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In what follows, we provide a glossary of some of the key terms used in Venture Philanthropy and related areas.
Balanced Scorecard
The Balanced Scorecard was developed by Professor Robert Kaplan (Harvard Business School) and Dr David Norton in 1992 as a 'performance management framework that added strategic nonfinancial performance measures to traditional financial metrics to give managers and executives a more "balanced" view of organisational performance… [it] transforms an organisation's strategic planfrom an attractive but passive document into the "marching orders" for the organisation on a daily basis', helping people to identify what should be done and measured.
Source: www.balancedscorecard.org
New Profit Inc, based in Boston, MA, in partnership with Professor Kaplan has adapted the Scorecard for the nonprofit sector adding the 'social impact' perspective.
See also: www.newprofit.com
Base/Bottom of Pyramid (BoP)
An economic term referring to the largest but poorest socio-economic group, which in global terms refers to the 2.5 billion people who live on less than $2.50 (U.S.) per day. One of the earliest popular uses of the phrase "bottom of the pyramid" was by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1932 radio address, The Forgotten Man, which referred to the plight of the American farmer and the importance of building economic power from the bottom up rather than the top down.
Base of Pyramid Entrepreneur (BoPreneur)
This is a catchy term for a Social Entrepreneur or someone who creates a new for-profit business with the mission of addressing a social and/or environmental problem and stimulating the economy at the base of the pyramid.
Below market return
Level of return on investment which is lower than the average level of return offered by the financial market, for an investment with the same risk profile.
Blended Value
As defined by Jed Emerson, who coined the term, 'the Blended Value Proposition states that all organisations, whether for-profit or not, create value that consists of economic, social and environmental value components – all that investors (whether market-rate charitable or some mix of the two) simultaneously generate all three forms of value through providing capital to organisations. The outcome of all this activity is value creation and that value is itself non-divisible and, therefore, a blend of these elements'.
Source: www.blendedvalue.org
Business plan
Document which describes an organisation's goals and the operating model and financial resources which will be used in order to reach them.
Capacity-building / Organizational development
Approach aimed at strengthening organisations supported to increase their overall performance by developing skills or improving structures and processes.
Certified B Corporation (B Corp)
Certified B Corporations are philosophically the same as legally designated benefit corporations but have a few important differences. The B Corp certification is not conferred by a state but by Berwyn, Pa.-based B Lab, a nonprofit organization that promotes the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.B Lab certifies companies the same way TransFair certifies Fair Trade coffee or USGBC certifies LEED buildings. Certified B Corporations earn their designation by meeting a high standard of overall social and environmental performance. As a result, Certified B Corps have access to a portfolio of services and support from B Lab that benefit corporations do not. Unannounced audits are done on about 10 percent of all certified B Corps every year. B Lab supports and encourages legislative efforts and many legally chartered Benefit Corporations also have a B-Corp certification.
Co-investment (also known as Cofunding)
In private equity, co-investment is the syndication of a financing round or investment by other funders alongside a private equity fund. In venture philanthropy, it involves the syndication of an investment into a social purpose organisation (SPO), by other funders (e.g. grant-makers or individuals) alongside a venture philanthropy organisation.
Core costs
Recurring expenses generated by the operation of an organisation which are not directly related to the level of activity, by opposition to project or programme costs.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
CSR is a form of corporate self-regulation that is integrated into the business model and takes into account not only shareholders but also stakeholders such as employees and customers. CSR efforts often include the entire value chain, including suppliers, buyers and the communities in which the company operates, when addressing issues of social and environmental impact. The term "corporate social responsibility" came into common use in the late 1960s and early 1970s after many multinational corporations formed the term to describe any group that is impacted by a company's activities. Annual CSR reports are now published, using a framework such as GRI to increase awareness and transparency around CSR and sustainability progress.
Deal flow
Deal flow refers to the number and/or rate of new proposals presented to the investor. This term is used with respect to venture capital/private equity funds, venture philanthropy funds, and has also been borrowed and used by philanthropists in reference to 'deals' or potential projects to be awarded grants.
Debt financing (also see Loan)
Debt financing is borrowed money used to finance a business, either traditional or social enterprise. Usually, debt is divided into two categories: short-term debt for funding day-to-day operations, and long-term debt to finance the assets of the business. The repayment of short term loans usually takes place in less than one year. Long-term debt is repaid over a longer period.
Double Bottom Line
A business term used in socially responsible enterprise and investment to refer to both the conventional bottom line, a measure of fiscal performance, and the second bottom line, a measure of positive social impact.
Due diligence
Due Diligence is the process where an organisation or company's strengths and weaknesses are assessed in detail by a potential investor with a view to investment.
Environmental Social and Corporate Governance (ESG)
ESG is a general catch all phrase that encompasses the major areas of concern for a business that strives to operate in a sustainable and ethical manner. In addition to financial factors, each of these areas is taken into consideration for anyone considering investment in a company.
Equity financing (see also Quasiequity)
Funding provided by an investor to an organisation that confers ownership rights on the investor. These rights allow the investor to share in the profits of the organisation, usually in the form of dividends. Equity investors are diverse, including the organisation's founders, friends, family, institutions and angel investors. Venture philanthropy funds may provide a source of equity financing for social enterprises. Newer, and still experimental, means of ownership (e.g. a Community Interest Company in the UK) allow equity purchase but place a cap on the financial return.
The end of the relationship between the venture philanthropy investor and social purpose organisation (SPO). The nature of the exit will normally be agreed before the investment is completed. In the case of a charity, the venture philanthropy funder will ideally be replaced by a mix of other funders (see financial sustainability). The time scale for the exit can be agreed upon at the outset. In the case of a social enterprise, exit may require the repayment of a loan, for example, and the timing will depend on the commercial success of the enterprise.
Financial sustainability
Financial sustainability for a social enterprise is the degree to which it collects sufficient revenues from the sale of its services to cover the full costs of its activities. For charities, it involves achieving adequate and reliable financial resources, normally through a mix of income types.
Public-benefit foundations are assetbased and purpose-driven. They have no members or shareholders and are separately constituted non-profit bodies. Foundations focus on areas ranging from the environment, social services, health and education, to science, research, arts and culture. They each have an established and reliable income source, which allows them to plan and carry out work over a longer term than many other institutions such as governments and companies. In the context of VP, foundations are non-profit organisations that supports charitable activities either through grant-making or by operating programmes.
Source: www.efc.be
A fund is a vehicle created to enable pooled investment by a number of investors and which is usually managed by a dedicated organization.
Non-returnable money, property, services or anything else of value that is transferred to an organisation without conferring any form of ownership rights on the donor. Note that some VPOs and grant-makers do use "returnable grants" from time to time. This may involve the return of all or part of a grant, contingent upon an agreed event. For example, a grant might be given to enable fund-raising but if the fund-raising is successful or exceeds agreed levels, a portion of the grant may be returned
Grant-makers include institutions, public charities, private foundations, and giving circles, which award monetary aid or subsidies to organisations or individuals. Generally known as foundations in Continental Europe, grant makers also include certain types of trusts in the United Kingdom.
High-engagement funding
High-engagement funding, as defined in a seminal article by Letts and Ryan, 'is first and foremost a performancecentred strategy where alignment, reliable money and strategic coaching are used together to convert a grant financing relationship into an accountability relationship that uses power to improve performance. Highengagement funders believe that improving the performance of nonprofit organisations is the best means of achieving their social goals'. Highengagement funding has many of the features of venture philanthropy.
Source: Letts, C. W. & Ryan, W.P. (2003) "Filling the performance gap. High-Engagement Philanthropy. What Grantees Say About Power, Performance, and Money", Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Impact investing
Impact investing is a form of investment that aims at generating social impact as well as financial return.
In-house Resources
Resources provided within the venture philanthropy organisation itself, through its staff members or volunteers, as opposed to people within the greater network of the venture philanthropists, service providers, or portfolio organisations.
The social purpose organisation that is the target of VPO activity and the recipient of financial and non-financial support. InvestmentAn investment is the use of money with the expectation of making favourable future returns. Returns could be financial, social, and/or environmental (See entry: Triple-bottom-line)
Investment phase
The investment phase is the period between the investment of monies into the project, organisation, or social entrepreneur, and the exit. Investment proposalThe investment proposal is the document prepared by the VPO to present a potential investment (including nature, goals and funding) to the investment committee.Key performance indicatorsKey performance indicators are financial and non-financial, quantifiable metrics used to measure the progress against the objectives of the project, organisation, or company.
Loan (see also Debt)
A loan is a sum of money lent at interest, where financial return is sought. (It is common for venture philanthropy organisations (VPOs) to provide loans at reduced interest rates or have other 'softer' features, i.e. on repayment terms.)
Long-term investment
A long-term investment is made over a period of five years or more.Mezzanine financing Mezzanine financing is a hybrid of debt and equity financing, usually used to fund the expansion stage or an organisation. Although it is similar to debt capital, it is normally treated like equity on the organisation's balance sheet.
Low-profit Limited Liability Company (L3C)
L3C is a legal structure for businesses in the United States that bridges the gap between nonprofit and for-profit investing. L3Cs use their for-profit efficiencies along with fewer regulations from the IRS to achieve socially beneficial goals. L3Cs are taxed and operate with a stated goal of achieving social improvement, with profit as a secondary goal.
Non-financial services (value-added services)
In addition to financial support, venture philanthropists provide value-added services such as strategic planning, marketing and communications, executive coaching, human resources advice and access to other networks and potential funders. Non-financial support is offered by volunteers, VP staff, donors or third party consultants.
Outcomes are the ultimate changes to people's lives that the social purpose organisation is trying to achieve, resulting in changes to the social system, or impact. This might include changes in attitude, behaviours, knowledge, skills, or status.
Outputs are results that a company, non-profit, or project manager can directly assess or measure.PortfolioA portfolio is a collection of projects and/or organisations that have received sponsorship from the investor. A distinction is often made between 'active' and 'past' portfolio, to distinguish between the organisations with which the investor is actively involved. Usually, however, all portfolio organisations are included in the greater network of the investor.
Portfolio (or investment) manager
A portfolio manager is given the responsibility of tracking the performance of and maintaining communications with the various organisations and/or projects within the investor's portfolio.
Pre-investment stage
The pre-investment stage is the process during which the investor examines the operations and leadership of the project or organisation with a view towards making an investment. This might include a detailed review of the financials, operations, or reference checks for organisational leaders. The term due diligence is also used, which has a legal definition as a measure of prudence. In other words, the investor is assessing if it is likely to get what it thinks it is paying for.
Private Equity
Ownership in a firm which is not publicly traded and which usually involves a hands-on approach and a long-term commitment for the investors.
Quasi-equity is a financial instrument that aims to reflect some of the characteristics of shares (preference or ordinary). However, it is neither debt nor equity, and is usually structured as an investment whereby repayment is linked to the investee's financial performance (e.g. repayment is calculated as a percentage of the investee's future revenue streams).
Source: Venturesome (Paul Cheng)
Return on Investment (ROI) (see also Social Return on Investment (SROI))
The Return on Investment (ROI) is the profit or loss resulting from an investment. This is usually expressed as an annual percentage return.
Scaling up
Processes of developing and growing the activities of an SPO to expand its social reach and increase its social impact.
Seed financing
Seed financing is money used for the initial investment in a start-up company, project, proof-of-concept, or initial product development.
Short-term Investment
A short-term investment is made over a one-year period less, or an investment that matures in one year or less.
Social (and ecological) sector
Social (and ecological) sector is an alternative term used in reference to the non-profit sector, non-governmental sector, voluntary sector, independent sector, or third sector.
Social capital market or social investment market
Financial market dedicated to social investment which aims at systematizing and facilitating social capital allocation.
Social enterprise
Social enterprise is an organisation that focuses on achieving social impact, applying market-based solutions to address public sector and market failure in innovative ways. Social enterprise can take on a variety of legal forms.
Source: EVPA definition presented in Maretich, M and Bolton, M (2010).
Social enterprise: From definitions to developments in practice. EVPA
Social entrepreneur
Social entrepreneur is defined by the Schwab Foundation as 'a different kind of social leaders who: Identifies and applies practical solutions to social problems by combining innovation, resourcefulness and opportunity [and] Innovates by finding a new product, a new service, or a new approach to a social problem'.
Source: www.schwabfound.org
Social finance (or investment)
Social finance 'may be understood as a broad area wherein various forms of capital are structured in ways that consider and value both financial performance and social value creation'.
Source: Emerson, K. Freundlich, T. and Fruchterman, J. (2007), "Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: addressing the critical gaps in risk taking capital for social enterprise" Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, University of Oxford.
Social impact
The social benefit derived from the activities of a social purpose organisation (SPO) or venture philanthropy organisation (VPO).
Social indicators (see Social Impact, SROI, Balanced Scorecard)
Key performance indicators specifically adapted to measuring the performance of social purpose organisations.
Social investing
Investing, in social purpose organizations, that may generate a financial return, but whose primary purpose is to generate social impact.
Social Purpose Organisation (SPO)
The term SPO captures the entire spectrum of organisations whose primary purpose is to create social value (rather than shareholder value). The terminology for these different kinds of organisation varies enormously across countries and jurisdictions, and is therefore far from precise. The following types of organisation will fall under the banner of SPOs:
• Charity, non-profit, not for profit, foundation, association, company limited by guarantee, (having no trading activities, or where trading is of marginal importance)
• Social enterprise, Community Interest Company, (having trading as a significant or exclusive part of their operations). Some do not make any financial returns to investors (or cap returns) but reinvest surpluses into the organisation. Even within social enterprise there are several different models.
• Socially driven business – profit distributing businesses but with clear and stated social objectives.Social Return on Investment (SROI)The Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis was developed by REDF in 1996 in the US, a non-profit enterprise that makes grants to a portfolio of non-profit agencies.
SROI places a dollar value on ventures in the portfolio with social as well as market objectives, combining tools for benefit-cost analysis (used by economists) and tools of financial analysis. SROI has also been used by other organisations in a modified form. Within EVPA, the social e-valuator and the SROI network focus on the SROI tool.
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)
Also known as sustainable, socially conscious, "green" or ethical investing, this term defines any investment strategy seeking both financial return and social good. In its broadest usage, SRI refers to proactive practices such as impact investing, shareholder advocacy and community investing. Socially responsible investments encourage corporate practices that promote environmental stewardship, consumer protection, human rights and diversity.They can also represent the avoidance of investing in industries or products that can be socially harmful, including alcohol, tobacco, gambling, pornography, weapons and/or the military. The term dates back to the Quakers, who in 1758, prohibited members from participating in the slave trade.
Social Return on Investment (SROI)
The SROI concept, essentially a cost-benefit analysis, is used by charities, donors and nonprofit organizations to rate the results of their endeavors with firm evidence of impact and created value. The idea of social return on investment was pioneered in the 1990s by a U.S. venture fund calledREDF and has since caught on.
Social venture capital
Social venture capital is an enterprise approach to tackling social problems through investment to support the creation and expansion of commercially sustainable enterprises to maximise social and financial returns. In developing countries, this approach is used to create jobs and empower the poor.
Syndication Temporary
Association of funders who jointly invest in a specific project or organisation.
Triple Bottom Line (TBL)
Coined by John Elkington, founder and chairman of SustainAbility, in his 1997 book Cannibals with Forks: the Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, the term refers to the three prongs of financial, social and environmental accountability. While businesses of the past only had to be accountable for their financial performance, today's enterprises are increasingly pressed to demonstrate concern for three bottom lines: financial, people/communities, and the environment.
Triple-bottom-line investment (see also Blended Value)
Triple-bottom-line investment is the simultaneous pursuit of beneficial returns along three dimensions: economic, social, and environmental.
Venture philanthropist
A venture philanthropist is engaged in venture philanthropy, either as an individual or in conjunction with a venture philanthropy organisation.
Venture philanthropy
Venture philanthropy works to build stronger social organisations by providing them with both financial and non-financial support in order to increase their social impact. The organisations supported may be charities, social enterprises or socially driven commercial businesses, with the precise organisational form subject to country-specific legal and cultural norms. As venture philanthropy spreads globally, specific practices may be adapted to local conditions, yet it maintains a set of widely accepted, key characteristics. These are:
• High engagement: hands-on relationships between the SPO management and the venture philanthropists.
•Involvement of networks: enabling access to networks that provide various and often complementing skill-sets and resources to investees.
•Tailored financing: using a range of financing mechanisms tailored to the needs of the suopported organization.
• Multi-year support: supporting a limited number of organizations for 3-5 years, then exiting when organizations are financially or operationally sustainable.
• Non-financial support: providing value added services such as strategic planning to strengthen management.
• Organisational capacity-building: building the operational capacity of the portfolio organizations, by funding core operating costs rather than individual projects.
• Performance measurement: placing emphasis on good business planning, measurable outcome, achievement of milestone and financial accountability and transparency.
Venture Philanthropy Organisation (VPO)
A venture philanthropy organisation provides long-term financing to social purpose organisations (SPOs) operating with the principles of venture philanthropy.


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Q: I watch Encore's Westerns channel a lot. Robert J. Wilke is not a well-known name, but his face is very recognizable. Can you give me a condensed bio on this terrific bad guy?
A: Like you, I did not know the name but had an "Oh, yeah, that guy" reaction to the face. He was part of the villainous three waiting at the train station in High Noon (the others were Lee Van Cleef and Sheb Wooley). According to the All Movie Guide (via nytimes.com), the Cincinnati native's "first taste of popularity came while he was performing with a high-dive act at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. Encouraged to give Hollywood a try, Wilke entered films as a stunt man and bit player in 1936. He spent most of his movie career in Westerns ... generally playing bad-guy roles which required both menace and physical dexterity."
He worked frequently; the Internet Movie Database's long list of his credits includes five different guest-starring roles on Bonanza, five others in Laramie (also part of the next question) and four on Wagon Train. Besides High Noon, you may also have spotted him in the original Magnificent Seven, the '50s TV series The Untouchables (where, according to IMDB, he played both Bugs Moran and Dutch Schultz) or as a general in the Bill Murray comedy Stripes. He died in 1989 at the age of 74.
Q: What's Robert Fuller of "Laramie" up to and how is he doing? Are "Laramie" episodes available on DVD or VHS?
A: At 79, Fuller — also known for his work on the TV series Emergency and Wagon Train — has put acting behind him but still makes public appearances. At the annual Western Heritage Awards by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma in April, he presented four awards — all for printed works — in tandem with Anita La Cava Swift, a granddaughter of John Wayne. (Fuller was inducted into the hall in 2008.) He is also expected along with a host of other cowboy stars at the Memphis Film Festival in June.
Laramie, which aired from 1959 to 1963 on NBC, has been released on DVD by Timeless Media in sets consisting of each of its four seasons and in a complete-series box. If your local retailer cannot get them, try online sellers like Amazon.com
Q: What was the name of the TV show in the early to middle '50s that Robert Young was in? Are any of the cast members still alive?
A: I think you are remembering Father Knows Best, the family comedy starring Young, which originally ran from 1954 to 1960. According to The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, the show was unsuccessful at first, with CBS canceling it after a single season. But viewer protests prompted NBC to renew the show and air it for three seasons before it returned to CBS for two more. By then it was so popular, CBS aired reruns in prime time for two seasons, and ABC for another season after CBS. And, of course, there were daytime repeats, where I discovered the show.
The core cast included Young as insurance man Jim Anderson, Jane Wyatt as his wife, Margaret, and Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin as their children Betty (also known as Princess), Bud and Kathy (or Kitten). Young died in 1998, and Wyatt in 2006. But the three younger actors are still with us at this writing.
Q: What's the deal with Nick Turturro being gone from "Blue Bloods?"
a: You may have missed seeing him in the May 3 episode. But Turturro is not a regular on the series; from the beginning, he has been a recurring player, meaning that he appears more than once but not in every episode. He has been in about half a dozen of the telecasts in the current season, which wraps up Friday. The series has been renewed for 2013-14.
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Intermediate Emacs Hacking
I explained how to automate turning on the speedbar in the discussion of the Customize Emacs system. Speedbar is a separate frame (window) that allows mouse-click navigation among Emacs buffers. As you can see from the illustration, the speedbar allows for tree structures, like Emacs' Info system. Click on the + to open subnodes, and click on the – to close them (Figure 4).
When you are editing in certain modes—Rmail, Info and GUD, for example—the speedbar shows other selections to be edited in that mode. For example, when you are in Info mode, the speedbar displays nodes. Otherwise, it shows files in the directory where the file in the current buffer is located.
If you have a lot of files open in Emacs, the speedbar is a useful tool. I often have more than 30 files open simultaneously, and the speedbar helps me manage and switch between them.
In the article "Getting Started with Emacs", LJ, March, 2003, I demonstrated how to use Emacs as a server, letting programs like crontab and mutt use Emacs for file editing. To carry this further, you can use Emacs as the editor for any application that can call on an external editor, including mail readers. However, Emacs has at least two mail modes and a powerful newsreader called GNUS.
To send a message, Ctrl-X M (or M-X mail) puts you in mail mode. Simply edit a message and send it (Figure 5). As the screen capture shows, you see a skeleton of an e-mail ready for you to fill in the blanks. You can use control character sequences to move to (and create, if necessary) additional headers, like FCC. You can use tab completion in the headers. There, it looks at local system users and the contents of any e-mail aliases you have defined in your .emacs.
You can insert your signature with Ctrl-C Ctrl-W, or you can have Emacs do that for you by setting mail-signature to t in your .emacs file. If you want to get fancy and write a Lisp program to select a signature for you based on, well, whatever you can write Lisp code to detect.
You can run a spell-checker on your message. Entering M-X ispell-message checks only the body of the message, skipping any quoted material.
In Emacs, read and reply to your incoming mail with rmail mode (M-X rmail) (Figure 6). One of the first things you may wish to do is create a summary buffer or automate it by modifying the rmail mode hook. This creates a buffer familiar to most users: one line per message with the date, source e-mail address, data size and subject in that line. As you can see in Figure 7, the message in the rmail buffer is highlighted in green. The normal Emacs navigation keys work in the summary buffer.
Emacs mail operates in a somewhat convoluted way in order to accommodate multiple operating systems. When you start an rmail buffer, it moves mail from your inbox file, typically in /var/spool/mail on Linux, into a file, ~/RMAIL. This is the file you normally edit. You can put e-mail into ~/RMAIL at any time with the G key. If you have a POP or IMAP account, try using fetchmail to put your mail in the inbox.
Emacs uses the Babyl mail file format. You can export individual messages as text files; entire rmail files can be exported in mailbox format.
Most mail readers use multiple mail files (directories, if they use maildir mail format). Emacs can shift from one rmail file to another, but you may not need to. Instead, you can create customized summaries using regular expressions and other search patterns. You can specify summaries based on recipients, a regular expression search within the subject or labels.
You can have multiple rmail files and associate each one with one or more inboxes. This means that folks with spam filters such as SpamAssassin, already running or using procmail recipes to deliver their e-mail to separate files need not abandon that investment. Each time you visit an rmail file, Emacs gets any new mail from the associated input files.
You can reply and forward e-mail in rmail mode. Either one opens up a mail mode buffer with the e-mail headers already completed. You can use Ctrl-C Ctrl-Y to yank in the message to which you are replying. If you want to reply to multiple e-mails, switch to the rmail buffer, select a different message, switch back and yank the new current message. To be RFC-compliant, you will have to set the quoting character by customizing mail-yank-prefix to use the string >.
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After receiving information from the National Weather Service of expected inclement weather, New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas, parade krewe Captains and organizers have made the following adjustments to the parade schedule:
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Did you remember we're in Black History Month? Whether you're hobnobbing at a ball, chaired along a parade route, or drinking it up in the Quarter, raise at least one glass to New Orleans history makers. The onslaught of beads, high heal shoes and pink wigs can easily have you forget about Black History Month, but Carnival should always remind us of the tremendous contributions of Ernest "Dutch" Morial.
We go Inside the Arts for conversation with Harry Connick, Jr. The award winning singer, pianist, composer, actor and native son celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Krewe of Orpheus — which he co-founded in 1993 — with a new CD, Smokey Mary.
As parades roll and people hit the streets for Carnival revelry, street food blossoms everywhere.
New Orleanians have an endless number of ways to celebrate Mardi Gras. Whether it's riding in a Super Krewe, marching in a street parade, or costuming in the Quarter, everyone seems to find their own way of bringing this unique holiday to life. And even with the million dollar floats and thousands of masked riders, there's still a way for small groups to do their own their own thing.
This week on Inside the Arts, celebrations continue post Super Bowl 47 as New Orleanians set their sights on Mardi Gras!
The Grand Isle Independent Mardi Gras Parade is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Feb. 10.
The parade will begin at Cisco's Cantina at Blackberry Lane and Louisiana Highway 1. The group will travel down Louisiana 1 and disband along Cedar Lane.
Any float, boat, truck, wagon or car is allowed in the parade, The Courier reports.
There are three sounds you hear in New Orleans this morning.
You hear heads pounding as Super Bowl fans stumble their way back to the airport. Followed by voices cheering as residents bid a most joyous farewell to said fans.
With some creativity and finely-honed Mardi Gras survival skills, the New Orleans dining obsession need not take a knee just because the NFL's big show is in town.
It's an unprecedented security challenge for New Orleans: The increasingly raucous buildup to Mardi Gras gets suspended for a week as 150,000 visitors pack the city for the Super Bowl.
The two events bring all the usual worries, from petty crime and public drunkenness to random gunfire and — in the case of the big game — heightened vigilance for terrorism.


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The OpenPhone Project—Internet Telephony for Everyone!
The standard PSTN digitization technique is described by the ITU G.711 specification. This document describes an 8KHz sampling rate using 8 bits per sample, for an effective 64Kbps data rate. There are two subsets of this technique: A-Law and Mu-Law. These are scaling factors that take into account the sensitivity of the human ear and allow for a more efficient utilization of the 8-bit encoding space for recording the human voice. Both are in wide use and are considered standard codecs.
However, 64Kbps is excessive for Internet telephony. Two-way audio encoded in this manner yields 128Kbps of audio alone (not counting signaling or overhead), making it impractical for use across a dial-up link, and wasteful of bandwidth even on a LAN or WAN link. Voice compression is the answer, and there are several options from which to choose.
Audio codecs can either be implemented in software or provided by the telephony interface card using an on-board DSP. On a lightly loaded PC, the extra processing load incurred by the encoding is not particularly burdensome, although it can be on more heavily utilized machines. Software-only solutions can add some latency, since the encoding usually happens in a user-space program and is thus at the whim of system load and the scheduler. Internet telephony cards use on-board DSPs to perform the encoding, virtually eliminating the load on the host CPU and the associated latencies.
Perhaps the most widely used codec in Internet telephony is G.723.1. This codec provides either a 6.3 or 5.3Kbps data stream of packets that hold 30ms of audio each. The encoding requires 7.5 milliseconds of lookahead, which, when combined with the 30-millisecond frame, totals 37.5ms of coding delay. This is the minimum theoretical latency using this codec. Of course, real-world latencies will include the time on the Internet and application-level processing at both ends (and the jitter buffer—mustn't forget that).
G.723.1 is patented technology. The patent holders charge royalties for its use, making it impossible to use in open-source software. However, most telephony boards (including the hardware used by the OpenPhone Project) include this codec as part of the board price. Aside from other technical advantages of telephony interface boards over sound cards, the inclusion of licensed compression codecs on the card is perhaps the single best reason we need these cards. With the codec in hardware, we can write open-source software and not violate any licenses. I'd like to point out that the G.723.1 codec is very different from the G.723 codec (a much higher bandwidth codec in which the source code is widely available, but not often used due to high bandwidth requirements).
Rapidly gaining in popularity are the G.729 and G.729A codecs. These codecs use an 8KHz sampling rate, a 10ms audio frame and a 5ms lookahead buffer, for a total of 15ms processing latency. Because the frames are only 10ms long, this codec suffers less from packet loss—the software has less to recover, given the loss of any one packet. G.729A is a version of the codec that uses fewer DSP resources, making it easier to implement on lower-performance (cheaper) DSP chips. The audio quality these codecs can deliver is astounding. I recently experienced a LAN-based call using the G.729A codec and stood next to the person calling me. I could detect no perceptible delay between the direct path (his mouth to my ear) and the link across the network. If I had not known otherwise, I would have sworn it was a normal PSTN call. This codec is the future of Internet Telephony.
In-band signaling includes all the tones you normally hear in the course of a call, including ringing, busy-signal, fast-busy and the all-important dual-tone modulation frequency digits (DTMF). These tones are a normal expected part of using a telephone, but unfortunately, many do not compress well with the algorithms discussed above. One alternative, the one chosen by the OpenPhone project, is to pass these signals as a separate data type within the real-time audio stream. This has the advantage of ensuring that the signals are reproduced accurately at the other end of the connection regardless of the audio codec needed, and it reduces the bandwidth needed to convey the data.
This technique is described in an Internet Draft (see Resources). It basically specifies a new RTP data payload type; the application layer simply sends the data in the stream along with the normal audio. One very tricky aspect needing more work is the code required to remove the actual audio signals from the audio data stream prior to compression. Should these tones and signals get compressed, the codecs will distort these signals at the far end, reducing the chances of properly detecting the signal or tone. It's far better to filter these signals out prior to compression and to pass the signal across the network directly, allowing the other end to reproduce the signal with perfect accuracy.
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100,000,000 - 500,000,000 downloads
- Contacts suggestion
- Cool interface, fast and intuitive
- Shorten links
- Push notifications
- Multi-account supported
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"The official Twitter app for Android"
Reviewed by Emmanuel Lund / Aug 08, 2013
The official and the best mobile Twitter client
That's it, browse interest, find & follow friends, tweet, retweet, discover trends, send and receive direct messages with your followers/followed, share links and media... and many other features.
It should be said that Twitter official app has been significantly improved from its first version, becoming this way one of the most used Android apps. Regarding design, the layout has been enhanced to make it fast and simple to navigate through in your mobile device. It shows four tabs, firstly the timeline, then the @mentions, messages and lists tabs. Now, the @mentions tab also includes retweets and replies, which allows us to see at a glance which Tweets are engaging more interest. About performance, auto-complete for names is included in the latest version, as well as push notifications and multi-account. You can, add an modify your lists and your profile in all of them.
Moreover, it suggests you to follow those contacts from your phonebook that already have a Twitter profile and you still don't follow. From settings you will be able to configure the push notifications, the updates interval and the appearance. And that's it, Twitter official app does really well. The latest improvements in design and performance have permitted it to become the first choice for many users, even overtaking other multi-platform clients.
If you are an active user of other social networks besides Twitter, maybe you should download a multi-platform client app. But if you are mainly a Twitter user, this app is a must have.
See what your favorite celebs and athletes are chatting about. Be the first to hear breaking news. Catch a glimpse behind the scenes at concerts, sporting events, and more.
Then join the conversation: Tweet your own text, photos, and video to your followers — and maybe make a few fans along the way.
Get inspired. Be social. Even send private messages to friends. All in real time, as big (and little) things happen, from anywhere you happen to be.
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Great android app!
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When the v3.0.0 of this app???? Please upload soon :(
Good app
It doesn't let you go to your home or turn off the phone and it is difficult and tarible
Very easyly send msg
New features needed not only bug fixes on each n every update!! ..option to share pic directly to other app is required


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The Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego is located in the southern-most major metropolitan area of California, approximately 125 miles south of Los Angeles and 12 miles north of the Mexico border. MCRD San Diego's main mission is the initial training of enlisted male recruits living west of the Mississippi River. Over 21,000 recruits are trained each year. The Depot also is the home to the Marine Corps' Recruiter School and Western Recruiting Region's Drill Instructors School.
Recruit training for those enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, includes a thirteen week process during which the recruit becomes cut off from the civilian world and must adapt to a Marine Corps lifestyle. During training, drill instructors train recruits in a wide variety of subjects including weapons training, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, personal hygiene and cleanliness, close order drill, and Marine Corps history. The training emphasizes physical fitness, and recruits must attain a minimum standard of fitness to graduate by passing a Physical Fitness Test. Recruits must also meet minimum combat-oriented swimming qualifications, qualify in rifle marksmanship with the M16A2 service rifle, and pass a 54-hour simulated combat exercise known as "The Crucible".
In addition to recruit training, MCRD San Diego is also home to the Drill Instructor's School for the Western Recruiting Region and the Recruiter's School for the entire Marine Corps. The Coast Guard also has a presence on board MCRD, with the Pacific Area Tactical Law Enforcement Team and the Maritime Safety and Security Team. The base is also home to the MCRD San Diego Command Museum.
Official website of MCRD San Diego


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Jonny Ruckus
My recent comments
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- bought 2!
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Theres been a sense of violence on the booru lately.
Seemed fitting.
lol, you're right!
The hand
The hand is as big as her mouth, if you put your hand against your mouth I'm pretty sure you could tell right away that that's not at all correct :-[
Also it's backwards. Pretend to wield a gun right now to shoot, you would not see the back of her hand in that pose.
The characters I draw may have a bit of stylised warped proportion, but there are some things that are consistent like hands not being uber-tiny. I still like the way Lucy turned out!!!!
She's gonna pull the trigger with her pinky because that's how badass she is.
Why is the symbol for Gemini on her sash thing??
It's not just the hands that are tiny, it's her entire body. Her head is basically equivalent to the entire mass of the body shown.
There can be only one! Eye! -Demoman :I
That's actually a pretty long thumb.. seeing how it's her right hand.


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Favorite Size Cast Iron Skillet
I have a 10in and a 12in. The 10in is more comfortable, less heavy/unwieldy, and I find my small burners have trouble heating the 12in evenly to the edges. However, I use both of them ALL the time and sometimes appreciate the extra space in the 12". I use them for pancakes and french toast, frying up some potatoes, searing fish and meat. Pretty much everything that isn't braising and doesn't have acid/vinegar/tomato.
I have a 10" and a 12" and I use them both regularly but I prefer the 12". I use them for lots of things, but my favorite thing is searing sirloin steak in the 12" and cutting it up for steak salad. I also really like the cast iron pan I have that's divided into wedges for corn bread.
I'm going to weigh in with those who have more than one. I have a small skillet we use for eggs and small amounts and a larger one, I believe its called a chicken fryer, that i can use to brown food on the stovetop and finish in the oven. The big pans can be pretty hefty, though
I have quite a number of cast iron pieces but the ONE that lives on my cooktop - my baby, the workhorse - is a 12 inch skillet.
It is bigger than I need to cook a single steak but it functions like a grill would. Better too big than too small, huh?
I do pull out an 8" for some small jobs, deeper ones for frying, the old Dutch oven for braising, etc., but that 12" gets most of the work because it's right there.
I am the same as Making Sense. I use the 12" most of the time even though it is much bigger and heavier than I need. I also have a 10" and an 8", but the 12" has the best seasoning and hence gets used more. Of course it has the best seasoning because it is used the most......Self-fulfilling prophesy.
I have a 8" and 12" skillets and a very old 10" Griswold chicken fryer (with the drip points on the lid). I use the 12" most, though a 10" regular skillet would also handle most of what I use it for. The 8" is perfect for a small pan of cornbread or a frittata for two. I bought it just for those purposes.
I love my old chicken fryer, but don't use it all that much. It's good for braises and for frying chicken. :-)
12" would be best if you want one.
I have a 6, 10 and 12 and at 8 4" high pot and at 12 6" high pot. I love them all. I also have a old flat round skillet which is wonderful for eggs and bacon with a slight 1/2 edge. And I have gramas 5 qt (I think) pot. I cook that on my grill or outside fire a lot. Great for the oven and big soups and stews.


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Emergency management injects health into rehearsal
By ANGIE HAFLICH
By ANGIE HAFLICH
No one likes to get shots, but Saturday people received flu shots in the comfort of their own vehicles. The Finney County Health Department's drive-thru shot clinic assisted in putting patients at ease and also served as a practice run of sorts.
"We're doing this to be prepared in the event that there is ever a pandemic outbreak," Michael Paz-Torres, emergency management coordinator said. "What we're doing is rehearsing a plan we already have in place, should that ever occur."
The health department along with Finney County Emergency Management and Finney County EMS offered the clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the north parking lot of Garden City High School. Paz-Torres said it was the first time that a drive-thru clinic has been offered in the area.
"They go through their stations, pre-vaccination, vaccination and monitoring, if needed, so we try to make it as fluid and as easily accessible for the patient as possible," Tiffany Landa, registered nurse with the Finney County Health Department said. "We're trying to access as many people as we can, as many patients as we can, in the most efficient and timely fashion and as safely as possible, of course, so we have different checkpoints."
At the first checkpoint, or station, people were given a questionnaire to fill out. This gave nurses the opportunity to screen them for any health conditions prior to receiving their shots.
"If they've had a fever in the last 48 hours, if they're currently sick, they can't get the vaccination," Paz-Torres said.
Once past the first station, people were directed to one of two pods. One pod was set up to accommodate adults while the other was set up to vaccinate children.
"The population of 65 and over is getting a recommended high-dose vaccination," Landa said. "In the other pod, we have it set up so that nursing staff can give shots to children under the age of 12, so we have our pediatric doses here. Kids aged six to 35 months get a smaller dosage than adults do."
A nurse from Stevens County and a nurse from Kearny County volunteered to help the local health department administer the shots.
After receiving their shots, people who had never had a vaccination were sent to the final station to be observed for reactions to the shots.
Landa said the most severe reaction from a flu shot is for someone to go into anaphylactic shock.
"The most drastic is an anaphylactic reaction, which means the throat will start to close and the patient will feel like (he or she) can't breathe. Itchy, local reactions are also very common," he said.
She said if that were to occur, the nurses on hand would administer medication to help turn the symptoms around, but an ambulance also was on standby Saturday, in case further treatment was needed.
Landa said most vaccines take about two weeks to take full effect.
"So we recommend the early vaccination," she said.
The flu season generally runs mid-September through spring, but Landa said the health department sees the most flu cases in December and January. She said the vaccinations given Saturday will last throughout this flu season.
Shots were $25 for adults and $10 for children, and were free for senior citizens with Medicare.
County Commissioner Dave Jones got a vaccination, as did the EMS crew and some of the nurses from the health department. Paz-Torres said, in total, 70 people received vaccinations Saturday.
In terms of rehearsing the plan, he said a few kinks were discovered but for the most part the clinic went on without a hitch.
"We found that, overall, the Finney County Health Department and support agencies are prepared to respond to an event within the county," Paz-Torres said.
He said the organizations plan to conduct another drive-thru flu shot clinic in September of next year.


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Michigan's Outback Bowl unis are lacking in excitment.
- Written by The Nacireman on Tuesday, December 18 2012 and posted in SWRT
Bruce Feldman posted this image of Michigan's uniform for the 2013 Outback Bowl on his Twitter account. Now admittedly with Michigan designated at the "home team" in its New Years Day meeting with South Carolina, there's not much you can do with home whites. But this makes it look like adidas isn't even trying here.
(via @BFeldmanCBS)
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