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Thanks to Skyfall, the world has contracted James Bond fever again — and even former 007-er Sir Roger Moore isn't immune. "It's absolutely marvelous," says the British actor of the latest Bond adventure, which opens in the U.S. today. "It's the best Bond film without a doubt."
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Five reasons Shailene Woodley could make a great Tris in 'Divergent'
Well Divergent fans, the time for tests and simulations is over! Things are finally ramping up on the movie front with our first bit of casting news: we may have found our Tris! As we reported yesterday, actress Shailene Woodley (The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Descendants) is currently in talks to play the 16-year-old protagonist of Veronica Roth's popular YA trilogy. And, truth be told, I couldn't be more thrilled. Here are five reasons why I'm excited by this casting: READ FULL STORY
See the spooky trailer for 'Beautiful Redemption' by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl -- EXCLUSIVE
It's finale time! Not for the new TV season that's just getting underway, but for Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's best-selling southern gothic series, which began with Beautiful Creatures. The fourth and final book, Beautiful Redemption, isn't out until Oct. 23, but we have an atmospheric and moody trailer to whet your appetite for Ethan and Lena's last, bittersweet adventure — even though their movie adventure is just beginning.
Also, in the spirit of going out with a bang, the authors have told EW their favorite pop culture finales. Based on their tastes, let's just say Garcia and Stohl could totally work at EW if writing hugely popular book-to-film YA franchises doesn't work out. Who knew they were such geeks? (In the best possible way). READ FULL STORY
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer lands book deal
Brian Grazer, a.k.a. the Hollywood mega-producer with the crazy hair, is moving into the publishing business. The New York Post reports that Grazer has landed a six-figure deal with Simon & Schuster for a book that will chronicle Grazer's 27-year journey to meet a new and interesting person every day. Overall, the book will feature details of the producer's most intriguing encounters (though surely not one as amazing as this one) and "examine how curiosity and the endless search for knowledge drive creativity."
Grazer has produced a variety of films, including The Nutty Professor, The Da Vinci Code, Frost/Nixon,and Cowboys & Aliens. He has worked in the television industry as well, producing series such as Arrested Development and Friday Night Lights.
While we wait for Grazer's forthcoming book, I suggest you enjoy this Oscar ad featuring William Fichtner as Grazer. He's got the hair down to pat.
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Film critic Richard Crouse talks about the controversial film 'The Devils' in his book 'Raising Hell'
The story of 1971's The Devils is an unpleasant one. Based on Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudun and a play by John Whiting, the film details an episode of alleged demonic possessions and exorcisms — and the innocent priest who was executed for heresy — in 17th-century France. And that's just the plot line.
The real story of The Devils took place behind the camera, in the movie's production process and its reception among censors, critics, and audiences. The intensity of the shoot cost director Ken Russell his marriage and tested the nerves of its stars, British screen legends Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Later, after facing numerous cuts from the British Board of Film Censors for material deemed inappropriate (or, according to the Catholic Church, blasphemous), The Devils received an abysmal response from critics, was banned in several countries, and basically vanished for three decades.
In recent years, though, the movie's seen a bit of a resurgence. Fan sites are popping up and bootleg copies with fewer cuts have surfaced (Russell lamented that a fully uncensored version simply doesn't exist); critics, for their part, have begun to see the film in a different light, hailing it as a provocative masterpiece in league with A Clockwork Orange.
In light of this renaissance, Canadian film critic Richard Crouse has written a book about The Devils, tracing it from conceptualization to its disastrous wide release to today's renewed interest. With endorsements from a litany of notable directors — Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, Guillermo del Toro — and first-hand testimony from many of the principal players, Raising Hell offers a comprehensive look into the making of this brutally controversial film. In our conversation, Crouse (who has seen The Devils nearly 200 times) talked about Ken Russell's blistering visual style and his never-ending battle with Warner Brothers, and why this movie could only have been made in 1971. READ FULL STORY
Take a sneak peek at 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' graphic novel -- EXCLUSIVE
If the book, movie, and other movie weren't enough, DC Entertainment will release the graphic novel version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo on Nov. 13, written by crime author Denise Mina and illustrated by Andrea Mutti and Leonardo Manco. We already gave you a super-early preview back in April, and here are a few more to tide you over until the release. First up: Check out Lisbeth Salander's hacking skills in graphic novel form.
Watch the trailer for Arnold Schwarzenegger's memoir 'Total Recall' -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
No, we don't mean the 1990 movie. Or the 2012 remake. This Total Recall is Arnold Schwarzenegger's upcoming memoir — chronicling his rise from Austrian bodybuilder to action hero to governor of California — and we have an exclusive look!
After leaving the governor's mansion in January 2011, Schwarzenegger announced his plans to return to movie-making. (He did always say he'd be back.) He kicked things off nice and slow with a cameo in last month's The Expendables 2, but his real big-screen comeback starts with The Last Stand, out this January. Until then, however, Arnold fans have his new autobiography to tide them over. Check out the trailer, which is epic in the way only an Arnold Schwarzenegger book trailer could be: READ FULL STORY
See the R-rated trailer for Derek Haas' 'The Right Hand' -- EXCLUSIVE
Derek Haas is no stranger to R-ratings, having written for movies like Wanted and 3:10 to Yuma. But it's pretty rare for a book trailer to get an R-rating. Haas' new spy thriller The Right Hand (Nov. 13) comes with an effects-heavy clip featuring Medusa-headed, bare-breasted women.
The novel follows three CIA agents: one captured, one on a mission, and one stationed in the U.S. When undercover field agent Blake Nelson disappears while undercover in Russia, fellow agent Austin Clay is called in. The title refers to the secrecy of CIA dealings: sometimes the left hand can't know what the right hand is doing. As the CIA's right hand, Clay's search for Blake Nelson gets complicated once he finds a former nanny, Marika Csontos, who knows confidential Russian secrets. Austin must decide whether to follow orders or defy them in order to discover the corruption that could be taking over the U.S. government.
Check out the lightly NSFW trailer below: READ FULL STORY
David Sedaris is finally going Hollywood. Which of his essays do you want to see on screen?
How is it that none of David Sedaris' work has been adapted for the big screen yet? The prolific humorist has always been protective of his essays, especially ones in which his family plays a large role. (Perhaps Sedaris saw Running With Scissors as a cautionary tale). But back in 2010, Sedaris gave the go-ahead to writer-director Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Easier than Practice) to make a movie of "C.O.G.," a narrative piece from Sedaris' 1997 collection Naked, and it's now slated to start production this October, Indiewire reports. "C.O.G.," which stands for "Child of God," is based on an episode from Sedaris' 20s when he and a fanatical Christian attempted to sell stones cut into the shape of Oregon at a local fair.
I could see a number of Sedaris' essays being turned into comic, Wes Anderson-ish indies. Here are some others that I'd love to see in theaters: READ FULL STORY
'Star Wars: X-Wing Mercy Kill': An exclusive excerpt of Aaron Allston's long-awaited return to the starfighter series
As a diehard fan of the Star Wars Expanded Universe — the books, comics, and videogames that tell stories far beyond the events of George Lucas' cinematic saga — there was a line of novels published by Del Rey Books in the 1990s that was my absolute favorite: the X-Wing series. This magnificent nine-volume yarn set in the years immediately after Return of the Jedi focused on a quirky lineup of starfighter pilots fighting the good fight for the New Republic (formerly the Rebel Alliance) against the remnants of the Empire. It appealed to the deepest level of my Star Wars fandom. Why? Other than hotshot ace Wedge Antilles, these books didn't feature any of the characters or plotlines from the movies. The X-Wing books are Exhibit A for how that galaxy far, far away is such a rich repository of storytelling beyond what's on the big screen. Focusing just on the pilots, authors Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston imagined Star Wars as a razor-sharp military procedural: think Horatio Hornblower meets Top Gun.
Since the ninth and last X-Wing novel, Allston's Starfighters of Adumar, was published in 1999, the series' stature has only continued to grow. Finally, after a 13-year wait, Allston's tenth installment, X-Wing: Mercy Kill, is due in stores tomorrow. Check out an exclusive excerpt of Mercy Kill, which jumps ahead 30 years after the events of the last X-Wing novel, after the break. READ FULL STORY
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Forecasters at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center have reported that a solar flare that took place Thursday morning may create norhern lights on Saturday evening.
AccuWeather.com Astronomer Hunter Outten has revealed that the flare has been categorized a 6 to 8 on the KP index--a scale for measuring the intensity of a geomagnetic storm. What exactly does a score of 6 to 8 mean? Essentially, it means the effects of the radiation caused by the midlevel flare will have a greater reach.
Radiation from a flare like this can cause radio wave disruptions to electronic devices -- including: cell phones, GPS, and radios -- warns AccuWeather. In fact, according to NASA, Thursday's solar flare was strong enough to cause a radio blackout.
The flare effects are reportedly moving towards the Earth at 1,000 km per second with an estimated arrival time of 8 p.m. EDT. As such, the vibrant northern lights are expected to be seen in New York, New Jersey, the Dakotas, Oregon, Washington and Michigan. There is even a possibility of visibility of it reaching Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Kansas.
That said, there is no guarantee in the time or location of the northern lights. In terms of time, there is a seven hour deviation possibility. Should this occur, then the East Coast may not see the radiation hits and it would only be visible for the West.
"Solar flares create auroras when radiation from the sun reaches Earth and interacts with charged protons in our atmosphere," writes AccuWeather. "The effects are greater at the magnetic poles and weaken as they move south from the Arctic or north of the Antarctic. In the northern hemisphere the results are called the aurora borealis, with the aurora australis being its southern counterpart. The result is a spectacular display of light and color for areas with clear enough views."
If you're not in the geographic region to view the northern lights, or simply want a preview of what to expect, then head over to NPR to see video footage of the 2010 Aurora Borealis.


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August 26, 2014 — By Heath Wickline
Earlier this summer, Hewlett Foundation President Larry Kramer spoke at Seattle CityClub's Civic Trailblazers event about our efforts to address political polarization.
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August 22, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
On World Humanitarian Day this week, the world was dealing—or not quite dealing—with multiple humanitarian emergencies: Ebola in West Africa, refugee crises in Syria and Iraq, civil war in the Central African Republic and looming famine in South Sudan. USAID has more disaster response teams mobilized than at any time in its history, and the most "can do" groups, like Doctors without Borders, are sounding the alarm about the need for a larger and faster response.
This is the new normal. Many experts, anticipating a combination of climate disruption and political instability, expect that doing relief work on multiple fronts is something the world has to get used to—and has to learn to do better with the $5+ billion mobilized from public and private donors each year. There are more problems and they are more complex than in the past, and more money will be going to the immediate needs of displaced, hungry, sick, and traumatized people around the world.
Believe it or not, in this dark space there is a tiny glimmer of light, and it's not just the glow from the halos of the amazing people who dedicate their lives to helping others. It's the light from more systematic learning.
The humanitarian community—funders and implementers—is demonstrating an impressive appetite for using evidence from rigorous evaluations to provide more effective (and cost-effective) responses the next time around. A recent blog post by Oxfam's Ellie Ott describes this well: "If we fail to examine the evidence, then we fail in our duty to help communities and individuals get back on their feet, and can even potentially cause harm." She highlights the value of systematic reviews and new impact evaluations coming out of EvidenceAID, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, the Campbell Collaboration, and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation.
The more I think about it, the more obvious it is that evaluation can be a huge benefit to humanitarian activities, as long as it's focused on questions that matter. The outcomes are often more observable and measurable than most long-term development programs. More importantly, within global development, broadly defined, humanitarian aid is one of the most centralized and well-coordinated types of activities. Key features of humanitarian aid include chains of command with designated lead agencies, standard protocols, and a few dominant funders (including the U.S.)—all characteristics that make it reasonably likely that practices can change pretty quickly if a new approach is shown to be superior to the status quo.
One example illustrates the point: Unsure how best to treat the mental health problems stemming from rape in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Rescue Committee teamed up with Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington a couple of years ago to conduct a randomized evaluation of "cognitive processing therapy," a form of group therapy to treat anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The study was funded by the USAID and the World Bank. The researchers found that after six months, only 9 percent of women participating in group therapy were suffering from feelings of shame and anxiety, while 42 percent of women who had been offered an alternative form of care were still suffering. They'd found a dramatically better way to provide care for problems that affect almost half of the women in eastern Congo where rape has been used as a weapon. Findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine and widely disseminated in the field are helping to change practice both within IRC's work and more broadly.
We don't fund humanitarian aid efforts ourselves, but we do support many organizations working to build a better base of evidence about what works. And we applaud loudly when aid organizations with lots of priorities to balance, like USAID, the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development, have the wisdom to invest in serious evaluation. In a small way, we're working with others to make sure that the hardest kind of international work is also the most effective.
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August 22, 2014 — By Heath Wickline
Nice article from Josh Dulaney, writing for the Long Beach Press Telegram, on efforts underway in the California State University system to address the rising costs of textbooks, including those of MERLOT, a grantee of our Education Program:
Twenty campuses in the CSU system run their own Affordable Learning Solutions programs.
"For most classes, students do have to purchase a textbook one way or another," said Naomi Moy, who heads the initiative at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson. "Sometimes those textbooks are $200 or more. Most students can't afford that when they have four or five classes."
More than 200 of the 750 faculty members at CSUDH chose to use no-cost or low-cost alternatives to textbooks in 2012-13, according to CSU officials. At Cal Poly Pomona more than 140 chose no-cost or low-cost alternatives to textbooks.
"Those faculty have an alternative to the print textbook that would either be available in the library or a resource that is an Internet-based resource that may not be the traditional books," Moy said.
The CSU provides more than 45,000 free instructional materials through MERLOT — Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching — which is accessed by more than 500 universities and colleges.
Twenty campuses in the CSU system run their own Affordable Learning Solutions programs.
"For most classes, students do have to purchase a textbook one way or another," said Naomi Moy, who heads the initiative at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson. "Sometimes those textbooks are $200 or more. Most students can't afford that when they have four or five classes."
More than 200 of the 750 faculty members at CSUDH chose to use no-cost or low-cost alternatives to textbooks in 2012-13, according to CSU officials. At Cal Poly Pomona more than 140 chose no-cost or low-cost alternatives to textbooks.
"Those faculty have an alternative to the print textbook that would either be available in the library or a resource that is an Internet-based resource that may not be the traditional books," Moy said.
The CSU provides more than 45,000 free instructional materials through MERLOT — Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching — which is accessed by more than 500 universities and colleges.
Carla Rivera covered similar ground for the Los Angeles Times earlier this month.
August 21, 2014 — By Daniel Stid
In the run up to next week's annual American Political Science Association meeting in Washington, we have several conversations teed up with our academic partners about the current state of affairs and what, if anything, the Madison Initiative can do to help improve it. To prime the pump for these discussions, we have shared three big—and in our minds truly open—questions with colleagues who will be in attendance. I thought it would be a good idea to share these same questions with readers of this blog, in what I will confess is a shameless request for help in the form of extended comments and / or guest posts with your answers to them. So here goes:
First, our modern parties—well-sorted, ideologically coherent, and politically divergent—seem increasingly at odds with the core constitutional features of our system of government (separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism). Those features presume the need for compromise and appeared to be much better adapted to the pragmatic, catch-all parties of yore. Where do we go from here if the goal is to support government that can actually solve problems? We aren't presuming we can revert back to the golden age of the mid-20th Century (if in fact it was that golden). But what are the alternative models for how our system of government could function reasonably effectively? Are there any relevant lessons from comparative politics or American history that would suggest a path forward?
Second, we have also been struck by the growing body of literature that is reconceiving parties as networks anchored in, and animated by, elites and well-organized interests acting as "long coalitions" of "intense policy demanders." We appreciate that, insofar as it reflects the evolving reality, this conception of parties calls into question a number of assumptions, about the electorate's role in our political system, the accountability of parties, and the ability of the system to force recalcitrant partisans back to the center. What should we make of this alternative view of party politics? If it holds up, what does it imply for our goal of alleviating the impact of polarization?
Finally, are there any structural reforms to our electoral system and processes (e.g., primaries, redistricting, campaign finance, voter registration and election administration, etc.) that you believe should be a central focus of our grantmaking? We went into this work expecting that these types of reforms would be very important, but the more we sift the evidence about their potential impact and consider the challenges and opportunities for making them happen on a state-by-state basis, there don't appear to be any "slam dunks" in this area. Are we missing anything?
Thanks in advance for any guidance you have on one or more of these questions! Again, please feel free to comment below or propose a longer form guest blog in response.
August 21, 2014 — By Heath Wickline
Lucy Bernholz has a short (as in two white-board sketches short), fascinating blog post about a conversation she had recently with Sara Davis, the Hewlett Foundation's Director of Grants Management, on the past and future of philanthropic organizational structures.
August 21, 2014 — By Sara Davis
A version of this post appeared earlier this summer at GMNsight, the professional journal of the Grants Managers Network -Ed.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Or so our neighbors on Sand Hill Road here in the heart of Silicon Valley will tell you. They wear failure like a badge of honor, because it shows they were brave enough to take real risks. True to our roots, The Hewlett Foundation has long embraced failure, too. A perfect grantmaking record would be a sign that we're not taking the risks that are necessary to accomplish our goals. So, we welcome failure. Not for itself, but for what it can teach us about our work, and how we can do it better.
That kind of growth requires real candor, introspection, and honesty. And there's risk in that, too—exposing ourselves to criticism, pointing out our own errors in judgment, taking the chance that we might not like what we find. We don't often think of it this way, but honesty is a risky virtue, maybe the riskiest. It's one that can push us out to the fringe—of what's comfortable for us and acceptable for our organizations. Real honesty about our failures takes real bravery. But it's worth the risk.
In 2012 our Grants Management department was a brand new team—completely reorganized with me as the leader of a new staff working in newly defined roles within the Foundation. Our first priority was to develop trust and cooperation with the Foundation's program staff. We were an unknown quantity, so it was important to build credibility. We had to prove ourselves as valuable assets to help the Foundation accomplish its goals.
We were inspired to demonstrate to our colleagues how helpful we could be by solving a nagging problem—longstanding confusion over the precise due date for the Foundation's grantee reporting. The Foundation has two due dates for these reports: a defined due date and a grace period after that date (an additional 30 or 60 days). This grace period creates consistent confusion about the real due date, and when a report is truly late. Staff and grantees can (and do) point to either date as the "correct" one. Our team identified fixing this as a worthwhile and low-risk challenge, a relatively simple way we could bring more clarity and efficiency to the reporting process. Low hanging fruit, so to speak. We thought clarifying the reporting date question would be an easy project to lead and implement. We were wrong.
Our initial conversations with program staff quickly showed that there were strong opinions about what to do. Staff differed widely in their opinions on how to improve the process—including a sizable contingent who felt the process was fine just the way it was. We learned from staff with international portfolios that the grace period was important for foreign organizations to manage document translations, exchange rate accounting, and the timing required for expenditure responsibility reporting. We learned from program staff how the grace period had been used to maintain goodwill and collaboration in their relationships. Other staff were frustrated with the convoluted dichotomy of a "real" due date and a "sort of" due date. They had a hard time explaining it to their grantees and didn't fully understand it themselves. They wanted to eliminate the grace period and have just one clear and final due date.
Taken off guard by these unexpectedly strong opinions, my team had a hard decision to make. A project we thought would win us support turned out to put us right in the center of controversy and differing opinions. Ultimately, we left the reporting dates the way they were, because we decided the risk of confronting strong opinions wasn't worth the potential damage to the relationships we were just starting to form.
August 20, 2014 — By Heath Wickline
The Madison Initiative has had some productive back and forth with David Callahan of Inside Philanthropy this summer—here's his initial critique of the Initiative and our response. David subsequently talked with Madison Initiative Director Daniel Stid to discuss our strategy and how it's beginning to unfold. While we have agreed to disagree with David on some issues, his post from earlier this week, Inside the Madison Initiative: Here Is How Hewlett is Taking On Polarization, provides a helpful overview of the early efforts on the Madison Initiative. We especially appreciate his point that "There are no rigid milestones or metrics or predictive models here. Rather, Hewlett's plan is to engage in three years of exploratory funding of work that could point the way to more moderates getting elected, reduced gridlock in Congress, and more constructive public engagement in civic life." And while it's clear that we see the world a bit differently, we appreciate the discussion of our work that's come out of Callahan's blogging.
August 20, 2014 — By June Wang
Those spiral-bound volumes of memos in black-and-white 12 point Times Roman font stacked up on your desk. That iPad portal with tabs and bookmarks and links to more files than you care to count, let alone read.
Yes, I'm referring to board books – those triennial, quarterly, or (god help you) monthly volumes that we foundations produce for our boards.
Meant to instill confidence and help boards usefully engage in strategic issues, producing these books can become a heroic effort in its own right – and often the driving force behind a foundation's yearly cycle of deadlines. But are we really helping our boards understand the progress we've made, or the challenges we're facing, when we force them to wade through 300 pages of text? As one program officer put it, "We should be giving them USA Today, not Anna Karenina."
Last year our president decided it was time to for a change. Over a period of nine months, we redesigned and rolled out a new set of materials for our board.
What did we change?
We live and breathe our work each day, but our board – busy people with important day jobs – needed to be reminded each meeting of what we're trying to accomplish. So we created a series of upfront framing materials – a one-pager summarizing the goals of each program; a timeline of all our strategies and initiatives; a pie chart of our total budget by program area. Each program's materials also began with a summary of goals and budgets.
We also rearranged and streamlined some things. Traditionally, each program listed their grants in alphabetical order and there was a separate list of paragraphs describing the grants. Instead, we ordered the grants by strategies and then by size so board members could better recognize patterns and clusters of work. We also numbered each grant and put the paragraphs at the back, so board members could easily look up any particular grant they were interested in. We also removed the multi-paged tables in which we painstakingly detailed all the indicators we were tracking for each strategy of our work. Instead, we piloted an approach by which each program rated its progress via a Harvey ball icon (similar to the ones Consumer Reports uses for its ratings), and then wrote narrative text to explain their assessment.
Last, we made it easier on the eyes. Each program got its own consistent color used throughout the book. It added vibrancy and helped the board visually track our programs. We used fonts that were easier to read (Franklin Gothic and Georgia) and added more photos and charts.
So how'd it go?
You'll never get it right the first time. When our task force came up with a recommended design that the president approved, everything looked beautiful, perfect, and ready to go. But some things turned out to be harder to implement than we expected and we had to adjust the initial design. One year, later, we are still making adjustments. The Harvey balls mentioned above did show progress in a quickly digestible format, but they weren't nuanced enough for board or staff. So this year, we are experimenting with a multi-faceted rating system that includes long-term progress, contextual factors, and partnerships. While we think it's more informative, my hunch is we'll need to tweak it again next year.
Involve all parts of the foundation, but be clear about roles and decision rules. Within a foundation, the board book touches every part of the building. Take for example, the grant recommendations list—Finance checks the numbers, Grants Management and Legal verify compliance and structure, Programs take responsibility for the content, IT creates the software that generates the list, Communications reviews wording, and the President's Office manages the whole process. We assembled a cross-foundation task force for designing the book, but when the inevitable questions arose during implementation, it wasn't clear who was responsible for answering those questions or making those decisions. Was it still the design team? If not them, who? Was it the president? Was it those implementing the changes? Being clearer up front about roles and decision rules during the iterative implementation phase would have saved a lot of confusion.
Think holistically. When we started this process, we limited our scope to revising the November board book, our "big" book, in which budgets are approved and annual memos are written. In the process of re-designing the November book, we realized that the other books all referenced the November book. It didn't make sense to re-design one without considering the others. So we ultimately revised our scope to work on the other two so that the books were not disjointed. Luckily, our task force agreed to stay on for this additional work.
We didn't make our ultimate goal of cutting our board book in half, though we did get it down to 126 pages, from 194 the year before. Even so, I feel exactly the way one board member does: " I don't miss the old book at all."
Do you love your board book? Or have a good board book revision story? We'd love to hear about it in the comments below.
A new report from Latino Decisions and Hispanic Access Foundation (a grantee of our Environment Program) analyzed nine public opinion polls from the past three years to find strong, consistent support for environmental conservation among Latinos in the United States:
"This report provides definitive proof to what we've seen across the country – there is a significant, growing Latino movement that is advocating for greater environmental protections of our parks and public lands and is willing to support candidates that share that same value," said Maite Arce, president and CEO of Hispanic Access Foundation. "The Latino population is the fastest growing segment in the country — their engagement in conservation is critical and could have a far-reaching impact."
"This report provides definitive proof to what we've seen across the country – there is a significant, growing Latino movement that is advocating for greater environmental protections of our parks and public lands and is willing to support candidates that share that same value," said Maite Arce, president and CEO of Hispanic Access Foundation. "The Latino population is the fastest growing segment in the country — their engagement in conservation is critical and could have a far-reaching impact."
August 15, 2014 — By Ruth Levine
I almost always ask grantees what's missing from their ecosystem. Understandably, they look at me blankly. Then I explain: What could other organizations do that would make your work have greater impact? No one organization can do it all, so what else should we support to complement your efforts?
It turns out this is a hard question for most people to answer. Everyone recognizes that creating positive social change takes varied skills and strategies, but people are focused almost exclusively on their own organization. Mostly, they want to expand the scope and scale of their own activities. It's tough to endorse funding others when their own organizations never seem to have enough.
If you ask researchers what's needed, for example, you often get a list of the research projects they themselves would like to tackle with available household survey data, rather than a wish list of types of data that would permit them to answer core questions with more precision and fewer assumptions, if only others were funded to collect and share it. If you ask advocates what would make it more likely for their work to make a difference in real-world policy, you usually get ideas about larger and more elaborate campaigns that their own organizations could undertake, rather than suggestions about funding more relevant research or enhancing the media's ability to understand and communicate about their field. Organizations delivering health services or educating kids are more likely to highlight the need to cover larger populations instead of emphasizing the value of investments in new products, financing arrangements, quality certification systems, or the development of a stronger evidence base.
The ecosystem or field-level view is precisely what we try to have when we're thinking about grant making. We can make the case for supporting a given organization not only because of its intrinsic importance or brilliance, but because it plays a distinctive role: the impartial source of cutting-edge analysis, the edgy advocate, the trusted insider. Few things make us happier than seeing different organizations we support spontaneously working together toward a common end, because it's validation that we guessed right about the complementary nature of the work. And we are much, much more likely to make the right guesses—and contribute in the most high-impact ways—when we get advice from the trenches.
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Rasmussen said NATO appreciates that Romania remains "an important ally and a strong supporter of the North Atlantic Alliance."
During the meeting, the two officials reviewed the agenda of the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, scheduled for 20 and 21 May.
Diaconescu said Romania supports the objective of declaring the anti-missile shield defence capabilities as a priority during the works. He said that it is important for the Summit to "identify the projects aimed to contribute to the consolidation of the NATO military capabilities".
Romania is a supporter of "Smart Defence", NATOs new strategy in coping with the budget shortcomings during times of financial crisis.
Recently, Romania announced it would maintain its forces in Afghanistan in 2012 and in the first half of 2013. Currently, the country has 1,940 troops in Afghanistan.
The Chicago summit will focus on the Alliance's commitment to Aghanistan through transition and beyond, ensuring the Alliance has the capabilities it needs to defend its population and territory and to deal with the challenges of the 21st century, and strengthening NATO's unparallelled network of partners across the globe, reads a NATO communiqué.
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Ave Maria! This second to last part of our series by Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., on recent Vatican documents covers the document issued July 9th, two days after the Motu Proprio, by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith entitled "Responses to some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Document on the Church" i.e. Lumen Gentium. This document was issued by the Congregation to clarify some points of confusion since the close of the Second Vatican Council. Questions addressed in this talk are:Did the Second Vatican Council change the Catholic Doctrine on the Church?" What is the meaning of the word 'subsists' in the statement the "Church ... subsists in the Catholic Church" LG 8 Why the word subsist was used instead of 'is'. Why does the council use the word 'churches' for the separated Eastern Orthodox? Why does the Council not use the word Church for the Protestant communities? In answer to the first question Fr. Fessio quotes Pope Paul VI, who after the Council says, "What Christ willed, we also will. What was, still is. What the Church has taught down the centuries, we also teach." AMEN! Ave Maria!
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I Love Bass Music accused Disclosure of pulling a 'David Guetta' aka DJ miming (we had no idea DG did that!) over the weekend at the Capital FM Summertime Ball. Summertime Ball included superstars like Taylor Swift, PSY, Will.i.am, and Robbie Williams. The miming outcry occurred just hours after Disclosure's new album Settle topped the UK album charts.
The UK band stated that they were not intentionally trying to fool fans into thinking they were actually playing or mixing live. Disclosure stated, "Notice also that we didn't try and make it look like we were mixing. We left the f**king plug on the floor on purpose, didn't even plug phono leads into the master out, turned all the EQs fully down and the master out AND DIDN'T EVEN TAKE HEADPHONES for god sake!!"
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For those of you in the Bay Area, the Treasure Island Music Festival line up was just released and it's pretty stacked with all the indie-electronic your heart desires!
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Australian pop outfit Gold Fields make '80s new wave-influenced dance-pop. Formed in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in 2010, Gold Fields feature vocalist Mark Robert Fuller, guitarist Vin Andanar, keyboardist Rob Clifton, bassist Luke Peldys, and drummer Ryan D'Sylva. The band released a self-titled EP in 2012 on Astralwerks and their full length debut album 'Black Sun' will be coming February 26th in America and March 8th in Australia / New Zealand. Their live shows have been greatly talked about and where the band really shines and comes to life. Featuring two full drum kits and plenty of handheld percussion, the Gold Fields concert experience explodes with kinetic energy. Though the band's sound defies pigeonholing, and each song boasts a distinctive identity, a musical through-line unifies the album's eleven originals: by juxtaposing light and darkness, Gold Fields imbues even its most ebullient performances with melancholy—and vice-versa.
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News outlets are reporting that the administration will release details soon about the provision of the new health law that allows young adults to stay on their parents' insurance plan.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes that although many major insurers have announced that they will offer the provision earlier than required in the law, timing and cost of such coverage will vary. "The insurers said they would offer coverage right away or by June 1. It's possible, though, that some young people will be left off their parents' coverage until as late as Jan. 1, health experts say. The timing, they say, may depend on the parents' employer policies -- the type of plan, the contracts the employer has with insurers, and the employer's renewal or 'open enrollment' dates. ... Information is scarce because the law is new, and employers and insurers are still hammering out the details or are waiting for additional information from the federal government. Employers don't yet know how to charge for dependent coverage -- for example, whether to group young adults with other dependants -- and are unclear about other rules and definitions" (Colliver, 5/10).
The Christian Science Monitor reports that some companies have concerns about the cost of the provision, including Caterpillar, which considered "accepting government fines by dropping employee health care plans over provisions like the new dependent-coverage adjustment. That provision alone, Caterpillar says, could cost the company $20 million. If such decisions become widespread, it could increase the government's share of health care costs. Fortune magazine estimates that the government will pay $2,100 for every American whose insurance is dropped by employers as a result of the law. 'If 50 percent of people covered … get dumped,' the magazine recently wrote, 'federal health care costs will rise by $160 billion a year in 2016, in addition to the $93 billion in subsidies already forecast by the [Congressional Budget Office]'" (Jonsson, 5/8).
ABC News: "On Monday the administration will announce that they have asked insurance companies to not wait until September to comply with the rule that allows young adults without insurance to say on their parents'' plan until they're 26 years old, to benefit this year's graduating classes" (Miller, 5/8).
Sacramento Bee: "The new federal legislation targets a broad swath of young adults, who are the largest segment of the U.S. population going without health insurance. In a September report, the Employee Benefits Research Institute reported that 38 percent of men and 28 percent of women ages 21-24 were uninsured in 2008. About 21 percent of adults ages 18 to 30, who graduated from college in the past three years, have no health care insurance, according to a recent survey by eHealthInsurance.com." "In most cases, the expanded coverage applies to employer-provided and retiree health plans. It also applies to individuals who qualify for the self-employed health insurance deduction on their federal taxes" (Buck, 5/9).
Hartford Courant/The Associated Press: United Technologies Corp. says it will extend health care benefits to employees' unmarried dependent children up to age 26, four months before federal law requires it. ... United Technologies, which has a payroll of 26,000 employees in Connecticut, is offering the benefit at the same rates employees now pay for dependent children" (5/9).
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Hannibal's music has heavy bass but as he fears it will drown him out he says it is at his 'left hand' (he doesn't trust it.)
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I quickly realized that I wasn't in a booth and I had to let my listeners know what was happening. I want them to trust me.
Rappers always say that so I kind of wanted to say it. It just seemed like the right thing to say over this masterful Clams Casino track.
Tony Trimm is my friend from college. He's a DJ and producer. We've collaborated a lot over the past 10 years or so. He was visiting in NYC and his friend Domer let us record in his spot.
This track is from Trimm's upcoming mixtape Charcuterie and Champagne.
I'm not sure if he's in Law School or if he was studying for the LSATs. I saw a lot of books on the table. The guy looked really focused when we got there.
It can be very stressful to do work when someone is rapping loudly in the other room.
I was just talking about my day. I'm one of the most relatable rappers in the game because I talk about the stuff that everyone does.
When I say degrees I'm talking about the deodorant. I'm one of the top five dead or alive rappers named Hannibal.
What Hannibal is really saying is things are going to get so hot in his rap that even the MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE has to put on deodorant to keep from smelling funky from all the sweat that's about to come.
I just wanted to let people know exactly what I was doing and what I was about to do. I didn't want there to be any confusion. Some people may have thought that I was about to sing and this is my way of telling them, "No, I'm about to rap."
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RAVEN: Get dem bitches on the floor
I'm kind of a lazy person and I didn't feel like writing down my raps. If I did write and rewrite my raps, they would probably be better and I wouldn't have to gibber.
I really didn't have shoes on. Tony Trimm's friend said we couldn't wear shoes in the house. They had really nice hardwood floors. I understood.
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Marco Sanguinetti has just blown my mind. Unintentionally, of course. It is just that I have, for many years, avoided listening to albums which are heavy on the piano because it is not my favorite instrument. The last time I heard really good improvised piano playing was from the late, great Mel Davis with the People Band at Cafe Oto in London, sometime last March — and I thought nothing could touch that. When Marco approached me to review his fourth album with the unlikely title of 8, I agreed but did not expect it to affect me in any way. I was wrong.
8 is packed to the rafters with beautiful music, and has been put together by a passionate and ardent improviser yet it is not completely anarchic or improvised. Sanguinetti has been around for a while with three previous albums Improvisiones (2005), Franz Processes (2008), The Other (2011) and now 8, the last three being produced on the Acqua label.
He has played with Rodrigo Gomez, Leila Cherro (who also plays on 8), La Bomba de Tiempo and others. He has also been involved in many audio visual projects and, since 2008, has been part of the Mobile Cia as musical director with the dancer and choreographer Ines Armas and playwright Fagner Pavan. He is also involved in many projects involving dance, theater and music and has presented his music at international festivals.
He describes 8 as: "themes aimed at searching for a new sound with clear urban ideas." Listening to Marco Sanguinetti is like stepping through a portal into a world where strange rhythms, counterpoints and chords entwine to create mesmeric music I have ever heard.
The opening number "Cuchillo" starts with Marco playing his piano strings with his fingers and, he tells me, an empty whiskey glass. Fermin Merlo adds drums to create chunky, thunking, deeply mesmeric twanging and bangings before the piano proper comes in — first just a repeated G# note played over and over — before the tune develops and the rest of the musicians join to create a calmer section to meet the rhythm set by the piano. The tune develops to a climax with the entire band before peeling back to leave just the piano. It is genius.
"Ruedas" is a gorgeous bluesey number, the rhythm and melody dictated by the piano: I defy anyone listening to keep still. "La Verntana" ("The Window") incorporates dreamy vocals from Victoria Zotalis and "We Don't Know" is sonorous and slower with a complete change of mood. It is a structured composition, showing Marco's ability to switch style with consummate ease. The voice included is reminiscent of John Cage in an interview from 1992 for 22708 Types by Henning Lohner.
"Navigator" starts with that repeated note (a D this time) and works up to a devilish finish. "San Telmo" takes the listener to sounds recorded at an Indian bazaar, complete with wailing background vocals, bells and market calls. It is an almost completely improvised piece with wondrous cello playing by Leila Cherro. He flows up and down the range using languid glissando and works up to an exciting finale.
8 is simply a great album. Marco is definitely one to listen out for. He was recently voted the No. 1 composer by Argentinian jazz journalists, and this relesae came second in album of the year balloting, as well. He was also the third best musician in the same poll, so he is definitely on the up and up.
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Run time polymorphism is achieved by virtual function and inheritance whereas compile time polymorphism is achieved by functions and operator overloading.
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Call by value---> when we pass normal variable in method, it is call by value.
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Call by address---> call by reference and call by address both are same.
Call by value--->You are passing primitive value for your method argument.call by ref--->You are passing objectcall by address-->reference and address both are same.
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Visual Studio uses partial classes to separate auto-generated code from user-generated code. Example:Let us consider that visual studio creates a file called Form1.Designer.cs which holds the designer-related, auto-generated code. So in both Form1.cs and Form1.Designer.cs the Form1 class is declared as partial and the compiler joins them into one.
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Super is a keyword in Java because it is defined as keyword in java and super is not a keyword or variable which belongs to any class.
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Java is actually designed to work same as C++ but avoid complex features like operator overloading, friend functions, multiple inheritence.
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One of my favourite song lyrics of all time is from the R.E.M. song 'The Great Beyond'
It goes, I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs
Yes. I know that feeling. Trying to shift the impossible.
And not just trying to push it out the door – where it would maybe even bump down a step or two, but trying to push it up an incline where it doesn't want to go. Probably a narrow incline – how many staircases are wide enough for an elephant to fit comfortably? That elephant would become wedged almost immediately. Not an easy situation to recover.
Now I realise I am perhaps thinking too much about this song, but the thing is, I get it. So often in life I feel that I am pushing against things bigger than myself, but it doesn't stop me trying. The rest of the song goes like this:
'I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond
I want the hummingbirds, the dancing bears
Sweetest dreams of you
I Look into the stars
I Look into the moon'
I love those lyrics. That is what we do when we resist – we begin to bend spoons, we look beyond ourselves for the answers and the power, and we keep remembering what it is we want. why we are resisting.
I don't know what you need to resist that will contribute to a movement towards economic justice in our world, but I'm quite sure there is something. Consumerism is the obvious, but what about the way that identity becomes tangled up with branding and ownership of goods ? Am I only the trainers that I wear ? Who made them anyway, and what resistance should I show to those who seek to make children spend hours producing them so that I can buy them?
Resist the urge to give up. To stop caring. To decide that the elephant is frankly, too heavy and there is no way it will ever make it up those stairs. I'm about to take part in the Live Below the Line challenge, in joining with others to live on £1 per day for food for a five day period. Many people in the world do this without a choice, and by doing this exercise and giving the money my family save to Tearfund we are trying to identify with those people, and have some idea of what that form of poverty can feel like. I mentioned this on my twitter account and immediately got lambasted by a fellow tweeter for making choices that are denied to the poor. The tweeter criticised the campaign as a stunt and ineffectual. I had to think about her arguments and I wondered if I was doing the wrong thing in participating. I've decided that it is the right thing for us to do – I am resisting the voices telling me it is pointless. Even as I thought about writing this post I was questioning the point of it. What difference will it make ? Don't bother.
Writing this is a form of resistance of myself.
We have a big God . a God of justice. a God who can change the world. As far as I can tell he's opted to allow humans to be his agents of change.
so we better keep pushing the elephants.
And when we get them up the stairs, we'll begin bending spoons……
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8 Million Stories: The Java Jihad
THERE ARE TWO kinds of people in New York City: Coffee people and tea people. In a town that moves this quickly, we don't have time for tea.Tea is for the queen.Tea is for the privileged class. If you own a pair of King Charles Spaniels, then you probably have all the time in the world to choose, brew, pour, steep, wait, blow and sip your delicate little beverage. If not, you stick to joe.
See, the light is always green in New York.There is no stopping to smell the roses or that Darjeeling scent wafting from your cup.This is a coffee town—it could be the reason the city never sleeps.
I was running late to work the other day and quickly ducked into a café to order a simple cup of coffee.There was a woman ahead of me just placing her order. She wanted a tea. But wait—not just any tea. A tea with a capital T. She asked what kinds were available, and being a fancy East Village bohemian café, the barista made it a point to let her know they have dozens of brands from across the globe. Fantastic! I'm running late and the broad ahead of me is about to start taste-testing teas from Thailand. I just needed my caffeine in a simple Greco-themed cup. Instead I was facing major lateness because the woman ahead of me just asked from what region the tiny leaves were plucked.
Tea, besides being ridiculously cumbersome and inefficient, is scary.Yes.Tea scares the hell out of me. First off, tea is like 1,000 degrees warmer than any coffee beverage I have drank.Why? I don't know. Maybe tea wants to kill you. And contrary to what many people think, tea is stress inducing.Yes, it can cause complete anxiety.
Why would anyone try to calm down by filling a pot with water only to be completely startled by a horrible whistling sound about 10 minutes later? The kettle whistle is only second to nails on the chalkboard, and the tightrope walk doesn't end there.When you go to pour the tea out of the kettle, the scalding water hisses out of the spout like a cobra ready to strike.
And don't get me started on the tea bag. Leave it in, take it out. I don't need this decision-making so early in the morning.The worst is when the tea bag's paper tag sinks into the cup instead of dangling over the edge. It's like losing a kite, instead now you are fishing it out of molten lava with your fingers.
And if tea bags weren't bad enough, some of these people, these tea people, don't even use bags.The have special instruments that allow them to deal with loose tea leaves like it's a chemistry lab. And then they dispense of this stuff with another tea accessory.
The worst is the amount of tea that tea drinkers collect. I can't imagine what the coffee shop woman's galley kitchen looks like. If she sent all her tea to Manhattan Storage, I am sure she'd find another room in there for another cat.
Yes, I assumed she already had a cat because it's really the same thing. Cat people are tea people and dog people are coffee people. Unless your dog is less than 20 pounds, then you are a tea person. Because quite frankly, dogs that weigh less than 20-pounds are cats.
Dogs work. Cats don't. Dogs, like coffee people, are no nonsense.They want their cup and go. Cats lounge, like their owners.They don't care.They admire the work that dogs do, like sitting and fetching while waiting for their tea to steep.
Finally it's time to order my coffee. I'm told they're out of regular and only have Swiss Hazelnut Vanilla Crme. In the amount of time it took for the clerk to name that flavor I could have been at work. I glance over to the windowsill of the café. A large fluffy Persian is seated there staring at me, waiting for my decision. I decline the beverage and begin to leave when I notice both the tea woman and cat yawn simultaneously.


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Innovation often leads to challenges to established markets. Existing players in those established markets have three choices when faced with a disruptive new competitor or technological change: they can innovate themselves, they can retrench and avoid direct competition, or they can do what most incumbents do — get the government regulators to fight their battles for them.
Market incumbents do not like disruption. Uber, the ride-sharing service that has loosened the stranglehold of the taxi cartels, has been the object of government attacks and vigilante attacks both. Various regulatory agencies have tried with varying degrees of success to shut it down, London's taxi drivers are even as we speak promising "chaos" in response to the firm's success, French vigilantes have attacked its drivers, and in Seattle — blessed Seattle! — self-styled anarchists are targeting its cars and drivers. "Anarchists" for state-enforced cartel economics to increase private profit — somebody is unclear on the concept, it seems.
A great deal of the program of the old Left — from its full-on Marxist wing to its Proudhonian anarchist wing — is in the process of being accomplished by 21st-century capitalism. The means of production have been radically democratized, with multi-billion-dollar firms springing up out of garages and dorm rooms. The privileged position of dominant old-line financiers is being undermined rapidly by innovations such as Kickstarter, which blurs the line between the altruistic and the consumerist. The life expectancy of large corporations has collapsed, from about 75 years in the 1960s to 15 years and declining today. When Pierre-Joseph Proudhon called for "a war of labor against capital; a war of liberty against authority; a war of the producer against the non-producer; a war of equality against privilege," he certainly did not have in mind Uber or Outbox; his most famous motto was, after all, "Property is theft." (I think there is rather more to his idea of property than that simplistic formulation communicates, but this is not the place for that particular essay.) But the characteristics of those firms — relatively modest capital requirements, subverting various kinds of political authority in the form of licensure and regulation enacted in the interests of market incumbents, empowering efficient producers to compete with rent-seeking non-producers, and, above all, undermining the privileged place of state-sanctioned monopolies and cartels — looks a lot more like what the 19th-century revolutionaries had in mind than the USPS does. If what you mean by "capitalism" is the East India Company, then capitalism is not very attractive; if what you mean by "capitalism" is Kickstarter, then it is.
Not that a man transported from the 19th century to our own time would recognize that. If we could transport M. Proudhon or any of his contemporaries to the here and now, their eyes would not register any economic system with which they were familiar at the sight of the daily wonders we take for granted. They wouldn't see capitalism; they'd see magic. But the DMV, the USPS, the housing project, and the prison would all be familiar to their 19th-century eyes. Our choice is not really between neat ideological verities with their roots in Adam Smith or Karl Marx, but between the DMV and the Apple store. Each model has its downsides, to be sure, but it does not seem like a terribly difficult choice to me.