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Friends of Youth receives $20,000 grant
Friends of Youth recently received a $20,000 grant from The Seattle Foundation to provide general operating support.
Friends of Youth, which has an Issaquah branch and is celebrating its 60th year, provides a broad, comprehensive spectrum of shelter, housing, counseling and prevention services for young people and their families in King and Snohomish counties.
Bellevue College student wins award for interior design
Bellevue College student Anne Aristya, of Issaquah, won an award for excellence in Interior Design from the Seattle Design Center as part of its 12th annual Northwest Design Awards Competition, which celebrates the best of regional interior design.
Aristya took first place for her work in INDES 265 Design Illustration under the guidance of instructor Sandra Wilson.
Designers, architects and students competed with projects in 10 competition categories. A panel of local subject experts evaluated submissions through an anonymous process, measuring each project on the basis of proportion, composition, use of space, materials and appropriateness of the design solution.
This year's categories were: bathroom, bedroom, commercial, hospitality, kitchen, outdoor living, student design, whole house (less than $400,000), whole house (more than $400,000) and yacht/jet.
More than 250 members of the design community attended the awards presentation at the Northwest Design Awards Gala.


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Miley Cyrus is best known for her twerking ass. But second up is her very long tongue. Why does it get so much out-of-mouth play? Because (and this is really funny), says Miley, she feels nervous and awkward when she's being photographed and she doesn't know what else to do. Oh Smiley Miley, is there no body part you haven't wagged before the camera. Let's leave something (anything, please!) to the imagination.
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Look for Rory McIlroy to bounce back big from his loss to Hunter Mahan at Match Play last week.
What is the most underrated adjustment for golfers going from the West Coast Swing to the Florida Swing?
Is it the change from Poa Annua greens to Bermuda? This certainly is a factor but PGA TOUR players are used to different surfaces and quickly make the adjustment.
Chipping from Rye grass rough compared to Bermuda? This is a major adjustment and cannot be learned in a week.
Florida humidity compared to frost delays? That is a matter of comfort and not performance.
Eating grits versus avocado? This is an acquired taste.
What's the toughest transition? It's the time change.
For more than a month, most of the PGA TOUR players have been on Pacific Standard Time and it takes bodies a while to adjust to the East Coast. The internal clock fights a person when it's time to get out of bed at 7:00 a.m. ET and it still feels like 4:00 a.m. PT. For this first week on the East Coast, players can feel disoriented.
Rickie Fowler is used to both coasts and it can still be difficult. He grew up in California and now lives in Florida. "The first couple of days back things just seem… a little off. You get hungry at strange times and I can tell I don't sleep as well when I first get back. It takes a while to get use to it. For some reason it helps to drink a lot of water that first day back."
Jeev Milkha Singh globe trots the world playing golf and frequently crosses multiple time zones to compete. He once told me a simple solution to solve the jet lag problem. "No matter what time I land in a country, no matter what time I left, if I have a lot of sleep or little sleep, I always do one thing. I make myself stay awake until 11 o'clock at night after I land. Sometimes that's hard to do, but if I go to sleep at 11, I wake up the next morning already adjusted to whatever timezone I am in."
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PLACE chocolate in 1-cup glass measuring cup; microwave as directed on package. Let stand 5 min. to cool.
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After a long illness, Louise R. Caswell passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 30, 2012. Born March 20, 1919, in Nebraska City, Neb., to German immigrants Karl and Hulda Rausch, she was the youngest of 14. She moved to Placerville during World War II, working at the Ration Board where she met her husband, John M. (Jack) Caswell. They married in 1946.
Besides being a fine homemaker, Louise was a partner with Jack in all his endeavors: farming, politics and business. For decades Louise and Jack sold cherries from the family orchards. Many may affectionately remember her as Placerville's "Cherry Lady." She won blue ribbons at the county fair for her canned and baked goods. Her angel food cake was often a requested party cake. She supported her children in their school and social activities. She also volunteered with the Marshall Hospital Auxiliary, the Federated Church and the Girl Scout Council.
She is survived by her daughters, Kathy Mack (Ken) and Joyce Caswell (Finn Brady); son, John M. Caswell Jr.; grandson, Jay Blattner (Clarisa); great-grandson, Zane; and many nieces and nephews.
Louise will be buried with Jack at Westwood Hills Cemetery. At her request, there will be no services. Her family wants to thank Snowline Hospice for their sympathetic care of our mother in her final days. Memorial contributions may be made to Snowline Hospice, 6520 Pleasant Valley Road, Diamond Springs, CA 95619, or online at snowlinehospice.org.
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SunVolt provides 10 watts of power, SunVolt Max gives 15 watts
Gomadic, creator of "intelligently designed mobile business solutions," has launched the SunVolt and SunVolt Max portable solar chargers. Unlike typical solar chargers, the SunVolt allows for charging speeds identical to that of a traditional wall charger, while still boasting a portable design. Equipped with multiple charger outputs, users can power more than one electronic device at a time from the output of the solar panel.
SunVolt and SunVolt Max are engineered with monocrystalline photovoltaic technology to deliver more power than other solar options. No battery is required for operation, offering an instant charging experience. The power circuit has been designed to ensure power from the sun is converted to usable energy and not wasted on electrical overhead losses. These solar chargers power any device at 5.5V or less, which accounts for most consumer electronics including smartphones, cameras and MP3 players.
By doubling as a lightweight water-resistant carrying case, SunVolt's design offers traveling capabilities. It is also equipped with a built in arm-strap, a zipper pouch and inside pockets. Additionally, the custom-designed adjustable prop system delivers a quick way to deploy and charge anywhere, and ensure optimal sun exposure.
Both models of the solar charger are packaged with a single USB tip which is compatible with most popular devices, and other tips are available as separate purchases. The SunVolt can power up any product that uses 10 watts of power; the SunVolt MAX is engineered with a larger panel, and offers 50 percent more charging power.
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Composer George Gershwin: Once again, the man of the hour.
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George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" is as beloved and familiar a piece of music as any in the American canon, even if nobody is sure what to call it.
Jazz? Classical? Or, as a 9-year-old pianist might describe it, "Jazzical?"
Its opening notes stretch and spiral in an attention-grabbing clarinet glissando. The music presses insistently, evoking the sounds - at least to this listener - of chugging trains, sidewalk traffic and a typewriter. It is a rhapsody in many colors, not just blue. Above all, it is the sound of life in the big city, the essence of New York, where it was born. ...


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Call of Duty: Black Ops - Peripherals incoming
Mad Catz, the video game peripheral specialist, is at Gamescom in full force this year, and was keen to show Pocket-lint its new Call of Duty: Black Ops accessories, including a world's first sneak peak at the Tritton branded Black Ops Dolby Surround Sound headset.
The headset, which was co-designed with game developer Activision, will be hitting the shops in time for the 9 November launch date, and will be compatible with both the Xbox 360 and PS3.
It has dual-decoding chips in the amplifier-box with one chip dedicated to taking the 5.1 sound in, and the other converting it into Dolby's headphone technology, giving you a 5.1 surround sound experience with the two-cans.
The cans have an in-line connector with multiple controls letting you decide how loud you want the game volume, your online buddies' voices and your own voice too.
The headset, which is souped up to the max with Black Ops graphics and logos, will feature backlit ear-cups giving you a stealthy look whilst you're (virtually) killing the Russians.
Our Mad Catz insider told us: "For the hardcore gamer, when you're playing Black Ops there isn't going to be a better quality headset upon launch".
As well as the headset, Mad Catz was also displaying its Cyborg R.A.T Black Ops style gaming mouse, complete with optional gaming surface, which is 5600dpi and has a moveable palm rest as well as 15 programmable modes, to go with precision aiming and 35g of adjustable weights - all wrapped up in a sexy looking aluminium case.
The mouse comes with a 1GB flash dog-tag that lets you save your custom profile for COD tournaments and sessions at your pals when you haven't got your own pointer with you.
Finally, Mad Catz gave us a glimpse of the Black Ops branded Xbox 360 combat controller that takes its COD2 efforts a step further by adding improved combat buttons and, for the first time, a precision aim mode so you can slow down your controller - making it easy to get that ever elusive throat shot (or is it just Pocket-lint that goes for the jugular on Call of Duty?)
Our source explains: "The combat buttons have little switches above that allow you to assign movements that you'd normally find on the front of the pad and reassign them to the rear so when you're entering a melee attack you no longer have to take your thumbs off the analogue thumb sticks".
The controller also contains specialised grips based on a real M16 and, like the headset, it features cool backlights to add to your killing spree ambience.
The Mad Catz Call of Duty: Black Ops range will be out in time for the game's official launch in November, and we'll get you price details as soon as we can.
Incidentally, Pocket-lint was lucky enough to see a screening of some new Black Ops gameplay footage at Gamescom. As Shaun Ryder would say, it twisted our melon.
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Oh my Gawd...
Having worked with a company that sold products to Hospice, one of the main reasons people do not opt for hospice is the per die limits and restrictions. Congress holds the reins on this and should be encouraged to increase the rates and loosen the restrictions. As usual they are pound wise, penny foolish.
My father was in the late stages of his lung cancer when he went to the ER with chest pain which was determined to be of cardiac origin. He was put on a helicopter and flown 100 miles where he underwent cardiac catheterization and stenting. He "recovered" and continued to live in misery until he succumbed of his cancer several months later. This was in another part of the country and I wasn't present. I can only hope that the ER doc had the conversation with him about what his wishes were. I personally would gently point out that death from an MI might be a better option than a lingering death from lung cancer...
As a hospice volunteer, I see these examples. I believe that early conversation with patient, family and medical personel are vital to end of life quality and comfort. Palliative care is always better for the dying patient than intensive care
I agree with Britt from 8 : 54. The strict Medicare regulations of when you can be referred to a hospice ( less than 6 months to live) prevents early referrals and more prevalent referrals to Hospice. Medicare won't pay for Hospice unless you meet strict criteria. Patients are biological beings so it is sometimes difficult to determine when the " end of life " actually is. In fact, the NIH state there is not exact definition of End Of Life. One other note about Hospice, the recent 500 billion dollars in Medicare cuts with the health care legislation last March included cuts to Hospice which hurts their ability to provide services to patients.
I agree with the Dartmouth authors that early and often conversations with patients are helpful. However, some people don't want to have these conversations....so it is not always the doctor's fault.
Also, every case is different. They told me I had less than 1 year to live and after Chemotherapy and other treatments. I have now been alive over 6 years. So it is not always an exact science. Treatment decisions and issues of life and death are highly personal and should be made between the patient, family, clergy, and the clients " personal " health care providers, not a govt. bureaucrat in a centralized location that does not know anything about your case. The other problem with the Dartmouth researchers is they place too much emphasis on regional variability without looking at all of the other numerous and confounding variables that affect this very complex issue. You cannot have a one size fits all cookie cutter solution.
Thanks to Cancer Survivor for sharing your story. A close relative of mine just died of oral cancer a few weeks ago. She had many invasive surgeries, procedures, therapies, countless visits to ERs, ICUs. She was in bad to excruciating pain all the time but was lucid and clear headed and wanted to live. Her only adult child, who was the primary caregiver, wanted her mother to live too. There were many frank conversations with doctors but as long as there was an intervention to be had, they sought it out. May my aunt rest in peace because her last precious years on this earth were hell.
The suggestion that end of life wishes and healthcare proxies may serve both the Patient (and family) better if discussed sooner rather than later makes sense. If the discussions become a matter of course during treatment, there is less shock factor when the patient faces devastating news and less likely to be clear-minded and able to consider options about treatment plans.
Having the discussion even prior to a life altering diagnosis sets the stage for open communication between clinician and patient, as well as between the patient and their family members - leaving fewer questions about how one wishes to be treated - and the opportunity to discuss how to make remaining days the best possible relative to their diagnosis.
Some patients WILL opt for aggressive treatment till the end, others may opt for comfort and quality of life over more aggressive treatments that will likely not change the outcome, but may make their quality of life less for whatever days do remain.
Education for patients and providers that helps decrease the "giving up" stigma from frank discussions about palliative care and hospice, may well be the best medicine regardless of reform politics.
The new program being started by the Regional Health Initiative called Closure would be a great addition in the care for individuals suffering from cancer and other diseases. The combination of all persons involved in providing care to these individuals (doctors, nurses, etc.) will make the difficult decisions of the patents situation easier and much more cohesive. This would allow for treatments to be provided to the patients and earlier initiation of palliative care if the situation calls for it. I often see most decisions in the hospital being made in one direction or the other, either providing treatment or directing individuals to hospice. By implementing qualities of palliative care along with the treatments, the patient could be more receptive to the various options out there and more informed. The most important thing should be the care of the patient, and providing treatment like chemotherapy with palliative care could help improve the quality of life remaining for these individuals.
The US currently wastes about 30% of the health care dollar on medical futility, especially at the end of life where few honest medical goals are accomplished. This translates, according to much long-term care literature, to about 1.2 trillion USD spent foolishly per annum for those past all cures, all remissions, all reprieves from advanced age or dementia. What people who are living their last six months need is just high touch, low tech hospice or palliative care. The typical at home hospice care costs between $100-450 USD per day until natural death, where quality of life is maximized, not the number or days. In the ICU it costs about $10,000 per day just for bed & intensive care nursing. The myriad consultants begin ordering every futile treatment, diagnostic, lab, medicine, critical care meds, disposible, surgery etc that alter not the natural course of a disease process. The human cost of a loved one is also staggering, a large endotracheal tube from mouth to lungs, restraints, suctioning every 2 hours, turning, tubes in every orifice & multiple IVs to treat shut down kidneys and hospital-borne infection. The most cruel part of this great rip off is not even being able to say good bye due to the large tube and multiple electric shocks to the thorax in a full code blue. I was a critical care registered nurse for 9 years & have spent 23 years at the bedside. To better illustrate the colossal waste, fraud & abuse, watch this PBS Frontline special called "Facing Death." Please also visit my web pages for more blogs and some solutions to sane end of life care.
Sincerely, Damiano de Sano Iocovozzi MSN FNP CNS at the Thomas Edwin Walls Foundation
The players in the game do not understand quality of life. They read statistics and can't measure quality.
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|Nidal embolization of brain arteriovenous malformations using Onyx in 94 patients.
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|PMID: 17353327 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To report our experience in the treatment of brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVMs) using Onyx (ev3, Irvine, Calif).
PATIENTS AND METHODS: From January 1999 to October 2004, 94 patients with BAVMs were treated endovascularly in our department. They were 51 (54%) men and 43 (46%) women with a mean age of 32 years. A total of 210 endovascular procedures were performed with Onyx as the sole embolic agent in 88 procedures; Onyx and n-butyl cyanoacrylate (n-BCA) were used in combination in 50 procedures, and n-BCA alone was used in 72 procedures.
RESULTS: The course of endovascular treatment was completed in 53 patients. In 26 patients (49%, 26/53) an angiographic cure was achieved using embolization as the sole therapeutic technique. Seven (13%, 7/53) patients underwent a surgical resection of the residual BAVM nidus, 20 (38%, 20/53) patients underwent radiosurgical treatment after nidal size reduction <2 cm was accomplished by endovascular treatment. Further endovascular treatment was planned in 33 patients, whereas in 5 patients, the continuation of embolization was aborted due to difficult nidus catheterization. Procedure-related permanent neurologic deficits were observed in 8 (8.5%, 8/94) patients. There were 3 procedure-related deaths.
CONCLUSION: Onyx is suitable for brain BAVM embolizations and allows obtaining higher rates of anatomic cures compared with those obtained previously with other embolic agents.
|C Mounayer; N Hammami; M Piotin; L Spelle; G Benndorf; I Kessler; J Moret
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|Created Date: 2007-03-13 Completed Date: 2007-04-18 Revised Date: 2014-07-29
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Mark Baumeister
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Sep 28, 2007 15:11:00
I have a question about passing objects to constructors with different type object parameters.
I am using three classes:
The main class StringEditorGUI class allows me to enter two
objects which are passed to constructors (a default constructor and one with specified parameters) in a StringEditor class. These string objects then I beleive need to be passed to a linked list (MyList) class (that contains two constructors and together create two linked objects. So the problem I am having is that the MyList constructor with specified parameter is of the MyList type and the objects being sent are of the String type. Here is the abbreviate code. I need to understand how to pass the String objects from
the StringEditor (String left, String right) constructor to the
MyList(MyList lst) constructor.
public class StringEditorGUI extends
implements ActionListener {
// create empty StringEditor
private StringEditor ed = new StringEditor();
static public void main(String [] args) {
new StringEditorGUI().setVisible(true);
public void actionPerformed(
ae) {
Object objSource = ae.getSource();
if (objSource == buttonSet) {
String strSet = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter text to set to editor:");
if (strSet != null)
ed = new StringEditor(strSet, "");
} else if (objSource == buttonInsert) {
String strInsert = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter text to insert into " +
"editor at cursor position:");
for (int i = 0; strInsert != null && i < strInsert.length(); i++)
public class StringEditor {
/** Creates a new instance of StringEditor */
// Effect: StringEditor object is created
// Postcondition: no characters are in the string
public StringEditor() {
// Effect: StringEditor object is created
// Precondition: parameters strings are non-null
// Postcondition: characters from strings left and right are represented
// in the editor
public StringEditor(String left, String right) {
public class MyList {
private int numItems;
private Object item;
private MyList next;
/** Creates a new instance of MyList */
// Effect: new MyList object created
// Precondition: None
// Postcondition: an empty MyList object exists
public MyList() {
next = null;
// Effect: new MyList object created that is copy of lst
// Precondition: lst is not null
// Postcondition: an MyList object that is identical to lst exists
public MyList(MyList lst) {
next = lst;
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Sep 29, 2007 22:25:00
Aside from the fact that you need to move your code inside the code tags,
MyList(MyList lst)
suggests to me that you are stuck on getting going. Giving you a direct answer will probably further drill you in. Let me ask you some questions:
What does the list contain ? Strings ?
Is there a base class for MyList that would serve as a list container ?
To pass an item / an object, from one constructor to the next suggests a class hirearchy, which is done by immediately calling super() as the first line in the constructor. You are providing contract statements of what the constructor Preconditions / Postconditions are, which sounds to me like you being instructed by someone who has had to disentangle this stuff many times. I suggest you focus on basics for a little while until you can fulfil conditions.
For one thing, there is a rich toolkit in
Collections, try looking in there for something. If it is a class and not an interface, you can make it a base class for MyList and simplifiy some of your work. By keeping a reference to next in your MyList class, you may be able to construct a list. One of the OO ranchers will have to help you with that.
I suggest not having a default constructor if the intent of the code is to pass
two string objects
... but to answer your question:
MyList(String left, String right) extends StringEditor // constructor. { super( left, right);// immediate call to super - must be first code ;// other code omitted ;// other code omitted ;// other code omitted ;// other code omitted }
I have not tried to do a linked list in any programming language, I always go to a map or hashtable, but since you are trying to do a list, try something like
as your base class for MyList. That is gonna be awful steep for a beginner, but no worse than trying to provide contract pre/post conditions without knowing how to get them fulfilled.
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From the Relief Society Magazine, July 1959 –
Blue Voile for Dreams
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At four o'clock that summer afternoon, Janet Davis pulled from the oven a pan of her famous butterscotch-pecan rolls. Little rivers of melting brown sugar crusted over the luscious mounds of nuts, and the fragrance of buttery caramel and browning yeast-raised dough drifted through the kitchen. It tantalized Janet's nostrils and her mouth became moist, for she was hungry, having eaten nothing since morning. She pressed one finger lightly into the syrup and licked it.
M-m-mm – she knew that the rolls were at their crunchy best when fresh from the oven. She could eat one or two and still have enough left for the bake sale next day, as promised. Almost without thought, she opened a drawer and took out a spatula. Then she flung it back, shoved the drawer shut, pushed the pan of rolls back onto the counter and covered them with a clean towel. She would not, she simply would not, eat one more sweet thing. If temptation assailed her, she had but to recall her own image in the full-length mirror at Mina Dee's Dress Shop that very forenoon. She could remember all too clearly how Mina had looked standing there, a black-sheathed blonde willow, her lips pressed into polite silence, as they both watched Jan's efforts to pull up the zipper. She could hear again the smooth little voice – "I'm so sorry, Mrs. Davis. I don't have that dress in your size." This, as Janet, having pulled up the zipper at last, stared in dismay at the bulges above her girdle. Just in time, she had stopped herself from saying, "But this is my size …"
Jan now glanced at the clock and sighed. Time to start cooking another enormous dinner for her husband, Hal, and their two teenage sons. Hal would soon be home from his work as a machinist, and the boys from her father's farm where they were working during the summer vacation. All three were as lean and muscular as race horses, and they ate like horses, too, she thought, and never gained an ounce. The boys were tall and rangy and tanned; Hal was tall and thick-shouldered and brown, his large face always ruddy and pleasant. Usually, Jan thought of her menfolk with affection. But this afternoon, a tiny line of annoyance was between her eyebrows. How could she diet when she was everlastingly preparing food?
She decided that she would simply go all day each day without eating. Then, when night came, she could sit down and eat a reasonable amount, so that Hal and the boys would not comment. She shuddered to think of the jokes, the laughter, the remarks, if it became known that Mother was dieting. Then she thought of her sister, Elizabeth, who worked in an office in town. No wonder Liz could stay so trim; she was not exposed to food all day; she had no one but herself to fix for, and could eat what she chose. Liz had been a widow for many years. She lived alone in her apartment in the city, now that her daughter had married and moved away. Often she would drive out to see Jan, who lived at the edge of town, and remark how nice it would be to have a place of your own and a garden, and that big walnut tree to shade the lawn in summer.
As Jan scrubbed the potatoes and put them into the oven at the side of the meat loaf, she reflected that it would be best to make a green salad. She could eat a large plate of it, with cottage cheese. Her smooth cheeks glowed like pink satin as she worked. Her brown hair had a natural fluffiness that she secretly bemoaned because she could not make it lie flat and "groomed" the way Liz's hair always looked. Jan was pleasant looking, with a quick smile, color that flared warmly in her cheeks, and the easy, effortless grace sometimes noted in plump people.
While the food was cooking, she went into her bedroom and rummaged around at the back of the clothes closet. There in its plastic bag, hanging safely out of the way, was the blue voile dress. She shook it carefully from its wrapping, holding it in front of her, and posed before the mirror. It was what one might call a love of a dress, with tiny ruffles down the front of the blouse and cascading down the full push-up sleeves. Her gaze went on past the mirror and into the day, three years before, that Hal had given her the dress for her birthday. She had put it on, and modeled it for him, turning and laughing, her cheeks flushed from his praise. And then his face had gone sober, he had pulled her close and kissed her, and said, "Dearest, you don't look a day older than when we were married. You're still my girl – and your eyes are just the color – how did I match them so well?" And then they had looked at each other and smiled, their lips tremulous, and had kissed again.
Jim stroked the dress tenderly, then put it back onto its hanger and into the back of the closet. Of course she couldn't begin to get into it now. Her eyes filled with tears and her lips trembled. No wonder Hal had stopped looking at her in that wonderful way. "I'm just a tub – " she murmured aloud. Next thing she knew her brown hair would be streaked with gray and she would be a fat, aging woman. Anxiously, she peered again into the mirror. Yes, there was a gray hair. She yanked it out. Just then, the doorbell rang, and she heard Liz call out cheerily, "Anybody home?" And then Liz came on back to the bedroom without waiting for an answer.
"I'm just tidying up a bit before supper," said Jan. "You may as well stay and eat. Did you ever see such a hot day! And me with a baked dinner. But I had to furnish butterscotch rolls for the bake sale tomorrow, so thought I might as well go on with the oven."
"So that's what caused that mouth-watering smell in your kitchen." Liz sat on the cretonne-covered chair and kicked off her shoes. "What a day we had at the office."
Liz was taller than Jan, older, her gray hair waved back smartly, her dark eyes smiling through brown-rimmed glasses. Her cheerful expression was overlaid with the fine lines of years of self-discipline. She was wearing a gray-and-white sheer cotton dress with white organdy collar.
Jan said, "I don't see how you keep looking so cool in this heat. And I could almost hate you for being so thin."
"Thin? What brought that up?" Liz laughed. "Did you get your new dress at Mina's sale?"
"No – I didn't find anything. Or – well, if you want to know, she didn't have one that I could get into – Oh, I looked terrible! Those full-length mirrors!" Jan hurried out of the room.
Liz picked up her shoes and followed her sister to the kitchen. Jan began putting the dishes on the table.
She said, "It makes me sick to realize how fat I am. What can I do? Hal never gives me a second glance, any more. I guess he can't stand to. I'm nothing to him but just a cook."
Liz was working her feet back into her shoes. "Oh, Jan, don't exaggerate. You know Hal thinks the world and all of you. And you're several kinds of lucky to have him." She stood up, smoothing down her skirt. "But thank you just the same – I'm not staying for one of your delicious dinners. I'd eat too much. Apparently you haven't noticed it, but I've put on several pounds myself. I had Mina put away a pink suit for me the other day. It's one whole size too small, and I'm going to slim down to it. My motive?" She leaned forward, and moved a plate more exactly into its place on the table. "I'm admitting it to you Jan, and to you alone. Remember Dan Owens, who worked for our firm a year ago and then left for Chicago? I went out with him a bit, but nothing ever came of it. Well, he's back, still single – and he's asked me for a date. He's older than I am – taller – I always regretted that I didn't give him more encouragement before …" She smiled, her cheeks warming. The two women exchanged a long, understanding look.
"Liz, that's wonderful," said Jan. After a few minutes of chatting, she followed her sister to the door, and stood for a moment looking out at the shaded lawn, the roses along the fence, the garden at the side. She thought of the fruit trees in the back yard, and of Hal's work in what he called their "thumbnail farm," of his efforts to keep their home attractive and secure. I am lucky, she thought humbly.
As she turned back to her work, she had made a resolve of her own. She would wear the blue voile dress to the Relief Society opening social in September!
For a week, she held to her breakfasts of dry cereal and weak milk and unsweetened fruit juice, her lunch of lettuce and cottage cheese. But it seemed she was forever stopping herself from tasting as she cooked dinner. By the time night came, she was famished.
At the end of the second week, the sisters compared notes. Jan sighed. "Oh, Liz, you look as if you'd fallen away to a shadow. I've lost three pounds. I'm starved all the time, and I can hardly see any difference."
But Jan did not resent her sister's slimness. Liz was the soul of kindness and encouragement. It was just that she must have been born with great will power, Jan thought.
"Well, I try not to think about it. But for one thing, I'm always cooking. And I'm hungry," said Jan. "Besides, it seems to me that the whole world is in a conspiracy to make people eat too much. Open a magazine, and what do you see? Gorgeous full-color illustrations of delectable recipes. Luscious cakes and pies and desserts, whipped toppings, cream, bananas, all the rest of it. Then, on the next page, like as not an article advising people against gaining weight."
"I can see your point," Liz smiled.
Jan went on bitterly. "It isn't fair, the emphasis that's put on food. Just the other day, I heard a friend telling that she and her husband were looking forward to a reunion with a couple they hadn't seen for years. And what were they planning for entertainment? Eating, of course. They'd saved enough money to go to some swanky restaurant. She was thrilled over food. it's depressing."
Liz said, "it's true. But you don't really look fat, Jan."
"That's sweet of you. By he way, how's your romance coming along? And what will you do if he asks you out for dinner? Then you won't be able to get away with ordering limeade or fruit juice." she asked the question with an air of triumph, as if clinching a point.
"I'll eat, of course. Then the next day, I'll cut down to make up for it."
There were times when Jan didn't know if she really wanted to get thin. her nerves began to fray, gnawed as they were by the pangs of hunger. Her tongue sharpened, too. A few times she caught Hal looking at her thoughtfully. Once he said, "Hon, you're getting awfully nervous. Maybe you need a rest?" and she had bit back an edgy reply.
One evening she had baked puffy, brown-topped biscuits for supper. She hadn't eaten much all day – a slice of stale rye bread and some soup for lunch – hunger pulled at her stomach and destroyed her will. Almost without thinking, she broke open a biscuit, spread butter onto it, and began to eat. She took another.
Hal came into the kitchen. "A–ha! Eating before meals. Something you won't let us do," he cried, his square face one big teasing smile.
"No – really. I was just – sampling …"
"I'll have one, too, now that you've let the bars down." He plopped a whole biscuit into his mouth. Butter oozed at the corners of his lips. "The boys won't be home. Eating at your mother's. Had to go to baseball practice over on that side of town." His voice was thickened by food. He began spooning out jelly.
"M-m-mm – what a good cook I married. This is the best grape jelly you ever made." He set a plate of steaming biscuits on the table.
Hastily, Jan set on the rest of the meal. "You go ahead and eat," she said. "I – I'm going out on the porch for a few minutes – my head aches – I'll be right back." She fled, unable to bear the sight of his eating.
By the time school opened in September, Jan felt that she had developed a will of iron. All her dresses were much looser, she had lost seven pounds, though what she referred to as her fringe weight fluctuated up and down a pound or two.
One Monday, the day before the opening social, she went to her room and took the beloved blue dress from its hanger. She held it up, her hands trembling with eagerness. Just to make sure, she could let out the seams a little there was plenty of material at the sides. Carefully, she basted and stitched and pressed. At last she slipped it over her head. Strange that it wouldn't come down easier – she must have forgotten to undo the side zipper – there – well, it must be caught, or something. she pulled gently. At last the dress came down over her shoulders and hips. She smoothed the skirt. She had planned to get a new girdle, anyway. This old thing was worn out. She hummed a little tune, turning sideways, holding her stomach in. She lifted her hands, and let the soft full sleeves drift back on her arms. All at once, there was a sound at the door.
"Why, Hal Davis. how long have you been standing there?"
She let her hands fall onto her head, and patted her hair.
"Just a minute or two. Why are you trying on that old dress, dear?"
She looked up at him, smiling. "Why, this isn't an old dress. It's the one you gave me for my birthday – it's always been my favorite dress. I'm planning to wear it to the opening social tomorrow." For some reason, her smile had begun to feel tight in her flushed cheeks.
Hal had averted his eyes, and his face had become a careful mask. "I – uh – think you should get a new dress for the social, Jan. You deserve something new, once in a while. You don't need to wear that old one."
Jan sat on alone in the room after she heard the front door slam. Hal had kissed her hurriedly and left. She heard the pick-up truck rumbling out along the driveway from the back of the lot.
At last she took off the blue dress and stuffed it into a bag of old clothing hanging in the hall closet. That's what you get for clinging to something after you've outlived it, she told herself.
She went into the kitchen and began listlessly setting the table. They would have to be satisfied with cold cuts and bread and butter and fruit.
After supper, Jan sat on the front porch in the gathering dusk. The boys had gone to an early movie, and Hal had not come home. She looked out across the lawn. The grass looked dry, and there were little swirls of dust along the path. She got up and dragged the hose around to the front of the house and had turned on the lawn sprinkler when she heard the truck return. She was making a little watering trench in front of the zinnias when Hal came around the house. He was carrying a large box.
"Hi, there, dear. Say, I'll tend to the watering. Why don't you – uh – see what's in this box? Liz sent it over."
Jan continued making a little furrow. She saw with exasperation that it was crooked.
"Liz …?"
"Yes. I – ran onto her downtown. She said she didn't have time to come out here. Had a big date on. And she said to tell you she was wearing the pink suit, and that everything looks rosy. Whatever that means."
He took the stick from her hand.
Jan bit her lip. She took the box into the bedroom to open it. There was a note enclosed. "Dear Jan – I went down to Mina Dee's. She had this dress – just came in. I couldn't resist getting it for you. For the social, Liz."
The dress was of brown and brown-tone muted stripe polished cotton, cut on trim lines. Jan slipped it on. How slim it made her look. And her green earrings would be just right with it. She was putting them on when Hal came in.
"Say, that's mighty pretty on you." His eyes met hers in the mirror. He slid his arm around her waist. "I couldn't have you going out in that old dress. Why, those women would think I'd lost my job."
"I didn't know you noticed how I looked."
"Any old time I don't." He took the earring still in her hand and put it on the dresser. Then he put one hand under her chin and raised her face. "It's just that I've been too busy and tired lately to remember that my best girl might need something new once in a while." He kissed her.
Suddenly she drew back. "Hal Davis. It's strange that Liz would buy me a dress all of a sudden, when she's so busy with her own affairs. And how come – now, just what did she tell you?"
He grinned. "Only that I'm a blundering idiot, and I already knew that. Well, I couldn't buy you a dress. How did I know what to get? So I asked her, if she'd have time before the store closed – I wanted you to have it for tomorrow."
"Oh, Hal. How sweet – of both of you." She leaned her cheek against his work shirt. The thought flitted through her mind that she would never know exactly what Liz had told him, but it didn't seem to matter. "I'm hungry," Janet sighed, and she relaxed against him.


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Immigration to be taken up in October. "We're going to vote on a bill to legalize people who are undocumented, " says Ryan
Paul Ryan finally let us peek into House plans for dealing with illegal immigration. The info comes from the Journal Sentinel newspaper. He was in Wisconsin speaking to a few hundred people of mostly Hispanic origin and I don't want to give up the author's (Bill Glauber) whole story but here are some things you'll find if you go over there:
"Tentatively, October, we're going to vote on these bills," Ryan said. "We're going to vote on a border security bill, we're going to vote on an interior enforcement bill, like the workplace verification and the visa tracking. We're going to vote on a legal immigration bill for visas, for agricultural workers, for skilled workers."
Ryan also said: "We're going to vote on a bill to legalize people who are undocumented."
Under such a plan, those who are here illegally would have to wait a minimum of 15 years to gain citizenship, two years longer than the Senate version of immigration reform. But they would be eligible to receive a "probationary visa" Ryan said.
O.K., so now we know what we're up against, what we're fighting, and how much time we have left to fight amnesty. Again, I don't want to paste up the paper's entire story but please go over there if your seriously concerned about this/these bills
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How Howard Buffett Will Use His Grandfather's Recipe For Riches To Disrupt Philanthropy
The grandson of the legendary investor aims to bring some private-sector savvy to the growing world of mega-philanthropy.
Howard Buffett is attempting to unify the scattered world of independent nonprofits through his grandfather's multi-billion dollar investment strategy: Invest in a portfolio of smart people and let them flourish. Having just taken the reins as Executive Director of the family foundation after holding posts in the White House and Department of Defense, Buffett has ambitious plans to pay the world's savviest nonprofits to collaboratively tackle the full spectrum of food security, from third-world farmer education to public policy.
"My grandfather, in part, has been so successful because he has identified the best human capital for managing businesses," Buffett tells Fast Company. Emulating the strategy of investing in people who have proven strategies, the younger Buffett is building a coalition of already-successful leaders in each niche of food security.
The approach, he hopes, will become the standard for his family's growing network of mega-philanthropists: rather than dolling out cash to independent, uncoordinated actors with the most heart-string-tugging story, they could take on an entire social problems (like food security or breast cancer) by systematically lining up nonprofits to tackle each part of the causal chain, from federal policy to victim resources.
Getting Rid Of Redundencies
"If you are an NGO, doing the exact same thing as another NGO, and that other NGO is doing better than you're doing it, then you are in business for the wrong reason," Buffett says in an exasperated rant against the individualist nature of charities. Overlapping operations, he says, not only waste money through redundant overhead, but keep brilliant minds occupied with logistical distractions that sap their potential impact.
"We will give you money to execute your mission," Buffett says, "if you work together and identify the most cost-effective and successful ways to achieve that."
Meanwhile, looking at the entire causal chain of a crisis is key to revealing missing links in the solution, such as political or logistical hurdles that are essential to success, but not appealing enough to raise dollars.
Buffett learned the importance of interconnectedness after witnessing efforts to save forests be thwarted by starving locals. "They're going to cut down the forest, burn the trees, and then try to grow food on something that has horrible productivity value," he says. The horrific conditions led the foundation to not only shift from environmental stewardship to food security, but to the current strategy of solving problems as a closed ecosystem. Now, the Buffet foundation sponsors everything from an endowed political science chair at Texas A&M that studies conflict and hunger to public awareness campaigns.
A New Take On Evaluating Philanthropic Impact
"Emotion is not fungible, so to measure success through the emotional feeling we get from doing something is not an effective way of measuring," says Buffett, who needs a way to objectively evaluate the unwieldy volumes of grants proposed to his own foundation. But, unlike money, he says, "there is nothing that exists as a universal measure of impact for a philanthropic endeavor."
To make the tough comparisons between education, hunger, veterans, or disease eradication, Buffett designed an "issue agnostic" survey of scope, relevancy, cost-efficiency, and risk of any proposal.
The first question, for instance, is "Assuming we are successful, how many people would we reach directly with the funding of this gift?" Proposals gets 3 points for affecting +1 million people, 2 for greater than 100,000, and 1 for less than 100,000. Those proposals with a less ambitious scope can secure a coveted spot on the portfolio team by being particularly unique or cost-efficient.
He maintains that the measure helps him balance caring for the needy with the harsh realities of inefficient programs. "There's absolutely nothing wrong" with emotion, he says, admitting that the crisis of global food security has a particular effect on him. "My fear is when emotion clouds rationality."
Selling Suffering
"In the philanthropic world, the problem is the product, in the business world, the product is the solution." says Buffett, who argues that NGOs are forced to "sell suffering." The needless focus on sappy narratives often overlooks sophisticated solutions that can't be easily marketed with a T-shirt-clad celebrity holding a small child.
As an example, he notes, hunger-stricken continents are perfectly capable of offsetting their own crises , since famine and food surplus hit neighboring countries in the same year. If food-swap agreements were in place, the surplus country could donate food when they have more crops, knowing they'd get reciprocation in an inevitable drought.
"I see this as sexy," he says, half-jokingly. Buffett argues he's able to harness these kinds of sophisticated solutions because of his foundation's unique approach to objective measures and a broad-spectrum tackling of whole social issues.
A Business-Minded Approach To Philanthropy
Frustrated by the bureaucratic restraints of government and inspired by the nimbleness of the growing social entrepreneurship industry, the 27-year-old Buffett aims to bring some private sector savvy to the philanthropic world. He hopes his coalition strategy will encourage nonprofits to consider their "comparative advantage," and that his universal measure of "impact" can be as fungible as money. Finally, he aims to move charities away from selling narratives to selling solutions.
He even imagines a world were nonprofits can acquire one another. "You want to bring this back to the business world, there are no incentives for philanthropic organizations to merge," he says, adding that there are no easy legal means by which nonprofits can combine their resources as for-profits do.
Buffett was raised to blur the lines between nonprofit and for-profit: He is the product of a billionaire grandfather who has both pledged to give most of his money away and maligned the concept of inheritance as perpetuating "members of the lucky sperm club."
Yet, grateful for the opportunities his family gave him, and the legacy of giving his grandfather catalyzed, Buffett aims to make this exceptional charitable philosophy a mainstream belief for his generation.
"Our old definitions of success were wealth, power, and fame," he says. "We need to see those as a means to an end, and those need to be impact."
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As someone who has worked in the non-profit sector, education and health field. I applaud Mr. Buffett for disrupting the non-profit sector. For many years I have looked at the redundancies within various communities and thought "If these two organizations worked together instead of competed" they would be able to serve more people and make a greater impact within the community. While I do not believe that the non-profit sector has to adopt a complete corporate business approach, the non-profit sector needs to take a look at itself and critically ask itself "is this the best we can do?"
Bravo Mr. Buffett and thank you Mr. Ferenstein for a great article.
Lisbeth Jimenez
Founder Social Media Tools For Non-Profits
I agree with Elizabeth to a point. The measure of success for a non-profit is not money, it's impact. Also, it doesn't always have to be measured in terms of "millions and millions served". Efficiency is also different for a non-profit.
Money has a different purpose in non-profits - it's the fuel for the engine, not the measurement of achievement. See "Good to Great for the Social Sectors" by Jim Collins. Based on the book, Good to Great. That said, Howard Buffet is elevating the philanthropic conversation and is going in a positive direction that will help us all be better.
While very convenient to dismiss various aspects of Mr. Buffett's view of a large segment of our global economy in which he has limited direct involvement, I would challenge all my colleagues to reconcile the larger message: scale and efficiency deserve far greater consideration than emotional (or daresay, vane) satisfaction if the true objective is delivering positive impact with high likliehood of recurrance. For those who choose a career in NPO leadership, Valhalla might be defined by the achievement of economic sustainability - or at least the confidence in knowing the organization will survive the individual and prosper under those who follow.
Sounds very similar to most any business endeavor, doesn't it?
Too often, 'non-profit' is construed as an adjunct of the organizational mission statment. This is most certainly incorrect. The term simply refers to a designation under tax code. While we do not personally profit from activities as operatives or shareholders, we must strive to consistently demonstrate the ability to attract more capital, in all its forms, than are expended year-in and year-out, lest we fail to deliver on our respective mission. It is, indeed, the purpose of a non-profit to generate net income since little is achieved or sustained if we fail to do so.
So should individual success stories be dismissed if it can't be replicated by the hundreds of thousands? Absolutely not! The larger message, however, is that each individual touched by NPO activity should be directly linked to a larger strategy that seeks to eliminate or greatly reduce the need for future interventions.
Would you rather point to each person who's life has been changed by your actions, or point to the multitude no longer jeopordized by threat of falling through societial cracks as a result of your commitment to a cause? To be certain, each individual does matter. But the cost of one must be carefully and objectively weighed against the cost of allowing others to follow a similar path.
Greater understanding and progress occurs not just when we recognize our own trajectory, but when we also accept the critique of others who are unencumbered by the limitations of first-hand experience.
The non-profit world is full of small organizations that serve local communities. These are automatically excluded from the mega-funders because we can't compete with those serving the million person threshold.
In the drive for efficiency, smaller organizations get overlook because they don't have the flair or client base that generates lots of attention. As an example I work for a housing organization that provides housing for 260+ low-income and homeless families in a community of about 500,000. I can't compete with a local food bank for funding with their marketing budget of $500,000 a year and that pays the 4 executive managers $600,000 in salaries. United Way and local foundations readily fund the high visibility agency for the publicity benefit while we struggle trying to pay staff just above minimum wage.
Unfortunately the mega-funds, United Way, Red Cross, etc make it nearly impossible to generate funds for the small "grass roots" agencies that provide essential services on a local level. In some cases, our names are used to generate revenue but the funds actually go to other agencies with greater visibility.
As someone who has worked in the not-only-for-profit world (manager & grunt laborer), the third sector (staff, board and volunteer) and the educational arena (teacher and administrator), I say the differences are not all that great.
There's always an objective and a means to an end. The shared challenge is to be effective (achieve results) and efficient (with the wisest use of resources.) Buffett's attempt to create a new matrix to measure both isn't a bad idea...it's just different. I invite my colleagues to step away from the table of skepticism and come back when they're ready to join in something potentially game-changing. Just cause you don't see it, friends, doesn't mean it won't work. Instead of, "yes, but..." how about a, "yes, and..."?
The problem with running a non-profit like a business is that the goal of the non-profit (hopefully) is not to make money. I agree that wasting it is also not acceptable or a goal and I agree that there are redundancies and areas for improvement. But how we (as non-profits) measure success is not by how much we made, nor even how efficient we are. And if it is, we should be in another business.
For example, I work for a non-profit that offers service opportunities for youth ages 11-18. We recently received a letter from a mother who told us that her son was having a lot of problems functioning as a result of his ADD. After doing service projects for the summer with our organization, his whole attitude and outlook on life has completely transformed for the better. He helps around the house unprompted, he gets along better with his family and peers, he has a sense of belonging and feeling of accomplishment, he is happy, he is excited about life.
How do you measure that in points. A boy who may have grown up to be troubled and a drain on society may now become a valuable and productive member of society. Is that 1 point? 2 Points? Or is that priceless? Can that even be measured?
Again, I am all for making non-profits more efficient and effective. But the reason the non-profit sector is "non-profit" is because it wanted to measure success in human terms not in financial terms. And if points are assigned according to how many people you reach, for example, then will non-profits not help small populations because they won't get enough points? And is it better to give a million people fish than to teach 100 people how to fish?
This kind of thinking is definitely important in the long-term sustainability of the public sector. I do disagree with Buffett's assertion that there is no motive for charities to collaborate or merge at present, as there are some, such as increased purchasing power, coalescing on physical and other resources and others. Overall he is on track with the perspectives expressed though.
Two concerns I have with this concept. The first is the inevitable bureaucracy that occurs as organizations grow in size and scope. Will this increase effectiveness or will this decrease effectiveness in the long term? I suspect it will decrease long term effectiveness. What makes many smaller NFP's and NGO's so successful is they are more agile and localized and can respond to the immediate needs of a community quickly. That is the very reason internationally many NGO's seek to use localized organizations to do their actual work on the ground.
The second concern is having worked in the NFP industry for more than ten years I have found people tend to give money in the long term to organizations in which they have a vested interest. People give money when they feel personally connected in some way to the organization. Have organizational redundancy actually increases long term giving partners as each organization can build and develop its own group of partnerships with individuals.
I am guessing Mr. Buffet's comment would be if he can just organize those billionaires alone they would have an exponential impact in comparison to all of the individual donors an organization would be able to organize. So we probably need both models. His model for the multi-millionaires and the traditional model for smaller individual givers and localized success.
Phil Washburn
Facilitating strategic alliances among the nonprofit community is certainly a step in the right direction, albeit a herculean task. Few would argue that the redundancies in the nonprofit sector are helpful.
My question is this: where are the business partners in this equation? Issues of food security don't exist in a vacuum and adopting the stance of, "We will give you money to execute your mission" seems to be missing a critical business element. I find this surprising from a business leader such as Howard Buffett.
Hopefully examining the causal chain of a particular issue will illuminate a potential role for business in any given alliance.
Megan Strand
Director of Communications
Cause Marketing Forum
This article is very interesting. I have always felt that non-profits that run more like businesses, run better. However, having worked in non-profits solely in the U.S. with a local focus and learned about international NGOs in school, I would argue that these are two very different entities. A good example is the simple fact that the U.S. has a familiar structure economically, politically, socially and the ability to combine local non-profits for the same cause would be easier and possibly, more efficient. The question that arises, however, is with regards to health non-profits. There are numerous non-profits in the U.S., for example, that focus on the fight against cancer. While some may argue that that is unnecessary and funding and efforts should be focused on the cure for cancer in general, it is absolutely essential to have some health non-profits focused on breast cancer, some on lymphoma, some on pancreatic, and prostate cancer. Cancer comes in all different shapes and sizes and the cure, well cures, will be different for each person and each type of cancer. There is no question that collaboration is needed as the cure for one type of cancer could lead researchers to discover it works for other types of cancers as well, but I fear combining all efforts into one larger effort, could snub ingenuity and creativity on the parts of researchers.
Taking that to an international scale, the first red flag I see in this article is the apparent arrogance of Mr. Buffett with regards to knowing what's best for international NGOs in a general sense. He is right to assert that there is waste when you have two NGOs working in the same region for the same cause and the only way they acquire their funding is through pulling the heartstrings, if you will. Combining efforts and commodities would help these NGOs run more efficiently, but the solutions are not and never can be that simple. You must also consider the missions of each of these non-profits. Maybe Doctors without Borders and the International Red Cross, should continue to remain separate. Although they may provide similar services (e.g. vaccinations to children in 3rd world countries) their missions are entirely different.
Another thing Buffett conveniently ignored is the socio-economic and political environment in 3rd world countries. Buffett asserted that famine in one country can often be prevented if a neighboring country shared their surplus in food and developed an agreement to do share back and forth. While that's very "cumbaya," of him, that's not reality. Many times those neighboring countries do not have a surplus (they barely have enough for themselves) and if they had just a little bit it probably wouldn't be enough to feed the entire famine-torn region, so is it really a good idea to ration food and decide who lives and who doesn't in the neighboring country? Of course, this presumes certain socio-economic and political conditions between these two countries. Are we sure these countries are even stable politically? Are they allies? Rival tribes? Do the people even survive on the food they grow or are their commodities squandered by a nefarious and corrupt central government? These are all questions that have to be asked and were conveniently ignored.
I get annoyed when these big smart multi-million (whoops billionaires) speak in broad, simple terms of curing the world's ills and make sweeping generalizations as though the world can be fixed by a swipe of their pen and their solution. There's nothing wrong with suggesting that NGOs could be more efficient if they combined their causes and resources, but please, demonstrate to me how that can work on the nitty-gritty level, because that's ultimately where it will happen or fail.
Interesting article, it left me curious for more knowledge. I have heard quite a bit about the need to bring focus and efficiency to the NGO comunity, while retaining the dedication to social good. In business, it's pretty easy, money is the scorecard and the means. Maybe in the NGO world it's "impact," but how do you quantify that? Should you even try? How could an NGO "acquire" another right now? Would that be good or bad? How would you value that? No idea, but I want to know!
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Decorating a room is like putting together a new outfit. The main pieces are chosen first and the accessories add the final touches.
After the walls are wallpapered or painted, the window treatments hung and the furniture placed, I like to evaluate the wall space and look at options for the client. At this point, the design style has been determined and the wall space usually "asks for something" to complete the space.
When asked to supply the wall art for commercial projects, where the design style and color palette are determined by an architect, I want the wall art to enhance those chosen factors. When the architect has a design that is transitional toward contemporary, for example, using wall art in a country style would be just wrong. The art would look out of place and do nothing to enhance the design of the space.
The next consideration is often overlooked - the size of the wall.
In our photo of a lobby in a resort, interesting wall art is highlighted. The sizes of these pieces are in proportion to the walls where they hang. The subject matter of the two in the back room, being unique, could offer a few minutes of pondering over these pieces while waiting.
In a living room, a large wall behind the sofa would be a space that was "asking" for something interesting. A large three-panel collection fills the space beautifully and completes the style of the room.
The pieces are hung close together to keep the unit, but apart enough to show the uniqueness of the three panels. They are also hung 6 to 8 inches above the sofa, completing a focal unit. If the wall art is hung too high, it appears to "float" away.
Another factor in choosing wall art pieces for commercial spaces is the emotional factor.
Wall art for a successful professional should appear more unique and upscale than a familiar piece that is seen everywhere. Wall art for a health care facility should contain a more emotional element. A decorator must understand the emotional level of these spaces but still take into consideration the design style, color palette and wall size.
With residential clients, it is important for me to know if they have any strong likes or dislikes in subject matter but in commercial work, we don't ask preferences in subject matter. Personal tastes of employees would probably differ and may not fit in with the important factors mentioned.
When you have the opportunity to view wall art, whether in a commercial building or in a home, take a few moments to look at some of the details of the piece. You may enjoy a new experience.
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