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Great way to kickstart 2014 and shake off any FCPX woes with some great training.
Over the past few years I've contributed articles focused on my experience independently promoting and distributing my previous two features, The Graduates and Turtle Hill, Brooklyn.
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If you're particularly good with your hands then the Slip and Slide is your practical, DIY answer to an expensive slider system. Using sliding drawer fittings, bearings and patience you too can craft your own slider on the cheap.
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shooting film or video with a iphone or android smartphone , this may come in handy.
Well-known photo and video lighting company introduces the Westcott Flex as it becomes exclusive North American and Australian distributor of new and novel LED mat technology. [adrotate group="6"]The basic stats on the Westcott Flex would be enough to warrant attention: a dimmable LED panel... http://blog.planet5d.com/2014/10/westcott-flex-bend-me-shape-me-any-way-you-want-to/
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This is a great addition and allows for many lighting possibilities.
You may have started to notice that more and more people are using Instagram over Facebook to view videos and photos from friends, families and businesses. A...
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Simple easy to follow video guide to creating and setting up your own photographic or web video studio in a small space.
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Some great tips using stuff from Home Depot and a bit of ingenuity to save money and create a studio in a very small space.
Twitter's Vine has introduced a feature that allows you to message other users directly via video. This adds both a direct messaging channel and video clips to its messages, a big addition to Twitter's video app.
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If you don't remember the photo series Pucker, then you might have been hiding under a rock last August because it exploded.
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Cute babies in slow motion, if you like that thing.
Transcend Launch Ultra High Speed Class 3 SD Cards for 4K Video Capture supporting Sony, Canon, Panasonic and JVC Video, Cinema and DSLR Ultra HD recording.
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Transcend Launch Ultra High Speed Class 3 SD Cards for 4K Video Capture. With 4K recording options becoming more accessible, affordable and available across range of devices and deployment for film, television, broadcast and video.
Google added a neat feature called "Face Movies" to its Picasa photo software last week. This feature uses facial recognition technology to help you create
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Nice simple effective idea for using a piece of freeware from Google.
Below is a transcript for you to read through the video if you would like! Enjoy and have fun learning more about RAW vs JPEG. Hi this is Elizabeth from Elizab
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The pros and cons of shooting in RAW vs JPEG photographic images.
Filmmaker round up to films, festivals, awards and tools.
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Filmmaker round up to films, festivals, awards and tools.
The Sundance Institute and TED now have an open call for proposals for their second collaboration, which will jointly award $125,000 for a short documentary film project about the work of the 2014 TED Prize winner -- Charmain Gooch, co-founder and director of Global Witness.
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Sundance Teams Up TED to give filmmakers the chance of $125K prize.
You should be shooting video every day. We all should be. Here are 7 reasons why...
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Practise may make perfect, but regularly increasing your skills makes you more polished.
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I started out trying to shoot and edit a daily video for planet5D readers but it sure is difficult. Izzy makes some excellent points about why you need to do this!
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A very well nice captured photo of a photographer itself. Hope this is not edited or something. It really is very nice.
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DIYPhotography.net -DIY Photography and Studio Lighting The Easiest DIY Slider I've Ever Seen Most of you know that I love sliders and that using a slider in a video shoot is a great way to get more value in your.
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Fancy a bit of DIY and got some tools to make a slider for your dslr, gopro or video camera.
From music, to video, to images, these services give you public domain and/or openly licensed (ie. Creative Commons licensed) content that you can reuse in your own work.
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Here's the key to Atomos' smallest and least expensive 1080p ProRes external recorder, the Atomos Ninja Star: you'll love it if you love color grading or you love shooting golden hour skies – and you have a camera that can output clean HDMI in 10-bit 4:2:2. Otherwise? It's more complicated. [adro... http://blog.planet5d.com/2014/10/atomos-ninja-star-295-can-do-great-things-with-the-right-camera/
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This is a great nifty looking device.
It is a fairly known fact that Canon videographers can magically "upgrade" their cameras using the Magic Lantern custom firmware. This firmware gives the camera some nice control features, but I suspect that this firmware is usually installed for the better video it provides (raw video, dual ISO, better dynamic range and so on). Sadly, [...]
A quick showcase of differing camera moves and how they are used.
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Some great tips and use of cranes, jibs, sliders or handheld rig can create differenct cinematic moods and effects on framing with compostion for production.
Extremely bright macro flash with 12 pcs of 1 watt high power LEDs. This macro flash is perfect for macro photography. If you want to build your own DIY macro flash just read this article and you will find all the details you need.
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Create your own LED micro flash ring light.
Five months after releasing his first tutorial video on shooting and processing time-lapse photography, Dustin Farrell is back at it again.
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Great timelape tips for night shoots.
A new video celebrating the composition style of director Wes Anderson is currently making the rounds on the Internet: a beautiful ode to the power of symm
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How to abandon the rules of thirds and go halves instead for filmmaking or photography.
We asked this year's crop of Sundance filmmakers and cinematographers what cameras they shot on and here are their responses.
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List of cameras used to Sundance submissions for 2014. Expect some suprises and interesting camera and lens combinations.
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Shooting #video is so different than still #photography!
In a time of technological haste and overt content consumption, the microcinema offers up an old-school rhetoric that invites moviegoers to look back on films that challenged norms, to look forward to the new works that are breaking the traditional narrative structure, and to open up an offline, in-person dialogue with their fellow cinephiles.
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How technology offers a new viewing opportunities for films and cinema on a microscale.
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Jay Leno and Terry Bradshaw
Jay Leno has Terry Bradshaw on his show a lot! The other night, Jay brought out a cake that said "Congratulations Terry Bradshaw! 20th Anniversary" and had the number 25 candle on it. Then Terry blew out the candle and Jay tried to put Terry's face in the cake to where he would dent the cake.

Then Jay goes "you were supposed to make a dent!" and Terry goes "I was?" and then throws the cake onto Leno and dumps it on his head and before we know it the two are wrestling on the Tonight Show stage having a cake fight. Jay got most of the cake though. It was hilarious.

Terry was on the floor trying to wrestle Jay down and all. It was hilarious! Did anyone see this? I was laughing really hard.

Yupper, I saw it too!
I enjoyed it when they read his mail.
How he called for the cheque in the restaurant.
The cake wresting was good too, that was nice
of Terry to give his watch away.
What about this question,
What was your worst date.
I wonder what Jim's worst date was????

Re: Yupper, I saw it too!
my worst date? the time when the guy stood me up.

I remember a time like that too!
I think mine was when I was just starting to date., I was 16 or 17 yrs old.
The guy didn't show up for three hours or so, I was so
looking forward to the date.
It was that day I decided never to wait that long for a man again, it was a good rule to learn early.
After a half an hour, I leave.
Then I say "time waits for no man" and I try to
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Driving across America, it's all too easy to lose your mooring amid the commercial thicket of the same old fast-food outlets and big-box stores.
But push on a mile or two beyond the interstate exit, and you may discover a town that's anchored by a distinctive Main Street—one with grand architecture, eclectic small businesses, and community-oriented features like a park or theater. Often it thrives thanks to locals who have made a conscientious effort to fight the general decline of Main Street.
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The work of such activists and preservationists is acknowledged each year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Great American Main Streets Awards and by the American Planning Association's Great Places in America: Streets. We scoured their recent designations to select the most vibrant, distinctive downtowns worth the trip.
You'll find these great Main Streets across the U.S., from mining towns like Silver City, NM, to stately, red-brick Staunton, VA. Yet our list does skew east of the Mississippi, favoring towns that were established before the age of the automobile—and so display the DNA of a pedestrian and bike-friendly environment.
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Port Townsend, WA, went through its own reinvention. Expecting a shipping boom, 19th-century residents built out the town in high Victorian style—only to find themselves on the wrong side of Puget Sound when the railroads connected to Seattle. It's been reborn as an arts center around the main drag, Water Street.
Second chances are just as American as a homespun Main Street, and with the recent economic downturn have come do-it-yourselfers seeing opportunity in cheap abandoned storefronts and converting them into bakeries or boutiques.
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Tears fill my eyes to the rim
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They fall down my cheeks
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My skin grows cold
I feel despise fill my veins
The dread of my mistakes
Im so stupid!
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Never trust again
Once upon a time
But no more is he mine
His lies made me cry
Does it come easy to him?
I gave myself to him
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The nights are silent now
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It has been a while now. The habit of looking for your messages has lessened
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Yes, I know: you've been wounded, and wounded again. The urge to hide is so strong that the simple act of stepping out the door, greeting another day, taking another risk, reflects heroic effort.
Welcome, wounded friend, to the company of the shattered.
The internet is rife with recitation of a line from the 13th century Sufi poet and lawyer, commonly called Rumi. "The wound is the place with the light enters." Translation is treacherous, translation from
Just to lay some questions and fears to rest, I have not left the library and I have not simply disappeared.
In a previous blog I spoke of redirecting and refocusing my energies and my goals. That is what I have been doing.
More than anything, I have been writing. I set a goal to spend at least 4 hours each day at some writing goal or project. I have mostly been able to meet this goal. I have several new projects in place as well as the old projects that are
Someday I'll try again to find a Dom. But what if he's not out there? What if "My Mr. Perfect" doesn't exist?
I thought I found it this time, I thought it was going so well. Long phone conversations, texting every day, amazing sex, deep mental and emotional connection. We even had fun together, laughed during sex, lazy time spent resting in his arms or on the couch talking with our feet meeting in the middle. Everything was so easy. Except one critical
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I'm back. Again. It's been a loooong journey since the first posts in 2008 when I was first admitting to myself I wanted to be submissive. 8 years of a relationship, 5 of those married, have finally come to an end. Lots learned, but the most important is that I cannot give up myself for someone else. There's a major difference to enjoying submission and being walked upon.
She never became the Domme I wanted. She wasn't able to fully admit to herself what she wanted. And so I went
In his arms is my safe place
At his feet, between his legs I feel so submissive
His deep voice beacons me
I get lost in our deep consuming kisses
Red imprints heat my skin marked by large hands
My room smells of his intoxicating scent
Tangled bed sheets covered in sweat and cum
Floggers and toys covered the dresser
Bondage ties around the four bed posts
If walls could talk
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Over the past few days I have taken at close look at my goals. I have not been happy at all with the way I have been focusing my energies and attentions. So, I have decided that I need to refocus and then redirect my energies and my attentions so that they better reflect where my true desires are.
What does this mean. Basically it means that I have identified three basic areas of my life where I need to direct the majority of my time, my energy and my attention. This means less
Have you ever been in a place where you can see happiness just out of reach; just out of your grasp yet so close you could see it, smell it, perhaps even taste it. So close that you can physically feel the need to be where you cannot go. A situation that makes you so miserable that you become willing to do anything short of something illegal to make it possible; to have what you want. A yearning so intense that it pervades every waking minute of everyday. A need so deep that every breath


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Girl Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts Council is offering an Animal Connection Program at the Heifer Learning Center at Overlook Farm in Rutland on Sunday, March 7 from 1 to 3 p.m.
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Considered one of this year's small school gems, the shutdown corner Alford could sneak into the first two rounds of the NFL draft.
In the Southland Conference, where teams usually threw away from Alford, the 5-foot-10, 186-pounder had nine interceptions his last two seasons. Last fall, he finished with 35 tackles (five for loss) and eight pass break-ups. Golding says Alford is "very, very explosive." Be it on the bench press or running the 40, Golding expects Alford to make a lot of noise in Indianapolis. In college, Alford power-cleaned 335 pounds.
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(Reuters) - The Detroit Tigers took full advantage of a pair of late Boston errors as they topped the Red Sox 7-5 on Sunday in a battle of two first-place teams.
With the game tied 4-4 in the eighth inning, Boston outfielder Daniel Nava dropped a fly ball before reliever Andrew Miller made an errant throw that led to Detroit's go-ahead rally.
Prince Fielder delivered a two-run single and the Tigers scored three runs in the critical eighth to key their victory and give them a four-game lead atop the American League Central.
Despite the defeat, the Red Sox (45-33) remained two games in front of Baltimore (42-34) in the AL East.
The Orioles had a chance to gain some ground, but they ran into the red-hot Toronto Blue Jays, who routed them 13-5 for a team record-equaling 11th straight win.
Toronto buried Baltimore early by building a 9-0 lead through three innings and cruised in the finale of a three-game home sweep.
Edwin Encarnacion hit his 21st home run and finished with three hits and four RBIs, while Jose Bautista added three RBIs to help the Blue Jays match their record winning streak, last accomplished in 1998.
In Washington, Michael Cuddyer continued his own hot stretch by extending his Major League-best hitting streak to 21 games in Colorado's 7-6 win over Washington.
Cuddyer homered in his first at-bat in the second inning and ended up 3-for-4 with three RBIs.
He surpassed St. Louis infielder David Freese, who had a 20-game hit streak that ended earlier this month, for the longest hitting stretch this season.
The Rockies grabbed a 7-0 lead but had to hold on as the Nationals tallied four runs in the eighth to pull within one.
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Author Notes: All restaurants in Italy are offering some kind of sweet and savoury form of risotto, the gorgonzola and pear combination being the most in fashion these days, specially now in winter. I have made it a few times at home and not only is it very good but also very elegant, something you would serve on special occasions. The saltiness and "bite" of the gorgonzola are softened with the sweetness of pears and the walnuts give it that extra crunch at the end. I have 2 recommendations: 1) choose fresh walnuts so they aren't rancid; 2) choose a younger, soft sweet Gorgonzola, as it melts much easier in the risotto. I used Sauternes as i think it pairs very well with the taste of the Gorgonzola. If you're serving this dish as a first course make the portions really small as it is quite filling. —Maria Teresa Jorge
Serves: 6
cups Carnaroli fine rice (not parboiled)
cups light vegetable broth
shallots very finely chopped
tablespoons butter
cup Sauternes white wine
Comice pears, peeled, cut up in quarters
cup soft sweet Gorgonzola at room temperature
cup fresh walnuts, keep 6 nice halves and the rest cut up
Black pepper
- Peel and chop very finely the shallots.
- Peel 2 pears, cut in quarters, remove seeds and cut up in small pieces.
- Melt 2 tablespoon of butter, add 1 chopped shallot, cook until translucent. Add the pears and sautée them for 5 minutes. Set aside
- For this recipe you need a light stock - put the vegetable broth in a pan and keep it over low heat so it is always hot.
- In a pan melt 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat, add the other shallot and allow to cook for 5 minutes until translucent. Add the rice and fry until well coated in oil and lightly translucent.
- Add the Sauternes wine and allot the alcohol to evaporate completely.
- Add enough broth to just cover the rice, lower the heat to medium-low and allow to cook uncovered until it's almost dry. Add another ladle of broth and stir. Allow to simmer gently until it's almost dry again. Keep repeating the process, adding less and less stock every time you add it to the risotto.
- After 15 minutes, remove from the heat, add some freshly grated black pepper, the Gorgonzola cut up in pieces without the rind and stir vigorously with a wooden spoon to melt the cheese and obtain a very creamy consistency. Check the seasoning.
- Add the pear, stir very gently so the pear doesn't break, cover and let rest for 2 minutes before serving.
- Meanwhile, peel the 3rd pear and cut in quarters, and then in slices for decoration (don't do it before because it will turn dark and won't be as nice. Decorate the plates with sliced pears and fresh walnuts.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Pears
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Vegetarian Holiday Side
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Outrageous wedding requests
It's the height of wedding season, and brides are getting ready to say "I do." Why not make your special day truly unique by finding, say, a giant elephant to stroll you down the aisle? Sound a bit odd? According to 1-800-Registry(1800registry.com) concierge manager Brian Mijo, today's brides won't hold back on their wish lists, which makes his job as exciting as it is demanding. "Whatever the request, we consider it an essential element for every bride to get what they need," Mijo says. "As much as people feel these are outlandish, we call it Tuesday. It's what we do every day. We really enjoy these more challenging requests." Here are some of the more outrageous wedding requests 1800registry.com has received. --Jenniffer Weigel, Tribune Newspapers
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Well I want to approach this review from a different perspective in different segments if possible.
I have a brand new Tascam 160MK2 today and will be breaking it in for a month before I send it to Steve for all the mods.
Even straight out of the box stock the unit has a nice complimentary mid band reproduction ,But I can tell it needs alot of hours on it.
The extreme highs sound closed in and etched, mid bass and deep bass is weak. But then again this is the stock unit right out of the box.
I just wanted to document my initial finds ON THE STOCK UNIT.
i WILL REPORT BACK RIGHT BEFORE i SEND UNIT OUT ON May 1st
for all the full mods as to my impressions on the stock unit broken in and will be curious to know the before and after magic Steve puts into this cd player.
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Well, you're going to be in for a real shock because the stock player, even burned in, is in my experience unlistenable by comparison.
Don't forget the stock outputs will remain operational when you get the unit back, so you can easily A/B the difference.
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Thanks Steve it sounds like I will be in for a real treat indeed. This unit has Sep 2008 printed on the back and came with the warranty card as well for me to drop in the mail box and send to Tascam.SO its brand new indeed. Next month is my Birthday so this will make a great present for me with endless late night listening by the sounds of it. I'm glad I'm retired.LOL
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Well the Tascam 160mk2 is packed up and ready to be shipped out friday May 1st. I put about 100 hours on the player and the sound has improved considerably. The high frequencies have most of the hardness gone,But the presentation is a bit forward sounding with alot of detail. The midband is nice but a little light to my taste.
I can tell the Tascam does need many hours of burn in to sound its best. If listenened to without time to break in you will not hear at all as how it may sound.
I am really looking forward to the full mod done to this wonderful Tascam that seems to fly under the radar of reviewers.
I did take a peak inside and noticed the Tascam uses some Samsung DACs which I hear thru the grapevine can make some of the best today.But that does not concern me so much Steve will work his magic around these anyway.
Another little tweek worth checking into is damping the machine internally with Deflex Panels which I have already temporarily done and have really relaxed and opened up the top end.
I also prop up the machine on a couch pillow for even better results.
Soundstage really flots nicely.
This is all with the stock machine.
Well my Birthday is May 9th so my present should be sweet with class a output,tube power supply, dual attentuators and an IEC put on it as well.
I'll report back when I receive the Tacam back with all the mods.
I heard FIM Records has a new K2 CD out. I should purchase this while I'm waiting to get back the Tascam.
Happy Listening
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You should really enjoy your (modded) player. It is, IMHO a killer unit, paired with good equipment.
Let us know what you hear!
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I've done the A/B and the stock outputs are like listening to an Ipod in comparison.
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I'll bet you really like it! Get all the mods. I'm hoping I'll really enjoy my ZCD one day! I really WANT to!
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Well I had a nice phone call with Steve. He told me the player is done ,moded fully with all the mods, listened as well, and getting ready to ship off in a day or 2.
I asked him for a review over the phone.
He only had to say one word. well maybe a few.
My Tascam fully moded with all the new parts and not even fully broken in yet
wow i CAN'T WAIT TO RECEIVE IT NEXT WEEK SOMETIME.
It sounds like I will be up many late nights spinning cd's.
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Very few big social changes happen without some form of advocacy. When these efforts succeed, the results can be transformative. Consider the recent expansion of charter schools or health care reform in the United States. Good ideas like these did not catch on widely just because they worked. They happened because of creative investments in public persuasion, legislative action, and political activity.
Most successful foundations and nonprofits understand the importance of advocacy. Over the last decade, foundations have put more resources into advocating for the policies they believe in, with some notable successes. Yet grantmakers have often hesitated to plunge in. Sometimes they worry about appearing too political or partisan. But more often they hesitate because effective advocacy is difficult, and evaluating whether various approaches are working is even harder.
That is not the case when it comes to service delivery programs—such as well-baby clinics or job-training classes—where foundations, universities, and government agencies have developed sophisticated tools for evaluating the effectiveness of these efforts. The tools range from controlled experiments, to extracting from experience best practices that can be adapted from one successful program to another, to a more malleable form of evaluation based on assessing the theory of change underlying an initiative. The development, refining, and implementation of these tools constitute a growing industry.
Unfortunately, these sophisticated tools are almost wholly unhelpful in evaluating advocacy efforts. That's because advocacy, even when carefully nonpartisan and based in research, is inherently political, and it's the nature of politics that events evolve rapidly and in a nonlinear fashion, so an effort that doesn't seem to be working might suddenly bear fruit, or one that seemed to be on track can suddenly lose momentum. Because of these peculiar features of politics, few if any best practices can be identified through the sophisticated methods that have been developed to evaluate the delivery of services. Advocacy evaluation should be seen, therefore, as a form of trained judgment—a craft requiring judgment and tacit knowledge—rather than as a scientific method. To be a skilled advocacy evaluator requires a deep knowledge of and feel for the politics of the issues, strong networks of trust among the key players, an ability to assess organizational quality, and a sense for the right time horizon against which to measure accomplishments. In particular, evaluators must recognize the complex, foggy chains of causality in politics, which make evaluating particular projects—as opposed to entire fields or organizations—almost impossible.
If foundations embraced the judgment-laden character of the effort—rather than giving up on advocacy or feeling they are falling short when their evaluations lack the scientific patina of service delivery program evaluations—the benefits would be profound. Funders could structure programs, often involving multiple unlikely bets, in ways that are more likely to succeed. Advocates could feel comfortable changing course as necessary. And foundations would be more likely to take chances on big efforts to change policy and public assumptions, rather than retreating to the safer space of incremental change.
The word advocacy is in many ways a misnomer. Funders do not, for the most part, give organizations money to simply fly the flag or make the case for a particular policy. Their goal is to change actual social, policy, and political outcomes. And ultimately, advocacy efforts must show progress toward those outcomes. But the relationship between the work to create those outcomes, and the actual results or signs of that progress, can be elusive, because advocacy by its nature is complicated and its impact often indirect.
Consider, for example, the campaign for US health care reform. The effort that culminated in 2010 was the result of decades of work, including a previous, high-profile failure in the early 1990s, waves of state-based reform, and numerous incremental efforts at the national level. Advocates invested hundreds of millions of dollars in initiatives ranging from media campaigns encouraging television producers to include stories of the uninsured, coalition-building projects, university- and think tank-based research, and grassroots initiatives. The basic outlines of reform policies were worked out well in advance, in advocacy groups and think tanks, which delivered a workable plan to presidential candidates. Important interest groups who could block reform, such as small business, had been part of foundation-supported roundtables seeking common ground for years. Technical problems had been worked out. And tens of millions of dollars had been set aside as long ago as 2007 for politically savvy grassroots advocacy initiatives targeted at key legislators. After a very long slog, the outcome was the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Now consider the effort in the United States to pass legislation to control global warming, which in many ways resembled the strategy to pass health care reform. Advocates of cap and trade engaged in what can only be called a mammoth effort, over more than a decade. Among other things, environmentalists drew on the services of a former vice president who made an Oscar-winning movie, spread their message for more than a decade across a remarkable span of media (up to and including children's cartoons), corralled a wide range of well-funded environmental groups to support a single strategy for reducing carbon (cap and trade), and attracted substantial support from large businesses. The movement used every trick in the book (as well as creating some new ones), and the result was legislation that never made it to the floor of the US Senate, with the very real possibility that action will be delayed by years, if not decades.
Most advocacy efforts look more like the push for cap and trade than like health reform. That is, even the best designed and resourced initiatives usually fail to achieve even the more modest of their goals. The American political system is profoundly wired for stasis, and competition for limited agenda space is fierce. In an overwhelming percentage of cases, organizations fail to get substantial traction on their agendas for change. Conversely, items often wind up on the political agenda by random and chaotic routes that may have little to do with advocacy campaigns. If it is hard to know whether advocacy played any part in a policy outcome, it is harder still to know whether any particular organization or strategy made the difference. The fact that in 2010 Congress passed health care reform and not global warming legislation may have been mainly a function of dumb luck, rather than an indication of which advocacy campaign was better executed. Or it may tell us more about the enthusiasm or skill with which the campaign was implemented, rather than the general applicability of its tactics or strategies.
Despite the number of groups that will present themselves as the decisive force behind any legislative accomplishment, no successful advocacy effort is the result of any one organization or initiative. Health care legislation, for example, owes its passage to many efforts. Some were far from government, such as the academic work at Dartmouth College that showed how escalating health care costs could be contained while improving services. Some weren't directly focused on health care at all, such as political organizing around a broad progressive agenda and candidates.
When specific forms of advocacy—an aggressive grassroots campaign, or a behind-the-scenes, cross-partisan strategy involving paid lobbyists—receive credit for changes in policy, advocates adopting those strategies in the future may claim the strategies themselves are a marker on the road to success. But tactics that may have worked in one instance are not necessarily more likely to succeed in another. What matters is whether advocates can choose the tactic appropriate to a particular conflict and adapt to the shifting moves of the opposition.
Sometimes the most effective effort might be a disruptive innovation that does not follow known strategies. Consider MoveOn.org, for a time one of the country's most effective multi-issue advocacy organizations. But for years after its establishment in 1998, the organization attracted skepticism, because its primary strategy—repeated, small actions by members—was so different from the organizational membership model previously considered the standard of success.
Disruptive innovators may require a long period of trial and error, during which the policy landscape, and what strategies work within it, may change significantly. For example, when the Tax Reform Act of 1986—an iconic example of unlikely, bipartisan success—was passed, the political climate in Washington, D.C., was characterized by extremely weak parties, strong congressional committees and subcommittees, significant room for bureaucratic and interest group entrepreneurship, and pervasive cross-party coalition building. Best practices based on those conditions would make little sense in today's national policy process, characterized by polarized, highly disciplined political parties.
Advocacy efforts almost always involve a fight against a strategic adversary capable of adapting over time. Practices that once worked beautifully get stale once the losers figure out how to adopt the winner's strategy or discover an effective counterstrategy. There was a time when bombarding the Congress with phone calls was an effective way of exercising influence by indicating mass support, but it became nearly useless once everyone did it. Strategic litigation was a genuinely disruptive innovation in the 1970s but declined in impact as its targets developed their own organizations and figured out ways to push back against public interest lawyers. The declining returns on political tactics that are a result of the repeated, competitive nature of advocacy makes it almost impossible to evaluate advocacy strategies against the metric of best practices.
Similar resources and advocacy strategies, therefore, can generate very different results. Sometimes political outputs are reasonably proximate and traceable to inputs, but sometimes results are quite indirectly related and take decades to come to fruition. Some advocacy efforts have a specific goal in mind, but in other cases the objective is broader and the benefits are reaped by groups other than those who paid the costs. Any effort to evaluate advocacy must be able to account for these and other complicating features of the terrain of policy and institutional change, but these facts in themselves can't help us evaluate advocacy. Indeed, they are more useful as guides to what not to do.
When evaluating service delivery programs, such as food banks and after-school enrichment programs, it is relatively easy to establish benchmarks to measure a program's effectiveness. By and large, most organizations are able to show some visible progress toward reaching their goal every day (even if it's just one hungry person getting breakfast). But the chaotic, nonlinear character of policy agendas means that funders cannot pretend to know where they are in the process. Most of the time, very little seems to be happening. As University of California, Santa Barbara, sociology professor Verta Taylor points out in her classic study of the women's movement, a cause can remain in "abeyance" for decades, but if the fires are kept burning, it's possible to get things moving when conditions become more permissive.1
These long periods off the agenda can be broken quite abruptly and without warning. That is why it is important to continue to fund and pursue the quiet work—such as the long process of slow persuasion and litigation that led to the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in 2010—even when attention is elsewhere. If one doesn't, then opportunities may be missed when the political weather changes.
Advocacy strategists, conditioned by funders, are accustomed to presenting a plan of action in which a large change is preceded by interim goals and achievements. A plan to achieve nationwide reform on a key issue might have as interim goals the passage of state ballot referenda, a specified number of co-sponsors for legislation, or passage of an incremental reform. An organization that can present a plan for advocacy with a well-marked path to success seems like a business with a coherent plan pointing to profitability, and thus the safest bet for strategic grantmaking. Such a project can be evaluated as to whether it is achieving its projected interim goals.
But successful advocates know that such plans are at best loose guides, and the path to change may branch off in any number of directions. Interim achievements, such as the passage of a state ballot initiative, can be idiosyncratic victories. Incremental legislation often satisfies politicians that they have dealt with a problem while exhausting the capacity of grassroots advocates to keep pushing forward. Given the competitive nature of advocacy, such early under-the-radar successes may even have the unintended consequence of mobilizing the opposition, making later change more difficult.
Successful advocacy efforts are characterized not by their ability to proceed along a predefined track, but by their capacity to adapt to changing circumstances. The most effective advocacy and idea-generating organizations, such as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities or the Institute for Justice, are not defined by a single measurable goal, but by a general organizing principle that can be adapted to hundreds of situations. Rather than focusing on an organization's logic model (which can only say what they will do if the most likely scenarios come to pass), funders need to determine whether the organization can nimbly and creatively react to unanticipated challenges or opportunities. The key is not strategy so much as strategic capacity: the ability to read the shifting environment of politics for subtle signals of change, to understand the opposition, and to adapt deftly.
The US system of government is characterized by parallel, loosely coupled agenda-setting processes at work simultaneously at different levels of government and across institutions. In sharp contrast to service delivery programs, then, advocacy projects cannot realistically experiment in one place in the hopes that successes can be scaled up. Successful advocacy projects must simultaneously pursue opportunities at the local, state, and federal level, as well as across governmental institutions. Sometimes these efforts need to be organized into a well-coordinated network, whereas in other cases they are best left uncoupled, pursued as a portfolio of distinct bets on the assumption that donors have little or no idea which strategy is likely to be successful. Under such conditions, it makes sense to evaluate the portfolio as a whole, not the individual projects.
Successful efforts to change public policy often require grassroots as well as elite strategies, because opposition in either quarter could derail the idea. For example, decades of work within the medical profession built elite support for comparative effectiveness standards to ensure appropriate treatment, but with no grassroots effort, it was effectively mischaracterized as "death panels."
Building advocacy projects that cover a range of political institutions and processes means that massive amounts of effort will seem wasted, because most will be unconnected to the final outcome. This waste, however, is unavoidable, because neither funders nor the organizations they support can know which strategy will be effective ahead of time.
Because funding is finite, there can be a tendency to view issues and advocacy efforts as if they are in competition for a limited amount of political capital or public attention. But success on one issue often builds a foundation for others by creating a sense of political momentum, restoring faith in government, establishing a precedent, or creating habits of cooperation within legislative institutions. Even failure to achieve an identified goal can leave energy and momentum to achieve the goal in other ways. The massive push for the Equal Rights Amendment, for example, fell short in its constitutional goals but led to change through the courts that realized much of its larger ambitions.
Issue domains that may seem quite distinct in a donor's mind are rarely so in politics. Because issues spill over from one domain to another (issues of poverty affect health and education), particular issues are almost impossible to disentangle from general ideas and broader governing philosophies. Consequently, the fortunes of issue-specific mobilization may be due to actions conducted within that domain, but they may be reinforced by mobilization in another domain entirely, by generic, ideological activity, or by more neutral scholarly research. For example, over the past decade, efforts to reform K-12 education have focused on innovations such as charter schools and performance pay for teachers that are often opposed by teachers unions. The perception of teachers unions as powerful and intransigent was then transformed into a backlash against all public employee unions, manifested most recently in the proposals to end collective bargaining in Wisconsin and other states.
That is why it is difficult to accurately attribute the success of any advocacy project to a particular organization (or even issue-specific network). External effects of organizational activity (benefits created by one organization that are reaped by another) are pervasive in advocacy in a way that they are not in service delivery programs. Evaluators are faced, therefore, with the challenge of capturing all the benefits that an organization is generating, as well as preventing it from taking credit for benefits that are produced by others or that are due to good fortune rather than skill.
Despite these many challenges, there are ways grantmakers can effectively invest in and evaluate the success of advocacy campaigns. One thing grantmakers can do is to use a spread-betting approach to making grants. A spread-betting approach invests in a wide range of organizations, strategies, scenarios, and even issues. Failing to fund the seemingly quirky, unproven strategy that turns out to be appropriate to the circumstances is just as big a loss as funding something that does not work out. Spread betting, therefore, requires that funders have an organizational culture that does not punish even a considerable number of failures, so long as they are balanced over the long term by a few notable successes.
Grantmakers should also focus on the aggregate return on investment of their entire portfolio of grants, not the success or payoff of any one grant. An investment in an issue in which no action has occurred, even for a long time, may not be a bad use of resources. But this will only be clear when a particular issue is judged in the context of a range of other bets put down by the donor. Only then can a donor have a sense of whether his resources are generating what investors call "alpha"—excess returns over the average. Portfolio evaluation, by averaging out a number of investments over a longer period of time, also prevents the risk of over-attribution of success or failure to factors that are entirely exogenous to the activities of those they are investing in.
Funders should evaluate their portfolio of investments using the longest feasible time horizon, recognizing that the political process does not end after a piece of legislation passes or a court decision is handed down. It allows for the assessment of what University of Virginia political science professor Eric Patashnik calls "policy durability"—whether a reform actually sticks or creates a platform for further change.2 Some reforms, such as airline deregulation and tradable permits for sulfur dioxide emissions, generated powerful reinforcing dynamics that kept the policies from being clawed back, even in the face of initially strong opposition. But other changes that seemed momentous at the time, such as the Tax Reform Act of 1986, unraveled bit by bit over the years. Viewing policy enactment as only one step in a much longer process focuses donors' attention on what really matters—whether a policy sinks deeply into society and political routines. Funders may not be able to wait for years after reforms pass to judge whether their investment was worth it. But at the very least they should consider the possibility of reversal (or extension) in their evaluations, and evaluate the strategies of advocates by whether they have a plausible plan for protecting what they have won.
Some policy changes matter because they change the playing field on which subsequent action can occur. For example, the state welfare reforms of the 1980s and early 1990s did much more than change policy in the states where experiments were carried out: They altered the entire debate and emboldened policymakers to try more ambitious national changes.
In many cases, policy changes have political feedback as one of their primary objectives. Investment in green jobs, for example, when it emerged as a policy priority in 2005 or so, was billed by its supporters as a "strategic initiative" that, in addition to being good policy, might create a lasting labor-environmentalist alliance, mobilize voters around an optimistic economic vision, put a bright face on the tough choices of carbon pricing, and create a message of reduced oil dependence—not just create jobs and improve the environment. To some extent, the idea achieved those goals even as the policy itself fell short. Libertarians' litigation on issues like school choice and property rights was designed to detoxify their brand among racial minorities, along with achieving substantive policy and legal goals. The long-term effects of policy change on the character of politics can be at least as important as those that are produced by the policies themselves.
We have argued that grantmakers should evaluate the success of advocacy efforts by thinking of them as long-term, portfolio-based, and inclusive of diffuse and indirect effects. We would now like to take this argument one step further—making perhaps our most radical suggestion—that funders may be better off eschewing evaluating particular acts of advocacy, and instead focus on evaluating advocates. We believe that the proper focus for evaluation is the long-term adaptability, strategic capacity, and ultimately influence of organizations themselves. This is the grantmaking model that the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation used to help create the Center for American Progress and ProPublica, and that the Walton Family Foundation uses to promote educational competition.
Evaluating advocacy organizations means paying close attention to the value they generate for others, rather than only focusing on their direct impacts. For example, the Center for American Progress's Campus Progress and The American Prospect's writing fellows program focus a great deal of effort on developing the talent of their younger advocates, writers, and activists. As a result, these organizations regularly lose their younger staff to more prominent organizations. Although this approach doesn't add much direct value to the two organizations, it does create enormous value for the larger ecosystem. In this instance, the advocacy evaluator needs to understand that in some cases staff turnover reflects organizational success, not failure.
The best way to evaluate an organization whose influence is extremely diffuse is for grant officers to be close to the political action and thus able to make informed judgment calls on how it conducts its core activities. This was the practice of many conservative foundations, whose staff devoted much of their time to simply reading the primary work of their grantees, rather than asking them to generate problematic metrics and lengthy reports designed solely for purposes of evaluation. Empowered by their boards or donors to trust their own judgment of good, appropriate work, this foundation strategy has been vindicated many times over in the real world of politics and the marketplace of ideas.
Equally important is an organization's strategic capacity, which can be defined not only as its formal strategic plan, or the wisdom of its senior leadership (two factors that funders tend to focus on), but also the organization's overall ability to think and act collectively, and adapt to opportunities and challenges. A good organization has a coherent and inspiring internal culture, the ability to consistently identify and motivate talented people, acquire and process intelligence, and effectively coordinate its actions. Effective advocacy organizations—such as Planned Parenthood, which recently maneuvered through a significant shift in their political alliances on reproductive rights—have a record of innovating and reorganizing when their tactics don't work as well as they once did.
Yet another way to measure an organization's quality and influence is through "network evaluation"—figuring out its reputation and influence in its policy space. Although this is probably the most important form of knowledge, it is also the most difficult to acquire. Where organizations are in competition with each other for resources, peer evaluations may be too harsh. When organizational leaders have close personal links, their assessments are likely to be too generous. And of course, all advocates have profound incentives to overstate their own importance.
Participants in a policy network may be hesitant to share accurate information with outsiders with whom they lack ongoing relationships, such as consultants hired by the foundation. Advocates may reveal their challenges only to those whom they trust profoundly. Nonetheless, members of policy networks generally do develop reasonably accurate assessments of which of their peers they listen to and trust, who does good work, and who policymakers take seriously. What donors are really looking for is network centrality—which actors play vital roles in issue networks. It is not too difficult to use network mapping to figure out these connections. The real art of advocacy evaluation, which is beyond the reach of quantitative methods, is assessing influence, which is what funders are really paying for.
Advocacy evaluation is a craft—an exercise in trained judgment—one in which tacit knowledge, skill, and networks are more useful than the application of an all-purpose methodology. Evaluators must acquire and accurately weigh and synthesize imperfect information, from biased sources with incomplete knowledge, under rapidly changing circumstances where causal links are almost impossible to establish. There is a natural temptation to formalize this process in order to create at least the appearance of objective criteria, but it is far better to acknowledge that tacit knowledge and situational judgment are what really underlie good advocacy evaluation, and to find evaluators who can exercise that judgment well. It's the evaluator, rather than the formal qualities of the evaluation, that matters.
If scientific method is an inappropriate model, where can grantmakers look for an analogy that sheds light on the intensely judgmental quality of advocacy evaluation? One possibility is the skilled foreign intelligence analyst. She consumes official government reports and statistics, which she knows provide a picture of the world with significant gaps. She talks to insiders, some of whom she trusts, and others whose information she has learned to take with a grain of salt. In many cases, she learns as much from what she knows are lies as from the truth. It is the web of all of these imperfect sources of information, instead of a single measure, that helps the analyst figure out what is actually happening. And it is the quality and experience of the analyst—her tacit knowledge—that allows her to create an authoritative picture.
The best intelligence analysts are really applied anthropologists. They study a particular culture, in a particular place, that works differently in practice than it does on paper. Cultures are often characterized by a "hidden structure" that is largely invisible to outsiders and sometimes poorly understood even by insiders. Many cultures actually develop a lack of transparency precisely to prevent comprehension by outsiders. Discovering how a culture works requires one to create networks of informants and use research methods such as participant observation. This requires trust, which may take years to develop.
What marks a good intelligence analyst, and a good grantmaker in the field of advocacy, is the ability to penetrate those opaque surfaces to detect patterns of influence. Foundations engaged in advocacy need to build this capacity internally, strive for substantial continuity (and thus institutional memory) among those who possess these skills, and respect the value of trained, subjective judgment in making key decisions.
The characteristic features of the terrain of politics—chaotic agenda setting, pervasive misinformation, overlapping responsibility—mean that no one metric can capture the reality of influence. Donors do themselves a disservice by even looking for one. Only by trying to make sense of policymaking activity through the simultaneous application of multiple ways of knowing can donors get closer to finding out what they need to know.
A longer version of this article is available at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation website.
1 Verta Taylor, "Social Movement Continuity: The Women's Movement in Abeyance," American Sociological Review, 1989: 761–75.
2 Eric Patashnik, Reforms at Risk, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Steven Teles is an associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author and co-editor of several books, including The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of Law.
Mark Schmitt is a senior fellow and director of the fellows program at the Roosevelt Institute. He was previously executive editor at The American Prospect, director of policy and research at the Open Society Institute, and policy director for former Sen. Bill Bradley.


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In this engrossing book, Neil Asher Silberman, noted writer and scholar, tells the double story of the Dead Sea Scrolls: the ancient saga of the people of the small province of Judea, whose fiercely nationalistic, Temple-centered religion was cruelly suppressed by the might of the Roman Empire; and the modern account of scholarly intrigue and political power plays swirling around one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century. The true significance of the scrolls, Silberman argues is as precious testimony to the Judeans' response to Roman oppression that was widespread at the time of Jesus: a revolutionary rage--accompanied by a passionate belief in the imminent arrival of a messiah--which was brutally crushed in the course of local uprisings against Rome. Both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, which arose from the ashes of destruction and exile, are but meek religions compared with the fervent faith expressed in the scrolls.
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SF HOMELESS FOUNDATION CLUB: Do you want to help bring a smile to the homeless AND gain valuable community service hours? The San Francisco Homeless Foundation is a student run 501c3 non profit organization aiming to help the homeless population in the greater San Francisco area through finding food, shelters, and jobs. Join us in our first meeting on Monday, October 9th in Ms. Chemaly's room 907 to find out how you can help in our mission to fight homelessness in the city! If you have any questions, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. See you there!
MUSIC OUTREACH CLUB: Interested in being a music tutor? Click on the link to sign up to be a tutor for Music Outreach. You can sign up until October 13th!
LIBROSHARE CLUB: Donate your pre-loved books to Mrs. Johnson's room 221.
MVHS MIT Launch Club
The MIT Launch Club has arrived at Monte Vista High School! If you would like to apply, please fill out the application on school loop news.
Forensics Club: Are you interested in solving mysteries? Sign up to try your hand at CSI: https://goo.gl/forms/wSR8ghDBpCMpQORI3. To receive meeting notifications text "sciencelunch" to 31996.
Chemistry Club Want to do some fun, easy chemistry? All you need to do is fill out the Google Form on school loop.
SPIRIT DAYS Thursday 10/5 is class color and our homecoming rally.
TAILGATE AND GAME: Join us on Friday, October 6th at 5pm for our homecoming tailgate next to the tennis courts and then head into our homecoming game! JV at 4:30 and Varsity at 7pm.
HOMECOMING DANCE: Saturday, October 7th from 7-10pm and is semi-formal attire. The dance will include 2 DJ's, games, AND FOOD TRUCKS! Food Trucks are not included in the ticket price so be sure to bring money! Students must have their current student I.D. card to get into the dance and there will be NO coat check available. There are also NO guest passes for this dance, it is for MV students only.
Holiday Bake Extravaganza 2017
MV PTSA needs your help to show appreciation to all our wonderful teachers and staff at MVHS this Holiday Season. During this event each teacher/staff member selects a tray of holiday treats. In addition, teachers who are members of the PTSA participate in a raffle for a loaded holiday gift basket. The traditional Holiday Bake Extravaganza is 12/8 in the Workday Student Center 118. CLICK HERE
The 2017-18 PTA Reflections Art Program is here! "Within Reach" is this year's theme and ALL MVHS students are invited to participate and submit original artwork by 10/24. For more information and submissions, please download the Reflection entry packet located in the "Parents Locker" section http://mvhs.schoolloop.com/ptsa
Traffic Reminders for Monte Vista
Due to an increase in unsafe driving habits around Monte Vista, please be reminded of the rules of the road.
Students- Take your time leaving class and the parking lots. Pausing for ten minutes may save your life and your bumper. Uturns across the Stone Valley double yellow are illegal and unsafe.
Parents- Save time and traffic by picking your student up at 3:45pm after the student has studied for 30 minutes in the library or WSC.
Parents- Drop off/pick up in front of gym to take a legal left turn on Stone Valley at the light. There is no legal left turn out of the horseshoe during pick up and drop off hours.
Pedestrians- Stay in the car until safe to exit to the sidewalk. There is no drop off in red zone or mid street for your safety.
Thanks and be safe out there Mustangs!
English Rm Time
Monday 309 3:15-4:15 pm
Tuesday 308 3:15-4:15 pm
Thursday 223 3:15-4:15 pm
Tuesday 523 3:20-4:20 pm
Tues Tests 527 3:30-4:30 pm
Thursday 523 3:20-4:20 pm
Tuesday 908 3:15-4:15 pm
Wednesday 906 3:20-4:20 pm
Monday 408 3:15-4:15 pm
Testing Center:
Tuesday 206 3:30-4:30 pm
Wednesday 206 3:30-4:30 pm
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Testing Center:
Tuesday 206 3:30-4:30 pm
Wednesday 206 3:30-4:30 pm
YEARBOOK PICS??? CLICK HERE to share your pics with yearbook. With the online program you can simply upload directly into the yearbook photo database for consideration. Our school code is MVmustangs.
COLLEGE NIGHT at MV: Wednesday, October 25th from 6:30pm-8:30pm at MV. This 30th Annual College Night is brought to you through the combined efforts of the San Ramon Valley Unified School District and the Academic Boosters from California, Dougherty Valley, Monte Vista and San Ramon Valley High Schools. No participant RSVP is required.
How to Submit: Log on to www.yearbookordercenter.com and enter order number 16339. Click Create An Ad and follow the directions to create and purchase your message online. Your ad is not complete until you add it to your cart, check out and pay for it.
Message Guidelines: Create the message exactly as you want it to appear in the yearbook. You will approve your finished ad within the program before you submit your ad and make your online payment. We reserve the right to refuse or edit any portion of your message or photo that is unacceptable for publication.
For Tech Support while using the online ad creator, contact Herff Jones Tech Support at: 877.362.7750
Join Superintendent Rick Schmitt in a conversation about District priorities and future initiatives. The discussions will focus on expanding opportunities and flexibility for students, families and staff, improving student wellness, enhancing staff working conditions and ensuring that each student, employee and family feels safe and respected.
The meetings are on the dates and times below. Please attend whichever meeting is most convenient for you.
10/5 @9am Diablo Vista MPR
10/12 @9am Charlotte Wood Library
10/19 @9am Pine Valley Library
10/25 @8:30am Stone Valley Library
10/26 @10:30am Iron Horse Library
Monte Vista Athletic Boosters - We need your support!!
MVAB's mission is to help MVH Athletics provide a positive atmosphere of sportsmanship and learning for the MVHS student-athlete and their athletic teams. This is done by providing needed funding for a variety of capital improvements, as well as educational and program support. Supporting these programs is only possible through your generous donations, including:
MUSTANG VIP Card: $350, 1/3 of the purchase price is donated directly to the individual sports team selected. The remainder more broadly helps MVAB and the Athletic Department in their mission of supporting MV student Athletes. Here are some details:
- ADMISSION for up to 4 people to ALL home football and Men's and Women's basketball games, ex playoffs
- DIRECT PARTICIPATION in helping maintain a positive sports environment by supporting our sports programs (e.g., Student-Athlete Scholarships, capital improvements, health/safety equipment) and future facility improvements.
- POTENTIAL TAX DEDUCTION: Monte Vista Athletic Boosters is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (Please check with your tax advisor).
Show your support by getting your MUSTANG VIP Cards today on-line in the Athletic Boosters section of the Monte Vista Webstore by clicking here.
Are you looking for a way to support your MV Student? Here is a list of some suggestions for parents to be engaged on the MV Campus
Dads on Campus:
Speaker series with discussion as more than 50 Dads meet as scheduled. Series topics are selected to support Dads and their teenage students. Coordinator is Ryan Meineke email@example.com Next meeting is November 1 at 7pm in Library.
Parent Teacher Student Association
Parents meet routinely to support MV campus, staff and activities. Volunteers coordinate programs such as Parent Education and After School Tutoring. President is Janet Nunan. Next meeting: October 13 at 10:30 in Conference Room
School Site Council
Elected participation by Parents, Teachers, Student and Staff help direct funding to MV programs. The current board positions are filled. Coordinator is Kristine Sexton. Next meeting is October 12 at 3:30 in WSC 118.
Coffee with Kevin
Monthly coffee scheduled 8:30am in 118 including presentations by students, faculty departments and time for Q&A with Administration. No RSVP needed. The next Coffee is October 18 at 8:30am in WSC 118.
Academic Boosters
Fundraising for classroom teachers keeps our class sizes lower and offers more choices to our students. This group meets monthly to direct funds and plan fundraisers. The next meeting is October 11 at 10am in WSC 118.
Athletic Boosters
Fundraising for all Mustang Sports Teams to pay for additional services, support for our teams.
12th Man
Fundraising for Mustang Football.
Students of Excellence 12/17
Teachers each nominate a student for the intangible efforts. The nominated student is hard-working, has a positive attitude, and adds a special element to the classroom.
DAILY BULLETIN: Club and sports limited to that day. Please submit before noon the day before event/meeting. Bulletin is published before 2pm.
WEEKLY BULLETIN: A more comprehensive list of events on campus and looking forward into the coming weeks. Please submit before noon Monday. Published by 2pm.
BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read MWTHF at beginning of 3rd period as selected by leadership. Please submit article before noon the day before.
SUBMIT: School Loop or email typed to email@example.com as submitted before noon the day before.


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The cost went up for Metra passengers who use 10-ride passes on Friday.
The 11 percent fare increase was approved last year.
10-ride passes now range from $2.75 to $9.25, depending on how far a person travels.
The increase affects about 25 percent of riders.
The fare hike is expected to generate $8 million more a year for Metra, which will go towards operations and capital improvement projects.


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In this paper we focus on the strategic design of supply chain networks. We propose a mathematical modeling framework that captures many practical aspects of network design problems simultaneously but which have not received adequate attention in the literature. The aspects considered include: dynamic planning horizon, generic supply chain network structure, external supply of materials, inventory opportunities for goods, distribution of commodities, facility configuration, availability of capital for investments, and storage limitations. Moreover, network configuration decisions concerning the gradual relocation of facilities over the planning horizon are considered. To cope with fluctuating demands, capacity expansion and reduction scenarios are also analyzed as well as modular capacity shifts. The relation of the proposed modeling framework with existing models is discussed. For problems of reasonable size we report on our computational experience with standard mathematical programming software. In particular, useful insights on the impact of various factors on network design decisions are provided.
The objective of the present article is to give an overview of an application of Fuzzy Logic in Regulation Thermography, a method of medical diagnosis support. An introduction to this method of the complementary medical science based on temperature measurements – so-called thermograms – is provided. The process of modelling the physician's thermogram evaluation rules using the calculus of Fuzzy Logic is explained.
One of the main goals of an organization developing software is to increase the quality of the software while at the same time to decrease the costs and the duration of the development process. To achieve this, various decisions e.ecting this goal before and during the development process have to be made by the managers. One appropriate tool for decision support are simulation models of the software life cycle, which also help to understand the dynamics of the software development process. Building up a simulation model requires a mathematical description of the interactions between di.erent objects involved in the development process. Based on experimental data, techniques from the .eld of knowledge discovery can be used to quantify these interactions and to generate new process knowledge based on the analysis of the determined relationships. In this paper blocked neuronal networks and related relevance measures will be presented as an appropriate tool for quanti.cation and validation of qualitatively known dependencies in the software development process.
In first part of this work, summaries of traditional Multiphase Flow Model and more recent Multiphase Mixture Model are presented. Attention is being paid to attempts include various heterogeneous aspects into models. In second part, MMM based differential model for two-phase immiscible flow in porous media is considered. A numerical scheme based on the sequential solution procedure and control volume based finite difference schemes for the pressure and saturation-conservation equations is developed. A computer simulator is built, which exploits object-oriented programming techniques. Numerical result for several test problems are reported.
A non-linear multigrid solver for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, exploiting finite volume discretization of the equations, is extended by adaptive local refinement. The multigrid is the outer iterative cycle, while the SIMPLE algorithm is used as a smoothing procedure. Error indicators are used to define the refinement subdomain. A special implementation approach is used, which allows to perform unstructured local refinement in conjunction with the finite volume discretization. The multigrid - adaptive local refinement algorithm is tested on 2D Poisson equation and further is applied to a lid-driven flows in a cavity (2D and 3D case), comparing the results with bench-mark data. The software design principles of the solver are also discussed.
We consider the problem of pricing European forward starting options in the presence of stochastic volatility. By performing a change of measure using the asset price at the time of strike determination as a numeraire, we derive a closed-form solution based on Heston's model of stochastic volatility.
On a Multigrid Adaptive Refinement Solver for Saturated Non-Newtonian Flow in Porous Media A multigrid adaptive refinement algorithm for non-Newtonian flow in porous media is presented. The saturated flow of a non-Newtonian fluid is described by the continuity equation and the generalized Darcy law. The resulting second order nonlinear elliptic equation is discretized by a finite volume method on a cell-centered grid. A nonlinear full-multigrid, full-approximation-storage algorithm is implemented. As a smoother, a single grid solver based on Picard linearization and Gauss-Seidel relaxation is used. Further, a local refinement multigrid algorithm on a composite grid is developed. A residual based error indicator is used in the adaptive refinement criterion. A special implementation approach is used, which allows us to perform unstructured local refinement in conjunction with the finite volume discretization. Several results from numerical experiments are presented in order to examine the performance of the solver.
This paper concerns numerical simulation of flow through oil filters. Oil filters consist of filter housing (filter box), and a porous filtering medium, which completely separates the inlet from the outlet. We discuss mathematical models, describing coupled flows in the pure liquid subregions and in the porous filter media, as well as interface conditions between them. Further, we reformulate the problem in fictitious regions method manner, and discuss peculiarities of the numerical algorithm in solving the coupled system. Next, we show numerical results, validating the model and the algorithm. Finally, we present results from simulation of 3-D oil flow through a real car filter.
In this paper, we present a novel multicriteria decision support system (MCDSS), called knowCube, consisting of components for knowledge organization, generation, and navigation. Knowledge organization rests upon a database for managing qualitative and quantitative criteria, together with add-on information. Knowledge generation serves filling the database via e.g. identification, optimization, classification or simulation. For "finding needles in haycocks", the knowledge navigation component supports graphical database retrieval and interactive, goal-oriented problem solving. Navigation "helpers" are, for instance, cascading criteria aggregations, modifiable metrics, ergonomic interfaces, and customizable visualizations. Examples from real-life projects, e.g. in industrial engineering and in the life sciences, illustrate the application of our MCDSS.


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Arguably the biggest victory in Bill Snyder's long, successful tenure at Kansas State came against the program that has otherwise caused him the biggest problems.
It was back in 2003, when the Wildcats were annually among the nation's elite. They were heavy underdogs heading into the Big 12 championships game against top-ranked Oklahoma, and managed to upend the Sooners on a cold, clear night at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.
That remains the only time Kansas State has beaten Oklahoma in the past 15 years.
It's a troubling trend that Snyder and the No. 15 Wildcats hope to end when they visit the sixth-ranked Sooners on Saturday night.


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House GOP wants special counsel to probe IRS
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders say they want the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Internal Revenue Service over the way agents scrutinized applications by tea party groups for tax exempt status.
Republican Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio introduced a nonbinding resolution Friday calling for a special counsel. Jordan called an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department, quote, "a joke."
Several committee chairmen have joined Jordan in sponsoring the resolution, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia says the full House would vote on it next week.
Attorney General Eric Holder has dismissed previous calls for a special counsel. Democrats say the vote is another example of Republicans trying to fire up their base in an election year.
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Are you interested in making a career change but you're feeling a bit paralyzed because you've never done that before? Like never ever? If you've been in the same job (or with the same organization) for most of your working life, it can be downright scary to consider a job search. And sure, things have […]
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I was very glad to see Chipper Jones reject the Yankees' overtures for a comeback. It's not that I wouldn't want to see Jones have a change of heart, but not with the Yankees … not with anybody else but the Braves.
I've always admired players to begin and end it with the same team. That 's what I want to see for David Wright. It's one of the things I liked about Cal Ripken, Don Mattingly and Derek Jeter.
It's rare these days for a player to retire with the same team he began his career with. Unfortunately, it wasn't that way with Pete Rose, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays.
The Yankees' stream of injuries prompted WFAN to run a poll of retired players fans wanted to come back with the Yankees. Ripken was on the list. I wonder if it is more a sign of respect or just not being realistic.
Incidentally, Wright is enjoying his time at the WBC, but I can't but wonder if his time would have been better off had he stayed in Port St. Lucie.
Think of it for a moment, he's going to be the captain of this team, so it stands to reason his presence would be beneficial to the younger players in camp.


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As a technology teacher at Jericho Middle School in Long Island, New York, Matthew Silva is constantly looking for ways to infuse design thinking and process into his curriculum. With this goal in mind, he recently challenged his students to solve a problem for their school. Their challenge was to design a parklet for a parking space in front of the school where students wait every day for their parents to pick them up.
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There currently are no safe places where they can gather in front of the school—only a small sidewalk and parking spots. Using a design build teaching method, students went through an authentic design process that included surveying the potential build site and researching other successful parklets on the internet. They even visited the High Line in New York City to experience true urban renewal and how creativity, design, and "space making" can have positive impacts on people and communities.
The students went on to create dozens of sketches, 3D Google SketchUp models, and small scale physical models. After a rigorous process, critique, and gallery installation, together they selected a few designs to construct in full scale on the actual site. The designs are modular and can be quickly rearranged.
The parklets were a big hit for students waiting after school and became a popular lunch spot for some of the staff members. They will be installing a variety of parklet designs from now until the end of the school year and a permanent installation will take place next year in one of their campus gardens.