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Paul R. Jacoway's "Final Edition: Journalism According to Jack and Jim Knight" was presented with a regional Emmy Award on June 19, by the lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The documentary, which first aired on October 26, 2009 in Akron, Ohio, follows the Knight family, from their days of running the Beacon Journal and their national newspaper chain through their generous funding of Knight Foundation.
The project began originally as a paper by Jacoway, written for a history of journalism course at the University of Akron. With the sale of the Knight-Ridder newspaper group in 2006 to the McClatchy Company, Jacoway found he had a very topical subject at hand. Three years later, Jacoway had produced a film about the Knight brothers, with help from the Ohio Humanities Council.
"Final Edition" is narrated by Akron's deputy mayor, David Lieberth, and features interviews with Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibarügen.
By Dennis Scholl, vice president/arts and Miami program director I'm in Akron today, announcing more than $700,000 for arts projects that enrich and engage the community, as part of our national arts program. The largest grant – for $200,000 – is to renovate and expand the Summit Artspace, in order...
I'm in Akron today, announcing more than $700,000 for arts projects that enrich and engage the community, as part of our national arts program. The largest grant ' for $200,000 ' is to renovate and expand the Summit Artspace, in order to strengthen it as a headquarters for arts and culture.
I love the idea and the space, but there is also an interesting Knight Foundation connection. The Summit Artspace is located in a 1927 Art Deco building once home to the Akron Beacon Journal, a Knight newspaper. On the day the offices opened, President Calvin Coolidge actually pushed a button in the White House, sending pulses across hundreds of miles of telegraph wires to start the presses churning in Akron.
We announced the funding in that very space ' a great convergence.
Here's a look at the other projects we funded in Akron, as part of Knight's new national Arts Program:
How did this story on a group of atheists putting up a billboard in Charlotte - along Billy Graham Parkway no less - end up on the front page of the Charlotte Observer?
The controversy was first publicized through a post on the Observer's new Facebook application, Insight from the Charlotte Observer, which uses technology developed through a Knight Foundation grant.' Charlotte Insight allows residents to not only comment on the news but also post original stories and blogs. The issue then became a giant local debate with full bore coverage on the Observer's front page and main website, and on local television stations.
While there are more than 400 million Facebook users worldwide, most news organizations lack the knowledge, technical capacity - and often funds - to engage them directly on one of the largest social networks in the world. Jeff Reifman and NewsCloud developed the application to help engage readers in the news. They are now working with 12 outlets to implement it.
Previously, NewsCloud used a Knight grant to test ways to engage youth in news and information through Facebook applications for a student newspaper and an environmental newsmagazine.
We caught up with Reifman at the Future of News and Civic Media conference last week, where he talked about how the'application works.
In Chhattisgarh there are no tribal journalists or journalists who understand the tribal languages in the state. A survey showed that mainstream newspapers in the state gave only 2% of their space to news related to stories on tribal communities.
After three days of training,'supported in part by UNICEF, these new citizen journalists have started reporting about important events and happenings in their villages. They are recording two- minute audio reports on their mobile phones. Once their stories get vetted, anyone from the community can simply call a number and get the latest.
A story about our new network ran in prime time on one of the top TV stations in India, so the mainstream press is beginning to notice.
In the last few years, mapping has become an increasingly important element among the winners of the Knight News Challenge. Five of the 12 projects which won grants in 2010 involved mapping in some form: TileMapping by DevelopmentSeed of Washington DC; CitySeed by Arizona State University's New Media Innovation Lab in Phoenix; CityTracking by Stamen Design out of San Francisco;'GoMap Riga by two Latvians; and LocalWiki by the founders of Davis Wiki of Davis, California. In addition, a 2009 grantee, Ushahidi also made its reputation through crowd-sourced crisis mapping. Many of the projects out of'MIT's Center for Future Civic Media, a 2007 grantee, involve mapping, including Sourcemap and'Grassroots Mapping
As such, Knight Foundation will be a sponsor at the State of the Map conference in Girona, Spain, which is taking place from July 9 to 11, 2010. Jennifer 8. Lee, the lead Knight News Challenge reviewer, will be available at the conference to explain how to craft an effective proposal and to field questions. The News Challenge is interested in all layers of the map stack, including data gathering, tile rendering and interactive consumer-facing applications.
State of the Map is the largest annual event for Open Street Map, a collaborative project to create an open-source, editable map of the world. The data from Open Street Map is used in Flickr and other commercial applications. In addition, Open Street Map volunteers helped generate maps used by many response and relief organizations in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Knight Foundation has a new Philadelphia program director: Donna Frisby-Greenwood, a social entrepreneur who most recently led Philadelphia Schools' Office of College and Career Awareness.
She also helped create'the country's first online voter registration drive as executive director of Rock the Vote, Los Angeles.
Benoit Wirz, who has helped take companies from start-up to profitability, is also joining Knight in a newly created position: director of business consulting. He'll work'with Knight staff to develop programs based on realistic business plans. Wirz, who recently finished his MBA at INSEAD in France, will also consult with select Knight grantees.
The most recent issue of Nieman Foundation's quarterly publication talked about news and neurology, the future of news, journalism education and news literacy, and bringing journalists and technologists together.
Brant Houston wrote about getting people to analyze and share public data for local reporting. Houston holds the Knight Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois, and said that digital tools can make both journalists and citizens into better community watchdogs.
Michelle McLellan of the Knight Digital Media Center wrote about finding 100 news sites that are creating content and revenue as a fellow at the University of Missouri. She saw that media such as niche and community sites are filling the gaps in the news ecosystem, as described by Knight's V.P. for Journalism Program Eric Newton, and predicted greater partnerships between journalists and community members but fewer sites that charge for access to news.
Burt Herman, a former John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford, talked about launching Hacks and Hackers with the New York Times' Aron Pilhofer and Northwestern professor Richard Gordon. The group is experimenting with ways to connect journalists and technologists around their strong beliefs in the need for freedom of information.
Krissy Clark, a former Knight fellow at Stanford, wrote that good journalism is like a map because it can inform people about where a story is and the best way forward. She said that journalists can filter through the information from sites like EveryBlock and use technology to 'reconnect people to place.'
Andrew Finlayson, another former fellow, talked about the semantic web. The semantic web is a system of linked data in development that are readable to computers, not just humans. An example of this is the WolframAlpha search engine that generates an answer instead of links to pages. Journalists will be able to use this system to organize data and find connections for investigative reporting.
V. Michael Bove, Jr. leads the Center for Future Storytelling at MIT's Media Lab. He studies the combination of shared experiences with media, like watching TV with friends, and personalized experiences, like watching it on an iPhone. He thinks that mobile technology will change the definition of successful media from whether it has a wide reach to whether it reaches a targeted audience. Also at MIT,'Sherry Turkle,'professor of technology and society, 'explained her views on young people, connectivity and deep thought'in interviews with PBS Frontline's 'Digital Nation' and the BBC.' (Knight funds the Center for'Future Civic Media at MIT.')
James Paul Gee, professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University, said that in games we learn by being guided whereas with content-driven media we learn by reflecting on what we are told. He said using games in journalism can help if the games' creators focus on what problems the player has to solve rather than what material the player has to read. Knight funds an entrepreneurial journalism center at ASU.
Nora Paul and Kathleen A. Hansen wrote about their research project called Playing the News. They studied how games could be used to tell 'boring but important' news and found that people wanted to be guided through ongoing stories. Sites with lots of contextual material helped people both see the big picture and get in-depth information. They used their findings in the Convergence Journalism class they teach at the University of Minnesota.' Nora and Kathleen won a Knight News Challenge grant to create the game.
Esther Wojcicki is the current Chair of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons and teaches high school journalism. She thinks all students need journalism skills, and received a Knight Foundation grant to develop a curriculum for high school English classes. Esther says it is important to give teenagers both freedom and recognition.
Alan C. Miller wrote about launching the News Literacy Project, which teaches high school students about the importance of First Amendment and finding valid information. Journalists visit classes to talk about their work and the lessons focus on critical thinking and recognizing quality information. Alan's start-up funds came from Knight Foundation.
Bob Giles, Curator of the Nieman Foundation, said that fairness in journalism is as important as ever. Reporting fairly, like respecting the wishes of the story subjects or looking at a controversial issue from different angles, makes stories more credible and makes them have a greater impact. Knight funds Latin American journalism fellows at Harvard.
Five students and one recent graduate from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) School of Journalism and Graphic Communication are in Johannesburg this summer reporting on the World Cup and life in South Africa with six students from Shantou University in Guangdong Province, China.
The students will be in South Africa until July 11. FAMU students will produce the English content on the group's web site, and Shantou students will produce the Chinese content.
Professor Joe Ritchie, Knight Chair for Journalism Student Enhancement, is leading the FAMU students in South Africa. Listen to Ritchie and student journalist Anamarie Shreeves discuss the project on NPR.
It has been a whirlwind few weeks in Macon, Georgia and the experience has shown to me again how a private foundation such as Knight can be such a catalyst for community change and growth. Foundations are unique in that we are here to support the common good, and in Knight's case, to fund the big ideas of folks and organizations who are creating informed, engaged communities. We have several such initiatives here in Macon-the College Hill Alliance, Historic Macon Foundation and the Community Foundation of Central Georgia's Knight Neighborhood Challenge. We are fortunate to have strong partners in Mercer University, the City of Macon and the Macon Housing Authority, among others.
One of the greatest pleasures of this work is the partnerships with these visionary, committed leaders. We share ideas, dreams, and frustrations and seem to always come up with common goals. One of these common goals is the revitalization of the Beall's Hill neighborhood with an emerging partnership of the City, Mercer University and the Macon Housing Authority. But of course this work is not easy! If it was, it would already have been done! Beall's Hill is a distressed neighborhood with great opportunity for revitalization. An effort was started some years ago but fell apart when the partners could not agree how to move forward. But we're back at it.
What's different now?
I'd say what is different is that we have visionary leaders with a shared goal and enlightened self interest. And, because of the commitment of all the partners (including'a $5 million grant from Knight), we have the financial resources to make it work.
But since it's never easy, we had a bit of challenge a few weeks back. The Appropriations Committee of City Council met and deleted the City's financial commitment to the project. We found out the following morning as we were reading The Telegraph and macon.com.
Not a good thing. For the partnership is not just about the money - it's about commitment, leadership and cooperation.
We scrambled, attended the Appropriations Committee meeting in the afternoon and with the leadership of the Mayor, we found out what was troubling the committee, the same thing that concerned Knight when we were looking at this opportunity. The concern was that this would become a never ending project that would appear each year for funding - which seems to happen a lot. So we informed the committee that this is a focused, 3 year effort that will propel the revitalization and move the community forward.' The funding was restored.
What Council saw was an organization asking for funding. What I saw was a partnership requesting for an investment. And that is what this funding is - an investment in the future of Macon's neighborhoods, an investment that will pay handsome returns. For example, Historic Macon has been revitalizing homes for over 10 years and the numbers tell the story - the collective market value of the 84 home-owner restoration projects has increased from $4 million to $13 million and produces over $156,000 in annual property taxes. As importantly, every home remains home-owner occupied, code compliant and is worth more than when Historic Macon sold it. This is the goal for Beall's Hill. But the investment will pay greater returns in safer neighborhoods, home ownership and resident engagement in the life of this community.
Knight's financial and thought leadership has been a catalyst to continue the positive momentum. We have the luxury of funding, the luxury of bringing in new ideas and supporting the great ideas that are here, and from time to time, speaking from our bully pulpit. But we also have a great responsibility to the community we serve - to expect great things from our leaders, to catalyze our residents, and to hold ourselves as accountable for success as we do our grantees.
I'm proud that Knight has an important role in this progress to Macon's future. We can't do it alone, nor can government nor the private sector. We need one another and cannot succeed without leadership, partnership and commitment.
My thanks to the Mayor and Macon City Council for making that partnership solid.
Over 40 media outlets published original stories about the new report from the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, released Thursday at the Freedom Forum in Washington, D.C. "Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports" warns of accelerating spending on college sports and potential threats to college and university finances. The Commission calls for greater transparency on spending in college sports; new policies for distributing television revenue that value academic performance; and ensuring that college athletes are treated as students, not as professional athletes.
Thursday's afternoon bar-camp sessions at the 2010 Future of Civic Media conference @ MIT, attendees were talking about how to be stewards of the Internet and support journalism with net neutrality. At one, people with varying degrees of fear of facebook, health care companies, and the U.S. Government discussed from whom information should be private. Compared to academics like'Medill's Rich Gordon, the KF interns' generation isn't too worried about a totalitarian state.
In a later session, participants discussed successes in mobile news and got a neat guide to mobile media from MobileActive. Two attendees who work in sub-Saharan Africa said that local media outlets provide numbers people can text to contact the journalists and learn more. Justin Arenstein, a Knight Fellow at Stanford, said that people reporting their moods onVodacom's platform for social networking in South Africa provided the company with data they could compare to places with ethnic conflict. Now a 'happiness report' follows the daily weather report on T.V.
Shu Choudhary, a Knight International Journalism Fellow, uses Google's free SMS service to'reach rural India. The service allows users to send 140 characters to everyone who signs up on the list. Google, like many major companies, focus on user-generated content rather than employing journalists to vet and report information.
The team at Department of Play, a project by C4FCM students, developed the What's Up neighborhood news system. It connects voicemail and a web site to connect young people in Lawrence, MA who may not have Internet access. Department of Play's'Leo Burd is developing'Voip Drupal, an open-source platform for community information systems.
See Frontline SMS and Mobile Commons for more on mobile news and information.
Knight News Challenge grantee Dan Pacheco announced today that he is going to donate 6% of his new company FeedBrewer Inc. to the newly created Knight Media Innovation Fund. FeedBrewer is an outgrowth of Printcasting, a company that Pacheco created with a News Challenge grant that has run out after two years. "We recognize the unique role that philanthropy played in our development. By donating a percentage of our new company to the Knight Media Innovation Fund, we'll be paying that good fortune forward and helping the Foundation develop other innovative products that meet the ever increasing information needs of communities," said Pacheco.
The Knight Media Innovation Fund at the Dade Community Foundation is a donor-advised fund that will support innovative digital projects that inform and engage geographic communities.' Knight Foundation staff will be the donor advisors to the fund.
Stay tuned for more information about the fund next week.
Click here to read Dan Pacheco's news release.
Earlier today, in day two of the 2010 Future of Civic Media conference, attendees learned 10 Ways to Fail. Rick Borovy at the C4FCM led an earlier the session and drew a chart showing how to start something from nothing. He said you have to design a trajectory to get people on board and get your project validated.
Jan Schaffer of American University's J-Lab said smaller grants can help with validation, and Dale Peskin of We Media said you have to give up ego and exclusivity at each stage of the game. Amanda Hickman and Eric Umansky of Document Cloud talked about the importance of sustainability. They said it can be as hard to maintain an organization as to succeed as a start-up.
NYU's Jay Rosen has a different approach: he starts by assuming new ideas will fail. Once he comes up with an idea that seems viable and essential, he enlists people, time, and money bit by bit to build the project. But, he says, it only works if you're a tenured professor! ;)
We talked about how to enlist stakeholders, take no for an answer, and discuss failure. Most people agreed that it was a bad idea to make a big investment to test a new idea. Retha Hill, co-founder of CitySeed, talked about how she changed a failed idea after a test run with a sharpie and construction paper.
Follow Knight News Challenge projects' successes and failures at Idea Lab and follow the Future of New and Civic Media Conference @MIT on twitter: #fncm.
This morning, at a Future of Civic Media Conference workshop called 'Dollars to Data: Online Financial Tools and Civic Media', C4FCM student Charlie DeTar showed us Sunlight Foundation web sites that track political contributions. We also saw a few individual finance sites, like Mint.com, that can aggregate private financial data for third parties. Others, like Blippy, allow people to tweet their purchases.
Most sites can tell you where you spend your money and some sell this information to big companies. They aren't looking at the serious political and social uses for the information yet. A project called Red Ink by Ryan O'Toole, who led the workshop with DeTar, can track the impact of individual purchases on big businesses like BP.
Video Volunteers' Jessica Mayberry noticed that these sites aren't working together. It is difficult just to correlate the different names of the businesses being tracked, let alone understand their finances. O'Toole noted that a company could outlay $30,000 and count that as creating a new job.
Many of the attendees were most interested in new business models for news, so we looked at hyper-local advertising for hyper-local news, using the Sacramento Press as an example. O'Toole said Perez Hilton's web site is a form of information journalism that reaches out to a community of people with similar interests, but the attendees looked skeptical.
Some video from the workshop is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fungibleconvictions/4706262033/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fungibleconvictions/4706901172/
Follow the conference on twitter at #fncm and check out this list of online financial tools.
The Knight News Challenge is designed to help speed media innovation by field-testing the most promising news technologies and techniques in specific geographic communities. We received 2,364 applications in the latest round of the contest and we are extremely excited to announce and congratulate the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners.
And the winners are...
At the opening of the Future of News and Civic Media conference at MIT, technologists and community organizers have come together to discuss new ways to communicate and trust one another.
'Technology that exists for people seems to not be very realistic for most people. Nobody's used to technological jargon,' said Leo Burd, explaining that regardless of how much information is out there, it is only available to people who have access to it. Burd co-founded Department of Play, a working group of researchers whose goal is to support youth as active participants in their local communities.
Ingeborg Endter, former program manager at the Computer Clubhouse Network, explains how 'the youth are neither technologists nor community people'they are both. They live in both worlds. They are the creative artists'.
Malia Lazu of The Urban Lab explained how important trust and a common language are in a political and social platform. 'Before you go into a community, go into the local record store. Know your DJs, your barbershops. Find out what their community is about. Show them that you respect them enough to know what's going on.'
More updates from the Future of News & Civic Media Conference @ MIT, including the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners, can be found at www.newschallenge.org. Follow the conversation on twitter at #fncm .
Two adjacent neighborhoods in Boston Roxbury and Brookline now have instant contact with each other via two live, 24-hour, video screen.
Digital media artist John Ewing has installed the two screens, which play a continual view of a street corner in the other neighborhood. They also have a microphone, so residents can speak to one another.
The concept is simple: Give two strangers an easy-to-use mode of communication, and a conversation is bound to erupt. They may even scratch below the surface of small talk and actually interact with each other'at least, this is what John Ewing believes.
'In Boston more than other places it seems people don't get between neighborhoods. I was going to make this a live feed on a website, but I don't want people to just sit in their living rooms. I want them to come down here, to get physically in their neighborhoods,' Ewing told the Boston Globe.
The project, being partially funded by a $40,000 grant from the Knight News Challenge in 2009, will also include six news reports from a team of three staff from each neighborhood, as well as poetry readings and discussions with community leaders. There will even be a community Rock Band game using the screens, which will be up for three weeks.
Jamarhl Crawford, the Roxbury community organizer for Virtual Street Corners, said the two neighborhoods are intertwined, as over the years some residents have moved from working class Roxbury to wealthier Brookline. The project allows former residents to see how their old neighborhood has changed, he said.
'I was interested in the project because of the ability to talk with a community that we really don't get the opportunity to often talk with, even though we're only separated by a couple of miles,' explains Crawford in a video interview. 'This is not a thing where at the end of this we're going to save the world, but I do hope we have some dialogue. We want people to learn a thing or two about each other.''
This year's Knight News Challenge winners will be announced on Wednesday at around 2pm' stay tuned.
Jennifer Thomas, who has helped fund and develop innovative ways to revitalize Northeast Ohio, is Knight Foundation's new Akron program director.
Previously, Thomas headed the Cleveland-based Civic Innovation Lab, which funds civic, social and technology start-ups. In 2008 alone, the lab's investments and activities generated $9.4 million in economic output.
Thomas also founded ClevelandClicks, a social networking group for tech entrepreneurs.
'Jennifer has spent the last decade turning creative business and social ideas into reality. At Knight Foundation, she will find and create opportunities to inform and engage this community in its ongoing transformation,' said Trabian Shorters, Knight Foundation's vice president for communities.
ASNE's High School Journalism Initiative, a program funded by the Knight Foundation, has far exceeded its predicted unique monthly visitors on its site my.hsj.org'
Check out the chart below.'
According to the grantee, there are two keys to this success: heavy promotion of the monthly Got News? Get Clicks. Win Money! contest, which encourages student sites to do their own marketing, and getting indexed by Google News.
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' --Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger
Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril, a documentary that traces the early history of the American newspaper, outlines what's at stake in the current crisis and peeks into the future of in-depth and investigative reporting.
The documentary includes several interviews from people from the news industry, including Eric Newton, vice president of journalism at the Knight Foundation.
The documentary recently aired on PBS and is available on DVD'.
''''''''''' --Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger
This Saturday, students at Gulfstream Elementary in Cutler Bay, Fla. will receive the best Christmas-in-June present ever: a completely refurbished, kid-friendly, and wheelchair-accessible playground. About 1,200 miles north, students at Imani Education Circle Charter School in Philadelphia will also be receiving a playground ' something they have never had before.
Hundreds of volunteers will build both ' in just one day.
The projects are two of 13 nationwide that Knight Foundation has funded through a '$1.48 million grant to KaBOOM!, a nonprofit committed to saving play.
'The long-term intention is to get citizens to act in their own interest and get them engaged in their community through building the playground,' said Damian Thorman, national program director for the Knight Foundation.
Look for more throughout the year in Macon, Detroit and Akron.
At Gulfstream Elementary, the once-rickety, rusty playground that has been off-limits to students will be replaced with a shiny new one, equipped with monkey bars, swings, a rock wall, and chutes and ladders.
The Parent-Teacher Association at Gulfstream had raised $30,000 on its own; it would have taken the school three or more years to raise enough money for the playground, Jill Guarino, president of the school's PTA, told the Miami Herald.
Both playgrounds will also include an Imagination Playground in a Box, a breakthrough play space that encourages unstructured free-play, which is critical to social, intellectual and emotional development.
Students at Randolph Technical Center explain how their games promote education in civics
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the World Wide Workshop Foundation have just announced two West Virginia students as winners of the 1st Annual Globaloria Civics Games Competition. Team 'The Fox Racers' won first place with 'The Race to Justice,' a game that teaches about civil law in a fun, interactive way.
Globaloria, a Knight-supported program created in 2006 by the World Wide Workshop Foundation, teaches young people how to create educational games and simulations for their own academic and professional development. By creating these games, students are directly contributing to their communities in socially meaningful ways, while building Web 2.0 skills at the same time. By immersing students and teachers in a learning-by-doing framework, participants not only gain technical abilities, such as wiki formatting, multimedia production, programming, and game design, but also real knowledge of the actual issues they choose to base their games on.
"Globaloria provides the next generation of citizens and decision-makers with the 21st-century literacy they will need to thrive in the digital age," said Jessica Goldfin, Journalism Program Associate at the Knight Foundation. "We are impressed with how well this approach to civics and news-literacy learning has been embraced by both students and teachers."
Salon.com has a new voice: Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University.
Gillmor's blog will "provide media and technology coverage that looks beyond the gloom to ways we can create better, more trustworthy content,' he said. In his first entries, Gillmor has written about Apple's defense of its newer, sterner restrictions on app content, and expressed his skepticism with Facebook's ever-evolving privacy policies.
A former business and technology columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Gillmor is the author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism, by the People, for the People, which focuses on the rise of citizen media and its impact. The Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, which Knight Foundation funds and Gillmor heads, strives to get young entrepreneurs to think outside the box and produce innovative, realistic and sustainable digital media.
The Knight Foundation's new nationwide arts initiative kicks off this week as six arts groups in Charlotte receive the program's first round of grants to enrich and engage their community. Recipients range from the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art to WDAV Classical Public Radio (see complete grantee list below.) The...
How did broadcast-oriented NPR get its staff to embrace new platforms? By sending 300 journalists to digital media training supported by Knight Foundation, President and CEO Vivian Schiller told the Wall Street Journal.
NPR still has a booming broadcast audience, with 34 million listeners a week, Schiller said. But Internet radio will surpass the broadcast tower in the next decade. A sign of things to come: 300,000 people have already downloaded NPR's iPad app.
Schiller also sees a future where NPR partners with news start-ups like Knight-funded Voiceofsandiego.org and Texas Tribune to help produce more localized content.
The Knight Foundation's new nationwide arts initiative kicks off today as six arts groups in Charlotte receive the program's first round of grants to enrich and engage their community.
Recipients range from the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art to WDAV Classical Public Radio (see complete grantee list below.) The grants aspire to spark conversations, celebrate the region's diversity and strengthen established and emerging institutions.
'All residents can become more engaged in their community through a vibrant arts scene,' said Dennis Scholl, the Knight Foundation's vice president/arts. 'We looked at projects that could lift these organizations to the next level.'
Scholl, an art collector and advocate named vice president/arts earlier this year, is working with leaders in eight U.S. communities to identify and fund innovative cultural programs that enhance community engagement. Those Knight communities are: Akron, Ohio; Charlotte, N.C.; Detroit, Mich.; Macon, Ga.; Miami, Fla.; Philadelphia, Pa.; San Jose, Calif.; and St. Paul, Minn.
In Miami, Scholl also leads the Knight Arts Challenge, a $40 million initiative to unite South Florida through the arts.
The Charlotte recipients are:
Harvard's 25 newly announced Nieman Journalism Fellows for 2011 include two Latin American Fellows sponsored by Knight Foundation.
Photojournalist Pablo Corral Vega of Ecuador founded nuestramirada.org, a social network for Latin American documentary photographers, while he was a resident professional at the University of Miami School of Communications' Knight Center for International Media. As a Nieman Fellow, Pablo plans to build on his new media focus by studying how online networks can encourage and support collaboration between journalists, as well as promote transparency and human rights.
The other Knight Latin American Nieman Fellow is veteran independent journalist Hollman Morris Rinc'n of Colombia. Hollman directs and produces CONTRAVIA TV, which has given a voice to indigenous people, peasants and other marginalized citizens of Colombia. As a Nieman Fellow, Hollman will focus on human rights issues, studying international criminal court procedures and strategies to negotiate conflict.
John Bracken, an expert in online innovation, will direct the foundation's grantmaking in digital media.
As Knight's director of new media, Bracken will also lead the Knight News Challenge. He previously managed the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's investments in technology and innovation and global Internet freedom.
From today's release: "John is already a leading digital media grant maker," said Eric Newton, vice president of Knight Foundation's journalism program. "His work will only grow in impact as all news organizations seek to invent or reinvent themselves for the digital age."
'In a world of constant technological and social change, it's essential that we fund a wide range of experiments that will help point the way we will share and use information in this democracy,' said Alberto Ibarügen, president and CEO of Knight Foundation.' 'Only by intense experimentation and staying open to new trends and ideas can we hope to sustainably provide communities with the information they need to function in an open society.'
Judith Kleinberg, a former Palo Alto mayor and attorney with extensive experience in the tech and nonprofit sectors, is Knight Foundation's new program director for San Jose and Silicon Valley.
Kleinberg, who was most recently the vice president, COO and general counsel of the Google-created InSTEDD, will work with local leaders to help foster an informed and engaged San Jose/Silicon Valley region.
From this week's release: 'Judy brings an entrepreneurial vision and deep networks to Knight Foundation ' both of which will be critical to helping create transformational change,' said Trabian Shorters, the foundation's vice president for communities.


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"What happened Danes? What's wrong? We thought you liked us or something. And then that happened in the election. It was bloody weird. The second biggest party… and how can it be the third biggest party is the one that gets to be prime minister? It's bloody weird. It ought to have been the first biggest party… Oh bro, I just had a thought! Listen, bro. It's going to be alright for Denmark. Stay calm, it's going to be alright! Where we come from if some [..](didn't get that word) comes into power, the Americans come and get rid of him. They say 'you're a [..] and get rid of him. So, soon the Americans are definitely coming to remove him. It's going to be good. It's okay, we can walk on the streets, whatever. I'm going out, bye!"
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Here are the results of the election of 2015 in Denmark. 1. Social democrats (26.3%) 2. DF: (Danish people's party) (21.1%) 3. Venstre (Liberals) (19.5%) Plus 6 other parties getting between 3 and 7% of the vote:- Red/green alliance, liberal alliance, the alternative, radicals, socialist people's party and conservatives, in order from most popular to… Continue reading Danish Election '15
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This is an advert from the centre-right in Denmark. So, someone thought this would be a great idea to put on billboards. Let's look at how they have written this poster. Instead of the long, stupid word "Naziislamisme" which I believe they stupidly coined just now, they have taken a line for each part of… Continue reading Election Season: Godwin's Law Edition
Election Season
For some reason both the UK and Denmark are having their elections at around about the same time. This means that whether I read the news in Danish or English, I have to read about immigration. What else are mainstream politicians going to talk about during an election? They cannot talk about making large multinationals pay their… Continue reading Election Season
Who is leaving all the dog crap on the street?
I have been a dog owner for about six months now and I have managed to collect all her poop on walks. I have been able to do this because I take bags out with me, I watch what she's doing when she pulls over and I just deal with it when it comes out.… Continue reading Who is leaving all the dog crap on the street?
International Women's Day
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Before the shootings in Paris, I had commented that the Danish media was spending a lot of bandwidth talking about Islam creating an us-and-them mentality. After the shootings, the story was simple enough for the media to have on repeat, so the message could be properly disseminated. Vice.com reported on concerns that political forces were hijacking the event for their… Continue reading Sensationalisation
One from the Vaults: Integrated
I am totally integrated now though this is probably not what the Danish authorities meant. Søren "effing" Pind would probably shake his comedy head and say with his comedy voice "No, I did not mean like that… but… she's white, right? Ahh, doesn't matter then. She can do what she wants, ikke også?" If integration… Continue reading One from the Vaults: Integrated


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Virgin Mobile Australia Post Paid rip off scam Internet
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When you sign up for a post paid mobile phone plan, for a reasonable charge eg $39, you get $450 of phone credit. The charges are over-inflated but as you are getting $450 credit for $39 real money, no one complains.
Problem is, once you use up that credit, there is no option to add more phone credit and any excess usage is charged at the over inflated rates, so a few phone calls a day for a week or 2 can rack up to hundreds of dollars in real charges.
If you were on the prepaid plan, which is $29 for $450 phone credit and you used up that credit, you could top up for $29 and have another $450 phone credit to use. That option is not available for post paid customers.
So if you are a pre-paid customer thinking about changing to a post paid plan, think twice, as your call charges could turn out to be alot more than what you expect. Stay on prepaid is what I advise.
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On a gloomy monsoon day, actress Vidya Balan decided to add some zing and spark in the lives of the contestants and crew of Zee TV's DID Super Moms.
Dressed in jarring loud costume like her character Neetu in Ghanchakkar, the actress enamoured judges Terence Lewis, Marzi Pestonji, Grand Master Mithun Da and of course the sixteen excited supermoms who were dancing for the first time on the coveted stage of Dance India Dance!
Vidya Balan was on the sets of Dance India Dance Super Moms, to promote her upcoming release Ghanchakkar. She was found enjoying herself in the midst of all the contestants. She was even found carrying one of the contestant's child. She seemed very comfortable at it too.
Vidya Balan, who was in the news recently because of her presence in the Cannes Film Festival, started off with her promotional work as soon as she was back home.
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dvdtiger rogers is consulting I ordered Rifleman the complete series Order 1/6/2013 it's 2/13/2013 and can't get anyone to answer a e-mail. burlingtonInternet, Other
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For $75.00 and it said, it would take 2-4 weeks before I received them. That was 1-6-2013.
It is now 2-14-2013 and still no dvd's.
I've tried to e-mail them at more than one address with no responds from anyone. How that I've read other people being ripped off I'm sure I was ripped off. Would love to get my money back, that's all.
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Definición de condyle en inglés:
A rounded protuberance at the end of some bones, forming an articulation with another bone.
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- It presents medially a circular 'articular surface of the head,' directed anteroproximad and articulating with the lateral condyle of the tibia.
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- Our results showed that hypothermic storage resulted in a decrease of chondrocyte viability in condylar specimens up to 49% after 60 days.
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Second Natureby Alice Hoffman
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A New York Times bestseller, Second Nature tells the story of a suburban woman, Robin Moore, who discovers her own free spirit through a stranger she brings home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood. As Robin impulsively draws this beautiful, uncivilized man into her world-meanwhile coping with divorce and a troubled teenage son-she begins to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart, and ultimately she changes her ideas about love and humanity.
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Alice Hoffman is the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers and several other beloved novels, including Blue Diary (2001), The River King (2000), Local Girls (1999), Here On Earth (1997), Practical Magic (1995), Second Nature (1994), Turtle Moon (1992), Seventh Heaven (1990), At Risk (1988), Illumination Night (1987), Fortune's Daughter (1985), White Horses (1982), Angel Landing (1980), The Drowning Season (1979), and Property Of (1977). She is also the author of three children's books: Aquamarine (2001), Horsefly (2000), and Fireflies (1997).
Born in New York City, and raised on Long Island, Hoffman graduated from Adelphi University and received an M.A. from Stanford University, where she was Mirrielees Fellow. She currently lives near Boston with her family and her dogs.
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- Date of Birth:
- March 16, 1952
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- Education:
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I love any book written by Jodi Piccoult. She says she reads everything that Alice Hoffman writes, so I wanted to see what was go great about this author. I selected this book to read because it looked interesting. The premise of the story is good, and it kept me engaged. The idea that a man was raised by wolves and then is entered back into society was compelling. I loved the main character because he saw man in society with no filter. As a result, he saw things in a very honest way. However, I was not very pleased with the end and had hoped for something more.
I feel alittle cheated because I never found out what happened to Stephen or did it say and I missed it? I was really into the book and then I seen only a few pages left, what happened to the characters after Stephen left. And what happened to Stephen? Did he ever come back? Will there be another book?
This was my first Alice Hoffman novel, and it will probably be my last. I didn't get attached to any of the characters, all the relationships were based on lust, the plot was way too unrealistic to be feasible (how could he be completely normal within such a short span of time), and at the end I was just like, 'that's it?' I really didn't enjoy it very much. But I seem to be the only one, so maybe it's just Hoffman's style that I don't like.
I usually enjoy Alice Hoffman, but had put this one aside because the premise is so unbelievable. I mean, a man raised by wolves? But I was looking for something else yesterday and saw several reviews from readers I respect, so dug it out. And it is quite enjoyable, and a frankly 'nice' tale to wile away a few stress-free hours. I love a challenging read and history of any sort, but the closer it gets to the holidays, the more I need simplicity. Thank you, Alice Hoffman, for giving us a book here and there that lets us believe if only until the five o'clock news that all I could be right with the world. I'm going to dig out Turtle Moon and Practical Magic, both of which I adored, to read again. Who says the holidays have to be hard?
Alice Hoffman writes magical realism, Her characters are dark, interesting, complex and romantic. I love her stories, this one in particular.
Alice never fails to satisfy. I did not want to put this book down. The characters are real and familiar. I just love Alice's style!!!
I am not person that likes to read for the most part, but i picked up this book at work and could not put it down. It was a wonderful and enchanting story that heightens the senses. Alice Hoffman is a truely gifted writter.
Such a moving story, with great character development and a plot that made me stay up really late at night to see what happens next.
I read this book during air travel and was so moved I couldn't control my tears in public.It remains one of the most stirring novels I have experienced. Not light-hearted but definitly a treat.


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Complaint Review: Design Concepts
Design ConceptsPO Box 283 Somers, NY 10589 Somers, New York United States of America
Design Concepts Check cashing/Processing scrams are smooth criminals! Dont be fooled Somers, New York
*Consumer Comment: Yes, looks like a SCAM!
*Consumer Comment: Quality Graphic Installs, Inc. - new name - same people - same old crap!!!!!!!!!
*Consumer Suggestion: Another company name same SCAM (Adams Interior)
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Yes, looks like a SCAM!
AUTHOR: MotownJeff - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, March 31, 2010POSTED: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
I got this from Jane Garcia (fake name?) above just a day ago:
My name is Jane Garcia and I represent Quality Graphic Installs, Inc.
Hello, My name is Jane Garcia and I represent Quality Graphic Installs, Inc. We are a Design Firm specializing in interior design and we are headquartered in NV. Our website is http://qgraphicinstallsinc.com
We are hiring Finance Representatives in your area and I found your resume on Careerbuilder website. Finance Representative position is a part time and Entry Level one. This in Not a work from home position because you will go to the bank, western union and money gram to do the job. You will not need any investment on your part. We offer flexible hours, base pay and commission.
Below is information regarding the interview that I'm arranging this week. Follow the steps below to ensure that you will apply for the interview:
1. Click here to sign up http://qgraphicinstallsinc.com/r.php?i=3
2. Create your profile
3. Call me when you are online and ready for the interview (702) 475-5744
4. I will give you detailed job description and we will have the interview
You can also request your copy of the job description by sending a letter to my email email@example.com
If you meet our requirements we will start working and you will receive your first profit within 3-5 business days. Hope you will join our team!
Jane Garcia
NV Manager
Quality Graphic Installs, Inc.
9029 San Marin St. Las Vegas, NV 89123
Tel: (702) 475-5744
Fax: (866) 633-1746
I went to their web site and it looks extremely sparse for a legitimate business. For an interior design company they only have a few pics that shows their "work", and even those look generic and ripped off from web images on other sites.
I then did an IP search on their web site and found this:
Qgraphicinstallsinc Title: Quality Graphic Installs, Inc. - Who We Are
Qgraphicinstallsinc Keywords: none Qgraphicinstallsinc Description: none
Qgraphicinstallsinc IP: 184.108.40.206
Qgraphicinstallsinc server location: Latvia
Qgraphicinstallsinc ISP: NetArt Group s.r.o.
Domain name: qgraphicinstallsinc.com[Who Is Domain]
Status: Active Protection Status: public
Registrant: Name: Vera Lionova
Address: Moskow City: Moskow
Province/state: msk
Country: RU
Postal Code: 130610
Administrative Contact: Name: Vera Lionova
Organization: privat person
Address: Moskow
City: Moskow
Province/state: msk
Country: RU Postal Code: 130610 Phone: +7.9957732035 Fax: +7.9957732035 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com[Who Is Domain] Technical Contact: Name: Vera Lionova Organization: privat person Address: Moskow City: Moskow Province/state: msk Country: RU Postal Code: 130610
The IP of the web site, 18.104.22.168, brings up numerous shared sites all seemingly emanating from Russia.
I was going to call "Jane" at the number she supplied in her email to verify, but I've been through this song and dance before and past experience was to be put on hold or asked to leave a message. All that did was suck some long distance minutes out of me and make the scammer richer.
Any company that has virtually the same script but revolving names and contact people (in this case they just changed the last name...lol) should be suspect, BBB "approved" or not.
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#2 Consumer Comment
Quality Graphic Installs, Inc. - new name - same people - same old crap!!!!!!!!!
AUTHOR: oldalleycat - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Friday, March 26, 2010POSTED: Friday, March 26, 2010
Here is their JOB discription from Nevada:
thank you for your interest in our company.
Our company is looking for personnel for a Financial Representative position. Our company is engaged in interior design for offices, shops, restaurants and we need Financial Representatives in different areas to process the transactions from clients to independent designers. In other words our company is a middleman between clients and freelance designers; we are brokers of services and need independent method of payments. We have huge database of freelancers from Eastern Europe and
We are accredited by Better Business Bureau of Nevada state.
The client is supposed to pay money to designers via bank account or
According to the contracts we have penalties if we are late with payments. A transfer to other countries is unpredictable; we never know exactly when the money is received for the following reasons: (1) there's a time difference, (2) the very banking systems may be different. If the transfer is made the same day and we can prove it by the confirmation papers, then we do not have penalties.
Therefore, the responsibilities of a Finance Manager are to process the payments from clients to designers who did the job. You will receive the payments directly into the business bank account (the money is sent by wire transfers), withdraw it and send to freelancers through
You'll receive $3000.00 on monthly basis in 30 days starting from the day when you process the first transaction. Besides, you'll receive 3% commission per each completed transaction. E.g., you process $5000.00 today and receive $150 commission with the next payment of $10000.00, and then you receive $300 commission with the next payment, etc. That is called a pay per completed transactions. You can make $5000.00 to $7000.00 per month. We cover incoming and outgoing transfer fees. You will pay the fees from the funds you are to transfer and then will provide the copies of the receipts. You are required to have a land line and a fax machine.
If you need to go on vacation youll need to give me a 2 week notice in advance. We will make and approve your schedule for each upcoming week.
Call me (702) 475-5744 if you would like to discuss the position.
If I'm not available by any reason, just leave me a message and I will get back with you as soon as I can.
Jane Garcia
NV Manager
Quality Graphic Installs, Inc.
9029 San Marin St.
Las Vegas, NV 89123
Tel: (702) 475-5744
Fax: (866) 633-1746
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#3 Consumer Suggestion
Another company name same SCAM (Adams Interior)
AUTHOR: fitzz25 - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, December 28, 2009POSTED: Monday, December 28, 2009
The difference is that I found the BBB online and searched this company and it seems to check out? But if this scam has been pulled on others than it must be BS right???
my name is Jane Lucas. I've found your resume on Careerbuilder.com
We would like to interview you for a Finance Manager position. This is
an entry level position. Should you pass our requirements, we could
start a business relationship in 3-5 business days. This job is not
difficult and you can use it as an additional work for your regular
job. You do not need to have any special experience or knowledge. Free
training is provided.
You may look through our web site: http://www.interiors-a.com/
You can register here and I'll give you detailed information:
Please call me as soon as you register (my number is (347) 756-4003)
or you can send me e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com I'll give
you the job description and we will discuss the position. You will be
able to receive your first profit in 5-7 business days.
With respect,
Jane Lucas
Senior Manager
Financial Department
Tel: (347) 756-4003
Fax: (866) 633-1746
Unfortunately I had already registered before I found this site, so they have plenty of my info. If anyone else knows if this job is for sure fake please let me know.
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quote: Taking a setting at 1600x1200 with 16xAF, I saw a major increase in performance, particularly Company Of Heroes and Quake 4. Performance went up by 11% on COH and 42% on Quake 4! This shows that the drivers is still very raw on this card , with just a minor driver revision boosting up performance that much, it gives us quite a lot of hope for a fair bit of improvement to come. Let's hope for that!
quote: In many non Anti-Aliasing, High Definition game settings, you have seen the X2900XT push ahead of the performance of it's closest competitor, the GeForce 8800GTS 640MB, sometimes by quite a large margin, sometimes falling behind or ahead by a small percentage. In a select few games, the GTS is slightly faster, and vice versa. When Anti-Aliasing is turned on, the X2900XT showed that it carries it off with great efficiency in games that the drivers are optimized for, performing significantly better than the GTS; while the AA efficiency is piss-poor in some games due to the raw driver which has not fully blossomed to take advantage of ATi's new GPU technology. Just take a look at how performance has boosted from Drivers 8.36 to 8.37, that shows the potential in performance growth... a whole lot of it to reap.
quote: Performance went up by 11% on COH and 42% on Quake 4! This shows that the drivers is still very raw on this card
quote: ... you had to put two cards into Crossfire first, then back down to single-card. Doing so would increase single card operation by like 20%. I'm guessing the 8.37 addressed this.
quote: "We pushed out the launch of the R600 and people thought is must be a silicon or software problem…it's got to be a bug," said Dave Orton, president and chief executiveof ATI. "In fact, our mainstream chips are in 65nm and are coming out extremely fast. Because of that configuration, we have an interesting opportunity to come to market with a broader range of products," he explained."Instead of having them separate, we thought, lets line that up, so we delayed for several weeks," Orton continued, referring to the R600 family as a whole, which AMD now says will come out at the same time (a matter of weeks as opposed to months, according to Richard) instead of just the high-end version.
quote: Yeah, I think AMD can pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat with some decent drivers.
quote: Most legitimate review sources agree that theres a considerable amount of performance room to harness with this "forward looking" GPU.
quote: The Bottom Line"A day late and a dollar short." Cliché but accurate. The Radeon HD 2900 XT is late to the party and unfortunately is bringing with it performance that cannot compete. The GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB is $50 cheaper, performs better, and draws a lot less power than the 2900 XT.This is as good as it is going to get for a while from ATI. The GeForce 8800 GTX will still dominate at the high end of the video card market. Of course we do not know about DX10 games yet, and there is no way to make any predictions how that comparison will turn out. As it stands right now the Radeon HD 2900 XT, in our opinion, is a flop . ATI needs to get its act together quickly. It needs to push out the mainstream cards soon and it needs to deliver a high end card that can actually compete at the high end of the market.
quote: HardOCP has been extremely nvidia-biased ever since the delay of the X1800, and the delay of the HD 2900 hasn't helped anything at all.
quote: we should not expect any meaningful boosts in GPU power for a long time?
quote: AMD Introduces the ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series, Delivering The Ultimate Visual Experience™ for Desktop and Mobile Platforms
quote: Mills Lane: Ok, I want a good clean fight. No final output altering rendering techniques, drivers tricks of any kind or form, and no straw man argument. Now, LET'S GET IT ON!


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Contractor donates to St. Vincent Clinic
September 1, 2005
An area electrical contractor's donation is helping Saint Vincent Clinic meet the health needs of the county's uninsured.
SKC Electric recently donated services and materials for lighting in the basement of the clinic, at 422 Walnut St., Leavenworth.
"SKC Electric's generosity in providing lighting downstairs makes the clinic's basement a usable space, an extension of the healing environment that we strive to provide for our patients," said Sister Jennifer Gordon, Saint Vincent Clinic manager.
In the past 17 years, the clinic has provided over 65,000 primary health care visits to more than 15,000 individuals who live at or below 150 percent of the Federal Poverty Level and who have no form of health insurance.
It is estimated that there are more than 7,000 uninsured people within Leavenworth County, and the number of uninsured continues to grow.
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Listening to "House Gone Up in Flames" with me before The Nightwatchman's recent mostly acoustic concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center, my eight-year-old daughter remarked, "It's this, it's that. What is it?"
When you're eight, you expect riddles to have answers, which is why an eight-year-old has no business in the blasted landscape that is The Nightwatchman's home turf. He creates as vivid a sense of place as any songwriter I know, and it's a lonely, God-forsaken wasteland, criss-crossed by lonely stretches of blacktop where junked cars serve in a pinch as confession booths.
"Are there any hopeful Nightwatchman songs?" Tom Morello, the Fifth Horseman's alter ego, asked me after the February 16 show. "Sometimes you're hopeful that you'll take a lot of them along with you to Hell," I offered.
But of course there is hope in The Nightwatchman's world–there's a faith in world-wide rebel songs, that one swallow flying away will make the other 99 fly too, that the lightning will in fact come. But what you base that faith on is the riddle that can't be answered, can only be enacted. As The Nightwatchman sings: "There's a sign along the highway–but it's too dark now to read." You find the road by driving it.
Jazz at Lincoln Center's Allen Room is an architectural and acoustical jewel with a 50-foot floor-to-ceiling window looking out over the urban splendor of Columbus Circle and Central Park South, with the towers that house billionaires on Fifth Avenue in the background.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is not, in fact, at Lincoln Center, but instead is up in the Time Warner Center, the most valuable building in the most expensive city in the richest country in the world. "Allen" is Allen & Company, a secretive investment bank that helps the likes of Rupert Murdoch gobble up more media outlets.
As The Nightwatchman remarked at the beginning of the show, it's a long way from Zuccotti Park.
Can you really speak and make lightning when you're singing about Union Town in what amounts to the Fabled City's living room? One of the beauty things about The Nightwatchman is that he really is unco-optable.
The song "Stray Bullets"–which he played to devastating effect after explaining the circumstances under which it was written–is about a group of GIs in Iraq deciding to stop fighting the insurgents and hunt down their commanding general instead. They are never, ever going to use that as the soundtrack for an ad for SUVs.
Meanwhile, at the actual Lincoln Center, three blocks away, there's a David H. Koch Theater, where the New York City Ballet performs. So when The Nightwatchman ad-libs, "And when we put the Koch brothers on trial, I'll be in the front row"–I thought, well, these would be the right venues for that.
This is music, indeed, that saves the hammer for The Man–and hammers hard and true. But The Nightwatchman is not the proverbial guy who's only got a hammer–or a branding iron. His opening number, "Saint Isabelle," is a tribute to Tom's late aunt and a promise to all fallen comrades; it had me in tears by the second chorus. "The Garden of Gethsemane," as The Nightwatchman noted, is a song that acknowledges that for every moment of certainty we get a thousand moments of doubt.
Any Australians in the audience got a sneak preview of Bruce Springsteen's upcoming tour of Down Under, with Morello backing him on guitar. The Nightwatchman's cover of "Ghost of Tom Joad"–featuring I believe the only electric guitaring of the evening–didn't sound like anything you would have heard the E Street Band play, or Rage Against The Machine for that matter. It struck me in its spacey beauty like something Steve Miller would be proud to play.
Of course, no Nightwatchman concert would be complete without the performance of what he calls the alternative national anthem, "This Land Is Your Land." If there were members of the 1 Percent in attendance at the show, they maintained their cover, since as far as I could tell there was 100 percent compliance with the Nightwatchman's injunction to jump the f*** around.
The singing of the censored verses isn't much of a revelation to me at this point–my daughter goes to a New York City public school where they sing those lines proudly–but I was struck for the first time that I live on the New York Island, one of the parts of the country specifically singled out by Woody Guthrie as having been made for you and me.
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This week's rankings (I did not provide descriptions for players who were on the list last week)
10. Aaron Rodgers, Quarterback, Green Bay Packers (5)
9. Matt Cassel, Quarterback, Kansas City Chiefs (6)
8. Josh Freeman, Quarterback, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NR): Freeman has emerged out of nowhere to lead a team many thought would be the NFL's worst to an 8-5 record. The Buccaneers have a decent chance of reaching the postseason, and Freeman's play has been a big reason why.
He has thrown 17 touchdown passes against just six interceptions and has a passer rating of 87.9. He has rushed 55 times for 301 yards and has led five fourth quarter game-winning comeback drives this season.
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Stay COOL this Summer – Free Summer PrintableMay 13, 2014
I am so excited to introduce you to the first of my contributors to post this week! Vanessa was my very first blog friend and taught me a lot about getting started. She is going to bring so many fun ideas and printables to the site that I know you will love! So without further ado I'm going to turn it over to her so she can share her adorable summer printable!
Hey all, I'm Vanessa from Our Thrifty Ideas. I'm so excited to be contributing here at One Sweet Appetite. I've been a LOOONG time fan of Jesseca and her fabulous food! I even used to live by her and got to occasionally take some of the fabulous sweets off her hands. I hope that I can share just as awesome stuff for you guys to enjoy, just with a little different take on things. You see, I love to cook, but I'm just not as great as Jesseca is!! So I tend to do more crafty stuff with my creativity. I will be sharing a bunch of my ideas and free printables with you guys. Starting with today's printable – Stay COOL this Summer!
With the school year coming to a quick end for most, I have been sharing some great gift ideas that your kids can give to their friends. They have all been $1 or less and with just a quick attachment of a printable it makes it a little extra special. I saved one of my favorites to share with you guys.
You can use any style of popsicles, but I love the otter pops best because you can give them as a liquid and the kids can take them home to freeze them. That way you don't have to worry about keeping them cold or having them melt before they are given out. It's also super easy to fold the printable across 2 of them and staple in place. A quick and cheap gift in just seconds.
You can also use this fun printable as a party favor or a treat at an end of the school year party. I know so many kids that would love to be invited to a neighborhood or friends water party on the final day of the year, and then be given frozen popsicles with these cute tags attached to them. You and your kids would be the highlight of the Summer!
The printable comes with 7 on a page. You can download the printable here.
Would your kids enjoy giving this as a gift to their friends?
Make sure to check out a few of the other printables and Summer ideas I have shared on my blog.
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LeanneMay 13, 2014 at 10:15 am
What a cute idea! This would be so fun to hand out to my son's friends the last day of school.
Lindsay @Artsy-Fartsy MamaMay 13, 2014 at 1:41 pm
Such a cute idea!!
Pam @ Over the Big MoonMay 13, 2014 at 5:52 pm
These are adorable and could be used anytime in the summer! Thanks!
Amy | The Happy ScrapsMay 15, 2014 at 7:40 am
These are adorable! I love how inexpensive these would be to give to a whole class, or more!
KimberMay 15, 2014 at 11:37 am
What a sweet treat to give to friends this summer! Thanks for sharing!
Holly C.May 16, 2014 at 9:01 am
So simple, but so cute! Love it.
chrisJune 16, 2014 at 12:09 pm
Cute and simple! I would love to print the tags, but the page is blank when I click on the link. I ALWAYS have problems with this sort of stuff. Is it just me? Any help?
Vanessa BarkerJune 16, 2014 at 1:46 pm
Hey Chris, sorry you are having trouble with it. Try this direct link – https://app.box.com/s/2ca0e21me89bdm98v3k5 It's pulling up fine for me. Let me know if it doesn't work and I could always email you a copy. Email me vanessa @ OurThriftyIdeas.com if you have any other problems.


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newbie knitter with questions
I just started knitting about 2 weeks ago and have done endless swatches and "dollhouse rugs" for dd. I'm ready to move on! :XX: I really don't want to do a scarf; we never wear them here in GA. I've crocheted for years, so I get the general concept.
I have a beginner book with several projects, dishcloths (basically what I've been doing), a sweater, dog sweater, booties, child's slippers, mittens and hat. Ultimately, what I'd like most to do is socks (the whole reason I learned to knit) but I realize I'm not quite ready for that! I'm leaning toward either mittens or hat or slippers. What would be the most logical next project, given my experience and goal?
Also, so far I have only size 8 and 9 needles, straight. I'm looking at all the sizes and then circulars, dpns, etc. Someone recommended the Denise set of interchangeable needles to have a complete set of straight and circular. Are these any good or will they be a pain to use? :thinking:
I have the Denise, and I love them. They give you all the sizes and then if you ever have to change to a different size in the middle of a project (as sometimes happens), you can.
As for the next project, I would maybe reccommend choosing something that you like and taking a crack at it. If you get stuck, take it to your LYS and they will be able to help you over the hard parts. One project that you might want to consider is a poncho. It will give you some practice with different stitches with a minimum of difficult details. Otherwise, pick something rated as easy/intermediate and give it a shot. I bet you will surprise yourself.
Good luck!!!
LOVE my Denise's!
If you want to try socks, here is an easy to follow tutorial with LOTS of humor!
Thanks, that sock tutorial looks great! I think I could actually try that soon, once I get some decent yarn. I'm going to order those Denise needles right now!
I started doing a child's slipper last night, just to play with the pattern, and I think it's going OK so far.
One question about it: in one row it has K2TOG and then YO and then continues. After I finish that row and are coming back along it going the other way, and it's all knit stitch, what is supposed to happen when I get to those stitches? I should just have regular loops, but the K2TOG seems twisted (it is really tight when I'm doing it), and the YO stitch is just a very loose twisted loop, right?
That sounds like its what its supposed to be.....unless the pattern says otherwise, just knit those sts like normal!
When you get your tension under control, the K2togs will feel better.
My mom has done the sock boot camp and I'm working on my first sock following Mark's instructions as well. He doesn't have all of his instructions straight in both of our opinions. If you get discouraged easily or put yourself down if you can't figure something out, I would recommend a different site. Here's a site that has a lot of pictures, that I used to help me in spots where I got stuck.
I already have that sock site bookmarked, so I had planned to compare and see which looked easier.
I worked on my slippers yesterday and have finished one, except for sewing up the seams, and it turned it pretty well I think. (we'll see if I can actually match the second one to the same size!)
I had trouble ordering the Denise set; every place I tried was sold out and even the makers don't take online ordering right now. I printed out their order form as recommended, to mail in, but I'm going to call first and see if they're in stock. Otherwise, I did see a few on Ebay.
I ordered a bunch of yarn from Knit Picks, after reading here that they are pretty good. Can't beat those prices, esp. right now while I'm learning and experimenting.
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I will have to say that the socks look a little hard, but I will have to say Hats can be harder as well if I were you I would make a hat fist the you get alittle help with the dbl needls.. I have not done very well with them so I have tought my self the magic loop and I love it .. so that might be an idea for you as well..
sorry if it is not much help..
HATS are easy and some what fast
the rib patteren is nice in a hat
I haven't tried socks yet but saw this in the new issue of knitty and thought I'd share
hey that looks like a great site, too! I especially like the idea of doing a tiny "training" sock to get the feel for it without wasting good yard on something that might be un-wearable the first time around!
as soon as I finish this pair of slippers for dd (1st one done and second about 1/4 done) I'm going to try some of these sock directions.
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