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Intro from Jay Allison: The reign of Pro Tools has been a long and frustrating one for radio producers. It's not really designed for us, but it's become the industry standard, so we use it. Every upgrade causes mass confusion. If, in the middle of the night on deadline, you forget one of the arcane commands or solutions to one of the dozens of error messages, you panic. But you keep coming back. Partly because the good parts are really good. Transom championed Pro Tools at the turn of the millennium, because there was a free version. There isn't any more. And there are some worthy inexpensive competitors now. Tools Editor Jeff Towne and Guest Tester Nick van der Kolk got together to review one of the top contenders: REAPER. Their good cop/bad cop approach is fun, and they have great little narrated videos of the software in action. Even if you're going to stick with Pro Tools until the walls come down, you should at least check this out.
Intro from Transom.org's Jeff Towne
It's a persistent question: which computer-based audio editing program is best suited for making audio documentaries? There are lots to choose from, and each has advantages and disadvantages. The primary focus of most of them is on music production, that's where the largest user-base is, but those applications are quite useful for other kinds of audio production, like editing dialog, and building layered mixes with music or ambience. In our little corner of the audio world, Pro Tools has become a defacto standard.
We at Transom were early supporters of Pro Tools, largely due to the availability of Pro Tools Free in the late 1990s. We saw that as an empowering technology, a tool for working with audio without the daunting financial hurdles presented by most editing software. Digidesign eventually stopped supporting Pro Tools Free (it won't run under any current operating systems) but their promotional tactic seems to have worked: many users who started on Pro Tools Free upgraded to Pro Tools LE, which has greater capabilities, but also requires purchasing and using a Digidesign hardware interface. Pro Tools LE, and the similar Pro Tools M-Powered, still offer a relatively affordable entryway to digital editing. It's a powerful program, one that offers a great deal of control and excellent audio quality. Most of us here at Transom still use Pro Tools, and find it to be flexible and, mostly, efficient.
But Pro Tools has significant quirks and annoyances, and there have always been alternative programs, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. As computers get faster and more powerful, and developers refine their applications, more and more options present themselves.
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Nick van der Kolk, a community producer for Chicago Public Radio's Vocalo, had enough of the Pro Tools drama, and has switched to REAPER (Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording). Here's why:
Nick's REAPER Review & How To
"Cameron has never been in love. Well, nobody has been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's going to marry the first girl he lays. And she's going to treat him like &*%#" – Ferris Bueller
Like Ferris Bueller, do you have that friend? The one who stays in that crappy relationship because that's all they've ever known? Even though they're smart and talented. And then they ask you to say some nice things at their wedding and even though you don't approve you feel kind of obligated to? And it's totally awkward and horrible?
Well, people of public radio, I'm here to tell you YOU'RE THAT FRIEND. And you're romantically entangled with Pro Tools.
And, like someone suffering from Helsinki syndrome, you've begun to mistake non-abuse for kindness. How many times have you told me, "sure I get H/W buffer errors sometimes, but that's just because I had my wireless network on"?
Or maybe, "well, yeah I don't like being tethered to hardware all the time, but they DID release that fancy new iLok thingy!"
Or "well, I haven't upgraded to Snow Leopard yet 'cause my version of Pro Tools isn't compatible with it. But that's okay, I don't really need the extra speed."
Honey, please. It doesn't have to be that way. You don't HAVE to wait 59 minutes to bounce a 59 minute piece you've been working on. This is 2010, for God's sake.
I was like you once, but then I started seeing REAPER. We began using it here at Vocalo because we needed an inexpensive program that ran on both Macs and PCs, so our community collaborators had the option of working on their own computers. But it's quickly become my mainstay for all things audio.
REAPER is the flagship product of Cockos, which is run by Justin Frankel of Winamp fame (ie: iTunes before iTunes was iTunes). In 1999, Justin sold the company that developed Winamp to AOL for (I'm guessing) a gazillion dollars, and given that he can now bathe in hundred dollar bills every morning, he doesn't seem all that concerned with making a ton of money off REAPER. In fact, in an incredibly ballsy move, REAPER is offered not as crippleware. That is, if you download the trial version of REAPER, you get the whole thing, and it doesn't lock up at the end of the trial period. Payment is completely based on the honor system. And, if you're honorable, a noncommercial or personal license sets you back just $60. A commercial license is $225.
Another reviewer wrote, "I expect some would be more convinced of its excellence if Cockos significantly raised the licence cost, but those in the know … simply regard it as a bargain."
It's hard to argue with that statement, which appears on the front of REAPER's homepage. When I explain REAPER's pricing structure, folks will often ask, "cool, but how does it compare to Audacity?" But there really is no comparison. Don't get me wrong, Audacity, which is free and community developed, is a worthy project. It's saved me a number of times in a pinch when (surprise! Pro Tools conked out on me). But REAPER is a professional (if inexpensive) digital audio workstation. Audacity just isn't.
The philosophy behind REAPER's radical business model permeates the whole project. Using the program, one doesn't get the sense that features and fixes are being delayed in order to convince you to shell out an extra $80 every year for a shiny new version. In fact, if you notice a bug, chances are it will be fixed in the next couple weeks. I'm not kidding, Cockos releases new versions of REAPER at a staggering pace. There were four new releases in June 2010 alone.
While REAPER is pretty intuitive, it does take a little getting used to, especially for someone more familiar with Pro Tools. While there are plenty of personal editing styles, a lot of Pro Tools users in the radio realm will make edits by selecting then deleting different parts of regions. You can mimic that kind of workflow in REAPER, but it's a little clunky.
REAPER is more focused on splicing (it's very similar to Sony Vegas, and plenty other DAWs). If you hit the 'S' key, a region will be split into two. Hit it again on another part of your audio, and now you have three regions. Delete the one you don't want and you've made an edit. Once you get the hang of it, you'll get into a rhythm of splice-splice-delete, splice-splice-delete in no time.
Another tool worth noting is Ripple Editing. It's somewhat similar to Pro Tools' Shuffle mode; it snaps together regions after you make a deletion. But that's where the similarity ends. You can't pop a region into the middle of others without moving them out of the way first. But Ripple Editing will move all the regions to the right of wherever you select. That might not seem that significant, but it saves a lot of time when you're restructuring sentences and stories.
I won't bore you with more of the nitty gritty on how to make fades, envelopes, rendering, and the rest. For that, I direct you to these shiny videos which, hopefully, will give you a basic overview of how it all works.
(You can find more of Jeff Emtman's videos about REAPER here.)
All that said, as much as I love spreading the gospel of REAPER, it's definitely not perfect. For a radio producer, just about everything you like in Pro Tools has an equivalent in REAPER, except for one big thing: a region list. In Pro Tools, every single region, including sub-regions you've created during your project, will appear as an ordered list in a little bin on the right. Even regions you've deleted can be brought back to life out of the region list. I never used it that often, but it definitely saved me a couple times after accidentally deleting some key phrase or other important audio detritus. In REAPER, if you delete a region, you're going to have go back into the raw audio to find what you were looking for.
You may have also already noticed that REAPER's default color scheme is kind of drab. Thankfully, its appearance is totally customizable and there are tons of pretty themes you can download, but figuring all that out takes extra time. You can also set tracks to different colors manually, but I find the process overly cumbersome (right-click on the track, select 'change to custom color', set custom color, and hit OK). I've set a hot key to select a random color for a selected track, but it would be nice new tracks to be born with their own colors automatically ala Pro Tools.
Finally, and it pains me to admit this, but REAPER not being an industry standard is probably its biggest drawback. If you're working on a story for a show, and their engineer asks for a copy of your session, you're going to get a quizzical phone call. Some stations have eschewed Pro Tools in favor of other software, but I don't know of any (aside from some parts of Chicago Public Media where I work) who use REAPER as their standard solution. For now, at least, it's still worth it for new producers to at least get comfortable working in Pro Tools.
That said, REAPER is a beautiful program. And smart. And talented. And my friends aren't going to feel awkward at the toast.
Got questions? Leave them in the Discussion section.
- Wicked cheap
- Remarkably low resource consumption & fast load time
- Depending on what version you download, the entire size of the program is just 4.9 – 9.2 megabytes (and no, I didn't misplace a decimal there)
- Not run by a giant, uncaring corporation
- EXTREMELY frequent updates (like, every couple of weeks)
- Downloadable themes
- Works on both Mac and PC
- No region list
- The Cockos forums are full of helpful and dedicated REAPER users, but there is no direct tech support line
- Default color scheme is pretty drab, and coloring individual tracks is kind of a pain
- The frequent updates mean editing behavior may change slightly with each new version
- Not industry standard
Further Thoughts on REAPER from Jeff Towne
Using Nick's helpful video tutorials as a starting point, and trading a few emails for additional tips, I took REAPER for a spin, to see how a dedicated Pro Tools user would find it. For the most part, I have to agree with Nick's central premise: REAPER does pretty much everything that Pro Tools does, without most of that program's major downsides.
The Pro Tools downsides include:
- Unlike most audio editing programs, users MUST buy one of the company's interfaces and keep it connected to the computer when using the program.
- Specific updates of Pro Tools will only work with certain versions of one's computer's operating system, and updating one's OS could make the program stop working, or necessitate a paid upgrade.
- The company announced in the spring of 2010 that future updates of the software would no longer support the original M-Box, which could require long-time users to purchase new hardware, rather than simply upgrading software.
- The central function of the software, the final mix-down, or "bounce," can only happen in real-time, while many similar programs can perform that function much more quickly (not to mention that Pro Tools is notorious for mysterious errors that abort the bounce.)
- The learning curve or Pro Tools can be steep: it's a complex program with a wide range of capabilities.
Even comparing the pros and cons, I'm not abandoning Pro Tools in favor of REAPER quite yet. I'll admit that it's probably partly that irrational devotion Nick references at the beginning of his review, but another part of it is just the basic feel of using REAPER. That experience is going to be different for every user, and someone starting with REAPER as their first serious editing program will likely have none of the issues that someone switching from another application will.
I find many of the functions of REAPER to be unintuitive and even a little clumsy. That's likely to decrease, even go away, as I get used to the keyboard shortcuts and the most efficient ways to move around the screens, but my early impressions are that I'm doing more multi-key maneuvers or going to menus or dialogs more than I'd like. I find the inability to simply highlight part of a soundfile and delete it to be very disorienting. Yes, there are several ways to do the same thing, but they all seem to require an extra step, which feels clunky for such a fundamental process.
The Pro Tools crossfade dialog, and its adjustability of fades in general, provide a lot of flexibility that's missing in REAPER. That may not matter to most users, as I look at other people's Pro Tools projects, I rarely see much tweaking of fades, so REAPER's provision of a few common shapes will likely be enough for most people.
REAPER's ability to automatically crossfade overlapping audio can be very useful, and the option to view the overlapping audio in different ways is testament to the flexibility and sophistication of the program.
REAPER's lack of a region bin changes the way one has to think about file management. In order to keep track of the soundfiles used in a project, it would be best to collect all one's audio sources into a specific folder before starting. Happily, REAPER does have a Save-As function that can facilitate collecting or copying all the audio sources that appear in a project, much like the Pro Tools "Save Session Copy In" function. I highly recommend using that process to make copies of all files, and place them in their own directory, before giving the session to someone else to work-on, or when archiving the project.
It's limiting that one can rename regions in REAPER's editing window, by editing the region's properties, but that process does not rename the actual soundfile, so, as Nick mentioned, searching for a specific clip, especially if it was not ultimately used in the project, can be a challenge. It would likely be useful to name regions and then just keep them in the project, perhaps on a muted track, or well "downstream" to the right in the edit window.
REAPER's track grouping controls are in some ways much more sophisticated than Pro Tools, providing a complex matrix for what attributes will be assigned to what group, but this track grouping does not include moving or editing regions as a group. Grouping the regions themselves (by highlighting them and clicking the G key) does create groups that move together and get edited together, but this could get tedious in projects with many regions. In some cases the Pro Tools track grouping model, which WILL cause all elements on those tracks to move or be edited together, makes it easier to keep all one's elements in-synch.
REAPER's "ripple" editing, analogous to "Shuffle mode" in Pro Tools, is implemented in an interesting way, it can be turned on for the entire project or individual tracks, which is nice, but it also behaves a little differently than in most other editors, which just takes some getting used-to.
Highlighting a region then clicking F2 opens an impressive "Media Item Properties" dialog that provides much more flexibility than any Pro Tools function. Defining start position is like the Pro Tools "spot mode" (although there's no provision for snapping the end of the region, or a defined sync point, to a specific time. but moving the right edge – done via selecting the segment "Edit>>Nudge Selected Items" then adjusting the settings of three dialog boxes… – is a little cumbersome. Nudging should be easier too. ) Being able to adjust fade in and out, level, playback speed and many other attributes of a region from one easily-accessed dialog is a great idea.
Despite some reservations, REAPER provides a viable alternative for someone who needs all the tweakability of Pro Tools, but does not want to buy their hardware, and would like to use the program without an interface attached. REAPER is not nearly as picky about what version of your computer's operating system you use, most versions of Windows and Mac are supported. The program's ability to render a mix at much faster than real-time is a real help to folks working on deadline.
It's worth considering that REAPER, like Pro Tools, is primarily aimed at musicians, which means that there are many layers of the program that someone making audio documentaries will never use. If one is making radio shows, or audio productions in that vein, it might be worth looking at software purpose-built for THAT kind of production, like the soon-to-be-released Hindenburg Journalist.
REAPER's price is right: $60 for a non-commercial user is more than fair. If it turns out that you're making enough money as an audio producer, and you're not a non-profit, go ahead and spring for the $225, that's still pretty inexpensive.
Price comparisons to Pro Tools can be misleading: yes, it's annoying to HAVE to use an interface, but if one is doing any real-time recording, not just importing files recorded elsewhere, it does help to have a good quality external interface. The price of Pro Tools includes such an interface, so it's important to compare apples to apples when weighing prices. It's increasingly common to only import files as files, not to record real-time audio signals, and in that circumstance, interfaces are mostly moot. But some functions, like critical listening to the final mix, are much improved by having a high-quality external audio interface, rather than using the computer's own soundcard. REAPER can use most soundcards or external interfaces as input or output devices, just remember that you may need one to get broadcast-quality audio into your computer.
There should be no doubt that REAPER is a very capable multitrack audio editor and mixer, available for a good price, and free of many of the problems that bedevil Pro Tools users. And perhaps as more people use it, it will eventually become common enough that sending sessions to an editor will be just as easy as it is now with the ubiquitous Pro Tools. If you are not required to share the session and underlying soundfiles with anyone, it doesn't matter what program you use, and REAPER may be the right choice for you.
There's a fully-functional 30-day trial version of REAPER available for download.


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By Bill Maher
Jon Huntsman's new fake-centrist group No Labels ("tell Congress to stop fighting and start fixing!") is getting a lot of media attention. Almost as much attention as the last fake-centrist group, Americans Elect, got this time last year. Remember Americans Elect? They raised a bunch of money to nominate a centrist candidate via some confusing online petition thing. Result: Nobody cared and they gave up.
The No Labels website complains about "hyperpartisanship." But they don't say who is being hyperpartisan, because if they did, they'd have to admit that it's really only the Republicans. It's another one of these sites asking you to sign a petition, in this case a petition to "Make Congress Work." Which isn't going to accomplish anything except generate a huge mailing list for John Huntsman.
No Labels is run by Huntsman, whose record is far more conservative than most Americans realize, and Joe Manchin, a prominent Democratic senator. See? It's bipartisan. One Republican, and one Democrat. Except Joe Manchin is a senator from West Virginia, and is predictably hillbilly-esque: He's anti-abortion, pro-NRA and so against doing anything about climate change that in 2010 he made a TV ad shooting cap-and-trade legislation with a rifle. No Labels? How about "Big Jerk?" Is that too label-y for you?
The premise behind No Labels is that if we just got rid of these pesky labels, everyone could work together. You know, like one of those jams at the Grammy Awards where a country singer and a rapper do a song together. Except in politics, labels actually mean something.

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The NSCAA Foundation is proud and pleased to present the following named endowment funds, established in honor of special people or companies that have have an immense impact upon soccer in the United States. To learn more about each fund, click on the name of the fund.
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RoryLewis has produced 2 CDs, Heroines in 1999 and SOngs For Friday in 2006. Rory Lewis is currently working on its 3rd CD Belize. Click here for further stats on the CDs
The Rory Lewis Band has appeared on Rolling Stone's Billboard Charts two slots under Eminem. Their huge sales of Heroines and Songs For Friday catapulted the indie band to open for Everclear, Buckcherry, George Thorogood, Violent Femmes, Jerry Lewis and three acts before Stone Temple Pilots. Rory was known as the most downloaded indie artist during the heyday of MySpace. Since receiving his PhD in Computational Neuroscience in 2008 Rory began clinical research in Acute Brain Injury and Epilepsy at Anshcutz Medical School, CU Denver where he is an adjunct professor in the department of Neurology and the department of Pediatrics. Rory is an Assistant professor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Innovation and Computational Neuroscienmces at UCCS too. In 2011 Rory began writing songs again and is now recording his third CD: "So Ugh L.A!" Provided by artist representative.
Steve Beai has been a professional drummer for over 25 years in bands which include The YardApes, The Gear, and Intermission. Also an accomplished author with several hundred published pieces, he has received critical acclaim for his non-fiction work on censorship as well as his novels and short fiction. An outspoken fourth-generation Italian from Clinton, Indiana, Steve now hides out somewhere along the Front Range in Southern Colorado.
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If you spend time in nature, you've probably noticed that you feel happier out there than indoors. It leaves many questions running in your mind, how is such majesty possible? The strength of that mountain, standing there for all those years! The miracle of this single flower, infused with sunlight. The revelation of a tree, rooted deep in the earth, stretching to the sky, and bearing silent witness to the world around it! You feel awe and joy and are whole again.Yes it gave me such calmness and peace inside when I was out taking photos for this long maroon dress. The serene is amazingly beautiful. From the trees to the brown leaves on the ground, so cool, to top it all the monkeys were all over the place.
Nature displays incredible diversity in all her glory. There are fat trees and skinny ones, short ones and tall ones. Within a single clump of yellow flowers, you might see a pink one and realize that it's a mutation. I mean the nature is full of the glory of all-powerful God.
In this faithful day I chose to put on this long dress that left me lifting it on one side in order to walk well with creamish pink high heeled shoes and golden bangles.
Let me know your thoughts on this outfit by commenting below
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Pastoral Planning is a process that engages members of the faith community, invites them to take and express their baptismal responsibility to build up the Church through prayer, discernment, and actions that address the needs of the faith community and those served by it.
The Office of Pastoral Planning strives to assist parishes by providing a variety of toolkits and support to form active Parish Pastoral Councils capable of discerning the parish's pastoral priorities and furthering those priorities using a Plan-Do-Check method of pastoral planning.
Larry Farmer, Director of Mergers, 856.583.2840, firstname.lastname@example.com
Lisa Watson, Assistant Director of Pastoral Planning, 856.583.2843, firstname.lastname@example.com
The Pastoral Council and Its Role
(1) How Can Spirituality Animate Our Pastoral Planning?
(4) How to Form the Pastoral Council to do Pastoral Planning (an information night)
(9) Why is Spirituality Essential for Parish Pastoral Councils?
NEW (21) A Model for Discerning New Parish Pastoral Council Members
Parish Pastoral Council Guidelines
Click on the icons to download the Parish Pastoral Council Guidelines. The guidelines can be printed on letter size paper and
folded in half to make a booklet. If pastors need a number of booklets, please call Pastoral Planning at 856.583.2843.
We still have a supply left from our original print run. Additionally, in January 2011, the Chancery issued a directive
on the maintainence of minute books for parish pastoral and finance councils.
Click here for Minute Books for the Parish Pastoral Council and Parish Finance Council.
November 2010
November 2010 Spanish
Building Parish Leadership
(2) What Skills Can Help Me Lead Teams/ Committees?
(7) How is Collaboration a Key to Leadership in Parishes and Beyond?
(12) Leadership Skills that Work
Ground Rules and Good Meetings
Larry Farmer has put together two very simple documents that anyone can use for any meeting, whether in your parish or elsewhere.Characteristics of Good Meetings will provide you with tips on conducting productive meetings. Ground Rules are just that- simple ground rules we can remind ourselves of to contribute positively to a meeting.
Making Pastoral Planning Happen
(3) How Will We Choose Our Parish's Pastoral Priority?
(5) Creating the Pastoral Plan
(11) How can the Pastoral Council Assess the Effectiveness of Its Pastoral Plan for the Six Pastoral Priorities?
(13) Seven Rules for Pastoral Planning by Parish Pastoral Councils
(19) How does our Parish's Pastoral Plan for implementing the Pastoral Priorities correlate to the Barna Study?
Download the Barna Community Study- Diocese of Camden 2012
Developing a Vibrant Parish Life
(8) What are Some Vital (and some not so vital) Signs of the Catholic Parish Today?
(14) How is Vibrant Parish Life Similar to a Successful Entrepreneurship?
(15) Hallmarks of a Vibrant Parish
What is a Vibrant Parish??
How does a parish know how life giving it has become? How can it see where and how the community can continue to grow into a more holy and dynamic People of God? Take a look at these Facets of A Vibrant Parish which provide some guidance both for assessment and planning for further growth.
Related Topics in Pastoral Planning
(6) How can we Forgive the Church and be Reconciled with One Another?
(10) What is the Vision for the Future of the Church of South Jersey?
(16) Parish Staff Ministry Report
(17) Ever Ancient, Ever New: the Art and Practice of Lectio Divina
(18) What Should I have on my Parish Website?
Go in Peace to Love and Serve the Lord!
"Our Christian faith extends an invitation to each of us to become agents of God's compassion and healing in a wounded world. The tradition of compassion for the poor is quintessentially Catholic – the vision of God's justice and Jesus' way of compassion are integral to our mission." –Jack Jerzeel, JustFaith Ministries
He observes that "Gathering is critical to the human hunger for God, to be formed in the way of Christ. But 'gathering' disconnected from 'sending' is something less than the gospel. Parishes that are not challenging folks to put their faith in action are losing people. In other words, if we don't do 'sending' our 'gathering' loses its purpose…" Is your parish and gathering – sending parish?
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Free Library of Philadelphia
Community Organizer, Free Library of Philadelphia
Posted on May 7, 2018
The mission of the Free Library of Philadelphia is to advance literacy, guide learning, and inspire curiosity. Its vision is to build an enlightened community devoted to lifelong learning. The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation develops resources to expand, enhance, and support the services, collections, building programs, and other activities of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Libraries are no longer buildings only filled with books. They are community learning centers that aim to address community needs. We are not waiting for patrons to come into the building. We are taking our work out into the community to meet people where they are and learn more about how we can better serve the neighborhood.
Library Friends groups are independent community groups that support and steward individual neighborhood libraries as well as the Free Library system as a whole. The Friends groups are a vital component of the library system and insuring that we are a community centered institution. They serve as the bridge between the library and the community by: informing library staff of community issues and needs and facilitating opportunities for the library to partner with the community in addressing those needs; promoting the library and its educational, informational, and cultural resources; developing and implementing community programming; raising funds to augment the library's budget; educating local and State policymakers on issues facing the library and the community; and much more.
The City of Philadelphia is undergoing a massive investment in its public spaces. Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild) is the program that will invest hundreds of millions of dollars to revitalize deteriorating parks, rec centers, and libraries. A big part of the impact of this program will be the community capacity building work that will take place in addition to the capital improvements. This new investment provides a unique opportunity to increase the amount of support for Friends groups and community members who are interested in stewarding neighborhood libraries and public spaces.
This is a 23 month grant funded Foundation position with the possibility to transition into other roles if funding allows.
RESPONSIBILITIES: The primary responsibilities of the Community Organizer will consist of, but are not limited to, the following duties:
-Developing and supporting library Friends groups across the City
-Preparing library Friends groups to participate in the Rebuild community engagement process
-Building long-term relationships between the library and neighborhood organizations, stakeholders, and community members
-Providing targeted outreach to non-library users to understand how the library can better serve the needs of that neighborhood
-Training and supporting staff in their community engagement work
-Working with library staff to create and implement a neighborhood specific community engagement plan
-Supporting library staff and administrators in their work to create a regional coalition of organizations and individuals working to improve their communities
-Supporting City-Wide library advocacy
-A minimum of one year of community organizing experience.
Additional experience preferred
-Experience facilitating community meetings and creating outreach and engagement plans
-A demonstrated commitment to and experience with community empowerment, capacity building, and leadership development
-Ability to work frequent evening and weekend hours
-Ability to travel throughout the City. Possessing a valid driver's license preferred
-Ability to work collaboratively with staff and community partners to build upon existing community relationships
-Ability to meet people where they are at and support their personal and professional development
-Ability to work with diverse populations and acknowledge the variety of experiences that individuals have with institutions such as the library
-A good faith commitment to working within assigned neighborhoods for the full 23 months
-A bachelor's degree in a relevant field or additional community organizing experience
Additional Desired Qualifications
-Fluency in a language other than English a plus
-Understanding of the history and economic condition of Philadelphia neighborhoods as well as the underlying political and social influences This position has a Full Benefit Package including Health, dental, life, and disability insurances; flex benefits and retirement plan; generous leave time allowance.
Interviews will be held on a rolling basis with the position starting as soon as the applicant is available Pennsylvania State Child Abuse Clearance, FBI Fingerprint Clearance, and a Pennsylvania Criminal Background Clearance are required to be obtained before employment begins.
To apply: Please e-mail cover letter and resume with "Community Organizer" in the subject line to: email@example.com
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For charter trips and fly fishing trips we meet at the Dillon Marina dock C slip 22, 15 min prior to trip departure. Call us for directions in Steamboat. 970-389-1720 Big Ed's fishing ventures newest location to ice fish Stagecoach Reservoir is located 25 minutes south of Steamboat Springs in the Yampa Valley.
How many fish do you average on a trip?
Thats impossible to tell. It's fishing not catching! Some days we catch 30 or more and other days we struggle to catch five. Remember you're going for a scenic cruise as well so don't forget to look around.
What is the best trip to catch fish?
The morning trip is the nicest weather wise and tends to book up the fastest and produces well, although we have been known to slay it in the afternoon, just be prepared for a little wind and clouds.
How young is too young for the charter fishing?
Big Ed's specializes in families with kids, 5 years and older are recommended for charter fishing. 10 and older for fly fishing.


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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Create Inflation Now!
3 comments:
- comet52 said...
The Fed might be able to create it, but I'm skeptical. Most inflation in the last 40 years seems to stem from commodity price action - oil especially.
Mugabe created hyperinflation by smashing the productive capacity of his economy. When real goods are scarce, the tinpot dictator thinks printing bills with more zeros on them solves the problem. But sadly, bills with more zeros on them don't cause food and other necessities to appear when they are in desperately short supply. That is why qe and other Fed programs will never create the hyperinflation that doomer goldbug nitwits seem to think they will.
Personally I think an employment program is what's needed. More money in the hands of consumers means more demand which means higher prices - along with better profits for business, etc. But nobody at the Fed level or in the econ blog world outside of a few MMTer's ever seem to get this bottom up approach. It's all about putting money into banks. Broke, unemployed people don't need a loan! They need a job.
- June 11, 2013 at 2:27 PM
- JPK said...
FDR's experiments with our economy prolonged the misery. Instead of monetary policy experimentation in the US, could we please conduct monetary policy experiments on the economic equivalent of lab rats? Perhaps a small country would accommodate this. For US monetary policy, I'm inclined to support the dictum, "Don't just do something, stand there!" In other words, do no harm and that means do no experimenting.
Fiscal policy is another matter. I believe the US economy would blast off into orbit if corporate tax rates were reduced to what the Chi-Coms charge or, better, to what Ireland charges. Or if we got rid of the corrupted income tax altogether and went instead to a VAT.
- June 11, 2013 at 3:28 PM
- Christopher T. Mahoney said...
You cannot have 4% real growth with 3.4% nominal growth. We need 6% nominal growth which requires much more inflation than the 2% Fed is targeting (and failing to achieve). We have not had strong real growth without 3-4% inflation since Eisenhower. Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. It has nothing to do with commodity prices or anything else. M x V = P x T.
- June 11, 2013 at 3:57 PM


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There's carbon in them thar roots!
Just as San Francisco has made commercial and residential composting mandatory and other cities are considering doing so, a worldchanging application for using compost to dramatically increase carbon sequestration in suburban grasslands has been confirmed by the Marin Carbon Project.
Soil carbon sequestration is the process of moving greenhouse-gas causing CO2 from the atmosphere into the soil. After the ocean, soil is the second largest pool of carbon on the planet, with twice the amount of carbon that is in the atmosphere, according to Whendee Silver, a biogeochemist and professor at University of California at Berkeley.
"Healthy grasslands, which make up 30% of global land and 50% of land in California, put a lot of carbon into roots to lock in nutrients," Silver said. The Marin Carbon Project's research is focused on how to increase that natural carbon sequestering process, or restore it, in the case of damaged rangelands.
Silver and others presented the results of research last night that the Marin Carbon Project has been conducting at about two dozen sites in rural West Marin County, about 45 miles north of San Francisco.
The Marin Carbon Project is a collaborative research effort between the University of California, the USDA, the Marin Agricultural Land Trust and Marin Organic (the nation's first county-wide organic label) and The Nicasio Native Grass Ranch.
The project, which is about a year into a three to five-year process, has determined that an increase of 1 metric ton of carbon sequestration per hectare on 50% of California's managed rangelands could sequester 42 million additional metric tons (MMT) of carbon. This is slightly more than 41 MMT of carbon emissions from the California commercial and residential sector's energy use. This increase in carbon sequestration would also offset the 14 MMT of greenhouse gasses produced by livestock.
In order to make our grasslands and grazing lands better carbon sinks, Silver said, "we need to add compost and manure to the soils to help it sequester."
The Marin Carbon project has tested both manure and compost applications throughout dairy ranches, and while are both are effective at soil carbon enrichment, compost is preferred because it is less likely to contaminate land or watersheds, as improperly applied manure can.
Silver said researcher found that the ability of grassland soil to sequester carbon is not correlated with climate or soil type, but rather is directly related to how grasslands and rangelands are maintained. When trees and shrubs are left in grassland areas, for instance, there is 30% extra carbon sequestration.
Adding compost or manure also greatly increases soil carbon sequestration. "The test plots we added compost to retained over 90% of carbon that was added with no significant increase of methane or nitrogen oxides (two other potent greenhouse gases)." Tilling soil, on the other hand, has a negative impact on carbon sequestration, which doesn't bode well for industrial agriculture (which also uses petroleum-based fertilizers as soils inputs) and corn-fed feedlot operations.
The test data from the Marin Carbon Project can now be applied to a more extensive life-cycle and economic analyses. This means that other factors will have to be analyzed such as the total carbon and methane produced by livestock, combined with calculating the greenhouse gases that would have been produced if compost were sent to the landfill.
Other locations performing extensive soil carbon sequestration agricultural and rangeland research include New South Wales in Australia and Barritskov, Denmark.
Despite the lack of discussion in Copenhagen on agriculture and food production in relationship to climate change, the results are encouraging for combatting global change through specific actions in organic agriculture and sustainable food production that benefit regional economies.
San Francisco and other urban areas can use their food scraps to not only enrich their region's agriculture, grazing and dairy production–which strengthens the link between urban and rural food systems–but they can directly offset their carbon footprints.
The early results from the Marin Carbon Project show that metro-area greenbelts and farming lands now have even greater intrinsic value.
This makes the case even more compelling for containing exurban sprawl around our cities and building smarter and denser communities. By all accounts, increasing protection and stewardship of regional natural resources has benefits that are far greater than most ever knew.
Warren Karlenzig is president of Common Current, an internationally active urban sustainability strategy consultancy. He is author of How Green is Your City? The SustainLane US City Rankings and a Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute.


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Guest blogger Steve Barker from the World Resources Institute explains how transparency about funding can complement overall efforts to maintain intellectual independence. The views expressed in this blog are those of the author alone, and may not reflect the views of Transparify.
There's an old saying that knowledge is power. That's why transparency—or open access to information—is a key tenet that guides the work of the World Resources Institute.
Take one of our key projects, The Access Initiative. TAI is the world's largest network dedicated to ensuring that citizens have the right and ability to influence decisions about the natural resources that sustain their communities. Working with more than 250 civil society groups in more than 50 countries, TAI helps citizens secure access to environmental information, access to public participation, and access to justice. By securing these rights, citizens are aware of the environmental decisions that directly impact their lives and livelihoods—and they're empowered to hold governments accountable, organize social and political change, and demand improvements.
Transparency is important not just for how citizens interact with powerful government and business interests, but also for organizations like ours that accept funding from a variety of donors. As Upton Sinclair once said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Understanding how an organization is funded helps observers to judge that organization's independence.
Without proper protections and transparency, donations could have undue influence on think tank research and policy recommendations.
How World Resources Institute Practices Transparency
That's why World Resources Institute (WRI) made the decision to be completely transparent about where its funding comes from, and how donations support the valuable work that we do.
For example:
- Information about WRI's funders is available on our website, www.wri.org. With just two clicks from our homepage, any visitor can view a spreadsheet with a specific breakdown of donations ranked by size, covering 85 percent of our fiscal year 2013 funding. The remaining 15 percent comes from many small donors. The spreadsheet includes the name of the donor, the amount donated, and the program goal supported. In a separate document, we list all of our funders, including individuals who donated to WRI.
- Many organizations place donations from corporate foundations in a "foundations" category. WRI categorizes these donations as "corporate" funding, an extra step towards transparency.
- WRI also observes transparency in our internal communications. Transparency guides interactions between accounting and our program staff. For example, we share our financial results and indirect costs freely throughout our organization. And our leadership displays appropriate transparency in communications to staff and the public around major institutional decisions—including financial decisions.
Transparency Matters for WRI's Reputation for Independence
Transparency supports one of WRI's core values: independence. At WRI, we believe that our ability to achieve our mission depends on research and program work that rises above partisan politics, institutional or personal allegiances, or sources of financial support. When accepting donations, we convey to our partners and funders our strict commitment to unbiased judgment in our research findings.
WRI works closely with corporate partners and takes corporate donations in part because the private sector moves faster and can be quite influential with the public sector. But WRI makes clear to funders that our work product cannot be changed or require sign off from a donor—the integrity of our research and our on-the-ground projects always comes first.
WRI prides itself on rigorous, independent analysis. Financial transparency helps reinforce our reputation. This candor ensures our credibility, and helps build trust for WRI as an independent organization that works to "turn big ideas into action."
Steve Barker is the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of the World Resources Institute, a global research organization based in the US that works closely with leaders to sustain a healthy environment.


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Redmond, fasten your seat belts: Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available for download
The Microsoft IE7 folks at Redmond must be fastening their seat belts at these moments, getting ready for their largest challenge ever as the world's most superior Internet communication software has just been released as a public Beta. Firefox 3 Beta 1, AKLA 3.0b1 is now available for download with 3 operating systems and more than 20 languages already in supported list.
The rumors about Firefox 3 have been with us for a long time and a lot has been written about the third version. This Internet tool is not going to be just another crappy recycled version of the previous engine with additional bells and whistles and a few "new exciting features" stolen from others and implemented badly (have you seen the exciting new tabs on IE7? how exciting). Firefox 3 is developed as a completely new software, with much of its core re-designed from scratch. The Beta 1 is the ninth developer milestone and includes many new core functionality features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3 (see 3.0b1 release notes).
New Firefox 3 Beta 1 features:
- Improved security features such as: Better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins.
- Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista and Mac OS X.
- Richer personalization through: one-click bookmarking, smart search bookmark folders, direct typing in location bar searches your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, ability to register web applications as protocol handlers, and better customization of download actions for file types.
- Improved platform features such as: new graphics and font rendering architecture, major changes to the HTML rendering engine to provide better CSS, float-, and table layout support, native web page form controls, colour profile management, and offline application support.
- Performance improvements such as: better data reliability for user profiles, architectural improvements to speed up page rendering, over 300 memory leak fixes, and a new XPCOM cycle collector to reduce entire classes of leaks.
Important notes:
The Mozilla folks say they do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone release as it is intended for testing purposes only. In addition, If you blog this new further (you should!) please do not link directly to the download site but to this Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone announcement so that everyone will know what this milestone is, what they should expect, and who should be downloading to participate in testing at this stage of development.


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Hipster racism.
Skin color doesn't matter,
just eating fast food.
Now, post Columbine,
single digit mass shootings
just not newsworthy.
Senators drooling
to de-fund Planned Parenthood,
not immune from clap.
Ten dead in Roseburg.
Obama not welcome there.
Love guns more than kids.
Dumb Americans.
But not the worst of the worst.
Vladimir Putin
Dumb Americans.
But not the worst of the worst.
Vladimir Putin
Heatwave in L.A.
Sports events and Obama
Thank God for Netflix
The Broad Museum.
His monument to himself
and ugly houses.
Mentally challenged?
The man performs surgery?
Ben Carson for Prez?
Donald Trump has peaked
now on to the next new thing.
Scads more bad choices
It is a comfort.
In first place four years ago
was Michelle Bachman
But you must admit
that Michelle Bachman's husband
is just fabulous
What's done in his name
by people who hate and fear
would make Jesus sad
And then there's Islam:
The infidels and women
Mohammed sad too.
Sheldon Adelson
won't let my people go.
No good for the Jews.
Kevin McCarthy
won't be speaker of the house.
Gingrich looks not bad
Except for murder,
there's limitations statue.
Bill Cosby relieved.
Achtung Volkswagen
We're sorry for our war crimes.
What's a little smog?
Grand Central Market.
But no one goes to Eggslut.
The line's way too long.
Dancing with the Stars.
Chaka Kahn first voted off.
Why not Paula Deen?
Just like a phoenix,
Clifton's Cafeteria!
Even green jello.
New season Homeland.
It all depends on Carrie,
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Converged management, not infrastructure, holds appeal
Despite the vendor push for converged data center infrastructures, customers see more appeal in unified management, not hardware.
The push toward converged data centers by Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems at the vendors' respective partner conferences last year is finding limited support among forward-thinking midsized businesses. But that doesn't mean those businesses are willing to take an all-in-one, single-vendor approach, according to data center VARs.
"In a data center, there are so many things going on. There are so many parts even within one rack," said Michael Burgess, director of presales data engineering for voice and data integrator Carousel Industries of North American Inc., in Exeter, R.I. "When you get into the argument of single vendor versus best-of-breed, you have to have best-of-breed. … It's tough to say you can build everything; it's a little arrogant."
That hasn't stopped HP and Cisco from making convergence a strong part of their respective data center strategies. Cisco's approach hinges on its Unified Computing System (UCS) portfolio, along with close alliances with VMware and EMC. HP, meanwhile, is pushing the virtues of its end-to-end offerings made possible by a series of high-profile acquisitions, including 3Com and 3Par.
Guy Baroan, president of SMB solution provider Baroan Technologies, in Elmwood Park, N.J., said HP's approach has traction among some of his midsized business customers. One is a local medical practice that needed to invest in infrastructure for storing and managing large digital images. In this instance, the price point of HP's converged solution made more sense than the $100,000 that the company might have had to spend on separate technologies.
"It gave them the proper entry point," Baroan said. "It really gives them the capability of adding performance at will."
Solution providers say the data center convergence discussion is closely aligned with the explosion of data center virtualization projects over the past 12 to 18 months. Those projects, in turn, created a clear need for a converged management view for the data center. The view consolidates data and policies from the various technologies, including application servers, security appliances, networking switches and routers, and storage devices, they said.
"Converged data center is not just about 'merging it all into one box', if you will," said Valeh Nazemoff, vice president of Acolyst, a solution provider in Stafford, Va. "It is a shift in the way data centers are run. In a large enterprise client, you have separate organizations and departments handling data centers, another separate one handling and managing network storage, etc. What now? This will require some shift and culture change. Customers will watch how the market will go, some larger organizations would like to map out the architecture and design before purchasing. Therefore, I would assume that based on what is happening today, you are not going to see a major shift for about another couple of years."
Moving from tech supplier to partner
Bruce Geier, founder, president and CEO of San Diego-based systems integrator Technology Integration Group (TIG), said the converged data center mindset has allowed his team to forge closer relationships with midsized businesses that take a long-term strategic view. His team created a service called TIGER (which stands for Technology Integration Group Enterprise Roadmap) to address the corresponding philosophical shift. "You have to earn the trust of the customer in order to do this," said Geier. "You will work alongside them. You are not just a vendor to them; you are a partner to them."
The biggest challenge for TIG has been to ensure that its own technical people can address multi-discipline concerns. It is difficult, Geier admitted, to find someone who can deal with design problems for both storage and networking, as an example.
"They might start with virtualization. You need them to go beyond that and have a desire not just to be the best with any type of enterprise device, but to understand the implications of the different technologies," he said.
About the expert
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist in the New York area with more than 20 years experience. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. Clancy was previously editor at Computer Reseller News, a B2B trade publication covering news and trends about the high-tech channel.
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Sony Pictures has acknowledged that it is discussing a deal to license feature films to Google's YouTube.
On Monday, CNET reported the two companies were discussing a deal that could help YouTube become an outlet for premium full-length content. Right now, YouTube offers mostly independent films and a handful of titles from Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Sony Pictures wants to boost the profile of Crackle.com, the studio's own online video site, and a YouTube partnership could help promote the offering. Judging from other feature-film deals that Sony Pictures has cut with Hulu and others, Sony Pictures will likely not offer YouTube much more than a dozen films and will control advertising.
The studio also doesn't allow the syndication of its content, which means YouTube users won't be allowed to embed Sony Pictures content on their blogs or personal Web pages.
The biggest potential benefit for YouTube is that a successful partnership could attract other studios and TV networks.
Bloomberg first reported that Sony had confirmed talking to YouTube.


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18.1.05 to 18.4.05
Large expanses of dense scrub have been cleared in an attempt to restore the flower rich dune turf in areas comprising 28.4 ha. east of the American road known as Northern, Middle and Southern Flats. This work was funded by the MOD and involved the use of several excavators working continuously for approx. 3 weeks. Most of the excavated and cut scrub was burnt. Further scrub clearance work funded by English Nature, took place in Lamprey's Block. On a smaller scale, scrub cutting using chain saws has continued on various sites on the inland plain west of the American Road.
The fence line alongside the American Road has been completely renewed and the separately fenced blocks known as Fox Slack and Soay Plain have now been joined together by new fences. This will assist towards the implementation of the proposed grazing regime (see para 2, report to TTEF 4.10.04 – 17.1.05) The EN contract to compile a completed report on the analysis of the grazing trials is progressing well with the recent circulation of a draft report to relevant parties for comment.
Following the media reports that clearly explained the reasons for the necessary action, vehicle access into the Christie owned part of Broadsands that lies within the SSSI was barred on 22.3.05. with the positioning of 61 large boulders across the two access routes. They were positioned to allow sufficient space for wheel chair and pushchair access. Plans have been proposed to improve the walkway between the boulders by some resurfacing and levelling work. While most local people accepted the need to protect the dune area now cordoned off, a few of the boat owners were hostile and on 27th March attempted to shift the boulders but were ordered to stop by the police. They ignored the police warning and continued to successfully breach the barrier. The boulders were replaced back in position the next day. The present car parking area is outside the SSSI and owned by Braunton Marsh Commissioners who are currently improving it to maximise its capacity.
Rare Species
The results of the Petalwort survey commissioned by EN and carried out in January 2005 are encouraging - the liverwort has begun to colonise areas excavated in 2000 to recreate its habitat in Broadsands and around Doughnut Pond. The Braunton Burrows population is assessed as the second or third largest in England. It has increased on the Burrows, mostly at the Broadsands site where the surveyor concluded that the exclusion of vehicles from the colony area by the erection of small posts was in part responsible.
Research and Monitoring
Water table levels have remained low with a total rainfall of 91.5mm being recorded between 1.1.05 and 17.4.05. No areas of dune slack were flooded for any significant length of time this past winter. This raises concern for the continued well-being of wet slack communities. Species previously confined to the drier places such as Bird's-foot trefoil and Restharrow are invading the slacks along with species of lower conservation value such as Yorkshire Fog grass and Creeping Thistle. Some slack species such as Marsh Marigold have declined. Rabbit counts have continued each week and they show the expected spring rise in population numbers.
Coverage in the local press and television was useful to prepare the public for the restricted vehicle access at Broadsands to explain the new and replacement fencing and the need for grazing - which will require dogs to be kept on leads – WMN 29th Jan. Further media coverage focussing on the vehicle exclusion measures in Broadsands was generated by those who moor boats near Crow Point and were protesting that they cannot drive their vehicles as close as they could previously. A short presentation was given to Braunton Parish Council on 14th Feb. by the MOD to explain their use and management of the Burrows. Photos have been replaced and updated on the Biosphere Interpretation boards at Braunton Countryside Centre.
Biosphere Activities/Education
Illustrated lectures have been given to 7 different local groups. A group of 25 children and adults from N Devon Deaf Children's Society were taken on a pond dipping activity and guided walk - organised by NDCCS. A beach cleaning event on 23rd March was attended by 10 volunteers who cleared two truckloads of litter from Horsey Island bank and saltmarsh, and Broadsands beach.
A programme consisting of 16 evening talks at Braunton Countryside Centre and 16 guided walks, 13 of which are on the Burrows, is being advertised. These walks offer an ideal opportunity to illustrate the importance and benefits of the management work. Two more beach and dune litter cleaning days are being planned, the first is on 8th May at Saunton at 10.00am. The Burrows and wider Biosphere area are being used for at least 5 events in the forthcoming N. Devon Walking Festival.
J M Breeds
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text: Kanga had a complete outburst in the lobby of the mental health clinic on Tuesday. Today husband and I get called into a meeting with the clinic director. If Kanga loses control like that again they will be calling the police - not to have her arrested but to get her under control -- and if they can't get her under control to transport to ER. Okay, I have no problem with that. But then they said if she has another outburst they won't be able to provide services anymore. Um, so she'd be too sick to see the doctors???? The good out of the meeting is that all 3 of our children will continue to receive services at the clinic. We have been approved for case management services (their description reminds me of what Timerlady gets), and Tigger is being jumped to the front of the que for psychological testing. I'm still shaking my head at the idea that she'd be too sick to see the psychiatrists and tdocs.


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you are doing better than you think you are
you guys. were you wondering where i disappeared to? me too. i was expecting to come home from alt with a head full of inspiration… instead i got super sick the last night i was there and have been fighting it off since then. i also had to make a pit stop in vegas to help out at a trade show. i finally made it home tuesday and have basically wanted to sleep 20 hours out of the day. not a fun situation when you have to catch up from being gone for a week!
i think one more night of good sleep and i'll be good to go. but i wanted to check in and say hi before i do just that (7:30 bedtime might be a new record) and show you a few things that have been stuck on my mind.
i lettered a bunch of quotes for our mini party at alt (one of them above) and will be turning them into prints soon. it's super exciting that i am finally taking that step into prints that i have been talking about forever! i want to share a few pictures and things i learned at alt, but that will have to wait until i can think/focus long enough to write it.
i've also been bitten by the love day bug. i might be late to the game (as usual) for valentines day, but i have a few fun projects that will be making their appearance next week. i also noticed a fun trend in the images i've been liking over on instagram. valentines day with an edge. good, right?
[ flowers by @jessechamberlin // artwork wall by @creaturecomforts // shelf styling by @rekindledrentals // peonies by @laceandlikes ]
and pinterest has all kinds of fun stuff that i want to try this weekend...
[ flower up-do by oh joy // diy wallpaper by sf girl by bay ]
so is everyone vday planning yet or just focused on the super bowl? this is the one football game we watch in our house, and it's pretty much an excuse to make wings and drink mimosas. i'm sure i'll end up doing some crafting and watching the last few minutes so I can act like i know what everyone is talking about monday morning ;) enjoy your weekend!


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KBA Joins Networked Graphic Production Partner Program from Creo
Friday, May 09, 2003
Press release from the issuing companyVANCOUVER, British Columbia--May 8, 2003-- Creo Inc. announces that Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has become a partner in the Creo Networked Graphic Production(TM) initiative. The Networked Graphic Production Partner Program brings together leading companies that share the goal of developing and delivering high-value, integrated solutions to printers, trade shops and their print buyers. By joining this initiative, the Networked Graphic Production Partners can leverage combined expertise to deliver JDF-based solutions that help customers differentiate themselves and become more efficient and more profitable at every step in the graphic production process -from idea to delivery. Networked Graphic Production Partners are able to offer completely integrated solutions that offer a new level of flexibility and can be configured to fit seamlessly into a customer's diverse production environment with minimal customization. This presents a new level of compatibility across a wide range of vendor systems and products and thus enables these diverse systems to interact and exchange information through JDF standards. Networked Graphic Production Partners have committed to a new level of development and comarketing that will showcase these integrated solutions through many global marketing initiatives. Alon Lumbroso, Managing Director of Creo EMEA, welcomed Koenig & Bauer AG as a Networked Graphic Production partner at KBA's Radebeul, Germany plant. "We are extremely pleased that KBA -one of the world's leading press manufacturers in terms of both technology and commercial success - has opted to actively support Networked Graphic Production. The goals of this initiative will also benefit existing and future customers of KBA." Networked Graphic Production ensures a smooth flow of data and information, provides a collaboration path for printers' customers, accelerates communication and enhances visibility into the entire print production process. In addition to improving productivity and quality, Networked Graphic Production also provides users with more opportunities for profit and growth. "The chance to participate in the Creo Networked Graphic Production Partner Program is a logical step in KBA's efforts to make the complete print production process more rational, more reliable and more economical. Sheet-fed or web, conventional or digital, presses today can no longer exist as islands," explains Klaus Schmidt, Marketing Director of the Koenig & Bauer Group. "Digital real-time communication with upstream and downstream production processes and management information systems is vital if our aim of maximizing automation is to be realized. With its integrative and open character, this initiative is consistent with our corporate strategy. Creo has served KBA for a long time as an innovative and dependable partner for computer-to-plate (CTP) prepress with conventional sheet-fed and web offset presses; KBA Cortina, the new, waterless newspaper web offset press; and the KBA 74 Karat digital press. We intend to further intensify this collaboration and augment it with additional qualified partners, for instance in the industry software sector." Continuing a Successful Partnership KBA's commitment to the Creo Networked Graphic Production Partner Program will help intensify the long-standing partnership that has been built up between the two companies. This cooperation stretches back to the successful joint development of the KBA 74 Karat digital sheet-fed offset press, the prototype of which was first showcased at Imprinta 1997. The close ties linking the two enterprises are clearly visible to all visitors to the prepress demonstration studio at the Customer Center at KBA's sheet-fed offset plant in Radebeul, which is equipped entirely with Creo systems. KBA joins other leading vendors, including Adobe Systems Incorporated, Komori America Corporation, Printcafe Software, Inc. and Xerox Corporation, as members of the Networked Graphic Production Partner Program.
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Last Saturday we went to Grindelwald. I was hoping to finally get to First, but it was under a cloud. So instead we went towards Männlichen.
Tree on a roof.
My family is so so so so cute!
When we made Ethne carry the backback and pull Orrin up the trail.
Where we stopped and ate our snacks and waved at the people in the little mountain train going by.
Just another idyllic day in Switzerland right? Actually it started out super lame because Brett and I had a difference of opinion about how much to spend on cablecars to go up to certain places (such as Männlichen or Kleine Scheidegg). Brett's opinion was none. My opinion was, 'who cares-this is probably our last Saturday in the Swiss Alps ever!' But Brett just started going (it was a bit of a miscommunication) so I had little choice but to go with him, and it happened to be a really lame SUPER-steep hill for the first while and I was so mad. We got snarky, we got to a cross-roads type place and Brett said, 'fine we'll do whatever you say' and I was like, 'no you won't, why do you always have to put me in this position, blah blah blah.' Not exactly quality time. But we did finally manage to pull it together and we did truly have a good time after a bit. It was a gorgeous day, and if I had just left you with the pictures you would have thought everything was peaceful, charming, and beauteous. And it was. Mostly. :)


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I came across this article almost six years ago. It was before school started, but the second I finished, I printed several copies and read with my then 7th grade English class then shared it with everyone I taught or coached or spoke with. When life shifted to China, I forgot about it. This morning, my brother in-law referenced it and I had to find it again.
In all of sports, this might be my most favorite story.
The lessons of Nathaniel Jones
by Rick Reilly - espn.com
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 :
On the moonless night of Nov. 15, 2002, five young boys ran across a park, jumped a 61-year-old man, bound his wrists, duct-taped his mouth, and beat him with pipes until his heart stopped.
All for his wallet.
That man was Nathaniel Jones, the grandfather of future NBA star Chris Paul.
Today, those boys are men, sitting in prisons across the state of North Carolina, some serving 14-year terms, some life. On the TV sets in their prison rec rooms this week, the Hornets point guard has been wrecking the Los Angeles Lakers, averaging nearly a triple-double, the shiniest star of these playoffs.
The five are all about the same age as Paul, same race, same height, and from the same hometown.
They have one other thing in common with Chris Paul: All six wish they were free.
It's something Paul told me during a "Homecoming" episode once on ESPN, and every time I watch him play I can't get it out of my mind. Paul, now 25, said: "These guys were 14 and 15 years old [at the time], with a lot of life ahead of them. I wish I could talk to them and tell them, 'I forgive you. Honestly.' I hate to know that they're going to be in jail for such a long time. I hate it."
Whose heart has that much room?
"Chris Paul hates it?" says Geneva Bryant, the mother of one of the five, Christopher Bryant. "Well, so do I. My boy is 23 now. He's been in since he was 15."
Chris Paul is overcome with emotion while talking about the death of his grandfather to students at West Forsyth High in Clemmons, N.C.
Her son has six years to go. Dorrell Brayboy, 23, has six years to go. Jermal Tolliver, 23, has seven. Two brothers -- Nathaniel Cauthen, 24, and Rayshawn Banner, 23 -- are in until they die.
Paul's attitude stuns one of the defense attorneys who appealed the verdict and lost.
"I've probably tried 30 homicide cases," says Paul Herzog, of Fayetteville. "It's very rare for a family survivor in a murder case to feel that way. You just don't see that ever. That's incredibly generous of Mr. Paul."
To understand how generous, you have to know how close Paul was to his granddad.
The man everybody called "PaPa Chili" was the first black man to open a service station in North Carolina and both Chris and his brother worked at it. PaPa Chili was known to let people run tabs when times got tough. Plenty of times, he'd hand people money out of the cash register to get by. Paul called him "my best friend."
The day Paul signed with nearby Wake Forest, the first person to put a Demon Deacons hat on him was his grandfather.
The next day, he was dead.
None of the five boys were particularly hardened criminals. Only Cauthen had been previously arrested -- twice for running away and once for stealing his mom's car. They decided they wanted to rob somebody. Around the corner, in his white van, came that somebody -- Jones. He'd closed the filling station and was now getting grocery bags out of his van. "Let's go get him," one of them said. They sprinted across Belview Park and jumped him.
Using tape they'd bought that day at a drugstore, they bound his head, neck and hands and began a "relentless, remorseless, conscienceless" attack, according to the judge who sentenced them. Jones died in his carport.
His grief was bottomless. Every national anthem in college, he'd hold his grandfather's laminated obituary in his hand and pray. And now he wants the murderers set free?
Paul, a high school senior, was so woebegone he was literally sick. Two days later, he scored 61 points for West Forsyth High School, one for every year of Papa Chili's life. He purposely missed a free throw at the end, then collapsed into the arms of his father in tears.
His grief was bottomless. Every national anthem in college, he'd hold his grandfather's laminated obituary in his hand and pray.
And now he wants the murderers set free?
"Even though I miss my granddad," Paul told me, "I understand that he's not coming back. At the time, it made me feel good when I heard they went away for life. But now that I'm older, when I think of all the things I've seen in my life? No, I don't want it. I don't want it."
This is the kind of man Chris Paul is: He was president of his high school class all three years. When LeBron James' girlfriend had a baby, James made sure Paul was there. He's so humble that if you didn't know who he was, you'd swear he was the pool man.
So what can Paul do?
He can appeal to the governor of North Carolina, Bev Perdue, and ask for their sentences to be commuted. North Carolina is not big on commuting murderers' sentences, but I'd put nothing past the powers of Paul.
This kid floors me. Not just with the way he can dominate an NBA playoff game at 6 feet tall in elevator sneakers. Not just for the way he can twist Kobe Bryant into a Crazy Straw. Not just for the way he'd rather pass through a doughnut hole than take the shot himself.
No, what floors me about Chris Paul is his humanity. If strangers had bound my weak-hearted grandfather, beat him for no reason and killed him for the cash in his wallet -- strangers who to this day have not shown a thimbleful of contrition -- I'd want them in prison 100 years after they were in the dirt.
Chris Paul once wrote that his grandfather "taught me more things than I could ever learn with a Ph.D."
One of them must've been love.
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A year and a half after raising the price of an ambulance ride from $415 to $1,000, Houston City Council is scheduled to consider Wednesday whether to charge for mileage, too.
If the $13-per-mile charge passes, few people will pay it.
The city does not collect a cent from the indigent uninsured who account for about 45 percent of the 131,000 ambulance rides the fire department's Emergency Medical Services units give annually. About a third of Harris County adults have no health insurance. The remainder of the rides are covered primarily by insurance, whether private or Medicaid or Medicare.
Wednesday's proposal actually would reinstate a mileage fee. In council's reluctance to raise the base price so much in November 2010, it included an amendment that eliminated a $7.50-per-mile charge.
Two things have happened since then.
First, city officials have discovered that dropping a mileage charge that, on average, brought in slightly more than $40 per ride ended up costing the city more than it gained by boosting the base price by nearly $600.
That's explained by some Medicare math. Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance agree to reimburse the city for both the ride and the mileage on behalf of insured patients. By dropping the mileage fee, the city forfeited that part of the reimbursement - $2.7 million a year. Raising the base price, though, did not raise revenue, because insurers cap what they will pay for an ambulance ride. As a result, the city actually has been collecting less money per ride since it changed the fees.
In addition, a task force created by the council to examine ways to ward off long-term financial calamity recommended the return of the mileage fee.
Charging for ambulance mileage is the first idea to make it to a council agenda from a list of more than 100 suggestions by the Long-Range Financial Management Task Force.
The administration of Mayor Annise Parker has raised more than 100 fees in an attempt to cover the costs of providing the services.
Parker has said the idea is to charge users for the services they use instead of relying on subsidies from taxpayers.
Councilman C.O. Bradford, who voted against the price increase in 2010, said he again is concerned about tacking a mileage charge on to ambulance rides.
"I don't think you garner additional revenue through charging those who are in need of emergency services," Bradford said Monday. "This is like charging to put your house out when it's on fire."
Low-income Houston residents are exempted from the costs of an ambulance ride if they fill out a form stating that they cannot afford it and provide proof that they qualify for other forms of government assistance to the poor.


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Documents circulated to potential investors on Monday reveal that family members have effectively used United as a bank, borrowing £10million from the club at favourable rates since 2006.
Companies related to the family and their trusts have also charged United £13 million in consultancy, management and administration fees in the same period, and could be paid a further £42 million over the seven-year term of a bond issue announced on Monday.
The disclosures, which will further outrage supporters opposed to the Glazers' role at the club, come in the prospectus for the £500 million bond issue officially launched in an attempt to refinance the club's towering £700 million debts.
The document reveals that in November 2008 Manchester United Limited lent its directors the aggregate sum of £10 million at an interest rate of 5.5 per cent rising to 7.5 per cent, significantly cheaper than commercial rates. The loans were made to Avram, Joel, Bryan, Edward and Kevin Glazer, and Darcie Glazer Kassewitz - all members of the Glazer family. They all received £1.66 million each.
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Companies directly affiliated to the Glazers and their family trusts have also taken substantial fees consultancy fees from the club in the last three years. The prospectus discloses that SLP Partners, a consultancy firm related to the family and family trusts, received a fee of £2.9 million last year.
Manchester United Limited has also paid "affiliates" of the Glazers and the family trusts an aggregate of £10 million in "memorandum, management and administration fees" since 2006, the prospectus reveals. Unnamed companies controlled by the Glazers could also be paid up to £6 million-a-year for the seven-year term of the bond for "administration and management" services, the prospectus states.
The Glazers have been fiercely criticised for loading United with debts of £700 million at a cost of more than £260 million in interest since their 2006 takeover, and the revelation that they have borrowed personally from the club as well as profiting through consultancy companies will deepen disquiet.
Supporter groups have already reacted angrily to confirmation of the bond issue, which signals a significant switch in the family's strategy for dealing with the club's debt. The prospectus, in which the club is obliged to reveal a complete picture of its finances, contains a number of other insights into the state of the club under the Glazers.
These include: United securing an increased credit facility, up from £50 million to £75 million, to be used for working capital and player acquisition; taking £37 million from shirt sponsor AON upfront in the first year of a four-year £80 million deal; facing investigation by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs over tax payments worth up to £5.3 million in relation to players' image rights, and the matter may go to court; losing £35 million through misguided interest-rate hedging positions.
The disclosures came as United attempted to tempt investors by revealing improved financial results for 2009. The £80 million sale of Ronaldo to Real Madrid enabled the club's holding company, Red Football Limited, to record a pre-tax profit of £48.2 million in contrast to a £21.4 million loss in 2008.
The bond issue will be used to pay off the club's "senior loans" to banks, which stand at £509?million and cost the club £41.9 million in interest last year. Crucially, it should allow the family to focus on repaying the more expensive 'Payment-in-Kind' loans from hedge funds, which stand at £200 million.
Under the current structure the banks are understood to have first call on any capital repayments, meaning the Glazer's are unable to reduce the PIK loans. If the bond issue is successful they will face no such restrictions. The bond issue allows for £70 million to be used to pay off PIK loans immediately.
The PIK interest is not paid off each year but is "rolled-up", causing the loans to grow from £138 million in 2006 to £202 million this year.
By the time they are due to be repaid in 2017 they will have risen to £589 million.
The bond is expected to offer investors a return of around 8.5 per cent.