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Last week's Top 10 Design Milestones of 2011, published here at Archinect, highlighted advances in design for the public good by profiling leading organizations from IDEO.org and Mass Design Group to individuals like Jeanne Gang and Michael Kimmelman. As we round out this year and usher in the next, it feels important to also look towards the future—though, of course, looking back is always easier than looking forward.
With that in mind, this is not an exercise in trend spotting, but rather a simple meditation on initiatives poised to advance the field, and how they can be scaled up, refined, tweaked, borrowed, and leveraged. None of the following is entirely new; some are a long time in the making, while others are testing new directions. Some initiatives also evade mention, either because they're not yet public or because they haven't yet been dreamed up. One thing is for certain: the bar is higher than ever, even—and perhaps especially—for design efforts that claim to be for the public good.
1. The TED Prize will be awarded to "The City 2.0"
In early December, "The City 2.0" was announced as the 2012 honoree of the coveted TED Prize, the first time that a concept or idea has been selected, as opposed to an individual. This, in itself, is an exciting development, as it reflects the inspiring truth that social change is never a one-person job. TED casts The City 2.0 in no small terms: "an idea upon which our planet's future depends." Rather than the $100,000 purse, the power of the TED Prize has much more to do with the "wish" that it grants. For example, Cameron Sinclair's TED Prize wish created the Open Architecture Network, pulling in TED community members who offered extensive in-kind support and services. Choosing and executing a collective wish on behalf of all cities (or even a single one) is an entirely different undertaking. Considering TED's reputation for ingenuity, when the wish is unveiled February 29, 2012 at the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, Calif., it is sure to surprise and delight, serve and empower.
2. Design for America will spread its wings
A name like "Design for America" conjures up a lot of things, but especially analogies to Teach for America. Based out of Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering, Design for America focuses on current university students, rather than creating post-graduate opportunities like its namesake. Design for America's studios are expressly extra-curricular and student-led, but one would hope to have them influence other aspects of each school's broader curriculum. In the meantime, Design for America's has a goal to launch 50 studios in schools across the country over the next three years. Looking ahead to 2012, over 40 schools have applied to join Design for America's flagship studio at Northwestern and eight other current studios, which collectively engaged 600 students from 60 different majors in 2011.
3. Bryan Bell's Public Interest Design Institute will hit the road
Backed by two decades of experience, Bryan Bell of Design Corps is hitting the road in January to bring his Public Interest Design Institute (PIDI) to schools across the country. His two-day training programs impart lessons not often covered in design studios or seminars; they are centered around a set of principles, called SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design), pitched as a social response to the USGBC's Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). Schools signed up to host the PIDI training programs in 2012 so far range from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, to the University of Cincinnati, University of Texas at Austin, and Yale University in New Haven, Conn. One such offering at the University of New Mexico last fall attracted several dozen participants. Should these subsequent sessions attract the interest that Bell anticipates, don't be surprised to see schools quickly follow suit with degree tracks and even dedicated degrees in public interest design.
4. The 1% program will eclipse 1,000 firms
In a matter of days, The 1% program of nonprofit Public Architecture (directed by this writer from 2003-2010, for the sake of full disclosure) will eclipse 1,000 firms. Collectively, the firms have pledged a minimum of one percent of their billable hours to pro bono service, now generously estimated by the organization to total $38 million in services—at a newly-increased rate of $125/hour. This spring, the organization is promising an overdue redesign of TheOnePercent.org website, launched in 2007. While The 1% ably represents the supply, a parallel efforts needs to be made to demonstrate the demand for design from the estimated $1 trillion social sector. And that's where dedicated intermediaries like the Community Design Collaborative of Philadelphia, DesigNYC, and the Taproot Foundation, fill such a void, and are logical models and partnerships worth renewing for Public Architecture and The 1% program as they move forward.
5. The Intern Development Program 2.0 will take effect
In April, NCARB, the über-powerful gatekeeper of the architecture profession, will roll out its first major overhaul of the 35-year old Intern Development Program (IDP). Version "2.0" has been hyped by NCARB for over two years, placating critics with promises of a smoother path to licensure. Some things, however, will not change at all, namely the 5,600 hours required hours of experience that is presented as a three-year process, but in reality takes an average of five years to complete. We can only hope that the role of community engagement and service are far more pronounced as invaluable experiences for aspiring architects working in a complex world. As architect and ethicist Victoria Beach so eloquently put it in a recent essay, "Although public service is supposed to be at the very heart of a profession, it is located somewhere near the pinky toe of the Intern Development Program." It's a paradox for a program and sponsoring organization shopped on the premise that they protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
6. Design Like You Give a Damn 2 will hit the shelves
On May 1, six years after Architecture for Humanity's first major book by roughly the same name, Design Like You Give a Damn 2: Building Change from the Ground Up will finally hit shelves—with roughly 100 new projects from around the world as well as a new publisher, Abrams Books. It will build on the original book, which helped put humanitarian design on the map and into the hands of tens of thousands of people. Paired with how-to advice based on the organization's work in the field, the projects profiled in this second book are drawn from across the globe. Many were crowd-sourced through the Open Architecture Network, now called Worldchanging, as explained below. With a press, profession, and public hungry for stories of successful projects, AFH, the designers it's associated with, and all of us would be well-served by an equal accounting of "good failures," where projects didn't go as planned or fell short of their promise.
7. Studio H, the documentary, will be released
K-12 design education programs sometimes feel like a dime a dozen, with few holding a candle to Studio H, the high school design/build program pioneered by Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller of Project H Design. Their improbable venture—set in a rural county of North Carolina—is captured by the filmmakers of Wordplay and I.O.U.S.A., in what is being described as "a year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms." (The filmmakers just successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign to make a final cut.) The "cast of characters" are a diverse group of high school juniors, embarking on several projects that promise not just to provide them with design literacy and construction skills, but also with a different sense of their own capabilities and promise. The real success of the Studio H program is that a neglected town, and particularly the kids who live there, discover that they too deserve good design. We all do.
Archiculture film will debut
A culture—Archiculture—until itself, design studio life is a recurring subject of debate. It's a culture that one—be they a parent or university administrator—can't fully understand without experiencing it, and therein may lie the problem. Are the endless hours spent largely on conceptual projects productive or wasted? Is it worthwhile for students to dedicate themselves so completely to such projects or is it actually unhealthy and counterproductive? Are studios really the best way to learn how to be a designer in the real world? Archiculture explores answers to these questions by following five architecture students through their final thesis projects. Years in the making, it is finally expected to premiere in 2012. It comes as an opportune time as other disciplines and collaborative ventures increasingly test the "studio model."
9. U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will showcase interventions
In August, as it does every two years, the U.S. will present the best of American design in the Venice Biennale. A sign of the times, this year's installation will showcase "Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good." Expect a image-based display and archive of community gardens, citizen-designed bike lanes, poster campaigns, apps and crowd-sourced public processes. As curator Cathy Lang Ho explains, "With the slow-down of actual architectural production, we are seeing some of the nation's most thoughtful, original practices pursuing personal projects that are motivated not only by the urge to create, but by a heightened social and political awareness."
10. Public Policy Lab will take shape
Launched just under a year ago in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Public Policy Lab concerns itself not with built or tradition design projects, but instead with the bigger social systems, like social security and public health. It operates at the intersection of policy and design, with a focus on user experience and outcomes. There has been a lot of talk about such work for years now—with firms like IDEO taking on federal agencies as clients and Code for America bringing technology to bear on service design. Public Policy Lab stands out for its clear focus on user experience, but also efficiency, as governments are under the perpetual threat of cutbacks and critique. Key to the success of Public Policy Lab will be to keep in mind that design is just a means, and that better, more accessible public services are the greater goals.
Bonus: Rounding up to 12, two public interest media sites set for reboots
Last December, Worldchanging—the environmental blog and hefty companion book—succumbed to funder and founder fatigue, issuing a public farewell and gracefully bowing out. Frequent contributor Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity responded with a public offer for his organization to take on and continue the work of Worldchanging, and, nearly a year to the day, AFH merged its Open Architecture Network with the Worldchanging brand. Even after a year, however, the merger looks more like a blind date, though we're assured that a totally redesigned website is due out this spring, and thus warrants mention here.
Next American City, another nonprofit led briefly by this author, also just announced plans for a major re-launch and redesign of its popular web portal, AmericanCity.org. Among other highlights is a new weekly online publication, called Forefront. Backed by a massive $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, Next American City re-enters a crowded field of media coverage focused on cities, from The Atlantic Cities, Fast Company, and other publications. As the TED Prize honoree attests, cities are ripe for deeper consideration and study. And who better than the next generation of urban leaders and thinkers that Next American City represents to lead the charge?
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A player who defined the Eagles.
The news, inevitable for all who wear a uniform, arrived Monday morning: Brian Dawkins is retiring.
Next stop: Canton.
Having been paid to watch this Eagles team for 3 decades now -- and if that isn't the gig of the century, I don't know what is -- there are few certainties and many conflicted feelings about different people and different events along the way. Frankly, the end here for Dawkins was one of those uncertain, conflicted things. Because, on the one hand, I understood why the team wanted to move on but, on the other hand, I wrote about how they had to find a way to get him to stay.
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The man is a Hall of Famer.
I know that a lot of safeties don't get in. I know there will be other names thrown out there. But I also know this, and I know it as certainly as I know anything: that as a player, and as a person, over a long period of time, I find it hard to believe that any player in the NFL defined his team and inspired his team the way Dawkins did.
This was a team that went to the Super Bowl, and repeatedly went to the playoffs, and turned over its personnel more than once, and counted on somebody to be its beacon. They wanted an example of tougness. They wanted an example of seriousness of purpose. They also wanted, and needed, a player whose connection to the fans was so unbreakable that it helped to renew and refuel the emotion it took to sustain excellence over a decade.
Brian Dawkins did all of that -- and made a boatload of Pro Bowls besides.
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A collection of interviews with artists connected with electronic music. Tangerine Dream, Richard Devine, Andrzej Smolik and SBB, these are just some of the artists invited to the project. The key factor in selecting the interviewers was the repertoire of the concert series SoundLab – Philharmonic Laboratory of Electronic Music, which had been set up by the Philharmonic in Szczecin soon after using its new building.
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In a rare but not an unprecedented move, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called to end the decades-long confrontation with South Korea and boost the economy of his impoverished nation.
"An important issue in putting an end to the division of the country and achieving its reunification is to remove confrontations between the north and the south," said Kim, who came to power after the death of his father Kim Jong-il in December 2011.
"Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war," Reuters quoted Kim as saying in a televised address for the New Year.
This comes weeks after South Korea elected Park Geun-hye as president. The new president is a conservative and daughter of assassinated military ruler Park Chung-hee, whom Kim Il-sung had tried to kill during their Cold War confrontation.
The New Year's address was the first in 19 years by a North Korean leader. But this is not the first time North Korea has extended a gesture of peace, and it may not indicate a change in its foreign policy that has been against the United States and U.S. ally South Korea.
North Korea provoked neighbors in the region and the West last month after it launched another satellite, believed to be cover for a ballistic missile test and causing concerns in the United States and elsewhere. Korean Central News Agency quoted the Korean Committee for Space Technology as announcing that the North "plans to launch another working satellite, which has been manufactured true to the behest of great leader comrade Kim Jong Il with our own efforts and our own technology."
North Korea's latest gesture "apparently contains a message that he [Kim] has an intention to dispel the current face-off [between the two Koreas], which could eventually be linked with the North's call for aid" from the South, Kim Tae-woo, a North Korea expert at the state-funded Korea Institute for National Unification, was quoted as saying. "But such a move does not necessarily mean any substantive change in the North Korean regime's policy towards the South."
The authoritarian communist nation relies heavily on foreign aid due to the lack of food distribution system, price rise and international sanctions over its weapons programs.
"Kim Jong-un's New Year's message was different in format but not in content," Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, was quoted as saying. It offered further evidence that Kim is following in the footsteps of his grandfather, rather than his father, he added.


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The 2010 Perspectives on Global Development: Shifting Wealth looks at the major realignment of the global economy that has taken place in the last two decades. Economic and political power has been shifting towards the developing world and emerging economies thanks to high and sustained growth rates in large developing countries, particularly the Asian giants of China and India.
Increasing links between developing countries has been a feature of this transformation: flows of trade, aid and investment between developing countries have all intensified. Which countries have had the most rapid growth? How does the rise of the Asian giants affect the global economy and the rest of the developing world? And how can poor countries take advantage of the new economic landscape? Answers and insights in this edition.
Shifting Wealth is the first edition of Perspectives on Global Development, a new publication on development from the OECD Development Centre. It was launched in Paris on 16 June 2010 by OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría.
"Perspectives on Global Development is a landmark report about the biggest economic story of our era. It describes and analyses the new economic world we live in, where countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America provide the dynamism for future growth. It shows how this shift in the economic centre of gravity is cause for optimism, rather than consternation." -- Alan Hirsch, Deputy Director General: Policy, South African Presidency.
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Growth in the developing world has outpaced that in advanced economies for more than a decade.
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In 2009, China became the leading trade partner of Brazil, South Africa and India, and is set to surpass Germany as the world's largest trading nation in 2010.
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Thanks to Jasia at Creative Gene for hosting the New Year's Carnival. She posted the following: Call for Submissions! The topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy will be: New Year's Resolutions! This year is almost over and a new decade is knocking on the door. This is the perfect time to make your New Year resolutions, goals, aims, declarations, intentions, aspirations, objectives, plans, targets, schemes, wishes, or whatever you want to call them! Figure out how you're going to approach your family history research next year, write it up, and share it with us in the COG. The deadline for submissions is January 1, 2010.
My "main" computer contains a set of folders which can be described as the "dumping ground". Every photo, obituary, census image, document scan, or other digital file which I HAVE NOT evaluated, transcribed, attached to my database, and filed resides in those folders. I just checked and there are 5.17 gb, 102 folders, 5474 files! I could check on this because I keep a copy on my "travel" computer, in addition to two backup copies.
If I started on January first and worked every day of the 2010, that would be 15 files a day. Perhaps it would be better to look at it as 103.283 files per week? Or 456.1667 files per month? The good news is that many of the files are simply photographs passed on to me by other researchers of my lines, or tombstone photos, or something similar which can be addressed quickly. The bad news is that some are far more complicated, like the 29 photos of the lengthy, complicated will of one of my ancestors.
There is more bad news, I have a small (physical) file of information I have collected over the past few months, obituaries, photos and other items that must be scanned, entered and filed. This year will be a challenge as I attempt to summon up the discipline to deal with the data. That will be the theme of my genealogical year, Deal With The Data, or "DWTD". There will be more on that theme.
In addition, I will continue to bore readers of this blog with the results of my research into the land transactions of our ancestors, from my deed research in Michigan and beyond.
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- Find the surname used by my Yearnd/Yournd/Ewen/Euens ancestors before their arrival in Howell, Michigan from outer space, (or Germany, or wherever they came from).
- Find my cousins, descendants of my Mother's half brother, Donald William Hill. Donald was born 17 March 1919 in Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer County, New York to George Gardner Hill (1896-1962) and Helen Lois Palmer (1891-1966). He was first called George Gardner Hill, Jr., on the 1920 census, but later known as Donald William. Donald died 4 April 1985 in Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, California, and is buried in the National Cemetery in Riverside California. An genealogical angel and volunteer in Lake Elsinore has provided me some leads which may help me find Donald's children.
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- Find some cousins.
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills 1 At New York Mall
HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. (AP) - Officials investigating a carbon monoxide leak at a New York mall are concentrating on the heating system of a restaurant following the death of the eatery's 55-year-old manager and more than two dozen others being sent to hospitals.
Suffolk County police identified the man who died Saturday as Steven Nelson, a manager at the Legal Sea Foods restaurant at the Walt Whitman Shops in Huntington Station on Long Island.
Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick said the medical examiner would determine Nelson's cause of death.
Fitzpatrick said the initial call to police came shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday about a woman who had fallen and hit her head in the basement of the Legal Sea Foods outlet.
When rescue workers arrived at the scene, they started to feel lightheaded and nauseated and suspected a carbon monoxide leak, Fitzpatrick said.
Police evacuated the restaurant and found Nelson, of Copiague, unconscious in the basement.
The woman who fell was taken to Huntington Hospital, as was Nelson, who was pronounced dead there. There was no immediate word on the woman's condition.
Authorities said 27 people were taken to five area hospitals. Fitzpatrick said none appeared to have life-threatening injuries. WABC-TV reported that all but a handful of patients had been treated and released.
All of those affected by the fumes were restaurant employees, police or ambulance workers, Fitzpatrick said. He said the leak appeared to originate with the heating system.
"Right now, we are inspecting the heating system, and this incident seems to be confined to the basement area. It does not appear to have made it in the area of the restaurant where the customers were," he said.
Carbon monoxide is odorless and colorless and can lead to death by suffocation.
In addition to the Legal Sea Foods restaurant, two others, Panera and a Cheesecake Factory outlet, were evacuated as a precaution, even as the mall remained open.
"They told us to leave because of a gas leak," Cheesecake Factory patron Kathy Sella said. "I didn't want to blow up or anything like that. We were at the bar having a glass of wine and then, one of the waitresses, she said you have to leave."
The Walt Whitman Shops, located about 35 miles east of New York City, consists of more than 80 stores, including anchors Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue.


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Let's get this much straight: Every voter has the right to decide which candidate, of which party, she or he is going to vote for.
Like most of my colleagues in the news business, I vote, but I don't register with a party, plant lawn signs or participate in political polls and surveys. Although I am now an opinion writer, for 27 years I was a reporter or editor devoted to keeping my political preferences to myself.
It was no surprise to learn that LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson, his first counselor, Henry B. Eyring, and nine Mormon apostles are registered Republicans in this GOP-dominated state.
It does seem a bit odd, though, that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is fiercely nonpartisan even as so many of its top leaders and members decidedly are not.
The global faith's political neutrality statement says its "mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, not to elect politicians … [the church] is neutral in matters of party politics."
Nor does the institutional church promote parties, candidates or platforms, allow its church buildings to be used for partisan purposes, try to tell its members for whom to vote or attempt to sway a government leader.
The Salt Lake City-based LDS Church says it does "reserve the right as an institution" to speak out on so-called community or moral issues. It has done so on Proposition 8, gambling, alcohol, immigration and the faith's backing of ordinances protecting gay and transgender residents from housing and job discrimination.
It also urges its followers to become informed about issues and to vote, and expects them to be civil to those with differing political opinions.
In addition, its full-time general authorities (including the governing First Presidency and Quorum of Twelve Apostles), general officers and their spouses and other ecclesiastical leaders rendering full-time church service are not to campaign, fundraise, endorse or make financial contributions to candidates.
Given all that, why would so many LDS leaders register and remain registered as Republicans?
Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Monson's second counselor in the First Presidency, wisely got around that by registering to vote in Utah's closed Republican primary (something the Democratic Party doesn't require to vote in its runoffs), then changed his status back to unaffiliated.
It's no secret Utah leans heavily GOP, but there have been times when Democrats were ascendant. One was during the Great Depression, when they supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Democratic state lawmakers enacted bills on relief, assistance, unemployment and open primaries. In 1948, Democrat Reva Beck Bosone became the first Utah woman elected to Congress.
But, as always, the political pendulum keeps swinging. These days, Republicans hold strong majorities in the Utah Legislature, our congressional delegation and in state executive offices from governor on down.
And, of course, Republican Mitt Romney got 90 percent of the Mormon vote in Utah (78 percent nationwide) in his failed bid to unseat Democratic President Barack Obama.
An LDS Church spokesman has cautioned people not to read too much into voting-registration records. After all, those records say nothing about which candidates these high-level LDS leaders voted for.
But how can we not? (Even though those records say nothing about which candidates these high-level LDS leaders voted for.)
If I were a member of a religious institution, I'd certainly pay attention to the positions held by faith leaders on matters of the day social and environmental issues, the economy, education, the cost of war and, yes, party politics.
But sometimes a bully pulpit can be too persuasive. As Max Perry Mueller of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University told The Salt Lake Tribune: "As the prophet goes, so goes his flock."
Like every action, every label has meaning.
By remaining defined in part by political affiliation, LDS leaders could, however unintentionally, be sending a message to the faithful. It may be best to drop that label, and let their wisdom and good works speak for themselves.
Peg McEntee is a news columnist. Reach her at email@example.com, facebook.com/pegmcentee and Twitter: @pegmcentee.


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Each of these additionally staged rooms added some abience to the home that would encourage a buyer to make an offer. The sellers and the agents all commented on what a great "feel" the staging brought to the room vs how they looked previously. All homes sold within days.
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Albany, NY November 14, 2012
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the New York Bankers Association (NYBA) and the New York Business Development Corporation (NYBDC) have agreed to establish a $10 million small business emergency loan fund to provide immediate financial assistance for businesses impacted by Storm Sandy. Under the fund, businesses will be able to apply for loans of up to $25,000 immediately by going to www.esd.ny.gov or calling 1-855-NYS-SANDY.
"New York's banks are stepping up to help our state's small businesses rebuild and restart in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy," Governor Cuomo said. "This loan program will help those businesses who were hit hardest by the storm get the resources they need to repair immediately, allowing them to continue to provide jobs to our communities and strength to our economy. I applaud the New York Bankers Association for providing relief to these businesses and joining the growing efforts by the private sector to help all New Yorkers recover."
Michael P. Smith, President & CEO, New York Bankers Association said, "The banking industry understands that the quick recovery of small businesses will be key to the rebuilding of our neighborhoods. We are eager to help in this critical effort so that New York's small business owners can get back to work, and back to providing goods and services to their communities."
The emergency loan program will provide low-interest loans of up to $25,000 to small businesses in an expedited manner to help in the recovery efforts. The New York Business Development Corporation will manage and operate the loan program in coordination with Empire State Development (ESD).
Through the program, small businesses in affected communities will be eligible to receive loans of up to $25,000 that will be interest and payment-free for the first six months and then at one percent interest for the following two years. Eligible businesses can use the funding to cover the costs of replacement and repairs to facilities or equipment or as working capital needed to restart or continue business operations.
The emergency loan program is for independently owned and operated businesses that have fewer than 100 employees and are located in the counties designated as disaster areas: Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, and the five boroughs of New York City.
To be eligible to receive funding through the program, companies must have filed 2011 business tax returns and have experienced direct damage or economic hardship as a result of Sandy. Applications will be available within the week and businesses are expected to begin to receive funding five to seven days after submitting a complete application and the required documentation.
Empire State Development President, CEO & Commissioner Kenneth Adams said, "The recovery of our communities depends on the ability of their local businesses to have the resources they need to get back to business. Under the leadership of Governor Cuomo, the state is providing immediate and direct assistance to help those who need it most during these difficult times."
Chris Giamo, Regional President for New York and Northern New Jersey, TD Bank said, "TD Bank is proud to lend our support to this important effort which will assist in restoring and supporting businesses as Hurricane Sandy recovery moves forward. Our thoughts are with those who have been affected by this natural disaster and we look forward to seeing the results of this investment in the greater New York Community."
Jonathan Witter, President of Retail and Direct Banking for Capital One said, "Small business owners across the state expected the worst when they returned to survey the damage caused by the storm and, in most cases that was exactly what they found. New York is home to Capital One and many of our associates and we are committed to helping small business owners rebuild. We are proud to be able to support the Small Business Recovery Loan Fund to help local business as they begin to rebuild and recover from this devastating event."
Michael N. Vittorio, President & CEO, First National Bank of Long Island said, "The First National Bank of Long Island will do all it can to work with the local community and those affected by Hurricane Sandy. It is important for all of us to pull together at this time."
Howard C. Bluver, President and CEO of Suffolk County National Bank in Riverhead said, "It is at times like these that we bankers need to provide fast and meaningful support to the small businesses and communities that have been impacted by Sandy. We applaud this effort, and are proud to play our part."
James J. Landy, Chairman, Hudson Valley Bank said, "We are proud that the banking industry in New York is taking the lead to establish an emergency loan fund for small business recovery to help address the needs of the untold number of small businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy. Hudson Valley Bank was among the first to commit to participate in the fund because we feel it is important to help businesses get back on their feet and begin to recover from the devastating effects of the storm. Individuals, families and businesses have been through so much these past few weeks. Through this fund, we can make a meaningful contribution to the business community and provide some needed relief."
John Buran, President & CEO, Flushing Bank said, "We at Flushing Bank are proud to show our support for the small business relief fund and to join with our colleagues across the state to support small business and its effort to recover from this disaster.
John R. Koelmel, President & CEO, First Niagara, said, "Making it easy for small businesses to do great things is what we're about every day at First Niagara. Therefore, we're very proud to partner with the Governor and our fellow bankers to ensure that local businesses are able to rebuild and recover even faster from the devastation of this storm."
Created in 1955, NYBDC is a consortium of banks committed to supporting economic development and job growth opportunities in New York State by providing government guaranteed and conventional loans to small businesses at all stages of development. NYBDC works with its member banks to provide creative, responsive and cost effective financing solutions when a conventional alternative is not available through long-term working capital, equipment, and real estate loans to a variety of businesses located in New York State, either in participation with, or as an adjunct to, the banking industry.
Additional news available at www.governor.ny.gov
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Pirates of the Caribbean effectively glamorizes piracy. Similarly, Ocean's Thirteen, Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's latest remake of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack Vegas caper, the essence of curdled ring-a-ding-ding, is the surest bet in showbiz. It's a spectacle blatantly predicated on a smug gaggle of mega-movie stars in boss threads ostentatiously having fun by pretending to steal the house's money, while actually taking yours. See it if you must, but don't forget to pack the Air Wick. These breezy doings are mustier than a Glitter Gulch casino at 4 a.m.
The party opens with Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) summoned to meet Danny Ocean (Clooney) on a private plane to Vegas. It's an emergency mission of mercy. The gang's guru-cum-mascot Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) is in the hospital recovering from a coronary precipitated by the double-dealing treachery of his erstwhile partner, another venerable Vegas operator with the colorful moniker Willie Bank (Al Pacino). How could the hand that once "shook Sinatra's" backstab a fellow pioneer like Reuben, so old-school they named a deli sandwich after him?
The scene uniting onetime maniacs Gould and Pacino is not without its autumnal poignancy — California Split on a Dog Day Afternoon. Not so, the Ocean's Thirteen premise. The plan is to avenge Reuben by preventing Willie's new super-duper deluxe hotel, the Bank, from getting a Five-Diamond rating while rigging the slots, dice, cards and roulette wheels to drive the establishment into bankruptcy on opening night. It's kind of a benefit, and reprising his antagonistic role as the victim of Ocean's Eleven and nemesis of Ocean's Twelve, Andy Garcia drops in to provide the necessary financing.
Garcia's greedhead aside, the Thirteen — who include, as usual, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck, Shaobo Qin, and as the senior shtick artist, Carl Reiner — are closer at heart to the Justice League of America than to Sinatra's larcenous band of brothers (even if, to paraphrase Variety on Ocean's Twelve, it's a case of the rich stealing from the richer to give to the richest). There's even a hint of social criticism: Buying off a factory of Mexican workers is the cheapest part of the operation.
Clooney's Ocean is less the military leader Sinatra pretended to be than the movie's genial host. Slumming in the role of sidekick number one, Pitt, who only has a handful of lines, mainly stands around with his arms folded. Given that Ocean has evidently re-divorced or otherwise contractually forgotten the character played in the previous movies by Julia Roberts, Ellen Barkin is the lone woman on screen (save for a couple of televised Oprah cameos). She exists largely as the butt of Damon's seduction.
Working against the underdeveloped notion of a security system outfitted with artificial intelligence, the Oceaneers engineer a monumental opening night disaster, complete with faux earthquake. The logistics of this scheme are often tedious —predicated as they are on the substitution of bonhomie for suspense — and the movie ends perfunctorily with Sinatra warbling, "This town is a lonely town." His subject may be Vegas, but the sentimental denunciation of a "use-you, abuse-you until you're down town" is surely meant to mock Hollywood: "It's a miserable town... a nowhere town...You better believe that I'm leavin' this town."
Sure you are. Good night and good luck. Ostensibly, Ocean's Thirteen is that which enables Soderbergh and Clooney to make their personal projects and, as such, it's not without a splash of ironic self-awareness. "You don't run the same gag twice — you run the next gag," Ocean, straight-faced, explains to his cohorts.
Basically, Ocean's Thirteen is a meta-caper — underlying all the riffs is the identification of conning with acting. The real question is: How many times can Soderbergh and Clooney pull off this same stunt?


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Life is short … Drink good beer
Craft Brewing Facts
Craft brewers currently provide an estimated 108,440 jobs in the U.S., including serving staff in brewpubs.
Growth of the craft brewing industry in 2012 was 15 percent by volume and 17 percent by dollars compared to growth in 2011 of 13 percent by volume and 15 percent by dollars.
Craft brewers sold an estimated 13,235,917 barrels of beer in 2012, up from 11,467,337 in 2011.
A barrel is 31 gallons.
The craft brewing sales share in 2012 was 6.5 percent by volume and 10.2 percent by dollars.
Craft brewer retail dollar value in 2012 was an estimated $10.2 billion, up from $8.7 billion in 2011.
As of March 18, 2013, the Brewers Association is aware of 409 brewery openings in 2012 (310 microbreweries and 99 brewpubs) and 43 brewery closings (18 microbreweries and 25 brewpubs).
2,347 craft breweries operated for some or all of 2012, comprised of 1,132 brewpubs, 1,118 microbreweries and 97 regional craft breweries.
Other U.S. brewing industry facts
Overall U.S. beer sales were up an estimated 0.9 percent by volume in 2012.
Imported beer sales were up 1 percent in 2012 and up 1 percent in 2011.
Overall U.S. beer sales were approximately 200,028,520 barrels and imported beer sales were 27,712,665 barrels in 2012.
2,403 total breweries operated for some or all of 2012, the highest total since the 1880s.
It's American Craft Beer Week; a "big week for small breweries," the week all true Americans face their favorite brew pub and pledge allegiance to the beer.
Beer-drinking true believers can even sign the American Craft Beer Week Manifesto, pledging their support to craft beer and the artisans who brew it. It's not as binding as the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, but it's tough to hold up a craft beer while you're standing at attention with your hand over your heart.
"This isn't one of those fake holidays. No, this is officially sanctioned by congress, as of 2006. Which in my book makes it the equal to the separation of church and state," said comedian Steven Colbert.
The Vail Valley has three brewpubs: Crazy Mountain Brewery and the Gore Range Brewery in Edwards, and the Bonfire Brewery in Eagle.
Bonfire's Andy Jessen and Matt Wirtz were roommates when they started brewing brew. Their other roommate moved out, but kept paying her rent, so they used her space to make some home brew.
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They started cranking out beer in their garage and got pretty good at it.
Andy asked Matt if he could make $500 worth of beer every month they could sell, so they wouldn't have to have another roommate.
"Since then we've basically moved into a series of bigger garages," Jessen said.
They're on Second Street in Eagle, where the Viking garage used to be. Last November, they got their production facility cranked up on Chambers Avenue in Eagle.
They keep making more beer because beer lovers keep drinking it.
"From all the evidence, the pie keeps getting bigger," Jessen said.
During Colorado Craft Beer Week in March they introduced a new beer every day.
"We've never had a real dud. Every beer is someone's favorite beer," Jessen said. "There are as many types of tastes as there are people out there."
Good beer, good life
Over at the Crazy Mountain Brewery, the Selvys are spending the week reminding beer lovers that life is good and beer is too.
"It's a week to celebrate American beer," CEO Kevin Selvy said.
And you might learn something.
"This is America and we have the freedom to try new stuff," co-owner Marisa Selvy said.
Through the summer they celebrate Muthafirkin Fridays, when they take one of their popular beers and basically plunk some fruit in the keg and leave it alone for a few days. It's called a firkin for reasons we didn't quite understand, but don't really need to. All you need to know is that the beer is amazing and you should drink some.
At 5 p.m. Fridays – Muthafirkin Fridays – they pour that week's beer and everyone is happy.
Jeremy Pluck is the Gore Range Brewery brewmaster. He and owner Pascal Coudouy have three new brews pretty much ready to go.
They love to try new things, but understand that you still have to dance with the one that brung you, as they say.
Among the favorites is their Lupulus Maximus, a double IPA.