sack and getting just one quarterback takedown over his final eight games. He said today that injuries were not a factor in the swoon, though he acknowledged his conditioning dipped later in the season.
"You get a little cold and you gain a little weight," Suggs said. "I probably put on a little too much weight down the stretch there. But that was one of my big focuses going into this year. Definitely, if I keep my weight down, I can have a strong finish."
Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said Tuesday he was generally pleased with the conditioning level of the veterans and he singled out Suggs.
"I'll tell you this: the numbers were very good," Harbaugh said. "You can tell he's been working really hard."
Suggs said that he's learned at this point of his career that "everything counts," so he pays more attention to his diet and training regimen than ever before. But this offseason, it wasn't very difficult for him to get motivated.
Only four times in his 11-year career in Baltimore has Suggs not been part of the playoffs and 2013 was particularly difficult because it ended the Ravens' Super Bowl reign and their five-year postseason run.
"It was very weird, it was very agonizing," Suggs said. "For the past six years, we've been in the playoffs, and to watch other teams get the opportunity to compete for a championship, it was very agonizing. It was like you've got to go back and question what you could have done better and how [to] not repeat that going into the next year and definitely don't have that feeling again."
Suggs said that the team definitely had some things to address in the offseason, though he declined to identify what those things are. He did praise the addition of Kubiak and Smith, and the mixture of veterans and youth on the Ravens roster.
He also made it clear he's ready to move beyond the Ravens' disappointing 8-8 season and the constant questions about the team's leadership following the departures of Lewis and Reed.
"That was last year," Suggs said. "All we can do is learn from it now. We don't want to harp on it — just continue to work."


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Tonight's Concert Picks: The Walkmen at Union Transfer, Grimace Federation at Kung Fu Necktie, The Cobbs at Johnny Brenda's, David Uosikkinen's In the Pocket at The Colonial Theatre
Philly / New York rockers The Walkmen headline tonight at Union Transfer. Replacing a canceled October show, the local favorites return to Philly in support of 2012's Heaven. In an effort to take the album in a new direction, the band brought in producer Phil Ek for a fresh sound. The ambition paid off, with Heaven being named Magnet's number one album of 2012 and the title track landing at spot #56 on XPN's Top 200 Songs Countdown. Tickets and information for tonight's show with Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah can be found here. Below, watch The Walkmen's video for "Heaven."


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Paul Brest, the former president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, has been named faculty co-director of Stanford University's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Join SSIR Academic Editor Johanna Mair and Phil Buchanan, Center for Effective Philanthropy, for an armchair interview with Paul Brest on October 11, 2012, at Stanford University.
Outcome-oriented philanthropy is at least a century old, but the past 10 or so years have seen an upsurge in both its intensity and its extent. It has been the subject of many articles, talks, and conferences, and has given rise to new organizations dedicated to facilitating its practice. An increasing, albeit still small, number of foundations seem to have adopted an outcome orientation.
"Outcome-oriented" is synonymous with "result-oriented," "strategic," and "effective." It refers to philanthropy where donors seek to achieve clearly defined goals; where they and their grantees pursue evidence-based strategies for achieving those goals; and where both parties monitor progress toward outcomes and assess their success in achieving them in order to make appropriate course corrections.
This approach can take different forms. A classic example from many decades ago was the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations' funding of research and development to improve agricultural production in developing countries—what became known as the Green Revolution. More recent examples include the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's efforts to build the field of digital media and learning, and Acumen Fund's and Omidyar Network's "impact investments" to benefit the world's poorest people.
The common theme of these approaches, the idea that philanthropy should seek results, may seem so obvious as to make the modifier "outcome-oriented" superfluous. But despite the increasing belief that the work of the sector should rest on goal-oriented, evidence-based strategies, very few donors actually follow these principles.
I caught the start of the wave of outcome-oriented philanthropy when I joined the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as president in 2000, and it's been a great ride. As I prepare to leave the foundation, I'd like to reflect on the currents that have brought outcome-oriented philanthropy this far, and the shoals and reefs that lie ahead.
Stirrings of a Movement
Before focusing on the particular practices of outcome-oriented philanthropy, I'll begin with a word about its infrastructure. The last decade opened with two important articles that provided the underpinnings of outcome-oriented philanthropy: Christine Letts, William Ryan, and Allen Grossman's Virtuous Capital: What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists, and Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's Philanthropy's New Agenda: Creating Value. These were followed by an unprecedented amount of research, teaching, and writing on the subject, as well as the launch of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and The Foundation Review, blogs such as Sean Stannard-Stockton's Tactical Philanthropy, and new academic research centers at Stanford, Duke, and the University of Pennsylvania.
What practical assistance is available to outcome-oriented philanthropists? Although older membership organizations such as the Council on Foundations, Philanthropy Roundtable, the National Center for Family Philanthropy, Independent Sector, and the regional associations of grantmakers have increased their programming in this respect, strategy is not (yet) embedded in their DNA. But two important new organizations have entered the field. The mission of the Center for Effective Philanthropy is to improve foundations' abilities to achieve social impact. As its name implies, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' guiding tenet is that strong nonprofit organizations are necessary for achieving outcomes.
The number and quality of consulting firms providing donors with management and strategic advice have increased dramatically during the past decade. Among the new entrants are the Bridgespan Groupand FSG, which provide strategic consulting to organizations. Firms like Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors provide services to individual donors as well.
Like strategic consultants, good evaluation shops have been around for some time. But new organizations have emerged to meet new demands. Among the signal developments of the past decade was the creation of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has brought the highest standards of social science to assess interventions in developing countries.
Beginning with Philanthropy Workshop and its offshoot, the Philanthropy Workshop West, the decade saw an increase in the number and quality of outcome-oriented donor education programs available to high net worth philanthropists. The Donor Effectiveness Network is establishing common outcome-oriented standards among a broader group of donor education providers.
The Internet has enabled advances in communication among funders, grantees, and others. The Foundation Center's Glasspocketsinitiative is inducing greater foundation transparency. And many foundations receive feedback from grantees through the Center for Effective Philanthropy's Grantee Perception Reports.
A growing number of independent groups use the Internet to publish information about the impact of nonprofits. GiveWell and Root Causeprovide in-depth analyses of nonprofits. Philanthropedia (recently acquired by GuideStar) aggregates experts' opinions of organizations as a proxy for their effectiveness and outcomes. Charity Navigator, once exclusively focused on financial data unrelated to outcomes, is beginning to develop outcome indicators. And the Charting Impact project of Independent Sector, GuideStar, and the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance is encouraging nonprofits to publish structured information about their goals, strategies, and achievements.
Finally, more than a dozen recent books, by authors including Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, Joel Fleishman, and Tom Tierney advocate an outcome-oriented approach. No less important, the movement has inspired some strong critics, including William Schambra and Bruce Sievers, who argue against the practice, or at least its inclination toward measurable outcomes.
Approaches to Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy
For all the new organizations, services, and advocates of outcome-oriented philanthropy, the important question is the extent to which it has taken root in practice. Outcome-oriented philanthropy has two major focal points: supporting organizations and problem-solving philanthropy.1 Examples of supporting organizations range from grants to after-school programs for underserved children and gifts to universities to create, teach, and disseminate knowledge, to investments in for-profit entities distributing malaria bed nets. There are three different strategies for supporting organizations: philanthropic buying, providing risk and growth capital, and impact investing.
Outcome-oriented philanthropic buyers look for the best service in their areas of interest for the lowest cost, and make gifts and grants to help pay the operating costs of nonprofits providing those services. Philanthropic investors provide risk capital to social entrepreneurs and nascent organizations, or growth capital to enable relatively mature organizations to expand the scope, efficiency, and quality of their work. Impact investors seek the double or triple bottom line objectives of achieving social or environmental impact as well as financial returns. Their investments may buy services or provide risk or growth capital with the aims of, say, improving the lives of the poor through microfinance or reducing energy consumption by investing in clean tech startups, while earning financial returns.
The second major type of outcome-oriented philanthropy is problem-solving philanthropy. Whereas philanthropists often buy services and support organizations in order to solve problems, problem-solving philanthropists put the problem rather than the organization at the center, and actively engage with their grantees in designing and implementing strategies. Here philanthropists act as architects, general contractors, or engineers, and their work often verges on the operational. As a practical matter, only a foundation staffed with experts in a field can undertake this work. During the past decade, foundations played increasingly active and visible problem-solving roles by building fields, brokering collaborative arrangements, and supporting systems change and advocacy.
Supporting Organizations
Philanthropic Buying | Of the three strategies for supporting organizations, philanthropic buying accounts for the vast majority of contributions, and it is also the area where outcome-oriented philanthropy has shown the least gains. A recent survey indicates that although 21 percent of donors inquire into performance, only 3 percent actually use the information to determine which organizations to support.2 This may be partly explained by the challenges of obtaining adequate information about nonprofits' performance. Despite the third-party ratings groups mentioned above, there is nothing approaching the comprehensiveness of, say, Consumer Reports. As a result, philanthropic buyers must often do their own due diligence, which requires knowledge of the substantive area and detailed information about a particular organization's goals, strategies, and actual outcomes. Staffed foundations are relatively well equipped to acquire this information. Other foundations and high net worth individuals must rely on consulting firms or else follow the lead of staffed foundations in which they have confidence—a practice that has not yet gained much adherence.
Apart from these difficulties, many philanthropic buyers subvert their contributions by earmarking donations for particular projects rather than providing unrestricted general operating support. Even outcome-oriented buyers impose these restrictions, often in the misguided beliefs that general operating support grants cannot be evaluated and that donors can have more impact by designating funds for programs. A decade-plus of advocacy by Independent Sector, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy seems to have made minimal gains.
Providing Risk and Growth Capital | Well before the current decade, philanthropists supported social entrepreneurs' early-stage ventures through organizations such as Ashoka and Echoing Green. Although the interest in social entrepreneurship has grown, the sector is still lacking in patient capital to build, sustain, and grow promising nonprofit organizations—for example, funding to pay for new computer systems or train staff members.
One particular area of need is funding to allow successful enterprises to operate at a larger scale. The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) does this by helping build the capacity of promising youth services organizations, and by aggregating capital toward this end. In 2007, EMCF launched the Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot that has raised $120 million for Citizen Schools, Nurse-Family Partnership, and Youth Villages.
Philanthropic investors must perform the same tasks as philanthropic buyers—and then some. They must assess organizations' capacities, needs, and potential for growth and sustainability; understand how to replicate successful model programs; and provide capacity-building support, directly or through consultants, in areas including strategic planning, management, evaluation, governance, fundraising, and communications. As with philanthropic buying, these activities call for experienced foundation staff members. Individual donors and unstaffed foundations have the option of investing in a fund managed by an organization like EMCF.
Impact Investing | The idea that markets can be important vehicles for creating social impact was recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as early as 1969 in its favorable treatment of program- related investments—typically investments that have a lower market-adjusted return than ordinary investments. This paved the way for impact investing some 30 years later.
Impact investors invest capital or make loans to business or nonprofit entities with the goal of achieving social, environmental, and financial returns. In addition to affirmative investment strategies, an increasing number of foundations engage in "socially responsible investing" by voting proxies on issues of social concern or using negative screens to avoid investing in companies that they believe cause social harm.
The tax code creates a divide between investments that seek financial and social returns. By doing much of its work outside of a 501(c)(3) charter, the Omidyar Network makes both for-profit and nonprofit investments to achieve social impact. And two new legal forms of organizations have emerged to blend financial and social outcomes: the low-profit limited liability company (L3C), and the benefit, or B corporation, whose charter requires the company to adhere to socially beneficial practices. (It remains to be seen whether these boundary-crossing approaches increase social benefits or subordinate social benefits to profit motives.)
In addition to needing the skills of philanthropic buyers and investors, impact investors need the financial acumen to identify and analyze investment opportunities that promote the foundation's goals at whatever financial return and risk level fit their social and financial parameters. This requires marrying the knowledge of a foundation's program officers with the skills of its investment staff. Program-related investments typically require legal expertise as well. Donors who lack the staff to perform these activities in-house can turn to the increasing number of consultants in this area, such as Imprint Capital Advisors, Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
As with all philanthropic giving, the main challenge of impact investing is to assess the social impact of one's investment decisions. The issue is most apparent for impact investing that seeks to achieve market rate returns at market risk levels: If clean tech is just as attractive to investors just out to make a buck, will a mission-related investment in clean tech make even a slight additional difference in improving the environment? (Similar questions can be asked about negative screens for investing in publicly traded stocks.) As tools are developed to measure the "blended value" of impact investing, they may ultimately benefit all outcome-oriented philanthropy.
Problem Solving Philanthropy
Problem-solving philanthropy focuses on solving social, environmental, or other problems rather than supporting individual nonprofits as such. This approach is essential when a field lacks strong organizations whose missions and activities are closely aligned with a funder's goals—which may happen if the funder's goals are novel or not mainstream, or if the field is new or is not well developed. But even in a fairly mature field, organizations are often disconnected and competitive with one another at the expense of transparency and collaboration, and lack the capacity or will to act in coordination to solve multifaceted problems. In short, the whole sometimes is less than the sum of its parts.
In these situations, the problem-solving philanthropist plays a coordinating role, drawing on the resources of various organizations and linking them with each other and with experts, policy makers, and practitioners. Problem-solving philanthropists use all available philanthropic tools, including investing and buying, to achieve particular goals. With expertise in the field, they often possess a perspective that no single organization does. Like philanthropic buyers and investors, problem-solving philanthropists often help grantees improve their organizational effectiveness, but they typically go beyond this role to be partners in strategic planning and implementation.
Here are several vignettes of different types of problem-solving philanthropy from the Hewlett Foundation's work as well as one in which we were not involved.
Building Fields | For decades, international donors' support for primary and secondary education in developing countries focused on expanding access to schools without attention to learning outcomes. In 2001, the Hewlett Foundation began to try to improve outcomes in reading, math, and problem-solving skills. Because few existing organizations were closely aligned with this goal, the foundation had to draw on diverse entities to put together a strategy. For example, the foundation made grants to the Center for Universal Education for research on quality education in developing countries. It made grants to the Aga Khan Foundation to develop a more effective approach to teaching reading and math, and then to implement the approach in Kenya and Uganda. And it engaged the African Population and Health Research Center to assess whether these approaches actually worked. Over time, the foundation hopes to foster the development of in-country organizations to which it and others can make general operating support grants. But for now, the work continues to require considerable engagement by foundation staff.
Brokering | Hewlett Foundation staff played a major role in assisting with the transfer of the Stanford Social Innovation Review from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (whose priorities no longer included the journal) to Stanford University's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and gaining financial support for the enterprise. The foundation also facilitated the acquisition of Philanthropedia by GuideStar and the formation of a strategic alliance among Independent Sector, the Wise Giving Alliance, and GuideStar to create Charting Impact, a framework for organizations to describe their goals, strategies, and outcome measures.
Collaboration and Linking Organizations | The Hewlett, Moore, Packard, TOSA, and Wilburforce foundations and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund collaborated to protect about 21 million acres of largely undeveloped coastal land in the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada. The foundations' staffs brought together conservation grantees with the provincial and Canadian governments, First Nations tribes, and the timber industry—interests that had fought one another for years. The foundations saw an opportunity to facilitate negotiations among these parties to protect the forest, deliver economic development opportunities to coastal First Nations, and put the timber industry on a path toward sustainability. In the process, the foundations created the Rainforest Solutions Project to put together an environmental deal among nonprofits and supported similar partnerships among the First Nations people and private sector companies.
Policy Advocacy | The Hewlett Foundation's Environment Program has made grants to a variety of organizations to advance climate change and air quality policies in California. Traditional environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund have provided critical advocacy and analytical capacity to help develop California's climate change policies, which ultimately can have a large effect on private investments as well as public resources. On the local and regional level, public health, environmental justice, and community groups like the Fresno-Madera Medical Society, the Coalition for Clean Air, Communities for a Better Environment, and the East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice have achieved significant improvements in air quality.
Collective Impact | Foundations have sometimes played a role in multi-stakeholder collaborative efforts. In the article "Collective Impact," in the winter 2011 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, John Kania and Mark Kramer write that "large-scale social change comes from better cross-sector collaboration rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organizations." Their poster child is Strive, a project in which foundations, nonprofit organizations, corporations, school district leaders, and universities have collaborated to address the problem of low student achievement in Cincinnati, and created an intermediary organization to coordinate their efforts.
In addition to calling for all the skills involved in supporting organizations, problem-solving philanthropy requires understanding the dynamics of complex social and political systems; developing sound strategies that take both benefits and risks of failure into account; helping develop strategies, and monitoring and evaluation plans; and linking nonprofit organizations, funders, experts, and policymakers. It also calls for the resilience to abide both great uncertainties and great failures.
Criticisms of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy
Outcome-oriented philanthropy—particularly the problem-solving approach—has been subject to various criticisms. Some critics embrace the practice and seek to improve it, and others challenge the very concept. I'll begin by mentioning an argument between the two main outcome-oriented schools. Some proponents of problem-solving philanthropy imply that (merely) supporting organizations is not an impactful use of philanthropic dollars. Indeed, the frequent characterization of problem-solving philanthropy as "strategic" might be taken to imply that supporting organizations is unstrategic. On the other side, some commentators accord general operating support an almost religious status, and denigrate problem-solving philanthropy as inherently top-down and inimical to the autonomy and vitality of nonprofits. Stannard-Stockton takes this position in his usually excellent blog. My view is that both approaches have great potential, but that their true value depends on their actual outcomes.
These internecine squabbles aside, internal critics of outcome-oriented philanthropy voice the concerns that it can be incompetently executed, and that funders may exercise inappropriate control over grantees, thereby impinging on their autonomy and stifling innovation. For example, in their 2011 article in The Foundation Review, "Beyond the Veneer of Strategic Philanthropy," Patricia Patrizi and Elizabeth Thompson note that, after engaging in a lengthy strategic planning process, some foundations put their plans in a drawer and do not engage in the ongoing monitoring and evaluation that would inform necessary corrections. They also observe that foundations often don't consider in advance the tasks that their staffs must perform to design and implement a strategy, and that staff members may lack the requisite skills.
Some of Patrizi and Thompson's points resonate with the Hewlett Foundation's experience over the past decade. Early on, we mouthed the concepts of outcome-oriented philanthropy and asked grantees to do likewise, without fully understanding how the concepts played out in practice. Though we always treated strategic plans as living documents, it is only in the last several years that we have engaged in the systematic monitoring and evaluation necessary to see if strategies are working, and correct them when they're not. We have also learned through painful experiences about the challenges of implementing even well-thought-out strategies. The Hewlett Foundation's support for strengthening grantees' capacities has grown year by year. And our understanding of the tasks performed by program officers, the skills needed, and the implications for hiring, support, and training also has grown tremendously.
Patrizi and Thompson note that some foundations treat grantees merely as agents for implementing strategies designed in-house, rather than as partners in their design, leading to weak strategies, limited buy-in by grantees, and poor feedback. In "Letting Go," an article in the spring 2011 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Kristi Kimball and Malka Kopell levy the similar criticism that foundations are prone to the "not invented here" syndrome in adopting strategies and their underlying theories of change.
The critics' basic concern is legitimate. Workable theories of change cannot be developed by foundation staff alone, but only through extensive and ongoing consultations with grantees, practitioners, experts, policymakers, and others. But in their zeal to prevent the not-invented-here error, Kimball and Kopell adopt the mirror-image error of demanding that "it must be invented there," where "there" is a grantee. This fundamentally mistakes the way knowledge develops. It is seldom possible to trace the origins of ideas to one or another institution. As ideas are tested, refined, mixed with others, or discarded, they don't belong to any particular organization but instead enter the public domain.
Kimball and Kopell also complain that a given foundation typically funds interventions based on only one or two theories of change, rather than supporting a diverse group of promising ideas. But although supporting a number of ideas may sound good in theory, most foundations lack the financial and human resources to pursue more than a couple at any time.
In contrast to the preceding critics who want to improve outcome- oriented philanthropy, others question its core tenets. These include both conservatives like William Schambra and liberals like Bruce Sievers and Bill Somerville, whose positions sometimes converge and sometimes diverge. The critics share a radical skepticism about social science as well as the belief that an emphasis on metrics leads philanthropists to focus on measurable results at the expense of outcomes that are truly important. The conservative critics, following the political theorist Edmund Burke, argue that efforts at broad-scale social change are fraught with uncertainty and unanticipated bad consequences. They would have philanthropy support local community organizations without demanding particular outcomes. The liberals share this emphasis on local communities, but they also extol philanthropy's big bets on social movements, whether involving the environment or civil rights—again, without the constraints of specific outcomes and metrics.
Of course, there is good reason for caution in acting on social science findings. But the implication that we can never make good bets on social interventions is demonstrably false; it isn't the way we live our own lives when we make decisions, say, about what kind of education to provide our children. For all of the complexities of evaluating social interventions and assessing whether they can be generalized to different settings, we sometimes know "what works" and what doesn't. Indeed, the past decade saw the emergence of organizations that attempt to answer these questions at a granular level.3
The concern that an obsession with metrics may limit a philanthropist's ambition or scope is legitimate. My own view is that one should first choose goals and then make a serious effort to define measurable targets or reasonable proxies for them. Our experience at the Hewlett Foundation is that this usually takes us pretty far, but that sometimes we must make do with qualitative indicators of progress that fall far short of ultimate outcomes. Statistical analysis can provide a reasonable picture of the success of a de-worming program in Africa. But broad-scale social movements require long time horizons and patience with setbacks and periods of stasis.
Sievers argues that philanthropy should focus primarily on empowering civil society. Doubtless, this is a valuable goal, but so too are curing cancer and reducing poverty. Certainly the engagement of citizens is often an important means of achieving philanthropic goals as well as an end in itself. But not always. The proposition that philanthropy must devote itself to particular goals has surfaced in every decade. Rather than choose among the myriad possible candidates, I would prefer to continue the rich tradition of diverse ends and means that has characterized American philanthropy.
The Coming Decade
The decade ends with healthy debates on these issues in journals and blogs that did not exist at its inception, and with many of the institutions and practices mentioned in the preceding pages flourishing. It also ends with considerable interest in the use of social media to improve impact, and in crowdsourcing, design thinking, and other approaches to developing innovative ideas—though, unfortunately, less enthusiasm for scaling successful strategies.
Some of the most interesting innovations have involved nonprofit financing, including "pay-for-performance" schemes, in which funders pay grantee organizations only if they achieve agreed-upon outcome targets. There has been some experimentation with social impact bonds, which combine pay-for-performance with financial markets to scale up successful strategies. For example, in 2010, the United Kingdom offered £5 million of bonds to fund interventions by organizations with proven records of reducing recidivism among prisoners. The bondholders, who take greater than market risks, are repaid only if the organizations achieve certain milestones.
For all of the improved practices and new ideas of the past decade, philanthropy remains an underperformer in achieving social outcomes. One cause of this may be that philanthropists are essentially unaccountable. Businesses have shareholders, politicians have constituents, and nonprofits have funders. In contrast, philanthropists are spending their own money subject to only minimal constraints on their judgment. Of course, foundations have boards, but the boards are often themselves the primary decision makers and, in any event, are not externally accountable. In theory, the media can play a watchdog role. But even if they had the data and capacity necessary to monitor outcomes, their audiences tend to be more interested in personal anecdotes, especially tales of malfeasance.
Despite these shortcomings, I cannot think of a system of external accountability with bite that would not threaten the valuable diversity of American philanthropy—especially its ability to experiment and take risks. A more promising approach would center on self-imposed philanthropic transparency, which could provide donors with feedback that would inform their practices as well as improve sector-wide knowledge. As a starting point, foundations might hold themselves to the minimal Charting Impact disclosures about goals, strategies, and the like.
It is not surprising that donors who are unconcerned with improving their own practices are not interested in improving the practice of philanthropy more broadly. One consequence, however, is the continued weakness of many of the national membership organizations, regional associations of grantmakers, and community foundations on which small foundations and high net worth donors rely for philanthropic guidance. Perhaps because supporting the field seems self-indulgent, or because its benefits are indirect, abstract, and long term, some of the promising new organizations are underfunded.
Despite these problems, outcome-oriented philanthropy continues to have momentum. If there's still more talk than action, talk often precedes action. With many new large foundations likely to come into being during the coming decade, there is a great opportunity to increase the sector's impact. But for outcome-oriented philanthropy to take root will ultimately require a change in the mindset of high net worth donors about what it means to be a good philanthropist—perhaps no less ambitious a transformation than that achieved by the 40-year effort of conservative foundations to change citizens' views of government or of the current movement to broaden the meaning of marriage.
I would like to thank Matt Bannick, Jeff Bradach, Phil Buchanan, Jacob Harold, Brent Harris, C.R. Hibbs, Kristi Kimball, Mark Kramer, Karen Lindblom, Edward Skloot, Sean Stannard-Stockton, Fay Twersky, and Iris Brest for their comments on earlier versions of this article.
Further Reading
Recent books advocating an outcome-oriented approach to philanthropy include:
Joel Fleishman, The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World (2007)
Paul Brest and Hal Harvey, Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy (2008)
Matthew Bishop and Michael Green, Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World (2009)
Tom Tierney and Joel Fleishman, Give Smart: Philanthropy that Gets Results (2011)
Leslie Crutchfield, John Kania, and Mark Kramer, Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World (2011)
Mario Morino, Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity (2011)
Antony Bugg-Levine and Jed Emerson, Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference (2011)
Laura Arrillaga, Giving 2.0 (2011)


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Listeners new to the show might be surprised to learn that there was a time when Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness might go weeks without needing to discuss "celebrity deaths." Clearly, those days are long gone. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), beyond a cursory tribute, your friends in podcasting will have to wait at least a week to celebrate the lives of Mary Tyler Moore, Mike Connors, Gorden Kaye and John Hurt (are we forgetting anybody? No? Don't worry, by next week, there will no doubt be more!). THIS WEEK, Dean and Phil will celebrate the best in movies for the year that was as they count down their Top Ten Best Films of 2016.
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Significant 1Q12 Lease Transactions
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Sullivan Avenue FedEx, South Windsor FedEx 3Q13 220,000
The construction of the new FedEx distribution center in South Windsor is a rare site in Connecticut in recent years.
The industrial real estate market in the state took a major hit following the 2008 recession, leaving vacancy rates hovering near the 20 percent mark and new construction nearly non-existent.
But several major new leases and projects in the pipeline, including build-out of the 220,000-square-foot FedEx facility on Sullivan Road, signal a slow but real recovery in the state's industrial real estate sector that began showing signs of life at the end of 2011, realty experts say.
"We are not dancing in the streets, but I think the outlook is upbeat," said Mark Duclos, the managing partner of Sentry Commercial, a Hartford-based real estate firm. "Product is starting to come off the market but it is going to be a long tedious return to health."
Heading into 2011, the Greater Hartford industrial real estate market had a vacancy rate of 17.8 percent, according to CBRE-New England, but increased activity — driven by several large transactions — helped spark the remnants of a rebound.
In all, 2011 saw 1.1 million square feet of vacant industrial space in Greater Hartford come off the market, which included 18 deals involving properties with more than 25,000 square feet of space.
That compares to only three sales of properties with more than 25,000 square feet in 2010.
Still, the improved activity only made a dent in the 2.2 million square feet of industrial real estate that became vacant in Greater Hartford during 2010, according to CBRE-New England.
Chris Metcalfe, CBRE-New England's first vice president, said there has been about 600,000 square feet of positive absorption so far this year, although foot traffic has slowed down a bit lately.
And much of the activity is coming from larger deals, which is not typical in the Connecticut market.
In South Windsor, for example, FedEx Ground recently broke ground on a new $50 million distribution center as part of a nationwide expansion to its network that will boost the company's package capacity and speed delivery.
South Windsor offered FedEx a 70 percent tax abatement to choose the town for the facility.
FedEx Ground spokesman Bryson W. Thornton said the company chose its Connecticut location because it offers easy access to local highways, is close to customers, and has a large population from which to recruit future employees.
Thornton said the company will open the facility with about 80 full- and part-time employees moving from an existing facility in Windsor.
In nearby Windsor, the planning and zoning commission recently gave its blessing for Dollar Tree to build a 1 million-square-foot distribution center on 93 acres of former farmland in the New England Tradeport industrial park on International Drive.
Jim Burke, Windsor's economic development director, said he has seen more interest in leasing activity in the industrial sector, although not all talks have translated into deals. The Dollar Tree build-out will serve as a major boost to the market, but there have been other smaller transactions that are helping to fill some vacant space in town, Burke said.
Subinas USA, a Spanish company that specializes in the production of spring units for the bedding and upholstery industry, recently leased 42,718 square feet at 4 Market Circle. Burke said the company saw an opportunity to move closer to East Windsor-based King Coil, a company Subinas supplies.
AKO Inc., a manufacturer of torque wrench calibration systems, recently purchased a 28,500-square-foot industrial building on Baker Hollow Road in Windsor for $875,000, Burke said.
Metcalfe, of CBRE/New England, said the larger deals ranging from 200,000 square feet to 1 million square feet haven't been a sweet spot for Connecticut in the past, but a lack of available land in other key logistics markets along the East Coast is making companies take a closer look at the Nutmeg State.
Other larger deals include furniture retailer Raymour & Flanigan paying $16 million to purchase a 308,000-square-foot Manchester warehouse on Chapel Road, and Wallingford-based Fosdick Fulfillment Corp. signing a lease to occupy 250,000 square feet in a building on Worthington Ridge Road in Berlin.
"Land has run out in more primary logistics markets," Metcalfe said. "We have excellent land in Connecticut."
But while Connecticut has the open space, it doesn't have a lot of ready space to fit those larger needs. As a result, larger deals that do come to the state are spurring some ground-up development.
"That means construction trades will be busy," said Metcalfe, who added that there will not be any widespread new industrial build-out until vacancy rates creep down further.
Duclos, of Sentry Commercial, said brokerage houses felt pretty good coming into 2012, although the first quarter got off to a slow start with some companies holding back on pulling the trigger on a deal.
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The "Oracle of Omaha" Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and investment firm 3G Capital are buying ketchup maker Heinz for $28 billion.
The stock is up over 20 percent in the pre-market.
Everyone is probably wondering how much Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, the Heinz ketchup heiress, might make from this deal.
All members of the Senate, House, Executive branch and Judicial branch are required to disclose assets belonging to their spouse and/or dependent children, according to Open Secrets.
According to Open Secrets, last year then-Senator Kerry disclosed his 2011 assets, which included a valuation of $3,000,003 worth of HJ Heinz Co.
It's unclear what the more recent number is at this time, but for purposes of this report, we're going to use that number and do some simple math.
From December 30, 2011 through February 13, 2013 the stock moved up 11.92 %, data from Yahoo! Finance shows. That would put the valuation of that Heinz stake at about $3,357,603 at yesterday's close.
Today the stock is up about 20% on the Buffett news so that would be another increase of ~ $671,520 putting the asset valuation of the Heinz stake at $4,029,123, according to our calculations.
Not too bad.
Again, it's unclear what the real asset valuation of his HJ Heinz Co stake is at this time or if he bought or sold shares since 2011.
Back in January when it was certain Kerry would be confirmed as Secretary of State, the Boston Globe reported that he and his wife agreed to divest a bunch of his investments in both here in the U.S. and abroad to avoid any possible conflicts of interest in his new role.
However, there was no mention of the Kerrys divesting Heinz in the report.
Here's what he agreed to do with that, according to Boston Globe's Bryan Bender:
As for other holdings, such as his wife's stock in the H.J. Heinz Co., Kerry pledged to "not participate personally and substantially in any particular matter that has a direct and predictable effect on my financial interests or those of any person whose interests are imputed to me, unless I first obtain a written waiver."
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The Wickaninnish Inn is quintessential Canada. It's pure, pristine, unadulterated nature that inspires the mind and satisfies the soul. The Wickaninnish Inn typifies what Canada is most famous for and what Canada does best.
The GCAT crew had the great privilege of spending three nights at the fabulous Inn perched on the very edge of Vancouver Island on the Pacific Ocean. The tagline of the Wickaninnish Inn is 'Rustic elegance on nature's edge!' and no better phrase could describe what the Inn offers it's guests.
There is no such thing as 'roughing it' when you stay at the Wickan Inn. It provides 5 star service and comfort in the bosom of Mother Nature. The front desk clerks know your name, there is a turn down service complete with chocolates, your private jacuzzi bath offers views of the ocean, and the local indigenous art collection scattered throughout the hotel would give any public museum a run for it's money!
Charles McDiarmid, the managing director at the inn is proud of what they offer their Canadian and international visitors. The inn is isolated but it's part of the allure. Located on the outskirts of the fabled community of Tofino it's almost like a pilgrimage spot for many people. Visiting the inn is 'getting away from it all' -- 'all' meaning the hubbub of daily life. At the Wickanninish Inn they pipe the sound of the ocean outside into the hotel so that guests are always lulled into a sense of serenity by the sound of the Pacific ocean right outside.
Step through the backdoor of the resort and you step onto a two and half-mile beach, empty of infrastructure, crowds and noise. Their neighbor is an old carving hut that the inn owns and lends to local carvers (like the talented 'Feather George') who you can stop to talk with and watch carve. The sun sets into the Pacific Ocean right in front of the hotel as the sand pipers dart along the beach and local surfers catch the final few remaining beams of sunlight each evening. It all blends together to create a Canadian Eden of pristine nature and tranquility.
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Offshore wind developers and environmental organizations have agreed to a series of voluntary measures to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, while helping to expedite responsible offshore wind development, in the Mid-Atlantic.
Building upon proposed federally mandated protections, the Conservation Law Foundation, the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council, working together with Deepwater Wind, Energy Management, Inc. (owner of Cape Wind in Massachusetts) and NRG Bluewater Wind, have drafted a set of protective measures that these developers will voluntarily implement over the next four years in areas designated by the administration as Mid-Atlantic Wind Energy Areas, which stretch from New Jersey to Virginia.
The agreement reduces the threat to right whales by limiting weather tower construction and certain other activities during the peak migration season, when whales travel through the mid-Atlantic region between southern calving and northern feeding grounds.
There is broad scientific consensus that the North Atlantic right whale is one of the most critically endangered species on the planet, with a world population estimated between 350 and 400 individual animals. Given its endangered status, additional precautionary measures are needed to enhance the current protections for this species.
According to the consortium, the measures outlined in the agreement provide further protections for the North Atlantic right whale, primarily by reducing or avoiding sound impacts from exploratory activities that developers use to determine where to build wind farms, such as the construction of temporary towers that measure weather conditions and underwater surveys that assess the geology just beneath the ocean floor. This is important because acoustic disturbances under the water can disrupt whale communication, safety of migration and feeding.
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LOS ANGELES -- Friends and family celebrated Farrah Fawcett's life at a private funeral in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Fawcett's longtime companion, Ryan O'Neal, was among pallbearers who accompanied the casket, covered in yellow and orange flowers, into the Roman Catholic cathedral Tuesday afternoon. O'Neal had hoped to marry Fawcett, his girlfriend of 27 years, before she died, but the pair didn't have the chance.
Fawcett's friend Alana Stewart and "Charlie's Angels" co-star Kate Jackson were among early arrivals before the hearse arrived, accompanied by 10 motorcycle officers. Former model Cheryl Tiegs also attended the funeral, Reuters reported.
The funeral program said Fawcett's and O'Neal's 24-year-old son, Redmond, was to do the service's first reading. He has been jailed in a drug case but received a judge's permission to attend the funeral. He was not seen outside the cathedral, however.
The program, which featured a photograph of a smiling Fawcett, also said Ryan O'Neal was to read the 23rd Psalm, and eulogies were to be given by Stewart and Dr. Lawrence Piro, Fawcett's cancer specialist.
Fans and news media watched from across a street. The service was closed to the public.
Fawcett, 62, died on June 25 after a long battle with anal cancer. Her fight was detailed in an NBC documentary last month called "Farrah's Story." Her death, while expected, was largely overshadowed by the passing of pop icon Michael Jackson, who died on the same day. But memorials have been pouring in for the actress ever since she died last Thursday.
"Farrah had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. And now she has peace as she rests with the real angels," said Jaclyn Smith, a former costar of the actress told People Magazine. "Farrah had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. And now she has peace as she rests with the real angels."
While no public memorials have been slated for the late actress, fans may have one more chance to celebrate the actress and model. Fawcett is being considered for a posthumous Emmy award for her producing work on "Farrah's Story." Fawcett died just hours before voting closed for the 2009 nominations. If she wins the nomination it would be her fourth time as a nominee.
In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations to support cancer research be made to The Farrah Fawcett Foundation, P.O. Box 6478, Beverly Hills, Calif., 90212.


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Ebola: How the Virus Could Spread Beyond Africa
One of the worst Ebola outbreak in history has prompted Liberian officials to close their borders, as the governments in several West African countries raced to convince many of their citizens that Ebola is a real disease. WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer
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Apple has released the results of their first quarter of the 2006 financial year. It turns out, as no surprise, that the company did astonishingly well in the longer-than-usual quarter that encompasses the most furious gift purchasing season. Apple, as has become customary in recent times, is touting this previous quarter as their "best ever." From their PR, Apple reports a quarterly revenue of US$5.75 billion (up $2B from last quarter, and $2.25B from last year) and a quarterly profit of $565 million (up $135M from last quarter, and $270M from last year).
Apple sold just about as many computers (desktops and portables) as they did last quarter, 1.2 million, but sold more than twice the number of iPods (14 million). Margins were down, but only slightly.
What's most surprising was the downturn of portable sales. In a time when most people thought desktops would be the first to feel the burn of the Intel rollout, it looks like portables might on the front line. The breakdown (PDF) of the computers sold was as follows:
- Desktops: 667k units (up 11% from last quarter)
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Lincoln, NE--The American Planning Association (APA) announced today that Lincoln's Haymarket has been designated one of 10 Great Neighborhoods for 2009 by APA's Great Places in America program. APA Great Places exemplify exceptional character and highlight the role planners and planning play in creating communities of lasting value. The Haymarket is the first Great Places in America designation in Nebraska.
APA singled out the Haymarket as an exceptional example of a city's sustained commitment to historic preservation and adaptive reuse. The growth and investment in the Haymarket is the result of nearly three decades of planning and public-private partnerships. The Haymarket revitalization has been so successful; in fact, it is prompting the city to plan a major redevelopment in the adjacent rail yard/brownfield.
The Haymarket is a model urban place -unique, varied and fun. It also sets the bar high for the redevelopment of 'West Haymarket' next door," said Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler. "We plan to apply what we've learned about the power and importance of creative public-private partnering, creating spaces people enjoy and earth-friendly practices.
Through Great Places in America, APA recognizes unique and authentic characteristics found in three essential components of all communities-streets, neighborhoods and public spaces. APA Great Places offers better choices for where and how people work and live every day, places that are enjoyable, safe and desirable. Such places are defined by many characteristics, including architectural features, accessibility, functionality and community involvement.
"We're very excited to single out the Haymarket as one of this year's Great Neighborhoods," said APA Chief Executive Officer Paul Farmer, FAICP. "The City of Lincoln is to be commended for its commitment and creative approach to ensure the neighborhood's historic buildings were protected despite not being named a national historic place. I can't think of a better neighborhood that lives up to that famous saying, 'Where there is a will there is a way,'" he added.
The Haymarket was a residential and retail area when originally developed beginning in 1867. It transitioned into a wholesale and manufacturing district between 1880 and 1920. The area fell into disuse after the mid-20th century as America's transportation modes changed. The Haymarket did not start to revitalize until 1982, when the city designated an area within the neighborhood as Lincoln's first commercial historic district. In 1983, the Haymarket Redevelopment Plan provided a blueprint for public and private efforts to renew the neighborhood based on its unique history and sense of place.
Guided by the Plan for three decades, the city has upgraded public spaces and partnered with private owners on commercial and not-for-profit mixed-use projects. Financing mechanisms, including HUD grants and local tax increment financing, have been creatively packaged to implement project after project.
Today, the Haymarket attracts people not only 10 work, shop, play and relax but also 10 live. About 125 dwelling units are an important part of the neighborhood, and more are planned. The Haymarket is home to Nebraska's first brewpub, a weekly farmers market, art and antique galleries, performing arts venues and restaurants.
Given the Haymarket's close proximity to the University of Nebraska's main campus and the traditional downtown, the neighborhood attracts the college crowd, employees, local residents and regional visitors.
For all of its successes, the Haymarket remains a work-in-progress. Within the district, there are buildings awaiting rehabilitation and under-utilized sites, all in need of sensitive design and sensible uses. The redevelopment of the adjacent rail yard with an arena and related hotels, shops and residences is envisioned to apply the Haymarket principles to a brown field site.
The nine other APA 2009 Great Neighborhoods are:
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What's News: An end to the bull market in bonds, Bill Gross says. A dramatic rescue in Bangladesh. Nokia's new smartphone. And an unhappy Mother's Day at the U.S. Postal Service. Jason Bellini reports. Photo: AP
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On Chasing Celebrities
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The December 1997 Perspectives was one of the most depressing I have read. The celebrity chasing was too much to bear. The essays on Roosevelt, Wilson, and Kennedy started it. The first two men are much on my mind lately, and at this moment I have an article in press that captures the first one nicely in this quote from the Congressional Record, ". . . [like] the Teddy Roosevelts, [they] are never truly happy unless they can see blood and bellow like a bull at a slaughter pen." (Congressman Martin Dies, 64 Cong. 1 Sess., p. 1,695, January 28, 1916.)
And Wilson? A man that even so moderate and mainstream a historian as Robert Ferrell says sent 50,000 Americans to their deaths; and for reasons that we have long known were pointless. Not bad enough? How about Wilson the racist, the instigator of federal government segregation in Washington, D.C., the smasher of the Bill of Rights? The man who sent Eugene Debs to prison because of a speech? A man on J. Edgar Hoover's side at the time of the Red Raids?
John F. Kennedy was such an extreme coward that as a senator he ducked one of the most symbolic votes of the entire 20th century--the censure vote against Senator Joe McCarthy. And yet he tried to wipe out Fidel Castro, a young man who already at that time had shown more genuine personal courage than Kennedy was able to summon during his entire existence.
Maybe you're happy that these people were members, presidents even, of the AHA, but it makes me ashamed--ashamed that this profession would write and publish about these people as though they are admirable, or even acceptable as human beings.
I turn a page, and then what? I learn that one of the members of our profession is actually and obviously flattered to have been asked to visit Hollywood and watch a movie being made. The story amazes me. How can a man who has written an excellent book on a worthy topic be at the same time interested in spending time visiting some celebrities? How can the two concepts be maintained simultaneously? Was I entirely wrong to think that this was a profession of intellectuals, people who live the life of the mind?
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