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Simple Lebanese Pickles and Preserves
I know that everyone seems to be all about the sterilized canning, and I've done a good bit of that in the past. But seems I can't get enough of the Lebanese recipes for quick pickles and preserves that hold …
Posted in Stories and Recipes Tagged apricot preserves, apricots, beets, lifft, Lift, pickled turnips, pickles, preserves, turnips 9 Comments
Apple butter, slow cooked
I'm making a lot of an incredibly good apple butter these days, and it all started with the oatmeal. And habits. Which I haven't always been great at forming. It's taken some time and thought to recognize this about myself, …
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Lebanese quick pickles, and my mouneh
Something serious happened recently up north: the season changed. It's not just the temperature, the coolness in the air, though that plays a part. There is a change in the color of the light, a movement from yellow to white. …
Posted in Stories and Recipes Tagged carrots, cauliflower, cucumber, dill, Garlic, green beans, Mouneh, Mymoune, peppers, pickles, preserves 15 Comments
Favorite Things: Weck Jars
I first saw these things of great beauty and elegance at the Heath ceramics stand in the Ferry Market building in San Franscisco. There is no denying that exceptional style, especially when it comes to food, often originates in Northern …
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Apricot Preserves, and some time to let your mind wander
To make apricot preserves, the method and ingredients are very simple: sugar, water, lemon juice, and apricots that get pitted just by splitting them open with your hands. But the process does require a heaping portion of…you. An hour's worth …
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Suffering and the Biblical Story
- Thursday, June 03, 2010
[Dr. Peterson is professor of systematic theology at Covenant Theological Seminary. This article is related to the weekend mini-course that Dr. Peterson presented through the Richmond Study Center on suffering and the resurrection May 23-25, 2010. It is taken from his book suffering and the goodness of god, which Dr. Peterson co-edited with Chris Morgan, professor of theology and associate dean of the School of Christian Ministries at California Baptist University.]
We are all acquainted with suffering. For us to get a handle on suffering we must view it from Scripture's perspective and not merely from our own. That means that we must consider it in light of the biblical story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation.
Understanding Genesis's teaching about God's creation sheds light on our understanding of suffering in two important and related ways. First, we discover that suffering is not something created or authored by God. Rather, God created a good universe and good human beings. Second, we learn that there was a time when there was no suffering. Suffering is not original; it has not always existed.
Suffering is not created by God.
Genesis 1:1 shows the Creator to be transcendent, sovereign, personal, immanent, and good. God's goodness is displayed in his turning the chaos into something good—the heavens and the earth. His goodness is even more clearly reflected in the goodness of his creation, evidenced by the steady refrain, "And God saw that it was good" (1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25), a goodness accentuated on the sixth day: "Behold, it was very good" (1:31). God's generous provisions of light, land, vegetation, and animals are blessings given for man's benefit, as are the abilities to know God, work, marry, and procreate. God blesses man with the Sabbath, places him in the delightful garden of Eden, gives him a helper, and establishes only one prohibition, given not to squelch man but to promote his welfare.
The conclusion is clear: God is good and did not create suffering or evil. He created a good world for the good of his creatures. Humans too were created good and blessed beyond measure, being made in God's image, with an unhindered relationship with God, and with freedom. As a result, casting blame for suffering on the good and generous God is unbiblical and unfounded.
Suffering has not always existed.
A related but distinct principle we learn from the biblical account of creation is that suffering has not always existed. From a theological standpoint, God's creation of the universe out of nothing shows that he alone is independent, absolute, and eternal. Everything else has been created. Further, the inherent goodness of creation leaves no room for a fundamental dualism between spirit and matter. Contrary to some philosophical and religious traditions, the Bible teaches that matter is a part of God's creation and is good.
From a historical standpoint, the story of creation unmistakably recounts that there was a time when there was no suffering. Suffering is not original. Indeed, the very fact that our world now includes suffering testifies that it is not now the way it was, and therefore, as Cornelius Plantinga helpfully states, "it is not the way it is supposed to be."1
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Giovanni Peri of UC Davis speaks at Berkeley, November 2013.
While immigration is a potential source of prosperity for the United States, concerns about its impact on American workers and taxpayers make it a contentious issue. Prof. Peri will analyze the effects of both immigration and the proposed reform on economic growth, productivity, labor markets, and social welfare.
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I may be showing my age here, this Norman Rockwell piece is the one that I think of when conjuring up images of Thanksgiving. I wish all my readers a healthy and Happy Thanksgiving.
I may be showing my age here, this Norman Rockwell piece is the one that I think of when conjuring up images of Thanksgiving. I wish all my readers a healthy and Happy Thanksgiving.
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The cartoon says it all, Black Friday is creeping right into Thanksgiving, and ruining the holiday for many who are forced to work on this day we should all be home.
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A Guest Post From Crystal -
It's no surprise that every business wants to bring in more sales – that is kind of the whole idea of running a company. However, few outlets, both large and small, utilize everything at their disposal to bring in these sales. Instead, the same old tactics and services get the nod and customers just don't respond to boring advances. To counter this malaise, try to break the mold and reach out in different ways. Once the sales start rolling in, you won't be disappointed with the time and effort you put in to try something new.
Connecting with Facebook and Twitter
At the heart of eCommerce is the social media explosion. Sure, your website is a big part of the picture, but if you can't connect with your customers in a meaningful way, you can kiss their expendable income goodbye. To reel them in, try building a Facebook and/or Twitter account. With these tools at your disposal, you can offer content and information that draws in shoppers from across the Internet. An added bonus is that every time someone likes, retweets, or saves your posts in "favorites", their social network is exposed to your product, creating a self-propagating campaign.
Build a Better In-store Experience
For the more traditional shoppers, the in-store experience still counts for quite a bit. To cater to these customers, consider adding in new point of sale machines and other comforts to the store. These machines, in conjunction with computer terminals that can access the online store, create a full-service approach that covers every need imaginable for those who visit your store. On your side of the equation, you can gather more information on the shopping habits and trends in the consumer base. But more on that later.
Offer Online Discounts
Getting back to the eCommerce initiative, spice things up with coupons and discounts that are only available to shoppers who make purchases on your official website. This action not only helps pump up sales, but also spurs overall sales numbers to higher levels. Consumers love a good deal, and if you give it to them, you can reap the rewards via enhanced volume over higher margins on individual sales. If you need to give your website a jolt after its initial launch, this approach can pump in traffic and get your page on the map.
Up Your Analytics
All of these tools, from pushing social media to building a better in-store experience, lead to a better, more viable business. However, this final result can be rather elusive if you don't know how to interpret changes and trends that occur through these channels. To avert this issue, look into the analytics of the business process. This means reading into website and social media traffic, as well as pinpointing trends in the greater Internet realm. By knowing what shoppers like, before the fad or trend ends, you can match your products and services to these changes and maximize your profits. Combining these two factors is a clear and simple recipe for business success.
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A guest post today -
I was moving to Chicago last winter, and neither my girlfriend nor I had a car. I did have a motorcycle, but it presented a problem. You see, we were coming from sunny Southern California, and were not yet prepared for weather prone Chicago.
Upon arrival, we realized our storage situation wasn't going to work. Our apartment had street parking only, and the space we rented was smaller when we had our stuff in it than it was when we measured the first time. Self-storage became a viable option for a few reasons:
· It kept my bike out of the cold
· It gave us some extra space to work with
· It eased our transition, giving us less to unload
Here are some more reasons self-storage is something you should look into.
Downsizing a Home
If you're moving to try and reduce the space you consume, storage can provide some solutions that are cost effective. Remember that you can purchase onsite storage units to give you a small garage space that you can use in your back yard.
If you're downsizing to bring another child into the family, you can clear an entire bedroom into a storage container, retrieving or selling those items as needed. Hopefully, your downsizing is temporary, in which case storage will hold the things your new home cannot until you can afford a bigger space to store your possessions.
Creating More Space
Extra storage creates space in busy cities, where square footage is a commodity. Storage can pay for itself if you sell the items you are storing in a garage sale. Try holding items you no longer use in storage while you wait to sell them on Craigslist or eBay. Baseball cards, comics, and collectibles all accumulate value as they age. Storage long-term may be worth the investment if you can sell the items at a profit while clearing closet space for the things you use daily.
Storing Old Furniture
There is no reason to keep two desks in a one bedroom apartment. Furniture like that can find a new home in your storage unit while you update your décor bit by bit. Remember that you can store similarly sized items layered near each other to conserve space. You can also store antiques, and prep them for sale too.
Storage units are good places to keep your items if you are considering a move. You can pack delicate dinnerware like fine china or wine glasses, and store them until you find the new place. This helps you keep minimal supplies on hand, useful if you need to show your current home for sale, and it makes the initial move easier. Take advantage of first month rent deals and time your move accordingly.
Moving the Kids
Moving the kids to college is another great reason to grab a storage unit. Your kids won't want to haul their bed, their dresser and all of their other things with them to school. Moving their things to a storage unit also lets you rent the space out to someone else in need.
Storing Bulky Items
Storage units are useful for things you can't practically store in your home for everyday use. Musicians can keep their instruments and sound mixing equipment in a storage unit, taking them out as necessary, or just using the space to rehearse. They also make for good places to keep records that build up over time, like tax forms, receipts and other paperwork. If you want to save money, carefully measure the size of the items you plan to store, staging them in a garage if possible, to rent only the space you need.
A storage unit can be one of many inexpensive ways to store your valuables. Storage units utilize coded locks for entry, and the public is not freely allowed. Also ask if your unit has cameras recording entries and exits.
Start a Business
Outdoor storage units may have a policy that permits you to start a small furniture refinishing shop out of your unit. You'll need to take precautions to protect the unit, like draping plastic around the walls and on the floor, but you can turn a profit with your unit if the terms allow.
Perks to Storage
Membership may come with perks, like discounts for a moving truck or boxes. These small costs help cut down on the price tag for your next move.
Storage is a small addition to your budget that can bring some big benefits to you, depending on how you choose to use the space.
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I admit it. I don't understand politics and government as well as I wish I did. No secret, the government is shut down. So why is congress still getting a pay check?
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New Zealand author Nalini Singh returns to the world of the Psy-Changelings in her new novel, Shield of Winter. A highly gifted teleporter, Vasic was removed from his family as a 4-year-old and trained to become an Arrow, an elite warrior class within the Psy race. After a lifetime spent as an assassin, his "soul is drenched in blood."
This month's best new romances feature tasty recipes, small town secrets and lovers on the run.
We caught up with author Kate Angell and chatted about psychic readings, what she does in her spare time and more in a 7 questions interview.
Best-selling and RITA Award-nominated author Christie Ridgway (who also happens to be our romance columnist!) kicks off her new Cabin Fever series with the delightful Take My Breath Away.
There's a place for everything in this world—New York for theater, Paris for romance, even Roswell for alien sightings. And in Beth Kendrick's charming new novel, Cure for the Common Breakup, there's a perfect place for the brokenhearted—fictional Black Dog Bay, Delaware.
Flight attendant Summer Benson needs somewhere to nurse her aching heart, not to mention her battered ego. On the heels of a plane crash that left her physically scarred, it's her emotional baggage that has apparently cost her one very attractive boyfriend, who dumps instead of proposes to her. When Summer learns about Black Dog Bay, she checks herself out of the hospital and into the Better Off Bed-and-Breakfast, where cell phones are confiscated by the inn's owner—to prevent desperate late-night calls to the ex—and where bonfires to burn relationship relics are scheduled on a regular basis.
Spring has arrived and, with it, wedding season. Brimming with adventure, humor, danger, surprises, mystery and, of course, love, these four new nuptial-themed romance novels will surely send you swooning.
This month's best new romances feature murderers, ladies in disguise and plenty of sparks.
In The Collector—the latest from powerhouse author Nora Roberts—YA writer and professional house-sitter Lila Emerson enjoys the rootless quality of her life since it allows her to explore different places and observe different people. As a matter of fact, people-watching is her hobby of sorts. One night, as Lila settles in à la Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's Rear Window to watch the activity in a nearby New York City high-rise, she witnesses an assault that ends with a woman falling from her apartment to her death. Lila's emergency call brings the police, but there are no clear-cut leads, since she didn't see the perpetrator.
This month's best new romances include the second installment in Nora Roberts' Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, an unexpected love with a former Royal Navy diver, plus the newest from Eloisa James.
Robyn Carr and Kristan Higgins have a strong and supportive friendship, a match made during the at-first-sight moment their eyes met across a crowded convention-center hallway.
Carr reminisces, "I saw Kristan and [fellow author] Deanna Raybourn standing next to each other, two beautiful women with all these RITA award [ribbons] on their badges, and I said, 'Jesus, I can't buy one of those!' Then Kristan said, 'Poor Robyn!' and that was it."


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Boobs: I've been a fan of spanx for a very long time. In addition to boobs, I also have a little extra in the tummy area. So spanx are pretty much a must for anything tight fitting. They do a wonderful job sucking in my fat! I feel more comfortable and confident! Some people find them a little painful, but you just get used them after a while. Of course, if a guy sees them it's really embarrassing, but I don't think they actually care that much. Bridget Jones pretty much says it best "If I wear spanx I'll have a much better chance of getting to point x, but point x would be better if I just wear a lacy thong". (Hugh Grant doesn't care when he sees them, by the way).
Legs: Besides being a little flat chested, I also have a tummy. Now, it wouldn't really be considered a tummy to a lot of people, but when you have really lanky limbs and a small chest, having a pudgy belly is hilariously weird looking. Of course, I've come to embrace my belly and love its pudge, however there is always a tight dress I feel a little too strangely proportioned to wear. This is when spanx come in handy for me and make me feel super confident. They tuck in my belly, accentuate my waist, and make my ass look awesome!
Welcome to Boobs/No Boobs! This blog is about two different body types, and how to dress them. We are two best friends who have completely opposite appearances and body shapes. Specifically, an hour glass figure (boobs) and a waif (no boobs). Both are equally beautiful, and need equal attention! We post about fashion items from both perspectives.


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Rise and shine, Memphis. It's going to be a beautiful day.
Saturday will be sunny with a high near 80, according to the National Weather Service.
Mostly clear Saturday night, with a low around 59.
More sunshine on Sunday and warmer, with a high near 86.
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The Cross Sets us Free
Sermon shared by David Scudder
January 2010
Summary: Why are we taking four weeks to study the Cross of Christ? Have you ever used Google Maps? You can see the map using a street view, satellite view or the regular map with lines and street names. All three are of the same area, but it gets confusing to loo
Series: The Cross of Christ
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:17-1:19 (add scripture)
Tags: Salvation, Forgiveness In Jesus, Redemption, Ransom (add tag)
Denomination: Independent/Bible
Audience: General adults
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David Scudder
Bethel Chapel Church of Philadelphia
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Purpose: To explain the impact the Cross has on our lives.
Aim: I want the listener to see himself as a possession of Jesus Christ.
INTRODUCTION: Why are we taking four weeks to study the Cross of Christ?
Have you ever used Google Maps? You can see the map using a street view, satellite view or the regular map with lines and street names. All three are of the same area, but it gets confusing to look at all three at once.
"It is the same with the words used to describe the death of Jesus Christ. Each word, like [propitiation, redemption], reconciliation, or justification, is accurate and correct, but each word does not give the complete picture. To see the whole we need to place one 'layer' one top of the other, but that is sometimes confusing—we cannot see the trees for the whole! So we separate out each splendid concept and discover that the whole is more than the sum of its parts." [1]
I. What is Redemption?
REDEMPTION ἀπολύτρωσις apolutrōsis; from ἀπολυτρόω apolutroō ( to release on payment of ransom); a release effected by payment of ransom:—redemption (9), release (1). [2]
So, there are two actions that make up redemption.
A. A payment—a ransom
"For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures," (1 Corinthians 15:3).
B. A release—freedom
"So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8:36).
Peter combines these two ideas: "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; " (1 Peter 3:18).
When a person is kidnapped it is often so that money can be extorted. The criminals are looking for a payment in order to grant freedom.
A story told by Paul Lee Tan illustrates the meaning of redemption:
"When A. J. Gordon was pastor of a church in Boston, he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered nervously.
Gordon inquired,'Son, where did you get those birds?'
The boy replied, 'I trapped them out in the field.'
'What are you going to do with them?'
'I'm going to play with them, and then I guess I'll just feed them to an old cat we have at home.'
Gordon offered to buy them, and the lad exclaimed, 'Mister, you don't want them, they're just little old wild birds and can't sing very well.'
Gordon replied, 'I'll give you $2 for the cage and the birds.'
'Okay, it's a deal, but you're making a bad bargain.'
The exchange was made and the boy went away whistling, happy with his shiny coins. Gordon walked around to the back of the church property, opened the door of the small wire coop, and let the struggling creatures soar into the blue.
The next Sunday he took the empty cage into the pulpit and used it to illustrate his sermon about Christ's coming to seek and to save the lost—paying for them with His own precious blood.
'That boy told me
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Amazon Kindle Fire
"You don't expect to get the Android market on an iPad - don't expect it on the Fire."
No, but there again, you would not see a phrase like this on the Apple site on the page selling the iPad....
"Additional email apps are available in our Amazon Appstore for Android. "
This IS on Amazons page. They ARE absolutely playing on the fact that is does run Android apps. As such, the other poster make a perfectly valid point. They should not mentions Android at all, if they do want users to perceive this as an Android capable device. If they mentions Android they it is only fair to compare it's support of android apps to other Android devices.
He is not a Muppet.. ok Gonza? :)
Facebook now has 1,000 times the referrals of Google+
"While Google+ is still relatively news[sic] to the social networking game, its data is no longer rising, but falling away."
Kindle Fire: An open letter to Jeff Bezos
Put Andoid ICS on it
I wouldn't worry for too long.
Take the nice cheap hardware, thanks Amazon. Then look out for the imminent release of Android ICS 4.0 from the ROM cooking boys. You can dump all the amazon spyPad software they have put on it. You'll have all your google apps and still have access to all the other stuff on your new hardware.
That's what I and many more start people will be doing too :)
Ice Cream Sandwich phone a no-show on Vodafone
I think you will find that it is more to do with them not having any stock!!
Upcoming EU data law will make Europe tricky for Facebook
Fuss over nothing
What ever the new rules are, facebook will just add a splash screen next time the user logs in asking them to accept them. What ever agreement facebook is required to get. 99% of users will just tick the box and business as usual.
It's sad and I won't be one, as I dont' use fb. But tru non the less. most people are stupid :)
The Great Smartphone OS Shoot-out
Android Email!
Very poor review of the Android email. You should have been using the gmail client and doing the account consolidation with gmail backend. This work exceptionally well and is far superior to the other options.
Your android score reflects more your ability to work the phone, rather than android email.
For next time maybe you should get someone who knows how to use it to actually do it.
Samsung Android 4.0 smartphone priced for Blighty
just plain silly
I was all set to get one until I saw the price.
When it was announced I thought, well, I was expecting a bit more. Other than the screen the hardware is pretty tame. But I though I'll still get it as it's a nice upgrade from my trusty old Nexus 1.
But then this price! crazy!
They have priced it as if they delivered the mega phone people were expecting; 1.5mhz, better GPU, 8mp camera, card slot. This only had 16GB in the uk too, my N1 had more than that on SD.
I hope clove only got a dozen or so, as that is all they should sell.
Now that 4.0 is back to being AOSP again, I think I'll just wait until we see a customer ROM come out for the S2 or maybe something else and use that.
Will be pretty much all the GN is other than the screen, might be better in some areas too and be way cheaper.
stupid, stupid, stupid.
Samsung, Google whip out Android 4.0 Nexus
What will it be phone only sim free?
Is there any other route to purchase other than through a network? I don't need a new contract, just the phone at a decent price!
Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5
11. Nexus Prime
Actually. That's No.1 ;)
Amazon's Silk looks creepily Phorm-ulaic
The Fire is Renamed
The SpyPad
iPhone users richer, brainier, more tasteful than Android-ers
What a joke!
You looked at hunch.com's home page? Say's it all!
All the survey really says is that the kind of dicks that have iphones use that site :)
Dragon-owned Expansys bemoans weak UK gadget lust
Not one good thing to say?
The entire thread to here and not one good thing to say about Expansys!
That really says it all.
I hope the next person on dragons den has a print out of this in their pocket next time that lanky twat gives them some grief. ;)
Google revives TV buzz with SageTV buy
Been using it for years
Been using Sagetv for years and it is great. Got one server in garage with all my sat and terrestrial feeds going in. Got all my live tv, music and dvd/br rips on it. all tv's in house either have a pc with client on or dedicated sagetv media box . watch live or recorded stuff anywhere any time in full hd.. brilliant.
I hope that google bring two things;
1/ full android client for it -surely!!!
2/ full HD integration to think like love film.
Twin-screen LG smartphone spied
The 'BAD' in bad boy stands out!
This really does look crap. Why bother?
As for most androids looking the same... I think this just a result of the core android product being so good to start with. The base android and feature set is so strong that is does not leave a huge amount of scope to add anything of real substance to the pot for manufactures. I can't see this as a fault of android, it is more of a indicator as to how well it has addressed its market.
Skyhook routes around Google to MapQuest
Opt in or not?
Google maps data collection is opt-in, is it not? One of the prompts when you install the phone.
Apple's is not opt-in and is unauthorised by the user. I'l love to see them have to wipe their hole db as it was gathered without the users permission.
Google intros video chat on Android
You can video chat to all the other people currently using video chat at their pc, not just another 3g phone. It was stated in the article.
Google 'clamps down' on world of Android partners
Open Source
* Linux == Linus Torvalds (if you don't believe me, just try publishing crap to the kernel).
* Apache == Apache Foundation, (via registered Comitter List)
* GNU == Free Software Foundation, (Richard Stallman et al.)
* OpenOffice == Oracle, (nee SUN)
* LibreOffice == The Document Foundation, (via the Steetring Committee)
I don't think any of those are holding the source closed until they have given it to other commercial partners are they? The source is available for all of them, no? They are all pretty good examples of real "open" source to me.
Wrtiing is on the wall
"No need to suggest forking Android, AOSP already is that 'fork'"
No it's not. While Google were trying to play the open source game they were keeping this pretty fresh and up to date. This was good and devs and hacker were always working on current code.
Now Google are saying they are "not releasing source for the foreseeable future". This it then a different game altogether. AOSP will still be Google, it will be updated to Honeycomb at some point but by then devices will have been out for a long time and people will be left working building on old code base. While AOSP is always way behind production devices and versions given to preferred partners, AOSP becomes very much a send class product. always kept behind google partners and 2nd class. This is NOT how it has been to date.
That is why a true branch would be better, as it could grow independent of Google and produce an open source version that could compete with the google offering and judging my some of the work on XDA, even better!
You can kiss good buy to great roms being better than those on production manufactures devices it google are going to start keeping the base source back.
True Open Source Branch
With all the recent events, I would like to see developers take the current open source code and create a "true" open source branch from that. One not controlled by Google.
A lot of the custom android ROM floating around now are much better than the Google stock roms or any from any manufacturer. Google holding back source except for it's key partners really holds back android.
If they didn't really want to do open source, they should have done it all themselves including the kernel and vm, instead of taking all the code that was developed in the spirit of true open source and then operating as closed source.
come on! BRANCH!!!!
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July 16, 2014 — By Dana Schmidt
Louise Bay Waters is the Superintendent of Leadership Public Schools, a network of four charter high schools serving predominately low income students in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is committed to ensuring that her graduates are fully prepared for college. Given the academic level of entering ninth graders, in order to attain this goal she and her faculty face the formidable task of helping students catch up on two years of academic content for every one year they spend in Leadership Public Schools. They have been impressively successful at their task: 97% of graduates have been accepted to college.
To facilitate these remarkable learning gains, Louise and her staff built a deep understanding of the needs of their students and committed to adapting their curriculum to meet those needs. They realized that the vocabulary in traditional textbooks was too advanced for their students, many of whom were English language learners. In searching for an alternative, Louise discovered that CK-12 provided high quality textbooks under an open license, which meant that anyone could download them for free and modify them without violating copyright law. So that's exactly what Louise and her staff did. They created their own college access readers that had embedded vocabulary support to help their students develop reading comprehension while learning grade-level content. CK-12's open license saved Louise and her team from starting from scratch while also enabling them to create unique material that met their needs.
Since 2001 the Hewlett Foundation's Education Program has supported a movement towards more openly licensed materials, also known as Open Educational Resources (or simply "OER"). Over the years, the Foundation has supported organizations to develop high quality openly licensed education content like MIT's OpenCourseWare, helped to develop the standards that enable OER like Creative Commons' open licenses, and promoted the broader development and use of OER worldwide through organizations like UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning. Through this stream of grantmaking we have seen that open licenses can dramatically increase access to valuable knowledge. As just one example, an open license on the PhET science simulations created at the University of Colorado has allowed others to translate them into more than 40 languages and reach thousands of students around the world. We have also seen that the ability to adapt open content means it can easily be reinvented for new contexts, as exemplified by the experience at Leadership Public Schools.
Until recently, our work to promote open licenses was restricted to our OER grantmaking. But the Foundation supports organizations producing valuable knowledge across many domains—knowledge that could have broader and deeper impact if it, too, were openly licensed. That is why the Education Program has started encouraging all of its grantees to license work created with funding from the Hewlett Foundation under the most recent version of the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0). Although this is already common practice among our OER grantees, it is new to many of our grantees working on Deeper Learning. Our initial conversations with grantees new to using open licenses have revealed that while in some ways open licensing is attractive, in other ways it is intimidating.
Our grantees aspire to have the greatest impact for their work, which can happen when their materials are used by as many people as possible as productively as possible. Some of them have seen how an open license can pave the way for this to happen. For example, after posting its Common Core-aligned curriculum under an open license, Expeditionary Learning has seen 1.6 million downloads from across the U.S. On the flipside, a concern among our grantees has been the possibility of for-profit companies taking their content and profiting from it. Another concern has been that an open license will decrease opportunities for generating revenue. For these reasons, organizations like the Teaching Channel have chosen to only openly license videos of inspiring teachers in practice that have been created with Hewlett funds. Most of the rest of its videos will remain openly accessible but under a proprietary license. We think this mixed approach will be informative for the Foundation and the wider field, allowing us to test the downside risk of commercial appropriation against the upside potential of brand-building and wider uptake. We recognize that organizations face real and important tradeoffs when it comes to open licensing and will be monitoring the impact of these decisions alongside our grantees.
At the Hewlett Foundation we have a bold mission of "helping people build measurably better lives." The organizations we fund have equally bold visions. To achieve audacious goals like these we need to improve on what we know. By openly sharing the knowledge and resources we produce we can not only expand access to knowledge, but also enable adaptation and improvement of that knowledge. For the Hewlett Foundation, openly sharing resources is one important component of our commitment to transparency. We will be building off our experiences in the Education Program to expand a policy around open licenses in other programs as well over the coming year and hope to continue learning along the way about the constraints and the opportunities this presents to amplify the work of our grantees.
Interested in learning more? Check out this video from Creative Commons in New Zealand for more information on the licenses and this video for more examples of the benefits this kind of licensing provides in practice. To adopt an open license, you simply go to the Creative Commons license chooser, select your license, and add the license to your work or web site as a replacement for the traditional © symbol. Details on marking your work with a CC license can be found online. For additional background, read this full description of the Creative Commons licenses.
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June 30, 2014 — By Larry Kramer
Last week, I spent three hours on two long conference calls . . . and I can't wait to do it again. Now maybe you read that and think something like I bet that's his entry for "Most Unlikely Opening for a Blog." Except it happens to be true.
The idea for the calls came from Fay Twersky, director of our Effective Philanthropy Group. As part of the Foundation's ongoing effort to work more openly and transparently, she suggested holding an open conference call with our grantees. We could share important news, she explained, and, more important, could let them ask questions they might have of me or of our program directors. The plan was to hold something akin to a corporate shareholders' meeting—a town hall-like forum for conversation, inquiry, and dialogue.
We weren't sure it would work. To begin with, everyone is busy and we didn't know how many people would participate. Even if people did participate, we couldn't be sure what kinds of questions they would ask. It's an unfortunate fact that grantees are sometimes reluctant to ask us hard questions, presumably for fear the message will be unwelcome or perceived as biting the hand that feeds them. (To which I can say only that the concern is misplaced: we have thick skins here at the Hewlett Foundation and would much rather know what you think so we can make changes if necessary.) We also worried about whether the questions would be of broad enough interest to engage the whole audience. Our grantees work in disparate fields and face vastly different challenges in their day-to-day work. Would people who work on family planning in Africa find value in listening to questions about performing arts in the Bay Area or conserving the Boreal Forest?
Still, we thought the idea worth trying. So we sent an invitation to all our active grantees. To make participation as easy as possible we decided not to ask for RSVPs, and we blocked out time for two calls—one in the early morning, another the following day in the late afternoon—to accommodate grantees in different time zones around the world.
The first call was only so-so. There were fewer participants than we had hoped, and they asked only a handful of questions. The questions were good—touching on things like our new blog, our processes for evaluation, and our rationale for term limiting program officers—but it was clear that participants weren't entirely sure what they could or should ask. We ran out of questions before the allotted time had passed and ended the call a few minutes early.
We used the day between the two calls to think about what we might do better. I had framed the first call around the results of our most recent Grantee Perception Report, which may have left participants unsure about posing questions that had nothing to do with the survey. So I opened the second call without any reference to the GPR and instead emphasized that we were eager to talk about anything and everything. At the urging of several colleagues, I also focused on speaking more slowly, as even my own staff said I was hard to follow, which probably discouraged some potential participants.
The second call went much better. The time of day made a big difference, and more than twice as many callers were on the line. Participants asked wonderful, challenging, interesting questions on topics ranging from how we can better support grantees during turbulent economic times to how we think about partnerships with government or with other foundations, how we balance short-term expectations for individual grantees with the long-term outcomes we hope to achieve, and more. We took eighteen questions and went a few minutes over the allotted hour and a half and there were still questions in the queue when we ended the call. (We answered these separately off-line.)
I found the calls challenging and interesting, nerve-wracking at moments, but exhilarating and informative. And fun. On balance, the experiment was a clear success, and we'll definitely do it again. I hope to reach even more of our grantees as word spreads. It's a wonderful opportunity to get and give feedback. It's also an opportunity to foster a sense of community, to give grantees a feel for the breadth of the Foundation's work and for each other. More than a few wrote me afterwards to say they hadn't realized how many things we support and were surprised how much they got from hearing about wholly disparate fields. Most of all, it's an opportunity for us to listen and learn.
Of course, no need to wait. If you have questions or comments about the Foundation and its work, please let us know. We want to hear from you.
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June 26, 2014 — By Pat Scheid
The Hewlett Foundation announced a pledge of $18.5 million to the Global Partnership for Education's 2015-18 replenishment today. The pledge, which will be fulfilled through the Foundation's grantmaking and technical support to civil society organizations and other key actors in global education, will support capacity building for better systems for learning assessment and the use of assessment data to inform planning and improve learning outcomes. It will also support civil society organizations that are using citizen-led, household assessments of learning to raise awareness about children's learning status and to motivate action at the national, sub-national and community level for improved learning.
June 5, 2014 — By Eric Brown
It's hard to imagine, but after nearly eleven years as communications director at the Hewlett Foundation, I'm stepping down to stop and smell the roses, as they say. Why would anyone leave such a great job? Good question. The simple answer is that our daughter is heading off to college, so my wife and I are free to take some time off to travel and consider what's next.
It's my farewell week here at the Hewlett Foundation. In addition to making sure that I don't leave any metaphoric dishes in the sink, this is a time given over to reflection, and—dare I say it—introspection. Having just attended my daughter's high school graduation, I recognize the pitfalls of attempting to impart wisdom about, well, anything, but I'm going to do it anyway.
Here's what I've learned about foundation communications in ten years, nine months, and four days:
1. Tactics without strategy are pretty much a waste of time.
I'm about to give away the secret to the nonprofit communications strategy kingdom—start your communications plan with a goal, and make it a good one. There, I said it. Organizations are pretty good about designing strategic plans that have reasonably good goals. They want the utility to remove a dam by 2015, or they want to provide reproductive health services for 25% more women in a particular district in Tanzania by the end of the year. Things like that. When the communications plans come in, though, often the goal is do some kind of tactic. Write an op-ed. Get people to like you on Facebook. If pressed, grantees might say that the goal is to "raise awareness" about an issue. Well, I have high awareness that kale is better for me than bacon, but that doesn't stop me from eating BLTs. You get my point. Good strategies start with good goals, not good tactics. It seems so obvious, but we all know that it doesn't always go that way.
2. That said, the tactics have changed a lot, and they're going to keep changing.
I started at the Hewlett Foundation during the first term of the George W. Bush administration. (Some days, but not many, it feels like it was the first term of the George Washington administration.) When I began, most of the popular tools we use today didn't even exist. There was no Twitter, no Facebook, no YouTube, none of that stuff. We basically had email. (I'm starting to sound like my grandfather.) Who knows what we'll have tomorrow? Nobody. Things keep changing, and it's important to keep up with the kids. So you should do that.
3.I love our communications training program—and I learned that training is hard work and it takes a lot of diligence.
One of my favorite times of the year is when we bring grantees together for communications strategy training. We pick grantees from across the foundation's programs and learn how to create a communications plan, how to do better presentations, how to improve our storytelling, and other fun things. Grantees are excited, our program staff who attend the training are excited, and everyone goes home energized, at least for a moment. The really important thing we've learned is to make sure we follow up with participants about what they learned, and provide as many resources as possible to make sure that what they learned sticks. As it turns out, this is true for just about any training. Many of us have been through speech training, or presentation training, or who knows what other kinds of training, and it's really easy to go back to the old pre-training ways. So I try to find a buddy who went through the training with me who can keep me honest, and remind me what I've learned and help me get back on track if I've strayed. So if you conduct or attend a training, spend at least as much time on follow up as you spent on the training.
4. Evaluating the effectiveness of communications is no more or less difficult than evaluating the effectiveness of anything else, which is to say that it's often more art than science. Nevertheless, you have to try.
Many people have heard the old line attributed to John Wanamaker: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Regardless of whether he actually said this, it rings true today. It's hard to know whether your communications work was the thing that made the difference, but that's no reason not to try. At my going away party on Monday, after a bunch of speeches, my eighteen-year-old daughter said that she still doesn't know what her dad, the communications director, does. My colleague Fay Twersky said that the field of evaluation is similarly misunderstood. To this, I propose a new partnership for the twenty-first century—that of the communications and evaluations people. There is much to recommend this marriage. For starters, both evaluations and communications people should be alongside the program folks at the very beginning of a strategy, helping set achievable goals and the best ways to measure them. If you are a communications person, make friends with the evaluators and vice versa. I know you will each learn from each other.
5. The people in this business are really, really nice.
When I started at my job, there was no shortage of people who took me to lunch, took me under their wings, and who shared every bit of communications advice freely and incredibly generously. Chris DeCardy at Packard; Matt James, then at the Kaiser Family Foundation; and David Morse, then at Robert Wood Johnson, were among the first, but there are way too many to count. As they say at the Oscars, you know who you are. To the extent that I have been successful at the Hewlett Foundation, it is because I have been able to bounce most ideas (the good, the bad, and the oh-so-ugly) off my colleagues, and I have always gotten loving but candid feedback. If you are interested in communications (even if you are a program person, an evaluator, or anything else), the Communications Network is a good place to find your brethren and sistren. If you have other interests, there is most certainly a professional support group for you. I urge you to take advantage of the true generosity that our field offers.
With that, I will gallop off into the sunset for a time. I hope to come back next year and reenter the field in one way or the other. It has been an utter privilege to work at the Hewlett Foundation, and I wish my colleagues all the best.
May 7, 2014 — By Heath Wickline
Rakesh Rajani, the head of Twaweza (a Hewlett Foundation granteee) and a member of our Board of Directors since 2012, was recently profiled on CNN's African Voices program.
May 1, 2014 — By Larry Kramer
This piece is cross-posted from Stanford Social Innovation Review, where it was published last week. -ed.
It is, I believe, generally recognized that collaboration among funders is important, because none of us has the resources to make serious inroads on big problems by ourselves. Yet despite widespread acknowledgment of its value, I've been surprised by how difficult it can be to form fruitful collaborations with other funders. Collaboration happens, but less than it could—even though foundations are unregulated and not competing with each other.
The question is, why?
Many people say the fault lies with foundation presidents and board members, who some think discourage collaboration because of ego or to avoid sharing credit. I haven't encountered this myself and doubt it as an explanation. More plausible—and this is something I have witnessed—is that presidents and boards can make collaboration difficult by becoming overly directive and inflexible about the specifics of where and how to make grants.
A bigger problem—bigger because it inheres in the structure of most foundations—is the agency cost associated with dispersed decision-making. As a practical matter, collaborating on any particular project or program requires buy-in from a foundation's program officer, program director, president, and board—each with different degrees of knowledge, different levels of commitment to existing strategies, and different incentives to change. Not surprisingly, aligning so many differences can be challenging.
Ongoing collaboration is hard, for instance, when program officers from different foundations agree but must wait months for their respective boards to sign off. A president who wants to support a request from another foundation may be reluctant to override a more knowledgeable and informed program officer who does not want to veer from an ongoing strategy the program officer devised. A program director may discourage the president or board from collaborating on a particular strategy, even one the relevant program officer supports, if this could affect the allocation of resources among strategies within his or her particular program. And so on.
Funders can overcome these obstacles, as we see in collaborations that already happen. But it's not easy, and I have increasingly come to believe that overcoming these hurdles—whether by persuading foundations to be more flexible about process or by aligning their internal constituencies—is difficult because there is a dearth of what is known in international relations theory as "diffuse reciprocity."
April 30, 2014 — By Heath Wickline
Foundations are strange animals. Large foundations are even stranger. We're different in fundamental ways from other institutions, whether for-profit or nonprofit, public or private. And that makes deciding how to use our website—and really any way we communicate, online or off—something of a challenge. The Hewlett Foundation's $8 billion endowment gives us the scale, at least financially, of a midsized corporation or a small government agency, but we don't have any widgets to sell or citizen services to provide. We share a tax designation, and a commitment to mission, with the nonprofits we support, but we don't conduct activities (or have a core need to raise funds to continue our work) like they do. Without products to sell or services to promote, with no organizing or membership drives to conduct or donors to encourage: What's a foundation website for? That's the question that Eric Brown, our director of communications, posed to our team when we kicked off a review of our website's information architecture last December with Quor, a user experience design firm based in San Francisco.
There are some clear answers, of course. Our website, and all of our communications, should make it easy to understand what we fund (and what we don't). Our peers should be able to identify opportunities for collaboration. Our grantees should understand how their programs fits into the strategies we are pursuing. And potential grantseekers should be able to quickly and easily determine if there are opportunities for them to receive funding from us. That saves time for them, and for our staff, as well. These are the core features of our current site (and of most foundation websites), and any changes we make will be to improve and enhance them.
But we've got the nagging feeling that we can and should be doing more. The Hewlett Foundation, like many of our peers, is sitting on a huge amount of data that comes out of our grantmaking. We believe it could be valuable to a wider audience: policymakers, funders contemplating grantmaking in fields where we fund, nonprofits who wouldn't be eligible for a grant, but whose work is adjacent to what we fund. We regularly conduct evaluations of our strategies to determine what's worked and what hasn't. And the end result of much of our grantmaking is research that could have important implications for policy. Our commitment to transparency means we can, and should, do everything in our power to ensure that all of that information is not only available, but easy to find and to use.
While the What We're Learning section of our current site shares some of the information we have, there is a lot more we can do. That's where we're focusing our attention as we assess what we're sharing, and how it's arranged on our site—its information architecture. We're contemplating changes that will clarify the connections between the practices that underlie our grantmaking (both strategy development and grantee selection), the grants we choose to make, and the results they produce. That's where our broader online strategy comes into play. As both Eric and I have written before in separate posts, it's not enough to simply publish everything to our website—that's transparency in letter, but not in spirit. It runs the risk of obscuring rather than illuminating what is most valuable to people who care about what we do. A redefined information architecture for our site can help make those connections more explicit, and our other online channels can help tell the story of our work, tailored to particular audiences and taking full advantage of the unique attributes of Twitter, Facebook, email, or any other social media available today or as-yet undreamt of.
Quor has completed an initial round of research. They conducted interviews with peers, grantees, and organizations who we think really understand online communications in 2014; they examined our current site's analytics; and they analyzed how others are communicating online. Over the course of the next month, they'll be finalizing a set of recommendations to us. We'll share that report when it's ready, along with the parts of their research we feel could be helpful to others asking similar questions.
In the meantime, we want to put the question to you. Whether you're a foundation communications professional, a grantee or grantseeker, or just someone who cares about the work that the Hewlett Foundation supports, what do you think we should be doing differently? What aspects of our current website, social media, and email communications are most helpful to you? What do you wish we did more of? What else could we be sharing that would make your job easier, or our work more effective?
Large foundations like ours are in the enviable position of being able to think broadly about how we can use the tools at our disposal to support the change we want to see in the world, and how best to serve the community of people and organizations who share our concerns.
We would be grateful for your help in reimagining what a foundation website can be.
April 1, 2014 — By Larry Kramer
I haven't blogged in a while, and instead of devoting this space to a single item, I thought I'd catch you up on a number of recent developments at the Hewlett Foundation.
First, you may have noticed that we've renamed our blog. "Work In Progress" was a good name, but it feels a tad too earnest. So in the Silicon Valley spirit of rapid prototyping and iterating, popularized by design thinking, we decided to just change it. If we don't like it, we'll change it again.
I hope you've been reading Ruth Levine's "Friday Notes." While they are one of my favorite things about Fridays, I confess to being somewhat competitive. So I've decided to take Ruth on. Henceforth, I'll be offering these "Tuesday Notelets." I can't write as fast as Ruth, so they'll be shorter than Ruth's Notes (that's why we're calling mine "notelets"). I'm sure you'll find them interesting, though. I'll be checking the Google Analytics on this, so please don't let me down. Whether or not you actually read them, I'd appreciate it if you would just click on them a lot.
Speaking of strategic philanthropy (because we're always speaking of strategic philanthropy around here), a recent evaluation that involved a robust randomized control trial suggests that our approach to grant making does no better than random chance. Before acting on this somewhat unexpected finding, I want to see if we can replicate it internally. So we're going to take a portion of our grantmaking portfolio and throw darts at a dartboard to select a control group of grantees. We'll be looking closely at these so-called "bullseye" grantees to see if they do better at achieving results than those we select through our normal rigorous strategic approach. Fingers crossed everyone!
It amazes me how many people think that I'm the president of HP. Anyone who really knows me, after all, knows how much I really, really hate computers. (And don't get me started on tracked changes. But I digress.) Other people think I work for the Packard Foundation, or for any number of other organizations that have either Hewlett or Packard in the title. When I first told my mom about this job, she couldn't understand why I would leave the law school to go into the home printer business. To solve this annoying brand confusion problem, we are going to propose a merger with the Packard Foundation, the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, the HP Foundation, and HP itself. The new entity will be named HF-PF-LPCH-HPF-HP.
Here's another piece of really exciting news. If you read my initial post about transparency back in November, you know how truly committed I am to sharing everything I can about the Hewlett Foundation, and that should include what it's like to be a foundation president. To that end, I've agreed to be a contestant on the TV show Big Brother (I wanted to do Survivor but worried that at my age I'd be voted off the Island too quickly). A little unorthodox, perhaps, but we pride ourselves on experimentation and risk, and this seems like a terrific opportunity in that light. I promise to watch my language and always wear a robe or towel around the hot tub.
Finally, inasmuch as we're in the heart of the technology world in Silicon Valley, it seems crazy to make grants using such antiquated means of payment like money. So over the next eighteen months, we'll be transitioning to Bitcoin. (But we're already planning our move to Dogecoin. Dogecoin is the future, man, and we want to get with the program.) I don't actually know how Bitcoin works, but I read that interview where Mark Andreeson takes Warren Buffet behind the shed for criticizing it and decided the whole cryptocurrency thing sounds really cool.
That's all the news I have for now on this April 1. Hope you keep clicking, especially here.
March 4, 2014 — By Margarita Parra
Some people are born with great facilitation skills, and there are others, like me, who need a little help. Believe it or not, one of my New Year's resolutions—made just as the clock struck midnight—was to get better at facilitating meetings: of my grantees, partners, and other donors, and even meetings between family and friends.
Late last year, I attended a training session on facilitation at the Foundation. Led by David Barkan, the training was, for me, transformative. And judging by the response—a third of our staff has now been through the training—I'm not alone.
One of the most useful ideas that I took away from the training was also the simplest. There are various types of meetings and many reasons to meet, but the real purpose of virtually any meetings should be to do something: engage in generative discussion, make a decision, explore a new direction, or learn about something new. If we are meeting just for the sake of meeting then we are wasting time and money, according to David. This was like a thunderclap! How many times have we all attended meetings only to walk away with the feeling that an email would have been sufficient? The purpose of the meeting, the discussion we need to have or the decision we are trying to make has to be clear and must guide the design of the session. A good facilitator has to prepare well (the preparation might take more time than the actual meeting), weighing whether or not the meeting is necessary, its purpose, its goal, and how the goal might be accomplished.
The training also gave attendees the opportunity to practice our facilitation skills—listening skills in particular—that can help move a group from disagreement to unanimity. Getting to a collective agreement can take much more than one meeting. Often the facilitator hears distinct and divergent points of view and has to deal simultaneously with difficult interpersonal dynamics that stifle productive conversation. This requires patience, skill, and focus over time to understand and facilitate well. What I learned is that a good facilitator is sometimes a good interlocutor: clarifying, capturing and interpreting the group's myriad points of view so that everyone at least understands the problem before trying to solve it. I paid close attention to what David said about paraphrasing and balancing—being able to accurately reflect back to someone what they are saying, and organizing the conversation to give equal space to opposing views. These are perhaps the most difficult skills to master.
Last month, I had my first opportunity to put what I had learned to work while facilitating a session with colleagues from other foundations and the World Bank. My table had a great group of people, both enthusiastic and skeptical. I knew going in that finding consensus was not going to be easy. Even with my preparations, there were things I hadn't anticipated. I tried to open up space for everyone to articulate their viewpoint and reminded myself to be encouraging so that we could identify actions on which there was the possibility of collaboration, our goal for the session. Many good points were made, but there was no single narrative thread that tied them together.
Complicating matters further was the format of the session, which required our conveners to move intermittently to different tables. As new faces shuttled to my table, I had to use my newfound skills to summarize for the new members where we were in the discussion. But this repetition had an unexpected benefit: This constant summarization of the issues provided me with some clarity, which in turn, enabled me to identify the common themes that had eluded us until that point—the precursors to finding consensus.
After reporting back to the larger group, I returned to my table to words of praise for my facilitation and a few thumbs up. Afterward, as we all milled around the hotel conference room, others approached me just to tell me they were impressed with my facilitation.
I was ecstatic.
I know I still need to work on some important skills, but I can see the critical role that a good facilitator can play in improving the quality of meetings, the decisions made at them, and our grantmaking.
January 9, 2014 — By Larry Kramer
Some of you may have noticed that the Hewlett Foundation has a new tagline. (If not, you'll just have to read a bit further to learn what it is.) Wait, you may say, a tagline? You mean, like what we hear on NPR in the morning? Why would anyone care about that?
I actually think the tagline is important—not in itself, but for what it represents and what it reflects. A tagline is a kind of mission statement, an effort to encapsulate something important about our values and objectives. On the surface, we're hard to pin down. Certainly we make grants across a broad range of areas: "to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the globe," as our former tagline put it. But that doesn't actually tell you anything about who we are. It's a vague and rather workmanlike description of what we do that leaves the really important questions unaddressed: What are we trying to accomplish? How are we trying to accomplish it? Exploring a new tagline is really a process of discovering, articulating, and in this way, helping to define our aspirations and our culture.
We asked for help from the firm Neimand Collaborative, which has worked with our Communications team on a number of projects. Though this was a small project, the firm's principals, Rich Neimand and Dave Clayton, took it on personally. Dave interviewed members of our staff, a number of our grantees, members of our Board, and others familiar with the Foundation. He also spoke with some people who know less about us, but a lot about our field.
We asked Dave to do more than solicit praise. We wanted to know what people think is notable about the Foundation, both good and bad. Find out what people really think about us, we told him, what we do well but also where we need to improve. Rich's job was then to take what Dave discovered and use it to develop a tagline that captures our values, addresses critiques, and taps into something meaningful. All in a few words.
That's no mean feat. Bear in mind that a tagline also has to capture something real and ring true. "Just do it" could mean anything. But it works for Nike, both reflecting and shaping the company and its products. Same thing for Apple's "Think Different." I could go on, but I think you get the point.
Gratifyingly, Rich and Dave had a lot of positive adjectives to offer when they presented their findings—words like smart, forceful, decisive, creative, pragmatic, and optimistic. My favorite was haimish, a Yiddish word that translates roughly as homey and unpretentious. But while this was all very interesting and affirming, Dave also uncovered some helpful criticisms. Some people find you sterile, he told us, overly intellectual and analytic, and these qualities can make Hewlett seem aloof and distant from the work. That matched another critique that popped up: namely, that while we are very clear about our strategies, we are sometimes less clear about the reasons we do what we do.
With that as background, Rich and Dave set out to find language that would reflect the strengths and respond to the deficits. According to Rich, taglines traditionally fall into three categories, with some overlap: those that talk about why, those that talk about how, and those that reflect ultimate aspirations. The key, he explained, is to choose a tagline that emphasizes and reflects the most important of these.
In our case, Rich and Dave encouraged us to combine the second and third categories by focusing on how we do what we aspire to do. I think the thing we do best, and our colleagues in the field seem to agree, is to work by setting clear goals and carefully tracking how well we are achieving those goals. We are by no means the only foundation that does this, but it's a really important part of who we are, something deep in the Hewlett Foundation's DNA. To this end, we try to be smart and rigorous, and value being creative, collaborative, strategic, and focused on results. At the same time, we do not want people to miss that our work is animated by a deep sense of caring and humanity.
Sounds good, we said. Now capture all that in a phrase.
The tagline we chose is "Helping people build measurably better lives."
We think this does a remarkably good job of capturing the elements described above. In talking about "helping people," for instance, we mean to indicate that we are collaborative, that we want to work with and help others rather than do for them.
The word "build" harkens back to Bill Hewlett, the engineer, who was a true builder. We want to work with others to build things that improve the world and add value. This combines creativity and innovativeness with the workmanlike approach necessary to succeed.
"Measurably" is probably the word that will stand out most—the Hewlett Foundation's "verdant." To insiders in the world of philanthropy, it expresses our commitment to making sure we are getting something done. And it's true: we spend a lot of time and energy trying to measure progress, so we can know if we're on the right track and determine how to correct our course if not. Our work is tangible, and we hold ourselves accountable for results. To the general public and those not heavily involved in philanthropy, "measurably" will reflect something else we care about, namely, that the difference our work makes be appreciable and significant. We liked the word precisely because it captures both those connotations.
Finally, we wanted to remind ourselves, as well as others, just why we're in this business—and that's to improve people's lives. Maybe that should go without saying, but like many things that ought to go without saying, it needs to be said, and emphasized, anyway.
When I first proposed reexamining the tagline, I felt almost sheepish. The Hewlett Foundation pays little attention to self-promotion (that itself is a core value here), so why bother putting time and effort into something so marginal. Instead, the project proved to be both interesting and fruitful—an opportunity to reaffirm and remind ourselves about who we are and who we want to be. And the final output is actually kind of catchy. Not quite "We Try Harder" or "Don't Leave Home Without It," but pretty memorable in its way.


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BY TONI GINNETTI Staff Reporter November 16, 2013 8:36PM
Updated: December 18, 2013 6:53AM
Birthday boy Brandon Young did plenty in the second half Saturday to fuel an 81-72 comeback victory by DePaul against Wright State at Allstate Arena.
But the senior point guard, who scored 14 points, gave more credit to his senior teammate Cleveland Melvin and freshman Tommy Hamilton IV.
"Cleve really stepped, and so did Tommy,'' said Young, 22. "They came up big for us in the end, and I'll give credit to them. We got the win on my birthday, so I feel good.''
Melvin turned in a dominating second-half performance, scoring 16 of his game-high 23 points and grabbing nine of his 13 rebounds when the Blue Demons (2-1) needed it. Melvin passed Sammy Mejia on the school's all-time scoring list, moving into ninth place with 1,512 points. He also passed Mejia in rebounding (281).
He had the dunk off a pass from Hamilton during a 15-3 run that turned the tide for the Demons.
"I'm definitely happy about that,'' Melvin said of his place in the program's record book. "But I'm more focused on helping us to get wins and get to the tournament.''
Coach Oliver Purnell moved Melvin inside against the smaller Raiders (1-2), who held a lead until the final six minutes.
After committing 15 first-half turnovers, the Demons dialed up their defense to get six second-half steals, holding their turnovers to seven and outscoring the Raiders 48-37 in the final 20 minutes. Wright State had one field goal in the final eight minutes.
"Cleve got every defensive rebound, and Brandon orchestrated our switching defenses,'' Purnell said. "And they got their teammates involved.''
Hamilton had 13 points and five rebounds, and freshman guard Billy Garrett Jr. scored 12 off the bench. Garrett and Young had seven of their team's 15 first-half turnovers, but Young had only two in the second half and Garrett none.
"I don't think you'll see Young have five turnovers in another game,'' Raiders coach Billy Donlon said. "He's a really good player. Those two seniors [Young and Melvin] really stepped up when it mattered."
Young also had one of two technical fouls called against the Demons. Senior Sandi Marcius was whistled for the other when he swung on the rim after a first-half dunk.
"We did our share of shooting ourselves in the foot,'' Purnell said. "But we played the last six minutes flawlessly. We shot free throws (28-for-36 in the game), we didn't turn it over and our defense came through.
"Wright State is a scrappy team and did a lot of things to cause us problems. We're going to be in 15 or 20 more games that come down to the last six minutes, so the good thing was our guys kept playing and didn't lose confidence.''
The Raiders had three players in double figures, led by sophomore forward JT Yoho's 13 points.


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Built My Self a New Machine YAY
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I booted to my SDD only no other drives attached it already had Windows 7 Installed and loaded the Motherboard Driver Disc when in to windows
then I booted to the Bios and Enabled ACHI
windows found the new Achi drivers
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the thing is fast and im getting full speed moving files around
Question: do you think Ill need to reinstall WIndows, So far it dosnt seem to have any problems.
also I loaded the latest Video Driver from ATI and it seems its slowed the boot screen marginally maybe a few seconds on the windows animation, I think I can live with that,
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Nice build...now to your question at hand. Professionally, yes when you have a new build always do a clean install, this will eliminate any bugs preexisting and those that might arise later do to software/hardware compatibility/conflict issues...if any. Personally, it's your build, run it like it is for awhile and test drive it for a month and see how she does.....you can always do a clean install later.
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Yeah I think Im gonna leave it as it is for now and do a clean install later
Ive done the done the old to new migration tool back up thing so it should be too difficult
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Dear Britjoe,
Hearty congrats,mate! When you acheive something big as this you feel like sharing it and thump your chest and yell"yeeeeeey,i did it"!
Whose advise did you take to buy the parts, b'cause the inter-compatibility is so vital? Did you take recourse to any manual and if so, kindly point me in that direction! Also, was it a solo job?
Best wishes and sweet dreams,
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I researched the Intrewebs for the parts, and asked advice at the store before purchasing, the Motherboard has a built in Video card, with side port ram, that I thought was a little weak in size initially the specs I had been reading said it had only 128MB but I guess the gigabyte manufactures obviously agreed with my evaluation and it came with 650mb on board, Im no Gamer, this is mainly used as my Media centre, and it allso has a 24" touch screen mounted to the wall next to my LAZY BOY, in my living room.
The AMD 6 core was over the top for my application to, but for the price I had to do it.
Word of advice to guys thinking of Mounting a 24 inch touch screen to the wall next to your lazy boy, Do it while your wife is Out, its better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission
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In his heyday, Mike Tyson was often referred to as the "baddest man on the planet."
Tyson, however, didn't have a mustache. And that's why when I was preparing to visit the St. Louis Cardinals 2011 World Series trophy this past weekend, I was brave enough to dress appropriately for the part.
Sure, this might be as close as my Cubs come to the World Series — but does it really matter?
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The problem with commercial sewing patterns is that they're usually based on an "average" body. And while average may mean something when you're looking at an entire population, for individuals it's not so useful. How many times have you looked at a pattern and realized that all but one of the measurements is exactly what you need? You end up with something that fits perfectly except for being too tight across the shoulders, or that would look great if only it were two inches longer. Fear not, there is a solution!
That solution is pretty generic: look for a place where you can add a straight line. What that means is, find a place on the pattern where you can add a slice of fabric that isn't going to disrupt any of the shaping. Most patterns will have such a place marked, at least if you need to make them longer; it'll be on the pattern piece as "fold here to shorten" or something similar (for those of us who are short), but there's no reason you can't add a little extra length in the same spot.
If you need extra width, matters are likely to be more complex; the cardinal rule is to avoid the neckline and armseyes. This usually results in two vertical lines, one from each shoulder down to the hem. For a button-down shirt, each front will get one increase line and the back will get two. It'll change the slope of the shoulder very slightly, but that's not generally a problem. If your original pattern is in many pieces, such as a princess-seamed dress or gored skirt, your job is easy as pie: find how many seams you have that are reasonably straight-that is, that don't have armholes or necklines on them. Figure out how much extra width you need, and divide that by the number of seams you have to play with. When cutting, add enough extra to each "straight" seam to add up to your extra, and voila!
If you have to actually cut your pattern, matters are only slightly more complicated. Once you've figured out where on the pattern you're going to put the straight line, cut the piece along that line. Now you have two pattern pieces where before you had one. If you're planning to use the pattern again, take some butcher's paper or the like and arrange the pattern pieces on it so that whatever extra you need lies between the edges you cut. Tape the pattern down firmly, cut out the butcher's paper, and there you are. Hemlines, being generally fairly straight, are unlikely to cause problems, but you'll have to do a tiny bit of fussing to make shoulders come out right-it should be obvious just looking at it, but in brief all you have to do is even out the slope from the neck to the shoulder point. If you're not planning to make this garment again, you can pin the pattern pieces straight to the fabric for cutting out.
Of course you can add to a pattern in such a way as to intersect the armseyes or neckline, but doing so is liable to be much trickier and requires diagrams that can't be included here. Just keep in mind that any alteration of one piece has to be matched on any piece it's going to be attached to, and you probably can't go far wrong-but it might be a good idea to try your alterations out on muslin first.