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By GRANT SCHULTE
Associated Press
CRETE, Neb. (AP) - The Isis Theatre hasn't changed much since it opened 86 years ago in southeast Nebraska, a stone's throw from the grain elevator and railroad tracks that cut through town.
But in the past few years, the movie industry has changed dramatically, and unless the Isis' owner comes up with $85,000 soon to pay for new digital equipment, residents of Crete, Neb., may have to drive 40 miles to Lincoln for a night at the movies.
It's a prospect that owner Thom Reeves doesn't want to ponder, but like thousands of small-theater operators across the country, he hasn't found a way out.
"This is my passion, to give back to the community," Reeves said. "I love this movie theater. I love what it does for the students I have employed there. We love our patrons. It's such a positive experience going on, and we're just a little sad this conversion is hitting us. How do we survive?"
For small-theater owners, the problem is the sudden switch from 35 mm film, an industry standard since about 1910, to digital _ a format that's cheaper for both studios and distributors, and doesn't scratch as traditional film will. The switch means theater owners must buy new projection equipment, computers and a sound system.
Film studio 20th Century Fox has said it will phase out 35 mm film altogether by the end of 2013, and other production companies are expected to follow suit. Traditional film is expected to vanish over the next few years, despite the upcoming U.S. release of "The Master," which was shot with the rare but much higher definition 70 mm film.
Big chains can afford the digital transition, which can be cheaper when buying in bulk for multiscreen theaters. But those who own smaller theaters with one or two screens typically must take out a bank loan to pay for the equipment.
A film industry program can refund up to 80 percent of the cost to theater owners, but the payments are made gradually through fees based on the number of movies shown. To qualify for the help, theaters must have certain profit levels and show a minimum number of films, leaving many small operators without help.
Some small, independent theaters created a cooperative, the Cinema Buying Group, to pool their resources and participate in the industry program, but the cooperative also required a review of each theater's financial strength and other factors. Many of the smallest theaters didn't qualify or were hesitant to join.
Patrick Corcoran, a spokesman for the National Association of Theatre Owners, said costs of converting to digital average around $70,000 per screen. About 60 percent of the nation's 5,750 theaters have switched to all-digital equipment, he said.
The switch to digital began with the 1999 release of "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace," and accelerated with such computer animated films as Disney's "Chicken Little" and the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster, "Avatar," Corcoran said.
"In some markets, it's going to be a tough climb," he said. "But if you want to be in business as a first-run movie theater, you have to go digital."
Reeves, 46, who also is an insurance manager, said he only paid about $100,000 for the entire Isis Theater and never intended to make money from the operation. A good month brings about a $600 profit, he said, and most of that is spent on electrical fixes, carpet cleaning and other maintenance.
In Onarga, Ill., a city of 1,300 about 80 miles south of Chicago, Randy Lizzio is struggling to save his 75-year-old, single-screen Onarga Theater.
Lizzio launched a fundraising drive, including a dinner and auction with a local Mexican restaurant in a park, but after five months he has raised just $8,500 of the $65,000 he needs.
"The window is just about closed for us," Lizzio said. "... It's really tough for single-screen, little theaters, even though we're historic."
At the Ohio Theatre, a two-screen operation tucked into a row of picturesque downtown buildings in Madison, Ind., owner Tony Ratcliff also hasn't been able to raise the $81,000 needed for a digital conversion.
Ratcliff said he's trying to raise $25,000 for a down payment on a bank loan this fall, but he is behind his goal and now has little more than $9,000. Unless he can install digital equipment by next year, the theater may have to close. Ratcliff and other theater owners are looking at other uses for the theater, such live events, or renting it out for community gatherings.


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Oracle's Java plan trapped in last century
Oracle's roadmap for Javas 7 and 8 shows it recognizes the world is pulling away and leaving Java with last-century concepts and ideals. Java 7 is meant to set the foundation for a cloud-friendly platform, but the real cloud-ready features won't make an appearance until Java 8 in 2013 at the earliest. While Larry and company can …
moving to a post-Oracle world
I though the article was a bit bleak at first "Java is left behind", but the closing point is key: the Java world is moving beyond Oracle, beyond the enterprise. Big HDFS filestores running Hadoop and HBase: Java based, hosted in Apache. Spring? At SpringSource, and happily staying ahead of the EJB attempts to catch up. OSGi? Have Oracle stopped pretending it doesn't exist yet?
Oracle aren't playing in these worlds, and some of their key concepts "NoSQL, no app server, commodity servers" are the kind of think that Larry must wake up screaming about
Why won't someone fork it?
Sun and now Oracle have done more harm to Java than any other party of late. It's a laugh to see them sue Google for invigorating Java (the language) and making it relevant for smart phone development when J2ME was so moribund. And the pace of Java 7 is glacial and pretty pathetic given the small iterative number of changes it contains.
What amazes me is that no one has forked the thing yet.
in a way they already have
what with Scala et al using the JVM. Oracle's reaction to Google (and before that Sun's resistance) is enough to put anyone off doing anything more brazen.
Scala isn't a fork
Scala is a completely new language running on the same JVM. It can share Java classes and vice versa but you know when you're in one world or the other. I'm thinking of something akin to Java++, something which is Java + extensions, something which fixes all the crap that Java gets stick for but is never fixed properly. For example being able to write getter / setter annotations on fields, domain specific languages, partial classes, runtime generics, built-in dependency injection etc.
Something that alleviates programmers of a lot of the boiler plate crap in Java while still being backwards compatible. Groovy would be a close contender but it's not a syntactic superset.
can Java be forked without generating a lawsuit from Larry the pig?
I would really like to see that, but i'm wondering if its legally possible?
I remember them forking Open Office on the instant.
Another question is, of course, should we just make something new?
True, a zillion people have experience writing Java code which would be a shame to throw away, but there's a lot of valid complaints about Java shortcomings...
What about rallying around something new, like John Graham's Lisp flavored re-invention of a language, Arc?
I guess to some that would seem too similar to Scala...
Anyway, anything that has the stink of Oracle, I don't want to be near.
I don't know the legalities
I would think it's pretty tough to copyright a language or patent it, and certainly Java has a full GPL'd implementation and there are other clean room / non certified implementations of both the JVM and the language compiler. So I don't see why it can't be extended. But Oracle is litigious and what is legal may require a very long and expensive lawsuit to settle as is the case with Google. Google hasn't used any Oracle code, and doesn't even claim to be Java yet they're being sued for a handful of patents.
Scala is to fork, as
No, not literally, of course not. However, it demonstrates what happens when something is used as a starting point, components are taken and other aspects are changed or added. So similar, conceptually, to a fork but not actually involving a Subversion checkout (replace with the name of your favourite SCM tool, as appropriate). That was my point. Apologies for not spelling it out.
Utter Register rubbish
This has to be the most incorrect, factually misleading, and utterly unresearched article I've ever read on The Register. The author of this article clearly knows very little about what he is talking about, and it is clear he just has an article and buzz word quota to fill.
Register: this is embarrassing.
how about if you
gave one single example of why you think what you posted?
This is an IT readership, we can cope with technical details
And that would change your post from name-calling to moving the discussion on
Money and mouth time, out with it...
ahh Mr. Anonymous Coward, have you got anything to back up your claim?
I have to presume you're one of those 0.7 cent per word hired writers spamming forums and comment sections when you make a statement like that without a single reference to what you see wrong.
Java is a Programming language for an Applications platform. Using a virtual machine for execution.
The "Cloud" is the idea of somehow using remote computing resources via Mobile or Broadband.
No programming Language needs to be "Cloud friendly" or "Cloud Ready" or "Cloud Compatible".
Almost the entire article is hogwash. The redeeming feature is that it points out that "Cloud" has become meaningless as is covers too wide a range of stuff.
agreed but
one thing I've noticed of late, is that people talk about languages when they're actually talking about the whole shebang (frameworks, libraries, ...). So when a language isn't ready/suitable/..., it's the lack of some add-on that's at fault. This isn't necessarily wrong when the languages themselves are designed to be extensible.
I don't think this article is hogwash.
Including frameworks and libraries in regards to the usefulness of any language only makes sense, when you think that you have to deliver product before you run out of money.
Reinventing the wheel is exactly the recipe to fail take-off when you reach the end of your cash-paved runway...
Thank you and Amen
This is EXACTLY what I was thinking!! I don't understand anyone saying a language or JVM is not cloud friendly. It runs within an OS that runs inside of a cloud environment. IS the language and/or JVM supposed to be "cloud" aware.. somehow when it starts up be it a web app or console Java app, does it just look at the network, OS it runs on and from that determine it's part of a cloud and some how it does some new great stuff? This part of the article completely confused me. In most cases that I know of, cloud deployed java apps are running as web apps, inside a JEE container. There could be "agents".. self run console apps that might be services or script started.. but otherwise, they mostly run inside of JEE containers. I don't believe many, if any, java web apps are "aware" they run in a cloud. The container/server won't even know this.. there is no magic "cloud" formula. Cloud is basically physical servers turned into virtual servers on bigger/faster physical servers. That's it. Running in the cloud simply means your app is on some virtualized "pretend" computer. It's the same sort of network setup as a rack full of physical computers with the obvious differences of virtual networks and such.
I never get it when people use the "cloud" acronym for everything. Salesforce.com is a "cloud" deployed app. Well.. it's basically the same deployment, only instead of a single physical server for each JEE container, they use beefier multi-core servers with more memory, along with something like XEN or VMWare dividing up the cores and memory into virtualized machines, each getting their own "sandbox" chunk of processing and memory. That's it..that's the magic.
Let's try to understand what it means to be part of a cloud already and get beyond the use of this word as if it's the holy grail to deployments! It's just a more efficient way of using more powerful computers!
Bit of a non-article.
"However, people who prefer a more intuitive approach - namely immutable objects, Actors and messaging" - Java 6 has all these, and they intuitive enough to be useful and usable.
"Why won't someone fork it?" - you're more than able to. JDK7 and 8 are open source. Whether it plays nicely with <your chosen VM flavour here> is another matter, and that's a real issue.
People often bash Java as being behind the times, and that's partly true in some respects, but all languages are "behind the times" when compared to given portions of other languages. It's relative.
Computing isn't all about the cloud, you know.
Thank you.. can't agree more. How is it that everyone bashes Java.. yet C/C++ have barely changed at all in 30+ years. They have some new changes coming up to C++ right now that are finally adding some new things to it, but the language itself has been almost identical since it's inception. Yet.. nobody bashes C or C++ for not evolving?
Sadly, a lot of people bash Java without realizing it's part of a bigger thing.. the JVM. The JVM allows for other languages as well, and they can all play nice together for the most part. So if Java the language is a "wee bit" behind the times..it's still got the biggest developer pool to find talent from in the world, it's got more libraries and open source behind it than any other language in the world, while c/c++ combined are "bigger" overall than Java, Java is used far more on the server side than both c and C++ combined. Since most applications these days are "in the cloud" (e.g. web apps deployed on servers) it stands to reason that Java is a large part of this. I don't see C and C++ being nearly as large on the server side as Java.. so for a language that is behind the times, it sure is amazing how many companies keep on building new libraries with it, using it for robust scalable applications and more. If you include the Android mobile side to things, it's even that much bigger with how fast Android is growing and how many developers are able to actually develop apps with some sort of ease compared to iOS apps.
It's fine...
Java itself is a fine language, easy to pick up and code in (though I will admit its generics implementation is still sorta kludgy). It's just the official 'enterprisey' JSR-promoted frameworks that Sun came up with tend to really suck. Ditch the EJB's and JPA and JMS and JTA and JSF (seriously, does -everything- have to be a TLA?) and use plain old java objects with some neat open-source frameworks like Tapestry and Hibernate and you'll get the efficiency of an type-safe compiled language without all the sludge that the official enterprise stuff brings. No, I guess it's not 'cool' like Ruby et al is, but it's possible with open source frameworks and Maven to be very quick and efficient.
You need to try JEE6 before you make this claim
Seriously, go learn JEE6... it's beyond easy, uses POJOs. EJB3.1 is so impressive now, and being able to build everything into a single .war file now is much nicer/easier too.
I have built a few JEE6 apps now, all using Pojos, with my entity beans being my pojos that I pass around. I will admit I don't need to work with transactions as I keep everything stateless all the way through with the "state" being stored in the database. I replaced JMS with REST as it's much easier and almost as robust for most things as JMS.. with the exception being guaranteed delivery.. but even that is not hard to make work right with the new JEE6 timer capabilities and async methods.
Only thing I would add is using Wicket. Wicket is the only framework I've found that truly allows a html/css expert do their work without having to know anything about java and where the html files are deployed.. simply understand the use of <wicket:id> and a couple other things, but can build complete web pages and then the wicket developer can add in all the dynamic code in Java and it's pretty easy to work with. It handles a number of things like state, session replication (or session state stored in database), various "hacks" like SQL hacks, has a large built in support for ajax, html components and more.
I will never get the "Ruby" kick. I tried ruby.. it was a disaster to me. It was more difficult to set up than Java even with classpath issues (which isn't hard if your a mid level Java engineer and actually learn the JVM, not just the language.. thus understand how it all fits together). Ruby the language to me just doesn't make sense. Java, C, Basic, Pascal.. are easy to read for the most part. I guess it's all the symbols and syntax of Ruby that I don't comprehend.
Anyone for Groovy?
I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the original article.
It's not about Java any more, its about the JVM
Right now, shipping 7 and 8 together, tomorrow, would have no greater impact on the future of java than doing nothing at all. I've been using Java pretty much exclusively for the last ten years and it has been capable of solving lots of problems very nicely (as long as you didn't want mobile - and Google have the Java Mobile issue solved very elegantly with Android).
Right now I'd just freeze the Java language spec at Java 7 (it seems a shame to waste the effort) and switch my attention to the JVM and functional languages instead. As the article hints, there are now a number of JVM based languages (Scala and Groovy come quickest to mind) that bring much-needed brevity, flexibility and frankly better productivity. As Sun simply didn't keep up in Mobile. Oracle cannot hope to keep Java competitive with the new kids, so why not just embrace them as first class citizens?
Of course from Oracle's point of view the problem here is that they don't have control over Scala, Groovy et as they do with Java so they may never be able to bring themselves to admit this in public.
I can write a web app in Groovy, writing 50% less code than I would in Java to achieve the same end - and still piggy-back on all that good open source Java that's out there - why would I waste my time writing Java? That's the pitch I give to managers when we're talking about greenfield development, and a position I've adopted only in the last few months. Functional languages have proved their worth, Java is dead, long live Java.
dumb question:
Can I write code for Android using Groovy?
Or is Dalvik too far off the regular JVM...?
I haven't ever looked at Groovy...
Dalvic doesn't include the reflection APIs, of which groovy is a heavy user.
It might be possible to use groovy++, although I haven't tried it.
Groovy++ is a statically complied version of groovy.
It is possible to run scala on the dalvic VM though.
Groovy is well worth a look though.
completely agree - technically the correct solution and commercially too. I have this feeling that, politcally, Java is going to get ugly.
volatile and synchronized
This whole article is peppered with technical inaccuracies, it's frankly embarrassing for the register to publish this nonsense. Just to clear up one of them:
Variables changes can be seen by other threads, you just use the volatile and synchronized constructs, this tells the JVM to flush out the cache so other cores can see the update. This is very expensive, that's why it's optional and has to be explicitly stated by the programmer, that's why all other languages will have a similar construct.
Java also has the java memory model, which ensures that multi-threaded code works the same on all processor architectures and types. From ARM to POWER7, be it NUMA or not.
Ah, so you're the AC from earlier...
Eh? Which inaccuracy are you clearing up?
He never said you couldn't see changes in other threads, as it would be hard to code anything if that were the case.
He said:
For example, being able to change a variable in one thread and not have its changes be seen in another.
This is something altogether. In what way was he inaccurate?
Sorry you can't see the difference. I've been coding Java for 14 years, so perhaps that's why I can.
Java allows you to write non obvious, random, surprising code. Correct behaviour is optional, not mandatory.
Sure, you might get more performance, but you also get a lot more danger, you cut yourself without even realizing you've done so.
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Fordham University Home Page Alumni Marymount Marymount Alumnae Board Minutes - September 2011
Minutes of the Marymount Alumnae Board Meeting
Thursday, 9 February 2012
888 Seventh Avenue, New York, N.Y.
In Person: Patricia A. Cole (President), Kathleen A. Jowitt (Secretary), Rita Arno,
Mary Donohue, Sr. Mary Heyser (RSHM), Angelica Hinojosa, Brianne Laurin (Fordham)
Michael Trerotola (Fordham)
By Phone: Sarah Sullivan (Vice President), Joyce Abamont, Jane Bartnett, Jennifer Bauchner,
Maria Bocker, Maria Conte-Benedict, Patrice Kaul, Barbara White, Jean Wynn
WELCOME (Patricia A. Cole, President)
Patricia started the meeting by welcoming and wishing all a Happy 2012.
PRAYER (Sister Mary Heyser, R.S.H.M., Alumnae Chaplain)
Sister Mary opening her prayer by reminding everyone that Wednesday, February 22, is Ash Wednesday and said that we need always remember that it is not what we do, but why we do it. She asked that the Holy Spirit fill us all as we move forward with our tasks on the Board.
MINUTES (Kathy Jowitt, Secretary)
Kathy motioned for approval of the minutes from the November 10, 2011, Board meeting. Barbara White seconded the motion and the minutes were approved.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT (Patricia A. Cole, President)
Patricia welcomed Brianne who had joined to provide an update on Reunion preparations. She informed the Board this year all Marymount classes will be invited to attend Jubilee. Alumni from the Fordham School of Pharmacy, which closed in 1972, will also be invited to attend. There will be extra activities (tours and lectures in the Walsh Library) including the popular Food for the Mind tour from last year.
Our awards ceremony will start this year at 3:30 p.m. in Butler Commons, in order to provide ample time for the additional honors and group photos. Donna Cribari, '62, will join us again to play piano at the Awards Ceremony, and Sr. Bianca Haglich, R.S.H.M., director of the Weaving Center at Marymount, will donate a piece of artwork made especially designed for the Butler Commons site. Both Donna and Sr. Bianca will be acknowledged in the awards program.
As in the past, invitation packets for Marymount alumnae will be customized and Marymount alumnae will be offered discounted prices for both the Dinner Gala and Weekend packages. Formal invitations are scheduled to hit mailboxes by mid-March. A reminder e-mail to those whose addresses are on file at Fordham will go out approximately one month after the invitation kits are mailed. A third reminder e-mail will go out around May 20, with registration cut-off scheduled for May 25, 2012. Walk-in Marymount alumnae will pay the same price(s) as those who pre-register.
Jane Bartnett asked for an update to the website and Brianne will provide the necessary information to Marketing which will also include the names of the 2012 honorees.
A van to transport and return attendees from the Marriott Hotel in Tarrytown to the awards ceremony/gala may be possible, however attendees will be required to sign-up for van service given the cost consideration. Barbara White also offered to provide the name(s) of Marriott employees who had provided assistance with their 2011 Reunion activities.
There will also be a cocktail reception on Friday, June 1, at Rose Hill.
REUNION OUTREACH (Jane Bartnett)
Jane is acting as point person for the "2" and "7" class agent outreach and an e-mail will be going out shortly. She recently spoke with Rosemary Galetti, the agent for the Class of 2002, who will do her best to encourage attendance for the Class of 2002 (10th Reunion).
She also suggested that each Reunion class have their own Facebook page, which could be sub-pages of the larger Marymount alumnae Facebook page. Angel Hinojosa added that this would not be a problem to prepare, and volunteered to set-up the additional pages.
Patricia asked again for volunteers to contact the 12 agents from the Reunion classes.
Each volunteer would take two agents each. Kathy Jowitt volunteered to contact two agents, including the agent from her Class of 1972 to spearhead the drive for as many attendees to their 40th Reunion as possible. Also volunteering to contact two Reunion-year agents were Rita Arno, Jane Bartnett, Maria Bocker, Maria Conte-Benedict, Angel Hinojosa, and Barbara White. Sarah Sullivan, Class of 1997, will contact both her 15th Reunion Year Classmates and will also reach out to classes from the 1990s. All agents should be contacted by phone by mid-March.
The Board will also be involved in call and e-mail outreach to the metro-area alumnae (those in the five boroughs, Hudson Valley, Northern New Jersey, and Southern Connecticut) as Reunion time gets closer.
Joyce Abamont, Patrice Kaul, and Jane Bartnett attended a Mass and reception at St. Ignatius Retreat House on Sunday, January 29, 2012. Joseph McShane, S.J., celebrated the Mass and Daniel Gatti, S.J., of Fordham also attended.
The Board has been encouraging all alumnae to attend chapter events and again asked if Sara Hunt could provide a list of the attendees for the past two years for our marketing purposes.
Sister Mary Heyser and Father Gatti recently attended a Fordham Florida Chapter Luncheon. Bea Dinger, Joyce Abamont, and Helen Kelly are among those who hope to attend upcoming Florida West and East Coast events.
Marymount alumna Linda Purcell has organized a Fordham alumnae Northern
Westchester Chapter. This group has held such events as a wine tasting and golf outing, to date.
Jane Bartnett mentioned that in addition to chapter event postings on the Marymount webpage, it would be valuable for Marymount Board and ultimately more alumnae to join the Fordham LinkedIn Page, as another avenue for becoming more a part of the Fordham family, as well as to take advantage of possible new career opportunities.
NOMINATIONS (Rita Arno, Chair)
Rita has been in contact with Mr. Fluhler, the jeweler who will be preparing the awards again this year. She plans to meet with him within the week and has sent e-mails to the awardees to confirm their initials for inscription on their awards.
Rita Arno and Mary Donohue plan to renew their Board membership for another term. The Board will also look to add new Board members in the fall of 2012.
The Board also revisited the term rules of the executive committee, which should be returned to good order and include an end date of June 2012. It was recommended that candidates for the president's role should possess both leadership and strategic management competencies and skills.
Those interested in any of the executive committee roles should feel free to speak with the president, vice president and secretary regarding the role and then if interested in the positions should confirm with Rita Arno and Joyce Abamont by the end of March.
BYLAWS COMMITTEE (Mary Donohue, Chair)
Mary handed out the updated bylaws requiring a term review of the honorary board members. The Board also discussed the advisability of establishing an advisory board. This might include senior alumnae and honoraries as an additional resource for the president. Current honorary board members include Eileen Burchell, Ph.D., Kristine Welker, Margaret Fitzgibbon Watson, and Sr. Brigid Driscoll, R.S.H.M. Sr. Mary Heyser holds the nominated position as chaplain to the community by Fordham and the R.S.H.M.
HISTORICAL DESIGNATION (Renee Zobel, Chair)
Patricia and Renee will be talking to EF about the next steps regarding historical designation for buildings on the former Marymount Campus.
LEGACY FUND (Patricia A. Cole)
Patricia has been working with Pauline of the Fordham Development Office regarding planned giving and membership for our alumnae in the 1841 Society. Also, the members of the Mary Goeke Society or those that have remembered the Marymount Legacy Fund in their estate plans have been automatically enrolled to enjoy privileges in the 1841 Society. A presidential appeal by mail is to be sent over the next few weeks.
WOMEN LEADERS WORKSHOP (Patricia A. Cole)
The workshop is scheduled for Saturday, October 13, 2012, from 8 a.m. until noon at Butler Commons. The workshop will focus on topics of most concern to professional women and will be based on the survey results taken at the December 4 Dedication Ceremony. The speakers will include distinguished women who are willing to share their learnings and stories with the community.
FOUNDER'S DAY, 2012 (Patricia A. Cole)
December 8, 2012, will be the 105th anniversary of the founding of Marymount College. To that end, this year's Founder's Day should be a VIP event, which may include a fundraiser and silent auction. After some discussion, the consensus was that the event should be held on Saturday, December 8, 2012, at Butler Commons.
Mike Trerotola noted that last year, Fordham went over budget on Founder's Day and that going forward, it will be necessary to start charging for these events.
Mike Trerotola reminded everyone that Fordham marches annually in the St. Patrick's Day
Parade, and, this year being a Saturday, it is hoped that many Fordham and Marymount alumnae will participate in the parade. The day's festivities will start with a brunch at the Yale Club (45th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue) at 10:30 a.m., followed by assembling at the parade at approximately 12:20 p.m. The charge for the brunch is $50 for adults and $20 for children, ages 3-9. There will be giant Fordham balloons and each participant will also be given a Fordham sash.
Mike also mentioned that the cultural events postcards were sent out to all alumnae, noting upcoming events sponsored by the Fordham Office of Alumni Relations. Further information on these events can be found on the Fordham website.
Scheduled dates for fall 2012 alumnae Board meetings are September 13 and November 15, 2012.
The next Board meeting will be a call-in, scheduled for March 15, 2012, to discuss the Reunion outreach.


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The impulse to speed past the vehicle that just cut you off could cost you more than a speeding ticket. Rapidly accelerating or slamming on your brakes can lower your fuel efficiency by 33% on highways and 5% elsewhere, according to www.fueleconomy.gov. Keeping your cool on Lake Shore Drive instead of alternating frantically between your brakes and gas pedal could save you some change.
3. Clean Out Your Trunk
Storing your kids' little league equipment or your golf clubs in your trunk all year-round? That extra load is decreasing your gas mileage, says the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). Only store items in your trunk when you must; otherwise, limit storage to essentials like an ice scraper, umbrella, or jump cables. Plus, a nice, clean car is a big perk for you and your clients!
4. Care for Your Car
You know the little sticker your Jiffy Lube attendant puts in your windshield to remind you when your next oil change appointment should be? Whether your owner's manual suggests you change your oil every 3,000 miles or every 7,500 miles, try and stick to it. Some of the other services auto shops provide during an oil change (like checking your tire pressure and replacing air filters) are just as important to getting better mileage out of your car as changing your oil. According to www.fueleconomy.gov, you can save up to 41 cents per gallon by replacing a clogged air filter. For 12 gallons of gas, that's more than $5 in savings.
5. Look on the Bright Side?
According to Time Magazine, there are some benefits to soaring gas prices. Globalized jobs returning home, reduced pollution, fewer traffic deaths, and even decreased obesity rank among Time's "10 Good Things About $4 Gas." Granted, Chicago passed the $4 mark months ago. But for those who like to find the silver lining, visit www.time.com to learn more.
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Shopping at Urban Outfitters is designed to feel like an exercise in being a young, urban hipster; you know, the kind who's into rooftop gardening, skinny jeans, vinyl and cheeky books about marijuana. But the dude who owns the company? Well, he's pretty much the opposite of that.
Meet Richard Hayne, the 63-year-old founder and chairman of Urban Outfitters, whose net worth Forbes reports at $1.4 billion, putting him at #262 on the list of the 400 Richest People in America.
Hayne started a company called The Free People (yep, that one) in 1970 as a young hippie, selling clothes to kids outside of the University of Pennsylvania. Today, Hayne's property includes Free People, Anthropologie and UO, and Terrain, a new gardening company.
Liberal activists have long called for a boycott of UO, due to Hayne's conservative political beliefs, and the fact that he puts his money where his mouth is. He and his wife Margaret have contributed $13,150 to Republican Sen. Rick Santorum (a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage) and his Political Action Committee over the years. He also donated $10,000 to Meg Whitman's campaign for governor.
Urban came under fire in 2008 when it suddenly pulled the above shirt, which expresses support for same-sex marriage, from stores. The company claims the shirt was pulled due to slumping sales, but others alleged political sympathies stemming from Hayne. Glen Senk, the current CEO of UO, is an openly gay man.
There's been controversy associated with UO in recent years; Miley Cyrus even ranted against the brand for allegedly stealing an Etsy artist's jewelry design. And it's no doubt ironic that all of the (mostly) liberal, indie-minded hipsters swarming Urban Outfitters at all hours are perhaps unknowingly padding the pockets of Hayne and his conservative beneficiaries.
Would you stop shopping at a store because you disagreed with the CEO's political beliefs? Does that affect how you feel about Urban Outfitters?


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Words by Natalie Weiner—
Jamaican film Better Mus' Come has garnered international attention for its unflinching portrayal of politically-driven gang violence in 1970s-era Kingston. Directed by Storm Saulter, it has won a number of different awards, including Best Feature at the Trinidad & Tobago and Bahamas International film festivals; Best Director at the Pan-African Film Festival; and Best Actor at the American Black Film Festival. Other Caribbean filmmakers, like Trinidad's Damian Marcano, have followed in Saulter's footsteps, using contemporary film to shed light on more little known (at least to international audiences) aspects of local Caribbean culture.


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Academic achievements are brand savvy these days...the degree and the institution is of more relevance than the education...does it help us produce truly educated citizens?
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Well dats becoz the educational system doesnt make one think and most colleges churn out poor thinkers and companies have to resort to the name of the degree and university to spearate the wheat from the chaffAnswered by Saj Sierra, 23 Feb '09 09:30 pm
There is a basic loophole in the aim of our whole middle class and their motive for getting educated Shintsie. There is one thing which we all can understand clearly: Education and it's pattern in our country isn't meant to produce good citizens or provide unbiased information.The drafting committee which formulated the new education policy was formed to fulfill the agendas and political idealism of the ruling party.So much is wrong with Indias politics and our mentality to avoid the same with our age old 'chalta hai' attitude. What explains this most unforgivable disengagement ? Many different reasons have been proposed, but I think it really starts in school. Although the syllabus is now much better, when I was in school I mostly learnt about the Freedom Struggle, Shivaji and the Maratha Empire. I learnt a lot about what the results of the Freedom Struggle should have been and how a democratic India should be run. But I learnt absolutely nothing about what happened in the 50 odd year ...moreAnswered by prashant sharma, 26 Feb '09 08:51 pm
If your intention is stressing on the importance of `creating good citizens out of good education`; then I fear the possibility is rather low. Because the present staggering turn to achieve the academic excellence, especially on professional line, is solely for making/earning green dollars and that too hopping to obtain green card and to get a seat under the umbrella of Uncle Sam. The maddening rush to career oriented courses like MBA MCA Medicine Engineering is an indication enough that we are forgetting, day by day, the need and true essence of educated citizen. Therefore the so~called quality producing educational institutions (and there are many) are bombarding the one and only level of syllabuses which is leading their students to get the label of NRI as soon as they can. Do you wish to read an example in this line? One of my cousins is in the final year of MD and I know her future ability to prove herself in the field of gynecology. Her marriage is also settled with a fellow of h ...moreAnswered by Indra Pawar, 24 Feb '09 12:03 pm
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Gone are the days when only a select few had access to these prestigious Institutions where they were tested and tried before they got there but today money speaks and so there is no guarantee that products of these Institutes are the cream of society. Organisatons do employ them but those behind the success of Organisations are those that have come up the ranks who leave no stone unturned to see results.Answered by gem mina, 23 Feb '09 06:14 pm
Degree speaks about ones education and institution speaks about quality of education. From good institutes one can expect good citizens. There is no wrong in this.Answered by Chinna, 23 Feb '09 06:01 pm


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Hot stuff: Myleene Klass sizzles in new swimwear campaign for Littlewoods
Just what we need to brighten up our mid week lull. It may be super cold outside (when, oh when, is this weather going to change?) but Myleene Klass has been doing her best to get us hot under the collar with her sizzling new campaign for her swimwear collection at Littlewoods.com.
Body beautiful Myleene has had season after season of successful womenswear and lingerie collections, so it was only a matter of time before the brand played on her famous visit to the shower on I'm a Celebrity. Shot in Antigua (how much do you want to be right there, right now?), Myleene showcases the 25 piece collection which ranges from an affordable £14 to a luxurious £97.
Myleene said: "I'm so excited to launch my first swimwear collection for Littlewoods.com. After my 'white bikini', I'm forever being asked to give away my bikini secrets so here goes. Swimwear that fits and flatters you like underwear does is how to look and feel confident on holiday. Try one of my vibrant, eye catching bikinis in the privacy of your own home and you'll see what I mean. I've modelled and worn bikinis for my job for the last 12 years so trust me I know what works.. and THAT'S the Littlewoods touch!"
Made up of vibrant brights, pretty florals, animal prints and feminine frill detailing, we thin Myleene could wear a bin bag and look fabulous, but the bikini's are probably worth a look for your upcoming summer holidays. Visit Myleene's Littlewoods collection here.


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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Mayor Steve Williams addressed City Council and residents Friday in his first State of the City address.
Williams is looking to generate revenue through fines, collecting nearly $4 million in unpaid business and occupation taxes owed to the city. He repeated what he said shortly after taking office that he will not raise taxes.
"Four and a half million dollars is ten percent of our budget," he explained.
As a part of his initiatives he wants to hire 11 people. Williams said of those 11 hires, nine of the jobs would be directly connected to revenue generation -- in part through his initiatives of code enforcement and Business and Occupation Tax collection.
He believes the people hired would collect more money than their salaries -- in some cases double or triple their cost to the city.
Williams is also vowing an ordinance that will force people to remove things like couches and mattresses from outside their homes. He believes this will add to an overall boost in the quality of life in Huntington.
"Those are the individuals who are drawing down the property values elsewhere," he said. "We are going to be very active in doing what is necessary."
"I'm very excited about the initiatives the mayor has laid out," Councilman Dave Ball said. "It's very ambitious types of initiatives, but ambition is what we need."
"He put the folks on notice," Councilman Mark Bates said. "If you're not in compliance, we're coming after you."
Bates says they'll be looking over each new proposed position.
"I'll look at it individually," Bates said. "If there's a merit and it can be paid for, obviously I'll support it."
Williams says the plan is built to be flexible, and if those new positions don't work the way intended, they'll make adjustments.
"It's only one position at a time," Williams said. "The intention is to be lean, so when we find inevitably that we'll have to make adjustments, we'll be able to do it at a moment's notice."
Budget hearings begin later this month. Those hearings will go on for three or four weeks.
The mayor is also proposing a host of other initiatives, including the following:
Williams is also interested in starting an Arts Council. He says this can happen without taxpayer dollars by encouraging the groups who already call Huntington home -- to take it a step further.
"It's (the office of Mayor) the bully pulpit," Williams said. "The city won't be doing this. It's leadership. I am reaching out to all of the people. Come, let's come together and talk among ourselves and lets bring this chorus into a wonderful melody."


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Dec 4, 2012This movie is the story history of Factory Records which created many great bands such as Joy Division/New Order and The Happy Mondays. It's kind of like "This is Spinal Tap" except that was fiction, this one is true. And that makes the funny parts in 24 hour party people even more funny because it's true!!! If you are a fan of the Britpop, Madchester or punk scenes then you should see this movie to get a sense of the scenes that music originated from.… Collapse
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|Program Code
|Program Title
|Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
|Department Name
|Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp
|Agency/Bureau Name
|Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
|Program Type(s)
Block/Formula Grant
|Assessment Year
|Assessment Rating
|Moderately Effective
|Assessment Section Scores
|Program Funding Level
(in millions)
|Year Began
|Improvement Plan
NRC will develop geographic performance measures and outcome measures.
|Action taken, but not completed
|Require their organizations to report through organizational underwriting their exact geographic service area in relation to HUD's underserved definition. Having identified a limited set of indicators that best describe successful community development, continue to test and refine this set of indicators
Use geographic performance measures in its five-year "Activities and Output Measures" plan. Continue to develop more rigorous and meaningful short-term and long-term indicators of NWO accomplishments by measuring change at individual, household, or neighborhood level.
Having identified a limited set of indicators that best describe successful community development, continue to test and refine this set of indicators. Determine targets for performance and outcome measures based on this set of indicators.
Develop Community Index to measure health of communities, such as perception of the neighborhood; data on mortgage lending and homeownership; and crime data. Projected to finalize project by the end of FY09.
|Action taken, but not completed
|The latest version of the CRI was sent early this fiscal year to experts to review and comment on the econometric methods used. We are currently responding to their comments and suggestions and revising the measure. It is expected that the revised CRI will be ready by the end of FY08. It will be applied to a number of NWO service areas and some comparative areas during FY09 for field testing and a final product is expected by the end of FY09.
|Year Began
|Improvement Plan
The Administration proposes an increase in funds for NRC consistent with the generally good PART findings.
Measure: Total direct investments made by NeighborWork Organizations (in millions of dollars)
Explanation:Measures the direct investment made in low-income communities by 225 NeighborWorks Organizations, which are supported by NRC's network and capital grants.
Measure: Number of homeownership units constructed
Measure: Housing preservation of single-family homes and other housing units.
Explanation:The measure reflects post home ownership services that include home rehabs, mortgage refinance and foreclosure mitigation counseling. The measure is comprised of the counts of home rehabs, refinanced mortgages and favorable foreclosure mitigation outcomes. Other Units include mixed use commercial projects (housing units only) and special projects, housing for special needs populations.
Measure: Total number of professional training certificates awarded
Explanation:These reflect the certificates of course completions by NeighborWorks Training Institute.
Measure: Total individuals provided with homeownership counseling
Explanation:Both pre- and post-purchase counseling is provided
Measure: Cost per homeownership unit produced
Explanation:NRC capital grant expenditures per units produced.
Measure: Matching of private funds to each one dollar of federal funding
Explanation:Leverage measure
|Section 1 - Program Purpose & Design
Is the program purpose clear?
Explanation: NRC seeks to promote reinvestment in older neighborhoods by local financial institutions working cooperatively with community people and local government. The corporation funds selected neighborhood preservation projects which show promise as mechanisms for reversing neighborhood decline and improving the quality of neighborhood life. The NeighborhWorks network includes 225 neighborhood housing services programs in neighborhoods throughout the United States, monitors their progress, and provides grants and technical assistance. Many organizations choose quality housing opportunities as a cornerstone of their revitalization strategy.
Evidence: The Corporation's authorizing legislation (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), which has been has been adjusted at the direction of Congress through Committee reports states, 'The Corporation shall experimentally replicate neighborhood preservation projects which have demonstrated success, and after creating reliable developmental processes, bring the new programs to neighborhoods throughout the United States which in the judgment of the Corporation can benefit there from, by providing assistance in organizing programs, providing grants in partial support of program costs, and providing technical assistance to ongoing programs.'
Does the program address a specific and existing problem, interest or need?
Explanation: NRC aims to address the problems of decline that occur in older neighborhoods. Specifically, NRC focuses on housing and homeownership as the means through which they seek to reverse neighborhood decline. The Corporation has also become involved in homebuyer training, and has agreed to fill a gap in services by establishing standards for 'training the trainers' of homebuyer education and counseling through the NeighborWorks Center for Homeownership Education and Counseling.
Evidence: While the homeownership rate in the U.S. has hit a record level of 68%, many segments of the population and areas have been left behind. The homeownership rate for whites is 75%, the African-American homeownership rate is only 48% and only 47% Latino families own their own homes. If a family's income is at or above the median, the rate of homeownership is 83.3 percent. For families earning less than the median income, the rate of homeownership is 51.3 percent. Furthermore, poverty areas (census tracts with poverty rates greater than 30 percent) have average homeownership rates of 31 percent compared to the metropolitan area average of 64 percent.
Is the program designed so that it is not redundant or duplicative of any other Federal, state, local or private effort?
Explanation: While NRC funding overlaps with other Federal assistance, NRC's approach distinguishes itself from other efforts by its chartering process for member organizations must maintain a high level of effectiveness to receive funding for neighborhood revitalization efforts.
Evidence: Similar programs include HUD's HOME 15 percent set-aside for Community Housing Development Organizations and the Living Cities initiative, which provides technical assistance and capacity building to community development corporations. While these programs have some similarities, NRC distinguishes itself by also providing training and certification for community development professionals and a mantaining a dedicated secondary market, the Neighborhood Housing Services of America (NHSA).
Is the program design free of major flaws that would limit the program's effectiveness or efficiency?
Explanation: NRC receives a flexible appropriation each year, which it uses to promote and strengthen their professional core and grassroots network. Grants are supplemented by targeted technical assistance and coupled with a program evaluation process that assist the organizations to implement proven strategies and to evaluate their results against other organizations engaged in similar lines of business. Neighborhood Reinvestment mandates a rigorous affiliation and review process that evaluates the organization's mission and target neighborhoods and populations before admitting applicants into the network.
Evidence: The emphasis on homeownership as a means for improving a families quality of life and neighborhood revitalization is supported by research. Compared to renters, homeowers are 15 percent more satisfied with their home, 20 percent happier with their neighborhood, and have a median net wealth of a low-income homeowner is over 13 times that of a similar renter. Homeowners are more stable -- more than a 33 percent of low-income renters move yearly, while less than 8 percent of homeowners do. Homeownership also improves neighborhoods: homeowners are 28 percent more likely to repair or improve their homes than renters, higher homeownership rates lead to higher home prices, and homeowners are 26 percent more likely to be involved in block clubs, parent-teacher organizations and other civic groups.
Is the program effectively targeted, so that resources will reach intended beneficiaries and/or otherwise address the program's purpose directly?
Explanation: Data suggest organizations succeed in targeting low- to moderate-income populations; however, it is unclear whether distressed neighborhoods are targeted. While affordable housing activities may target middle- or even upper class areas, where housing costs are higher. Given, NRC is primarily a neighborhood revitalization program one would expect a majority of their funding to be targeted to more distressed areas than this data indicate. During NRC's affiliations process, NWOs must declare a service area that focuses on a community need. Organizational Assessment and Field Operations Units then assess their ability to serve that area during the affiliation process. Organizations must describe their service area in terms of census tracts and describe the lines of business active in those areas.
Evidence: Several measures demonstrate the successful targeting of their activities to low-income persons: 94 percent are first-time buyers; 67 percent earn less than 80 percent of area median income; and 52 percent are ethnic/minority households. The targeting of funds to distressed neighborhoods needs to be more clearly outlined with better neighborhood-level data. For example, 47 percent of NeighborWorks organizations' service areas (census tracts) fall within 'underserved areas' designated by HUD, which is equal to the 47 percent of metropolitan areas covered by this designation.
|Section 1 - Program Purpose & Design
|Section 2 - Strategic Planning
Does the program have a limited number of specific long-term performance measures that focus on outcomes and meaningfully reflect the purpose of the program?
Explanation: Neighborhood Reinvestment has several long term measures and goals, but is in the process of developing measures that focus on outcomes such as changes in neighborhoods or the lives of persons assisted. NRC has committed to developing an index of comunity development indicators to measure improvement in distressed NWO neighborhoods. This index will combine factors focusing on physical, social and economic dimensions of the community, including: resident and stakeholder perception of the neighborhood to gauge the first hand perception of improvement and confidence, HMDA data on mortgage lending to gauge investment and homeownership; and crime data to gauge community safety/security.
Evidence: Some other potential long-term measures include: homeownership rates, home equity that has accrued to homebuyers assisted by NWOs, and home price or other neighborhood trends in NWO target areas.
Does the program have ambitious targets and timeframes for its long-term measures?
Explanation: See. 2.1.
Does the program have a limited number of specific annual performance measures that can demonstrate progress toward achieving the program's long-term goals?
Explanation: NRC reports several annual performance measures as part of its GPRA plans. NRC has also adopted an efficiency measure that focuses on the cost per unit produced. Annual performance measures such as the number of homeownership units produced directly contribute to NRC's long-term outcomes of neighborhood revitalization achieved through increasing homeownership for low-income families.
Evidence: Key annual output measures include: number of homeownership units contructed, total investment by NeighborWorks Organizations, total number of professional training certificates awarded, total number of housing rehab and other units produced. The efficiency measure is the cost per unit produced, broken down by hoemownership unit, mutual housing and multi-family unit, and single-family rehab units.
Does the program have baselines and ambitious targets for its annual measures?
Explanation: These annual measures have been projected and tracked in Neighborhood Reinvestment's plan and budget documents (Budget submission, GPRA, Budget Justification) each year, with consistent increases each year
Evidence: See targets in measure tab.
Do all partners (including grantees, sub-grantees, contractors, cost-sharing partners, and other government partners) commit to and work toward the annual and/or long-term goals of the program?
Explanation: The NeighborWorks network participates directly in establishing and achieving the annual and long-term goals articulated by Neighborhood Reinvestment. Through programmatic 'steering committees' associated with key program initiatives, Neighborhood Reinvestment consults actively with the leadership of NeighborWorks organizations to ensure that 100% of corporate goals align with NeighborWorks organizations' goals.
Evidence: Through the annual submission of their organizational plans and requests for services and resources, 100 percent of NeighborWorks organizations outline their own goals, including their capacity-building goals, their goals in terms of services to families and individuals. In the new Organizational Underwriting system (which will be fully rolled out by 2006). NWOs set community-level goals, which NRC will review and use to make decisions on which projects to fund. The NeighborWorks organizations then report their progress against these goals through regular production reports and annual updates of their plans/goals.
Are independent evaluations of sufficient scope and quality conducted on a regular basis or as needed to support program improvements and evaluate effectiveness and relevance to the problem, interest, or need?
Explanation: NRC has agreed to complete a sufficiently rigorous evaluation over the next year. Several studies have been done on various aspects of NRC operations and a series of regular independent evaluations have been conducted to assess short- and longer-term results of various components of the overall programmatic spectrum of the NeighborWorks network. The evaluation method will provie the most rigorous evidecne of the program's effectiveness that is appropriate and available. It will also examine the underlying cause and effect relationship between the program and achievement of performance targets. The evaluation will focus on the relative effectiveness of the NeighborWorks network in contributing to positive change in their target communities against comparable communities not served by NeighborWorks organizations.
Evidence: A recent study entitled, 'Individual and Neighborhood Impacts of Neighborhood Reinvestment's Homeownership Pilot Program' begins to evaluate the fundamental question regarding NRC's impacts on neighborhoods. However, the study focused on only a few 'high producing' NWOs. More comprehensive studies are needed to determine impact and effectiveness of Neighborhood Reinvestment network.
Are Budget requests explicitly tied to accomplishment of the annual and long-term performance goals, and are the resource needs presented in a complete and transparent manner in the program's budget?
Explanation: Neighborhood Reinvestment's Budget Justification identifies performance targets for each major function (capacity building, preserving homeownership and private rental housing/equity capital, organizational assessment, training and informing, secondary market) in an activities and output measures table.
Evidence: The estimated cost of achieving these targets is provided in a functional budget breakdown. Further detailed programmatic and cost information for each function, including current and future year goals, and prior year results, is provided in the 'major functions' section of the Justification. Several budget tables and analyses are presented in the Congressional justifications The annual audit presents the actual costs, by major function, including allocation of overhead across functional areas.
Has the program taken meaningful steps to correct its strategic planning deficiencies?
Explanation: A comprehensive strategic planning process was undertaken in 2000-2001, which resulted in several substantive improvements. For example, NRC developed more clear and measurable articulation of corporate goals, linking outcome goals to corporate goals, and overhauled performance plans for individual staff members.
Evidence: NRC created a COO position and reorganized reporting lines to coordinate better across key functional divisions to support more integrated service delivery. Two years ago, an internal review staff noted that 45% of the shortcomings of network organizations related to inadequate Board oversight. As a result, NRC established measurable goals for our own network and designed training specifically targeted to Board Treasurers. Senior management also meet quarterly to review status and adjust strategies as needed.
|Section 2 - Strategic Planning
|Section 3 - Program Management
Does the agency regularly collect timely and credible performance information, including information from key program partners, and use it to manage the program and improve performance?
Explanation: The Corporation collects quarterly production and annual organizational data from 100% of NeighborWorks affiliates, as well as annual A-133 financial audits. The NWOs submit annual reports and consultants surveys NWOs each year to NRC for review.
Evidence: Since 1991, NRC has gathered performance data from all NeighborWorks organizations quarterly to track progress toward annual performance goals. This regular performance data is analyzed in the aggregate and also at the district and program initiative levels to allow for follow up. Progress toward annual goals is monitored and influence NRC award decisions. See measures sheet for specific measures.
Are Federal managers and program partners (including grantees, sub-grantees, contractors, cost-sharing partners, and other government partners) held accountable for cost, schedule and performance results?
Explanation: The Corporation, its grantees and its contractors are all held accountable by annual reviews, legal letters of agreement that clearly articulate 'deliverables', and evaluations by Neighborhood Reinvestment managers. The use of Neighborhood Reinvestment capital is tracked through careful review of the required A-133 annual audit, which each network member must submit to the Corporation along with any management letters provided by external auditors.
Evidence: Rigorous annual performance reviews include evaluations of corporate managers by supervisors and direct reports, as well as measurable progress toward goals of each department. All sub-grantees are assessed on an annual or more frequent basis to determine and address any areas of risk through NRC's Organizational Health Tracking System. Neighborhood Reinvestment uses a Request of Qualifications and Proposals process to manage the acquisition and use of professional services to ensure that these services are obtained and managed in the most cost-effective manner.
Are funds (Federal and partners') obligated in a timely manner and spent for the intended purpose?
Explanation: Neighborhood Reinvestment's Budget justification includes analyses of actual spending compared to estimates and plans submitted in prior justifications. Department budget managers have real-time access to the corporation's computerized accounting system, providing them the most up-to-date budget vs. actual information. Over the past 5 years, the carry-forward from the federal appropriation (excluding set-asides) and other unrestricted sources such as interest and training registration fees ranged from one to three percent.
Evidence: Every month the Corporation's budget analyst monitors budget to actual performance corporate-wide, including analysis of total expenditures by cost category against the Congressionally-approved operating plan. When organizations are disaffiliated, the Corporation's Office of General Counsel takes action to recapture unspent funds in the organization's revolving loan fund.
Does the program have procedures (e.g. competitive sourcing/cost comparisons, IT improvements, appropriate incentives) to measure and achieve efficiencies and cost effectiveness in program execution?
Explanation: Program has been able to demonstrate efficiencies over time. Neighborhood Reinvestment has formed an Information Management Investment Committee that is comprised of the direct reports of the CEO and COO; the committee is dedicated to aligning IM's work with corporate strategic plans, establishing priorities for investment and ensuring cross-functional coordination on IM issues.
Evidence: The Corporation's personnel policies provide cash awards as incentives to managers who can document 'efficiencies and innovations resulting in saved time and money.' Other IT-related improvements designed to increase cost effectiveness include: a data management project with goals of eliminating data redundancy and improving data integrity;implementation of e-commerce applications to provide efficiencies in customer service; and, a portal for efficient document sharing and knowledge sharing across the organization.
Does the program collaborate and coordinate effectively with related programs?
Explanation: Founded on a partnership model of public sector, private business and residents, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and its affiliates coordinate with other federal agencies and with national and regional nonprofit organizations. Directors from the five financial regulatory agencies and HUD comprise the Board of Directors for Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. All NeighborWorks organizations involve government, business and residents in leadership.
Evidence: On average, all governmental contributions/grants per NeighborWorks organization in 2002 amounted to 37 percent of their total operating budget. Furthermore, NRC has raised funds from a variety of private sectors sources such as banks and mortgage companies ($1.2M), national foundations ($.4M), retail stores ($3.6M), government sponsored entities ($1.7M), and insurance companies ($.3M). The Corporation is a HUD Housing Counseling intermediary and partnered with the Corporation to deliver training to Public Housing Authorities on the Housing Choice Voucher program nationwide and achieved results in support of the administrations minority homeownership initiative.
Does the program use strong financial management practices?
Explanation: The Corporation's policies and procedures that manage daily operations are consistent with generally accepted accounting procedures. In addition, the Corporation's internal auditor conducts regular reviews of significant internal systems and processes (financial, administrative and programmatic). During the last year, the internal auditor has reviewed time and expense procedures, the payroll process, and procedures for managing outside funds.
Evidence: From 1998-2003, the external auditors noted no material internal control weaknesses in the Corporation's annual audits -- 'Report on Compliance and on Internal Control over Financial Reporting Based on an Audit of Financial Statements Preformed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards' and 'Report on Compliance with Requirements Applicable to Each Major Program and Internal Control over Compliance in Accordance with OMB Circular A-133.'
Has the program taken meaningful steps to address its management deficiencies?
Explanation: In July 1992, the General Accounting Office reviewed the operations of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and found several areas that needed improvement, most notably, oversight of NeighborWorks Organizations and grant management practices. In response, the Organizational Health Tracking System for all NeighborWorks organizations was created to provide regular on-site program reviews.
Evidence: Neighborhood Reinvestment is moving toward an organizational underwriting model where investment decisions are based on a multi-year plan for the NeighborWorks organization to strengthen in measurable ways the neighborhoods which it serves. In 2003, 98.26% of financial audits of 225 NWOs were in compliance, which is the highest rate ever.
Does the program have oversight practices that provide sufficient knowledge of grantee activities?
Explanation: Neighborhood Reinvestment's practices support strong oversight of NeighborWorks organizations (grantees) activities and management consultants provide programmatic oversight and assistance. NRC uses its PROMPT reviews to rate each organization as exemplary, stable or vulnerable based on ratings in the following areas: planning; resource management; organizational oversight; financial, contract, and personnel management; production/program services; and technical operating systems. If an organization is found to be vulnerable, an action plan is jointly developed and closely monitored until corrective actions are resolved. NRC can place an organization's membership charter in provisional status or permanently revoke it and recapture funds.
Evidence: All NeighborWorks organizations submit comprehensive organizational reports and independent audits annually and production reports quarterly. As a result of the PROMPT reviews, the Corporation has disaffiliated more than 24 organizations and revoked charters of 40 over the past five years due to management deficiencies, changed missions or other types of non-compliance with the chartering agreement. Capital funds were recaptured from three NWOs in FY2003 for a total of $457,000.
Does the program collect grantee performance data on an annual basis and make it available to the public in a transparent and meaningful manner?
Explanation: Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation collects annual and quarterly performance data from grantees, which is made public through the Corporation's website. Accomplishment information is updated annually and made available on the web for each NWO.
Evidence: All NeighborWorks organizations submit comprehensive production reports annually, and more specific reports on specific programs are collected quarterly. These reports are aggregated to track progress toward numeric goals for the NeighborWorks system, and the level of future grants to NeighborWorks organizations is tied to performance. The progress toward goals can be compared across NeighborWorks organizations by examining the organizations' profiles on www.nw.org.
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Has the program demonstrated adequate progress in achieving its long-term performance goals?
Explanation: Program received a yes on question 2.1 and a no on 2.2. However, NRC has committed to developing an index of community development indicators and hold NWOs accountable for measuring the index over time.
Does the program (including program partners) achieve its annual performance goals?
Explanation: Recent GPRA annual reports have indicated that Neighborhood Reinvestment and the NeighborWorks network consistently met or exceeded the annual performance goals, except where external conditions (e.g. economy, financial and housing markets, and security threats) have affected meeting these goals.
Evidence: For example, in FY 2003, the Corporation exceeded eight of its thirteen aggressive 'stretch' goals. The five exceptions were the result of the external conditions, and in every case, the 2003 results surpassed 2002 achievements.
Does the program demonstrate improved efficiencies or cost effectiveness in achieving program goals each year?
Explanation: Data suggest that Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation has been successful at enhancing their productivity and leveraging federally appropriated funds.
Evidence: The ratio of outputs (key performance measures) compared to inputs (staffing and congressional funding) demonstrates improved efficiency in achieving program goals. From 1993 to 2003, the Federal appropriation has grown 260 percent and staff has grown 17 percent; however, the number of home-ownership units increased 600 percent and training contract hours increased 299 percent and affordable multifamily, mutual or rental housing units increased 91 percent. Targeting remained as strong or stronger.
Does the performance of this program compare favorably to other programs, including government, private, etc., with similar purpose and goals?
Explanation: NRC uses federal appropriations to leverage outside private investment to fund new innovations and initiatives and then disseminates lessons learned. Neighborhood Reinvestment and the NeighborWorks network repeated pilot new products, test new approaches and convene internal and external practitioners on matters of concern to the industry. Neighborhood Reinvestment shares a focus on capacity building with Living Cities, but Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation is more fully engaged, through an intensive chartering process of NeighborWorks organizations, annual organizational health reviews and financial audits, providing financial assistance through organizational underwriting, extensive data collection on impact indicators, on-site technical assistance, specialized training and peer learning opportunities.
Evidence: For every federal $1, NeighborWorks organizations leverage $19.40 in private funds. In comparison, the federal government invested $254 million in Living Cities investments, which leverage $2.2 billion in private investment, indicating that each $1 of federal investment in Living Cities generates $8.66 in private investment.
Do independent evaluations of sufficient scope and quality indicate that the program is effective and achieving results?
Explanation: Several evaluations of specific programs of the Corporation indicate strong accomplishments and results. Moreover, independent surveys of grantees show grantee and stakeholder satisfaction. The independent evaluations have validated the effectiveness of program strategies and implementation by Neighborhood Reinvestment and the NeighborWorks organizations. However, NRC has agreed to research and develop a study with a wider scope to analyze the effectiveness of a greater percentage of the Corporation's programs.
Evidence: The study entitled, 'Individual and Neighborhood Impacts of Neighborhood Reinvestment's Homeownership Pilot Program' begins to evaluate and demonstrate the fundamental question regarding NRC's impacts on neighborhoods. Another study, "Estimating the Economic Benefits of NeighborWorks Homebuyer Programs, estimates a variety of benefits for families becoming homeowners, helping families mantain homeownership, and benefits from the contruction activity. Several others have focused on aspects such as their multi-family extremely low income pilot program and NRC grantmaking.
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With its intentional emulation of a Victorian writing-style and elaborate machines recalling the dawn of science fiction, Morlock Night, K.W. Jeter's sequel to The Time Machine, was the novel for which the phrase "steampunk" was invented. Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction rooted in the speculative fiction of the nineteenth century and is distinguished by its use of Victorian-era settings, steam-powered technology, and stylistic elements influenced by nineteenth century writing. Morlock Night's combination of science fiction and alternate history proved to be a major stylistic influence that codified many aspects of the steampunk genre. Shorter and more action oriented than Wells' novel, it is dominated by an atmosphere of darkness and suspense and an ironic, knowing wit.
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[QUOTE=bitonti;4259400]read your own link "Unclear is whether this would also lead to assembly of future EVs for the U.S. market in China."
there is a considerable import cost to transporting assembled cars across an ocean. as the price labor goes up in China, this becomes less likely not more likely.[/QUOTE]
That's not the point. GM's profit is in Asia the market for these ev's in Asia is dependent on them being built their not here. As more assembly, spare parts and technology for these cars goes over to China the more likely it is they will be producing for our market. The whole point of subsidizing technology is to keep it here. The big multi nationals have no reason to keep tech here.
I would also bet it's competitive to ship to both the WC and the EC by ship from China as it is to ship by piggy back inland from plants in the US to the major markets. Ocean freight is relatively cheap. I can move containers from Asia to LA cheaper than I can ship a Truck from Chicago to LA.


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Prep: 40 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon
McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups ground walnuts
3 tablespoons baking cocoa
2 to 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
1 package (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
2 teaspoons shortening
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat
in vanilla. Combine the flour, walnuts and cocoa; gradually add to
creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or
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On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4-in. thickness.
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Carmela \c(a)-rme-la, car-mela\ as a girl's name has the meaning "garden, orchard" and is a variant of Carmel (Hebrew), biblical place name: Mount Carmel is in Israel near the city of Haifa, and is often referred to as a type of paradise.
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