Ronald H. Coase sum[ gvt reg as an alternative to high transaction costs. Reciprocal rights always at issue: If restrain my right to pollute the air, I expand your right to unimpeded views. Think of "ownership" as a bundle of rights. "A second featu... (http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/CoaseJLE1960.pdf-2010-02-14 topics: ECON SSPAPER CONCEPTS)

Freedom must be compromised, limited in order to manage resources on a crowded planet.... (science-2010-02-14 topics: POL-PHIL COOP FREEDOM)

About Ed A reporter for the Washington Post in a previous life, Ed Bruske now tends his “urban farm” about a mile from the White House in the District of Columbia. Ed believes in self-reliance, growing food close to home and political freedom f... (http://www.theslowcook.com-2010-02-14 topics: URB GARDENING SOLUTIONS ALLIES)

Common goods/common pool resources - rivalrous, non-excludable Private goods - excl., rival. Club goods - satellite tv, excludable, non-rivalrous Private goods - excl, riv. Collective goods (or social goods) are defined as public goods that ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good-2010-02-14 topics: ECON CONCEPTS)

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Programme Director: Professor Jude Howell Public action by and for disadvantaged people, undertaken by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other non-government actors, is increasingly sig... (http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/NGPA/Default.htm-2010-02-14 topics: NCCS ALLIES)

Brighter Planet makes it easier for anyone to get involved in the fight against climate change. Simply put, we help people manage and mitigate their environmental footprint. Our free social web application serves everyone, no matter their “greenn... (http://brighterplanet.com/about-2010-02-13 topics: WEB2.0 GLOBAL-WARMING WEBSITE-DESIGN WEBSITE)

NOTE[ saved at work as nber...pdf and home] SUM[ Argues against Olson (1965) -- “the larger the group, the less it will be able to favor its common interests.” "The effect of group size on access to public goods is theoretically ambiguous becau... (http://www.nber.org/papers/w12911-2010-02-13 topics: COOP KEY SSPAPER)

note[saved at home:ostrom...pdf] sum[ Rational egoist model doesn't explain behavior in collective action -- as distinct from auctionand competitive market -- situations. Seven lessions from "truly huge number of such experiments": 3) Those who beli... (http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/images/b/b3/Ostrom2000.pdf -2010-02-13 topics: COOP SSPAPER PROGRESS-POSSIBLE CONCEPTS SEGMENTS LD KEY-A)

NOTE[ saved at home: cardenas...pdf] by JC Cardenas - 2003 - Cited by 62 - Related articles - All 14 versions Real wealth and experimental cooperation: experiments in the field lab. Juan-Camilo Cardenas*. School of Environmental and Rural Studies, .... (http://economia.uniandes.edu.co/es/.../Cardenas%20JDE%20RealWealth.pdf -2010-02-13 topics: COOP SSPAPER COMPENSATION)

note[review saved at work: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/447935.pdf] Frohlich, Norman, Joe A. Oppenheimer and Oran Young. 1971. Political Leadership and Collective Goods. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Theories of Collective Goods... (fr ostrom-2010-02-13 topics: BK LD COOP BK-REV)

By Tarik El-Bashir Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 12, 2010; D01 OTTAWA -- After going the first 58 games of the season without a single hat trick, Alexander Semin notched the Washington Capitals' third in three contests Thursday. S... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021105080_pf.html-2010-02-12 topics: COACHING COMMUNICATION)

By ANDREW MIGA and MICHELLE R. SMITH The Associated Press Friday, February 12, 2010; 5:32 AM WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick Kennedy's decision not to seek re-election will leave Washington without a Kennedy in political office for the first time in mo... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/12/AR2010021200206_pf.html-2010-02-12 topics: ALLIES CHARACTER CONG)

By Stephen A. Schwarzman Friday, February 12, 2010; A29 The 5.7 percent annualized growth rate in this country's fourth-quarter GDP numbers and newly released statistics on increased factory output in parts of Europe and Asia give great hope that ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021102206_pf.html-2010-02-12 topics: BANK CAPITALISM TODO)

By Ed O'Keefe and Jennifer Agiesta Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, February 12, 2010; A25 Three-quarters of Americans say that they support openly gay people serving in the U.S. military, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, a fin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021104873_pf.html-2010-02-12 topics: GAY PROGRESS-POSSIBLE KEY-A PUB-OP)

By Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 11, 2010; 10:40 PM Teach for America, which enlists recent college graduates for two-year stints in some of the nation's most troubled public schools, would lose its uncontested claim... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021103024_pf.html-2010-02-12 topics: NONPROFIT-GVT EDUC KEY UNTAPPED-CAPACITY VOLUNTEER)

By Daniel de Vise Sunday, February 14, 2010; W26 A dusting of snow had thinned the crowd that turned out to watch the Trinity Washington University women's basketball team play Valley Forge Military College on a gloomy Saturday afternoon. But one f... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020902208_pf.html-2010-02-12 topics: HIGHER-ED LD DC TO-READ GOOD-LIFE NONPROFIT-COMP)

note[ from Erwin] see: http://rajpatel.org/ Raj Patel is right that we need to rethink our notions of value, but his solutions for a better world do not convince John Gray John Gray The Observer, Sunday 13 December 2009 Economists are taken seri... (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/13/value-nothing-raj-patel/print-2010-02-12 topics: COOP ALLIES ECON)

Seventy-five percent of public now favors permitting gays in the military. Lessons: social change -- face to face interaction with gays was key. Political action played relatively minor role. (Erwin de Leon) Why do we need collective action?... (-2010-02-12 topics: )

By NICHOLAS KULISH BERLIN — As Europe edges toward emergency guarantees to stem market panic over one of the most profligate members of the euro bloc, the country that the region turns to for leadership, Germany, is suffering from growing doubts ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/world/europe/11germany.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-11 topics: EUR ECON RECESSION KEY GLOBALIZATION INTL-ORGS PUB-OP)

By Cecilia Kang Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 11, 2010; A01 Google staked a claim on another corner of the technology universe Wednesday, saying it now wants to turbocharge your Internet connection. The company said it will ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021001649_pf.html-2010-02-11 topics: CPTR-BUS BUS-STRATEGY INTERNET)

By Jon Cohen and Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 11, 2010; A03 SEE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_021010.html?sid=ST2010021100035 - poll details and trends Two-thirds of Americans are "di... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021004708_pf.html-2010-02-11 topics: PUB-OP DISTRUST KEY TRENDS)

SUM["The sticky part of widespread desire for compromise is that it's simple to want it from the other side. About three-quarters of Democrats see the congressional Republicans as intransigent, while a similar proportion of Republicans see Obama tha... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021000010.html?hpid=topnews-2010-02-10 topics: PUB-OP CONG OBAMA)

By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 10, 2010; A01 Children who throw too many tantrums could be diagnosed with "temper dysregulation with dysphoria." Teenagers who are particularly eccentric might be candidates for treatm... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021000009.html?hpid=topnews-2010-02-10 topics: PSYCH KN-MGT SOC-SCI)

by Pollsters George Bishop and David Moore Woorst polls of the past year. Every year, poll watchers are confronted with poll results and commentary that defy either logic or science, often raising question about the very utility of polls. Typicall... (http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-169.php-2010-02-10 topics: PUB-OP SOC-SCI-LIMITS KEY SOC-SCI-POLLING)

SUM[ Article controversial since written by Pete Peterson-supported content partner.] By Elaine S. Povich and Eric Pianin The Fiscal Times Thursday, December 31, 2009; A10 Senate action late last week that increased the limit on the government's cr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123002576_pf.html-2010-02-10 topics: FED-BGT)

(http://www.blogger.com/profile/02356720764091017182-2010-02-10 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING QT)

Not all journalism stinks. But there are times when reported "facts" smell fishy. When news stories go bad, the reporter’s method is usually to blame. At Stinkyjournalism.org we advocate for more rigorous - and scientific - journalistic methodolo... (http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/aboutus.php-2010-02-10 topics: JOURNALISM WHISTLEBLOWER NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

Suburbs, not inner cities, are home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the US. Unfortunately, they don't often have the services to help. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Ma... (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0209/Suburbs-The-new-face-of-America-s-poor-2010-02-10 topics: SUBURBS POV)

By Michael D. Shear Tuesday, February 9, 2010; A02 Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they may decline to participate in President Obama's proposed health-care summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020804202_pf.html-2010-02-09 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG REPUBLICANS)

sum[ "But while Bush ("admirably stalwart") comes in for similar praise, Paulson has little positive to say about other Republicans. Sarah Palin annoyed him from the get-go. When he spoke to House Republicans about efforts to help Fannie and Freddie... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020503960_pf.html-2010-02-09 topics: REPUBLICANS POOR-LD RECESSION MCCAIN)

Friday, February 5, 2010; A18 MOST CANDIDATES for local office in Montgomery County covet the endorsement of the county teachers union more than any other, and all of them know the drill: Appear at union events, fill out the union questionnaire, s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020404421_pf.html-2010-02-09 topics: GVT-MGT UNIONS UNINTENDED-CONSEQUENCES LIBERAL)

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist’s version of sainthood: A vegetarian economist-engineer who leads the United Nations’ climate change panel, he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Pr... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/earth/09climate.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-09 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING NONPROFIT CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST KEY SCIENCE ETHICS)

By David Olmos Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Failure to pass the health-care overhaul may accelerate a push by Community Health Systems Inc., Health Management Associates Inc. and LifePoint Hospitals Inc. to acquire facilities weakened by the recession. ... (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=a3siEkWKuatw-2010-02-09 topics: HOSP NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION MERGERS)

Grow your board like you would grow mushrooms: Keep them in the dark and feed them shit. (Mr. Lutschinger, CEO of the Austrian Fundraising Association -- Meridian House)... (-2010-02-09 topics: NONPROFIT-GOV QT)

By Daphne Miller Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, February 9, 2010; HE01 My patient Debra practically waltzes into my office. She is giggling and barely waits for the door to close before she announces: "I am having sex again and really enj... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020802462_pf.html-2010-02-09 topics: MARRIAGE SEX GENDER)

By Joby Warrick and Peter Finn Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 8, 2010; A01 In the past six weeks, Americans have witnessed two jarringly different -- but completely accurate -- views of al-Qaeda's terrorist network. One image was th... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/07/AR2010020702984_pf.html-2010-02-08 topics: TERRORISM)

sum[ Only issue is impact on unit cohesion.] By Kathleen Parker Sunday, February 7, 2010; A15 Repealing "Don't ask, don't tell" may be the right thing to do, but there's only one reason to do it: military effectiveness. Yet, repeatedly, we hear t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020503110_pf.html-2010-02-08 topics: MILITARY GAY)

By ROBERT B. SEMPLE Jr. The news that Charles “Mac” Mathias had died at 87 of Parkinson’s disease aroused fond memories of a slightly round and rumpled man who drove a battered blue station wagon to his Senate office and sometimes brought his... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/opinion/27wed4.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-08 topics: LD CONG)

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL A new ranking of the world’s nations by environmental performance puts some of the globe’s largest economies far down the list, with the United States sinking to 61st and China to 121st. In the previous version of the En... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/science/earth/27index.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-08 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING INTL-NEEDS KEY-A ENV)

By PAUL KRUGMAN We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic. What we’re getting instead is less a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/opinion/08krugman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-08 topics: DIVISIVE BIG-THINK DOMESTIC-NEEDS CONG)

By Gene Wang Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 9, 2010; D01 The Washington Capitals in recent years have moved more aggressively than any other NHL team toward embracing social media Web sites such as Twitter and Facebook, targeting s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020803530_pf.html-2010-02-08 topics: WEB2.0 SPORTS)

By Ann Gerhart Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 8, 2010; 2:35 PM A year ago, Barack Obama's true believers were euphoric. The huge and jubilant gathering in Chicago's Grant Park on election night 2008 gave way to almost 2 million peopl... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020802080_pf.html-2010-02-08 topics: PUB-OP OBAMA SOC-MOVEMENTS)

By Rachel Saslow Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 9, 2010; HE01 Where did I park my car? What is that lady's name? Where are my glasses? Some call these "senior moments" or "tip-of-the-tongue" experiences. They're mundane for many... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020802468_pf.html-2010-02-08 topics: MEMORY COG-SCI PUB-HLTH ELDERLY)

sum[ Wants to stay and turn things around in DC; 15 min. talk with coach helped.] By Michael Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 7, 2010; D04 ORLANDO -- His jab-step kept creating space, his hesitation crossover dribble kept Orlando M... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/06/AR2010020602710_pf.html-2010-02-07 topics: SPORTS TEAM ADVERSITY MORALE)

note[ citeulike: TomPollak, fP99; connotea: CmtyBldr, fP99] * http://www.connotea.org/ - Free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists: Completely free, no download ** Nifty "right click on link to add to firefox bo... (-2010-02-07 topics: KN-MGT APPS-OF-INTEREST)

By Philip Rucker and Ann Gerhart Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, February 7, 2010; A01 NASHVILLE -- Sarah Palin chose a gathering of tea party activists on Saturday as the backdrop for her first major political speech since accepting the Rep... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/06/AR2010020603264_pf.html-2010-02-07 topics: TEA-PARTY REPUBLICANS)

By Amy Gardner Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 7, 2010; A16 Only in Washington do we schedule a snowball fight -- complete with a legal disclaimer -- and harness the networking power of the Internet to draw out thousands of combatant... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/06/AR2010020601086.html?hpid=artslot-2010-02-07 topics: WEB2.0 COOP)

By KEVIN SACK KERMIT, Tex. — It occurred to Anne Mitchell as she was writing the letter that she might lose her job, which is why she chose not to sign it. But it was beyond her conception that she would be indicted and threatened with 10 years i... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/us/07nurses.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-07 topics: INDIV-BEHAVIOR FAIRNESS LAW-MATTERS WHISTLEBLOWER)

* http://www.pbs.org/johngardner/sections/writings.html - Good selection of material from tv show/website *... (-2010-02-07 topics: LD CMTY KEY ALLIES)

see: http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20080523_197002102theculturalcontradictionsofcapitalismdanielbell.pdf - 2 chapters from book in Public Interest? Daniel Bell (1919- ) Monday, Feb. 09, 1976 Books: Search for Civitas By HP-Time.com;Edwin Wa... (http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,917995,00.html-2010-02-07 topics: BIG-THINK BK CULT CAPITALISM)

By Dana Milbank Friday, February 5, 2010; I miss John McCain. I miss the McCain I sat with on a flight from San Diego to Phoenix back in 1999, when he defended his oft-ridiculed belief that campaign finance was the most important issue in America... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020404307_pf.html-2010-02-07 topics: CONG CORRUPTN MCCAIN)

By Charles Krauthammer Friday, February 5, 2010; A19 "Iam not an ideologue," protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions. Com... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403623_pf.html-2010-02-07 topics: CONSERVATIVE)

SUM["Perhaps the most important conservative insight being depreciated is the durable warning from free-marketeers that government programs often fail to yield what their architects intend. Democrats have been busy expanding, enacting or proposing m... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698_pf.html-2010-02-07 topics: LIBERAL PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE)

TaxProf has the details, via the Economist, of how the furniture giant Ikea is owned by a non-profit foundation dedicated to "innovation in the field of architectural and interior design." At $36 billion it's the world's wealthiest charity, and n... (http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/01/non-profit-ikea-2010-02-07 topics: NONPROFIT-BUS)

By Ann Gerhart and Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, February 6, 2010; A01 NASHVILLE -- The 600 delegates at the National Tea Party Convention feel taxed to death, ignored by their elected representatives and the media, and app... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020501694_pf.html-2010-02-06 topics: PUB-OP TEA-PARTY)

By SABRINA TAVERNISE LAHORE, Pakistan — The death already seemed like a bitter injustice. A maid died after unexplained injuries she got in the house of her rich employer. But one detail in particular has outraged Pakistanis: she was 12. Her emp... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/world/asia/06maid.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-06 topics: PAKISTAN INTL-NEEDS POV)

By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN LOS ANGELES After practice one late-summer day in 1986, Alan Veingrad strode into the Green Bay Packers’ locker room, feeling both spent and satisfied. An undrafted player from an obscure college, he had made the team and ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/us/06religion.html?em-2010-02-06 topics: JEW SPORTS PRACTICE DISCIPLINE)

By ISHMAEL REED Oakland, Calif. JUDGING from the mail I’ve received, the conversations I’ve had and all that I’ve read, the responses to “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” fall largely along racial lines. Among black ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/opinion/05reed.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-06 topics: BLCK MOVIES)

By JANE E. BRODY In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/health/02brod.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-06 topics: NUTRITION PUB-HLTH WISDOM)

By PAUL KRUGMAN These days it’s hard to pick up a newspaper or turn on a news program without encountering stern warnings about the federal budget deficit. The deficit threatens economic recovery, we’re told; it puts American economic stability... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/opinion/05krugman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-06 topics: FED-BGT KEY)

* Krugman, 2/5/2010 - no immediate threat; jobs first * Greenstein, Bob - 1/2010? - unsustainable * Burman, Len - 1/2010? * Steuerle? * 1/30/10 - expert commission? * http://www.nccs2.org/KnowledgeBase/ideaShow.php?id=3919 - Peterson Foundation Guid... (-2010-02-06 topics: FED-BGT SUM KEY)

By Philip Kennicott Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 22, 2008 "I.O.U.S.A.," an impassioned and slickly made film about the perils of the national debt, is another entry in the growing collection of "Wake up, America!" documentaries. The... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103461_pf.html-2010-02-06 topics: FED-BGT COMMUNICATIONS MOVIES)

* http://www.jstor.org/pss/976626 * Privatization * Regulation * Salamon, Steve Smith * Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector by Stephen Goldsmith * Salamon corrective fees, own special administrative apparatus, indirect policy to... (-2010-02-06 topics: CONCEPTS KEY POL-SCI SUM)

The Good Society Copyright © 2002 by The Good Society. All rights reserved. The Good Society 11.1 (2002) 55-60 Rethinking Policy Analysis: Citizens, Community, and the Restructuring of Public Services Steven Rathgeb Smith and Helen Ingram In t... (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/good_society/v011/11.1smith.html-2010-02-06 topics: POL-SCI CONCEPTS KEY)

Vermeule, Adrian, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Print publication date: 2007 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-533346-6 doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333466.001.0001 Abstract: What institutional... (http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/law/9780195333466/toc.html-2010-02-06 topics: POL-SCI DEMOCRACY CONCEPTS)

Thursday, February 4, 2010; A16 IN ITS FIRST year, the Obama administration went out of its way to cater to China's communist leadership. It publicly put human rights concerns on a back burner, delayed a presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama an... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303534_pf.html-2010-02-05 topics: CHINA NO-EASY-ANSWERS F-PLY)

By Geng He Thursday, February 4, 2010; A17 One year ago today, China kidnapped my husband. I don't know where he is. I don't know what is being done to him. The only thing I know is why he disappeared: My husband, Gao Zhisheng, defied Beijing by ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020302916_pf.html-2010-02-05 topics: CHINA HUMAN-RIGHTS)

SUM[ Good summary.] By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ The United States economy shed 20,000 jobs in January, the government said Friday, deepening concern that relief from the deepest economic downturn in a generation would be slow to come. But even as the ec... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/business/economy/06jobs.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-05 topics: ECON RECESSION)

Posted By Gautham Nagesh On February 1, 2010 @ 1:35 pm In DC Exclusives, Deeper:2011 Budget, Economic stimulus, Economy, Government spending, Homepage, House of Representatives, Personal finance, Politics, Senate, Spending, US, US Congress, United ... (http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/01/white-house-budget-cut-to-charitable-deduction-alarms-philanthropists-and-non-profits/print/-2010-02-05 topics: GIVING LEGIS)

By Philip Rucker Friday, February 5, 2010; 1:19 PM NASHVILLE -- Leaders of the grass-roots "tea party" movement, meeting here for their first convention, plan to unveil Friday afternoon a broad national organizing strategy for the 2010 midterm ele... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020501694_pf.html-2010-02-05 topics: PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS)

By GREG BISHOP FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As Drew Brees carried the New Orleans Saints to their first Super Bowl appearance, he was described as a humanitarian, a thinker, an overachiever and an underdog. Brees, the team’s quarterback, has galvan... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/sports/football/06brees.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-05 topics: CHARACTER SPORTS)

SUM[ Greek, Roman and British sports -- individualistic, for the state & as spectacle, and for develop the ruling class & group loyalty. Spectacle of big-time American sports are lone communal events in America -- a good thing.] By DAVID BROOKS Aft... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/opinion/05brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-05 topics: SPORTS CMTY KEY)

sum[ "Second, it absolves voters of responsibility for their problems. Over the past few years, many investment bankers behaved like idiots, but so did average Americans, racking up unprecedented levels of personal debt. With the populist narrative,... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/opinion/26brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-05 topics: PUB-OP POLITICS BIG-THINK CONSERVATIVE KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS DIVISIVE)

sum["If I were one of those fellows advising Barack Obama, I would tell him that you can either get run over by that saner Ross Perot or you can be the saner Ross Perot. You’re not ornery, but you are a bit of a loner. You’re not a billionaire w... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/opinion/29brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-05 topics: LD OBAMA PRES POLITICS BIG-THINK)

sum[The country is now split on Obama, because he is temperate, thoughtful and pragmatic, but his policies are almost all unpopular. If you aggregate the last seven polls on health care reform, 41 percent support it and 51 percent oppose...Many Demo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/opinion/19brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-05 topics: PUB-OP KEY)

Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé founded the Small Planet Institute in 2001 to further an historic transition: a worldwide shift from the dominant, failing notion of democracy — as something done to us or for us — toward democracy as a rewar... (http://www.smallplanet.org/-2010-02-05 topics: ALLIES BIG-THINK)

Posted June 15, 2007 | 12:49 PM (EST) Can you help me? I just finished Al Gore's The Assault on Reason and I'm baffled. Gore has written a brave indictment of America's retreat from democracy. In masterly prose, he kept me rapt. Then, just as my h... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-moore-lappe/baffled-by-al-gores-reas_b_52352.html?view=print-2010-02-05 topics: ALLIES SOLUTIONS DELIB)

By Frances Moore Lappé This article appeared in the April 7, 2008 edition of The Nation. March 20, 2008 I feel a bit silly. For decades I called myself a child of the '60s, only to realize on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal that I'm... (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/lappe/print-2010-02-05 topics: LIBERALISM FDR)

By Lawrence Lessig sum[ PUBLIC FINANCING, BAN ON EX-CONGRESSIONAL LOBBYING FOR 7 YRS; CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: Questions: what about ex-Cong. staff? Promotes staying in Cong even longer! Make them more desperate to stay! Or only wealthy, John Edwa... (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100222/lessig-2010-02-05 topics: CONG CORRUPTN SOLUTIONS CAMP-FIN BIG-THINK OBAMA KEY-A)

By DICK BRASS San Juan Island, Wash. AS they marvel at Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to be focusing on where this leaves Amazon’s popular e-book business. But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America�... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-05 topics: BIG-BUS CPTR-BUS POOR-LD COMPETITION CAPITALISM-LIMITS INDIV-BEHAVIOR)

By Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 4, 2010; A06 Every morning, sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m., a short religious passage comes across President Obama's BlackBerry, sent by one of his aides. At other moments, Obam... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303619_pf.html-2010-02-04 topics: OBAMA CHARACTER RELIGION)

By LOLITA C. BALDOR The Associated Press Tuesday, February 2, 2010; 6:29 AM WASHINGTON -- Once considered so entwined that they were twin targets of a U.S. invasion, al-Qaida and elements of Afghanistan's Taliban are now being surgically separated... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020200239_pf.html-2010-02-04 topics: TERRORISM NO-EASY-ANSWERS AFGHAN)

By Rama Lakshmi Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, February 1, 2010; A09 In the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian gun owners are coming out of the shadows for the first time to mobilize, U.S.-style, against proposed new curbs on bearing arms. Wh... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013102079_pf.html-2010-02-04 topics: CULT-CHANGE NO-EASY-ANSWERS GUN-CONTROL PUB-OP INDIA TERRORISM SPIRAL)

Reuters Thursday, February 4, 2010; 12:40 AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet search firm Google is finalizing a deal that would let the National Security Agency help it investigate a corporate espionage attack that may have originated in China, th... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020400071_pf.html-2010-02-04 topics: CPTR-SECURITY GVT-ROLE)

By MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — America’s top intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday that Al Qaeda and its affiliates had made it a high priority to attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months. The assessmen... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/us/politics/03intel.html?sq=PANETTA&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print-2010-02-04 topics: TERRORISM KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Monday, February 1, 2010; A16 IT IS HARD to square the words of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten with the actions of many of her union's officials. Even as Ms. Weingarten issues stirring calls for new ways of thinkin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013101872_pf.html-2010-02-04 topics: UNIONS EDUC LYING CHARTER-SCHOOLS)

SUM["Doubters should read "Chaos and Organization in Health Care" by James Mongan and Thomas Lee, both doctors. Mongan is the recently retired head of Partners HealthCare System in Boston, and Lee is a senior manager. Partners is a network of two Ha... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013101835_pf.html-2010-02-04 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY TODO BK)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, February 1, 2010; A17 The nation owes a substantial debt to Justice Samuel Alito for his display of unhappiness over President Obama's criticisms of the Supreme Court's recent legislation -- excuse me, decision -- openin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013101838_pf.html-2010-02-04 topics: S-CT CORRUPTN)

By Fred Hiatt Monday, February 1, 2010; A17 SUM[ Letter from Lutheran Home resident representing senior discussion group!] "As I have said many times before, the best way to address the crisis is the Conrad-Gregg proposal." -- Senate Minority Lead... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013101837_pf.html-2010-02-04 topics: CONG CORRUPTN KEY-A POOR-LD LYING FED-BGT SOLUTIONS DELIB FS-RSC)

* Identify individuals or groups of people you regularly get email from. * Identify individuals or groups of people you regularly send email to. * From Outlook Mail, Actions, Rules and Alerts, create new rules for each individual group or person yo... (http://www.wikihow.com/Manage-Email-Using-Microsoft-Outlook-Rules-2010-02-04 topics: CPTR KEY AMANDA)

http://support.sas.com/rnd/datavisualization/mapsonline/index.html to see if it's easily downloadable? If not, I'll have to get access to the file directory internally from Randy Rosso. From: Pettit, Kathryn Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 ... (-2010-02-04 topics: NCCS DATA)

By Eli Saslow Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 3, 2010; A01 NASHUA, N.H. -- President Obama's 165th flight on Air Force One required all the customary protocols of a presidential trip. He took a helicopter from the White House lawn ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020202644_pf.html-2010-02-03 topics: OBAMA LD CHARACTER KEY)

Anarchic but powerful grassroot conservative movement gathers amid recriminations over cost and organisation of event A gathering of angry grassroot conservatives billed as the first national convention of the anarchic but increasingly ­powerful te... (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/02/tea-party-movement-national-convention/print-2010-02-03 topics: CONSERVATIVE SOC-MOVEMENTS)

* Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms th... (-2010-02-03 topics: DEMOCRACY QT HAPPINESS LD PATIENCE)

Yesterday at 9:30am Published by Haiping Zhao 1669 ShareOne of the key values at Facebook is to move fast. For the past six years, we have been able to accomplish a lot thanks to rapid pace of development that PHP offers. As a programming language, ... (http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=358-2010-02-03 topics: PHP)

By Tracee Hamilton Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 2, 2010; D01 While the rest of us were still trying to remember to write "2010" on our correspondence, the Washington Capitals were having the best January since, oh, Barack Obama, c... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020103387_pf.html-2010-02-02 topics: COACHING LD)

By RONALD BLUM The Associated Press Tuesday, February 2, 2010; 6:53 PM NEW YORK -- Breaking more than a decade of silence, former U.S. soccer coach Steve Sampson said Tuesday he dropped John Harkes from the national team roster two months before t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020203227_pf.html-2010-02-02 topics: MORALE SPORTS)

By DAVID BROOKS We like to think that in days gone by, the young venerated the elderly. But that wasn’t always so. In “As You Like It,” Shakespeare’s morose character, Jaques, calls old age “second childishness and mere oblivion.” Walt ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/opinion/02brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-02 topics: SOC-MOVEMENTS ELDERLY FED-BGT POLITICAL-WILL KEY)

President Obama got his priorities mostly right in the new $3.8 trillion budget for the fiscal year 2011. It calls for increased spending on education and clean energy technology, shows some restraint on the defense budget, and, most importantly, c... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/opinion/02tues1.html?hp-2010-02-02 topics: FED-BGT)

By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — One evening late last year, the conservative American television personality Glenn Beck was venerating capitalism once again. He pointed to one of the folds under his jaw. “If I could sell spons... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/us/30iht-currents.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2010-02-01 topics: POL-PHIL WISDOM ECON KEY FS-RSC SOC-PSYCH CULT)

By RONI CARYN RABIN Older women who did an hour or two of strength training exercises each week had improved cognitive function a year later, scoring higher on tests of the brain processes responsible for planning and executing tasks, a new study h... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/health/research/26exer.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-01 topics: EXERCISE PUB-HLTH PAM)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF KALEHE, Congo Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War I... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/opinion/31kristof.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-01 topics: INTL-NEEDS AFRICA HUMAN-RIGHTS KEY)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF We all have blind spots, and I think one of mine — shared by many other Americans, perhaps including you — has to do with prisons. Over the years, I’ve written many columns about Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and torture... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/opinion/28kristof.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-01 topics: CHILD-WELF KEY HUMAN-RIGHTS DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By DANIEL B. SMITH SEE: Last August, the American Psychological Association released a 230-page report titled “Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change.” About eight years ago, Glenn Albrecht began receiving frantic calls from res... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31ecopsych-t.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-01 topics: PSYCH BIG-THINK ENV GLOBAL-WARMING)

By FRANK RICH SUM["Good thing, too, since our union is not strong. It is paralyzed. Many Americans were more eagerly anticipating Steve Jobs’s address in San Francisco on Wednesday morning than the president’s that night because they have far mo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/opinion/31rich.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-01 topics: OBAMA CONG POOR-LD POLITICAL-WILL)

By DEBORAH SONTAG CROIX DES BOUQUETS, Haiti — Not long after 14-year-old Daphne Joseph escaped her collapsed house on the day of the earthquake, she boarded a crowded jitney with her uncle and crawled in traffic toward the capital, where her sing... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/world/americas/27children.html?pagewanted=print-2010-02-01 topics: INTL-NEEDS HAITI KEY)

SUM["In contrast, I tell you that is no substitute for structural change, the point the president himself has set out so strongly. I’ve been there — as regulator, as central banker, as commercial bank official and director — for almost 60 yea... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/opinion/31volcker.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-01 topics: BANK SOLUTIONS KEY SUM WISDOM)

SUM[ Build greenery along side of gvt office highrise. Some aspecdts of plan untested and criticized by McCain -- but maybe it will work.] By WILLIAM YARDLEY PORTLAND, Ore. — Urban gardening used to seem subversive. People planted tomatoes in pub... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/us/31portland.html?em-2010-02-01 topics: ENERGY-CONSERV INNOVATION GVT-ROLE)

By KEITH BRADSHER TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year. China has also l... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/energy-environment/31renew.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-02-01 topics: CHINA SOLAR-ENERGY)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Cause Common Cause and some of mainstream enviro orgs present interesting case studies on challenges of organizations without easy self-interest to support them. Skepticism about effectiveness. Perception that b... (-2010-02-01 topics: COOP NONPROFIT)

The members of the steering committee have been active for many years in a wide variety of progressive causes both locally and nationally (on issues of peace, education, housing, labor, gender, health care, civil rights, democracy, environment, and... (-2010-02-01 topics: ALLIES CIVIC-ENGAGEMENT DC KEY-A)

By Stephen Sawchuk Spurred by the promise of $350 million in Race to the Top money for improved tests—as well as an opportunity to strengthen bids for part of the federal fund’s larger $4 billion pot—states are scrambling to join consortia t... (http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/02/03/20consortia_ep.h29.html-2010-02-01 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS EDUC)

Used by Scott Grabo blog (http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=1970_2010&view=1&expand=&units=p&fy=fy10&chart=F0-fed_F0-total_H0-total_G1-total&bar=1&stack-2010-02-01 topics: NCCS DATA)

(GSS - http://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/GSS08PAN.asp-2010-02-01 topics: NCCS DATA)

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* http://www.dabbleboard.com/draw - Whiteboard -- cool - $8/mo indiv, 30 for 5 users * http://iplotz.com/app/index.php - wireframes gml: 14a. (2/1/10) - $15 mo - free: 5 wireframes * http://www.scriblink.com/ - fast drawing online (2010-01-27) * Cre... (-2010-02-01 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST GRAPHICS)

Poynter's News University is one of the world's most innovative online journalism training programs ever created. From multimedia techniques to writing and reporting, we've got more than 150 free and low-cost courses. As the e-learning project of T... (http://www.newsu.org/about-2010-02-01 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION PUB-INFO)

By Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 2, 2010; A11 As legions of schools nationwide fall short of academic targets, the Obama administration proposed Monday to toss out the pass-fail measure that for 15 years has been the... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020101129_pf.html-2010-02-01 topics: EDUC OBAMA)

by Malcolm Gladwell August 10, 2009 Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism. 1. In 1954, when James (Big Jim) Folsom was running for a second term as governor of Alabama, he drove to Clayton, in Barbour County, to meet a powerful loca... (http://www.gladwell.com/2009/2009_08_10_a_courthouse.html-2010-02-01 topics: LIBERALISM LITERATURE KEY FS-RSC COOP-LIMITS)

Malcolm Gladwell, Annals of Business, “The Sure Thing,” The New Yorker, January 18, 2010, p. 24 sum["The truly successful businessman, in Villette and Vuillermot’s telling, is anything but a risk-taker. He is a predator, and predators seek to ... (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/18/100118fa_fact_gladwell-2010-02-01 topics: CAPITALISM EXEC-COMP MGT UNCERTAINTY RISK)

by Ben McGrath February 1, 2010 note[ see separate NOTES item] Liberals saw the activists as caricatures—mere tools of right-wing media figures like Glenn Beck. They were wrong. My first immersion in the social movement that helped take Ted Kenne... (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/01/100201fa_fact_mcgrath?printable=true-2010-02-01 topics: CONSERVATIVE PUB-OP IGNORANCE DELIB)

note[ main article: http://www.nccs2.org/KnowledgeBase/ideaShow.php?id=7959] Another early agitator who merits a retrospective footnote is Keli Carender, a.k.a. the Liberty Belle, a blogger and “random woman,” as one admirer says, “from Seattl... (-2010-02-01 topics: CONSERVATIVE PUB-OP IGNORANCE DELIB)

* http://www.compact.org/syllabi/political-science/citizen-education/3902/ - Citizen Education - School: University of Minnesota Professor: James Farr, Ph.D. The books include John Dewey's The Public and its Problems, as well as his collection On... (-2010-01-31 topics: DEMOCRACY CITIZEN)

By: Andy Barr February 2, 2010 12:58 PM EST SEE: methodology discussion: http://www.pollster.com/blogs/questions_on_the_daily_kos_pol.php A new poll of self-identified Republicans released Tuesday shows a large slice of the GOP believes President... (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32384.html-2010-01-31 topics: PUB-OP REPUBLICANS IGNORANCE KEY)

~ Judith E Innes (Author), David E Booher (Author) Analysing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of collaborative r... (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415779324/ref=pe_5050_14194000_snp_dp-2010-01-31 topics: DELIB ALLIES)

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON — “There are two things that are important in politics,” Mark Hanna, the great Republican kingmaker of the late 19th century, once said. “The first thing is money, and I can’t remember what the second on... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/weekinreview/24kirkpatrick.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2010-01-31 topics: CAMP-FIN)

SUM[ "But a year into his presidency, Mr. Obama has lost control of his political narrative, his ability to define the story of his presidency on his own terms. And the main reason is that his story is no longer so simple or easy to tell. That is ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/weekinreview/31stevenson.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2010-01-31 topics: PUB-OP IGNORANCE OBAMA)

By STEVE LOHR sum["Apple represents the “auteur model of innovation,” observes John Kao. The Jobs formula, say colleagues, relies heavily on tenacity, patience, belief and instinct. He gets deeply involved in hardware and software design choices... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/weekinreview/31lohr.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2010-01-31 topics: ENTREPRENEUR CPTR-BUS INNOVATION CAPITALISM GENIUS INTUITION KEY TECH)

sum[ Nice, good introspective kid growing up in Christian-Muslim home in Alabama becomes major terrorist leader.] see http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/27/magazine/20100127_OMAR_TIMELINE.html - photos January 31, 2010 By ANDREA ELLIOTT ON A... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31Jihadist-t.html-2010-01-31 topics: TEEN UNCERTAINTY TERRORISM NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

SUM["Mr. Zinn was chagrined by the present state of affairs, but undaunted. “If there is going to be change, real change,” he said, “it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That’s how change happens. Thin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/opinion/30herbert.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-31 topics: CHARACTER LD AM-HIST MARRIAGE)

sum[ "The sedentary older subjects had telomeres that were on average 40 percent shorter than in the sedentary young subjects, suggesting that the older subjects’ cells were, like them, aging. The runners, on the other hand, had remarkably youthfu... (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/phys-ed-how-exercising-keeps-your-cells-young/?pagemode=print-2010-01-31 topics: EXERCISE KEY TODO)

By LOUIS UCHITELLE President Obama has a jobs problem. Fifteen million Americans want work. Few companies want to hire. The burden shifts to the government. What can it do? However much Mr. Obama focuses on jobs, he has only a few imperfect tools ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/weekinreview/31uchitelle.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2010-01-31 topics: JOBS GVT-ROLE)

By MARC LACEY PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Amidst all the personal tragedy that has played out here in the two weeks since the earthquake, one thing has been in short supply: tears. Sure, I have seen some. A woman whose husband was just behind her wh... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/weekinreview/31lacey.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2010-01-31 topics: DISASTER PSYCH HAITI ADVERSITY)

By J. DAVID GOODMAN SHANGHAI — Jiang Ruming, a marketing manager, owns a van, but for many errands, he hops on a futuristic-looking contraption that lets him weave rapidly through Shanghai’s messy traffic. He rides an electric bicycle. Half a ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/business/global/01ebike.html?hp-2010-01-31 topics: BIKES URB TRANS CHINA)

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN SUM[“Political instability” was a phrase normally reserved for countries like Russia or Iran or Honduras. But now, an American businessman here remarked to me, “people ask me about ‘political instability’ in the U.S. ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/opinion/31friedman.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-31 topics: BIG-THINK CONG)

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 31, 2010; Which is worse? Closing two locks on a critical waterway that's used to ship millions of dollars' worth of goods from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi basin? Or allowing a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/30/AR2010013000939_pf.html-2010-01-30 topics: ENV)

INSERT DESCRIPTION Today’s idea: Welcome to the “long tail” of manufacturing. “If the past 10 years have been about discovering post-institutional social models on the Web, then the next 10 years will be about applying them to the real worl... (http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/long-tail-becomes-longer-tale/-2010-01-30 topics: BIG-THINK MANUFACTURING JOBS GLOBALIZATION KEY)

SUM["se and blogging about it in their Cold House Journal — there are those who are living nearly without heat by choice, and doing just fine, thank you very much. Indeed, 55 degrees would qualify as sauna conditions for Mr. Ladda and others whose... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/garden/21cold.html-2010-01-30 topics: GOOD-LIFE ARTS SOLUTIONS ENV)

By ASHLEE VANCE Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was “12345.” Today, it’s one digit longer but hardly safer: “123456.” Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the rec... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/technology/21password.html-2010-01-30 topics: CPTR-SECURITY TODO)

By SAM TANENHAUS Like so many good narratives, political stories often unfold along simple lines but invite multiple, at times conflicting, interpretations. And so it happened last week. First came the upset victory by Scott Brown, a Republican, i... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/weekinreview/24tanenhaus.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2010-01-30 topics: PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE IGNORANCE)

SUM[We have substituted the camera -- fame, celebrity -- for both achievement and the studied judgment of colleagues. The political machine, the organization, even the parties themselves are gone, severely atrophied or discredited as (ugh) mainstrea... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012502833_pf.html-2010-01-28 topics: POOR-LD CHARACTER LYING POLITICS IGNORANCE PUB-OP)

President Obama’s primary problem is not rhetorical -- though, about an hour into the State of the Union address, I gave up hoping that it might eventually build toward something remotely interesting. (For much of the speech Obama sounded like a ... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/01/state_of_the_union_obamas_real.html-2010-01-28 topics: OBAMA KEY)

note[saved at home as "philippon*"] BY Thomas Philippon & Ariell Reshef New York University University of Virginia December 2008 Abstract We use detailed information about wages, education and occupations to shed light on the evolution of the U.S. f... (http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tphilipp/papers/pr_rev15.pdf-2010-01-28 topics: BANK JOBS SSPAPER)

sum[ As a result, investment bankers are overpaid. Now, before all the bankers get all indignant on me, let me say that bankers should make more money than average people, at least according to the normal rules of our society; for one thing, they ar... (http://baselinescenario.com/2010/01/27/good-for-goldman/-2010-01-28 topics: ECON JOBS BANK KEY)

sum[ So note in particular that the 30-50% number in the paper does not refer to the wage premium of people in finance; it is the proportion of the wage premium that cannot be otherwise explained. The excess wage itself depends on how you measure it... (http://baselinescenario.com/2009/11/01/philippon-reshef-wages-human-capital-financial-industry/-2010-01-28 topics: JOBS BANK KEY)

By Simon Johnson and James Kwak Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Opponents of health-care reform should be chanting "No more Medicare!" The arguments that have been made against the public option (a health insurance plan sold and administered by the feder... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/25/AR2009082501075_pf.html-2010-01-28 topics: HLTH-FIN)

By Goldie Blumenstyk The value of college endowments declined by an average of 23 percent from 2008 to 2009, socked by the one-two punch of record investment losses and a precipitous drop in giving, a survey released on Thursday shows. The averag... (http://chronicle.com/article/Average-Return-on-Endowment/63762/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en-2010-01-28 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION HIGHER-ED ENDOWMENTS)

By MICHAEL SLACKMAN CAIRO — Iran announced on Thursday it hanged two men in connection with protests that broke out after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian news services reported. In a brief statement, the govern... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/world/middleeast/29iran.html?hp-2010-01-28 topics: IRAN HUMAN-RIGHTS)

By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, January 29, 2010; A10 KABUL -- A gunner in a U.S. military convoy shot and killed a local imam as he was driving his car here Thursday morning, prompting outrage among residents and an apol... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012801505_pf.html-2010-01-28 topics: AFGHAN HUMAN-RIGHTS POLITICAL-MATURITY DISRUPTIVE MILITARY DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By SANDRA TSING LOH Pasadena, Calif. I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she’s living with — first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner. It’s an increasingly commo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24tsingloh.html?sq=SO-CALLED%20WIFE&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2010-01-28 topics: MARRIAGE)

SUM["It is not enough for the president to argue that health reform is really a jobs program or that energy policy will create green jobs. Job creation depends on a vigorous private sector, which requires a better atmosphere for small-business creat... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603429_pf.html-2010-01-27 topics: OBAMA CAPITALISM EC-TX)

By Joel Achenbach Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 27, 2010; C01 The state of the union is obstreperous. Dyspepsia is the new equilibrium. All the passion in American politics is oppositional. The American people know what they don't... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603519_pf.html-2010-01-27 topics: PUB-OP IGNORANCE OBAMA BK)

~ John Derbyshire 5.0 out of 5 stars A Decent Sense of Despair, October 10, 2009 By Randy Stafford (St. Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) Most American conservatives, especially since Sept. 11th, exhibit signs of brain damage.... (http://www.amazon.com/Are-Doomed-Reclaiming-Conservative-Pessimism/dp/0307409589-2010-01-27 topics: CONSERVATIVE HUM-NAT BIG-THINK)

sum[ Obama needs to focus on who he is -- a visionary -- not a class warfare fighter. "It is traditional for presidents to paint a rosier picture of circumstances than reality warrants, and Obama isn't likely to veer from that script. The hope-and-c... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603434_pf.html-2010-01-27 topics: OBAMA LD TRUST)

156 Madison: But what is government but the greatest reflection of human nature? 157 Negative and positive liberty == Political leadership as practical influence == Ultimately, education and leadership share into each other 411 Confidence to keep di... (-2010-01-27 topics: LD BK KEY CONCEPTS)

By Akeya Dickson Thursday, January 21, 2010; DZ14 Residents created online groups, gathered en masse in borrowed meeting spaces and spearheaded clothing and food drives within hours of the earthquake that devastated Haiti last week. "We have ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012001793_pf.html-2010-01-27 topics: INTL-DEV GIVING DC)

* We offer interactive website and good data * Immediate Goal is to build tools to help nonprofits and community members work together in new and deeper ways. * Ultimate goal is deeper: Believe that we can work together as a country better, and feel... (-2010-01-27 topics: NCCS IDEAS KEY)

SUM["Many of Sen. Mathias's opponents found him likable, and he was widely admired for his humor and common sense. He often arrived at the Senate cloakroom in work clothes after doing morning chores on his farm near Charles Town, W.Va., and was noto... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012504213_pf.html-2010-01-26 topics: CONG COURAGE GOOD-LIFE LD GABE AMANDA)

sum[ China disclosed the other day that its foreign exchange reserves had increased to about $2.4 trillion in 2009, up $453 billion for the year...Look elsewhere for the significance of the huge foreign exchange reserves. For starters, they confirm ... (-2010-01-26 topics: CHINA KEY F-PLY ECON)

Over the years, “Davos” has become a brand name -- but for what, exactly? I’m back this year for my ninth meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), and I'm still trying to figure out precisely what it symbolizes -- and why, in a busy world w... (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/davos-diary/2010/01/whats_the_attraction_of_davos.html#more-2010-01-26 topics: GLOBALIZATION INTL-COOP INTL-ORGS)

By Fareed Zakaria Monday, January 25, 2010; A17 A great debate has begun as to how Barack Obama should respond to last week's election results in Massachusetts, which was clearly a protest vote against him, congressional Democrats and their signatu... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012402300_pf.html-2010-01-26 topics: OBAMA LD KEY PRES HLTH-FIN)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, January 25, 2010; A17 "Populism" is the most overused and misused word in the lexicon of commentary. But thanks to a reckless decision by Chief Justice John Roberts's Supreme Court and the greed of the nation's financial... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012402298_pf.html-2010-01-26 topics: S-CT CAMP-FIN)

"We want to take each other's measure face-to-face. We're more primitive than we think. The memo doesn't do it. We want to hear the tone of voice and see the body language." (, p.16) 161-2. The unraveling of the social fabric that we see today is l... (-2010-01-26 topics: LD BK)

HER LEADERSHIP: The warm smile. "It's really great to see you!" Talking respectfully even when disagreeing, even when taking a position on which she won't compromise. There are a good number of people with basic "conflict resolution skills" who can... (-2010-01-26 topics: LD PEOPLE PERSONAL)

What will happen to the monthly 333 Coffeehouse after its host and guiding spirit passes the mike into new hands on March 19? For a dozen years, people have flocked to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis to what musician Debby McClatchy ... (http://www.bayweekly.com/year04/issuexii12/lifexii12.html-2010-01-26 topics: CMTY-LD ARTS)

sum[ They've lived in their current home near the Crownsville border since late 1964..."Yevola sets a high standard by working harder than anybody else. It's hard to meet, harder to beat. She stays long after others leave and tenaciously perseveres ... (http://www.whatsupmag.com/mar07/visionarywomen.shtml-2010-01-26 topics: CMTY-LD)

As Pulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler talked about his new book in the crowded main gallery at Banneker-Douglass Museum, it sounded as if Anne Arundel’s Community Action Partnership was on the right track. To write The Working Poor: ... (http://www.bayweekly.com/year04/issuexii17/dockxii17.html-2010-01-26 topics: POV SOLUTIONS LD NONPROFIT-INNOVATION HUM-SRV)

SUM["Peters' role as a loving warrior for the poor is one she feels she was born to play. "Frankly, I think my life's calling is working with people. I'm a very spiritual person, and I believe that each of us has a purpose. I've accepted what my pur... (http://www.bayweekly.com/year04/issuexii17/dockxii17.html-2010-01-26 topics: LD POV)

There is great potential to reduce energy consumption and minimize its total cost by using existing technologies—and without changing the everyday habits of consumers. JANUARY 2010 • Jon Creyts, Hannah Choi Granade, and Kenneth J. Ostrowski So... (https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Energy_Resources_Materials/Strategy_Analysis/US_energy_savings_Opportunities_and_challenges_2511-2010-01-26 topics: ENERGY-CONSERV SUM KEY)

By Debra Viadero Offering a counter-narrative to the school improvement prescriptions that dominate national education debates, a new book based on 15 years of data on public elementary schools in Chicago identifies five tried-and-true ingredients... (http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/01/27/19ccsr.h29.html?tkn=TNZFOo3eeJNWSzI7ukN4TdKwJNAsy0%2FfkGdK-2010-01-26 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS)

Or, as John W. Gardner put it, "[W]e want to take each other's measure face-to-face. We're more primitive than we think…We want to hear the tone of voice and see the body language." Living, Leading, and the American Dream. 2003. San Francisco, CA:... (-2010-01-26 topics: CMTY-ORGANIZING SUM)

Steven Hill Hendrik Hertzberg (Foreword) "Despite their impassioned efforts over the past decade, both the Republican and Democratic parties have failed to galvanize the American citizenry around a vision or..." (more) see also: http://www.commondre... (http://www.amazon.com/10-Steps-Repair-American-Democracy/dp/0976062151-2010-01-26 topics: BIG-THINK ALLIES CAMP-FIN BK)

By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 27, 2010; A08 The Senate on Tuesday rejected a plan to create a bipartisan commission to tackle the nation's budget problems, but advocates vowed to keep pushing the idea, citing n... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012601270_pf.html-2010-01-26 topics: FED-BGT EC-TX KEY)

By Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 27, 2010; B01 D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee said Tuesday that she should have moved faster to quell controversy over comments about laid-off teachers she made to a magazin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012601351_pf.html-2010-01-26 topics: POOR-LD DC EDUC)

By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, January 27, 2010; A12 My fellow Americans, the state of our union is . . . well, quite wretched at the moment. As president, I owe you that honesty and candor. It would be bad enough that we're stuck in an endless w... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603934_pf.html-2010-01-26 topics: OBAMA DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY CONG)

By DAVID BROOKS During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and Joe Biden had a Felix and Oscar air about them. Obama was disciplined and professorial while Biden was tactile and approachable. Biden would make an off-color joke, while Obama woul... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/opinion/09brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-26 topics: OBAMA BIDEN TEAM PRES)

President Obama will freeze the salaries of senior White House officials and other top political appointees and eliminate bonuses for all political appointees, the White House said Tuesday. The payroll decision will likely get a mention in Wednesda... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/01/obama_issues_pay_freeze_will_n.html?hpid=topnews-2010-01-26 topics: OBAMA GVT-COMP KEY)

By Anne E. Kornblut and Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 25, 2010; A01 During one of his Afghan review meetings last year, President Obama surprised senior advisers by jumping into a discussion between two military ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012403014_pf.html-2010-01-25 topics: OBAMA LD)

By CHARLES V. BAGLI The owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the iconic middle-class housing complexes overlooking the East River in Manhattan, have decided to turn over the properties to creditors, officials said Monday morning. Th... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/nyregion/25stuy.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-25 topics: HOUS HUBRIS NYC)

By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 26, 2010; A02 When al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called off a planned chemical attack on New York's subway system in 2003, he offered a chilling explanation: The plot to u... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012502598_pf.html-2010-01-25 topics: TERRORISM KEY-A)

Authors: Inglehart, R. Foa, C. Peterson & C. Welzel Publication Year: 2008 Publication Name: Perspectives on Psychological Science http://margaux.grandvinum.se/SebTest/wvs/SebTest/wvs/articles/folder_published/publication_578/files/pps.pdf Abstra... (http://margaux.grandvinum.se/SebTest/wvs/articles/folder_published/publication_578-2010-01-24 topics: HAPPINESS TRENDS INTL-COMPARISONS DEMOCRACY ECON-DEV TOLERANCE TOO-MUCH-INFO SOC-SCI SSPAPER)

(http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_lang=en&_ts=282378561963&_ds_name=EC0700A1&_program=ECN-2010-01-24 topics: NCCS STATS)

* http://nortonbooks.typepad.com/everydaysociology/what_is_this_site_about/ - Everyday Sociology - Karen Sternheimer Karen Sternheimer C.N. Le Janis A. Prince Inniss Sally Raskoff Bradley R.E. Wright... (-2010-01-24 topics: SOC-SCI PUB-INFO SOCIOLOGY)

SUM["Now in their 20s, those in the Net Generation, according to Dr. Rosen, spend two hours a day talking on the phone and still use e-mail frequently. The iGeneration — conceivably their younger siblings — spends considerably more time texting ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/weekinreview/10stone.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2010-01-24 topics: INTERNET CHLD KEY CULT EDUC PATIENCE)

* GG: 30 year trend GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY * SEE: World Values Survey * http://nortonbooks.typepad.com/everydaysociology/2009/11/losing-confidence-americans-and-social-institutions.html * Bob Putnam, Bowling Alone * http://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/betse... (-2010-01-24 topics: HAPPINESS TRUST SOC-SCI TRENDS LIST)

Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 20, Number 1—Winter 2006—Pages 3–24 For good reasons, economists have had a long-standing preference for studying peoples’ revealed preferences; that is, looking ... (http://www.atypon-link.com/AEAP/doi/pdf/10.1257/089533006776526030?cookieSet=1-2010-01-24 topics: HAPPINESS KEY SSPAPER PSYCH)

note[saved at home] V. Conclusion The goal of public policy is not to maximize measured GDP, so a better measure of wellbeing could help to inform policy. Here we propose measuring national well-being by weighting the time allocated to various acti... (http://dmschreiber.ucsd.edu/Teacher/SubstantiveTeachingAreas/CoursesTaught/Spring2009/192/Readings/Kahneman%20et%20al%202004.pdf-2010-01-24 topics: HAPPINESS SSPAPER)

Frank Greve | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: May 19, 2009 04:00:45 PM WASHINGTON — When Jody Richards saw a homeless man begging outside a downtown McDonald's recently, he bought the man a cheeseburger. There's nothing unusual about that, ex... (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/244/story/68456.html-2010-01-24 topics: GIVING KEY)

(http://np2020.org/blog/?p=172-2010-01-24 topics: NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE PUB-INFO)

Michael O'Neill University of San Francisco, oneill@usfca.edu There has been much talk in recent years of a "crisis of confidence in charities" in the United States. This article presents a conceptual framework for analyzing the issue and reviews ... (http://nvs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/2/237-2010-01-24 topics: NONPROFIT PUB-OP SSPAPER)

By: Markham Heid Examiner Staff Writer January 24, 2010 Jobless rates Area December jobless rate November jobless rate District 12.1 percent 11.8 percent Maryland 7.5 percent 7.3 percent Virginia 6.9 percent 6.6 percent U.S.... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/D_C__-Md_-unemployment-rates-hit-new-highs_-Va_-also-up-82440797.html-2010-01-24 topics: RECESSION UNEMPLOYMENT MD DC)

(http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html-2010-01-24 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST STATS)

Journal of Social Change, Walden U. (accredited?) - Only 2 volumes published in 3 years. http://www.postyour.info/ - Social Statistics 2.0 BETA: A free database of social statistics compiled by voluntary users from all around the world http://gsoc... (http://www.journalofsocialchange.org/e/JournalHome.htm-2010-01-24 topics: ALLIES WEBSITE BIG-THINK)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF It all began with a stop at a red light. Kevin Salwen, a writer and entrepreneur in Atlanta, was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in 2006. While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mer... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24kristof.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-24 topics: GIVING GOOD-LIFE KEY-A FS-RSC)

By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ Published: January 24, 2010 Brace yourself for another wild ride on Wall Street. Worries about the strength of the global recovery and proposals from Washington to clamp down on banks have sent fresh jitters through financia... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/business/25markets.html-2010-01-24 topics: STOCK-MARKET ECON)

MY dad was an engineer in the military when I was growing up. We moved about every three years and returned to California when he retired, just before I started high school. Changing schools so often wasn’t bad when I was young, because young ki... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/jobs/24boss.html?8dpc=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-24 topics: MGT FAMILY)

By FRANK RICH It was not a referendum on Barack Obama, who in every poll remains one of the most popular politicians in America. It was not a rejection of universal health care, which Massachusetts mandated (with Scott Brown’s State Senate vote) ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24Rich.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-24 topics: ELECTIONS2010)

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The most striking feature of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was the amazing, young, Internet-enabled, grass-roots movement he mobilized to get elected. The most striking feature of Obama’s presidency a year lat... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24friedman.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-24 topics: BIG-THINK ELECTIONS2010 TECH ECON FOIL RECESSION ENTREPRENEUR)

By Paul Gorrell Saturday, January 23, 2010; A13 There has been a great deal of reflection this week on President Obama's challenges during his first year in office. My sense is that critiques of Obama's leadership style should factor in the symboli... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012204123_pf.html-2010-01-23 topics: SPORTS LD CONCEPTS)

By SCOTT SHANE and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON — Since the suicide bombing that took the lives of seven Americans in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, the Central Intelligence Agency has struck back against militants in Pakistan with the most intensive series ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/world/asia/23drone.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-23 topics: N-DEF PAKISTAN)

By DAVID BROOKS In November 2008, William A. Galston and Elaine C. Kamarck wrote a report called “Change You Can Believe In Needs a Government You Can Trust.” Galston and Kamarck, who served in senior positions in the Clinton administration, th... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/opinion/22brooks.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-23 topics: DISTRUST PUB-OP PRES OBAMA)

http://content.thirdway.org/publications/133/Third_Way_Report_-_Change_You_Can_Believe_In_Needs_a_Government_You_Can_Trust.pdf November 2008 A Reform Agenda for the First 100 Days • Announce a program for “cleaning up” government and creating... (http://content.thirdway.org/publications/133/Third_Way_Report_-_Change_You_Can_Believe_In_Needs_a_Government_You_Can_Trust.pdf-2010-01-23 topics: PUB-OP DISTRUST KEY-A)

By Hank Stuever Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 23, 2010; 1:31 AM So it subsides, if only for a while, this so-called late-night war that always brings out the worst in everyone -- in the overpaid hosts, in stubborn yet desperate n... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012200715.html?nav=hcmodule-2010-01-23 topics: GOOD-CHAR TV)

By Colbert I. King Saturday, January 23, 2010; A13 What are we coming to in this city? On Christmas Eve, The Post reported that 16-year-old Deonte Payton of Frederick Douglass Place SE was found shot to death inside an apartment building on S... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012203898_pf.html-2010-01-23 topics: DC VIOLENCE EDUC DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

by Editor • Jan 21, 2010 at 8:44 pm The founder and manager of the Elliott Associates hedge fund, Paul Singer, was one of my partners in the New York Sun and is the chairman of the Manhattan Institute. He recently passed along some perspectives... (http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/01/paul-singer-on-the-financial-crisis-and-public-2010-01-23 topics: CONSERVATIVE BANK EC-TX LEGIS)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/opinion/14mon1.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print == Reforming the Financial System == On Monday, the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, President Obama is scheduled to deliver a major speech on the f... (-2010-01-23 topics: BANK SUM REG RECESSION)

By NATASHA SINGER The oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer HealthCare, largely as a result of marketing that presents them as much more than mere pregnancy prevention. Yaz, in particular, the top-sell... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/health/26contracept.html?_r=4&pagewanted=print-2010-01-23 topics: MEDICINE UNKNOWN)

By RONI CARYN RABIN A new study from Australia suggests that couch potatoes live shorter lives. The study followed 8,800 adults ages 25 and older for six and a half years and found that each daily hour of television viewing was associated with an 1... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/health/26beha.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-23 topics: PUB-HLTH MEDICINE DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY EXERCISE AMANDA)

By JANE GROSS Correction Appended To care for her ailing 97-year-old father over the past three years, Elizabeth Rodriguez, a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, has borrowed against her 401(k) retirement plan, sold her house on... (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/us/30support.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-23 topics: ELDERLY DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

sum["The demand for home care aides throughout the industry is expected to outstrip supply. The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 663,280 such aides in 2005, up from 577,530 in 1999, a tally that does not include gray-market workers. But the Census... (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/us/01aides.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-23 topics: ELDERLY JOBS)

By JANE GROSS TRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 28 - Everyone complains about the food. Nobody wants to sit with the misfits. There are leaders and followers, social butterflies and loners, goody-goodies and troublemakers. Friendships are intense and so are ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/national/30assisted.html?pagewanted=print&position=-2010-01-23 topics: ELDERLY KEY)

By PAM BELLUCK In a report that may bolster public policy efforts to get Americans to reduce the amount of salt in their diets, scientists writing in The New England Journal of Medicine conclude that lowering the amount of salt people eat by even a ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/health/nutrition/21salt.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-23 topics: PUB-HLTH DIET)

By JANE GROSS WASHINGTON — On a bluff overlooking the Potomac River, George and Anne Allen, both 82, struggle to remain in their beloved three-story house and neighborhood, despite the frailty, danger and isolation of old age. Mr. Allen has been... (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/health/14aging.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-23 topics: ELDERLY NONPROFIT-INNOVATION SOLUTIONS CO-OP)

Contacts for Aging in Place Communities Washington Area Capitol Hill Village Gail Kohn, executive director, info@capitolhillvillage.org, 202-543-1778 Palisades/Foxhall Village Alicia Juarrero, vice president, aliciajuarrero@gmail.com Transition... (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/health/14aging.html-2010-01-23 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION ELDERLY CO-OP)

Government's Trial and Error Helped Stem Financial Panic By DAVID WESSEL It was only a year ago that the world economy was enveloped in a financial panic of such dimensions that, if one believes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, it threatened ... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125288495316307191.html?mg=com-wsj#printMode-2010-01-23 topics: ECON BANK KEY REG RECESSION)

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production-possibility_frontier - Graph showing all possible combination of 2 goods -- eg, consumer vs investment -- that can be produced with a given supply of labor and capital and intermediate inputs(?) * In 1987 Jo... (-2010-01-23 topics: ECON CONCEPTS)

sum[ FHA share of mortgages rose from <10% in '04-06 to more than 30% in '09] By DEBORAH SOLOMON and JON HILSENRATH WASHINGTON -- After a year of extraordinary interventions in the economy, the federal government is starting to pare its support for... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125297162259710323.html?mod=loomia&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r5:c0.112552:b27693400#printMode-2010-01-23 topics: HOUS GVT-ROLE KEY BANK RECESSION)

sum[ President Obama carried Massachusetts by 26 points on Nov. 4, 2008. Fifteen months later, on Jan. 19, 2010, the eve of the first anniversary of his inauguration, his party's candidate lost Massachusetts by five points. That's a 31-point shift. ... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703699204575017503811443526.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read#printMode-2010-01-23 topics: PUB-OP ELECTIONS2010 CONSERVATIVE)

By DAVID BROOKS AND GAIL COLLINS SEE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_Americans_Act - WYDEN-BENNETT In The Conversation, David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns. Tags: democrats, health care, massachusetts, republicans, Scott Brown, ... (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/what-the-results-in-massachusetts-mean/?pagemode=print-2010-01-23 topics: ELECTIONS2010 HLTH-FIN)

SUM[ Reimbursement rate for mcd higher for npos? on;y 10% of patients have priv insur] By Tim Craig Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 24, 2010; C01 United Medical Center, formerly known as Greater Southeast Community Hospital, is seek... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/23/AR2010012301865_pf.html-2010-01-23 topics: HOSP NONPROFIT-GVT POV HLTH-FIN KEY)

http://www.washingtongasliving.com/upload/wysiwyg/Documents/WG_Contractors_Download.pdf - 30% tax credit for natural gas furnaces, water heaters: TAX CREDIT SPECIFICATIONS For Natural Gas Water Heaters All ENERGY STAR tankless water heaters For Natu... (-2010-01-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS JOBS)

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Staff Executive Team 1. Penny Griffith, Executive Director 2. Camille Fountain, Deputy Director 3. Rose Gordy, Director, Family Services Division 4. Jacquelyn Horton, Family Services 5. Jessica Alvarez, Advocacy and Communications 6.... (http://www.chsfsc.org/index.php?id=8-2010-01-22 topics: DC FS-RSC ALLIES)

Is your nonprofit financially healthy? Join MCN and the Nonprofits Assistance Fund for a new year-long series of financial management trainings for nonprofits. The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN) is proud to partner with the Nonprofits Assis... (-2010-01-22 topics: NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE NONPROFIT-MGT)

By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 22, 2010; 3:53 PM Dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, antipathy toward federal government activism and opposition to the Democrats' health-care proposals drove th... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012203167_pf.html-2010-01-22 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP ELECTIONS2010 IGNORANCE)

While the so-called “public option” may be dead, government-run health care is alive and well. Congressional Democrats are working in secret behind closed doors to decide whether to create a massive new federal health care bureaucracy based in ... (http://handsoffmyhealth.org/HealthCareCzar?origin=czar2-2010-01-22 topics: HLTH-FIN CONSERVATIVE)

By TYLER KEPNER note[others? Pat Tillman] Athletics - Bats Blog Grant Desme hit 31 home runs and stole 40 bases in Class A last season, and as an encore, he was named most valuable player of the Arizona Fall League. The Oakland Athletics had plans ... (http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/oakland-prospect-retires-to-join-priesthood/-2010-01-22 topics: GOOD-LIFE HIGHER-CALLING)

By RYAN HAGEN sum[ “We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves.” — Richard Wiseman] Many of us who try to live an examined life find something lacking, though usually nothing so serious that it re... (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/the-self-help-psychologist-is-in/-2010-01-22 topics: PSYCH COG-SCI SELF-HELP GOOD-LIFE IGNORANCE)

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG ELYRIA, Ohio — President Obama, striking a no-retreat, no-surrender posture in the wake of his party’s humiliating defeat in the Massachusetts Senate race this week, vowed Friday to press on with his expansive domestic ag... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/us/politics/23obama.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-22 topics: OBAMA)

By DOREEN CARVAJAL PARIS — Far from Haiti’s battered international airport, relief groups are growing more strident in their complaints about how coveted landing spots are doled out among charity groups and prominent visitors by the U.S. Air Fo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/world/europe/23iht-doctors.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-22 topics: HAITI GVT-MGT)

sum[ If Obama goes Populist, stock market plummets; if he doesn't, people say he's too soft.] By MATTHEW SALTMARSH and BETTINA WASSENER Wall Street tumbled for a third day on Friday as a three-day slide pushed the markets down almost 5 percent. For... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/business/23markets.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-22 topics: STOCK-MARKET OBAMA-ADMIN NO-EASY-ANSWERS PUB-OP)

By Michael D. Shear Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 21, 2010; A01 President Obama on Wednesday blamed the Democrats' stunning loss of their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate on his administration's failure to give voice to the... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012001935_pf.html-2010-01-21 topics: ELECTIONS2010)

By Kathleen Parker Wednesday, January 20, 2010; A15 There will be much harrumphing and punditry in the next few days about the meaning of Scott Brown's victory and his phenomenal campaign for Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat. How, in the final days... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011903592_pf.html-2010-01-21 topics: ELECTIONS2010)

SUM[ 50% OF MODERATES OPPOSE HEALTH PLAN VS. 12% OF LIBERALS AND 81% OF CONSERVATIVES] Raleigh, N.C. – Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 51-46 in Public Policy Polling’s final survey of the Massachusetts Senate special election, an advantage wit... (http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_MA_117468963846.pdf-2010-01-21 topics: ELECTIONS2010 PUB-OP HLTH-FIN)

GGL: WHY INDEPENDENTS OPPOSE HEALTH CARE PLAN ggl: focus group health care reform * http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/in-polls-much-opposition-to-health-care.html - * 50% OF MODERATES OPPOSE HEALTH PLAN VS. 12% OF LIBERALS AND 81% OF CONSERVA... (-2010-01-21 topics: PUB-OP HLTH-FIN LIST SUM IGNORANCE)

The most recent issue of Health Affairs focuses on “The Politics of Health Care Reform” and features an article by pollster Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research Partners in Washington. Lake takes the pulse of public opinion by holding focu... (http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2008/05/health-care-r-1.html-2010-01-21 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP)

SUM["His frustration, shared by the other participants, stemmed from many factors: A conviction that Congress is dominated by career politicians, weariness over partisan bickering, and a sense that Washington isn’t focused on what’s important to... (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30042.html-2010-01-21 topics: PUB-OP CONG HLTH-FIN)

Chris - Hope things are well with you and your family. (Our family is doing well: Amanda is taking year off from Wellesley to work for the DC school system.) Sorry to take up your valuable time but I want to make a simple suggestion about a possib... (-2010-01-21 topics: IDEAS CONG GVT-COMP)

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 27 – While Americans acknowledge that there are substantial shortcomings in the public's knowledge of and engagement with Congress, this doesn't restrain them from taking an extremely negative view of the legislative branc... (http://www.centeroncongress.org/learn_about/feature/survey_public_attitudes_march_2008.php-2010-01-21 topics: CONG PUB-OP KEY-A INTEGRITY)

By Grossman, Robert J. Publication: HRMagazine Date: Wednesday, April 1 2009 You are viewing page 1 As the economy tanks and rank-and-file workers lose income, security and jobs, executive pay has again become the focal point of public anger. The p... (http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/company-structures/12310216-1.html-2010-01-21 topics: EXEC-COMP KEY)

Dahna Goldstein Founder Through her work with venture philanthropies (Ashoka and Blue Ridge Foundation New York), Dahna Goldstein realized that innovative applications of technology could help foundations and nonprofit organizations direct signific... (http://philantech.com/leadership.htm-2010-01-21 topics: NONPROFIT-TECH CONSULTING ALLIES)

NOTE: Your user name is your email address and your password is POLLAK. The Social Impact Exchange is a cross-sector membership forum for sharing knowledge and increasing investment in scaling effective social programs and solutions. The Exchange ... (http://www.socialimpactexchange.org/index.cfm-2010-01-21 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

By Robin Givhan Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 21, 2010; C10 Better eating habits, improved nutrition and a more physically fit America do not have to come with a high price tag and all are imperative to this country's economy, its... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012004550_pf.html-2010-01-21 topics: MICHELLE OBESITY CHLD SOLUTIONS)

By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 22, 2010; A02 One out of every five U.S. teenagers has a cholesterol level that increases the risk of heart disease, federal health officials reported Thursday, providing striking new evide... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012102481_pf.html-2010-01-21 topics: TEEN PUB-HLTH)

sum[Support for raising the state sales tax to an unspecified rate increased by 14 percentage points, to 51%. Support for raising the income tax to an undetermined level rose 18 percentage points to 45%. “What we heard loud and clear was the pub... (http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100114/NEWS06/100114042/Poll-Support-for-higher-sales-tax-up&template=fullarticle-2010-01-20 topics: DELIB PUB-OP EC-TX SACRIFICE FUNDERS)

* http://www.coyotecom.com/tech/volmanage.html - comprehensive list of tools (-2010-01-20 topics: NONPROFIT-TECH)

By DAVID STOCKMAN WHILE supply-side catechism insists that lower taxes are a growth tonic, the theory also argues that if you want less of something, tax it more. The economy desperately needs less of our bloated, unproductive and increasingly para... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/opinion/20stockman.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-20 topics: BANK EC-TX SOLUTIONS)

sum[ "When it comes to Turner, the superficial forever gets in the way of the substantive. Even now, in his third head coaching job, he still isn't comfortable with the frivolous. It takes away from the things he loves most: watching film and workin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/16/AR2010011602444.html-2010-01-20 topics: SPORTS COACHING DIFFERENT-MODELS LD)

By BRAD STONE and DAVID BARBOZA The Great Firewall of China is hardly impregnable. Just as Mongol invaders could not be stopped by the Great Wall, Chinese citizens have found ways to circumvent the sophisticated Internet censorship systems designe... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/technology/internet/16evade.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2010-01-20 topics: INTERNET CPTR-SECURITY CHINA FREE-SPEECH PUB-INFO)

By DAVID BARBOZA and BRAD STONE SHANGHAI — If Google pulls out of China because of frustration with government restrictions, it will not be the first time an American Internet giant has retreated from the country. EBay and Yahoo arrived with hig... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/technology/16failure.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2010-01-20 topics: CHINA CPTR-BUS INTERNET MGT)

SUM["When Rory announced that he was going to run for the Clark County Commission, Harry told him: Don't do it, that place is a boneyard full of ambitious pols who learned that you can't successfully run for higher office from there. You'll go to th... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011104067_pf.html-2010-01-20 topics: LD POLITICS INSPIRATION)

By Paul C. Light sum[ just over half of the federal employees said their managers encouraged communication across work units, and less than 40 percent said that innovation and creativity were rewarded in their agencies. the number of federal contr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011103255_pf.html-2010-01-20 topics: GVT-MGT HR PUB-SRV)

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to charge frequent readers for access to its Web site, a step being debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has so far feared to take. Starting i... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html?hp=&emc=na&pagewanted=print-2010-01-20 topics: INTERNET PRESS)

note[ Useful overview] By Laura S. Quinn, November 2007 There are many software applications that can help with project management tasks - but also many different opinions about what types of functionality you might want. We spoke to nine differen... (http://www.idealware.org/articles/fgt_project_management.php-2010-01-20 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST NONPROFIT-TECH KEY)

The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2010 By DIANE CARDWELL Since April, they have spruced up a dozen city blocks, helped give 164,000 flu vaccinations and installed 178,000 compact fluorescent bulbs in public housing. They are volunteers, part of an am... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/nyregion/18volunteers.html-2010-01-20 topics: VOLUNTEER SOLUTIONS NCCS ALLIES)

By Aaron C. Davis and John Wagner Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, January 20, 2010; B01 Dire warnings that Maryland's $2 billion budget shortfall could result in major cuts to schools or the layoffs of hundreds of state workers subside... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011904476_pf.html-2010-01-20 topics: GVT-FIN MD RECESSION)

By Kathleen Parker Wednesday, January 20, 2010; A15 There will be much harrumphing and punditry in the next few days about the meaning of Scott Brown's victory and his phenomenal campaign for Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat. How, in the final days... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011903592_pf.html-2010-01-20 topics: LIBERAL CONG POLITICS PUB-OP)

By LEONARD S. MARCUS Skip to next paragraph MARCHING FOR FREEDOM Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary By Elizabeth Partridge Illustrated. 72 pp. Viking. $19.99. (Ages 10 and up) In the winter and early spring of 1965, Alabama sch... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/books/review/Marcus-t.html?nl=books&emc=booksupdateemb4-2010-01-19 topics: BK CIVIL-RIGHTS SOC-MOVEMENTS CHLD KEY CMTY-SRV)

== TOWARD A NEW SOCIETY == 278 MORAL CRISIS: "The unrelenting pursuit of profits and the elevation of the pursuit of self-interest may not have created the prosperity that was hoped, but they did help create the moral deficit." 281 TAKING RESPONSIBI... (-2010-01-19 topics: ECON BIG-THINK KEY BK)

The Office of Jeremy Rifkin is operated by Jeremy R. Rifkin Enterprises, a sole proprietorship with the purpose of advancing Mr. Rifkin's written work and lecturing. The Foundation on Economic Trends is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization whose missi... (http://www.foet.org/-2010-01-19 topics: NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT GOOD-LIFE PUBLIC-INTELLECTUALS)

“‘One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day’ (Utne Reader) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto.” amazon.com buy the book Read selected= About the Book Never has the world seemed so... (http://empathiccivilization.com/-2010-01-19 topics: BK BIG-THINK)

Jan 7th 2010 WHEN the internet took off in the mid-1990s, it was often claimed that it would improve price transparency, cut out middlemen and make markets more efficient. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence for this, just as there is for simila... (http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/economicsfocus/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15211578-2010-01-19 topics: INTL-DEV SOLUTIONS AGRICULTURE)

Seems kind of "peace and love"-ish. "All will right itself..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hawken http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1fiubmOqH4... (-2010-01-19 topics: PUBLIC-INTELLECTUALS ENV SOLUTIONS ALLIES)

By Tim Craig Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 19, 2010; B01 Service centers that process welfare and other aid applications in the District are understaffed and overwhelmed with needy residents, forcing some to essentially camp out ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803863_pf.html-2010-01-19 topics: DC GVT-MGT DOMESTIC-NEEDS RECESSION POV)

sum["When Catoe was hired, the system faced enormous challenges. There had been train wrecks and worker accidents. Elevators and escalators rarely operated. Customers frequently complained about trains and buses failing to arrive as scheduled. There... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Leaving-the-Metro-station-81980977.html-2010-01-19 topics: GVT-MGT GVT-COMP)

By: Elisabeth Best Northrop Grumman announced Jan. 4 that it would be relocating its corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to somewhere near the United States' Capitol by 2011. The defense giant follows in the footsteps of Hilton Hotels and fel... (http://www.miller-mccune.com/business_economics/the-geography-of-giving-1729.print-2010-01-19 topics: CORP-GIVING)

Obama doing better than Bush and Clinton at similar points in their first year in officeby Frank Newport see: graphs at site. PRINCETON, NJ -- While 67% of Americans view President Barack Obama favorably, his overall job approval rating and his rati... (http://www.gallup.com/poll/120770/obama-rated-highest-as-person-lowest-deficit-spending.aspx-2010-01-19 topics: PUB-OP OBAMA)

(ISBN 0-684-85378-7) is a book by David Brooks, first published in 2000. The word bobo, Brooks's most famous coinage, is a portmanteau of the words bourgeois and bohemian. The term is used by Brooks to describe the 1990s descendants of the yuppies. ... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobos_in_Paradise-2010-01-19 topics: CULT RICH KEY FS-RSC UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Want to be happier in 2010? Then try this simple experiment, inspired by recent scholarship in psychology and neurology. Which person would you rather be: Richard is an ambitious 36-year-old white commodities trader in Florid... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17kristof.html?sq=kristof&st=cse&scp=4&pagewanted=print-2010-01-19 topics: PSYCH KEY-A FS-RSC ALTRUISM)

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF I was delighted that the White House denounced as “utterly stupid” the Rev. Pat Robertson’s suggestion that Haiti had suffered its earthquake because it had made a “pact with the devil,” and as “really stupid” the c... (http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/how-generous-are-we-to-haiti-two-bucks-a-person/?scp=3&sq=kristof&st=cse-2010-01-19 topics: INTL-DEV GIVING KEY)

http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html: I have a dream speech, by Martin Luther King We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Aga... (-2010-01-19 topics: QT DISCIPLINE)

David - I work as a researcher at the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy -- coincidentally, I was quoted in the Times article on the New York Cities of Service initiative (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/nyregion/18volunteers... (-2010-01-19 topics: IDEAS KEY)

By CHARLES BABINGTON The Associated Press Tuesday, January 19, 2010; 9:30 PM WASHINGTON -- The stunning Republican victory in Tuesday's Massachusetts Senate race will force Democrats to fundamentally rethink the meaning of Barack Obama's electi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011903444_pf.html-2010-01-19 topics: PUB-OP)

As John Gardner put it, "We must continue the work of community building in school, congregation, neighborhood, workplace. It's not just that we shall be building communities. We shall be developing citizens who know out of their own intimate experi... (-2010-01-19 topics: IDEAS)

By DAVID BROOKS On Oct. 17, 1989, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck the Bay Area in Northern California. Sixty-three people were killed. This week, a major earthquake, also measuring a magnitude of 7.0, struck near Port-au-Prince, H... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/opinion/15brooks.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-18 topics: INTL-DEV CULT LD KEY SOLUTIONS)

by Nate Silver @ 7:13 PM Bookmark and Share Share This Content I promised that I wasn't going to put much more work into estimating crowd sizes for yesterday's tea party events, but here is one last update. The important thing is that we now have a... (http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/04/tea-party-nonpartisan-attendance.html-2010-01-18 topics: PUB-OP SOC-MOVEMENTS CONSERVATIVE)

By ADAM NOSSITER KADUNA, Nigeria — Well before Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab disappeared into the rugged mountains of Yemen with an ominous goodbye to his father — warning him that “this is the last time you are going to hear from me,” accordin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/world/africa/17abdulmutallab.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2010-01-18 topics: TERRORISM CHARACTER RICH)

by Tom Schaller @ 12:35 PM sum[Relatively uninformative review. "The first point Hetherington and Weiler make is that authoritarianism is really about order--achieving it, maintaining it, and affirming it--and especially when citizens are uncertain ... (http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/10/authoritarianism-in-american-politics.html-2010-01-18 topics: PUB-OP PSYCH DIVISIVE SEGMENTS)

By JACQUES STEINBERG Many of the nation’s public universities eliminated courses and raised tuition last year, but the salaries and benefits of their presidents continued to rise, though at a slower rate than in years past, a new study has found.... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/education/18college.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-18 topics: HIGHER-ED NONPROFIT-COMP)

By JACOB HEILBRUNN Skip to next paragraph GAME CHANGE Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin 448 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99 In July 2006 Harry Reid, the Senate m... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/books/review/Heilbrunn-t.html?nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3&pagewanted=print-2010-01-18 topics: BK-REV OBAMA MGT POLITICS)

By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 17, 2010; A01 A month before he was inaugurated, Barack Obama pinpointed one of the biggest challenges he would face as president. Could he restore confidence in government, even as he was p... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/16/AR2010011602950_pf.html-2010-01-18 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN SUM)

SUM[Mr. Obama in 2008 located their headquarters outside Washington, didn’t pay extravagant salaries, surrounded themselves with as many longtime advisers as possible and didn’t reshuffle the deck extensively as their campaigns progressed. All o... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/weekinreview/17bruni.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2010-01-18 topics: COMPENSATION MGT KEY-A OBAMA LD LOYALTY POLITICS)

sum[ Bankers pay is tied to accumulated institutional wealth, not income. Thus, it can be substantially higher than the pay of most institutions. "Wall Street money moguls may be bright and diligent, but they're not unique. It's where they work -- n... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/17/AR2010011701931_pf.html-2010-01-18 topics: EXEC-COMP BANK CONCEPTS KEY)

note[ saved at home: Harris_Poll_2009_11_03-alienation.pdf, see spreadsheet, too?] New York, N.Y. — November 3, 2009 — The Harris Poll has been measuring the level of alienation in the United States since 1966. Alienation, as we define and measu... (http://www.marketshare.com.hk/harris_poll/pubs/Harris_Poll_2009_11_03.pdf-2010-01-18 topics: PUB-OP GVT-ROLE DIVISIVE)

By SUSAN PINKER Skip to next paragraph THE HIDDEN BRAIN: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives By Shankar Vedantam 270 pp. Spiegel & Grau. $26 Invisible forces that control our behavior have i... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/books/review/Pinker-t.html?nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3&pagewanted=print-2010-01-18 topics: BK-REV SOC-PSYCH SOC-SCI PUB-INFO WISDOM)

SUM[ "Washington is no prize, either. It whines about Wall Street and adopts symbolic poses -- denunciations of "obscene" bonuses and "fat-cat bankers" by President Obama, for example -- but doesn't do the substantive thing: breaking up those instit... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803175_pf.html-2010-01-18 topics: BANK SOLUTIONS CONG CORRUPTN)

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders, scrambling for a backup plan to rescue their health care legislation if Republicans win the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday, h... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/health/policy/19health.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-18 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS CONG)

By LYNNLEY BROWNING From his home in the quiet village of Rorbas, outside Zurich, Rudolf M. Elmer is chipping away at the centuries-old traditions of Swiss banking secrecy. Mr. Elmer, who ran the Caribbean operations of the Swiss bank Julius Baer ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/business/19whistle.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-18 topics: BANK CRIME GREED EC-TX GLOBALIZATION WHISTLEBLOWER)

Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Washington, DC 12:00 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Praise be to God. Let me begin by thanking the entire Vermont Avenue Baptist Church family for welcoming our family here today. It feels like a family. T... (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-remembrance-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-2010-01-18 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC)

WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama proposed a fee on major financial firms to recoup – on behalf of American taxpayers - the $700 billion paid out in TARP, saying “we want the taxpayers’ money back, and we’re go... (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/weekly-address-president-obama-vows-collect-every-dime-taxpayer-funds-helped-big-ba-2010-01-18 topics: OBAMA BANK COMPENSATION RHETORIC TODO)

sum["I'll say it again: I love being in a band," Starr says. "I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room. If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playin... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122620250-2010-01-17 topics: ARTS TEAM GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY)

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO RIO DE JANEIRO — The police will invade 40 of the most violent slums in this city before the 2014 soccer World Cup being held in Brazil, with the goal of establishing a permanent policing presence in communities now controll... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/world/americas/17rio.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-17 topics: HUMAN-RIGHTS VIOLENCE DEMOCRACY BRAZIL S-AM DISORDER INTL-NEEDS NO-EASY-ANSWERS CRIME)

By CHARLES M. BLOW sum["This is a limited, emotional reaction. It’s a response to the trauma that is the Great Recession, the uncertainty and creeping suspicion about the risks being taken in Washington, a visceral reaction to Obama and an overwhe... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/opinion/09blow.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-17 topics: REPUBLICANS PUB-OP DIVISIVE)

FiveThirtyEight.com is a nonpartisan[1] polling aggregation website with a liberal-leaning[2] blog created by Nate Silver. Sometimes colloquially referred to as 538.com or just 538, the website takes it name from the number of electors in the United... (http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/search/label/tea%20parties-2010-01-17 topics: PUB-OP SOC-SCI WEBSITE)

by Nate Silver @ 7:13 AM sum[ Alienation index by Harris has been in the 50-60% range for past decade. No other strong indications of polarization. However, shouldn't dismiss the huge impact of the internet in enabling political movements to form an... (http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/internet-is-underrated-yes-really-note.html-2010-01-17 topics: PUB-OP DIVISIVE KEY SOC-MOVEMENTS ADVOCACY INTERNET)

http://www.pmranet.org/conferences/OSU2009/papers/Vandenabeele,%20Wouter.%20%20Explaining%20Public%20Service%20Motivation%20-%20The%20Role%20of%20Leadership%20and%20Basic%20Needs%20Satisfaction.pdf TABLE 2 : Public service motivation measurement sc... (-2010-01-16 topics: PUB-SRV SOC-SCI SSPAPER KEY)

Spending most of your workday in Firefox? Most of us live in the Web browser for day to day work, so it’s important to make it as productive as possible. With the help of a few add-ons and Web services, you can easily double your productivity in F... (http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7672/1.html-2010-01-16 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST KN-MGT)

By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 16, 2010; B03 The graduation rate for D.C. charter schools dropped nearly five percentage points, to 83.3 percent, for the 2008-09 school year, officials said Friday. The rate is ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011502734_pf.html-2010-01-16 topics: CHARTER-SCHOOLS DC EDUC)

Do these natural phenomena have a greater impact on climate change than humans and industrialization? SOLAR MINIMUM: Some climate change doubters blame global warming on sunspots and/or solar wind. Many climate scientists agree that natural variati... (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sun-spots-and-climate-change-2010-01-16 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SCIENCE KEY)

"was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbor, well it aint over now" John Belushi. Who's with me, time to build our own fields.... (-2010-01-16 topics: HUMOR ADVERSITY)

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. - H.L. Mencken note[ lots of valuable links to other social science sites.] see: http://polysigh.blogspot.com/ Why This Blog? Why are we writing this blog? Here is a probably-not-exha... (http://www.themonkeycage.org/2007/11/why_this_blog.html-2010-01-16 topics: SOC-SCI WISDOM KEY ALLIES PUB-INFO QT)

note[ saved at home: 25177202-Report-Year-One-of-Organizing-for-America-Melber.pdf ]Conclusion: 13 Million Emails Later FN 7: About 69 million people voted for Obama on Election Day. A major portion were connected to the campaign online: 13 million ... (http://techpresident.com/ofayear1-2010-01-16 topics: OBAMA CMTY-ORGANIZING PUB-OP)

Last week, I linked to my comments at the TPM Book Club on Mark Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler’s book Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. I post two criticisms of the book, both intended as friendly and constructive. Marc and... (http://www.themonkeycage.org/2009/12/what_we_dont_know_about_polari.html-2010-01-16 topics: DIVISIVE PUB-OP)

APSA, by john Sides note[ saved at home] Can Institutions Build Unity in Multiethnic States? ZACHARY ELKINS University of Illinois JOHN SIDES George Washington University We investigate whether political institutions can promote attachment to the st... (http://home.gwu.edu/~jsides/unity.pdf-2010-01-16 topics: POL-SCI DEMOCRACY)

By NOAM COHEN The political news Web site Talking Points Memo this weekend completed a round of investment, of $500,000 to $1 million. The move is intended to increase the number of employees, to roughly 20, from the current 11, in the next 10 mont... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/business/media/13marshall.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2010-01-16 topics: JOURNALISM WEBSITE PUB-INFO ENTREPRENEUR NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT)

user-pic By Reed Hundt - January 15, 2010, 11:27AM Yesterday Congressman Chris Van Hollen wrote President Obama asking that he put the Green Bank in the State of the Union and in the jobs bill. This move by the head of the DCCC signifies a shift in... (http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/15/rep_van_hollen_to_president_obama_we_can_create_jo/?ref=c1-2010-01-16 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING RECESSION LEGIS SOLUTIONS)

By John Sides - December 4, 2009, 12:00AM review of: Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics (Paperback) Marc J. Hetherington (Author) & (Author), Jonathan D. Weiler (Author) Two findings from Marc and Jonathan's book strike me as ... (http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/04/spanking_the_donkey/#more-2010-01-16 topics: PUB-OP BK-REV POLITICAL-MATURITY PSYCH POL-SCI KEY DIVISIVE)

Morris P. Fiorina (Author), Samuel J. Abrams (Author), Jeremy C. Pope (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Polarized-America-Questions-Politics/dp/0321366069/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197991814&sr=8-1 5.0 out of 5 stars Political cl... (http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Polarized-America-Questions-Politics/dp/0321366069/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197991814&sr=8-1-2010-01-16 topics: PUB-OP POL-SCI DIVISIVE)

Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 07:12 EDT By Glenn Greenwald sum[ Authoritarianism is best predictor of party affiliation. see: John Dean called Conservatives without Conscience, that argues essentially that the conservative movement that he once joined has be... (http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2009/10/11/weiler/index.html-2010-01-16 topics: PUB-OP DIVISIVE POLITICAL-MATURITY)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altemeyer#cite_note-0: Robert Altemeyer, also known as Bob Altemeyer, or Dr. Bob by his students, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba. He has written extensively on authoritarian... (http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/-2010-01-16 topics: POL-SCI PUB-INFO BK SOC-PSYCH KEY-A LD DIVISIVE)

By Amy Shipley Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 13, 2010; A01 Born in Seoul, Simon Cho sneaked into the United States illegally with his mother and sister 14 years ago, slipping through a border crossing near Vancouver, B.C. His ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011201648_2.html-2010-01-16 topics: SPORTS IMMI DISCIPLINE SACRIFICE)

note[ full poll results, including marginals for past 10-30 yrs in some cases saved at home: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/A_Politics/___Politics_Today_Stories_Teases/091215_NBC_WSJ_Poll.pdf] sum[ "Only 27 percent feel confident th... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/opinion/05brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-15 topics: PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY-A)

By David Axelrod Friday, January 15, 2010; A23 For its Topic A feature last Sunday, The Post invited a panel of political operatives to offer their advice to the Democratic Party on strategy for 2010 [Sunday Opinion, Jan. 10]. Improbably, one o... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011403909_pf.html-2010-01-15 topics: FED-BGT OBAMA)

Stephen Dinan President Obama notched substantial successes in spending cuts last year, winning 60 percent of his proposed cuts and managing to get Congress to ax several programs that had bedeviled President George W. Bush for years. The admin... (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/14/obama-wins-more-cuts-in-spending-than-bush//print/-2010-01-15 topics: FED-BGT OBAMA KEY)

By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 15, 2010; A09 New and easier ways to contribute have helped propel donations for Haiti earthquake relief efforts despite a weak economy, according to officials at a number of aid orga... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011404663_pf.html-2010-01-15 topics: GIVING INTERNET HAITI INTL-DEV)

SUM[ INCLUDES INTERACTIVE MAP BY COUNTY. http://www.epi.org/analysis_and_opinion/entry/one_in_four_black_hispanic_workers_is_underemployed/: "This image from EPI’s Economy Track shows the huge disparity in underemployment by race. While white unde... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011404085.html-2010-01-15 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT KEY-A)

sum[ His fall in popularity is a result of substance -- cap and trade and health care reform -- not style.] By Charles Krauthammer Friday, January 15, 2010; A25 What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Obama's approva... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011403558_pf.html-2010-01-15 topics: OBAMA CONSERVATIVE)

By Bjorn Lomborg Friday, January 15, 2010; A23 see http://fixtheclimate.com/component-1/the-solutions-new-research/research-and-development/ COPENHAGEN Even though no one should have been surprised by the outcome of last month's global climate su... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011403824_pf.html-2010-01-15 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS TECH KEY)

By TRACY KIDDER SUM[ Promotes his own org, Partners in Health -- Paul Farmer -- but makes gratuitous slap at other nonprofits: "at least 10,000 private organizations perform supposedly humanitarian missions in Haiti, yet it remains one of the world�... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/opinion/14kidder.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2010-01-15 topics: INTL-DEV INTL-NEEDS NONPROFIT CORRUPTN)

Use for saving pdf tables in open office calc find: space ([0-9]) replace with: \t\1 Remove all commas Save text file with csv extension... (-2010-01-15 topics: PROGRAMMING)

by EG Dalehite - 2009 note[saved at home] called for “shared sacrifice” as he introduced a bill to reinstate the military draft. .... willing than conservatives to perform compulsory public service. ... www.jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/d... (-2010-01-15 topics: SACRIFICE PUB-SRV SURVEY PUB-OP TODO)

sum["He has officially spent $262 million on three mayoral campaigns, and millions more in strategic charitable donations that secured the support or silence of key civic leaders."] Errol Louis Sunday, January 3rd 2010, 4:00 AM Mayor Bloomberg fit... (http://www.nydailynews.com/fdcp?1263575987089-2010-01-15 topics: URB NYC POLITICS NONPROFIT)

Below, I've pasted the mayor's press release announcing the city's service initiative. He also started a multi-city coalition to promote volunteerism. Here is a link to the organization's website http://www.citiesofservice.org/html/home/home.shtml... (From Diane Cardwell, nyt (article due on 1/18/10)-2010-01-15 topics: CMTY-SRV KEY ALLIES)

By ANDREW C. REVKIN There’s a fine story in our Sunday Styles section today by Alex Williams examining the environmental costs of suburban life, which evolved around the highway system, cheap oil, and the automobile and now typically consumes seve... (http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/can-we-uninvent-suburbia/?ref=fashion-2010-01-15 topics: SUBURBS GLOBAL-WARMING)

By BOBBY ALLYN Ed Reed/Office of the Mayor Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg spoke at the swearing-in for the inaugural class of 193 AmeriCorps Vista members taking part in the NYC Civic Corps. Hamissou Samari moved to the Bronx from Togo in 2006 to at... (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/any-volunteers-new-civic-corps-counts-193-of-them/-2010-01-15 topics: CMTY-SRV LEGIS NYC)

published Online: December 17, 2009 By Alyson Klein Cash-strapped school districts hoping to avert layoffs could get a boost from legislation approved by the U.S. House of Representatives Dec. 16 that is intended to provide a jolt to the sluggish... (http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/12/17/16jobs.h29.html?tkn=RYPFV47ZTigzuofXRlvSUwNnTDxWgS1qJ75j-2010-01-15 topics: EDUC FED-BGT RECESSION)

By Drake Bennett | December 27, 2009 The holiday season is entering the home stretch, but flu season is just getting going. And so, we’re warned, the upcoming New Year’s parties and homeward airplane trips and visits to the mall to return our... (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/12/27/the_loneliness_network/-2010-01-15 topics: GOOD-LIFE PSYCH GOOD-CMTY SSPAPER SOC-NETWORKING)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_ecology http://ponpo.som.yale.edu/work.php... (-2010-01-15 topics: NONPROFIT SOC-SCI CMTY SUM)

SUM[ What it means to have a mentor: Patience, persistence, showing them you care.] Jimmy Battle is the proud father of two young girls. He works as a security guard in Arlington, Va., in addition to writing a memoir and studying for his bachelor's ... (http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/guestinsights/2010/01/mlk-off-the-streets.html-2010-01-14 topics: SOLUTIONS MPP HUM-SRV)

SUM[ USC coach has 4-yr $20m. contract after amassing numerous violations at TN.] By KATIE THOMAS ATLANTA — Education Secretary Arne Duncan entered some of the most contentious debates in college sports on Thursday when, in a speech at the N.C.A.A... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/sports/15ncaa.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-14 topics: HIGHER-ED SPORTS NONPROFIT-COMP CORRUPTN)

This interview with Tony Hsieh, the chief executive of Zappos.com, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What are some of the most important leadership lessons you’ve learned? A. After college, a roommate and I started a company calle... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/10corner.html?8dpc=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-14 topics: LD GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY GOOD-MGT MATURITY MULTI-SOLUT)

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests Public opinion polls A December 7, 2009 poll made by Rasmussen found, in a three-way generic ballot test featuring a hypothetical "Tea Party" candidate, Democrats attracted 36% of the vote, the Tea P... (-2010-01-13 topics: CONSERVATIVE PUB-OP KEY IDEAS)

by Howard Bloom == Tuned empathy == * When monkeys see researchers eating, it activates same part of their brains as if they were eating and not the researchers. 432 * "To use your motor neurons, to use your instruments of empathy, you have to find... (-2010-01-13 topics: LD INSPIRATION INTUITION KEY-A SOLUTIONS BK TODO)

sum["Today’s fears combine relative decline—what will happen when China has all the jobs? and all the money?—with domestic concerns about a polarized society of haves and have-nots that has lost its connective core. They include concerns about... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201001/american-decline-2010-01-13 topics: BIG-THINK KEY TODO)

By Caroline Preston People interested in helping victims of the earthquake that wracked Haiti yesterday are being encouraged to text and tweet their donations and publicize their support using the new technologies. At the same time, that instant ... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=10612-2010-01-13 topics: NCCS WEB2.0 GIVING INTL-DEV)

Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania Michael Burawoy’s 2004 American Sociological Association Presidential Address, entitled “For Public Sociology,” painted a complex picture. He delineated multiple public sociologies, particularly �... (http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/smith-the-public-responsibilities-of-political-science/-2010-01-12 topics: SOC-SCI PUB-INFO KEY)

Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University In a representative democracy, elected officials are supposed to represent all the citizens in their constituency, but most electoral districts are large and the citizens needing representation are many as well... (http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/gans-americas-lobby-democracy/-2010-01-12 topics: DEMOCRACY ALLIES LOBBYING BIG-THINK)

Craig Calhoun, Social Science Research Council and New York University Public engagement was a strong feature of the social sciences from their birth. Could one imagine Hobbes, Locke or the Scottish moralists as mere academics? Weber, Durkheim, an... (http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/calhoun-social-science-for-public-knowledge/-2010-01-12 topics: PUB-INFO SOC-SCI KEY ALLIES)

sum[ Hair-splitting explanation of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) distinction.] The Repower America brand comprises two separate corporate entities, the Alliance for Climate Protection and the Climate Protection Action Fund. The Alliance for Climate Protec... (http://www.repoweramerica.org/wall/-2010-01-12 topics: ADVOCACY NONPROFIT GLOBAL-WARMING)

The MoveOn family of organizations brings real Americans back into the political process. With 5 million members across America — from carpenters to stay-at-home moms to business leaders – we work together to realize the progressive promise of o... (http://www.moveon.org/about.html-2010-01-12 topics: ADVOCACY NONPROFIT VOLUNTEER)

note[saved at home] === Table 28: Civic Engagement === Compared with when they first started college, percent of students rating themselves much stronger or stronger in terms of: Understanding of social problems facing our nation 83.0 Understanding... (http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/PDFs/pubs/Reports/CSS2008_FinalReport.pdf-2010-01-12 topics: CIVIC-ENGAGEMENT PUB-OP YOUTH-VOLUNTEER UNTAPPED-CAPACITY MENTAL-ILLNESS COMPENSATION KEY-A)

Download the map "U.S. County-to-County Migration Reversals, 2000-2008" (PDF: 195KB) by Mark Mather and Kelvin Pollard (March 2009) High unemployment rates are not just creating a drag on the U.S. economy, but are also linked to lagging populati... (http://www.prb.org/Articles/2009/uspopulationloss.aspx?p=1-2010-01-11 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT VARIATION)

(http://www.bls.gov/lau/home.htm-2010-01-11 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT STATS)

== ADD? == * Prosperity and equality of Scandanavian countries? * Innovation in the public sector ** DARPA == INTRO == * Nancy LaVigne and Gia Barboza lunch: I want to make a difference. That's why action/participatory research appeals to me, says ... (-2010-01-11 topics: IDEAS NCCS CONCEPTS PUB-INFO)

By Sara Mansfield Taber Sunday, January 10, 2010; B01 In the final months before her death in May, my mother kept her shoes on all day, even when napping. She had to -- at her assisted-living facility in Mitchellville, Md., three certified nursing... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803586_pf.html-2010-01-11 topics: HLTH-FIN EUR)

Post your comments below Bob Dylan has a Christmas album out this year, replete with “O Come all Ye Faithful.” Irving (“Israel”) Berlin wrote “White Christmas” before Bing Crosby made it famous. But Jews writing or singing Christmas so... (http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/12/the-interfaith-amigos-2010-01-11 topics: RELIGION CONFLICT-RES PROGRESS-POSSIBLE)

People all over the country are choosing to move their money out of bigger banks and into smaller, community-oriented financial institutions that generally avoided the reckless investments and schemes that helped cause the financial crisis. Fueled b... (http://moveyourmoney.info/-2010-01-11 topics: SOLUTIONS BANK CMTY-ORGANIZING)

By Michael Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 12, 2010; D01 The Washington Wizards suspended reserve power forward Andray Blatche on Monday for one game for conduct detrimental to the team. Blatche was sent home after getting bel... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011103620_pf.html-2010-01-11 topics: GABE DISRUPTIVE)

By Thomas Boswell Tuesday, January 12, 2010; D01 Bad times bring the truth to the surface. And that's good. The truth may not set you free, but if you are the Redskins, Wizards or Nationals, at least it might get you out of last place. No team w... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011103599_pf.html-2010-01-11 topics: SPORTS HONESTY PROGRESS ADVERSITY DISCIPLINE COACHING TEAM)

By Jason Reid and Rick Maese Tuesday, January 12, 2010; D03 As Stump Mitchell leaves the Washington Redskins' coaching staff for a new job, one unsightly mark obscures what he accomplished during two seasons as running backs coach. Mitchell i... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011103650_pf.html-2010-01-11 topics: SPORTS TEAM PRACTICE)

In one of his trenchant essays, Shifting Involvements (1982), economist A.O. Hirschman argues that there are endogenous as well as exogenous reasons why societies cycle from periods of focus on private interests and consumption to a focus on public ... (email under nccs-core/tom-smith-2010-01-11 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY IDEAS)

Howard Rheingold's Walk-Through of the Knowledge Commons Problems of health care, economic development, political and interpersonal conflict, environmental sustainability, resource allocation, disaster relief, urban planning, civil society, democra... (http://www.cooperationcommons.com/about-2010-01-11 topics: COOP SOC-SCI PUB-INFO)

sum["As Wright acknowledges, this is a time of confusion and alienation; yet paradoxically there is also a sense of time running out, an imminence, as if we are on the threshold of a new order. Such millenarian enthusiasms are not particularly unusu... (http://www.times.com/books/00/01/30/reviews/000130.30conwayt.html-2010-01-11 topics: COOP HIST BK-REV BIG-THINK)

J. Bradford DeLong delong@econ.berkeley.edu SEE: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/ May 2000 Robert Wright (2000), Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny (New York: Pantheon: 067944252). -------------------------------------------------------------... (http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_articles/Reviews/nonzero.html-2010-01-11 topics: BK-REV COOP HIST BIG-THINK ALLIES PUB-INFO ECON)

By PAUL KRUGMAN As health care reform nears the finish line, there is much wailing and rending of garments among conservatives. And I’m not just talking about the tea partiers. Even calmer conservatives have been issuing dire warnings that Obamaca... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/opinion/11krugman.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-11 topics: EUR ECON KEY EC-TX GOOD-LIFE)

SUM["But as laudable as that goal sounds, it could end up causing more economic damage than good -- driving up the price of raw timber, undermining an industry that has long used sawdust and wood shavings to make affordable cabinetry, and highlighti... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010902023_pf.html-2010-01-10 topics: SOLAR-ENERGY NO-EASY-ANSWERS GLOBAL-WARMING)

"wifeless marriage", laugh "sentenced to marry" Laugh about value of marriage as running into wall, then backing up and trying again. When France created "civil unions, hundreds of hetero couples took advantage of it, since it gets rid of all baggag... (-2010-01-10 topics: MARRIAGE CHARACTER HUMOR GOOD-LIFE EUR MATURITY QT)

By Karl Vick and David Cho Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, January 10, 2010; A08 On Rough & Tumble, a popular California public policy Web site, the lead headline Saturday read: "Arnold to DC: Give Us The Money, Nobody Gets Hurt." The Golde... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010902207_pf.html-2010-01-10 topics: GVT-FIN RECESSION)

By Sandhya Somashekhar Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 10, 2010; A01 The stimulus is mostly spent. The rainy-day funds have been dipped into. Most of the accounting gimmicks have been used. After two years of doing whatever they could... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010902124_pf.html-2010-01-10 topics: GVT-FIN RECESSION NONPROFIT-FIN KEY)

By Mike Wise and Michael Lee Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, January 10, 2010; A01 At Gilbert Arenas Sr.'s lowest, the three days in 1989 when he and his young son lived out of the back of his Mazda RX-7 in North Hollywood, Calif., he first ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010902200.html-2010-01-10 topics: SPORTS CHARACTER DISRUPTIVE)

By Mike Wise Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 29, 2006; A01 Mary Francis Robinson stood behind a security guard a few feet from where the players shoot layups before games at American Airlines Arena in Miami. On the jersey of the playe... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/28/AR2006102800830.html?sid=ST2010011000138-2010-01-10 topics: SPORTS DISRUPTIVE CHARACTER)

By R. Jeffrey Smith, Joby Warrick and Ellen Nakashima SUM[ "Those at the scene on Dec. 30 had been trying to strike a balance between respect for their informant -- best demonstrated, in the regional tradition, by direct personal contact -- and caut... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010900758.html-2010-01-10 topics: AFGHAN TERRORISM NO-EASY-ANSWERS TRUST CMTY-ORGANIZING N-DEF)

By CURTIS SITTENFELD COMMITTED A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage By Elizabeth Gilbert 285 pp. Viking. $26.95. When exactly was it that “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2006 memoir about her divorce and subsequent year of travel ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/books/review/Sittenfeld-t.html?sq=MARRIAGE%20&st=cse&scp=7&pagewanted=print-2010-01-10 topics: MARRIAGE BK-REV)

Bad things will happen. It's good that Obama didn't clean house just because the Detroit bomber got through security. Need to take attitude of Brits in WW2: "Stay calm. Carry on."... (-2010-01-10 topics: MATURITY QT TERRORISM)

Elizabeth Gilbert: laugh from belly at value of running into walls, backing up and doing it again. Lots to laugh about, silliness of couples jumping into marriage like a lab jumping into a pool with tail wagging. "My sister/husband and I joked that ... (-2010-01-10 topics: GOOD-LIFE IDEAS PSYCH HAPPINESS HUMOR)

From the 9/11 Commission (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States), 2004, chaired by Gov. Thomas H. Kean and vice chair Lee H. Hamilton == 12.3 PREVENT THE CONTINUED GROWTH OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM == In October 2003, reflecting... (http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report_Ch12.htm-2010-01-10 topics: TERRORISM INTL-NEEDS KEY)

By Bruce Hoffman Sunday, January 10, 2010; B01 In the wake of the failed Christmas Day airplane bombing and the killing a few days later of seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan, Washington is, as it was after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, obsessed w... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803555_pf.html-2010-01-10 topics: TERRORISM OBAMA-ADMIN KEY)

The following chapter is excerpted from the State of the Struggle: Report on the Battle against Global Terrorism, edited by Justine A. Rosenthal. (Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., February 2007.) The book takes the form of a re... (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/canada602/excerpt.html-2010-01-10 topics: TERRORISM KEY SOLUTIONS)

... for Nearly Four Years. After His Release, He Blew Up an Iraqi Army Outpost. Did Guantanamo Propel Him to Do It? By Rajiv Chandrasekaran Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 22, 2009 A little more than two years after his release from... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/21/AR2009022101234.html-2010-01-10 topics: TERRORISM HUMAN-RIGHTS)

sum["Early last year, the Pentagon reported that the rate of released detainees returning to militancy was 11 percent. In April, it was 14 percent. The latest figure was 20 percent, according to a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010602825_pf.html-2010-01-10 topics: TERRORISM HUMAN-RIGHTS NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

By: John F. Harris and Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei February 4, 2009 05:56 AM EST Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming year... (http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=3F1CDAB1-18FE-70B2-A815919AC28A07E4-2010-01-10 topics: TERRORISM CONSERVATIVE)

By: Mike Allen December 30, 2009 04:21 AM EST Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of “trying to pretend we are not at war” with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombin... (http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=DEE3CCB3-18FE-70B2-A8EADFBA65A39259-2010-01-10 topics: TERRORISM CONSERVATIVE)

With the warring between left and right, Democrats and Republicans, advocacy groups on one side and advocacy groups on the other, it seems as if those who set our national agenda are those who shout the loudest. But shouldn’t scholarship count for... (http://www.urban.org/books/policyandevidence/-2010-01-10 topics: TODO SUM KEY BK)

== URBAN INSTITUTE REPORT FORMAT == * chicago * Similarly, the chance of a 25 percent drop in annual household income has not changed appreciably between 1984 and 2005 (CBO 2007). * Burkhauser and Duncan (1989) use data from the 1974 through 1983 w... (-2010-01-10 topics: REFERENCE)

By Elizabeth McNichol and Nicholas Johnson SUM["Table 2 combines these new gaps with previously reported gaps for 2010 — the gaps that were addressed when states wrote their budgets for this year. In total, 48 states have addressed or still face s... (http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=711-2010-01-10 topics: GVT-FIN RECESSION)

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/105xx/doc10521/budgetprojections.pdf P.1 Debt held by public as percentage of GDP expected to rise from 40.8% in 2008 to 65 percent in 2011 and nearly 68 percent in 2019.... (http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/105xx/doc10521/budgetprojections.pdf-2010-01-10 topics: FED-BGT)

// define('DB_CONNECTION_3', serialize(array('adapter'=>'MySqli', 'server'=>'localhost', 'port'=>null, 'database'=>'qcubed', 'username'=>'root', 'password'=>'', 'profiling'=>false)));... (-2010-01-09 topics: PHP)

to colist@comm-org.wisc.edu date Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:09 PM From: Rabbi Moshe ben Asher & Magidah Khulda bat Sarah Gather the People (http://www.gatherthepeople.org) has recently added its guide to team development, “T... (-2010-01-09 topics: FS-RSC)

By Michelle Singletary Sunday, January 10, 2010; G01 Maybe it's just me, but when I see the word "all," I assume it means all-inclusive. Recently, the Internal Revenue Service announced a major initiative to bring greater scrutiny to the tax-... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803782_pf.html-2010-01-09 topics: IRS REG)

By KEITH BRADSHER HONG KONG — As it moves rapidly to become the world’s leader in nuclear power, wind energy and photovoltaic solar panels, China is taking tentative steps to master another alternative energy industry: using mirrors to capture s... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/business/energy-environment/09solar.html?ref=todayspaper-2010-01-09 topics: CHINA SOLAR-ENERGY)

By VIKAS BAJAJ COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Merrill J. Fernando’s eyes lit up one recent morning when his son Dilhan handed him a box of Twinings Pure White Tea. He quickly ripped open a tea bag and spilled its contents onto a piece of paper. Then he a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/business/global/09tea.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2010-01-09 topics: INTL-DEV EC-TR RETAIL AGRICULTURE ASIA POV MARKETING)

By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 10, 2010; A01 In winning the White House, Barack Obama's team earned a reputation for skill and discipline in dominating the communications wars with opponents. In office, virtually the sa... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010902198_pf.html-2010-01-09 topics: PRES COMMUNICATIONS OBAMA-ADMIN GVT-MGT PUB-OP)

SUM["Our current blunt instrument, giving extra screening for those with certain passports, is not useful in the long term. Al-Qaeda has hundreds of Western operatives with clean records and passports, and after this initial emergency period, we sho... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010703539.html-2010-01-08 topics: TERRORISM GVT-MGT HR POLITICAL-WILL)

SUM[The assumption of these criticisms is that proselytization is the antonym of tolerance. Asserting the superiority of one's religious beliefs, in this view, is not merely bad manners; it involves a kind of divisive, offensive judgmentalism. But... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010703244_pf.html-2010-01-08 topics: DELIB RELIGION TOLERANCE)

By Eugene Robinson Friday, January 8, 2010; A21 "Connecting the dots" is a lousy metaphor that creates unrealistic expectations. The phrase suggests that the only thing our intelligence analysts have to do is draw a line from the point labeled ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010703247_pf.html-2010-01-08 topics: TERRORISM N-DEF NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Journal of Economic Psychology 9(2):151-168. by Wit, A., and H. Wilke 1988 cited in Ostrom, http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10287&page=155 - Drama of the Commons... (-2010-01-08 topics: JOBS COMPENSATION COOP SOC-SCI)

Welcome to the companion web page to the XBRL For Dummies book! On this page you will find information helpful to you in reading the book. The first URL we want to tell you about is where to find the book on Amazon.com. URLs The following is a list... (http://xbrl.squarespace.com/xbrl-for-dummies/-2010-01-08 topics: NCCS DATA STANDARDS XML)

The recent proposal to vote with our feet by shifting our deposits from Wall Street to community banks is a great start. However, community banks are not suffering from a lack of deposits so much as from a lack of the capital they need to make new... (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=2477539-2010-01-08 topics: BANK RECESSION SOLUTIONS)

FindYouthInfo.gov was created by the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP), which is composed of representatives from 12 Federal agencies that support programs and services focusing on youth. The IWGYP promotes the goal of positive, he... (http://www.findyouthinfo.org/ContentPage.aspx?cpid=74-2010-01-08 topics: NCCS DATA KEY WEBSITE ALLIES)

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sum[ Although not stated explicitly, implication is that scientists leaving US due to moral drift of country and (explicit) chance to help to China, not for $.] By SHARON LaFRANIERE BEIJING — Scientists in the United States were not overly surpris... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07scholar.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-07 topics: CHINA KEY-A SCIENCE JOBS MORAL-SENSE DEMOCRACY CULT)

In response to this week's On Leadership question: Last year was a tough one for many organizations, with fewer employees required to do more with less. How can leaders of such organizations motivate their people as they head into 2010? I recommend ... (http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/panelists/2010/01/the-magic-of-fellowship.html-2010-01-07 topics: LD KEY-A CONCEPTS)

Mar 19 By Sgt. Micah E. Clare, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs Office BAMBERG, Germany -- Staff Sgt. Lincoln V. Dockery said he didn't even see the grenade that sent shrapnel into his right forearm while charging insurgent fighters in Afghanistan'... (-2010-01-07 topics: MILITARY COURAGE SACRIFICE AFGHAN)

Soldiers in combat are facing danger every day and there are many untold stories of valor that deserve recognition. The stories on this page capture some of those that have displayed heroic courage through their actions in the face of a lethal enemy... (http://www.army.mil/valor/-2010-01-07 topics: MILITARY LD COURAGE SACRIFICE KEY)

By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, January 4, 2010; A13 One insistent question at the start of a new decade involves the lingering effects of the old: What scars will the Great Recession leave? We are already seeing some. Americans are moving less ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/03/AR2010010301810_pf.html-2010-01-07 topics: CAPITALISM RECESSION ENTREPRENEUR)

In response to this week's On Leadership question: Last year was a tough one for many organizations, with fewer employees required to do more with less. How can leaders of such organizations motivate their people as they head into 2010? No leader f... (http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/panelists/2010/01/winning-over-the-troops.html-2010-01-07 topics: LD ALLIES)

Hosted by Dr. Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and author. The series address issues organized around: improving social relationships, resolving negative feelings (depression, anxiety, etc.), and searching for greater happiness. By the end, view... (http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/topics-2010-01-07 topics: PSYCH WISDOM FS-RSC KEY TV)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica Hmmm. You think it’s a coincidence? Costa Rica is one of the very few countries to have abolished its army, and it’s also arguably the happiest nation on earth. There are several ways of measuring ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/opinion/07kristof.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-07 topics: HAPPINESS INTL-COMPARISONS GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY)

By TIMOTHY EGAN Timothy Egan on American politics and life, as seen from the West. SEE: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/18/politifact-lie-year-death-panels/ For Democrats who see their political prospects this year as a tos... (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/health-cares-biggest-hypocrite-or-hero/?pagemode=print -2010-01-07 topics: POLITICS REPUBLICANS LYING HLTH-FIN)

http://www.coro.org/site/c.geJNIUOzErH/b.2122643/k.F952/Ideas_on_Leadership_from_the_Coro_System.htm - free info Coro is an organization begun in San Francisco in 1942 by W. Donald Fletcher, an attorney, and Van Duyn Dodge, an investment counselor, ... (http://www.coro.org-2010-01-07 topics: NONPROFIT ALLIES LD PUB-INFO COOP KEY-A)

The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwide—destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America’s e... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography-2010-01-07 topics: URB RECESSION KEY ECON)

ALEC MACGILLIS | January 4, 2010 In April 2006, the Richard Florida show arrived in the Southern Tier of Upstate New York. It was only one of the scores of appearances this decade by the economic-development guru, whose speaking fee soared to $35,0... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_ruse_of_the_creative_class-2010-01-07 topics: URB HIGHER-ED SOLUTIONS)

From 40 to 80% federal debt as % of GDP pre and post-Recession. Like Greece or Ireland, serious danger if had to bail financial sector out again. Major financial crisis somewhere every 5 years or so somewhere in the world. Learned that US economy no... (http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/01/our-uncertain-economy-2010-01-07 topics: ECON BIG-THINK KEY-A)

sum[ Risk of inflation if short-term rates kept too low.] Reuters – Kansas City Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig speaks regarding "Ending Government Bailouts" … By Kristina Cooke – Thu Jan 7, 2:58 pm ET KANSAS CITY (Reuters) – The F... (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100107/bs_nm/us_usa_fed_hoenig-2010-01-07 topics: ECON RECESSION KEY)

This whole issue of a Gilbert practical joke gone wrong? It seems fairly predictable in retrospect, though obviously not to this degree. Some of his jokes have always veered a bit too close to the edge. A few years back, a teammate told me a story t... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/01/a_history_of_gilberts_practica.html-2010-01-07 topics: DISRUPTIVE PSYCH CHARACTER)

By Sudarsan Raghavan washington post foreign service Friday, January 8, 2010; A01 ADEN, YEMEN -- A hatred of the government in southern Yemen is complicating U.S.-backed efforts to stem al-Qaeda's ambitions across the region, according to Weste... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010704303_pf.html-2010-01-07 topics: MIDEAST TERRORISM VIOLENCE)

Education January/February 2010 For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/good-teaching -2010-01-07 topics: EDUC KEY SOLUTIONS TODO)

see: occupationAndRisk.xls (c:\docs\cnpHome) * Macro-competition: ** innovation promoted; business organization and consolidation; aggressive marketing ** Dynamism - no relationships forever; even big guys compete with one another (Boeing vs. Airb... (-2010-01-06 topics: IDEAS)

== INTRO FOR MEETING WITH OMB (AND OTHERS?) == If America is to make it through the next 10, 20 or 30 years as a vibrant society and a thriving democracy in the face of overwhelming and often deserved distrust of government and big business, the non... (-2010-01-06 topics: IDEAS)

By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, January 6, 2010; A01 SANAA, YEMEN -- When he served in the Afghan mountains as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, Nasser al-Bahri said, he was known as "The Killer." Today, Bahri is a busin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/05/AR2010010504022_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: TERRORISM PSYCH)

By BEN FELLER The Associated Press Wednesday, January 6, 2010; 3:01 AM WASHINGTON -- As the White House portrays the dramatic scene, President Barack Obama summoned his national security team to the Situation Room for a lecture about accountabilit... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010600281.html-2010-01-06 topics: OBAMA TERRORISM)

By Karen DeYoung and Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 6, 2010; A01 President Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence agencies could have prevented the attempt to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day, and used a gr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/05/AR2010010501741_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: OBAMA TERRORISM)

By Walter Pincus Sunday, December 27, 2009; A05 Trying to counter information-savvy enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has rapidly spent nearly $1 billion in the past three years on strategic communications. Paid-for news articles... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/26/AR2009122601462_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: OBAMA TERRORISM COMMUNICATIONS KN-MGT)

By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 6, 2010; A08 The highest-ranking U.S. military intelligence officer in Afghanistan has called for a major restructuring of the intelligence gathering and distribution in that country... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/05/AR2010010503836_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: TERRORISM KN-MGT N-DEF)

By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 5, 2010; A13 Last week in Afghanistan, a suicide bomber got into one of the CIA's most important intelligence-gathering outposts without being thoroughly searched. The deadly incident ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010403092_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: AFGHAN NO-EASY-ANSWERS UNCERTAINTY)

NOTE[ Can't find article, but one in today's paper emphasizing that analysts expected to sort through thousands of items per day and don't have time to connect dots.] By DEB RIECHMANN The Associated Press Tuesday, January 5, 2010; 2:38 PM KABUL --... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/05/AR2010010500398_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: TERRORISM KN-MGT N-DEF)

By David Ignatius Wednesday, January 6, 2010; A15 The Central Intelligence Agency should be asking some painful questions this week about its performance: How could a suicide bomber have flown to Detroit despite a strong warning to a CIA station t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/05/AR2010010502986_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: TERRORISM INTELLIGENCE KN-MGT INCENTIVES GVT-MGT KEY-A TOO-MUCH-INFO NO-EASY-ANSWERS N-DEF)

By CHRIS NORRIS Last spring, at the Pasadena Recovery Center, while staff members were doing their morning rounds, three men sat behind the closed door of a dim in-patient bedroom. Members of a video production team, they were monitoring live feeds ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03Pinsky-t.html?sq=pinsky&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2010-01-06 topics: SUBSTANCE-ABUSE TV CULT INTERESTING SUPERSTARS)

SUM[ Feinberg, born a mediator, popular with Ted kennedy, Bush, Obama, works for free to decide 9/11 victims' families compensation and compensation of 7 TARP recipients.] By STEVEN BRILL Last August, as midnight approached on a Friday, two Treasur... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03Compensation-t.html-2010-01-06 topics: EXEC-COMP REG SUPERSTARS BANK RECESSION)

SUM["he happiest workers are people in helping professions or doing creative work. Smith said firefighters, clergy and physical therapists are most likely to describe themselves as very satisfied with their work, along with people in jobs that invol... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/05/AR2010010503977_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: PUB-OP GOOD-LIFE SOC-SCI KEY TODO NONPROFIT JOBS)

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Surely, the most important, interesting — and, yes, heroic — figure in the whole Christmas Day Northwest airliner affair was the would-be bomber’s father, the Nigerian banker Alhaji Umaru Mutallab. Mutallab did somethin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/opinion/06friedman.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2010-01-06 topics: CULT TERRORISM SOLUTIONS ALLIES INDIV-BEHAVIOR KEY)

“The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.” —William F. Scolavino “Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.” —Robert Kennedy “The legacy of heroes is the memory of... (belief net newsletter - from the masters-2010-01-06 topics: QT MORALS LD)

WARD 1: zip5 in ('20001', '20008','20009', '20010', '20059', '20060') --- http://swotdc.blogspot.com/ http://www.scribd.com/doc/25643580/SWOTDC-Kickoff-January-22-2010-9-30am-11-30am http://www.scribd.com/doc/25643711/SWOTDC-Kickoff-January-22-2010-... (-2010-01-06 topics: MPP FS IDEAS)

sum[ Brilliant at calling plays and identifying opponents' weaknesses, he had major flaw in overestimating talent of his recruits, micro-management, and ignoring character in hiring decisions. And he's a control freak.] By Les Carpenter Washington P... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010602487_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: GENIUS VOCATION POOR-LD SPORTS COACHING)

By Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 6, 2010; 5:29 PM The founder of the political advocacy organization Emily's List, the powerhouse that has propelled hundreds of progressive women candidates into office, is retiring ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010602936_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: DEMOCRATS LD DISCIPLINE ADVOCACY NONPROFIT)

By David S. Hilzenrath Thursday, January 7, 2010; A12 If you call the Internal Revenue Service for help this tax season and someone actually picks up the phone, consider yourself lucky. The agency has set a goal of answering only 71 percent of ca... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010601485_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: GVT-MGT IRS POOR-LD)

By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, January 6, 2010; A09 First column. New year. Time to take stock of where we are economically and where we're headed. At the moment, it looks to many like the recession is over. Most of the job cutting has been comp... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/05/AR2010010503809_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: RECESSION UNEMPLOYMENT KEY)

By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, December 30, 2009; A08 If you step back and look at the big economic policy issues-- health care, financial regulation, immigration, education reform, the budget deficit -- they appear to boil down to one fundamenta... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122902700_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: CAPITALISM ECON REG SUM)

By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, December 23, 2009; A16 No, Virginia, 2009 was not a great year for corporate philanthropy. The $10,000 and $25,000 gifts that once arrived almost like clockwork at local nonprofits came this year in denominations of... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203763_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: DC CORP-GIVING MPP TODO)

By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 7, 2010; A01 Many of the Washington interest groups that are seeking to shape final health-care legislation in the coming weeks operate with opaque financing, often receiving hidden su... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010605160_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: HLTH-FIN ADVOCACY NONPROFIT CORRUPTN TRANSPARENCY KEY)

By George F. Will Thursday, January 7, 2010; A17 In 1957, Britain's Queen Elizabeth, attending a Maryland-North Carolina football game, asked Maryland's governor, "Where do you get all those enormous players?" He replied, "Your majesty, that's a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010603914_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP HIGHER-ED KEY NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, January 7, 2010; A17 A politically shrewd Senate Democratic staff member chatting about the future of health-care negotiations stopped in midsentence late Tuesday afternoon as news flashed across his computer screen... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010603912_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: CONG DEMOCRATS)

SUM[ Odd argument that someone should resign anytime things go wrong in order to spare Obama the blame.] By Sally Quinn Tuesday, January 5, 2010; A15 Now it turns out that there was a third uninvited guest at the White House state dinner for Ind... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010402722_pf.html-2010-01-06 topics: FOIL LD OBAMA-ADMIN HR)

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — In the fall of 2001, as an anguished nation came to grips with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a slender, soft-spoken economics major named Elizabeth Hanson set out to write her senior thesis ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07intel.html?hp-2010-01-06 topics: N-DEF VOCATION JOBS MILITARY)

By ELISABETH BUMILLER WASHINGTON — Administration officials said Wednesday that a classified Pentagon report concludes that of some 560 detainees transferred abroad from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, about one in five has engaged in, or... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/us/politics/07gitmo.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-06 topics: TERRORISM HUMAN-RIGHTS OBAMA-ADMIN NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

http://dcbiz.dc.gov/dmped/lib/dmped/fy10_nofa_tapg_final_110909pdf.pdf http://dcbiz.dc.gov/dmped/cwp/view,A,1366,Q,604691,dmpedNav,%7C33028%7C.asp Project Eligibility Requirements: In order to be eligible the proposed projects must: 1. Be physicall... (-2010-01-05 topics: MPP)

http://books.google.com/books?id=orNeShCKNvcC&dq=MILOFSKY+COMMUNITY+ORGANIZATIONS&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=83tlq4KwH-&sig=kSR6pCjXOtO-Dv28VpV9leIWXDs&hl=en&ei=WDVDS9zyMcHElAfJrpCnBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBw#v=o... (-2010-01-05 topics: NCCS NONPROFIT-TECH CMTY KEY TODO)

By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 5, 2010; B06 Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced Monday that the city had posted police at more than two dozen D.C. charter schools, further normalizing charters within city life and... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010401760_pf.html-2010-01-05 topics: DC CRIME EDUC NO-EASY-ANSWERS HUM-SRV)

Authors:Vohs, Kathleen D.1 kvohs@csom.umn.edu Mead, Nicole L.2 Goode, Miranda R.3 Source:Science; 11/17/2006, Vol. 314 Issue 5802, p1154-1156, 3p Document Type:Report Subject Terms:*MONEY *HUMAN behavior *MOTIVATION (Psychology) *ATTITUDE (Psycholog... (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=23303395&site=ehost-live-2010-01-05 topics: PSYCH VOLUNTEER)

Authors:Fiske, Alan Page Source:Psychological Review; Oct92, Vol. 99 Issue 4, p689, 35p, 1 chart Document Type:Article Subject Terms:*PSYCHOLOGY Abstract:Contends that motivation, planning, production, comprehension, coordination, and evaluation of ... (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9211092226&site=ehost-live-2010-01-05 topics: PSYCH CMTY CONCEPTS)

by Paul G. Schervish, VA Hodgkinson, Margaret Gates (Jossey-Bass: San Fran. 1995) ch.1: Key Factors influencing caring, involvement, and community (Hodgkinson), p.21 22 - 1992 sample size: 2,500 adults with in-home personal interviews, plus 1,400 te... (-2010-01-04 topics: VOLUNTEER KEY UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

SUM[ The difficult details of evaluation in service delivery. Implicit conclusion: It takes a LOT of time to do a good evaluation.] I am still receiving emails about my Nov. 23 column on Dan Goldfarb, the first teacher to share with me the results o... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2010/01/can_dc_teacher_evaluations_be.html-2010-01-04 topics: EDUC HR OUTCOME-MEAS KEY-A)

By PAUL KRUGMAN Here’s what’s coming in economic news: The next employment report could show the economy adding jobs for the first time in two years. The next G.D.P. report is likely to show solid growth in late 2009. There will be lots of bull... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/opinion/04krugman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-04 topics: ECON RECESSION)

By BARBARA STRAUCH I LOVE reading history, and the shelves in my living room are lined with fat, fact-filled books. There’s “The Hemingses of Monticello,” about the family of Thomas Jefferson’s slave mistress; there’s “House of Cards,”... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/education/edlife/03adult-t.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-04 topics: COG-SCI ELDERLY PUB-HLTH PAM TODO)

Professor McAdam is currently working on three major research projects. The first is an comprehensive follow-up study of all accepted applicants to the Teach for America (TFA) Program between 1993-1998. The study is primarily interested in assessing... (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/soc/people/DougMcAdam/index.html-2010-01-04 topics: ALLIES SOCIOLOGY CMTY-ORGANIZING)

By AMANDA M. FAIRBANKS Teach for America, a corps of recent college graduates who sign up to teach in some of the nation’s most troubled schools, has become a campus phenomenon, drawing huge numbers of applicants willing to commit two years of th... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/education/04teach.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-04 topics: SOLUTIONS SOC-SCI PUB-SRV YOUTH-VOLUNTEER EDUC NO-EASY-ANSWERS FS-RSC)

by Oliver Williamson note[ saved at home] Primary rationale for this organizational innovation: save on transaction cost; economizing Latter half of 19th century, following Chandler: emergence of complex hierarchical forms of organization Key legal ... (jstor-2010-01-04 topics: ECON CONCEPTS UNCERTAINTY SOC-SCI-LIMITS AM-HIST)

By Jon Cohen and Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 3, 2010; A10 Few local economies have received as much federal attention and assistance in recent years as that of Detroit. But residents of this economically hard-hit region e... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/02/AR2010010201721_pf.html-2010-01-03 topics: PUB-OP DISTRUST)

By Dana Hedgpeth and Jennifer Agiesta Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, January 3, 2010; A01 DETROIT -- The decline of the auto industry and the nation's economic slide have left many residents here trapped, without work, in houses they can't ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/02/AR2010010201935_pf.html-2010-01-03 topics: URB UNEMPLOYMENT DOMESTIC-NEEDS PUB-OP)

sum[ More than four in 10 area residents aged 18 to 29 say they plan to seek their fortunes elsewhere, according to the new Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation-Harvard University Detroit poll. Two-thirds of young adults in the area have been h... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/02/AR2010010201983_pf.html-2010-01-03 topics: DOMESTIC-NEEDS YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT DEMOGRAPHICS KEY)

Global Footprint Network publishes National Footprint Accounts for 201 nations, and welcomes and encourages those nations to conduct reviews of their accounts. National Reviews are excellent ways to help improve the National Footprint Accounts and c... (http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/footprint_for_nations/-2010-01-03 topics: INTL-COMPARISONS GLOBAL-WARMING ENV)

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environme... (http://www.gapminder.org/about-gapminder/-2010-01-03 topics: NONPROFIT TECH WEB2.0 GOOGLE NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT)

We can do it. Together. We know what you're thinking: "Global warming is a huge problem. What can I do?" It turns out that you can actually do quite a lot. Even the smallest action to reduce energy consumption helps. Together makes it easy to tak... (http://www.together.com/us/-2010-01-03 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT)

Joseph T. Siegle, Michael M. Weinstein, and Morton H. Halperin September/October 2004 Summary: U.S. and international development agencies, believing that poor countries should develop economically before they become democratic, have not taken pol... (http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/60097/joseph-t-siegle-michael-m-weinstein-and-morton-h-halperin/why-democracies-excel-2010-01-03 topics: INTL-COMPARISONS DEMOCRACY POL-SCI)

Written by Christian Welzel The presentation covers value changes from 1981 until 2006 in various countries. It is shown that the Human Development trend in general points towards stronger secular-rational values and stronger self-expression values... (http://margaux.grandvinum.se/SebTest/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_83-2010-01-03 topics: CULT INTL-COMPARISONS PSYCH CONCEPTS PROGRESS-POSSIBLE)

http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/soc/compsocpsych.htm - Comprehensive exam http://www1.american.edu/cas/sociology/comp.html - Sociological theory == Concepts == * Modernity * Globalization * Social movements * Intergroup relations * GH Mead * Soci... (-2010-01-03 topics: SOCIOLOGY CONCEPTS)

see: http://www.illinoisresource.net/page/collaboration/home/Collaborate - LIST OF PLACE-BASED INITIATIVES Illinois ResourceNet focuses on collaborations in communities, but also recognizes the vast networks of knowledge, resources, and potential pa... (http://illinoisresource.net/-2010-01-03 topics: NONPROFIT TECH ALLIES NCCS KEY TODO CMTY-NET)

TODO: http://www.steadystate.org/CASSESlideshows.html The mission of CASSE is to advance the steady state economy, with stabilized population and consumption, as a policy goal with widespread public support. We pursue this mission by: educating ci... (http://www.steadystate.org-2010-01-03 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ALLIES KEY NONPROFIT ENV)

By Matt Schudel Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 3, 2010; C06 Deborah Howell, a trailblazing newspaper editor who led the innovative Washington bureau of the Newhouse News Service before serving as ombudsman of The Washington Post, die... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010102147.html?hpid=moreheadlines-2010-01-03 topics: LD INTEGRITY COURAGE GENDER JOURNALISM TRAGEDY)

By Jim Hoagland Sunday, January 3, 2010; A17 Listen up, Israel: Not now. Obama, don't let the winds of public opinion twist you around your own axle. Yo, Putin, stop shielding the murderers, including those who rid you of meddlesome lawyers. Sarko... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101366_pf.html-2010-01-03 topics: JOURNALISM VOCATION)

sum["...by any measure, he's had a huge impact on the body politic. -- Viewers: The former DJ is getting nearly 3 million a night, besting even the likes of O'Reilly among the viewers most valuable to advertisers, even though there are far fewer pe... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101371_pf.html-2010-01-03 topics: CONSERVATIVE PUB-OP IGNORANCE KEY)

sum["Wherever I look, some simple patterns hold: A stable marriage, good health and enough (but not too much) income are good for happiness. Unemployment, divorce and economic instability are terrible for it. On average, happier people are also heal... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123101153_pf.html-2010-01-03 topics: HAPPINESS INTL-COMPARISONS PSYCH)

sum["But at its core, this is also a spiritual crisis. More and more people are coming to understand that underlying the economic crisis is a values crisis, and that any economic recovery must be accompanied by a moral recovery. We have been asking ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123101156_pf.html-2010-01-03 topics: ALLIES UNTAPPED-CAPACITY RELIGION)

American Journal of Sociology, 1958, 63, 349-356. Superordinate Goals in the Reduction of Intergroup Conflict[1] Muzafer Sherif ABSTRACT This paper summarizes an experimental study on intergroup relations, with emphasis on the reduction of confli... (http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Sherif/Sherif_1958a.html-2010-01-02 topics: SOC-PSYCH KEY)

New media professor and writer Clay Shirky expects our increasing connectivity to lead to a new era of civic values. He shares his predictions for the Internet and social networking in the next decade.... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122169230-2010-01-02 topics: PROGRESS-POSSIBLE CIVIC-ENGAGEMENT INTERNET BIG-THINK)

Robert Throop and Lloyd Gordon Ward. "Project Inventory." Toronto: The Mead Project (2007) Editors' notes Last updated in November of 2007. Site Navigation Project Inventory Arranged by Author Overview After years of playing around with "splash... (http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/inventory5.html-2010-01-02 topics: PUB-INFO SOC-SCI FS-RSC)

Muzafer Sherif and Carolyn W. Sherif, "Research on intergroup relations." Pp.153-177 in Otto Klineberg and Richard Christie (Eds.), Perspectives in Social Psychology. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965. Once the groups were in conflict and ma... (http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Sherif/Sherif_1965g.html -2010-01-02 topics: SOC-PSYCH KEY PROGRESS-POSSIBLE CONFLICT-RES)

Child's Death Puts Spotlight On Neighborhood Violence: Video: Columbia Heights is one of DC's most diverse neighborhoods, both ethnically and economically. But it's also riddled with crime. http://www.wusa9.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=50775083001... (http://www.wusa9.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=50775083001#/Child%27s+Death+Puts+Spotlight+On+Neighborhood+Violence/50775083001-2010-01-02 topics: DC FS-RSC)

By DAVID SEGAL Published: December 26, 2009 STILL in holiday peace-and-goodwill mode? Aww. How sweet! Just a quick bit of advice: Read something else. Seriously, beat it, O.K.? Because Christmas is so two days ago, and in this episode we are goi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/your-money/27haggler.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper-2010-01-02 topics: JOBS LYING)

NOTE["I know that Gray Line was pleased with my work. The company put the equivalent of a mystery shopper on board to evaluate the drivers, and I always got glowing reports."] I GRADUATED from York University in Toronto in 1975 with an English degre... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/jobs/27pre.html?ref=todayspaper-2010-01-02 topics: GOOD-LIFE INDIV-BEHAVIOR CHARACTER CUSTOMER-SRV VOCATION)

By MARY TRIPSAS IMAGINE a planetarium-style presentation about the future of technology, followed by a tour of dozens of hands-on exhibits — whether of sandlike microparticles that flow like liquid in a beaker, pictures that appear three-dimensio... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/27proto.html?ref=todayspaper-2010-01-02 topics: CUSTOMER-SRV MGT)

By ROBERT J. SHILLER CORPORATIONS raise money by issuing both debt and equity, the latter giving investors an implicit share in future profits. Governments should do something like this, too, and not just rely on debt. Borrowing a concept from cor... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/economy/27view.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2010-01-02 topics: ECON SOLUTIONS)

SUM[ Loyalty, intensity, cursing players out, but demanding excellence and caring, and "being a man.": "He's so passionate -- and loyal, man," veteran guard Derrick Dockery said. "He cares a lot about his guys. He'll do anything for his guys."] By B... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101610.html?hpid=topnews-2010-01-02 topics: COACHING LD SPORTS CHARACTER)

By Michael Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 2, 2010; D01 The Washington Wizards and all-star guard Gilbert Arenas found themselves under increased scrutiny on Friday after it was disclosed that the NBA was investigating him for h... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101854_pf.html-2010-01-02 topics: DISRUPTIVE SPORTS POOR-LD)

sum[Knuble, who at 37 is the team's elder statesman and the only Capital with a Stanley Cup ring, was flattered when it was mentioned to him that he is a candidate. He also lent his support to Ovechkin and Laich. "I think it's a pretty obvious choi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101627_pf.html-2010-01-02 topics: LD TEAM KEY)

http://www.oecd.org/document/15/0,3343,en_2649_33715_1873295_1_1_1_1,00.html#GDP - OECD tables http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryName=220&QueryType=View... (-2010-01-02 topics: ECON STATS INTL-COMPARISONS)

(http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=552&show=bibliography-2010-01-01 topics: INSPIRATION WRITING GENIUS KN-MGT)

sum["Until now, American officials had expressed concern over the capability of Qaeda affiliates in North Africa, Yemen and Iraq, and a militant Islamist group in Somalia closely tied to Al Qaeda, to attack American and other Western targets in thei... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/31offshoot.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2010-01-01 topics: TERRORISM GLOBALIZATION)

sum["That so many jihadist combatants are from middle-class backgrounds doesn’t mean that the grinding poverty of many Islamic countries — and its contrast with the badly distributed wealth of some of those same societies — plays no role in fu... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31iht-letter.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-01 topics: TERRORISM NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

sum["Speaking in eloquent, often colloquial, English, Mr. Awlaki and other Internet imams from the Middle East to Britain offer a televangelist’s persuasive message of faith, purpose and a way forward, for both the young and as yet uncommitted, as... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/us/01imam.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-01 topics: TERRORISM INTERNET)

sum["That mature attitude seems to have largely vanished. Now we seem to expect perfection from government and then throw temper tantrums when it is not achieved. We seem to be in the position of young adolescents — who believe mommy and daddy can... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/opinion/01brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-01 topics: POLITICAL-MATURITY KEY-A ALLIES)

note[ Stiglitz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegium_International & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj16n2-10.html - critiique of Stiglitz: Whither Socialism? http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/tran... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_teachable_collapse-2010-01-01 topics: RECESSION BK-REV KN-MGT ECON CONCEPTS)

We humbly take serious the following dictums: “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” (Albert Einstein 1879-1955) “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” (Galileo Galilei 1564-1... (http://www.sustainabilitank.info/about_us/-2010-01-01 topics: QT)

Eileen Sullivan and Pamela Hess AP sum[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122800582.html: 80 grams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaerythritol_tetranitrate: used by bomber who attempted to kill prominent Saudi pr... (http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/explosive-in-detroit-terrorist-attack-attempt-is-easily-detectable/19295049-2010-01-01 topics: TERRORISM)

By SCOTT SHANE and ERIC LIPTON Despite the billions spent since 2001 on intelligence and counterterrorism programs, sophisticated airport scanners and elaborate watch lists, it was something simpler that averted disaster on a Christmas Day flight to... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27plane.html?pagewanted=print-2010-01-01 topics: TERRORISM COURAGE INDIV-BEHAVIOR SACRIFICE)

This article outlines my reasons for suggesting that the United States does not need any new tax exempt nonprofits organized or recognized in 2010 unless…. In a way this is a challenge to consultants, dreamers, unincorporated groups, legal clinics... (http://dongriesmannsnonprofitblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/2010-new-years-resolution-no-new.html-2010-01-01 topics: NONPROFIT RECESSION NCCS)

Papers from symposium held 18 January 2008 Improving quality and productivity has been the aim of a wide range of innovations in public services from the introduction of organisational, managerial and financial incentives to the reliance on leade... (http://www.opi.org.uk/events/Whatmakesforgoodgovernment.shtml-2010-01-01 topics: GVT-MGT JOBS)

The National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) is committed to independent and scientific research to evaluate the impact of pay-for-performance in public education. NCPI endeavors to develop a base of scholarly and practical knowledge for edu... (http://www.performanceincentives.org/research/index.asp-2010-01-01 topics: EDUC OUTCOME-MEAS)

* Issues: ** incentives to innovate: special awards or rewards? Mike Leszcz ** Big risks require big rewards? Or careful planning and discussion of risks: DARPA vs. Google ** Challenge of bringing product to market: full complement of technical, mar... (-2010-01-01 topics: GVT-MGT JOBS OUTCOME-MEAS SUM LIST)

By RIAZ KHAN and ASIF SHAHZAD The Associated Press Friday, January 1, 2010; 3:11 PM PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vehicle in a crowd of people watching a volleyball tournament Friday in northwest Pakistan, ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010100199_pf.html-2010-01-01 topics: TERRORISM PAKISTAN)

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON YOU might think that board members overseeing businesses that cratered in the credit crisis would be disqualified from serving as directors at other public companies. You would, however, be wrong. Directors who were supposedl... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/business/economy/27gret.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2010-01-01 topics: CORP-GOV LEGIS)

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/12/30/garden/20091231-yurt-slideshow_index.html website & blog: http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/ gear: http://www.aktrekking.com/gear.html By SARAH MASLIN NIR SELDOVIA, Alaska ON a trip to the Yucatán Peni... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/garden/31yurt.html-2010-01-01 topics: GOOD-LIFE ENV)

By HIROKO TABUCHI TOKYO — For Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas, home is a cubicle barely bigger than a coffin — one of dozens of berths stacked two units high in one of central Tokyo’s decrepit “capsule” hotels. “It’s just ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/business/global/02capsule.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-01 topics: HOMELESS POV JAPAN)

The neutrality of this section is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (July 2009) According to former DARPA Director Tony Tether and W. B. Bonvillian (“Power Play,... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA-2010-01-01 topics: MGT PUB-SRV INNOVATION KEY SOLUTIONS TEAM SCIENCE)

sum[ Homewood Pkwy neighbor and wife Alice: The simple pleasures of spending summers in Bennington, Vermont teaching, playing, and traveling backroads on motor scooter. Daughter Ilana is pregnant.] Joel Berman has concertized extensively in the Unit... (http://www.cmceast.org/biographies.htm#Joel Berman-2010-01-01 topics: CHARACTER ARTS GOOD-LIFE PERSONAL)

By SUSAN SAULNY CHICAGO — Last April, the driver of a pickup truck approaching an intersection in the far western suburb of Oswego went past a red light obscured by snow and struck a 34-year-old woman turning left in her car. The woman died and ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/us/02lights.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2010-01-01 topics: ENV UNINTENDED-CONSEQUENCES)

Forthcoming in Global Catastrophic Risks, eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic Draft of August 31, 2006. Eliezer Yudkowsky (yudkowsky@singinst.org) Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Palo Alto, CA Introduction1 All else being equal, n... (http://www.singinst.org/upload/cognitive-biases.pdf-2010-01-01 topics: COG-SCI KEY ALLIES PSYCH BIG-THINK)

Arvind K. Sinha Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur, India Sumita Rai Indian Institute of Management Lucknow Lucknow, India This chapter concerns the relationship between the transformational leadership of superiors and competencies... (http://ebooks.iaccp.org/ongoing_themes/chapters/sinha/sinha.php?file=sinha&output=screen-2010-01-01 topics: LD SOC-SCI KEY)

By Mike Wise Saturday, January 2, 2010; D04 So, your siblings -- Frank, Adrienne and Lauren -- they all graduated from college and are doing very well in their respective professions? "Yes," Roger Mason Jr. said. And no one in your family relies... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101751_pf.html-2010-01-01 topics: SPORTS CHARACTER DC)

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 2, 2010; A01 If Americans really take the plunge and enter a carbon-constrained world, it might look a little like the Stokes family's home in Falls Church. Nolan Stokes and Kathy ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101987_pf.html-2010-01-01 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS HOUS KEY-A EUR FS-RSC)

SUM[ Discipline seems to have put its key resources online for free, including extensive 3-volume handbook on the field, which is available to download as 500pp pdf through Amazon.] This page links to online readings in cross-cultural and cultural p... (http://ebooks.iaccp.org/-2010-01-01 topics: SOC-SCI PUB-INFO PSYCH)

By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 31, 2009; A01 A suicide bomber infiltrated a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight Americans in what is believed to be the deadliest single attack on U.... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123000201_pf.html-2009-12-31 topics: AFGHAN N-DEF)

By Eli Saslow, Philip Rucker, William Wan and Mary Pat Flaherty Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, December 31, 2009; A01 Nidal Hasan was causing a ruckus in his one-bedroom apartment during the early hours of Nov. 5, banging against the thin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123002874_pf.html-2009-12-31 topics: CHARACTER VIOLENCE KEY TERRORISM)

sum[Suburbia is where the population is aging fastest. At the dawn of the 21st century, 69 percent of people 65 or older lived in the suburbs. More than 285,000 people in that age group live in the three largest counties surrounding Washington: Fair... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122901256_pf.html-2009-12-30 topics: ELDERLY SUBURBS DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-relationship_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality_(data_modeling) - crow's foot http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~bernatja/crowsfoot.html A freeware ER tool that can generate database and application layer cod... (-2009-12-30 topics: PROGRAMMING LIST)

sum["...he's a serious, demanding educator whose team has a graduation rate of 79 percent, eighth best in the country and first in the Big 12 Conference. He trails only Notre Dame (94 percent), Stanford (93), Boston College (92), Duke (92), Northwes... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123002278_pf.html-2009-12-30 topics: SPORTS LD NO-EASY-ANSWERS HIGHER-ED PROGRESS-POSSIBLE)

By Thomas Boswell Thursday, December 31, 2009; D01 Flip Saunders had me at "They can't guard anybody." But he locked me up when he added, "You know, I think I can go out there on that floor and take anybody on our team, one-on-one at 52 years old... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/30/AR2009123001878_pf.html-2009-12-30 topics: COACHING LD)

* http://www.pollingreport.com/institut.htm#Federal - USEFUL - distinguishes "great deal" from "fair amount" of confidence and presents data from many polls Gallup Poll. Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2009. N=1,026 adults nationwide. ** "How much trust and confi... (-2009-12-29 topics: PUB-OP LIST CONG GVT-ROLE)

NOTE: "This editorial is a part of comprehensive examination of the debate over health care reform." - http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/opinion/editorials/select-health-care-editorials/index.html The Senate’s passage of a heath care reform bill ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/opinion/27sun1.html-2009-12-29 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-INFO SPEC-RPT)

sum[ "About half of Chicago students fail to graduate on time with their peers. ..With 418,000 students in 675 schools, Chicago faces challenges on a scale exceeded only in Los Angeles and New York. Eighty-five percent of students come from poor fam... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122802368.html?hpid=topnews-2009-12-29 topics: EDUC NO-EASY-ANSWERS DOMESTIC-NEEDS NONPROFIT-GVT CHARTER-SCHOOLS URB)

sum["But it's his standing as a onetime illegal immigrant who has mastered life in the United States that makes him a bridge between newcomers and old-timers, Latinos and gringos -- the unofficial mayor of La Union Mall. "Some people call me that," ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122802510_pf.html-2009-12-29 topics: IMMI CMTY LD KEY-A FS-RSC BUSINESS-AS-CMTY NONPROFIT)

sum[ Independent Filmmakers proliferate. 4,000 films submitted at $50 each to LA Film Festival. Only 1% likely to get distributed. ] Sundance and Cannes get all the attention but film festivals are being held around the world at almost any time of y... (http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/12/29/pm-film-fest/-2009-12-29 topics: INTEL-PROP TECH JOBS SCALABLE)

by Jeffrey M. Jones, Frank Newport, and Lydia Saad see also: http://www.gallup.com/poll/27946/%20-confidence-congress-alltime-low.aspx PRINCETON, NJ -- As 2009 draws down, Gallup reviews four of the key trends that reveal how Americans reacted to th... (http://www.gallup.com/poll/124787/Decade-Review-Four-Key-Trends.aspx-2009-12-29 topics: PUB-OP CONG PRES)

see: http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/home-for-the-holidays.pdf (full report) sum["A recent survey by the Pew Research Center finds that 13% of parents with grown children say one of their adult sons or daughters has moved back home in the past... (http://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/748/recession-brings-many-young-adults-back-to-the-nest-2009-12-29 topics: DEMOGRAPHICS RECESSION MARRIAGE UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

From 1997 to 2007 JULY 12, 2007 Download the complete report for topline results In the span of the past decade, full-time work outside the home has lost some of its appeal to mothers. This trend holds both for mothers who have such jobs and th... (http://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/536/working-women-2009-12-29 topics: GOOD-LIFE UNTAPPED-CAPACITY PARENTING DEMOGRAPHICS GENDER MARRIAGE)

note[ saved @ home] Posted: 28 Dec 09 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Lonely people tend to cut their few remaining social ties as they become more socially isolated. “But before they do, they tend to transmit the same feeling of lon... (http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/jtcreprints/cfc09.pdf-2009-12-29 topics: MENTAL-HLTH PSYCH SOC-SCI)

By DAVID BROOKS On Friday, I gave out the first batch of Sidney Awards for the best magazine essays of the year. Frankly, it was disappointing to see how quickly some winners were corrupted by fame. Several have already abandoned their families, acc... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/opinion/29brooks.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-29 topics: PUB-INFO KEY-A)

By WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE SUM[ "But the most impressive part was the way that chaos turned out to be not a deterrent but an incentive, encouraging unexpected leaders to emerge, rewarding invention and competence regardless of credentials or class, and... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/opinion/27langewiesche.html?pagewanted=print-2009-12-29 topics: CULT CIV-SOC CMTY-LD)

By Thomas Boswell Monday, December 28, 2009; D01 Discipline isn't optional in football. It is the very core of the NFL enterprise. That sense of both self-restraint and dedication, as well as group accountability, starts at the top with ownership,... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122800086_pf.html-2009-12-28 topics: SPORTS DISCIPLINE TEAM)

MY mother had my sister at 15 and me at 17. She raised us by herself when my father went to jail. We lived in the South Bronx. People assumed she’d never be able to achieve in life and neither would we. But my mother never stopped going to school... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/jobs/27boss.html?8dpc-2009-12-28 topics: POV LD BLCK INSPIRATION)

SUM[ Incidents forgotten by the world are at the core of hatred and violence and distrust of Israelis.] By PATRICK COCKBURN Skip to next paragraph FOOTNOTES IN GAZA Written and illustrated by Joe Sacco 418 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Comp... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Cockburn-t.html?ref=books-2009-12-28 topics: ISRAEL VIOLENCE HUMAN-RIGHTS PALESTINE LYING WRITING TERRORISM)

sum["So how did this God gene flourish? Wade’s counterintuitive answer repurposes an old social-scientific analysis of religion as a saga of biological survival. Rituals take time; sacrifices take money or its equivalent. Individuals willing to la... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Shulevitz-t.html?ref=books-2009-12-28 topics: BK-REV RELIGION SACRIFICE KEY-A TODO)

note[ saved @ laptop] Ann Swidler and Yorge Arditi Departmenotf Sociology,U niversityo f California, Berkeley,C alifornia 94720 KEYWORDS: culture, literacy, authoritative knowledge, classification and boundaries, culture-producing institutions Abstr... (http://contexts.org/teaching/files/2009/01/swidler.pdf-2009-12-28 topics: PUB-INFO SOC-SCI)

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes sociology interesting and relevant to anyone interested in how society operates. It is a publication of the American Sociological Association, edited by Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen at the University of M... (http://contexts.org/-2009-12-28 topics: PUB-INFO WISDOM)

By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL KOESTLER: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell Illustrated. 689 pp. Random House. $35. No other writer of the 20th century had Arthur Koestler’s knack for doing odd thi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Caldwell-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print-2009-12-28 topics: CHARACTER WRITING BK-REV I-HIST)

sum["Potential solutions abound. Harkin would eliminate the filibuster while still protecting the minority's right to debate. Under his proposal, bills would initially require 60 votes to pass. Three days later, that threshold would fall to 57. Thre... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122301319.html?hpid=opinionsbox1-2009-12-28 topics: CONG KEY SOLUTIONS)

* http://ezinearticles.com/?Are-Apples-Equivalent-to-Caffeine?-Nope,-Theyre-Better!&id=958085 * http://www.about.com * http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_caffeine_is_in_an_apple * Technology/programming websites * http://www.wisegeek.com... (-2009-12-28 topics: PUB-INFO EXPERT INTERNET LIST)

sum["Good information does not inexorably lead to good government. "Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts," the economist Henry Rosovsky once said. People do change their minds, but experience has more influence than ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122701715.html-2009-12-28 topics: DEMOCRACY PUB-OP JOURNALISM WISDOM KEY DELIB ALLIES)

SUM["But as the French say, we all have the faults of our virtues. In President Obama's case, the highly organized defenses he developed as a result of his dysfunctional childhood may have left him ill-prepared to confront the more unruly forces of ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122701722_pf.html-2009-12-28 topics: OBAMA KEY LD PRES FOIL DISTRUST)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, December 28, 2009; A15 Punditry in the nation's capital has its own rhythms, and one common practice involves almost everyone beating up on the same politician at the same time. Such assaults are rarely about ideology, ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/27/AR2009122701716_pf.html-2009-12-28 topics: CONG LD DEMOCRATS HLTH-FIN)

http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/sociology/article_view?parent=section&last_results=volume%3D2%26Go%3DGo%26section%3Dsoco-organisations&sortby=date§ion=soco-organisations&browse_id=soco_articles_bpl110&article_id=soco_articles_bpl110 By ... (-2009-12-28 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY TEEN PUB-OP IGNORANCE TODO)

* Goleman, Social Intelligence - 194 - attachment types: secure (55% of popul), anxious (20%), avoidant (25%) * Maslow - self-actualized * Chris Sanchez - 10% of guys in basic training were lazy shirkers * Valliant, George - we all have our defense ... (-2009-12-28 topics: IDEAS KEY SUM SOC-PSYCH PSYCH CULT SEGMENTS)

Winner of the Public Radio Talent Quest, State of the Re:Union is a new public radio show that aims to show listeners how we are more alike than we are different and the many ways our differences are celebrated. Multi-faceted artist, Al Letson, empl... (http://www.stateofthereunion.com/_html/-2009-12-28 topics: ALLIES JOURNALISM KEY CONFLICT-RES DELIB)

A local theater director in Brooklyn, New York, set off to try his hand at creating an art scene in a town he"d never been to. Three years later, the Des Moines Social Club is a 30,000 square foot center bustling with a wide range of activities, fro... (http://desmoines.stateofthereunion.com/-2009-12-28 topics: CONFLICT-RES DELIB KEY ALLIES SOLUTIONS)

By Chuck Collins senior scholar, Institute for Policy Studies In the Boston neighborhood around our church, the wreckage of the economic meltdown is still palpable. Foreclosed houses sit empty, metal grates shutter businesses and the view toward the... (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/11/what_is_church_without_mutual_aid.html-2009-12-28 topics: CO-OP RELIGION ALLIES)

Jack A. Goldstone January/February 2010 Summary: A series of looming demographic trends will greatly affect international security in the twenty-first century. How policymakers adjust to these changes now will determine the course of global polit... (http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65735/jack-a-goldstone/the-new-population-bomb-2009-12-28 topics: BIG-THINK PUB-HLTH INTL-NEEDS)

* MLK * Liberal examples: Ganz * Obama campaign * UK series: The effectiveness of face-to-face approaches: p.27: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/cabinetoffice/strategy/assets/pr2.pdf, "Personal Responsibility and Changing Behaviour: the state ... (-2009-12-28 topics: CMTY-ORGANIZING SUM IDEAS)

Christophe A. G. Tulou Principal Christophe Tulou Associates Washington, D.C. Tel: (703) 919-3733 As principal of Christophe Tulou Associates, Tulou advises clients on the implications and opportunities at the intersection of global change, busines... (http://www.climateandinsurance.org/takefive/bio_tulouLeurig.htm-2009-12-28 topics: PERSONAL FRIENDS GLOBAL-WARMING)

* Bob Graham, Chairman * Jim Talent, Vice-Chairman * Graham Allison . Robin Cleveland - Steve Rademaker . Tim Roemer - Wendy Sherman . Henry Sokolski - Rich Verma The next administration needs to go much further, using the tools of “soft power�... (http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/WMDReport.pdf-2009-12-28 topics: N-DEF N-ARMS TERRORISM)

sum["“She always wanted us to slow down, and she wanted us to talk less and learn to be much better listeners,” Maria Burnett told me from Uganda, where she is a human rights researcher. Don’t be afraid of silence, Des Forges counseled; out of... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/magazine/27DesForges-t.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper-2009-12-27 topics: INSPIRATION GOOD-LIFE MARRIAGE INTL-DEV HUMAN-RIGHTS FS-RSC DIALOGUE)

By MAGGIE JONES 1940-2009 A Southern cotton-mill girl was not supposed to grumble too loudly. In the early 1970s, when every other major U.S. industry was largely unionized, a mill girl earned less than $2.80 an hour and worked six days a week. The... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/magazine/27sutton-t.html?ref=todayspaper-2009-12-27 topics: UNIONS KEY CHARACTER LD COURAGE)

By JONATHAN MAHLER 1908-2009 In 2005, two Australian doctors received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery that ulcers, long thought to be connected to emotional stress, were caused by bacteria. In their acceptance speech, they offered a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/magazine/27freedberg-t.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-12-27 topics: CHARACTER GOOD-LIFE SCIENCE JEW)

sum["The original intent of the theater was to transport working- and middle-class patrons to a realm of fantasy, luxury and escape. It was the perfect setting for Ike’s congregation, eager in the post-civil-rights era for a share of the American ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/magazine/27ike-t.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-12-27 topics: RELIGION CORRUPTN POOR-LD NONPROFIT BLCK NONPROFIT-COMP)

sum[ China has overwhelming dominance in mining of light and heavy "rare earth metals," which are critical for manufacturing lightweight wind turbines and other components of green tech., espec. for energy-producing. Possiblity of eventually getttin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/business/global/26rare.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=china%20and%20metals&st=cse-2009-12-27 topics: SOLAR-ENERGY GLOBAL-WARMING NO-EASY-ANSWERS KEY-A F-PLY CHINA ENER ENERGY-CONSERV)

SUM["“I love the corporate culture of Mary Kay,” said Zhang Xiaoying, a 19-year-old woman from Guizhou, one of the country’s poorest regions, as she and several colleagues dabbed on makeup during a break in the event. “This company teaches y... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/business/global/26marykay.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-12-27 topics: CAPITALISM SELF-HELP RETAIL GOOD-LIFE LOCAL GOOD-CMTY)

By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and MARC LACEY LAREDO, Tex. — The streets of Laredo are awash in money, stacks of grimy bills tainted with cocaine residue, wrapped in plastic and stowed in secret compartments built into the trucks, buses and cars that f... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/world/americas/26laredo.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-12-27 topics: MEXICO CRIME NO-EASY-ANSWERS GLOBALIZATION)

SUM[ Great story showing impact of caring "foster parents" -- in this case, a young athlete's minister's family, which took him in along with their own 8 kids. He continued to have trouble throughout high school, but eventually made it to junior col... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/26/AR2009122601322_pf.html-2009-12-27 topics: SPORTS CHARACTER POV PROGRESS-POSSIBLE KEY-A PARENTING PATIENCE SOLUTIONS)

sum[ The impact of a coach who is passionate about, and right for, his job: "I have given my heart and soul to coaching college football and mentoring young men for the last 24-plus years and I have dedicated most of my waking moments the last five... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/26/AR2009122601594_pf.html-2009-12-27 topics: SPORTS LD CAPITALISM JOBS GOOD-LIFE)

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON — In an apparent split with Roman Catholic bishops over the abortion-financing provisions of the proposed health care overhaul, the nation’s Catholic hospitals have signaled that they back the Senate’s compr... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/health/policy/26abort.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-12-27 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS RELIGION ABORTION)

* Quenton Ganther, Redskins running back, story (12/27/09) * Sue Popkin: Lessons from Hope VI (12/2009)... (-2009-12-27 topics: SOLUTIONS PARENTING HUM-SRV LIST SUM KEY)

If... * get people focused on need for kinder, gentler, and more far-sighted politics * provide concrete opportunities for channeling idealism, whether through volunteering opportunities for those with jobs, or jobs in the nonprofit or government se... (-2009-12-27 topics: SUM IDEAS)

By Joel Achenbach Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 27, 2009; A01 The decade began so swimmingly. No Y2K bug, no terrorism, nothing but lots of fireworks as the planet turned and, time zone by time zone, all the zeroes replaced the n... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/26/AR2009122601822_pf.html-2009-12-27 topics: BIG-THINK INSTABILITY UNCERTAINTY)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras If anybody knows Pati Castillo in Houston, please tell her to phone home. Pati is a 30-year-old Honduran whose children and other family members live in a gang-ridden slum here in the Honduran capital. ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/opinion/27kristof.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-12-27 topics: INTL-NEEDS KEY IMMI KEY C-AM)

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Peter Dazeley/Getty Images For years, cardiologists were aware that heart attacks are more common during the winter months than in any other season. Most assumed that the cause was cold weather. But then researchers in Californ... (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/phys-ed-can-touching-your-toes-test-your-arteries/?pagemode=print-2009-12-27 topics: PUB-HLTH ELDERLY)

SUM[Much greater ownership and appreciation for things made oneself: "Everyone who leaves the studio says, 'Wow, my bike is my favorite object now.' " Odlin says. "They have such a connection to this thing that came together under their own hands. T... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121628758&sc=nl&cc=es-20091227-2009-12-27 topics: SOLUTIONS GOOD-LIFE BIKES)

By WILLIAM SALETAN THE DEPARTMENT OF MAD SCIENTISTS How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, From the Internet to Artificial Limbs By Michael Belfiore 295 pp. Smithsonian Books/Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99 Two years ago, in his book “Rocket... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Saletan-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print-2009-12-27 topics: TECH PSYCH BIG-THINK PUB-SRV SCIENCE)

sum[""I can tell you, I won't be finishing any checks on Ovie," Backstrom said with a sly smile. "It's going to be a little bit weird (facing off against his NHL teammates), maybe. We're going to fight against each other on the ice. But that's somet... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/25/AR2009122501636_pf.html-2009-12-26 topics: SPORTS FRIENDSHIP KEY)

SUM[ NOTE: "Attachment Disorder" or "Love Addiction" ] By Mike Wise Saturday, December 26, 2009; D01 Nike will never shoot a commercial to show my impact on my sport and the world; multiethnic children will never look into a camera lens and say ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/25/AR2009122501440_pf.html-2009-12-26 topics: SEX PSYCH MARRIAGE)

SUM[""I will say this: What success we've had here in recent years, you have to have an amount of intensity, structure and discipline to the program," Mangino said in a news conference four days before he resigned. "It's not easy, and you just have ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122302208_pf.html-2009-12-26 topics: SPORTS COACHING PARENTING)

Former Kansas football players are speaking out about an investigation into allegations coach Mark Mangino has verbally abused or had inappropriate physical contact with players. Former Jayhawks linebacker Mike Rivera, who plays for the Tennessee ... (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4669621-2009-12-26 topics: COACHING POOR-LD)

By WILLIAM GRIMES John H. Fischer, whose cool, determined leadership as school superintendent made Baltimore the first large American city to integrate its public schools, and who brought reform and innovation to Teachers College of Columbia Univers... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/education/26fischer.html-2009-12-26 topics: LD EDUC CMTY-LD)

sum["While a couple of students said they felt slightly more optimistic this year, mainly because their parents still had jobs, most said thrift was the reigning household theme. Teenagers who celebrate Hanukkah, for instance, said they received one... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/business/26teens.html-2009-12-26 topics: TEEN SACRIFICE RECESSION PUB-OP KEY)

By RON LIEBER Over the next few days, as you tuck your holiday gifts away, your thoughts may turn to paying some of your good fortune forward. You won’t be alone. Nonprofits of all sorts receive a flood of traffic to their Web sites in the last w... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/your-money/26money.html?sq=kiva&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-12-26 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION INTL-DEV REG CORRUPTN INTEGRITY NO-EASY-ANSWERS GIVING)

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF I came across an interesting website, Vittana, that is a bit like Kiva but aimed at supporting students in the developing world. You lend to help a student get an education, and the student later repays the loan with interest. It... (http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/microlending-to-students/?scp=3&sq=kiva&st=cse-2009-12-26 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION INTL-DEV GIVING)

sum[ Success/hero stories far more effective than highilghting the problem. Oprah raised 3.5m. in a week for Kristof's cause. Readers more sympathetic to plight of girls than boys. see also: Paul Slovic pubs: http://www.decisionresearch.org/people... (http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/how-can-one-engage-readers-on-humanitarian-issues/?scp=4&sq=kiva&st=cse-2009-12-26 topics: INTL-DEV GIVING KEY-A EMPATHY PROGRESS-POSSIBLE JOURNALISM SOC-PSYCH)

sum[ 'fast and frugal' approach: Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox...heuristics help us make quick decisions... emotions as decision rules or heuristics: 'Emotions' undoubtedly fall within the purview of the 'fast and frugal' approach to dec... (http://www.human-nature.com/nibbs/03/selten.html-2009-12-26 topics: PSYCH COG-SCI KEY CONCEPTS)

sum[ Impressive website seemed to have suddenly ceased operations in Feb. 2005.] Human Nature Review is a significant source of analysis and commentary for readers at leading universities and research institutes in over one hundred and sixty countri... (http://human-nature.com/-2009-12-26 topics: PSYCH PUB-INFO KEY)

By Maria Surricchio Fall 2009 Born to Be Good DACHER KELTNER The conventional view of human nature is that self-interest is our strongest instinct. In this narrative, every action and decision that Homo economicus makes—the choice of a mate,... (http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/rethinking_human_nature/-2009-12-26 topics: PSYCH ALTRUISM KEY-A BK COOP)

note: created by © Ian Pitchford and Robert M. Young; individual articles © the author(s), of the Human Nature Review Editor: Todd K. Shackelford, Ph.D. Evolutionary Psychology is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that aims to foster communica... (http://www.epjournal.net/index.html-2009-12-26 topics: PUB-INFO PSYCH SOC-SCI)

sum[ Punishment of non-cooperators differs by age of respondent for ingroup, outgroup and neutral members. Reciprocity and group membership less important among elem. school age children.] Michaela Gummerum, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cogniti... (http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep07295316.pdf-2009-12-26 topics: SOC-PSYCH GAME-THEORY)

Annual Review of Sociology 23 (1997):263 (25 pages). sum["The study of culture in everyday life remains a virtuoso affair. Interpretive studies offer great insight but fail to build on one another" "Robert K. Merton's notion of "pluralistic ignoranc... (http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/DiMaggio_97.html-2009-12-26 topics: SOC-PSYCH CONCEPTS PUB-INFO COG-SCI KEY-A DELIB)

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 26, 2009; A01 Two days before announcing the deployment of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, President Obama informed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal that he was not granting ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/25/AR2009122501923_pf.html-2009-12-26 topics: AFGHAN OBAMA NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Wildavsky, A. (1987). American Political Science Review, 81(1), 3-22. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28198703%2981%3A1%3C3%3ACPBCIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F note[ saved @ home: c:\docsfromOthers\wildavsky1987.pdf ] PREFERENCES come fr... (http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/schatzberg/ps855/Wildavsky1987.pdf-2009-12-26 topics: POL-SCI CULT KEY CONCEPTS)

By: Alan Suderman Examiner Staff Writer May 12, 2009 The Montgomery County Council is withholding funding for a local charity in an effort to send a message that the charity pays its director too much money. The council voted to remove $55,000 in ... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/MontCo-withholds-money-to-charity-because-of-high-executive-pay-44840972.html-2009-12-25 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP NONPROFIT-GVT)

Compliance Project--Parts I and II March 2007 In 2004, the Internal Revenue Service, through the Exempt Organizations Office of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division (EO), implemented the Executive Compensation Compliance Initiative (the P... (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/exec._comp._final.pdf-2009-12-25 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP REG IRS NCCS)

Mossburg - http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20091007/a-windows-to-help-you-forget/ cnet - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10370369-56.html... (-2009-12-24 topics: TECH CPTR)

http://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide - Quick start guide for Zotero (citation system)... (-2009-12-24 topics: NCCS WEBSITE)

Jonathan Chait December 24, 2009 | 12:00 am American liberals have a habit of withdrawing into cynicism and ennui at the most inopportune moments. The 2000 presidential election, and subsequent recount, was one such moment. The most die-hard reache... (http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/just-noise-2009-12-24 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS KEY)

By Peter Whoriskey Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 24, 2009; A01 It was dark and rainy, and the battery on his nifty Mini E electric car was almost gone. Paul Heitmann rolled quietly through the suburban New Jersey gloom, peer... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122303463_pf.html-2009-12-24 topics: AUTOMOBILE SOLUTIONS ENER GLOBAL-WARMING)

sum[ Horrifying story of father and brother being forced to kill man who had helped Americans -- now viewed as the enemy after a 15-year was killed -- round up terrorists. Al Qaeda in Iraq grows to 500 men in small town and kills 200 "sympathizers' ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122303469.html-2009-12-24 topics: IRAQ WAR KEY-A WRITING CULT PROGRESS-POSSIBLE)

* Refactoring: ** monthly: *** dashboard organization *** todo lists *** key lists: IDEAS, TODO, current projects * Reqall - update from phone, etc. * random selection * switch from full screen to controlled width * voice recognition * Easy table ... (-2009-12-24 topics: IDEAS APPS-OF-INTEREST)

2/3 about same or worse than last yr giving declining 10% Next yr really tough. Easy cuts done. Stimulus helped in '09. Nonprofits one of major beneficiaries of fed. stimulus grants -- eg, homeless groups. What gvt does matters most. ?? Private: 5% ... (-2009-12-24 topics: GIVING NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION)

By Chris Cillizza Sunday, December 27, 2009; B02 It has been nearly a year since Barack Obama was (sort of) sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. So what can his first year in office tell us about the next three? Everything, most... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122201373_pf.html-2009-12-24 topics: OBAMA)

CZ:Why Citizendium? From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium Jump to: navigation, search "What is the point of the Citizendium," you might ask, "when Wikipedia is so huge and of reasonably good quality? Is there really a need for it?" There is a... (http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Why_Citizendium%3F-2009-12-24 topics: PUB-INFO KN-MGT WEBSITE KEY)

About the Instructor, Lisa A. Runquist see: http://www.hodgen.com/irs-cyber-assistant-professional-fees-evaporate/ Lisa A. Runquist is a principal in the law firm of Runquist & Associates, with offices in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Runquist has ov... (http://www.charitychannel.com/charityuniversity/all-available-classes/0/list/1/level/a/productid/5/categoryid.aspx?sortfield=productname%2cfree1-2009-12-24 topics: NCCS)

see: http://mfiumc.org/history.html - More detailed discussion of how merger came about. By William Wan Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 25, 2009; A01 As the choir launched into the Christmas song, Betty Leach sat in her pew and sta... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122402263_pf.html-2009-12-24 topics: RELIGION IMMI NONPROFIT-FIN MERGERS)

By Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 25, 2009; A01 The Obama administration pledged Thursday to provide unlimited financial assistance to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, an eleventh-hour move that all... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122401588_pf.html-2009-12-24 topics: BANK REG EXEC-COMP PUB-SRV)

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Copenhagen As I listened to Denmark’s minister of economic and business affairs describe how her country used higher energy taxes to stimulate innovation in green power and then recycled the tax revenues back to Danish indus... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/opinion/23friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-12-23 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS)

SUM[ Saunders pulls all starting 5 in 3rd period to send them a signal that needs "110% effort"...and it works.] By Michael Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 23, 2009; D01 A lazy pass here, a bad missed jumper there and Coach ... (-2009-12-23 topics: COACHING)

http://duncankennedy.net/documents/Photo%20articles/Cost-Benefit%20Analysis%20of%20Entitlement%20Problems_A%20Critique.pdf Duncan Kennedy - Stan LR - Liberal cost-benefit analysis of regulation cannot be as value-neutral as claimed as a result of Co... (-2009-12-23 topics: ECON REG PUB-INFO SUM STATISTICS)

(http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000Jr&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e-2009-12-23 topics: MEDICINE AMANDA)

By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, December 23, 2009; A19 This was, nationally and globally, a lousy decade. I hate to put a damper on your holiday season, but the next one has every prospect of being worse. The name never really took, but it's too bad... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122202665_pf.html-2009-12-23 topics: BIG-THINK ALLIES KEY)

sum["Currently, 25 states have run out of unemployment money and have borrowed $24 billion from the federal government to cover the gaps. By 2011, according to Department of Labor estimates, 40 state funds will have been emptied by the jobless tsuna... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/21/AR2009122103269_pf.html-2009-12-22 topics: GVT-FIN UNEMPLOYMENT RECESSION)

sum["Despite a power-sharing deal and a reform agenda intended to rescue this nation from collapse, the situation remains dangerously volatile, troubling U.S. officials who are already juggling other worries in the region. With Kenya's eastern neigh... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/21/AR2009122103382_pf.html-2009-12-22 topics: AFRICA VIOLENCE NO-EASY-ANSWERS F-PLY)

By Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 22, 2009; A01 It's the bill that stole Christmas. Behind each cranky senator dealing his or her way toward a historic Christmas Eve vote on health-care reform is a cadre of staff... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/21/AR2009122103528_pf.html-2009-12-22 topics: CONG)

http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/emissions.html Emissions per Capita Another measure of carbon dioxide intensity is emissions per person. Carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the OECD economies are significantly higher (about fourfold higher in 2... (-2009-12-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ENER LIST)

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 2009-03-23 09:17 Greenhouse gas emissions of city dwellers are often far smaller than the national averages, says a study in the April issue of Environment and Urbanization by David Dodman of the International Institute fo... (http://www.iied.org/climate-change/media/cities-produce-surprisingly-low-carbon-emissions-capita-2009-12-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING URB)

by Richard Wike, Associate Director and Erin Carriere-Kretschmer, Senior Researcher, Pew Global Attitudes Project October 7, 2008 From: To: Around the globe, people are anxiously following the U.S. financial crisis as it evolves into a world... (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/987/trickle-down-global-economics-2009-12-22 topics: PUB-OP F-PLY)

sum[ "In the U.S., roughly four-in-ten (41%) agree that people should pay higher prices to support the environment, but more (55%) disagree. However, among Canadians more agree than disagree with this statement (54% vs. 44%)."] December 2, 2009 Whe... (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1427/global-warming-major-problem-around-world-americans-less-concerned-2009-12-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING F-PLY PUB-OP)

Monday, December 21, 2009 3:12 AM By Suzanne Hoholik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH While you watch parades and football games on New Year's Day, you can fire up your computers and compare Ohio hospitals. A state law passed nearly four years ago requires... (http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/12/21/Compare.ART_ART_12-21-09_A1_OHG2HSM.html?sid=101-2009-12-22 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS INTERNET NONPROFIT)

SUM[ "“From Poverty to Prosperity,” by Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz: physical goods vs. protocol economy. Doug. North's "adaptive efficiency"...Richard Ogle’s 2007 book, “Smart World,” one of the most underappreciated books of the decade. ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/opinion/22brooks.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-12-22 topics: KEY-A ECON SOC-SCI PSYCH CONCEPTS BK)

The Institute of Economic Affairs has made available Hayek's 1973 lecture (pdf) "Economic Freedom and Representative Government."... (http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-book507pdf?.pdf-2009-12-22 topics: FS-CURRICULUM CONSERVATIVE POL-PHIL ECON)

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO The Associated Press Tuesday, December 22, 2009; 8:58 PM MEXICO CITY -- Assailants on Tuesday gunned down the mother, aunt and siblings of a marine killed in a raid that took out one of Mexico's most powerful cartel leade... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122201492_pf.html-2009-12-22 topics: MEXICO VIOLENCE DISORDER KEY)

SUM["The Federal government is closed today, and Federal employees typically account for about 40 percent of rush hour riders, so a lighter than usual ridership day is expected. "] For immediate release: December 21, 2009 MetroAccess service lim... (http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=4207-2009-12-21 topics: TRANS DC FED-GVT)

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Examiner-Exclusive-Audit_-Millions-in-D_C_-earmarks-went-to-unregistered-or-tax-delinquent-groups-8671643-79768552.html By: Dee Ann Divis Examiner Staff Writer December 21, 2009 D.C.'s elected officials doled... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Examiner-Exclusive-Audit_-Millions-in-D_C_-earmarks-went-to-unregistered-or-tax-delinquent-groups-8671643-7976-2009-12-21 topics: DC NONPROFIT-GVT CORRUPTN)

sum["One contributing factor is probably force. Without access to high limits on credit cards or home equity loans, you’ll certainly have a harder time spending more than you take in. People can spend what they make, but not much more, and facing ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/your-money/household-budgeting/19money.html?_r=1&nl=your-money&emc=your-moneyema2-2009-12-21 topics: ECON CONSUMER PROGRESS INCENTIVES)

Nonprofit Tech 2.0 was created and is managed by Heather Mansfield (Bio) (LinkedIn) of DIOSA Communications. She also created and maintains the Nonprofit Organizations Twitter profile, the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page, the Nonprofit Organiz... (http://nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com/-2009-12-21 topics: NONPROFIT-TECH ALLIES)

»» See CBC news on carollers here This Christmas we'll be swamped with offers, ads and invitations to buy more stuff. But now there's a way to say enough and join a movement dedicated to reviving the original meaning of Christmas giving. Buy Not... (http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/index.html-2009-12-21 topics: CONSUMER GIVING PROGRESS)

sum[ note: "The crucial glue of civic friendship is first thickened by the brotherly love felt so deeply on the battlefield. Holland quotes from Washington's retirement from military service--"God ...would incline the hearts of citizens to entertain... (http://www.amazon.com/Bonds-Affection-America-Winthrop-Jefferson-Religion/dp/158901183X-2009-12-21 topics: QT KEY WISDOM DEMOCRACY SOC-CAP)

* BoardSource * BoardNet * fed gvt project combining grant resources, etc. from EB, 12/20/09? * idealist == Local == * Richmond Connects * Healthy Cities * Christine Milligan - Debuque Cmty Foundation * http://illinoisresource.net/ -- Illinois Reso... (-2009-12-21 topics: NCCS KEY TODO)

SUM["Successful political movements prosper on the confidence that they can sustain themselves over time so they can finish tomorrow what they start today. At this moment, rage is understandable, but hope is what's necessary."] By E.J. Dionne Jr. Mo... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/20/AR2009122002129_pf.html-2009-12-21 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG REPUBLICANS CORRUPTN UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By Dana Milbank Sunday, December 20, 2009; A19 The reviews of Sen. Joe Lieberman's handling of the health-care bill were savage. The Connecticut Democrat "snubbed" the president's health-care entreaties and gave "aid and comfort" to the Repub... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121802145_pf.html-2009-12-21 topics: CONG CHARACTER POLITICS)

By Jonathan Haidt Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without (relateness). xii == 1 The divided self == * Rider and elephant: rational and emotional minds * Shakespeare: "Thinking makes it so." == Changing your mind 23 == * 28 Neg... (-2009-12-21 topics: HAPPINESS BK PROGRESS-POSSIBLE)

~ Daniel J. Siegel From Publishers Weekly Siegel, co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Center, blends personal experience with scientific research, attempting to capture the spiritual as well as the physiological phenomenon of "mindfulness"-o... (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039370470X/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk-2009-12-21 topics: PSYCH PSYCH-MEDITATION AMANDA)

~ Ellen J. Langer Mindfulness and Mindlessness, June 27, 2009 By Dr. Michael Hogan - See all my reviews Michael Hogan, National University of Ireland, Galway: michael.hogan@nuigalway.ie This review is based on my reading of all 4 of Ellen... (http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Ellen-J-Langer/product-reviews/0201523418/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&colid=&sortBy=by-2009-12-21 topics: PSYCH-MEDITATION AMANDA)

By: Judith D. Schwartz Print As the U.S. unemployment breaches the 10 percent mark — with manufacturing sector rates even higher — policymakers and industry representatives in the Midwest are seeking strategies to keep the Rust Belt from getti... (http://miller-mccune.com/business_economics/this-import-might-preserve-american-jobs-1634-2009-12-20 topics: CO-OP JOBS MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS KEY-A)

By: David Villano In the late 1980s, Hampton, Va., faced the challenges of many blue-collar cities along its stretch of the southern Chesapeake: rising unemployment, a stagnant economy and the flight of young families to seek better jobs and fulle... (http://miller-mccune.com/culture_society/building-a-better-citizen-1507.print-2009-12-20 topics: ALLIES CIVIC-ENGAGEMENT KEY-A SOLUTIONS)

Miller-McCune magazine and Miller-McCune.com are published by the Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, a Santa Barbara-based public benefit foundation. Though different in journalistic approach, both aim to bring concrete opti... (http://miller-mccune.com/about/write_for_us-2009-12-20 topics: WRITING PUB-INFO)

Jan. Feb 2010, Miller McCune by Kirk Nielsen, p.78 Empire of Illusion: end of literacy and primacy of spectacle - Chris Hedges: All the elites' fault. Republic.com 2.0 (8/2007)- Cass Sunstein - how to prevent factional and even violent strife. Inter... (Miller-McCune-2009-12-20 topics: ALLIES KEY NECESSITY)

by Cass R. Sunstein --- THP NOTES: SOCIAL CONTAGION - Robert Shiller calls them social contagion; whereby we start believing something because everybody else does. In the late 90s, we thought the sky was the limit for Internet stocks. See Shiller I... (http://www.amazon.com/Going-Extremes-Minds-Unite-Divide/dp/0195378016/ref=pd_cp_b_3-2009-12-20 topics: PUB-OP KEY DELIB DEMOCRACY BK CONCEPTS)

Search Toolkit Share what you know and write a knol. SUM[ Discovered by following Amazon reviewer of Cass Sunstein, Gaeten Lion, http://knol.google.com/k/gaetan-lion/-/3bv4yrnmkadwn/0# Did you know? If we missed anything, you can suggest items for ... (http://knol.google.com/k-2009-12-20 topics: PUB-INFO KN-MGT WEBSITE)

~ John Cassidy note[ see Rbt Solow review at http://www.tnr.com/magazine-issue/december-30-2009 ] A must read critique of economic theory, December 10, 2009 By Gaetan Lion - See all my reviews Cassidy analyzes how orthodox economic the... (http://www.amazon.com/How-Markets-Fail-Economic-Calamities/dp/0374173206/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top-2009-12-20 topics: ECON BK RECESSION KEY)

By JOHN M. BRODER COPENHAGEN — President Obama announced here on Friday night that five major nations, including the United States, had together forged a climate deal. He called it “an unprecedented breakthrough” but acknowledged that it stil... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/science/earth/19climate.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-12-19 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING LEGIS INTL-ORGS)

By NATASHA SINGER A print advertisement for prostate cancer surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan is typical of the way many elite research and teaching hospitals sell hope to the public. “Our newest prostate specialist, Dr. David S... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/health/19cancerads.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-19 topics: NONPROFIT LYING HLTH-FIN CORRUPTN)

sum[ Nelson gets sweatheart deals for NE; also exempts nonprofits from insurance tax] By Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 19, 2009; 1:30 PM Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/19/AR2009121900797_pf.html-2009-12-19 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS CONG NONPROFIT)

see: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html Fossil Fuel Combustion | Industrial Process and Products Uses | Carbon Sequestration | Geologic Sequestration A variety of human activities lead to the emission (sources) and removal (sinks) of carbo... (http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/co2_human.html-2009-12-19 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING LIST SUM)

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 20, 2009; A14 COPENHAGEN -- In the months leading up to the U.N.-sponsored climate talks, there was one thing observers said with confidence: Any final outcome would establish global... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/19/AR2009121902262_pf.html-2009-12-19 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING NONPROFIT)

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON NEW ORLEANS — It is no accident that three of Louisiana’s best-known politicians have been at the center of the national health care debate. Last month, Anh Cao, the congressman who represents New Orleans, created a rucku... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/health/policy/20louisiana.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-19 topics: HLTH-FIN)

sum[ "“I do it because I have to do it; it’s a compulsion that also gives me pleasure,” she said of painting. “I never in my life had any idea of money and I thought fame was a very vulgar thing. So I just worked and waited. And at the end o... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/arts/design/20herrera.html?hp-2009-12-19 topics: GOOD-LIFE ARTS PATIENCE)

sum[ "I was invited to a three-day workshop, where they tested me. At the end, I was put in charge of the task force of four professors and 16 other technical experts. It turned out to be a big advantage that I’m not Taiwanese and had no aspiratio... (http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health-care-abroad-taiwan/?pagemode=print-2009-12-19 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY LD SACRIFICE EXPERT)

By SALLY FRIEDMAN Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times I want to be looked at. And honestly, I’m not an exhibitionist. It’s just that eye contact has gone the way of proper enunciation, a good handshake and a hug that means something — casual... (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/complaint-box-eye-contact/?pagemode=print-2009-12-19 topics: SOC-FABRIC PSYCH CULT SUBTLE)

sum[ Note: Can't simply say U.S. blind to human rights in China...] By SETH MYDANS BANGKOK — Under pressure from China, and despite the objections of the United States and the United Nations, the Cambodian government on Saturday deported 20 member... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/world/asia/20uighur.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-19 topics: CHINA F-PLY OBAMA-ADMIN COMPLEXITY)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_121509.html By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 18, 2009; 12:03 AM As President Obama arrives in Copenhagen hoping to seal an elusive deal on ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121800002_pf.html-2009-12-18 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-OP IGNORANCE SCIENCE)

This is the program that Ernestine mentioned in the board meeting. What could we learn from them? - Tom --- KEY COMPONENTS * Combining social workers and non-s/ws into teams * Teams provide 24/7 support * Outcome measurement * Short-stay intense f... (-2009-12-18 topics: CHILD-WELF OUTCOME-MEAS MPP TODO)

It's hardly a new idea. It goes back ten years to Bob Putnam and one hundred and fifty years before that to Tocqueville, but bears repeating: The culture of cooperation and the bonds of affection and ties of self-interest ("rightly understood") mat... (-2009-12-17 topics: IDEAS KEY COOP SOC-CAP LD)

By: Michael Neibauer Examiner Staff Writer December 17, 2009 D.C. revenues are expected to come in $17 million short of projections this fiscal year and $600 million shy over the next four years, Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi said Tuesday i... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Gandhi-projects-further-revenue-declines-for-D_C_-8663221-79449557.html-2009-12-17 topics: DC GVT-FIN)

SUM[ Hoxby study comparing NY charter school lottery winners and losers seems the better study, but criticized for inappropriate extrapolations.] By Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 30, 2009 As President Obama pushes for... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/29/AR2009112902356_pf.html-2009-12-17 topics: CHARTER-SCHOOLS SOC-SCI OUTCOME-MEAS)

by ALIX SPIEGEL Correction The audio and a previous Web version of this story said that the city of Greensboro, N.C., was currently experimenting with a program designed to help prevent teenage mothers from having another child by offering a payme... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104803094-2009-12-17 topics: PSYCH ECON SOC-SCI SOLUTIONS)

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December 17th, 2009 · No Comments · food news A new source for local produce, still MIA The sign in the window says to expect a new grocer in Columbia Heights in “Fall 2009.” But fall is almost over and the big space in the DCUSA mall at 14... (http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/12/17/where-is-ellwood-thompsons/-2009-12-17 topics: DC AGRICULTURE EC-TX SOLUTIONS)

Wolfram Alpha, a much-hyped search engine by a famous scientist, launched last May and was supposed to take on Google. Then it kind of faded. It’s back in the spotlight after Microsoft announced yesterday it was teaming up with the computational ... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/11/bing_and_wolfram_try_to_take_o.html-2009-12-17 topics: WEBSITE APPS-OF-INTEREST ANTITRUST)

By Michael Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 17, 2009; D01 SACRAMENTO -- The Gilbert Arenas that the Washington Wizards had been waiting on -- the one who could go on explosive one-man runs and carry his team back from despair --... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/17/AR2009121700083_pf.html-2009-12-17 topics: SPORTS ADVERSITY)

By Juliet Eilperin and Anthony Faiola Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 17, 2009; 11:44 AM COPENHAGEN -- The United States pledged Thursday to help secure $100 billion in annual financing by 2020 to help poor countries cope with clim... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/17/AR2009121700165_pf.html-2009-12-17 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING F-PLY)

By Anne Hull Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 17, 2009; A01 WARREN, OHIO -- All day long the front door buzzes at Uptown Gems & Jewels. The people come in with their trinkets wrapped in tissue or velvet boxes. They say their hours h... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/16/AR2009121604244_pf.html-2009-12-17 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY FS-RSC)

NOTE[ Will takes cheap shots at Obama for "delayed utopianism" and "intellectual applesauce" and more. Good statement to use to contrast to my positions.] By George F. Will Thursday, December 17, 2009; A33 Rushing to lock the nation into expensive... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/16/AR2009121602790_pf.html-2009-12-17 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC CONSERVATIVE HUM-NAT BIG-THINK FOIL)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, December 17, 2009; A33 Here's what Democrats need to ponder: Can they prosper in the absence of George W. Bush? His presidency was a tonic for Democrats and led to a blossoming of political creativity on the center-le... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/16/AR2009121602789_pf.html-2009-12-17 topics: CONG POLITICAL-WILL DEMOCRATS PUB-OP NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

By Matthew Dowd Thursday, December 17, 2009; A33 President Obama needs an exit strategy. I am not referring to Afghanistan or Iraq (though there are quite a few similarities between the situation Obama is in on health-care reform and the political... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/16/AR2009121601880_pf.html-2009-12-17 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP DEMOCRATS)

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By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Drugmakers intensified their lobbying push Monday against a popular proposal to allow Americans to buy cheaper drugs from other countries, one of several heated disputes that hav... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121401409_pf.html-2009-12-15 topics: HLTH-FIN LOBBYING CONG CORRUPTN NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

By Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Senate Democratic leaders appeared poised Monday night to abandon efforts to create a government-run insurance safety net in their push for health-care ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121401580_pf.html-2009-12-15 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG)

By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Sarah Palin is such a cold-eyed skeptic about the Copenhagen summit on climate change that it's no surprise she would call on President Obama not to attend. After all, Obama might join other leaders in... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121402712_pf.html-2009-12-15 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING LYING POLITICS CONSERVATIVE)

SUM[ Makes compelling case that Iran has developed tech. know-how to build nuclear bomb -- with some help from Russian scientists. ] By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Long denied access to foreign technology b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121403729.html?hpid=topnews-2009-12-15 topics: IRAN KEY N-DEF TECH)

SUM[ Cool interactive features, too] By Juliet Eilperin and Anthony Faiola Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 19, 2009; A01 COPENHAGEN -- President Obama helped broker a climate deal with a group of leading nations that provides for m... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121800637.html?hpid=topnews-2009-12-15 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING LEGIS INTL-ORGS)

By Katherine Ellison Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Gulf War veteran Lynn Gibbons has awful memories of combat with her fourth-grade son, Brent. "He was an out-of-control monster whenever you asked him to do something," ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121402862_pf.html-2009-12-15 topics: MEDICINE PSYCH AMANDA MENTAL-ILLNESS)

thursday, February 19, 2009 Dear Friends and Colleagues: We find ourselves in one of the most challenging times of our nation's history. We face a volatile economy that brings high anxiety at the same time that we welcome a new President who... (http://www.meyerfoundation.org/open-letter-2009-12-15 topics: DC FOUNDATIONS)

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By Griff Witte Monday, December 14, 2009 JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN -- His path marked by moonlight, with a Kalashnikov strapped to his back, Feda Mohammed hiked the well-worn trail through the mountains of Pakistan and into Afghanistan. He had travel... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302263_pf.html-2009-12-14 topics: AFGHAN KEY TRUST F-PLY INTL-DEV WAR)

In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, defence mechanisms or defense mechanisms (see -ce/-se) are unconscious[1] psychological strategies brought into play by various entities to cope with reality and to maintain self-image. Healthy persons normally use... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanism-2009-12-14 topics: PSYCH CONCEPTS)

By Michael E. Ruane Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 14, 2009 Cadet Jamal DuCote Peters walked into the barracks office and took off his cap and gown. He hoisted his black backpack, from which his boots hung, and grabbed the white pad... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302523.html?hpid=dynamiclead-2009-12-14 topics: CHILD-WELF MD SOLUTIONS MILITARY TEEN)

By Fredrick Kunkle Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 14, 2009 Some people spend their Saturday mornings cruising yard sales or running errands. Juli Verrier spends hers ripping down signs. Outraged over the bumper crop of ads that spr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121303009.html?hpid=dynamiclead-2009-12-14 topics: CIVIC-ENGAGEMENT VOLUNTEER KEY FS-RSC)

By Theola Labbé-DeBose and Clarence Williams Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, December 14, 2009 Janice Gore wanted a back yard to host family barbecues. Gary Jones wanted a lawn where he could toss the football with his son. And Chiquisha Ro... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302939.html-2009-12-14 topics: DC NO-EASY-ANSWERS POV URB HOUS PLACE CMTY-DEV)

President Obama wants more good independent public charter schools. He also wants states and cities to close bad charter schools. Which charters in the District could we do without? Let's look at one, the Ideal Academy Public Charter School at 100 P... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2009/12/should_they_close_this_bad_cha.html-2009-12-14 topics: CHARTER-SCHOOLS NO-EASY-ANSWERS DC)

NOTE[SEE CHART WITH RATES BY GENDER FOR 20 COLLEGES] By Daniel de Vise Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 14, 2009 Civil rights investigators will soon begin reviewing admissions data from a sampling of colleges in the Washington region... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302922.html-2009-12-14 topics: HIGHER-ED GENDER GABE NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

By Charles Lane Monday, December 14, 2009 With unemployment stuck around 10 percent, President Obama has pledged "to take every responsible step to accelerate the pace of job growth." Here's a thought: Instead of trying to "create" jobs by tweakin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302448_pf.html-2009-12-14 topics: CONSERVATIVE ECON RECESSION)

By Jackson Diehl Monday, December 14, 2009 President Obama's appearance in Oslo last week gave cause for his critics to remind the world, again, of everything his peace-prize-winning diplomacy hasn't accomplished so far. There's been no tangible r... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302467_pf.html-2009-12-14 topics: F-PLY OBAMA KEY SUM)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, December 14, 2009 PARIS Europeans are coming to terms with the fact that President Obama is not a miracle worker and with the reality that everything he does is not magic. Oh, yes, most Europeans are still happy Obama i... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302449_pf.html-2009-12-14 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC F-PLY KEY)

SUM[ Highlights spillover effects of low U.S. interest rates: Harms Brazilian economy.] By Sebastian Mallaby Monday, December 14, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO The country of the moment is Brazil, that melting pot of almost 200 million people. A thriving d... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302447_pf.html-2009-12-14 topics: S-AM:BRAZIL EC-TR GLOBALIZATION FRAGILE NO-EASY-ANSWERS CHINA)

The Huffington Post and Roll Call are both reporting that Joe Lieberman notified Harry Reid that he will filibuster health-care reform if the final bill includes an expansion of Medicare. Previously, Lieberman had been cool to the idea, saying he... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/-2009-12-14 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG CORRUPTN POLITICAL-MATURITY)

sum[ argues that no health cost savings. Must put strong managed care issues at forefront of real reform.] By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, December 14, 2009 We are witnessing a determined counterattack by the Obama administration and its political ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/13/AR2009121302450_pf.html-2009-12-14 topics: HLTH-FIN CONSERVATIVE KEY SOLUTIONS COURAGE OBAMA CONG)

note[ shows how mentoring programs can help bridge gap between faceless school bureaucracy that sends paper (untrustworthy) home on opportunities that parents don't have perspective on.] By N.C. Aizenman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/12/AR2009121201305.html-2009-12-14 topics: YOUTH-DEV KEY-A LATINO TEEN DOMESTIC-NEEDS SPEC-RPT)

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 13, 2009 Last week's federal report card on math achievement was a welcome piece of good news for D.C. public schools. Although the District still lags far behind the country's top-perfo... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/12/AR2009121201276_pf.html-2009-12-14 topics: DC EDUC KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS NORTHSTAR)

Leander Kahney 10.17.06 Thanks to Apple Computer's penchant for CIA-like secrecy, there are several myths concerning the birth of the iPod. One of these myths is that the iPod has a father -- one man who conceived and nurtured the iconic device. ... (http://www.wired.com/print/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2006/10/71956-2009-12-14 topics: DESIGN INNOVATION TECH)

* https://www.myctb.org/wst/CISKCK/default.aspx - Kansas City Communities in Schools * Lansing birth to work * Communities in Schools ** http://www.cisnationscapital.org/philosophy.html ** “Five Basics”: *** A one-on-one relationship with a cari... (-2009-12-14 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-GVT LIST)

By DIANE CARDWELL HACKENSACK, N.J. WHILE she was married and raising two daughters in the New Jersey suburbs, Penny Banach was steadily employed, her income providing ballast for the family. After a divorce in which her husband, who owned an automo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/nyregion/13home.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-13 topics: RECESSION UNEMPLOYMENT HOMELESS DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By David S. Broder Sunday, December 13, 2009 One of the things that sets Barack Obama apart from most politicians is how much can be learned from listening to his speeches. The president is sometimes criticized for the volume of his public appear... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/11/AR2009121102607_pf.html-2009-12-13 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC AFGHAN)

Following is the transcript of President Obama's speech Tuesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (The Post's report on the president's address is here.) Thank you. Please be seated. Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadet... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/12/obamas-afghan-policy-speech-at.html-2009-12-13 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC AFGHAN F-PLY)

sum[ Picture shows enormous storage capacity of plane.] By THOMAS FULLER and DAVID E. SANGER BANGKOK — A cargo aircraft flying from North Korea and carrying tons of weapons has been seized by Thai authorities during a refueling stop in Bangkok, Th... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/world/asia/13thai.html?hp-2009-12-13 topics: N-DEF GLOBALIZATION COUNTRIES:NORTH-KOREA N-ARMS)

sum["The Senate is split on global warming policy into numerous factions divided by ideology, geography and economic interest. And that’s just the Democratic caucus. Republicans are nearly united in opposition to the kind of legislation that would... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/weekinreview/13broder.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2009-12-13 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING CONG POLITICAL-WILL KEY)

http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/news/funders-team-boost-social-change == Funders team up to boost social change == December 11, 2009 A new effort aims to spur social change by making successful programs more widely available to the communities t... (http://www.socialimpactexchange.org/-2009-12-13 topics: NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE KN-MGT NCCS OUTCOME-MEAS)

Subject: McKinsey's Learning for Social Impact initiative UPDATE Dear Friends and Colleagues: As 2009 comes to an end, we wanted to thank you for your contributions to McKinsey?s Learning for Social Impactinitiative and to share an update of our... (http://trasi.foundationcenter.org/-2009-12-13 topics: NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE NCCS OUTCOME-MEAS)

By PAUL WILMOTT London AN escalating tension between those representing social values, responsibility and order and those representing greed, disrespect and chaos; abuse and name-calling from both sides; ideologies that sometimes clash and sometime... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/opinion/13wilmott.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-13 topics: BANK ENGLAND REG EC-TX COMPENSATION SOLUTIONS)

How SeeClickFix Works (http://www.seeclickfix.com/how_seeclickfix_works) SeeClickFix works by exploiting three basic principles: * Empowerment. SeeClickFix allows anyone to report and track non-emergency issues anywhere in the world via the intern... (http://www.seeclickfix.com/ -2009-12-12 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST WEB2.0 NCCS)

Community groups, in bid to address problem, launch programs aimed at youths By Mary Beth Sheridan and Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 12, 2009 A spike in terrorism cases involving U.S. citizens is challenging long-... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/11/AR2009121104404_pf.html-2009-12-12 topics: TERRORISM IMMI KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS SUM)

see: http://www.nixoncenter.org/publications/LeikenBrookeMB.pdf By SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — As the years passed after Sept. 11, 2001, without another major attack on American soil and with no sign of hidden terrorist cells, many counterterrorism s... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/us/12assess.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-12-12 topics: TERRORISM DISORDER DOMESTIC-NEEDS ISLAM)

By Steven Mufson and David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 8, 2009 The Obama administration moved closer Monday to issuing regulations on greenhouse gases, a step that would enable it to limit emissions across the eco... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/07/AR2009120701645.html-2009-12-12 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING REG OBAMA-ADMIN FED-BGT)

Winston insists that the only way to achieve difficult and important goals is to inspire a strong Innovative Attitude. That attitude guided him and his teams to many important innovations. After postdoctoral work at M.I.T., he held an endowed prof... (http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/topics/topics.html-2009-12-12 topics: LD MGT ALLIES WISDOM)

Urban.org is the 5144:th largest site within .ORG and the 137670:th largest site in the world serversiders.com keeps track of the most popular domains on the Internet. please send us an e-mail (info@...) if you have any ideas for improvement.... (http://serversiders.com/urban.org-2009-12-12 topics: WEBSITE INTERNET)

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO SANTIAGO, Chile — When Gen. Augusto Pinochet held a referendum on his rule in 1988, a surge of young voters was the decisive difference in emphatically turning the country toward democracy. But as Chileans head to the polls ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/world/americas/13chile.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-12 topics: S-AM DEMOCRACY CHILE POLITICAL-MATURITY)

Courtesy of the White House Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:39 AM OBAMA: Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world: I receive this honor with deep g... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/10/AR2009121001139_pf.html-2009-12-12 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC F-PLY AFGHAN POL-PHIL SACRIFICE JUDGMENT INSPIRATION)

By David Cho Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 11, 2009 The Obama administration plans to channel money from the government's massive financial bailout program to small businesses as part of an effort to limit the political and economi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/10/AR2009121003931_pf.html-2009-12-11 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT LEGIS OBAMA-ADMIN ECON RECESSION)

By N.C. Aizenman Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 11, 2009 Hispanic young people born in the United States retain a strong identification with their immigrant parents' homelands but also remain optimistic about their future in this co... (-2009-12-11 topics: DOMESTIC-NEEDS LATINO TEEN POV KEY)

PART I: A DROPOUT'S DIFFICULTIES PART II: A CHILD'S BURDEN PART III: THE TRIALS OF TEEN MOTHERS PART III: THE TRIALS OF TEEN MOTHERS Living with their choices Even as the teen pregnancy rate for other racial and ethnic groups has fallen substantial... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/local/left-behind/index.html?sid=ST2009120602845-2009-12-11 topics: LATINO SPEC-RPT KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS IMMI FS-CURRICULUM)

SUM[ Dynamic: Overly strict father order daughters to come straight home; girls get pregnant as way to get parents to let them see their boyfriends; one daughter has no sense of what she needs to succeed in work world or sense of wider possibilities... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/10/AR2009121002346_pf.html-2009-12-11 topics: LATINO TEEN DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY)

By N.C. Aizenman Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 7, 2009 Javier Saavedra slumped his burly frame into a worn, plaid couch in the cramped basement room he shares with his girlfriend and their 2-year-old daughter, his expression darken... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120602775.html-2009-12-11 topics: LATINO KEY POV DOMESTIC-NEEDS IMMI)

By N.C. Aizenman Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Eight-year-old Alex picked up a 75-cent can of fruit punch from one of the grocery store's shelves and called excitedly to his mother in Spanish. "Mami! Can we buy somethin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120804446_pf.html-2009-12-11 topics: IMMI LATINO POV KEY)

note[ 2001 - human genome sequence completed: http://www.netsci.org/Science/Bioinform/feature06.html -- nearly 50 years after Watson and Crick propose double helix model for DNA.] The sequencing of the human genome along with related organisms repre... (http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/course/projects/final-4/-2009-12-11 topics: SCIENCE BIOLOGY COMPLEXITY PATIENCE)

By: Kytja Weir Examiner Staff Writer December 10, 2009 (Jay Westcott/Examiner File) Metro has hired a top lobbying firm for $200,000 to represent the transit agency on Capitol Hill. That's on top of the more than $900,000 in salaries the agenc... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Metro-hires-Hill-lobbyists-for-_200_000-8644118-78976512.html-2009-12-11 topics: LOBBYING GVT-MGT DC)

I am not the mass mailing kind of person but have become increasingly concerned about climate change. I have recently rejoined the Board of the Sustainability Institute, a non-profit founded by the late Dana Meadows, former Dartmouth professor and c... (-2009-12-11 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY TODO)

By KATIE THOMAS Many competitive bodybuilders take anabolic steroids to achieve their freakishly exaggerated physiques. That is no secret. But steroids can be only one part of an extreme regimen that can wreak havoc on the body. Human growth hormo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/sports/10steroids.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-10 topics: SPORTS MEDICINE DRUGS)

Ten Democratic senators are calling for abandoning the much-maligned “public option” — a government-run health insurance plan to compete with private insurers — and replacing it with two programs that might achieve the same goal of expandin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/opinion/10thu1.html?hp-2009-12-10 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-PLAN)

The CoF taskforce just completed its report to the CoF board and the board has made noises about presenting it to the members, gathering further input, and the like. Call me jaded, but I, and most of the committee members, had hoped for a more acti... (-2009-12-10 topics: NCCS OUTCOME-MEAS)

...believes we can impact poverty if we shift the responsibility for change to those who experience poverty. Everyone wants control over their circumstances and a reasonable set of choices for their children’s futures. FII operates under the assum... (http://www.fiinet.org/-2009-12-10 topics: COOP KEY-A NONPROFIT-INNOVATION PROGRAMS-THAT-WORK)

By DAVID FRUM WHITE PROTESTANT NATION: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement. By Allan J. Lichtman. Illustrated. 598 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $27.50. In most lines of work, a person does his credibility real damage by denying the obvi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/books/review/Frum-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-12-10 topics: AM-HIST I-HIST CONSERVATIVE)

BUREAU OF EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN AFFAIRS Deputy Assistant Secretary Stuart E. Jones, a career member of the Foreign Service, re-joined the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in July 2008 as Deputy Assistant Secretary with responsibility for the... (http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/or/108291.htm-2009-12-10 topics: PERSONAL FRIENDS)

sum[ "In “Intimate Terrorism: The Crisis of Love in an Age of Disillusion,” the psychologist Michael Vincent Miller describes marriage as mocking our “fondest dreams,” because the institution is not the wellspring of love we imagine it to be... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/magazine/06marriage-t.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-10 topics: MARRIAGE PSYCH FAIRNESS)

By Harold Meyerson Wednesday, December 9, 2009 With a sweeping bow to reality, President Obama unveiled his second economic stimulus program on Tuesday. He didn't call it that, of course, since "stimulus" has become taboo, but the proposals he ske... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803403_pf.html-2009-12-09 topics: RECESSION UNEMPLOYMENT GVT-ROLE)

By Judith Rodin Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008 During and after the great depression, workers, employers and the government entered into an implied social contract that afforded Americans a basic level of economic security if they worked hard and took res... (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1824100,00.html-2009-12-08 topics: PUB-OP ALLIES KEY JOBS SOLUTIONS FOUNDATIONS)

sum["The upgrades have come slowly to Butler's 71-year-old Hinkle Fieldhouse, and not all have been embraced by a coaching staff that believes a solid foundation has little need for improvement. Take the new scoreboard that was unveiled during form... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/07/AR2009120703660_pf.html-2009-12-08 topics: TEAM KEY-A SPORTS FS-RSC NONPROFIT SACRIFICE)

VERY detailed discussion of water and electricity usage options: coffee filters, xmas lighting,etc.... (http://www.re-nest.com/-2009-12-08 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KN-MGT WEBSITE)

(http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/home-2009-12-08 topics: ENV WEBSITE)

By Anne Applebaum Tuesday, December 8, 2009 A few weeks ago, I found myself walking through a Swiss village -- okay, it was really a Geneva suburb -- called Nyon. Still, it looked like a village: There was a castle on the hill, and I could see som... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/07/AR2009120702945_pf.html-2009-12-08 topics: EUR RELIGION MUSLIM LEG TERRORISM CONSERVATIVE)

SUM['Much more modestly, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) floated an idea to simply require employers to report their health-care spending on workers' W-2 forms. Both were stymied by an odd-bedfellows alliance of employers and unions.'] By Ezra Klein Tuesday... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/07/AR2009120702947_pf.html-2009-12-08 topics: HLTH-FIN TRANSPARENCY SOLUTIONS)

By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Charter schools will have a new place to turn for advice next year when members of the D.C. Public Charter School Board start a nonprofit organization that will research ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/07/AR2009120703867_pf.html-2009-12-08 topics: CHARTER-SCHOOLS NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE DC)

By Fareed Zakaria Monday, December 7, 2009 If you take out just one sentence, Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan last week was all about focusing and limiting the scope of the U.S. mission in that country. The objectives he detailed were exclusi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120602381_pf.html-2009-12-07 topics: OBAMA F-PLY AFGHAN)

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Greg Jaffe Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 7, 2009 When he finishes testifying on Capitol Hill this week, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, will return to Kabul to... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120602377_pf.html-2009-12-07 topics: AFGHAN F-PLY)

By Mike Tidwell Sunday, December 6, 2009 As President Obama heads to Copenhagen next week for global warming talks, there's one simple step Americans back home can take to help out: Stop "going green." Just stop it. No more compact fluorescent lig... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120402605_pf.html-2009-12-07 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ADVOCACY KEY SOLUTIONS)

HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE 41 - research looking at parent-child interactions: Frequency of interactions key 66 - Baby College 86 - 10-15% of parents in Harlem have substance or mental health or "'I'm a lousy parent' issues and need additional support j... (-2009-12-06 topics: MGT CHARTER-SCHOOLS SOLUTIONS KEY)

* Stepping back from day to day issues, good reason to be very concerned. ** litany of issues ** jobless recovery evidence * What should philanthropy and nonprofit sector do? Whether the program area is supporting children and youth, the environmen... (-2009-12-04 topics: NCCS IDEAS)

By KERMIT PATTISON Two years ago, Aaron Patzer took on the giants, introducing Mint.com, an online personal finance tool designed to be easier to use than Intuit’s Quicken and Microsoft Money. Mr. Patzer said his quest was born from his personal f... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/business/smallbusiness/03mint.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-04 topics: MGT CPTR-BUS MARKETING KEY RETAIL SEND:SCOTT WEBSITE TODO)

By LOUIS UCHITELLE WASHINGTON — A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government’s picture of the country’s economic health, overstating growth and productivity in ways that could affect the political debate on issues like ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/business/economy/09econ.html-2009-12-03 topics: ECON EC-TR KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS OUTSOURCING)

I’ve never been fully committed to the notion that we’re going to have a “double dip” — that the economy will slide back into recession. But it has been clear for a while that it’s a serious possibility, for two reasons. First, a large p... (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/double-dip-warning/-2009-12-03 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT RECESSION KEY ECON)

SUM["Let me start with the bottom line and then tell you how I got there: I can’t agree with President Obama’s decision to escalate in Afghanistan. I’d prefer a minimalist approach, working with tribal leaders the way we did to overthrow the T... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/opinion/02friedman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-12-03 topics: AFGHAN F-PLY DOMESTIC-NEEDS POLITICAL-WILL OBAMA-ADMIN)

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS MIXA/Getty Images Stress fractures are one of the more pernicious injuries in sports, afflicting the experienced and the aspiring, with no regard for competitive timing. Last year, Tiger Woods managed to win the U.S. Open despi... (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/phys-ed-how-to-prevent-stress-fractures/?em-2009-12-03 topics: RUNNING MEDICINE GABE)

sum[Michael Tomasello writes in “Why We Cooperate,”...But Dr. Tomasello finds the helping is not enhanced by rewards, suggesting that it is not influenced by training. It seems to occur across cultures that have different timetables for teaching... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01human.html?em-2009-12-03 topics: HUM-NAT KEY PSYCH SOC-SCI BK KEY)

Generation after generation, giant public works projects have altered the American landscape. The Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad come to mind. So do massive urban sewer and sanitation systems, the Tennessee Valley Authority, rural elec... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/weekinreview/29uchitelle.html?scp=3&sq=UCHITELLE&st=cse-2009-12-03 topics: RECESSION SOLUTIONS)

By GAIL COLLINS Now is the winter of our discontent. And, officially, it’s still fall. I have developed a whole new appreciation for the hysteria over Tiger Woods. Many critics of the news media believe we are spending way too much time worrying ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/opinion/03collins.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-12-03 topics: CONG POLITICAL-WILL REPUBLICANS LYING DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

To be a success, the White House job summit on Thursday must do more than put ideas on the table. It must produce an agenda for creating jobs. Americans need to know how the administration plans to reduce a 10.2 percent unemployment rate — a 26-... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/opinion/03thu1.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-12-03 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-ROLE)

sum[ "He also writes straightforwardly about the political difficulties hobbling any real action (among other things, there is no Senator so singlemindedly interested in this topic--even John Kerry, whose staff wrote much of the climate change bill ... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/al-gores-our-choice-progr_n_342943.html?view=print-2009-12-03 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING BK POLITICAL-WILL EC-TX)

ERIC Identifier: ED321704 Publication Date: 1989-00-00 Author: Morse, Suzanne W. Source: Association for the Study of Higher Education.| ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education Washington DC.| George Washington Univ. Washington DC. School of Ed... (http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9216/civic.htm-2009-12-03 topics: CMTY-SRV HIGHER-ED)

Center for Public Service created at Portland state (11/2009) (-2009-12-03 topics: NCCS HIGHER-ED CMTY-SRV PUB-SRV LIST)

4 levels: * 1. Social theory ** Embeddedness: informal institutions, customs, traditions, norms, religion ** Frequency: 100-1,000 yrs ** Purpose: noncalculative, spontaneous * 2. Economics of property rights/positive political theory ** Institution... (J. Econ. Lit. (Sept. 2000)-2009-12-02 topics: ECON CONCEPTS KEY SOC-SCI)

By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON There is much to be learned from exits. How people leave relationships. How people help their loved ones negotiate their final months and years. How we ourselves face the final curtain, as Frank Sinatra would say. I’v... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/opinion/29dowd.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-12-02 topics: GOOD-LIFE CHARACTER)

By Miranda S. Spivack Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Sarah Fulton once worked as a social worker, trying to help clients change their ways, but now that she's retired, she is trying to create tiny ecosystems that could... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/01/AR2009120102363_pf.html-2009-12-02 topics: URB AGRICULTURE SOLUTIONS FS-RSC)

It is astonishing, but the question of whether a small slice of Americans should be able to choose between a government-run health insurance plan and private health insurance plans is threatening passage of much-needed health care reform. Senate De... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/opinion/29sun1.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-12-02 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

Markoff:Google executives have said that their industry position is vulnerable to new technology advances. How robust is Google’s near-monopoly over Internet search? If there is a threat to Google’s search domination, from which direction will i... (http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/where-google-goes-from-here-part-1/?hp-2009-12-02 topics: CPTR-BUS NCCS)

The timing is ideal for engaging people in the major challenges facing their neighborhoods, communities and the nation as a whole. Several factors make this an especially auspicous time: * Starting with the most awkward, if we don't do it now, ther... (-2009-12-02 topics: IDEAS KEY-A UNTAPPED-CAPACITY NCCS)

Experts explain that overhead ratios and executive salaries are a red herring Sites that help donors choose effective charities December 1, 2009--This giving season needs are greater and donations are falling—it’s more important than ever for do... (http://www.philanthropyaction.com/documents/Worst_Way_to_Pick_A_Charity_Dec_1_2009.pdf-2009-12-02 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP REG NONPROFIT-FIN OVERHEAD OUTCOME-MEAS)

By Ruth McCann Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 21, 2009 When Haile Gerima was a young boy in Ethiopia, he sat with his family -- his father the playwright, his mother the teacher, his grandmother the storyteller -- and announced ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092002396.html-2009-12-02 topics: FS-RSC ARTS CHARACTER IMMI)

Posted: December 2, 2009 - 11:30 am EDT HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a three-year, $235 million Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program, including $220 million to contract with up to 15 not-for-profit and government organizatio... (http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20091202/FREE/312029948-2009-12-02 topics: HLTH-FIN TECH NONPROFIT-ROLE)

By Michael Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 3, 2009 Hard to say what was more unlikely when this season began for the Washington Wizards -- that with a team boasting three former all-stars, Coach Flip Saunders would draw up a ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR2009120204390.html-2009-12-02 topics: SPORTS CHARACTER ADVERSITY TEAM)

By Robert J. Samuelson Thursday, December 3, 2009 You have to be mighty isolated not to know someone who has been laid off, was forced into early retirement or -- just entering the labor market -- can't find a job. Unemployment of 10.2 percent ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/02/AR2009120203400_pf.html-2009-12-02 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT OBAMA-ADMIN NO-EASY-ANSWERS CONSERVATIVE RECESSION)

SEE: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm - Alternative measures...underemployment; TRENDS: http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab12.htm (UP 10 PCTAGE PTS SINCE 1999! (seasonally adjusted) and 9.3 since Oct. 2006. " U-6 Total unemployed... (http://seekingalpha.com/article/171749-underemployment-vs-unemployment-rates and BLS-2009-12-02 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

SEE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-economic-reality-that_b_377167.html?view=print Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Wednesday: The basic assumption that jobs will eventually return when the economy recovers is probably wrong. ... (http://seekingalpha.com/article/176252-reich-don-t-expect-lost-u-s-jobs-to-return?source=article_lb_articles-2009-12-02 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT KEY)

, and vibrant, intelligent finance discussion. We handpick articles from the world's top market blogs, money managers, financial experts and investment newsletters - publishing approximately 250 articles daily. Seeking Alpha gives a voice to over 30... (http://seekingalpha.com/page/about_us-2009-12-02 topics: PUB-INFO INVESTING WEB2.0 KN-MGT ECON KEY-A)

SUM["So let's be clear: The goal isn't just more jobs. It's more jobs with good wages. Which means the fix isn't just temporary measures to accelerate a jobs recovery, but permanent new investments in the productivity of Americans. What sort of inv... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-economic-reality-that_b_377167.html?view=print-2009-12-02 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT RECESSION KEY SOLUTIONS)

As the unemployment rate crossed the double digit barrier for the first time since Michael Jackson learned to moonwalk, President Obama announced that he will convene a “jobs summit” to finally bring the problem under control. Using all the anal... (http://seekingalpha.com/article/173429-u-s-job-losses-demystified-2009-12-02 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT ECON CONSERVATIVE RECESSION OUTSOURCING)

SUM["Leach lost his Iowa seat in the 2006 Democratic tide, but he emerged relieved rather than bitter. He turned to academia, not the lobbying trade favored by so many defeated politicians, and in 2008 engaged in the ultimate act of a maverick (a r... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/29/AR2009112902014_pf.html-2009-11-30 topics: CHARACTER LD KEY ALLIES CONG PROGRESS-POSSIBLE MATURITY CIVILITY)

By Miriam Kreinin Souccar Published: November 4, 2009 - 3:18 pm Foundation giving is expected to decline by more than 10% in 2009 and is likely to fall even further in 2010, according to a study released Wednesday by The Foundation Center. The d... (http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20091104/FREE/911049983&template=printart-2009-11-30 topics: FOUNDATIONS GIVING NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION)

sum[ "Then they can play their touch football game. The one that has entered its 43rd year...In 43 years there have been many kinds, including at least three other father and son combinations, two of which still play...Then there's Bruce McDonald, 6... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/27/AR2009112703451_pf.html-2009-11-30 topics: SPORTS SOC-CAP CMTY LD)

By MELANIE WARNER Steven Burd isn’t a doctor or a medical specialist. But he sure can talk like one. “I can take any standard diagnostic procedure and there’s typically a five- to tenfold difference in the cost of that identical procedure, w... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/health/policy/29diet.html-2009-11-30 topics: JOBS SOLUTIONS PUB-HLTH)

In this special report, we meet some of the world’s most creative minds in robotics to find out how their robots will transform our lives—for real. “Engineers of the New Millennium: Robots for Real” is now airing on public radio stations a... (http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/special-report-robots-for-real-2009-11-30 topics: TECH JOBS BIG-THINK)

The cost of exchange within networks 602 "The value of networking for a community is realized only under specific conditions; conditions that we have drawn out from earlier res., including from network science... * Reciprocity of exchange among orga... (NVSQ, v.38:4 (Aug. 2009)-2009-11-30 topics: NONPROFIT COOP KEY SOC-SCI)

December 2009 In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/mexico-drugs-2009-11-30 topics: MEXICO INTL-NEEDS VIOLENCE CRIME DISORDER)

sum["Meanwhile, the regions hardest hit by the current downturn are places where liberals have dominated for generations, and where government is overextended already. (Of the 10 “States in Fiscal Peril” featured in a recent Pew report, nine wen... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/opinion/30douthat.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-11-30 topics: PUB-OP KEY GVT-ROLE)

Use a mirror (242 K) Paola Giuliano, Antonio Spilimbergo NBER Working Paper No. 15321* Issued in September 2009 NBER Program(s): POL Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations gro... (http://www.nber.org/papers/w15321-2009-11-30 topics: PUB-OP RECESSION GVT-ROLE)

National Press Club Washington, D.C. November 20, 2009 (As delivered) [Watch C-SPAN’s video of Chairman Leach’s speech at the National Press Club.] As Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities I speak today to underscore the imp... (http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/speeches/11202009.html-2009-11-30 topics: LD SOLUTIONS WISDOM KEY-A QT DIVISIVE)

SUM[ FARM rate is high, but not really much higher than pre-Recession!] By Michael Alison Chandler Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 27, 2009 Schools throughout the Washington area are feeding an unprecedented number of poor students... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112602329_pf.html-2009-11-29 topics: POV UNEMPLOYMENT DC MD KEY-A STATS RECESSION)

Nov 26th 2009 From The Economist print edition More than ever, media is diverging into blockbusters and niches—with everything else struggling JOE SWANBERG makes films about the romantic lives of young urbanites. He shoots quickly with a digital... (http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14966219-2009-11-29 topics: ECON BIG-THINK CAPITALISM-LIMITS KN-MGT KN-ECON ARTS)

Nov 26th 2009 From The Economist print edition Ever-increasing choice was supposed to mean the end of the blockbuster. It has had the opposite effect Reuters NOVEMBER 20th saw the return of an old phenomenon: the sold-out cinema. “New Moon”, a... (http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14959982&CFID=97518875&CFTOKEN=61722805-2009-11-29 topics: KN-ECON ARTS CAPITALISM-LIMITS KN-MGT)

Nov 26th 2009 From The Economist print edition The art market has suffered from the recession, but globalisation should help it recover, say Fiammetta Rocco (interviewed here) and Sarah Thornton Sothebys THE longest bull run in a century of art-ma... (http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14941181-2009-11-29 topics: ARTS GLOBALIZATION ECON)

sum[ Article provides case study on difficult compensation issue: If a career can be ended with one emotionally charged misstep, how to compensate?] By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 29, 2009 Jason Taft was yell... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/28/AR2009112802325_pf.html-2009-11-29 topics: UNCERTAINTY CRIME JOBS RISK COMPENSATION)

sum[ "Three columns. Take all your notes during class on 2/3rds of the right side of the page, leaving a left margin for additional comments. As soon as possible after the class, go over your notes carefully, filling in gaps, jotting down your react... (http://www.questianewsletter.com/newsletter/volume-5-issue-9/index.htm?CRID=nullCRnull&OFFID=newsletter20091129l#bigidea-2009-11-29 topics: LYING KIDS-READ EDUC WISDOM CULT SEND)

DiMaggio, Granovetter, Networks (-2009-11-29 topics: BK SOC-SCI KEY CONCEPTS)

== Broad themes: Changing world == * In a world where technological power -- guns, bombs, cell phones -- widely distributed, the Sermon on the Mount has practical as well as moral import: "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of m... (-2009-11-29 topics: SUM IDEAS INTL-NEEDS DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Volume 357:1221-1228 September 20, 2007 Number 12 Steven A. Schroeder, M.D. The United States spends more on health care than any other nation in the world, yet it ranks poorly on nearly every measure of health status. How can this be? What ex... (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/12/1221-2009-11-29 topics: DOMESTIC-NEEDS PUB-HLTH KEY SUM)

epigenetic - denoting processes by which heritable modifications in gene function occur without a change in the sequence of the DNA antimonian - 2. Opposed to or denying the fixed meaning or universal applicability of moral law: "By raising segrega... (-2009-11-29 topics: PERSONAL)

SUM[ "we cannot continue to be a country where more than 70 percent of our economy is based on consumer spending, especially when that spending is based on credit...And though consumer confidence is significantly stronger than it was a year ago, mos... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112503410_pf.html-2009-11-29 topics: CONSUMER RETAIL ECON)

By DANIEL BERGNER At her group therapy sessions for women despairing of low sexual desire, Lori Brotto likes to pass around a plastic tub of raisins. The women, usually six to a group, sit around two pushed-together beige tables in a fluorescently l... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29sex-t.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-11-29 topics: PSYCH SEX GENDER)

SUM[ Young man with tangle of blood vessels in his head can't get insurance or treatment or relief from his pain. "John’s story is not so unusual. A Harvard study, to be published next month in the American Journal of Public Health, suggests that ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/opinion/29kristof.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-11-29 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

If you would like to see the same thesis (how we get into cognitive opposition with each other and lock in) treated from a broader perspective (politics, business, marriage, family) try Mistakes Were Made but Not By Me (Carol Tavris, Elliott Aronson... (http://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/0151010986-2009-11-29 topics: BK PSYCH KEY TODO)

== Intro == There are several primary 'theories": * Man is evil * In a world of scarce, groups of "strangers" -- people with few or no bonds to connect them to each other -- are doomed to conflict and competition in a Darwinian battle. The groups co... (-2009-11-29 topics: HUM-NAT IDEAS SUM)

== The truth about relativity: why everything is relative--even when it shouldn't be == == 23 Fallacy of supply and demand: why price of pearls...is up in air == 30 - create arbitrary coherence 39 Starbucks - re-anchor 43 sum == 49 Cost of zero-cost... (-2009-11-28 topics: PSYCH ECON BK ALLIES EDUC SOLUTIONS)

List of cog. biases Follows along with nudge thesis Although people, in abstract, want to be empathetic, they need nudge to do it. (The Planning Self vs. the Doing Self -- Sunnstein and Thaler, Nudge) --- == Intro: Decency to spare == * (overconfide... (-2009-11-28 topics: COG-SCI POL-PHIL BK BIG-THINK GOOD-CMTY GOOD-LIFE ALLIES)

sum[ "Actually, no, the problem is that many conservatives have lost faith in the ability of Republican leaders to think. The resolutions aren't so much statements of principle as dogmatic responses to complex issues that may, occasionally, require ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/27/AR2009112702325_pf.html-2009-11-28 topics: REPUBLICANS CONSERVATIVE IGNORANCE POLITICS)

This is the time of year when all of us think about giving back. But for some, it seems to be in their blood. When Cory Doctorow co-founded the open-source software company OpenCola in 1999, he was just another techie genius. Then he had a discussi... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125944239960868085.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_careerjournal-2009-11-28 topics: NONPROFIT-JOBS)

Nov 26th 2009 “WHAT is truth?” That was Pontius Pilate’s answer to Jesus’s assertion that “Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice.” It sounds suspiciously like the modern argument over climate change. A majority of the world�... (http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14966227&source=hptextfeature-2009-11-28 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SEND)

sum["One effect of the Great Recession, according to a recent series in The Times, has been a big jump in the number of runaway children, many of them living in dangerous conditions on the street...Groups represented at the meeting in Washington, wh... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/opinion/28herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-11-28 topics: CHLD RECESSION DOMESTIC-NEEDS ALLIES)

John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work--not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s--but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming caree... (-2009-11-28 topics: BK NONPROFIT-JOBS UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

By Karl Vick Saturday, November 28, 2009 BOSTON -- In the decorous and somewhat obscure campaign for the Senate seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy, the four Democratic candidates agree on a great deal, including why so few people are paying att... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/27/AR2009112703191_pf.html-2009-11-28 topics: DEMOCRATS)

By PAUL STARR Published: November 28, 2009 Princeton, N.J. AS the health care debate enters its decisive stage, liberals in Congress should be ready to trade the public option for provisions that will actually make the reforms succeed. Discussion ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/opinion/29starr.html?ref=opinion-2009-11-28 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-PLAN)

SUM[ "52 government agencies use 915 advisory committees organized under the law, with a total membership of more than 60,000."] By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 27, 2009 Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are li... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112602362_pf.html-2009-11-27 topics: LOBBYING POLITICS OBAMA-ADMIN PUB-INFO GVT-MGT)

Excellent Wordpress-based daily collection of news stories dealing with poverty (http://www.irp.wisc.edu/dispatch/-2009-11-27 topics: PUB-INFO POV JOURNALISM)

* see item on giving circles, book clubs, etc. * see Colby's proposal * Lawrence Community Works - NPQ and Urban presentation (10/2009) (w. Brett Theodos) * Fishkin - nyt article and book (The People Speak) * DiMaggio - Culture and Cognition - From ... (-2009-11-27 topics: SUM DELIB IDEAS)

* http://www.nccs2.org/KnowledgeBase/ideaShow.php?id=7124 - Soc. psych, gov't compensation and fairness: EXPERIMENT * Vow of Moderation * Nonprofit compensation and the Urban Institute ** Phyllis Jackson and other support staff laid off (2/20/2010) ... (-2009-11-27 topics: SUM COMPENSATION IDEAS)

By JONATHAN CLEMENTS | Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL --- GRAPHIC: SETTING PRIORITIES Here's what a study of 909 working women in Texas found. Activities most enjoyed, in order of preference: Sex, socializing after work, dinner, relaxing,... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112846380547659946.html-2009-11-27 topics: HAPPINESS GOOD-LIFE KEY)

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being has a statistically significant but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships with house... (ftp://repec.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp1218.pdf-2009-11-27 topics: HAPPINESS RICH SOC-SCI)

* http://statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html - Very useful online intro text (-2009-11-27 topics: STATS SOC-SCI)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V8F-4CXTY30-4&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1112533489&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5131... (-2009-11-27 topics: HAPPINESS SOC-SCI)

~ Graham Smith (Author) - http://www.amazon.com/Democratic-Innovations-Institutions-Participation-Institutional/dp/0521730708/ref=pd_rhf_shvl_29 'Democratic Innovations explains why we should not be satisfied with our received institutions of repre... (-2009-11-27 topics: DELIB DEMOCRACY SOC-SCI BK)

~ Robert Axelrod (Author), Michael D. Cohen (Author) "Whether or not we are aware of it, we all intervene in complex systems..." (more) 5.0 out of 5 stars A Terrific Book on Getting Benefits from Complexity Science, May 7, 2000 By Professor Donal... (http://www.amazon.com/Harnessing-Complexity-Organizational-Implications-Scientific/dp/0465005500/ref=pd_rhf_shvl_20-2009-11-27 topics: COMPLEXITY MGT CONCEPTS BK)

~ Robert Axelrod 4.0 out of 5 stars Great Companion to'The Evolution of Cooperation', September 25, 2003 By William Bennett (tucson, arizona United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) This books covers what Robert Axelrod been up to since ... (http://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Cooperation-Agent-Based-Competition-Collaboration/dp/0691015678/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1-2009-11-27 topics: COMPLEXITY MGT BK)

== DAILY == * Sleep log * Vitamin (multi and D?) * Walk and weights == Fall == * Plan for next spring and fall: DCPS, CityYear? Notify Wellesley * Eat when get home from work so get decent amount of sleep (Spt '09)... (-2009-11-27 topics: PERSONAL TODO)

By Charles Krauthammer Friday, November 27, 2009 The United States has the best health care in the world -- but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill (as with... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112503607_pf.html-2009-11-27 topics: HLTH-FIN CONSERVATIVE)

sum["A less widely recognized but far larger form of private waste stems from "positional arms races," which are well illustrated by the familiar metaphor in which everyone stands up to get a better view, yet no one sees any better than before. Rec... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=postconsumer_prosperity-2009-11-27 topics: ECON SOLUTIONS CONSUMER ALLIES)

What is The Moth? The Moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization, was founded in New York in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon's Islan... (http://www.themoth.org/about-2009-11-27 topics: ARTS STORY FS-RSC SOLUTIONS)

By Michael Gerson Friday, November 27, 2009 Like the nearby Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Newseum -- Washington's museum dedicated to journalism -- displays dinosaurs. On a long wall near the entrance, the front pages of ne... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112503534_pf.html-2009-11-27 topics: JOURNALISM EXPERT INTEGRITY PROFESSION)

* Interviews: There are quite a few interesting, inspirational, or controversial people in the area who would make good interviews. ** Gail Holness Anderson ** Farah Stockman ** Halle Germina ** Seniors: Ms. Taylor * Add a "community discussion" s... (-2009-11-26 topics: DC-PP FS-RSC IDEAS)

SUM[ Good example of how different approach to coaching can still yield excellent results. Team doesn't have a general manager, relying on close working relationship between owner and coach. Difference from horrible to great has been recruitment o... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/24/AR2009112402575_pf.html-2009-11-26 topics: TEAM DISRUPTIVE COACHING KEY LD REALISM)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, November 26, 2009 It's now official: So in vogue are attacks on President Obama that even his proclamation calling the nation to a day of Thanksgiving has become the focus of criticism. Presidential Thanksgiving m... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112502906_pf.html-2009-11-26 topics: OBAMA PRES RHETORIC LD DIVISIVE)

By George F. Will Thursday, November 26, 2009 Another huge, value-destroying hurricane is about to slam America, destroying billions of dollars of value. Another Katrina? No, another Christmas. This voluntary December calamity is explained in... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112502653_pf.html-2009-11-26 topics: GIVING CONSUMER)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF SUM[ Wm. Easterly bk. "The point is to be relentlessly empirical...a revolution in evaluation, led by economists at the Poverty Action Lab at M.I.T. They have designed rigorous studies to see what actually works. The idea is ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/Kristof-t.html?_r=3&ref=review-2009-11-26 topics: INTL-DEV GIVING KEY AFRICA BIG-THINK SOLUTIONS SOC-SCI COMPLEXITY BK SEND)

sum["This missed opportunity, although an obvious omission in hindsight, is all too common. Time and again, initiatives falter because they are not based on the client’s or customer’s needs and have never been prototyped to solicit feedback. Eve... (http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/design_thinking_for_social_innovation/-2009-11-26 topics: NONPROFIT COMPLEXITY SOLUTIONS SEND)

SEE ALSO: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/plots.htm ** SEE ALSO: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/ideagen2.htm, http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/QUE/FARQ/plotFARQ.html SEE ALSO: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/stor... (http://www.askwhy.co.uk/adelphiasoplot/index.php (Cited in Akerlof & Shiller, Animal Spirits)-2009-11-26 topics: WRITING PSYCH SEND STORY)

By Robert McCartney Sunday, November 22, 2009 With the economy struggling to recover and our soldiers still battling in two wars, this Thanksgiving will be the bleakest in years in some ways. So it's very gratifying to report that one bright r... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112101760_pf.html-2009-11-26 topics: VOLUNTEER DC RECESSION SEND)

Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own wall... (http://www.ssireview.org/site/printer/creating_high_impact_nonprofits/-2009-11-26 topics: NONPROFIT-MGT CONCEPTS KEY)

For-profit executives use business models—such as “low-cost provider” or “the razor and the razor blade"—as a shorthand way to describe and understand the way companies are built and sustained. Nonprofit executives, to their detriment, are... (http://www.ssireview.org/site/printer/ten_nonprofit_funding_models/-2009-11-26 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN CONCEPTS KEY)

By JENNIFER MEDINA WASHINGTON — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Wednesday that New York City public schools would immediately begin to use student test scores as a factor in deciding which teachers earn tenure, a proposal that has been bitterly... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/education/26teachers.html?ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1259262470-BA85ubDxZ/Jv3GIPNjrWCA&pagewanted=print-2009-11-26 topics: EDUC UNIONS NYC)

By Mike Wise Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Unless they once lived a modest life, most rich, powerful men rarely connect with the working class. It's not merely about their status or social circles; it's just not in most of their DNAs. So pardon if... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/24/AR2009112403897_pf.html-2009-11-25 topics: LD CHARACTER RICH DC LOYALTY)

sum["Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population...Nevertheless, 16-to-24-year-olds face heavier losses, with a 19.1 ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112304092.html?nav=rss_business-2009-11-25 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT BLCK KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:08 PM The Washington Post, in a significant retrenchment, is closing its remaining domestic bureaus around the country. The six correspondents who work in New York, Los Ang... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/24/AR2009112403014_pf.html-2009-11-25 topics: JOURNALISM)

By HELENE COOPER and ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON — President Obama said Tuesday that he was determined to “finish the job” in Afghanistan, and his aides signaled to allies that he would send as many as 25,000 to 30,000 additional American troops ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/us/politics/25policy.html-2009-11-25 topics: AFGHAN NO-EASY-ANSWERS FED-BGT)

sum["This is not so much a story about sports as a parable of life in Iraq — another example of the inability of Iraqis to settle their differences. Although the controversy is not nearly as important as the continuing wrangling that is delaying n... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/world/middleeast/25baghdad.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-11-25 topics: IRAQ NO-EASY-ANSWERS CULT SOCCER CONFLICT)

By JOHN M. BRODER AND JEFF ZELENY President Obama will travel to Copenhagen next month for the United Nations meeting on climate change, a White House official confirmed Wednesday. Mr. Obama, who had previously not committed to making an appearance... (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/obama-will-go-to-copenhagen/?hp&emc=na-2009-11-25 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING OBAMA)

November 25, 2009 Writers use that word backstory to mean the background or history of their characters. Morning Edition is asking three acclaimed writers for the backstory of world events. All were finalists for this year's National Book Award. Fi... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120809041-2009-11-25 topics: BIG-THINK KEY-A PAKISTAN TERRORISM MUSLIM)

* http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=507781&refer= Averages for precipitation, temperature, degree days * http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Kensington&state=MD&site=LWX&textField1=39.0259&textField2=-77.0732 - NOAA * ... (-2009-11-25 topics: HOME LIST)

MyLocation: laptop /docsFromOthers Dan M. Kahan Yale University - Law School Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 31; Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 281 Abstract: This paper addresses the relevance of reciprocity theor... (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=361400-2009-11-25 topics: FAIRNESS COOP SOC-SCI)

SUM[ "The only technique that is likely to promote reciprocal cooperation uniformly across all the relevant collective action domains, the article concludes, is selective privatization, a highly decentralized and participatory strategy that integrat... (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=297964-2009-11-25 topics: COOP SOC-SCI SOLUTIONS CRIME)

ED457415 - Building Strong Neighborhoods: A Study Circle Guide for Public Dialogue and Community Problem Solving. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED457415&ERI... (-2009-11-25 topics: FS-RSC CMTY DELIB)

SUM[ Accuses Butler without talking to him first. Coach Flip Saunders: everyone needs to look at himself first.] By Michael Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 24, 2009 One year ago Tuesday, Eddie Jordan had just finished handing ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112303691_pf.html-2009-11-24 topics: POOR-LD TEAM SPORTS)

By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Pastors at 14 churches in the Washington Archdiocese have warned that their schools could close or be reconfigured if enrollments continue to decline. The schools are... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112303803_pf.html-2009-11-24 topics: EDUC DC NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION)

By Theola Labbé Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 6, 2007 The Archdiocese of Washington announced yesterday that it planned to convert seven D.C. Catholic schools to charter schools, a decision that angers some parents, students a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110500433_pf.html-2009-11-24 topics: DC RELIGION EDUC NONPROFIT-FIN CHARTER-SCHOOLS)

sum[ All about "earnest people"] By Monica Hesse Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 24, 2009 You may not know the name Jeffrey Zaslow, but chances are good he's gotten to you, right where those lump-in-throat De Beers ads get to you... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110500433_pf.html-2009-11-24 topics: WRITING CULT CHARACTER)

By DAVID BROOKS It’s easy to get lost in the weeds when talking about health care reform. But, like all great public issues, the health care debate is fundamentally a debate about values. It’s a debate about what kind of country we want America ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/opinion/24brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-11-24 topics: HLTH-FIN CONSERVATIVE)

By ROGER COHEN HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Before coming up to Canada’s Atlantic provinces, where the nicest people in this nice country are said to live, I found myself seated next to Henry Kissinger at a New York dinner and asked him how he thought... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/opinion/24iht-edcohen.html?adxnnl=1&ref=opinion&adxnnlx=1259060510-n3jlymXuVILuaichI/YedA&pagewanted=print-2009-11-24 topics: F-PLY OBAMA KEY)

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_R._Ovshinsky#Ovshinsky_Innovation_LLC By BOB HERBERT Detroit I came to Detroit and its environs, the seat of America’s glorious industrial past, to see if I could get a glimpse of the future. Is the econ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/opinion/24herbert.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-11-24 topics: SOLAR-ENERGY INNOVATION ENER KEY CAPITALISM CREATIVITY TODO INVESTING)

Last Thursday, November 19, marked the 146th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. In late November, 1863, Abraham Lincoln resumed his seat on the dais at Gettysburg's new soldiers' cemetery after making the few "brief remarks" he'd been invi... (http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/panelists/2009/11/lincolns-audacious-address.html-2009-11-24 topics: LD PRES RHETORIC AM-HIST ALLIES)

By ANDREA ELLIOTT Federal officials on Monday unsealed terrorism-related charges against men they say were key actors in a recruitment effort that led roughly 20 young Americans to join a violent insurgent group in Somalia with ties to Al Qaeda. Wi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/us/24terror.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-11-24 topics: TERRORISM DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

In new study of 1,500 congregations, most said fundraising increased or held steady, but the number experiencing declines grew compared to 2008 Released: October 27th, 2009 at 7:00 AM Share Subscribe Contact Adriene Davis Indiana University 317-... (https://www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/news/2009/10/pr-CongregationalEconImpactStudy.aspx-2009-11-24 topics: RELIGION SURVEY NCCS)

Clutch Group is a global provider of legal support solutions with expertise in Discovery, M&A Due Diligence, Compliance, Contract Management, and Legal Research Services. With a delivery model that integrates domestic and offshore legal support expe... (http://www.clutchgroup.com/-2009-11-24 topics: OUTSOURCING INDIA)

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life. --Jawaharlal Nehru Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above... (-2009-11-24 topics: QT WISDOM GOOD-LIFE COURAGE)

NOTE: Looks like good fit with F/S, etc., but no evidence of major support or connections. The members of the Collaboration DC network are experts in collaboration, conflict resolution, and civic engagement. From the beginning the initiative has bee... (http://collaborationdc.net/aboutus.aspx-2009-11-24 topics: DC ALLIES)

Founded in August 2004, DCist is the most popular local blog in Washington and it covers all the goings-on of the capital. The site and its editor have been mentioned in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun, amongst othe... (http://gothamistllc.com/mediakit/titles/dcist.php-2009-11-24 topics: DC JOURNALISM WEB2.0)

Mr. Taylor joined CodeRyte’s executive team in 2005. He previously served as a consultant to Nokia Venture Partners and Warburg Pincus, where he investigated opportunities for venture capital investment. Prior to that role, Mr. Taylor was senior v... (-2009-11-24 topics: PEOPLE ALLIES)

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON — The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may no... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/business/23rates.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-11-23 topics: FED-BGT KEY)

By CHARLES DUHIGG It was drizzling lightly in late October when the midnight shift started at the Owls Head Water Pollution Control Plant, where much of Brooklyn’s sewage is treated. A few miles away, people were walking home without umbrellas f... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23sewer.html-2009-11-23 topics: ENV DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY URB)

By Jay Mathews Monday, November 23, 2009 Dan Goldfarb, a 51-year-old history teacher at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, says his first encounter with an evaluator under the District's new IMPACT system for assessing teachers did not go wel... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/22/AR2009112201689_pf.html-2009-11-23 topics: DC EDUC OUTCOME-MEAS)

185 In an age when governments are downsizing and privatizing services, small nonprofit organizations may be the only vehicle by which services like daycare, low-income housing, battering shelters or AIDS services will be provided. Orgs that are dis... (-2009-11-23 topics: SOC-SCI CMTY BK)

Scott - I may be mistaken but it seems like there's vastly more evidence on the global warming front -- and much broader scientific consensus (for whatever that's worth :) -- on global warming than there was on oat bran, DDT, etc. Sure, there are ... (-2009-11-23 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING BIG-THINK IDEAS)

..was founded in 2006 by Wharton alumni and is housed at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice. We provide the information and decision-making tools that allow philanthropists to allocate their capital to where it c... (http://www.impact.upenn.edu/-2009-11-23 topics: NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE PHILANTHROPY BIG-THINK)

Molly F. Sherlock Analyst in Economics Jane G. Gravelle Senior Specialist in Economic Policy November 17, 2009 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov R40919... (saved: n:\\docsFromOthers-2009-11-23 topics: NONPROFIT-STATS NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

Upgrading MySQL can be a bit of a leap of faith. You hope for everything to go well but really don’t want to rely on mere hope to ensure that you don’t find yourself with a nasty surprise late one night. Jeremy Zawodny Monday, November 23rd, 2... (http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7623/1.html-2009-11-23 topics: MYSQL PROGRAMMING)

NEW: 11/29/09: Deeply pessimistic about prospects for world if we remain on currrent course. I find it hard to shake the image of my kids living in a Hobbesian world of poverty and violence. On the other hand, I am also more optimistic than most a... (-2009-11-22 topics: PERSONAL IDEAS KEY)

* Max Freund, Rich Cherkin, Gary Grobman & Roger Lohmann (benkler: types of goods) * Carl Milofsky, == The Big Transformation == * Imagine if Americans gave 50% more to nonprofits and volunteered 50% more? * Imagine if the public routinely voted A... (-2009-11-22 topics: KEY IDEAS BIG-THINK NONPROFIT-COMP)

* http://www.realclimate.org/wiki/index.php?title=RC_Wiki * http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/07/how_to_talk_to_a_sceptic.php * IPCC Report/wikipedia == NOT Manmade == * http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-ourenvironmentalfuture.html - ... (-2009-11-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY LIST SUM)

November 21, 2009 - If the bards of 20th century hip-hop are ever immortalized in an anthology, there's a good chance that Rakim will sit atop that list. He was a teenager when he started working with DJ Eric B in the 1980s. As Eric B & Rakim, he w... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120633180-2009-11-22 topics: MUSIC BLCK CHARACTER LD RELIGION)

http://www.institute.nhs.uk/world_class_commissioning/tackling_tough_choices/strategic_triangle.html Creating Public Value: Strategic management in government 1 - public value aims 2 - operational capability 3 - authorizing environment... (-2009-11-22 topics: NONPROFIT-MGT CONCEPTS)

By Eli Saslow Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 22, 2009 Her parents redecorated her bedroom soon after she left for college, as sure as everyone else in this town that Melissa Meyer would not be moving back. They took down the photos ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102372.html?hpid=topnews-2009-11-22 topics: JOBS RECESSION YOUTH GOOD-LIFE)

sum[ "The country has cut its carbon dioxide emissions today to roughly the same level they were in 1990, while emissions in the United States have risen 6 percent over the same period. The biggest reductions in Germany came years ago, from the upgr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112002893.html?hpid=opinionsbox1-2009-11-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING EUR SOLUTIONS KEY)

sum[" The stakes didn't get any lower in the past 12 months. In fact, on Monday NASA issued new data showing that the world has just come through the warmest June-October period in recorded history. Meanwhile, officials at a U.N. summit on hunger we... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112002894.html?hpid=opinionsbox1-2009-11-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING)

November 16, 2009 Fast on the heels of the hottest June to September on record*, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies reports that last month was tied for the second hottest October on record (after 2005). Unlike NOAA, which announced its O... (http://climateprogress.org/2009/11/16/nasa-noaa-hottest-june-to-october-on-record/-2009-11-22 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING)

sum[ "It is a model that works for other cities, counties and hospitals. “The lesson is that even public hospitals with a mission to serve the disenfranchised require more tools in this health care marketplace than are often available if you are s... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23hospital.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-11-22 topics: HOSP SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-TRENDS NONPROFIT-GVT POLITICS CORRUPTN)

sum["Mr. Obama was elected for similar reasons. People had hoped that his unique story, personality and speaking skills could bring the country together, overcome paralysis and deliver nation-building at home. A lot of the disappointment settling in... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22friedman.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-11-22 topics: BIG-THINK FS-RSC POLITICAL-WILL POLITICAL-MATURITY POLITICS F-PLY)

Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter, March 2000 Scholarly articles for Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity Fairness and retaliation: The economics of reciprocity - Fehr - Cited by 1229 Abstract: This paper shows that reciprocity has p... (http://www.iew.uzh.ch/wp/iewwp040.pdf (saved home cptr)-2009-11-22 topics: CONCEPTS ECON FAIRNESS)

ARTICLE BY CHARLIE CURNOW ON NOVEMBER - 20 - 2009 Minnesota residents gave more than $14 million to 3,434 nonprofit groups on Tuesday as part of an online fundraising effort organized by GiveMN, a philanthropic fundraising website. More than 38,00... (http://www.thedailytell.com/2009/11/minnesotans-donate-14-million-to-nonprofits-in-one-day/-2009-11-21 topics: GIVING INTERNET)

The Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey (TCS) is a research and development effort to see if it is possible to collect and publish teacher-level data from the administrative records residing in state departments of education. Seven sates participated ... (http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/tcssurv.asp-2009-11-21 topics: GVT-COMP EDUC PUB-SRV NCCS DATA)

By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent November 20, 2009 Mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson (Photo by Jeff Carlick/NBAE via Getty Images) and District of Columbia Public Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee (Examiner File Photo) A congression... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Exclusive-Congressional-Report-Rhee-did-damage-control-after-sex-charges-against-fiancee-Kevin-Johnson.html-2009-11-21 topics: CORRUPTN NONPROFIT)

By Steven Goff Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 20, 2009 6:59 PM Ben Olsen, D.C. United's tireless midfielder who overcame severe ankle injuries to resurrect his career, has decided to retire, several sources said Friday. A formal ann... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112003675_pf.html-2009-11-21 topics: SOCCER ALLIES)

By David S. Broder Sunday, November 22, 2009 It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version o... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112002618_pf.html-2009-11-21 topics: HLTH-FIN FED-BGT PUB-OP LYING OBAMA)

By RONI CARYN RABIN Richard Patterson for The New York Times Recent research suggests transcendental meditation may be good for the heart. When Julia Banks was almost 70, she took up transcendental meditation. She had clogged arteries, high blood p... (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/can-meditation-curb-heart-attacks/-2009-11-21 topics: PSYCH-MEDITATION PUB-HLTH)

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http://evans.washington.edu/files/Young_ClubsBookChapter-april08.pdf - (-2009-11-20 topics: NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

By Petula Dvorak Friday, November 20, 2009 The kids? They know better. You can put in all the fancy coffee shops, shiny big-box stores and warm fuzzy community centers you want. "Ain't nothin' gonna change," one teenage girl with tattoos swirlin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111903825_pf.html-2009-11-20 topics: DC CRIME SOC-CAP CMTY-DEV CMTY-NEEDS FS-RSC NONPROFIT NO-EASY-ANSWERS URB)

By Dan Zak Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 16, 2009 A thicket of tweed chokes the alley near Eighth and H streets NE. Men in newsboy caps and knickers crunch over shards of glass in their leather hunting boots, looking like they're o... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111502672.html-2009-11-19 topics: COOP BIKES DC SOC-CAP)

Monday, November 16, 2009 CAPITOL HILL will soon face a choice on how to fund the Legal Services Corp. (LSC), the federally created nonprofit organization that provides legal representation in civil matters to poor people. Rather than coldly calcu... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111502538.html-2009-11-19 topics: POV SOLUTIONS LEG JOBS GVT-FIN DOMESTIC-NEEDS NONPROFIT-GVT)

By Wil Haygood Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 18, 2009 This is how Bishop Harry Jackson spent his summer vacation: He hustled back and forth across the District rallying his faithful flock who oppose gay marriage. He leaned into ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/17/AR2009111703976_pf.html-2009-11-19 topics: CONFLICT RELIGION CONSERVATIVE BLCK GAY)

By ERICA WERNER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR The Associated Press Thursday, November 19, 2009 3:15 AM -- A comparison of the health care bills before Congress: --- The Senate Democratic bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act): WHO'S CO... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111900380_pf.html-2009-11-19 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS)

http://wamu.org/programs/mc/09/11/13.php or http://wamu.org/news/09/11/16.php ?? D.C.'s 'Master Teachers' From the day she started her job, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has made teachers her Number One goal--getting rid of the bad ones, and... (-2009-11-19 topics: EDUC DC OUTCOME-MEAS GVT-COMP KEY)

SUM[ "The revolutions of 1989 were made possible by a multiplicity of conditions: the courage of East Bloc dissidents and the hundreds of thousands of fellow-citizens who finally joined them; American support for the dissident movements and containm... (http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/11/16/091116taco_talk_packer-2009-11-19 topics: COOP EUR KEY BIG-EVENT DEMOCRACY LD SACRIFICE HIST)

By Renae Merle Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Troubled homeowners who receive housing counseling are 60 percent more likely to avoid foreclosure and have their mortgage payments lowered significantly than borrowers who n... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111800010_pf.html-2009-11-18 topics: HOUS solutions RECESSION URBAN-INST SOC-SCI)

FLEX OVERVIEW Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive, expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and pro... (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/overview/-2009-11-18 topics: TECH PROGRAMMING)

Welcome to SAVI-Interactive! SAVI-Interactive is a dynamic community information system that allows you to map, compare, and store data about Central Indiana communities from over 30 data sources. Where do I start? * Charts & Graphs allows you... (http://www.savi.org/-2009-11-18 topics: MAPPING NCCS)

Nonprofit 911: What’s Next? Economic Realities of Washington, DC Area Nonprofits and the People They Serve... (http://www.nonprofitadvancement.org/usr_doc/Nonprofit911_.pdf-2009-11-18 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN DC RECESSION)

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By Barry Svrluga Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 15, 2009 Jim Zorn kept his gaze down last Sunday as he strode toward a lectern in a concourse underneath the stands at the Georgia Dome, another loss just past. It was the fourth strai... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/14/AR2009111402226_pf.html-2009-11-17 topics: COACHING LD)

Change debated Potential harm of frequent mammograms outweighs benefit, task force says By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual mammograms and older women should c... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111602822_pf.html-2009-11-17 topics: MEDICINE SCIENCE)

Change debated Potential harm of frequent mammograms outweighs benefit, task force says By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual mammograms and older women should c... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111602822_pf.html-2009-11-17 topics: MEDICINE SCIENCE PUB-HLTH)

By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, November 17, 2009 As the Senate prepares to take up legislation aimed at overhauling the nation's health-care system, President Obama and the Democrats are still struggling to win th... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/17/AR2009111700021_pf.html-2009-11-17 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP OBAMA)

By Elizabeth G. Olson Kaiser Health News Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Every morning at 10 a.m. sharp, Juanita Wood, 87, taps "okay" on a screen to start up a device that takes her blood pressure and transmits the information to her medical clinic. A... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111602900_pf.html-2009-11-17 topics: HLTH-FIN TECH)

By Paul Schwartzman Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 17, 2009 The Washington Blade, the weekly newspaper that chronicled the coming-out of the capital's gay community, was born amid the idealism of 1960s street protests. Monday, the ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111601477_pf.html-2009-11-17 topics: JOURNALISM GAY)

November 17, 2009 - By Rebecca Sheir Leaders of non-profit groups in the D.C. area are looking to each other to help weather the current economic storm. As the recession forces non-profits to provide more services with less funds, Chuck Bean of th... (http://wamu.org/news/09/11/17.php#30237-2009-11-17 topics: DC NONPROFIT COOP NCCS KEY)

CEO and Founder McCormick Group Dan McCormick established McCormick Group in 1982 with the sole purpose of facilitating organizational structure and providing services in foundation development to qualifying organizations, individuals, and companie... (http://www.mcc-group.com/dan.html-2009-11-17 topics: NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE COOP)

sum[ "Many Americans sense that the way to fight back against spiritual sickness is to revitalize the family, churches, neighborhood organizations, and voluntary associations—the institutions that once gave form and substance to our deepest moral ... (http://robtshepherd.tripod.com/taejf98j.htm-2009-11-17 topics: CONSERVATIVE NONPROFIT CMTY POL-PHIL RELIGION)

By JONATHAN WEISMAN, AARON BACK and ANDREW BROWNE BEIJING -- China's top banking regulator issued a sharp critique of U.S. financial management only hours before President Barack Obama commenced his first visit to the Asian giant, highlighting econ... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125826103009548975.html?mod=djemITP-2009-11-16 topics: CHINA F-PLY NO-EASY-ANSWERS EC-TR INTL-NEEDS)

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By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, November 16, 2009 There is an air of absurdity to what is mistakenly called "health-care reform." Everyone knows that the United States faces massive governmental budget deficits as far as calculators can project, dr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111502212_pf.html-2009-11-16 topics: HLTH-FIN FED-BGT COURAGE OBAMA)

By James E. McWilliams Monday, November 16, 2009 I gave a talk in South Texas recently on the environmental virtues of a vegetarian diet. As you might imagine, the reception was chilly. In fact, the only applause came during the Q&A period when a ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111502210_pf.html-2009-11-16 topics: AGRICULTURE FOOD ENV)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, November 16, 2009 Imagine a time when government work was exciting, widely admired and much sought-after. It seems an outlandish thought at a moment when you cannot turn on your television without hearing government spo... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111502211_pf.html-2009-11-16 topics: CMTY-SRV KEY LEGIS PUB-SRV SOLUTIONS)

Through telephone interviews and a mail survey, the study identified and gathered information about 16 types of homeless assistance programs: emergency shelters transitional housing programs permanent housing programs for formerly homeless people pr... (http://www.urban.org/publications/310291.html-2009-11-15 topics: HUM-SRV OUTCOME-MEAS NCCS TODO)

http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/411948_distressed_neighborhoods.pdf - Youth in distressed neighborhoods Abstract Low-income African American youth engage in fewer risky behaviors than low-income white youth, a new Urban Institute analysis of feder... (http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=901280&renderforprint=1-2009-11-15 topics: YOUTH DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY FS-RSC)

LIT REVIEW & PROPOSAL Robert I. Lerman, Gregory Acs, Anupa Bir Publication Date: December 01, 2007 Other Availability: PDF | Printer-friendly summary Permanent Link: http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=411655 Share: | Email this page The nonpartis... (http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411655_economic_framework.pdf-2009-11-15 topics: SOC-SCI FAMILY SOLUTIONS URBAN-INST)

by Elizabeth Kolbert sum[ "Among the many matters they misrepresent are: the significance of carbon emissions as a climate-forcing agent, the mechanics of climate modelling, the temperature record of the past decade, and the climate history of the p... (http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/16/091116crbo_books_kolbert?printable=true-2009-11-15 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING BK)

By Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella Posted Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, at 1:23 PM ET Psychologists who work with children and families tend to avoid mentioning to parents that the treatments they use are often based on research done on animals. It's no... (http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2234707-2009-11-15 topics: PSYCH KEY)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Any time anyone tells you that a dream is impossible, any time you’re discouraged by impossible challenges, just mutter this mantra: Tererai Trent. Of all the people earning university degrees this year, perhaps the most r... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/opinion/15kristof.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-11-15 topics: INTL-DEV INSPIRATION DISCIPLINE)

by RAY on OCTOBER 12, 2009 This story has been kicking around a couple of days – T-Mobile Sidekick users appear to have lost all their personal data. Sidekick is a Microsoft product (through Danger, which they bought) and the data is on their serv... (http://www.theosquest.com/2009/10/12/microsoft-kills-the-sidekick/-2009-11-14 topics: CPTR-BUS BIG-BUS POOR-LD MISMGT)

Not necessarily nightmares, but exhausting dreams, if she sees something to do with Iraq during the day.. PTSD: Why some get it, and others do not.... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7-2009-11-14 topics: WAR PSYCH DOMESTIC-NEEDS VETERANS MENTAL-ILLNESS)

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL PLAYA GRANDE, Costa Rica — This resort town was long known for Leatherback Sea Turtle National Park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. So Kaja Michelson, a Swedish tourist, arrived with high expectatio... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/earth/14turtles.html?_r=1&hp-2009-11-14 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING:EFFECTS ENV)

sum[ think potatoes: few pounds per square foot BOOK: Fresh Food From Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting, author R. J. Ruppenthal] POSTED 3:25 PM ON 12 NOV 2009 BY MAKENNA GOODMAN READ ... (http://www.grist.org/article/the-new-wave-of-urban-farming-how-to-get-fresh-food-from-small-spaces-2009-11-14 topics: AGRICULTURE SOLUTIONS KEY BK GARDENING)

sum[ "A variety of studies have tied drops in family income to negative effects on children’s development. But Dr. Kalil, a developmental psychologist and director of the university’s Center for Human Potential and Public Policy (NYU), said the ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/us/12families.html?sq=unemployment&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print-2009-11-14 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT PSYCH KEY MENTAL-HLTH DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Digital Images/Getty Images Several weeks ago, The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study that should give pause to anyone who plans to live a long and independent life. The study looked at the incidence ... (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/phys-ed-the-best-exercises-for-healthy-bones/?em-2009-11-14 topics: EXERCISE MEDICINE PUB-HLTH AMANDA)

Family very poor. A big deal when mother left him a dime so he could get a coke after school, instead of just water, when he and his friends went to the store. If tell the truth, don't have to remember what you said. Why left U.Kansas? "Felt like ... (NPR WEEKEND EDITION-2009-11-14 topics: COACHING GABE INSPIRATION LD QT)

... is the only national organization whose sole focus is preparing women for leadership in the public policy arena. Each year, PLEN brings about 250 women students from colleges and universities across the country to Washington, D.C. for a weekend... (http://plen.org/about/-2009-11-14 topics: LD ALLIES PUB-SRV)

http://www.americorps.gov/for_organizations/overview/index.asp - for organizations http://www.americorps.gov/for_organizations/apply/national.asp - options http://www.americorps.gov/pdf/09_0918_nofa_ac.pdf - 2010 Grant opportunities - 1/27/2010 due ... (-2009-11-14 topics: FS-GEN TODO)

The U.S. Public Service Academy will be the civilian counterpart to the military service academies, a flagship institution designed to build a "more perfect union" by developing leaders of skill and character dedicated to service in the public secto... (http://uspublicserviceacademy.org/-2009-11-14 topics: PUB-SRV UNTAPPED-CAPACITY SOLUTIONS)

By R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 13, 2009 In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs,... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/12/AR2009111211060_pf.html-2009-11-13 topics: N-ARMS CHINA F-PLY KEY)

== BAD SCENARIO == * Bomb technology and uranium obtained by Pakistani terrorists * Terrorists easily smuggle uranium and parts over U.S. border with Mexico by paying drug cartel millions * Bomb planted in U.S. city explodes and thousands killed * C... (-2009-11-13 topics: IDEAS BIG-THINK)

The Public Leadership & Civic Engagement Academy has assembled a group of distinguished and highly qualified individuals to serve as the trainers/faculty for the Leadership Academy Seminars. This faculty is assisted by community leaders, elected pub... (http://www.publicleadership.info/facultytrainers.php-2009-11-13 topics: FS-RSC ALLIES)

The highest performing charter schools, such as KIPP, are the ones that offer longer days and longer years. DCPS does not appear to have the resources to do this, yet there are numerous independent nonprofit organizations that are potential partner... (-2009-11-13 topics: DC IDEAS EDUC)

With the House’s passage of a health care bill and the Senate legislation possibly moving to the floor for debate next week, many analysts are saying that neither bill goes far enough to slow rising health care costs — an issue that President Ob... (http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/how-to-control-rising-health-care-costs/-2009-11-13 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

The book I was talking about yesterday is called From Political Won’t to Political Will: Building Support for Participatory Governance. The editor is Carmen Malena. If you enter the title into Google, one of the search results will let you view th... (-2009-11-13 topics: FS-RSC POL-SCI COOP SOC-CAP POLITICAL-WILL TODO)

IN honor of women's history month and in memory of Erma Bombeck who lost her fight with cancer. Pass this on to five women that you want watched over. If you don't know five women to pass this on to, one will do just fine. IF I HAD MY LIFE TO L... (-2009-11-13 topics: PERSONAL AMANDA INSPIRATION QT)

By MICHAEL LEWIS I. Looking for the Next Anti-Lawrence Taylor As he drove into Memphis in March 2004, Tom Lemming thought that everything about Michael Oher, including his surname, was odd. He played for a small private school, the Briarcrest Chris... (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/magazine/24football.html?scp=7&sq=oher&st=nyt-2009-11-13 topics: SPORTS PROGRESS-POSSIBLE EDUC INSPIRATION SEND:SUE-POPKIN)

Excellent presentation by Hiram Fitzgerald at Indep. Sector conference, 11/2009 Detroit Hiram E. Fitzgerald University Outreach and Engagement Michigan State University Kellogg Center, Garden Level East Lansing, MI 48824-1022 Phone: (517) 353-8977 F... (http://outreach.msu.edu/documents/KYengConf-1108_HEF-PR.pdf-2009-11-13 topics: SOLUTIONS KEY-A NONPROFIT-INNOVATION ALLIES)

The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods illuminates how our networked approach to housing policy developed and fundamentally transformed governmental response to public welfare. Through historical political analysis and detailed c... (http://www.urban.org/books/housingrevolution/-2009-11-13 topics: NONPROFIT-GVT SOLUTIONS HOUS)

sum["Those returning to work are taking an average 40% pay cut from their old jobs, estimated Kenneth Couch, an economics professor at the University of Connecticut. He based the number on the experiences of Connecticut residents during the 2001 rec... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125798515916944341.html?mod=djemITP#printMode-2009-11-12 topics: JOBS RECESSION DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY UNEMPLOYMENT)

By AMY MERRICK After months of spending cuts and layoffs, states are drawing up plans for tax increases and an even larger round of service reductions next year as budget shortfalls continue to widen. In hard-hit Michigan, Democratic Gov. Jennifer... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125798665633544377.html?mod=djemITP#printMode-2009-11-12 topics: GVT-FIN RECESSION NONPROFIT)

The federal government has promised to pour billions into urban “children’s zones,” lifting kids out of the mire of intergenerational poverty. Can it work in Baltimore? SUM[ Alonso (Balt. school chancellor) welcomes federal funding that w... (http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/sub.cfm?sectionID=4&articleID=1358&IssueID=78-2009-11-12 topics: )

By NEIL KING JR. WASHINGTON -- A handful of states stand to win significant federal funding to revamp schools and impose strict testing standards under an Obama administration effort to alter educational practices across the country. Education Sec... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125799419446144683.html?mod=djemITP#printMode-2009-11-12 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS OBAMA-ADMIN)

http://www.deltacostproject.org/resources/pdf/DiplomaToNowhere.pdf September 15, 2008 Nearly four out of five students who undergo remediation in college graduated from high school with grade-point averages of 3.0 or higher, according to a report is... (http://chronicle.com/article/Most-Students-in-Remedial/41611-2009-11-12 topics: EDUC HIGHER-ED)

Samasource enables marginalized people, from refugees in Kenya to women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing work opportunities via the Internet. The core of this concept is microwork - little bits of labor that can be performed anytime and a... (http://www.samasource.org/-2009-11-12 topics: INTL-DEV SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION YOUTH-VOLUNTEER)

SUM[ NOTE: Lives in grouphome: "Ensign lived with Coburn in the C Street House, a brick rowhouse where eight or nine Christian members of Congress share a home, meals and Tuesday night Bible study."] By Mary Jordan Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesd... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903456_pf.html-2009-11-11 topics: CONG CONSERVATIVE GOOD-LIFE)

By Kathleen Parker Wednesday, November 11, 2009 One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion. Yet, coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace in China, B... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/10/AR2009111013891_pf.html-2009-11-11 topics: CHINA HUMAN-RIGHTS ABORTION)

...similar lability (fluctuating back and forth, sometimes in a quick manner) in a person’s emotions and feelings. Relationships and the person’s emotion may often be characterized as being shallow. A person with this disorder will also often e... (http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/symptoms-of-borderline-personality-disorder/-2009-11-11 topics: PERSONAL PAM)

Public confidence in nonprofit organizations and in government is abysmal. What if there's a relatively simply remedy? This study explores one option. Premises: * Mental frameworks matter. If something seems unfair, the sense of unfairness trump... (-2009-11-11 topics: IDEAS NONPROFIT-COMP GVT-COMP KEY TODO)

The members of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) help millions of individuals and their families every day through mission-driven, not-for-profit organizations dedicated to providing the services that people need, ... (http://www.aahsa.org/article.aspx?id=256-2009-11-11 topics: NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

By JUSTIN LAHART The American tradition of tinkering -- the spark for inventions from the telephone to the Apple computer -- is making a comeback, boosted by renewed interest in hands-on work amid the economic crisis and falling prices of high-tech... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125798004542744219.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLESecondNews#printMode-2009-11-11 topics: JOBS INNOVATION CAPITALISM TECH)

By David A. Fahrenthold Thursday, November 12, 2009 Pollutants that mimic natural hormones have created a "toxic stew" in the Potomac River, altering the sexual development and the immune systems of fish, a local nonprofit group warned in a repo... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/11/AR2009111118805_pf.html-2009-11-11 topics: ENV PUB-HLTH)

Photos of Everglades, etc. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/11/clyde_butcher.html-2009-11-10 topics: ARTS CHARACTER JOBS)

SUM[ NOTE: James made simple decision that he liked research better than being a practicing surgeon.] By DAVID LEONHARDT I. During one of our first conversations, Brent James told me a story that you wouldn’t necessarily expect to hear from a do... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/magazine/08Healthcare-t.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-11-10 topics: HLTH-FIN OUTCOME-MEAS JOBS KEY SOLUTIONS)

reQall is a voice-enabled memory aid that seamlessly integrates your mobile phone, email, text messaging and IM into a powerful organizer, reminder system and productivity assistant. reQall lets you capture your ideas, tasks and commitments before y... (http://www.reqall.com/about-2009-11-09 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST KEY BK COG-SCI BIG-THINK MEMORY)

by Alec Wilkinson MAY 28, 2007 Gordon Bell’s personal archive is the most extensive of its kind. ctober arrived in 1998, and Gordon Bell went paperless, after hearing from a professor at Carnegie Mellon who was engaged in a project to scan a mil... (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/28/070528fa_fact_wilkinson?printable=true-2009-11-09 topics: MEMORY TECH PROGRESS TODO KEY)

sum[ Contradictions in his argument: long-term funding will tend to go to big established orgs, not little ones that are less stable. Second, having foundations own newspapers is likely to decrease accountability of foundations, not increase it!] Fo... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574481773446591750.html-2009-11-09 topics: FOUNDATIONS BIG-THINK)

see: http://www.irvine.org/images/stories/pdf/eval/convergencereport.pdf note[ sat in small group session with Alex Hildebrand of La Piana at IS conf, 11/2009] By Caroline Preston The nonprofit field isn’t going to simply bounce back a few years... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=10105-2009-11-09 topics: NONPROFIT BIG-THINK)

Thanks Steve. I haven't had a chance to do any more work on this, although I believe we have all the pieces in place to complete a brief on the topic. What sort of work are you doing? If I had some extra time and money, the topic(s) that intrig... (-2009-11-09 topics: NCCS IDEAS NONPROFIT)

Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning c... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report-2009-11-09 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY-A US-NEEDS)

By Jay Mathews Monday, November 9, 2009 Those unfortunate people in the District might worry about the quality of their teachers and wait anxiously for the results of the school system's controversial new evaluation of classroom techniques and tes... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110817684_pf.html-2009-11-09 topics: EDUC CHARTER-SCHOOLS HR OUTCOME-MEAS DC)

By Ashley Halsey III Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 9, 2009 Two relics from an earlier century broke down last week, causing vast new frustration for commuters who normally rank among the nation's most frustrated and delays that any... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110818246_pf.html-2009-11-09 topics: GVT-MGT GVT-LIMITS TRANS)

sum[ note:"Most of the mobile unit employees were caseworkers at nonprofit agencies serving the mentally ill, and that has been an asset, said Vasquez, who hired them. "It's nothing against government, but we're not caught up in the mind-set of bur... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110818231_pf.html-2009-11-09 topics: HUM-SRV DC SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT)

By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 9, 2009 Venture Philanthropy Partners on Monday will announce a $4.5 million grant to the local chapter of a national nonprofit group that prepares young people for technology careers, ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110817752_pf.html-2009-11-09 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION HUM-SRV SOLUTIONS)

By Nelson Hernandez Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 9, 2009 Whether someone speaks English or Spanish to you at Kemp Mill Elementary School can be a matter of walking a few feet in one direction or another. The 193 students in the d... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110818227_pf.html-2009-11-09 topics: EDUC IMMI SOLUTIONS DC)

sum[strauss: parental anxiety for preschoolers] By Valerie Strauss Monday, November 9, 2009 It is well known that many preschool parents have become super-anxious trying to give their kids a leg up on kindergarten, but I didn't realize just how nu... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/08/AR2009110817683_pf.html-2009-11-09 topics: PARENTING CULT EXCESS GREED)

By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE I. At sunset on a September evening, Dick Armey, the former House majority leader, strode to a lectern set up in the parking lot of a Harley-Davidson dealership in Hickory, N.C., where about 300 people had gathered to hear him s... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/magazine/08Armey-t.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-11-09 topics: PUB-OP IGNORANCE KEY LYING POLITICS CONSERVATIVE)

By Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 8, 2009 Hours after President Obama exhorted Democratic lawmakers to "answer the call of history," the House hit an unprecedented milestone on the path to health-... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/07/AR2009110701504_pf.html-2009-11-08 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS)

Print Share Email TOPICS: HEALTH REFORM, INSURANCE By Eric Pianin, Mary Agnes Carey and Julie Appleby NOV 02, 2009 Residents during a town hall meeting in August hosted by Rep. James Moran (D-Va.) in Reston, Va. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) For all th... (http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/October/31/health-insurance-public-option-negligible.aspx-2009-11-08 topics: HLTH-FIN)

By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON — As the most gifted orator of his generation, President Obama finds speechmaking perhaps his most potent political tool. It propelled him to national prominence in 2004 and to the White House in 2008. And whenever he ne... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/weekinreview/08baker.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-11-08 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC LD-LIMITS)

By Kathy Patterson Washington Sunday, November 8, 2009 If Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee wanted moral support after a dispiriting day of being berated by the D.C. Council, here are some people to call: Franklin Smith. Arlene Ackerman. Juli... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110301431_pf.html-2009-11-08 topics: DC LD EDUC)

== Core Planning Group == * Courtney Stewart, Mentoring Works2 (Lincoln-Bell and Haynes) * Pat Jenkins, Columbia Heights Village Together * Stephanie Grimes, Project Northstar/The Martin Pollak Project * Meghan McNamara, Greater DC Cares Neighboring... (-2009-11-07 topics: IDEAS URBAN-INST EDUC DC-PP KEY)

By DAVID LEONHARDT For all the pain caused by the Great Recession, the job market still was not in as bad shape as it had been during the depths of the early 1980s recession — until now. With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broades... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/business/economy/07econ.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-11-07 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

BWI shuttle busdriver talks about importance of taking time, holding on "gently," stops to help woman who wants to go to Marriott but doesn't know word "taxi." Young woman with Peace Corps name tag on her quilted bag keeps mocking him, showing anno... (-2009-11-07 topics: KEY COMMUNICATIONS UNTAPPED-CAPACITY LD PERSONAL)

== Key Concepts == * Moral and technology innovation * Project Dimensions and Requirements ** Door-to-door community organizing: Getting boots on the ground. ** Technology, data and information: The NCCS Community Platform ** Knowledge, expertise, w... (-2009-11-07 topics: IDEAS KEY-A UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

== Diana Aviv == * Incivility: neighbors afraid to talk to neighbors * 20%?? of drivers who are subjected to incivility will lash out. * "ORGS KEYED TO COMMON GOOD" * Community voice mail for homeless -- example of nonprofit-for-profit collab. * Mo... (-2009-11-07 topics: UNTAPPED-CAPACITY NOTES QT nonprofit)

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and BRAD STONE SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist. These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Face... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/technology/internet/07virtual.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-11-07 topics: INTERNET CONSUMER RETAIL)

drop table if exists scratch.temp; create table scratch.temp select ein, max(formyr) as fy from nccs.SuperCore20090210_prg group by ein; alter table scratch.temp add index (ein), add index (fy); UPDATE nccs.SuperCore20090210_prg a, scratch.temp b ... (-2009-11-07 topics: NCCS PROGRAMMING)

SUM[ 30% of returning serviceman have psych. issues. "High num. linked to it being largest base."] By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 6, 2009 Fort Hood, the Texas military base that was the scene of a mass shooting... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110505396_pf.html-2009-11-06 topics: MILITARY JOURNALISM DOMESTIC-NEEDS WAR)

Friday, November 6, 2009, 5:05pm EST The Allegro Apartments, at 3460 14th Street NW, offer easy access to the Target shopping center, the Columbia Heights Metro Station and Rock Creek Park. On the ground floor is a new restaurant, Thai Tanic II, mod... (http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/breaking_ground/2009/11/foreclosure_looms_for_allegro.html-2009-11-06 topics: DC-PP HOUS RECESSION)

By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, November 5, 2009 KABUL -- Five British soldiers were shot and killed Tuesday by an Afghan policeman while they were working together in southern Afghanistan, British officials said. The ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110400208_pf.html-2009-11-05 topics: AFGHAN WAR NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

By Ashley Halsey III Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 5, 2009 In the backdrop of so much of 21st-century life, computers are an unseen hand that guides the day in ways we rarely know about. Until they crash. Wednesday provided one ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110402413_pf.html-2009-11-05 topics: TECH KEY URB CPTR AUTOMOBILE)

note: npr? 2/3 of independents voting Repub. in NJ, exit polls showed, a big change from split or majority voting for Obama in last gen. election. By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, November 5, 2009 EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. Tuesday's elections were a rebuke... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110402868_pf.html-2009-11-05 topics: DEMOCRATS PUB-OP)

By IAN URBINA and CHRISTOPHER MAAG CLEVELAND — After the third police station in a row refused to take a missing-person report about her niece two years ago, Sandy Drain took matters into her own hands. She organized search parties to comb aband... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/us/06cleveland.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-11-05 topics: RASCISM CRIME BLCK)

By Jennifer LaRue Huget Thursday, November 5, 2009 Mankind has been drinking the milk of fellow mammals for millennia. Milk has long been regarded as a nutritional mainstay, vital to building strong bones, particularly among Western cultures. But ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110301507_pf.html-2009-11-04 topics: NUTRITION)

The Council of State Governments-WEST: Special Report: Legislative Civility: Can it survive polarized voters and contentious politics? (ric uslaner) P.M. Forni, Cofounder of the Johns Hopkins Civility Project Pay attention Acknowledge others Think t... (-2009-11-03 topics: KEY CONCEPTS SOC-CAP PSYCH SOLUTIONS CULT TODO)

sum[I found disturbing a recent story about Rhee by Turque, in which he quotes a few principals who said that Rhee asked at a meeting how she could regain the trust of teachers. Such a question indicates that she recognizes that having their trust i... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110102318_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: DC POOR-LD LYING)

SUM["Obama's commitment to work within a set of international organizations and treaties is an echo of the last sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Woodrow Wilson, except that in Obama's world the United States is more of an equal p... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110102604_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: F-PLY COOP KEY-A OBAMA)

By Juliet Eilperin Monday, November 2, 2009 The climate-change bill that has been moving slowly through the Senate will face a stark political reality when it emerges for committee debate on Tuesday: With Democrats deeply divided on the issue, unl... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110102593.html-2009-11-03 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING LEGIS)

A bomb attached to a bicycle killed five people in southern Iraq on Sunday, and at least five others were killed in violence across the country, police said. The bloodshed comes as Iraqi lawmakers intensify negotiations over a new election law that ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110102436_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: TERRORISM NO-EASY-ANSWERS IRAQ)

By Lisa Rein Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 2, 2009 An innovative policy to fight suburban sprawl catapulted Maryland into the national spotlight a decade ago and became then-Gov. Parris N. Glendening's principal legacy. But a new ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110102470.html-2009-11-03 topics: SUBURBS ENV REG LEGIS NO-EASY-ANSWERS POLITICAL-WILL)

By Daniel de Vise Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 2, 2009 Former George Washington University president Stephen J. Trachtenberg received $3.7 million in pay and benefits in 2007-08, $2 million more than the total compensation that ye... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110102071_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: HIGHER-ED NONPROFIT-COMP)

By Miranda S. Spivack Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 2, 2009 The FBI is looking into the spending practices at Centro Familia, a Wheaton nonprofit group that runs a bilingual preschool, trains day-care providers and receives about $... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110101877_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: NONPROFIT-GVT HUM-SRV MGY-CO)

By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 2, 2009 Private schools have a reputation for being, well, private. Private about their size, private about their students, private about rates of college-bound students. The infor... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110101878_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: NCCS NONPROFIT DATA PUB-INFO)

Description: This file contains data from a 2008 fast-response survey titled “After-School Programs in Public Elementary Schools.” This survey provides a national profile of various types of formal after-school programs physically located at pub... (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009084-2009-11-03 topics: NONPROFIT-GVT DATA NCCS EDUC SOLUTIONS HUM-SRV TODO)

By Jay Mathews Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 2, 2009 In the last half of the 19th century, many inventors pursued the dream of building an airplane. Duds and crashes were frequent and skeptics numerous. Only a decade before the Wri... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110101871_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS KEY EDUC SOLUTIONS)

sum[ Using large amounts of borrowed money, or leverage, these buyers push up prices to extreme levels. Because those prices are far above what would make sense for investors using less borrowed money, they violate the idea of efficient markets. But... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125720159912223873.html?mod=djemITP#printMode-2009-11-03 topics: ECON RECESSION PSYCH)

Sunday, November 1, 2009 If you need yet another reason -- beyond wasted gasoline, lost time and road rage -- to hate traffic jams, here's one: They're bad for babies. Columbia University economist Janet Currie and doctoral student Reed Walker de... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103002709_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: TECH SOLUTIONS AUTOMOBILE ENV PUB-HLTH)

By David A. Fahrenthold and Fredrick Kunkle Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 3, 2009 In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obviou... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/02/AR2009110202712_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: GUN-CONTROL VIOLENCE CONSERVATIVE PUB-OP IGNORANCE)

By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 2, 2009 Annie McCann was a sweet-natured, sheltered suburban girl from Fairfax County. She didn't hang out at malls or party with friends. At 16, she still collected "Arthur" cartoon DVD... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110102089.html-2009-11-03 topics: PARENTING UNCERTAINTY TEEN PSYCH)

SUM[ In the aftermath of the fall of Soviet communism, many Western intellectuals remain convinced that capitalism is the root of all evil. There has been a long tradition of such animosity among Western intellectuals who gave the benefit of doubt o... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110101702_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: HUM-NAT CONSERVATIVE KEY BIG-THINK POL-PHIL EUR)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, November 2, 2009 The next health-care fight has already started. It's the battle to define the bill that President Obama will eventually sign as a victory for consumers, taxpayers and the common good. You might say this... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110101703_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: HLTH-FIN)

By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, November 2, 2009 The idea that the government of a major advanced country would default on its debt -- that is, tell lenders that it won't repay them all they're owed -- was, until recently, a preposterous propositio... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/01/AR2009110101704_pf.html-2009-11-03 topics: FED-BGT DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pa... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703399204574505423751140690.html#printMode-2009-11-03 topics: HLTH-FIN CONSERVATIVE)

Interesting to juxtapose Elinor Ostrom's work on common pool resources with your work Institutional perspective: difficult, but not impossible, to craft rules Uslaner: sports: teach tolerance, leadership, focus on common goal (Robbers' Cave exper. ... (-2009-11-03 topics: IDEAS KEY SOC-CAP)

sum[ This, in Skidelsky’s convincing telling, is why financial markets are so prone to disorder and disaster. It’s not that investors are terribly irra­tional. It’s that no one can really know what rational means when it comes to pricing inve... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Fox-t.html?_r=1&sq=keynes&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-11-03 topics: ECON GOOD-LIFE I-HIST)

Summary: Using two different approaches, the World Bank estimates that, if countries improve their policies and institutions, the additional foreign aid required to reach the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 is between $40-$60 billion a year. Th... (http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/mdgassessment.pdf-2009-11-03 topics: INTL-DEV KEY)

Radial categories - central categories Prototypes: "element of a category (either a subcategory or an individual member) 8 They are COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS * Central subcategory of a radial category - basis for extending the class * Typical case pro... (-2009-11-02 topics: COG-SCI PSYCH DIVISIVE)

Hospitals and Healthcare firms continue to come under increased scrutiny by regulators and industry watchers. Form 990 Schedule H is one of the areas in which the increased scrutiny has presented a series of challenges. It is often described as “a... (http://www.knowledgecongress.org/event_2009_Form990-H.html-2009-11-02 topics: NCCS 990)

By Mary Elise Sarotte Sunday, November 1, 2009 BERLIN -- Once events make their passage from news of the day into history books, it is hard to imagine that they could have happened any other way. They're history, after all. And 20 years later, the... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001846_pf.html-2009-11-02 topics: EUR HIST random)

SUM["Pleshakov recognizes the need to temper celebration with cold reality. When light was restored, East Europeans emerged not as heroes but as flawed human beings. They are indeed just like everyone else. As Poland's Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski once... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001843_pf.html-2009-11-02 topics: EUR HIST DEMOCRACY HUM-NAT KEY BK-REV)

By Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins see: "Creating an Opportunity Society." Sunday, November 1, 2009 Americans have always believed that their country is unique in providing the opportunity to get ahead. Just combine hard work with a bit of talent a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001845_pf.html-2009-11-02 topics: KEY WISDOM EQUALITY IMMI HLTH-FIN FED-BGT POV)

By Josef Joffe Sunday, November 1, 2009 Imagine waking up one fine Sunday morning to learn that they are laying down barbed wire in Washington. The coils cut off the western side of the District from Northeast and Southeast. Over the next three ye... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001849_pf.html-2009-11-02 topics: EUR:GERMANY HIST)

By Clay Risen Sunday, November 1, 2009 BERLIN -- Peter and Angela Hofmann aren't a typical German couple. For one thing, they met online, a rarity in this techno-wary country. For another, the couple, both 55, moved this year from Berlin to rural... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001844_pf.html-2009-11-02 topics: EUR:GERM)

By LIZ ROBBINS http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/sports/02men.html?hp http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/david_epstein/11/01/nyc.marathon/ Derartu Tulu has raced to history throughout her career, and on a cool, cloudy day of surprises for... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/sports/02women.html-2009-11-01 topics: RUNNING PAIN INSPIRATION)

sum["In March, Gallup's annual environment survey found an increase in the percentage of Americans who say the seriousness of global warming is "generally exaggerated" -- from 30% in 2006 to 41% this year. Similarly, Fox News found the percentage of... (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1390/why-do-fewer-americans-believe-the-earth-is-warming-2009-11-01 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-OP IGNORANCE)

Thursday, October 29, 2009 Email to a FriendShareThis Advertisement Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Americans say they eat dinner with family members at least twice a week, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Thirty-eight p... (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/october_2009/65_eat_dinner_with_family_members_at_least_twice_a_week-2009-11-01 topics: GOOD-LIFE)

By MAGGIE JONES In the Southeast section of Washington, a public boarding school sits on four compact acres, enclosed by an eight-foot-high black metal fence. Behind the fence, the modern buildings of the SEED School are well scrubbed and soaked in... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27Boarding-t.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print-2009-11-01 topics: CHARTER-SCHOOLS SOLUTIONS DC NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

By Justin Rodriguez, Special to ESPNsoccernet SEE: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=575144&sec=us&root=us&cc=5901 - Joseph Gyau (Archive) September 12, 2008 Comment Email Print He still makes the lopsided soccer balls out of plastic bag... (http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=571292&cc=5901-2009-11-01 topics: SOCCER AFRICA INTL-NEEDS CHARACTER INSPIRATION)

SEE ALSO: * http://www.amazon.com/Necessary-Revolution-individuals-organizations-sustainable/dp/038551901X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257133442&sr=8-2 * http://www.amazon.com/Presence-Exploration-Profound-Organizations-Society/dp/038551624X/ref... (-2009-11-01 topics: LD MGT BK COG-SCI COMPLEXITY)

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. SEE ALSO: * http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/sotp/commons.dtl * http://dieoff.org/page95.htm: Home http://www.warsocialism.com/America.htm The Tra... (http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/sotp/pdfs/162-3859-1243.pdf-2009-10-31 topics: KEY COOP BIG-THINK)

Saturday, October 31, 2009 D.C. SCHOOLS Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee stands accused, it seems, of trying to manage her budget in a way that will do the least harm to students. Not a crime, you might think -- unless, like Ms. Rhee's accusers on the ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103003314_pf.html-2009-10-31 topics: DC POOR-LD GVT-MGT EDUC LYING)

By PAUL KRUGMAN O.K., folks, this is it. It’s the defining moment for health care reform. Past efforts to give Americans what citizens of every other advanced nation already have — guaranteed access to essential care — have ended not with a ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/opinion/30krugman.html?pagewanted=print-2009-10-31 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS)

By ADAM KIRSCH AYN RAND AND THE WORLD SHE MADE By Anne C. Heller Illustrated. 567 pp. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. $35 A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand’s libertarian epic “Atlas Shrugged,” Ga... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-31 topics: CHARACTER CONSERVATIVE BK PUBLIC-INTELLECTUALS)

By BOB HERBERT That period right after college graduation is when young people tend to think they can set the world on fire. Careers are starting, and relationships in the broader world are forming. It’s exciting, and optimism is off the charts. ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/opinion/31herbert.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-31 topics: JOBS YOUTH)

By STEVEN ERLANGER and MAÏA DE LA BAUME PARIS — Just as Le Corbusier’s white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib’, Paris’s bicycle rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era o... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/world/europe/31bikes.html?em-2009-10-31 topics: INDIV-BEHAVIOR SOLUTIONS BIKES EUR INEQUALITY KEY COOP-LIMITS DISRUPTIVE)

By TARA PARKER-POPE Does running a marathon push the body further than it is meant to go? The conventional wisdom is that distance running leads to debilitating wear and tear, especially on the joints. But that hasn’t stopped runners from flocki... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/health/27well.html?em-2009-10-31 topics: RUNNING)

By NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN Bolinas, Calif. IS eating a hamburger the global warming equivalent of driving a Hummer? This week an article in The Times of London carried a headline that blared: “Give Up Meat to Save the Planet.” Former Vice Preside... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/opinion/31niman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-31 topics: AGRICULTURE GLOBAL-WARMING ENV)

By JODI KANTOR I. Another Washington dusk, another motorcade, another intimate evening played out in public view. On Oct. 3, just a day after their failed Olympics bid in Copenhagen, Barack and Michelle Obama slipped into a Georgetown restaurant f... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/magazine/01Obama-t.html?em-2009-10-31 topics: MARRIAGE OBAMA)

By Steve Yanda Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 31, 2009 CHARLOTTESVILLE -- An all-state honoree who set her high school's records for goals and assists doesn't expect to be warming the bench midway through her third collegiate socce... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103003544.html-2009-10-31 topics: SPORTS PROGRESS KEY LD)

By Lori Montgomery and Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 1, 2009 The debate over whether to let states opt out of any government-run health insurance plan overlooks a key facet of the health-care measures being assembled i... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/31/AR2009103101769_pf.html-2009-10-31 topics: HLTH-FIN)

By Robert Barnes and Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 1, 2009 The Supreme Court this week will hear a case that raises bedrock questions about the ability of the market to set "reasonable" corporate compensation, and exp... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/31/AR2009103101776_pf.html-2009-10-31 topics: EXEC-COMP S-CT)

By BRUCE BUSCHEL Herewith is a modest list of dos and don’ts for servers at the seafood restaurant I am building. Veteran waiters, moonlighting actresses, libertarians and baristas will no doubt protest some or most of what follows. They will cla... (http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/one-hundred-things-restaurant-staffers-should-never-do-part-one/?em-2009-10-31 topics: CUSTOMER-SRV)

Lydia DePillis October 29, 2009 | 12:00 am Tea partiers, townhall protesters, Texas secessionists--for the past few months, grassroots organizing has seemed to be mostly the domain of the right. And for a period this summer, they (okay, not the Tex... (http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/disorganized-2009-10-31 topics: CMTY-ORGANIZING OBAMA)

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN More and more lately, I find people asking me: What do you think President Obama really believes about this or that issue? I find that odd. How is it that a president who has taken on so many big issues, with very specific pol... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/opinion/01friedman.html?pagewanted=print-2009-10-31 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC SACRIFICE KEY)

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Perhaps the most wretched people on this planet are those suffering obstetric fistulas. This is a childbirth injury, often suffered by a teenager in Africa or Asia whose pelvis is not fully grown. She suffers obstructed labo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/opinion/01kristof.html?pagewanted=print-2009-10-31 topics: INTL-NEEDS)

By Jack Shafer Posted Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, at 5:56 PM ET Who doesn't adore Jim Brady, the former executive editor of the Washingtonpost.com? Even I like him, and I don't like anybody. He's proved himself as a reporter, a manager, and an executiv... (Article URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2233836/-2009-10-30 topics: INTERNET PRESS)

Nice use of video, short "progress reports"/briefs, photo gallery, and "infographics" - a model for how to change public opinion... (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/livingproofproject/Pages/default.aspx-2009-10-30 topics: INTL-DEV ALLIES KEY-A COMMUNICATIONS PUB-OP SOLUTIONS)

sum[ According to a yearly count by the Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness, there were more than 6,000 homeless people living in the District in August. That group includes about 703 homeless families with about 1,400 childre... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100205292_pf.html-2009-10-30 topics: DC HOMELESS DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

By LIZ ROBBINS Unlike most 8-year-olds touring New York City, Wesley Paul began his sightseeing on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, standing elbow to knee with 4,822 strangers. Paul was ready to run the 1977 New York City Marathon, and while the magn... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/sports/27marathon.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-29 topics: RUNNING)

see: http://www.opm.gov/ses/facts_and_figures/SES_AnnualReport_FY2008.pdf#page=2 Saturday, October 24, 2009 The Oct. 19 front-page story "Top aides to Obama upbraid Wall St." reported on hefty bonuses for senior executives of financial companies.... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/23/AR2009102303671_pf.html-2009-10-29 topics: GVT-MGT HR OUTCOME-MEAS)

$2,544 - average tuition/fees for public 2-year college this year, up 7.3%. (College Board) - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/education/ (10/29/09)... (-2009-10-29 topics: HIGHER-ED)

By George F. Will SEE: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/10/george_will_and_global_warming.html - RESPONSE BY EZRA KLEIN Thursday, October 1, 2009 Plateau in Temperatures Adds Difficulty to Task Of Reaching a Solution -- New York... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/30/AR2009093003569_pf.html-2009-10-29 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING)

By Ezra Klein Wednesday, October 14, 2009 This column has focused on the effects of food production on climate change. But what about the effects of climate change on food production? After all, few things are as sensitive to changes in weather as... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101300419.html-2009-10-29 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING)

SEE: http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/556.pdf - FULL REPORT; http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/weekend-opinionator-are-americans-cooling-on-global-warming/ Overview There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percenta... (http://people-press.org/report/556/global-warming-2009-10-29 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-OP IGNORANCE)

see: http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/getPage.asp?page=periodView&period=2636 By TOM ZELLER Jr. NEW YORK — This month, the mayor of Mesa, Arizona, a city of about 500,000 inhabitants in the American Southwest, became the 1,000th local leader to sign... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/business/energy-environment/19iht-green19.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1256815570-6SH1sR66PfB7rRzdOeEVGg&pagewanted=print-2009-10-29 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS FS-RSC CMTY)

SEE: http://nsidc.org/news/press/20091005_minimumpr.html By ANDREW C. REVKIN The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea-ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of “second... (http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/spread-of-thicker-arctic-ice-seen-last-summer/?scp=5&sq=revkin&st=cse-2009-10-29 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING:EVIDENCE)

see: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/policymakers/policy/slowdown.html - British Met assessment By ANDREW C. REVKIN The world leaders who met at the United Nations to discuss climate change on Tuesday are faced with an intricate challenge:... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/science/earth/23cool.htm?pagewanted=print-2009-10-29 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING:EVIDENCE)

By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 29, 2009 On Wednesday morning, the students at Brent Elementary School on Capitol Hill gave class presentations about their firefighter, shark and princess costumes. In the afte... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102805033_pf.html-2009-10-29 topics: DC EDUC)

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/moving_from_old_to_new.pdf (-2009-10-29 topics: NCCS)

By Noelle Barton A prominent charity executive who leads two big charities in North Carolina decided this month to stop receiving pay from one of the organizations. The Rev. Franklin Graham, who serves as chief executive at the Billy Graham Eva... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=9987-2009-10-29 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP RELIGION)

By DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligenc... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-28 topics: AFGHAN F-PLY NO-EASY-ANSWERS CORRUPTN)

By Lena H. Sun Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Starting Jan. 1, Metro will make major changes in its popular SmartBenefits program that are designed to make transit more convenient, but information released so far has b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2009102703957_pf.html-2009-10-28 topics: DC GVT-MGT TRANS CPTR)

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, facing a showdown Thursday with the D.C. Council over layoffs and budget cuts, has asked principals what she can do to "regain the trus... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2009102702108_pf.html-2009-10-28 topics: DC GVT-MGT LD)

Throughout history, passionate individuals have joined together to make life better in their communities. Today, thousands of donors pool their money, energy, and ideas to create giving circles. Giving circles have emerged the last decade as a ... (http://www.givingforum.org/s_forum/sec.asp?CID=611&DID=2661-2009-10-28 topics: FS-RSC ALLIES KEY GIVING CMTY SOLUTIONS)

By MICHIKO KAKUTANI A COLOSSAL FAILURE OF COMMON SENSE The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers By Lawrence G. McDonald with Patrick Robinson 351 pages. Crown Business. $27. IN FED WE TRUST Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/books/21kakutani.html?pagewanted=print-2009-10-28 topics: RECESSION BANK ECON KEY)

Legislation aimed at overhauling lobbying and ethics law is now moving through Congress, and several proposals being debated by the Senate and House will directly affect nonprofit organizations engaged in advocacy at the federal level. The Senate h... (http://www2.guidestar.org/rxa/news/articles/2006/federal-lobby-reform-legislation-will-affect-nonprofit-advocacy.aspx?articleId=714-2009-10-27 topics: NONPROFIT ADVOCACY DATA NCCS)

SUM[ BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS' LESSONS FOR HEALTH CARE: "Non-financial things matter. . . . When the choice itself is complicated, it can deter people from making choices," said William J. Congdon of the Brookings Institution. "The small hassles associa... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102502607_pf.html-2009-10-27 topics: SOC-SCI KEY-A PSYCH)

By William Kristol Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Bien-pensant conservative elites and establishment-friendly Republican big shots yearn for a more moderate, temperate and sophisticated Republican Party. It's not likely to happen. And probably just ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102602651_pf.html-2009-10-27 topics: CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS)

Sentiment analysis could help policy-makers gauge the public's pulse sum[ However, in the era of Web 2.0 and social media, most new data exists in the form of unstructured, unanalyzed text that is accumulating at a dizzying rate. By one estimate, th... (http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/10/05/TECH-Sentiment-analysis.aspx?s=gov2_271009&p=1-2009-10-27 topics: PUB-OP SOC-SCI KEY)

By Diane Weaver Dunne ddunne@HartfordBusiness.com 10/19/09 The recession has hit the region’s nonprofits hard, with nearly a third concerned that they may shutter their operations in the coming year, according to the annual survey conducted b... (http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news10618.html-2009-10-27 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION)

By Jason Edward Kaufman | From issue 206, October 2009 Published online 5 Oct 09 (News) The glitz of meeting Tom Cruise remains, but LA museum director Michael Govan loses bonus. Copyright: Jeff Vespa/Getty Images new york. A survey of more tha... (http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Salary-cuts-for-one-third-of-US-museum-directors/19366-2009-10-27 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP ARTS RECESSION)

Zack Warren Economist, Occupational Employment Statistics program, Bureau of Labor Statistics. E-mail: warren.zachary@bls.gov The for-profit and not-for-profit sectors differ in regards to the industries with the most employees and the types of jo... (http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/11/art2abs.htm-2009-10-27 topics: NCCS DATA NONPROFIT KEY COMPENSATION JOBS)

Search Tips For the Find Name field, you may use AND and OR [e.g., 1) san carlos, 2) carlos OR charles, 3) carl* OR charl*, 4) san AND carlos, 5) carlos AND (san OR saint), 6) (carlos OR charles) AND (san OR saint)] Boolean operators must be in all ... (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/-2009-10-27 topics: NCCS DATA STANDARDS)

Robert Greenstein OPINION/ANALYSIS: We recently updated our long-term projections of federal spending, revenues and deficits, and they confirm what budget experts both inside and outside the government have concluded: The nation is on an unsust... (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/27/on-the-deficit-dont-make-things-worse//print/-2009-10-27 topics: CONG COURAGE EC-TX FED-BGT DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY)

By Dan Balz Sunday, October 25, 2009 The resurrection of the public option is the latest and one of the most surprising turns in the long battle over legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system. Under assault for months, and declared o... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/24/AR2009102401194.html-2009-10-26 topics: HLTH-FIN)

sum[ MCR not good model for public plan, since former has been UNSUCCESSFUL holding down costs (9.2% vs. 10.4% for private insurance and difference "partly reflects cost shifting." 2- Also, "But profits represent only 3 percent of the insurance ind... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102502041_pf.html-2009-10-26 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

sum[ The federal Student Support Services program, launched during the Nixon administration, is part of a larger effort to help disadvantaged students overcome academic and cultural barriers to success in higher education. The program is part of TRI... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102502488_pf.html-2009-10-26 topics: HIGHER-ED EDUC SOLUTIONS FED-BGT)

By Fred Hiatt Monday, October 26, 2009 The "public option" is dangerous not for what it might do but for what it allows the politicians not to do. From the start, the Obama administration has said that health-care reform has to make health care b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102502043_pf.html-2009-10-26 topics: HLTH-FIN)

sum[One option is the idea Ricks recently suggested to me: "Why not do the Petraeus plan [counterinsurgency] for the major population centers and the Biden plan [counterterrorism] for the rest of the country?" Following that middle course might be t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102502042_pf.html-2009-10-26 topics: AFGHAN KEY)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, October 26, 2009 BOSTON Mayor Tom Menino looks around the elevator and reaches instinctively for the hand of the only person in the car he's never met. "Where are you from?" he asks the young man. "Somerville," the you... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/25/AR2009102502040_pf.html-2009-10-26 topics: POLITICS PUB-OP DEMOCRACY)

Take a look at this unusual list of 30 books recommended to students in Britain who have applied to Oxford and/or Cambridge universities and are preparing for their admissions interviews. The list was drawn up by Oxbridge Applications, an independe... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/college-admissions/-here-is-an-unusual.html-2009-10-26 topics: EDUC GABE AMANDA BK LIST)

see: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/nyregion/16bigcity.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print After days of frantic blogging on the latest D.C. schools crisis and trading speculation with interested readers, I find it refreshing to visit three educators who ... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2009/10/_after_days_of_frantic.html-2009-10-26 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS DC)

sum[AND it means the school’s teachers administer almost no homework. “We found it was a waste of time for the teachers and the students,” said Mr. Leonard. Instead, they emphasize after-school tutoring where the teachers can keep a better eye... (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/nyregion/16bigcity.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-10-26 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS)

By: Michael Neibauer Examiner Staff Writer October 26, 2009 D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles has ordered the Fenty administration to submit all contracts that exceed $1 million to the D.C. Council for review, rejecting an attempt to funnel mo... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Nickles-orders-contracts-sent-to-council-8430260.html#-2009-10-26 topics: DC GVT-MGT CORRUPTN)

sum["The untold story of these opinion polls is that most Americans don't know enough about what is going on in Afghanistan to articulate an educated opinion on the subject. Americans may have a gut reaction to war -- the financial cost, the human c... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=american_ignorance_and_afghanistan-2009-10-26 topics: AFGHAN PUB-OP F-PLY KEY IGNORANCE)

sum[ CD sales dropped from 13.9 b. to 8.5 b. in past 10 yrs (?). A lot harder to get rich in business. But Amanda Palmer says it's a good thing if high school kids reflect more on why they want to start a band: If $, forget it, but if reach thousand... (-2009-10-25 topics: SACRIFICE ARTS KEY INTEL-PROP VOCATION)

At this fall's ArtPrize -- the massive visual arts contest in Grand Rapids, Michigan -- 37,000 members of the public voted for their favorite work. A 19-foot-wide oil painting, "Open Water no. 24," beat out more than 1,200 entries. Kurt spoke to win... (http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2009/10/23-2009-10-25 topics: ARTS VOCATION INDEPENDENCE HAPPINESS INSPIRATION)

sum[ "I believe 1,000 percent in this being a voluntary offseason program, and if you happen to be one of those who voluntarily chooses not to attend, I'm going to do every single thing I can to replace you," Williams said he told his players that s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/24/AR2009102401691_pf.html-2009-10-25 topics: COACHING CULT-CHANGE)

By ALANA JOBLIN AIN I BOUNDED off the Q train in Brooklyn one night last winter and headed to Union Street, past the yogurt shop and the firehouse, to do some grocery shopping. But my plans soon went awry. “You’re suspended,” the entrance wo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/nyregion/25coop.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-10-25 topics: CO-OP COOP SOLUTIONS)

By PEGGY ORENSTEIN Not long ago, I started an experiment in self-binding: intentionally creating an obstacle to behavior I was helpless to control, much the way Ulysses lashed himself to his ship’s mast to avoid succumbing to the Sirens’ song. ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/magazine/25FOB-WWLN-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=print-2009-10-25 topics: CULT INTERNET HAPPINESS PSYCH)

By Tim Craig and Nikita Stewart Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 25, 2009 D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has escalated a bitter feud with council members by renaming an interim head of the Department of Parks and Recreation, three weeks af... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/24/AR2009102402316_pf.html-2009-10-24 topics: DC GVT-MGT POOR-LD)

Boston Foundation: == Shared Services == * Potential partners: * Other technologies == Community Inventory == == Program Services Mapping == == Financial Benchmarking and Analysis == * Massachusetts consultants == EFILING ==... (-2009-10-23 topics: NCCS IDEAS)

By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 23, 2009 President Obama will travel Friday to Massachusetts, one of only two states to implement a universal health-care program similar to his ambitions for the entire country. But... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204684_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Sunday, October 11, 2009 AFL-CIO PRESIDENT Richard L. Trumka took center stage Thursday at a well-orchestrated rally in downtown Washington to denounce the "cold, hard" tactics of D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee. Washington Teachers' U... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/10/AR2009101001914_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: DC EDUC UNIONS)

By Kari Lydersen and Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 23, 2009 DULUTH, MINN. -- A horn blasts, seagulls screech and tourists clap as the longest ship in the Great Lakes, the 308-meter Paul R. Tregurtha, glides throug... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204345_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: ENV ENER TRANS)

By Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 23, 2009 House Democrats are coalescing around an $871 billion health-care package that would create a government-run insurance plan to help millions of Americans ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102202820_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: HLTH-FIN MCR CONG KEY)

By Edward Cody Friday, October 23, 2009 PARIS -- Europe's latest step toward a more united future, which seemed at hand after long delays, has become bogged down over a forgotten chapter from the continent's bloody past: the expulsion of Germans f... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204668_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: EUR CONFLICT-RES F-PLY NO-EASY-ANSWERS POLITICS)

By Eban Goodstein, Frank Ackerman and Kristen Sheeran Friday, October 23, 2009 Here is the good news on the climate front: The Europeans have ratcheted down their emissions targets, the Chinese are getting serious about solar power and energy effi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204193_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY-A)

video: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/10/22/VI2009102204005.html By Mara Lee Sunday, October 25, 2009 On a sunny morning in July, Alicia Jabbar's tank top is wet with sweat along her spine from the nape of her neck to the ... (-2009-10-23 topics: COOP AGRICULTURE CMTY KEY SOLUTIONS JOBS BIG-THINK HAPPINESS MODERATION)

By Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Brady Dennis Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 23, 2009 NEW YORK -- Even before the Obama administration formally tightened executive compensation at bailed-out companies, the prospect of pay cuts had led some... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204422_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: EXEC-COMP CAPITALISM)

By Steven Pearlstein Friday, October 23, 2009 With financial markets booming even as Main Street is still largely mired in recession, policymakers in Washington on Thursday were scrambling to contain growing populist anger by proposing new rules t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204461_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: EXEC-COMP REG)

By Michael S. Rosenwald Friday, October 23, 2009 The historian largely responsible for summing up Washington, D.C., for millions of Wikipedia readers digs for facts from his tiny bedroom in Dupont Circle. He sits on a chair borrowed from his four-... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204715_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: CHARACTER JOBS VOLUNTEER MODERATION)

By Alan K. Simpson Friday, October 23, 2009 Rather than serving in the U.S. Senate for almost 20 years, or having so many other wonderful life experiences, I could have served a longer sentence in prison for some of the stupid, reckless things I d... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102203803_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: CHILD-WELF CRIME YOUTH)

By MIREYA NAVARRO He has dreamed of windmills atop skyscrapers, planted magnolia trees with Bette Midler and basked in the effusive praise of Al Gore. More than any mayor before him, Michael R. Bloomberg has made the environment a central theme in... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/nyregion/23green.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-23 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ENV URB SOLUTIONS LD)

By Miranda S. Spivack Thursday, October 22, 2009 As Montgomery County's population nears 1 million and the recession shows few signs of abating, county officials are casting about for ways to keep the treasury strong. Almost everyone endorses two ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR2009102102730_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: MGY-CO SOLUTIONS ENV TRANS SUBURBS)

by Barbara Ehrenreich A sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism Americans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as... (http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/brightsided.htm-2009-10-23 topics: PUB-OP BIG-THINK CULT KEY LD ALLIES)

3d wave: "cognitarians", flexible kn-based econ: But, as recession shows, not as simple: There are limits to growth, massive distorting inequalities, poor understanding of risks, poor political decisions due to lack of political will by public, lack... (-2009-10-23 topics: IDEAS)

sum["The economic downturn has meant less work for law firms, fewer experienced attorneys leaving jobs and thousands of lawyers laid off. From August 2008 to August 2009, total law office employment fell by nearly 26,000 jobs, a mere 2 percent but s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/23/AR2009102300852_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: JOBS RICH LEG YOUTH-VOLUNTEER)

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 22, 2009 NAWA, Afghanistan -- Before a battalion of U.S. Marines swooped into this dusty farming community along the Helmand River in early July, almost every stall in the baza... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR2009102104144_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: AFGHAN)

By Lori Montgomery Monday, October 19, 2009 Phil Ellis may be the most powerful guy you've never heard of in the health-care debate. A senior analyst with the Congressional Budget Office, Ellis is the man who has to decide what it would cost to re... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101802541_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: HLTH-FIN UNCERTAINTY LEGIS)

By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, October 12, 2009 Every generation of Americans should live better than its predecessor. That's Americans' core definition of economic "progress." But for today's young, it may be a mirage. Higher health spending, in... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101101590_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: BIG-THINK FED-BGT HLTH-FIN DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY)

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, October 19, 2009 Will the young and hopeful abandon the political playing field to older voters who are angry? That is the quiet crisis confronting President Obama and the Democrats. Left unattended, it could become a fo... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101801463.html-2009-10-23 topics: DEMOCRATS PUB-OP)

By Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson Monday, October 19, 2009 News reporting that holds accountable those with power and influence has been a vital part of American democratic life, especially in places with daily newspapers profitable enoug... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101801461_pf.html-2009-10-23 topics: JOURNALISM SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D. You can divorce an abusive spouse. You can call it quits if your lover mistreats you. But what can you do if the source of your misery is your own parent? Granted, no parent is perfect. And whining about parental failur... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/health/20mind.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-22 topics: PSYCH PARENTING CHARACTER)

NOTE: Prosumer: those who create goods and services "for [their] own use or satisfaction, rather than for sale or exchange" In his book The Third Wave Toffler describes three types of societies, based on the concept of 'waves' - each wave pushes th... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Toffler-2009-10-22 topics: BIG-THINK BK)

* The economist's and libertarian's challenge/objection: Human nature ** But see Haidt, David Brooks (complex motives, 10/20/09?), Apiah: experimental phil. * Much more room for alternative social organization ** European vs. U.S. ** Lessons from sm... (-2009-10-22 topics: IDEAS NCCS)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics) Few Medicare Part D plans see e-Rx benefits: report

By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer Posted: October 22, 2009 - 11:00 am EDT Only about one in five health plans that sponsored Medicare Part D drug programs also were offering electronic prescribing promotional efforts and, of those, just one in f... (http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091022/REG/310229993/1029#-2009-10-22 topics: HLTH-FIN CPTR NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Panel seeking funds to gauge support for 'road pricing'

By Katherine Shaver Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 22, 2009 A panel of Washington area government officials voted Wednesday to seek federal money to study how much the public would support raising transportation money by charging... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR2009102103353_pf.html-2009-10-22 topics: AUTOMOBILE SOLUTIONS)

Basic Medicare Premium to Rise 15% Next Year

By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — The basic Medicare premium will shoot up next year by 15 percent, to $110.50 a month, federal officials said Monday. The increase means that monthly premiums would top $100 for the first time, a stark indication of the... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/health/policy/20health.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-10-22 topics: MCR)

Who's afraid of the free market?

By Harold Meyerson Wednesday, October 21, 2009 As everybody knows, the two biggest battles on Capitol Hill -- reforming health care and regulating Wall Street -- have unleashed massive campaigns from the enemies of free markets. The Obama admin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/20/AR2009102003073_pf.html-2009-10-21 topics: CAPITALISM LIBERAL)

Our secret hope

In this age of continual change and challenge, we need leaders dedicated to the common good. But surveys show that 80 percent of Americans don't trust leaders. The reason is obvious. Leaders in government and business have been incompetent (Katrina,... (http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/panelists/2009/10/our-secret-hope.html-2009-10-21 topics: LD SACRIFICE)

Field Study: Just How Relevant Is Political Science?

By PATRICIA COHEN After Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, this month proposed prohibiting the National Science Foundation from “wasting any federal research funding on political science projects,” political scientists rallied in opposi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/books/20poli.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-10-20 topics: SOC-SCI KEY PUB-INFO)

Where the Wild Things Are

By DAVID BROOKS In Homer’s poetry, every hero has a trait. Achilles is angry. Odysseus is cunning. And so was born one picture of character and conduct. In this view, what you might call the philosopher’s view, each of us has certain ingrained ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20brooks.html-2009-10-20 topics: PSYCH HUM-NAT KEY-A ALLIES)

by Paul Bloom

First Person Plural Imagine a long, terrible dental procedure. You are rigid in the chair, hands clenched, soaked with sweat—and then the dentist leans over and says, “We’re done now. You can go home. But if you want, I’d be happy to top yo... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/multiple-personalities-2009-10-20 topics: PSYCH HUM-NAT KEY ALLIES FS-CURRICULUM)

The New New Philosophy (EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, EXPERIMENTAL ETHICS)

By KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Suppose the chairman of a company has to decide whether to adopt a new program. It would increase profits and help the environment too. “I don’t care at all about helping the environment,” the chairman says. “I just w... (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09wwln-idealab-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-10-20 topics: PSYCH HUM-NAT PHIL SOC-SCI)

Survival of the Kindest

sum[ You wrote about Williams syndrome, a disorder that causes people to be inappropriately nice. What does that show about the genetic factors that govern altruism? The fact that people with Williams Syndrome are missing part of a chromosome show... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200709u/olivia-judson-2009-10-20 topics: HUM-NAT COOP PSYCH KEY)

Song of My Selves: Psychologist Paul Bloom reflects on happiness, desire, memory, and the chaotic community that lives inside every human mind

by Jennie Rothenberg Gritz At night, just before he goes to sleep, Yale psychologist Paul Bloom often finds himself facing a critical decision. He can grumblingly set up the coffee machine, delaying his bedtime but ensuring a smoother return to c... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200810u/paul-bloom-interview-2009-10-20 topics: PSYCH HUM-NAT KEY HAPPINESS)

Nudging Recycling From Less Waste to None

sum[ Nobody wants a landfill sited anywhere near them, including in rural areas,” said Jon D. Johnston, a materials management branch chief for the Environmental Protection Agency who is helping to lead the zero-waste movement in the Southeast. �... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/science/earth/20trash.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-10-20 topics: ENV SOLUTIONS PUB-OP)

Foster-child project recasts picture of a family

By Petula Dvorak Tuesday, October 20, 2009 It's Friday night, and the pepperoni pizza has just arrived. The kids race to claim their slices and load up on the homemade macaroni salad. The grown-ups are in the dining room, guffawing and joki... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101903175_pf.html-2009-10-20 topics: CHILD-WELF SOLUTIONS)

Lobbyist's salary for nonprofit questioned: Oversight of Homes Sought Board members borrowed, are paying back loans

By Henri E. Cauvin and Nikita Stewart Monday, October 19, 2009 More than a decade ago, David W. Wilmot, a well-connected D.C. lobbyist, stepped in to replace a floundering nonprofit group that the city had hoped would care for the most fragile ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101802215_pf.html-2009-10-19 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP DC)

Mapping tools and websites

http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/rest/latlng.html - Pushpin Mapping tools - can output demographic layers?? Used by Grand Valley St - http://www.cridata.org/Profile_hoods_GR.aspx?HID=16 * Associated Press economic stress index by county: http://h... (-2009-10-19 topics: MAPPING LIST)

Center for Neighborhood Technology: An Innovations Center for Urban Sustainability

see also: http://htaindex.cnt.org/ - Housing + Transportation Affordability Index - Planners, lenders, and consumers traditionally measure housing affordability as 30 percent or less of income. The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, in co... (http://www.cnt.org/toolbox-2009-10-18 topics: ALLIES FS-GEN ENV KEY-A URB MAPPING)

MDRC - Manpower Demonstration and Research Corp.

SUM[ MDRC takes a proactive, strategic approach that is based on its analysis of the key issues and trends in social policy and its assessment of opportunities to learn...MDRC uses an array of qualitative methods — including ethnography, focus gro... (http://www.mdrc.org/about_what_distinguishes_mdrc.htm-2009-10-18 topics: NCCS SOC-SCI URBAN-INST THINKTANKS)

Center for Rural Strategies (Dee Davis - met at 2009 COF mtg)

..is a public-spirited communications organization that seeks to improve rural life by increasing public understanding about the importance and value of rural communities. Our goals are to use media strategically to reframe the broad public discou... (http://www.ruralstrategies.org/about/staff.html-2009-10-18 topics: CMTY-ORGANIZING ALLIES)

Staggering need, striking neglect: The nation's worst-hit city awards millions for care and shelter without ensuring it gets to those it's meant to

SUM[ "But the program morphed into something of a free-for-all among many nonprofit groups, enabled by a city agency that routinely gave out money but failed to ensure the funds were used to help people with the disease. The waste has spanned ever... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/17/AR2009101701984.html?hpid=skybox-2009-10-18 topics: DC HUM-SRV GVT-MGT MISMGT NONPROFIT-GVT CORRUPTN SACRIFICE NONPROFIT-COMP)

NewsTrust Health Care News Hunt - Final Results

sum[ Newstrust model seems of limited use: that's my conclusion. Reading NYT or WP would teach more.] On Tuesday we wrapped up a 10-day Health Care News Hunt with the Huffington Post and its Eyes and Ears team. For an overview of this collaboration,... (http://blog.newstrust.net/2009/10/health-care-results.html-2009-10-18 topics: HLTH-FIN JOURNALISM PUB-INFO WEB2.0)

Flow of terrorist recruits increasing: Westerners attending camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan despite successful U.S. strikes

By Craig Whitlock Monday, October 19, 2009 BERLIN -- Midway through a propaganda video released last month by a group calling itself the German Taliban, a surprise guest made an appearance: a cleanshaven, muscular gunman sporting the alias Abu ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101802549_pf.html-2009-10-18 topics: TERRORISM INTL-NEEDS)

In Hawaii's Health System, Lessons for Lawmakers

sum[ "doctors and hospital and insurance executives in Hawaii offered many theories, including an active population that is culturally disinclined to hospitals, a significant military presence and a health care market dominated by a few not-for-prof... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/health/policy/17hawaii.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-10-18 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS)

North Dakota Scandal Raises Concerns About Health Co-op Route

By Karl Vick Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 10, 2009 BISMARCK, N.D. -- For the North Dakota insurance sales reps, March may have been the ideal time to enjoy the swim-up bar at a resort on Grand Cayman Island. But back on the nor... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100904085_pf.html-2009-10-18 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT CORRUPTN NONPROFIT-COMP CO-OP NONPROFIT-GOV)

The Biggest Disappointment of the Obama Presidency

President Obama's brief display of drive-by compassion Thursday in New Orleans was, for me, by far the worst outing of his presidency thus far -- and the biggest disappointment. I covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath -- the flood in New Orl... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/10/the_biggest_disappointment_of.html?hpid=opinionsbox1-2009-10-17 topics: OBAMA KATRINA)

Swine Flu Characteristics Becoming More Evident: Links to Pneumonia, Rapid Effects on Young Noted

By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 17, 2009 As swine flu continues to spread around the globe, a clearer and in some ways more unnerving picture of the most serious cases has started to emerge, indicating that the virus... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/16/AR2009101601384.html?hpid=topnews-2009-10-17 topics: PUB-HLTH MEDICINE)

Unions Want Probe Of Layoffs by Rhee

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 17, 2009 Union leaders asked the D.C. Council on Friday for an investigation into the layoffs of 266 teachers and staff members, including an independent audit of the school system's... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/16/AR2009101602378_pf.html-2009-10-17 topics: DC EDUC UNIONS NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) produces one of the world's most prevalent standards for sustainability reporting...

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) produces one of the world's most prevalent standards for sustainability reporting, a form of value reporting where an organization publicly communicates their economic, environmental, and social performance. The... (arnova-2009-10-17 topics: NCCS DATA OUTCOME-MEAS STANDARDS INTL-DEV)

The District's Overlooked 'Bull's-Eye': Pleasant Plains Strives To Make a Name for Itself

photo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/10/16/PH2009101600087.html By Ann Cameron Siegal Special to The Washington Post Saturday, October 17, 2009 District residents and community groups are working to get one Northwest nei... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/16/AR2009101600084.html-2009-10-17 topics: CMTY FS-GEN KEY)

RED CROSS CUSTOMER SERVICE QUESTIONNAIRE: EVALUATE OUR STAFF

Evaluate Our Staff We want to serve you better and we value your opinion for areas we could improve on. Health Historian: Tell us what you think by answering the following questions regarding the person that collected your information, the heal... (https://www.membersforlife.org/rccm/cs/staff_survey.php?sid=75-2009-10-17 topics: CUSTOMER-SRV MGT)

Natural Resources Under Siege: Illegal Trade Soars in Madagascar As Island Nation Struggles Politically

sum[ Political instability leads to environmental destruction.] By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, October 16, 2009 MAROJEJY NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar -- A political crisis in this African island nation has triggered a pi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503907.html-2009-10-17 topics: AFRICA INTL-DEV VIOLENCE ENV)

Wellness Incentives Could Create Health-Care Loophole: Workers Who Fail Medical Tests Could Pay More

By David S. Hilzenrath Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 16, 2009 Get in shape or pay a price. That's a message more Americans could hear if health-care reform provisions passed by the Senate finance and health committees become la... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503036.html-2009-10-17 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY SOLUTIONS OBESITY PUB-HLTH)

Charter School Enrollment In the District Is Up Again

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 16, 2009 D.C. charter school enrollment continues its steady growth, increasing 9 percent over last year, according to an unaudited count for the 2009-10 academic year, officials annou... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503694_pf.html-2009-10-17 topics: DC CHARTER-SCHOOLS)

Debacle in Moscow

By Charles Krauthammer Friday, October 16, 2009 About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-eviden... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101502763_pf.html-2009-10-17 topics: CONSERVATIVE OBAMA F-PLY)

Gov 2.0: Army Announces Apps For Army Competition

At the Gov 2.0 Summit, the Army unveiled a competition encouraging soldiers to build open source software that can be shared across the military. By J. Nicholas Hoover, InformationWeek Sept. 10, 2009 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/s... (http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=UBFNGKUPMSLZRQE1GHRSKHWATMY32JVN?articleID=219700596-2009-10-16 topics: OPEN-SOURCE WEB2.0 GVT-MGT)

Big Gains For District On National Math Test: Md. Change Small; Va. Scores Stagnant

sum[ Significant gains, yes, but still very small.] By Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 15, 2009 D.C. public school students made significant strides in mathematics in the past two years even as students nationwide sh... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101401369_pf.html-2009-10-15 topics: DC EDUC NO-EASY-ANSWERS KEY)

Myths About Paying Good Teachers More

By Thomas Toch Sunday, October 11, 2009 Education Secretary Arne Duncan says paying public school teachers based on their performance is his "highest priority," and he plans to dole out hundreds of millions of dollars to states and school syste... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902571.html-2009-10-15 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS OUTCOME-MEAS HR KEY)

Schools Pay When Rhee Snubs Donors

By Robert McCartney Thursday, October 15, 2009 D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee says a $12 million budget cut just forced her to lay off nearly 400 teachers and other staff. But local philanthropy groups say they would have given her that m... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101403564_pf.html-2009-10-15 topics: EDUC DC FOUNDATIONS KEY LD NONPROFIT-GVT)

Overhead Is Overrated in Financial Reporting

By Kennard T. Wing Each year, millions of dollars are spent attempting to promote ethical behavior in the nonprofit world, improve the accuracy of financial reporting, reduce misunderstanding and misuse of nonprofit financial information, improve t... (http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v21/i22/22003102.htm-2009-10-15 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN NCCS)

Promise Neighborhoods: a planning how-to guide

note[ saved at n:\docsfromOthers] United Neighborhood Centers of America has today released a "how-to" guide for local organizations interested in replicating the Harlem Children’s Zone model and wishing to apply for related federal planning gran... (email-2009-10-15 topics: SOLUTIONS EDUC HUM-SRV FS-RSC)

No Use In Studying For This Test

By Courtland Milloy Wednesday, October 14, 2009 It's teachable-moment time again for D.C. public school students, so let's get started. Question: Firing 229 teachers six weeks into the school year is: A) Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee's way ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101303289.html-2009-10-15 topics: DC EDUC UNIONS GVT-MGT)

For McKinley Students, a Lesson in Disappointment: Staff Layoffs Moved Them to Get Involved, but D.C. Politics Soured the Experience, Seniors Say

SUM[ The most authentic, in the students' estimation, was Barry, who they said seemed to speak most candidly. In the session with them, Barry accused Rhee of lying to students about the need for the layoffs. Rhee, who invited them last Wednesday t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101301765_pf.html-2009-10-15 topics: DC EDUC ADVOCACY YOUTH-VOLUNTEER LD ADVERSITY NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Hidden Costs of Medicare Advantage: Plans' Free Perks Are Subsidized By Government

SUM[ Medicare Advantage was established in the 1970s (under a different name) when private insurers convinced Congress that they could deliver care at lower costs than Medicare. The program blossomed in the late 1990s when Congress bolstered it with... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101403953_pf.html-2009-10-15 topics: MCR PUB-OP SELFISH ELDERLY IGNORANCE CONG CORRUPTN)

Gates's Fields of Dreams

By Michael Gerson Friday, October 16, 2009 When you are Bill Gates -- directing a foundation with assets larger than the GDPs of 104 countries -- your enthusiasms get amplified on a global scale. Six or seven years ago, Gates read a book by Gor... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101502762_pf.html-2009-10-15 topics: INTL-DEV FOUNDATIONS AFRICA INNOVATION)

Use of Forests as Carbon Offsets Fails to Impress In First Big Trial: Project in Bolivia Keeps Trees Standing But Has Little Clear Effect on Emissions

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 15, 2009 More than a decade ago in the northeast corner of Bolivia, a group of polluters and environmentalists joined forces in the first large-scale experiment to curb climate c... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101403762.html-2009-10-15 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS NO-EASY-ANSWERS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

Cap-and-Trade Would Slow Economy, CBO Chief Says

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 15, 2009 A House-passed bill that targets climate change through a cap-and-trade system of pollution credits would slow the nation's economic growth slightly over the next few de... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101404054.html-2009-10-15 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY ECON)

Community Foundations Saw a 27% Drop in Asset Value

By Debra E. Blum Community foundations suffered steep investment losses last year, ending a five-year streak of positive returns and damaging their purchasing power, according to a new report from the Council on Foundations, an organization that ... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=9820-2009-10-14 topics: COMMUNITY-FOUNDATIONS RECESSION NONPROFIT-FIN)

Why Michelle Rhee Has to Play Tough

By Richard Whitmire Wednesday, October 14, 2009 The forces lined up against D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee -- angry teachers, grumpy D.C. Council members, the nation's top teachers' union leader quarterbacking the opposition -- are essen... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101302656_pf.html-2009-10-14 topics: EDUC DC LD CHARTER-SCHOOLS)

Elinor and Vincent Ostrom Interview, George Mason U.

p. 6mb - need local cooperative arrangements: "infrastructure of communal services" p.6b Tocqueville's science of association 7t - Federalist intro: "whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good gov't from reflection an... (http://www.mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/Rethinking%20Institutional%20Analysis%20-%20Interviews%20with%20Vincent%20and%20Elinor%20O-2009-10-13 topics: ECON CMTY COOP SOC-SCI NONPROFIT-THEORY)

Honoring the Nobel Laureates

By EDWARD L. GLAESER Edward L. Glaeser is an economist professor at Harvard. This year’s Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science in Honor of Alfred Nobel went jointly to Oliver Williamson, who argued that seemingly easy transactions could st... (http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/honoring-the-nobel-laureates/?pagemode=print-2009-10-13 topics: ECON SOC-SCI)

An institutional economics prize

Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. What a day for them! The way to think about this prize is that it’s an award for institutional economics, or maybe more specifically New Institutional Economics. Neoclassical economics basi... (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/an-institutional-economics-prize/?scp=4&sq=OSTROM&st=cse-2009-10-13 topics: ECON SOC-SCI)

Are Government Workers Overpaid?

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/dsrv?nw Zubin Jelveh October 12, 2009 | 12:57 pm Henry Blodget passes along [1] this startling statistic: The average federal worker makes $75,419 a year, while the average in the private sector is $39,751. Why is that,... (http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-stash/are-government-workers-overpaid-2009-10-13 topics: COMPENSATION DATA GVT-COMP)

Congress Is Split on Effort to Tax Costly Health Plans

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — A proposed tax on high-cost, or “Cadillac,” health insurance plans has touched off a fierce clash between the Senate and the House as they wrestle over how to pay for legislation that would... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/health/policy/13plans.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-13 topics: HLTH-FIN)

Nobel Winners Who Probably Changed Your Life

sum["I don't think people had really thought about this earlier," said Cherry Murray, dean of engineering and applied science at Harvard University, and president of the American Physical Society. "After the fact now it's pretty obvious." Of course... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101101675_pf.html-2009-10-13 topics: SCIENCE CREATIVITY)

New Organizing Institute

NOI runs the only progressive advocacy and campaign training program focused on cutting-edge online organizing techniques (e.g. writing effective emails, engaging bloggers, leveraging social networks, utilizing video), political technology (e.g. usi... (http://www.neworganizing.com/about-us/about-noi-2009-10-13 topics: CMTY-ORGANIZING LIBERAL ALLIES)

DC Project - WeatherizeDC

Reenergizing America THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 AT 03:20PM September 12th marked the beginning of a new field movement. WeatherizeDC, the field program of The DC Project, officially launched its fall pilot program with over 50 volunteers on a par... (http://www.weatherizedc.org/-2009-10-13 topics: CMTY-ORGANIZING DC FS-RSC ALLIES)

Nobel Prize in Economics to Elinor Ostrom “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”

Mike Linksvayer, October 12th, 2009 The 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded today to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for their research on economic governance. Ostrom’s award is particularly exciting, for it cites her study of the commo... (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18426-2009-10-13 topics: COOP SOC-SCI)

The public domain: enclosing the commons of the mind

Our music, our culture, our science and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In his award-winning new book, The Pu... (http://www.thepublicdomain.org/-2009-10-13 topics: INTEL-PROP PUB-INFO BK)

Two Americans Are Awarded Nobel in Economics

By LOUIS UCHITELLE The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on Monday to two American social scientists for their work in describing the numerous relationships within a company or among companies and individuals that shape market b... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/business/economy/13nobel.html?sq=ostrom&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print-2009-10-13 topics: ECON SOC-SCI)

The drama of the commons: Ch. 4: Factors influencing cooperation

By Elinor Ostrom, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10287 http://books.google.com/books?id=_GOWDwifL7AC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=ostrom+factors&source=bl&ots=9M... (-2009-10-13 topics: COOP SOC-SCI KEY-A CONCEPTS DELIB)

Dress for Success Mends Social Fabric With Donated Garments

By Petula Dvorak Tuesday, October 13, 2009 It's hanging in the back of my closet, inside the dry cleaner's bag -- lovely, with just the right nips at the waist and sharp, I'm-going-to-take-over-the-world lapels. This suit is dear to me not bec... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202722_pf.html-2009-10-13 topics: NONPROFIT HUM-SRV VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT-GVT RECESSION NONPROFIT-FIN)

A Vigorous Push From Federal Regulators: Consumer, Workplace Agencies More Active

By Lyndsey Layton Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 13, 2009 The Obama administration is taking on Cheerios. And popular cold remedies and swimming pool drains and rhinestones on children's clothing. With much of Washington focused on... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202554_pf.html-2009-10-13 topics: GVT-ROLE REG DEMOCRATS)

Transforming Clean-Energy Industry Into a Local One: Minnesota Turbines At Forefront of A New Movement: Community Power

By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 13, 2009 WILLMAR, Minn. -- From his desk at the local electricity cooperative, Bruce Gomm can see the looming black smokestacks of the city's aging coal-fired power plant. He can also s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101203097_pf.html-2009-10-13 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS CO-OP LOCAL SOLAR-ENERGY)

Mayo Clinic Faulted for Limiting Medicare Patients: Critics Say Move Shows That Facility Is Not a Model for Health-Care Reform

By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 13, 2009 The renowned Mayo Clinic is no longer accepting some Medicare and Medicaid patients, raising new questions about whether it is too selective to serve as a model for health-ca... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202803_pf.html-2009-10-13 topics: HLTH-FIN MCR NO-EASY-ANSWERS NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS SOC-SCI-LIMITS)

Steven Hill: Health-Care Cooperatives Can Work

By Steven Hill Monday, October 12, 2009 4:52 PM Health-care cooperatives have gotten a bad rap. But if properly designed, they could offer quite a lot to both the left and the right, as well as to anyone interested in expanding health-care coverag... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202272_pf.html-2009-10-13 topics: HLTH-FIN CO-OP KEY)

Bend the Revenue Curve: Health Reform Alone Won't End Deficits

sum[ Odd proposal. What about insurers? So many issues left unmentioned. CAlls for nationwide sales tax designated for h/c.] By Henry J. Aaron and Isabel V. Sawhill Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Anyone who thinks that health-care reform alone is going... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101202389_pf.html-2009-10-13 topics: HLTH-FIN EC-TX)

I Didn't Tell. It Didn't Matter. Trying to serve his country, a young man faced bigotry and abuse

sum[ Good example of limited value of rules when people who must enforce them just "don't get it."] By Joseph Rocha Sunday, October 11, 2009 I was 18 years old when I landed in the kingdom of Bahrain, off the coast of Saudi Arabia, in the winter o... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902570_pf.html-2009-10-13 topics: MILITARY CORRUPTN GAY HUMAN-RIGHTS POLITICAL-MATURITY LIMITS-OF-REG)

What’s a Common Security Club?

see: http://commonsecurityclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/csc-fg-brief.pdf http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/11/what_is_church_without_mutual_aid.html http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0902&... (http://commonsecurityclub.org/index.php-2009-10-13 topics: ALLIES KEY CMTY-ORGANIZING LOCAL CO-OP)

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) (1990)

sum[ "Elinor Ostrom convincingly shows that there are many different viable mixtures between public and private, in particular self-organization and self-governance by the users of the common property resource... Instead of presuming that optimal in... (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521405998/ref=ox_ya_os_product-2009-10-12 topics: NONPROFIT COOP SOC-SCI BK COMPLEXITY KEY-A)

IRIS

(http://iris-standards.org/framework-overview-2009-10-12 topics: INTL-DEV OUTCOME-MEAS NCCS)

To Do More With Less, Governments Go Digital

sum[ In Alameda County in California, the social services agency recently integrated information from several systems into a single data warehouse. Business intelligence software knits together the information on an individual — typically from mul... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/business/11unboxed.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-10-12 topics: GVT-MGT CPTR-BUS OUTCOME-MEAS NCCS DATA KEY HUM-SRV)

Insurance Dispute Heats Up Before Vote: Industry Group, White House Spar Over Premiums

By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Tensions between the White House and insurers exploded into open warfare Monday, with the two sides arguing over what the financial impact of comprehensive health-care legisla... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101203108_pf.html-2009-10-12 topics: HLTH-FIN POLITICS LOBBYING)

Justice Dept. to Review Bush Policy on DNA Test Waivers

By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 11, 2009 Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has ordered a review of a little-known Bush administration policy requiring some defendants to waive their right to DNA testing even though t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/10/AR2009101002348_pf.html-2009-10-11 topics: CRIM-LAW NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

The Tiny Differences in the Littlest Brains (PINK BRAIN, BLUE BRAIN: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- and What We Can Do About It)

By Emily Bazelon Sunday, October 11, 2009 PINK BRAIN, BLUE BRAIN: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- and What We Can Do About It By Lise Eliot Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 420 pp. $25 In one of the eye-opening studies cited in L... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902615_pf.html-2009-10-11 topics: BK-REV GENDER PSYCH)

Lobbyists Fight Last Big Plans to Cut Health Care Costs

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON — As the health care debate moves to the floor of Congress, most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama’s original vow to curb costs have fallen victim to organized interests and parochial politic... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/health/policy/11cost.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-11 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG LOBBYING POLITICAL-WILL)

Wanted: Mammologists

By ANN V. BELL, MARK PEARLMAN and RAYMOND DE VRIES Ann Arbor, Mich. OCTOBER is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but what is it we need to be aware of? We know that for women, breast cancer is the most common cancer and, after lung cancer, the leadin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/opinion/10DeVries.html?pagewanted=print-2009-10-11 topics: PUB-HLTH HLTH-FIN)

GoodGuide: find safe, healthy and green products

About Us What chemicals are in your baby shampoo? Was sweatshop labor used to make your t-shirt? What products are the best, and what products should you avoid? Increasingly, you want to know about the impacts of the products you buy. On your hea... (http://www.goodguide.com/-2009-10-11 topics: SOLUTIONS CONSUMER FS-RSC KEY ALLIES NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

How Iago Explains the World

By LEE SIEGEL Peter Sellars, the avant-garde director known for staging classical plays and operas in joltingly contemporary settings, has once again aroused controversy with an unorthodox production of a canonical work. This time it’s “Othello... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/weekinreview/11siegel.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2009-10-11 topics: LYING HONESTY WISDOM)

How to Aggravate Pakistan

By David Ignatius Sunday, October 11, 2009 It's a classic example of the law of unintended consequences: Congress triples its assistance to Pakistan as part of a deepening strategic relationship. But members of Congress, always eager to tell other... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902851_pf.html-2009-10-11 topics: PAKISTAN F-PLY POLITICAL-MATURITY NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Democrats Heed Dole’s Objection and Kill TV Ad

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE At the request of former Senator Bob Dole, Democrats are scrapping plans to broadcast a new commercial that touted Republicans like Mr. Dole speaking in support of overhauling the health-care system. Mr. Dole lodged a compla... (http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/democrats-heed-doles-objection-and-kill-tv-ad/?pagemode=print-2009-10-11 topics: HLTH-FIN REPUBLICANS)

Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency, BY Archon Fung

"Packed with ideas and information, Full Disclosure is, by far, the best book to date on the problem of public transparency. The authors offer a host of indispensable lessons for citizens and policymakers in diverse domains, including education, pol... (http://www.archonfung.net/bookspapers.html-2009-10-11 topics: DELIB TRANSPARENCY ALLIES BK)

The Health Care Sprawl

sum[ Explains why the NYT has wound up focusing too much on the politics rather than the policy issues. Human/editorial error: "I thought we already did that." Nobody else providing policy info. “Some things the rhythms of daily journalism are no... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11pubed.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-10-11 topics: PUB-INFO HLTH-FIN KEY)

Boycotts Minus the Pain

By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Craigie on Main here is one of those socially conscious restaurants where the food is as moral as it is tasty. The chicken had roamed freely. The vegetables had sprouted locally. I could only assume that t... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/weekinreview/11giridharadas.html?ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2009-10-11 topics: DEMOCRACY SACRIFICE CONSUMER)

A $9 Trillion Question: Did the World Get Muhammad Yunus Wrong?

As Yunus receives the Medal of Freedom and Nobel rumors swirl around Hernando de Soto, it is time to give these two poverty-fighting visionaries another look. BY PETER SCHAEFER | AUGUST 18, 2009 In the development world, Muhammad Yunus and Hernand... (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/18/a_9_trillion_question_did_the_world_get_muhammad_yunus_wrong?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full-2009-10-11 topics: INTL-DEV SOLUTIONS BANK)

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGS: POTENTIAL PARTNERS

* http://www.weatherizedc.org/ & http://thedcproject.wordpress.com/ * Mike Tidwell - Chesapeake Climate Action Network * Lester Brown - Plan 4.0 * Car lton Eley - building communities through collaborative problem solving - Eley works for the U.S. E... (-2009-10-10 topics: ENV GLOBAL-WARMING FS-RSC ALLIES)

Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann - http://www.thomhartmann.com/category/books/; liberal radio; http://www.amazon.com/dp/0670020915?tag=thomhartmann... (-2009-10-10 topics: BIG-THINK ALLIES)

An Elite, if Eclectic, Entourage: Dalai Lama Rolls With Operatives, Actors and World's Happiest Man

By Michelle Boorstein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 10, 2009 The official oracle couldn't make it; he's in L.A. But much of the rest of the Dalai Lama's unusual entourage is with the Tibetan spiritual leader as he moves around ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902557_pf.html-2009-10-10 topics: GOOD-LIFE SPIRITUAL)

D.C. Data On Poverty Grim but Unchanged: Recession Has Fairly Mild Effect on Region

sum[The poverty rates for District children diverged widely by race and ethnicity. The rate was 36 percent for black children; 17 percent for Hispanic children; and 3 percent for non-Hispanic white children. Virginia and Maryland also had large raci... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092803853_pf.html-2009-10-10 topics: DC POV DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Why the CBO's Estimates Shouldn't Count for Much

SUM[ Explains inherent uncertainty of health fin. estimates: No evidence to use. Too conservative, and progress undermined; too liberal, and budget problems.] Newsweek By Jeremy Herb Democrats breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday after the Congressi... (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/10/08/why-the-cbo-s-estimates-shouldn-t-count-for-much.aspx-2009-10-10 topics: HLTH-FIN UNCERTAINTY KEY CONG DELIB NO-EASY-ANSWERS DIALOGUE FS-CURRICULUM)

The Problems of Collective Action: A New Approach

Katharina Holzinger (holzinger@sozialwiss.uni-hamburg.de) (Institute of Political Science, University of Hamburg, Germany) --- http://ideas.repec.org/s/mpg/wpaper.html - Working Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goo... (http://ideas.repec.org/p/mpg/wpaper/2003_2.html-2009-10-10 topics: COOP CONCEPTS KEY)

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

by George A. Akerlof (Author), Robert J. Shiller (Author) --- REVIEWS: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22702 - Ben Friedman Review Akerlof and Shiller are the first to try to rework economic theory for our times. The effort itself makes their book... (http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Spirits-Psychology-Economy-Capitalism/dp/0691142335/ref=pe_24390_13288720_as_txt_5/-2009-10-10 topics: BK ECON PSYCH KEY)

The Failure of the Economy & the Economists

sum[ Akerlof and Shiller identify five distinct elements in what they call "animal spirits": confidence, or the lack of it; concern for fairness, that is, for how people think they and others should behave—for example, that a hardware store should... (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22702-2009-10-10 topics: ECON PSYCH BK-REV PUB-INFO)

Irrational Exuberance

By LOUIS UCHITELLE ANIMAL SPIRITS How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism By George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller 230 pp. Princeton University Press. $24.95 Look around you, George A. Akerlof and R... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Uchitelle-t.html-2009-10-10 topics: ECON PSYCH BK-REV KEY)

SSRN Social Sciences Research Network

Thank you for your continued support of the SSRN Community. 2009 is SSRN's 15th year and our breadth and depth continue to grow. Our eLibrary (http://ssrn.com/search) received close to 50,000 new papers in the last year compared to 40,000 for the pr... (http://www.ssrn.com/update/all/2009_Mid-Year_Pres.html-2009-10-10 topics: PUB-INFO)

Protesters Decry Layoffs in D.C. Schools: AFL-CIO Chief Vows Support, Calling Rhee's Move 'Union Busting'

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 9, 2009 Several thousand D.C. public school teachers and supporters, buoyed by fiery speeches from national labor leaders and local elected officials, rallied in Freedom Plaza on Thursday... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/08/AR2009100803502_pf.html-2009-10-09 topics: DC EDUC LD COURAGE UNIONS NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

'Old-School Type' Teacher Is All Business at Suitland

By Nelson Hernandez Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 9, 2009 Mena Lofland didn't get so good at developing young entrepreneurs by being a softy. The business world is tough, and so is Lofland's world in Room 160 at Suitland High Schoo... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/08/AR2009100801738_pf.html-2009-10-09 topics: EDUC DISCIPLINE LD)

Detriot on-time graduation rate: 27% in 2006

DID YOU KNOW? 27% On-time graduation rate for Detroit class of 2006, lowest for major school systems. (EPE) http://voices.washingtonpost.com/education/... (-2009-10-09 topics: EDUC DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Breaking Through A Culture of Disengagement

Need to make commitments, be ready to work through issues. Level of commitment like soldiers I feel like a Jehovah's Witness or telemarketer intruding into people's personal space...but, well, someone's got to do it. Public Intellectual's/Writer's... (-2009-10-09 topics: IDEAS KEY CONCEPTS)

The Uneducated American

By PAUL KRUGMAN If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word, that word would be “education.” In the 19th century, America led the way in universal basic education. Then, as other nations followed suit, the “high school rev... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/opinion/09krugman.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-09 topics: EDUC DOMESTIC-NEEDS CULT-CHANGE)

The Nonprofit Century: A Legal Form for the 21st Century

The for-profit corporate form served a critical role in supporting economic growth in the 20th century. The nonprofit form has a similar potential to enable collective action for the common good in this century. It's not sufficient alone, bu... (-2009-10-08 topics: IDEAS NONPROFIT)

The future of manufacturing: Here come the robots

It's not just Detroit -- even China is losing factory jobs. And they're never coming back. By Robert Reich sum[ Fewer ROUTINE JOBS. Divides jobs into manufacturing, symbolic analysis (research and development, design and engineering. Or for high-lev... (http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/29/auto_industry/print.html-2009-10-08 topics: JOBS BIG-THINK KEY MANUFACTURING KEY)

Dangers of a Turbocharged Economy (REVIEW OF R. REICH'S 'SUPERCAPITALISM')

By STEPHEN KOTKIN Correction Appended IT’S Labor Day weekend, so let’s talk about labor. (Capital absorbs our attention most of the other 364 days of the year.) Around 140 million people are employed in the United States. They are engaged in w... (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/business/02shelf.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-10-08 topics: CAPITALISM DEMOCRACY ECON BIG-THINK BK)

GREEN JOBS

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100497752 - What Kind Of Green Jobs Will Stimulus Spawn? http://www.unep.org/labour_environment/PDFs/Green-Jobs-Background-paper-18-01-08.pdf - UN Env. Programme/ILO report - 36 pp http://www.il... (-2009-10-08 topics: JOBS ECON BIG-THINK)

Health Care Bill Gets Green Light in Cost Analysis

By ROBERT PEAR and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN see: http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10642/10-7-Baucus_letter.pdf note[ $6b. for startup of cooperatives. Their plans will only be available through the exchanges and current insurers may NOT become co-ops... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/health/policy/08health.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-10-08 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG FED-BGT)

EMPLOYMENT BY OCCUPATION AND INDUSTRY, SECTOR

http://www.bls.gov/ http://www.bls.gov/emp/ - employment projections! http://www.bls.gov/emp/empiols.htm - occupations by industry http://www.bls.gov/emp/empmajorindustry.htm ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/empsit.ceseeb1.txt - Historical table by major... (-2009-10-08 topics: JOBS STATS LIST INTEGRITY)

Cartels Face an Economic Battle: U.S. Marijuana Growers Cutting Into Profits of Mexican Traffickers

By Steve Fainaru and William Booth Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, October 7, 2009 ARCATA, Calif. -- Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100603847_pf.html-2009-10-07 topics: CRIME DRUGS MEXICO CULT REG)

For Gun-Shy Consumers, Debit Is Replacing Credit

sum[ Visa announced this spring that spending on Visa debit cards in the United States surpassed credit for the first time in the company's history. In 2008, debit payment volume was $206 billion, compared with credit volume of $203 billion. MasterC... (-2009-10-07 topics: CONSUMER PROGRESS-POSSIBLE ECON)

SEC Probing Biggest Hospital Company: Nursing Shifts Examined in HCA's London Unit

By Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October 7, 2009 The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a probe into whether the largest hospital company in the world, Hospital Corporation of America, violated securitie... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/06/AR2009100603684_pf.html-2009-10-07 topics: HOSP CORRUPTN NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT)

SAMSA list of mental health and substance abuse providers

(http://dasis3.samhsa.gov/PrxInput.aspx?STATE=Maryland-2009-10-07 topics: NCCS DATA)

SPOTLIGHT: Bullying--and What Schools Do and Don’t Do About It

Today The Answer Sheet is focusing on bullying. A reader raised the issue by pointing to an article in The Washington Post that discussed how to pick the right school in the right district--but did not tell parents to look at anti-bullying policies.... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/bullying/spotlight-bullying--and-what-s.html-2009-10-06 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS CONFLICT-RES PARENTING SOC-PSYCH)

What Does It Take to Get Texting Off Roads? Consequences Are Only Way, Some Say

sum[ If hundreds of millions of drivers are to be persuaded to put aside their cellphones, the experts say they will need to be hit over the head with overwhelming evidence of the danger -- plus publicity and the threat of a penalty. "Remember that ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100402938_pf.html-2009-10-06 topics: AUTOMOBILE SAFETY CULT-CHANGE INCENTIVES BIKES)

A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health

By STEVE LOHR sum[ http://www.keas.com - working with nonprofit HealthWise] The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions — 80 p... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/technology/06bosworth.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-06 topics: INTERNET SOLUTIONS PUB-HLTH NONPROFIT-INNOVATION WEBSITE-DESIGN PUB-INFO APPS-OF-INTEREST)

SI town hall pounds prez over health

By JENNIFER FERMINO and CARL CAMPANILE Last Updated: 3:01 AM, October 6, 2009 Posted: 3:01 AM, October 6, 2009 It was standing room only at a Staten Island town-hall meeting on health care last night, when close to 1,000 participants launched a rauc... (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/staten_island/si_town_hall_pounds_prez_over_health_gbUxgcYyTBFNJ7xBlSjGGI-2009-10-06 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP IGNORANCE)

Will Books Be Napsterized?

By RANDALL STROSS YOU can buy “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com. Or you can don a pirate’s cap and snatch a free copy from another online user at RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile and other file-storage sites... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/business/04digi.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-06 topics: INTEL-PROP PUB-INFO CRIME INTERNET APPS-OF-INTEREST)

People Uninsured Before Medicare Have Higher Medical Bills, Study Finds

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Expanding health insurance to cover everyone over the age of 51 might help save costs to Medicare in the long run, according to a new study reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine. People between the ages of 51 and 65 who... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/business/06exchange.html?hpw-2009-10-06 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY POV)

Shankar Vedantam website

http://wearethebest.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/shankar-vedantam-named-nieman-fellow/ Shankar Vedantam named Nieman fellow 20 May 2009 Shankar Vedantam, a national science reporter at The Washington Post, has been named among 24 American and internat... (http://vedantam.com/human-behavior-audio.html-2009-10-06 topics: PSYCH PUB-INFO ALLIES)

Researchers explore mental health benefits of video games: Researchers found that volunteers who played Bejeweled displayed improved mood and heart rh

Shankar Vedantam L.A. Times/Washington Post News Service Share on Facebook Email Print Comment Recommend ENLARGE Gail Nichols has suffered from depression for years. When the 49-year-old resident of St. Marys, Kan., cannot sleep, she falls back o... (http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090824/AE/908249986/-1/RSS10-2009-10-06 topics: PSYCH PAM UNCERTAINTY TV INTERNET)

About Daylife

What is Daylife? The Daylife Platform offers unlimited, high-quality, and advertiser-friendly news and content for your website, whether it's a niche blog or a global publishing brand. Daylife.com is our showcase site, where you can see some of wh... (http://corp.daylife.com/about-2009-10-06 topics: PUB-INFO INTERNET APPS-OF-INTEREST PUBLISHING)

One State’s Solution May Not Be a Model for the Nation

By REED ABELSON Utah is only the second state to develop its own insurance exchange, and it is distinctly different from its better-known counterpart in Massachusetts. It is also unlike anything currently envisioned in Congress. Aimed initially at... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/business/06exchangeside.html?adxnnl=1&ref=business&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1254820740-0dFatjlkXztGaoAlNF9Vng-2009-10-06 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS)

A Towering Landmark, Reduced to Sawdust

By A. G. SULZBERGER For more than six centuries, by some estimates, a magnificent white oak tree has loomed over Little Neck Bay in Queens. Believed to have been born in an open meadow before Columbus arrived in the New World, it had reached epic p... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/nyregion/06tree.html?hp-2009-10-06 topics: NATURE AM-HIST)

In Debate on Health, It’s Coverage vs. Cost

sum[ "actuarial value" of a policy: % paid by it. "By contrast, the Congressional Budget Office says, the actuarial value of policies bought in the individual insurance market now averages 55 percent to 60 percent...For insurance plans provided by e... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/policy/06health.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-06 topics: HLTH-FIN DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

The Roving Runner Goes Barefoot

By BRIAN FIDELMAN Vijai Singh/The New York Times The Roving Runner, Brian Fidelman, left, with the author Christopher McDougall, taking a break from a barefoot run in Central Park in Manhattan. What’s with the bare feet? Some runners are tossin... (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/the-roving-runner-goes-barefoot/?pagemode=print-2009-10-06 topics: RUNNING)

Scientists' Genetic Work Earns Nobel Prize: Three Americans Share Award For Medicine

By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Three American scientists shared a Nobel Prize on Monday for deciphering how cells protect their genes as they divide repeatedly throughout an organism's life, a crucial discovery ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100500756_pf.html-2009-10-06 topics: SCIENCE COMPENSATION)

Health Insurance Exchanges: Will They Work?

By REED ABELSON It is the sleeper issue in the current health care debate. Despite all the disagreement in Washington, every proposal now before Congress to overhaul the nation’s health care system includes creation of an insurance “exchange�... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/business/06exchange.html?sq=&st=nyt&scp=6&pagewanted=print-2009-10-06 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

The Claim: With a Runny Nose, Green Calls for an Antibiotic (DOCTORS MISDIAGNOSE)

By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS Old prescription habits apparently die hard. Studies have suggested that most doctors say they would prescribe an antibiotic if a child with sinus symptoms also had green nasal discharge. The habit stems from the not... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06real.html?pagewanted=print-2009-10-06 topics: MEDICINE HLTH-FIN IGNORANCE)

BlazeDS for PHP Developers: Integrate Flex and Java with your PHP application.

Nathan Good Monday, October 5th, 2009 Share This: Community Tools Recommend This [?] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Users Who Liked This [?] No one yet. Be the first. Tags: If you’ve built a rich Internet applications (RIA) ... (http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7537/1.html-2009-10-06 topics: PHP)

Ranks of uninsured rose in 2008, Census says

By Rebecca Vesely Posted: September 10, 2009 - 10:00 am EDT The number of uninsured nationwide rose to 46.3 million in 2008, up 1.3% from 45.7 million the prior year, with 15.4% of the total population uninsured, which was no statistical change o... (http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20090910/FREE/309109989/-1#-2009-10-06 topics: HLTH-FIN DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Clinton Meeting Raises $9.4-Billion

Former president Bill Clinton’s annual philanthropy meeting, which was held in New York last week, raised more than $9.4-billion in philanthropic gifts and other types of charitable commitments. While organizers of the event had predicted the ba... (http://philanthropy.com/news/conference/9649/clinton-meeting-raises-8-billion-2009-10-05 topics: INTL-DEV PHILANTHROPY SUPERSTARS)

Stepping Up for Clinic By Raising $800,000

By N.C. Aizenman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 4, 2009 With many District residents stunned by recent findings that the city's HIV/AIDS infection rate is at epidemic levels, the 23rd annual AIDS Walk Washington attracted the high... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100301043_pf.html-2009-10-05 topics: FUNDRAISING DC)

It Will Be Years Before Lost Jobs Return -- and Many Never Will

By SUDEEP REDDY The U.S. has shed 7.2 million jobs since the recession began in December 2007. How long will it take for the economy to replace them? And where will the jobs come from? The questions haunt people from the unemployed in San Francis... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125470053662262957.html?mod=djemITP#printMode-2009-10-05 topics: JOBS RECESSION UNEMPLOYMENT KEY)

On the Internet, Everyone's a Critic But They're Not Very Critical : Average Review Is 4.3 Out of Five Stars; Jerkface Fights Back and Gets Bounced

SUM[ Need to use approach adopted by Fishkin: hire independent group of raters, like Consumer Reports??.] By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and JOSEPH DE AVILA The Web can be a mean-spirited place. But when it comes to online reviews, the Internet is a village... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125470172872063071.html?mod=djemITP#printMode-2009-10-05 topics: INTERNET DEMOCRACY PUB-INFO NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

A More Web-Friendly Register: With Federal Data in XML Form, Users Have New Options

By Ed O'Keefe Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 5, 2009 Lawyers, lobbyists, librarians and concerned citizens, rejoice: As of Monday, it is much easier to access the Federal Register. The de facto daily newspaper of the executive branc... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100402533_pf.html-2009-10-05 topics: NCCS TECH XML PUB-INFO)

Hurdles Remain on Climate Change Goals

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 5, 2009 Like most members of President Obama's climate team, David Sandalow was one of President Bill Clinton's negotiators in Kyoto. And he carries an indelible lesson from the exper... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100401881.html-2009-10-05 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING F-PLY POLITICAL-WILL KEY)

BOOK PROPOSAL: A new way to think about the good life and the good community?

The world that most of us seem to aspire to is unsustainable. But what if there are some relatively slight adjustments we could make in our thinking and in our lifestyles that would be game changers? Wouldn't we want to make those changes, especia... (-2009-10-04 topics: IDEAS)

PHP WIKI TRANSLATORS

http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki/ (-2009-10-04 topics: PHP TODO)

Trail of E. Coli Shows Flaws in Inspection of Ground Beef

By MICHAEL MOSS Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that first day, and she finished her classes. Then her diarrhea turned bloody. Her kidneys shut down. Seizures... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-04 topics: PUB-HLTH CORRUPTN LYING REG KEY AGRICULTURE)

Fixing Delta Kitchen Faucet

http://www.hammerzone.com/archives/plumbing/faucet/delta_peerless/1/overhaul.htm#Tools... (-2009-10-04 topics: HOME)

Is Conservatism Brain-Dead?

By Steven F. Hayward Sunday, October 4, 2009 Over his decades as a columnist, lecturer, TV host and debater, William F. Buckley Jr. lost his cool in public only once -- when he threatened to sock Gore Vidal "in your goddamn face" on the third nigh... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103889_pf.html-2009-10-04 topics: CONSERVATIVE)

Report Says Iran Has Data to Make Bomb

By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” atom bomb. ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/world/middleeast/05iran.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-04 topics: IRAN N-DEF MIDEAST ISRAEL)

Health care reform: Privately, Barack Obama strongly backs public option: White House discreetly labors to weave coalition on health care

www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-healthcare-obama-1003-oct04,0,1969667.story Health care reform: Privately, Barack Obama strongly backs public option: White House discreetly labors to weave coalition on health care By Noam N. Levey and Janet Ho... (-2009-10-04 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-PLAN)

Key Democrats Still On the Fence About Reform

By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 5, 2009 At least two Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have refused to pledge their support for the health-care reform bill scheduled for a vote this week, underscoring the hard... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100402002_pf.html-2009-10-04 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG)

What I Saw at the Afghan Election

SUM[UN officials refuse to deal with reality of fraud.] By Peter W. Galbraith Sunday, October 4, 2009 Before firing me last week from my post as his deputy special representative in Afghanistan, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon conveyed one last... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100202855_pf.html-2009-10-04 topics: AFGHAN LYING F-PLY)

So Much Food. So Much Hunger.

sum[ The more difficult problems may lie within our borders. Farm programs are among the most entrenched entitlements in Washington. But crop subsidies and America’s habit of shipping grain to the poor tends to undermine robust markets in developi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/weekinreview/20martin.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-10-04 topics: INTL-NEEDS POV KEY)

The Wizard of Beck

By DAVID BROOKS Let us take a trip back into history. Not ancient history. Recent history. It is the winter of 2007. The presidential primaries are approaching. The talk jocks like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and the rest are over the m... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/opinion/02brooks.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-04 topics: CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS PUB-OP KEY)

Obama's Looking Glass: When Believing Is Not Enough

By George F. Will Sunday, October 4, 2009 Last Thursday, the president's "engagement" with Iran began. This Wednesday, the U.S. war in Afghanistan will enter its ninth year. And U.S. foreign policy is entering a White Queen phase. In "Through the... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100202891_pf.html-2009-10-04 topics: F-PLY OBAMA AFGHAN IRAN COOP-LIMITS)

William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer: 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' (William Morrow) (Rebroadcast)

William Kamkwamba describes dreaming of bringing light to his village in Africa and how he taught himself physics and used spare parts to build a windmill that produced electricity. Guests Bryan Mealer, author of "All Things Must Fight to Live" and... (http://wamu.org/programs/dr/09/10/04.php-2009-10-04 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP INTL-DEV LD COURAGE KEY INSPIRATION)

D.C. Bike Station A New Element In Urban Transportation

Posted: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:06:00 -0400 Play Now Washington D.C. is taking steps to make bike riding a more viable form of transportation. Mayor Adrian Fenty, an avid biker, is in his element. Outside Union Station, he stands in front of a steel a... (http://feeds.wamu.org/WAMU885LocalNewsPodcast-2009-10-04 topics: BIKES URB SOLUTIONS GLOBAL-WARMING)

Guinea Seethes as a Captain Rules at Gunpoint

By ADAM NOSSITER CONAKRY, Guinea — At the military camp where he makes decisions — he does not care for government buildings — the captain who is president explained why he did not get to the political rally earlier this week that his soldier... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/world/africa/03guinea.html?hp-2009-10-03 topics: AFRICA CORRUPTN VIOLENCE DEMOCRACY POOR-LD)

MapTogether.org - Mapping website for nonprofits & google fusion Tables

Without further ado, let me introduce Google Fusion Tables! Fusion Tables is a new web-based database from Google Labs, the wing of Google that introduces Beta products. Fusion Tables allows users to import data - from their own spreadsheets or fro... (http://maptogether.org/blogs/jim/nonprofit-map-from-google-fusion-tables-2009-10-03 topics: MAPPING NCCS NONPROFIT-TECH)

MetroBoston DataCommon

... is a online mapping tool. A partnership between the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and the Boston Indicators Project, it makes available a wealth of data about cities and towns in Massachusetts. Explore data, print out instant communi... (http://www.metrobostondatacommon.org/html/gallery.htm-2009-10-03 topics: MAPPING NCCS)

More Than 220 D.C. Teachers Lose Jobs: Layoffs Come Amid Scramble to Staff Security Checkpoints

By Bill Turque and Emma Brown Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, October 3, 2009 In one of the most turbulent days in its recent history, the D.C. public schools system laid off more than 200 teachers Friday and coped with the abrupt loss ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100202289_pf.html-2009-10-03 topics: EDUC DC UNIONS RECESSION GVT-MGT HR)

Incompetent? No, Just Not a Leader

By JOE NOCERA Some people are born to be leaders. Hugh L. McColl Jr. is such a person. Starting in 1974, when he was 39, he became the president of a small southern bank called North Carolina National Bank. He then proceeded to build one of the gre... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/business/03nocera.html?8dpc=&_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-10-03 topics: POOR-LD BANK JUDGMENT)

A Low-Income Housing Battle Reveals Post-Katrina Tensions

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON CHALMETTE, La. — The parish of St. Bernard, a quiet, insular suburb just east of New Orleans, has in the end agreed to allow housing for low-income families. But even though it is only a few hundred apartment units, it had ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/us/04housing.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-03 topics: KATRINA BLCK HOUS POV RASCISM)

Understanding the Anxious Mind

sum[ The predictive power of an anxiety-prone temperament, such as it is, essentially works in just one direction: not by predicting what these children will become but by predicting what they will not. In the longitudinal studies of anxiety, all yo... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/magazine/04anxiety-t.html?em-2009-10-03 topics: PSYCH KEY)

Consequence09.org; Avaaz.org

Consequence is a national youth campaign calling for urgent Congressional action on a comprehensive clean energy and climate plan that delivers clean energy jobs, less pollution, and a more secure America. Young people have an incredibly important r... (http://consequence09.org/about/-2009-10-03 topics: ALLIES GLOBAL-WARMING ADVOCACY)

Discrimination by Insurers Likely Even With Reform, Experts Say: Economic Pressure Could Give Rise to New Biases Against Prior Conditions

By David S. Hilzenrath Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 4, 2009 Any health-care overhaul that Congress and President Obama enact is likely to have as its centerpiece a fundamental reform: Insurers would not be allowed to reject individ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/03/AR2009100302483_pf.html-2009-10-03 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

Montblanc's Gandhi Pen Prompts Howls in India

By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, October 2, 2009 1:37 PM NEW DELHI, Oct. 2 -- Images of Mohandas K. Gandhi, father of modern India and icon of asceticism and nonviolence, have ended up in some unlikely places before, from ads s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100203191_pf.html-2009-10-02 topics: INDIA CONSUMER SACRIFICE IGNORANCE INEQUALITY RICH INTL-DEV)

A Public-Service 'Game Changer'

In the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, President Johnson launched a new initiative--the White House Fellowship--to expose highly qualified young Americans to the inner chamber of power at the White House in hopes of enlisting them for a lifetime of s... (http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/panelists/2009/10/a-public-service-game-changer.html-2009-10-02 topics: LD PROGRESS GVT-MGT SOLUTIONS PUB-SRV)

Reid's at the Reins in Health-Care Battle

By Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 3, 2009 With the Senate Finance Committee finally poised to complete its work, the volatile health-care debate now shifts into closed-door negotiations taking place around the conference ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100204791_pf.html-2009-10-02 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG)

Obama Aide Concedes Climate Law Must Wait

By ANDREW C. REVKIN President Obama’s top climate and energy official said Friday that there was virtually no chance Congress would have a climate and energy bill ready for him to sign before negotiations on a global climate treaty begin in Decemb... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/us/politics/03climate.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-02 topics: PRES CONG NO-EASY-ANSWERS LEGIS)

Little Rooms, Big Profits (NYC's profitable inexpensive hotel rooms)

By CHARLES V. BAGLI SAM CHANG, the hotel king of New York, surveyed a portion of his domain from West 39th Street, a gritty block south of the Port Authority, from where he can see not one, not two, but a half-dozen of his hotel sites on a single bl... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/nyregion/04chang.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-02 topics: RETAIL CONSUMER MGT RISK)

Where Did ‘We’ Go?

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I hate to write about this, but I have actually been to this play before and it is really disturbing. I was in Israel interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just before he was assassinated in 1995. We had a beer in his off... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/opinion/30friedman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-02 topics: DEMOCRACY DIVISIVE PUB-OP ALLIES KEY-A FS-CURRICULUM)

M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree

By TAMAR LEWIN CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a confession in her blog on the college Web site. “There’ve been several times when I felt like I didn’t really fit in at M.I.T.,” she wrote. “I nearly fell asle... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/education/02blogs.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-02 topics: WEB2.0 HIGHER-ED MGT)

Swiss Health Care Thrives Without Public Option

sum[ By many measures, the Swiss are healthier than Americans, and surveys indicate that Swiss people are generally happy with their system. Switzerland, moreover, provides high-quality care at costs well below what the United States spends per per... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/health/policy/01swiss.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-10-02 topics: HLTH-FIN EUR SOLUTIONS)

Leonsis's Invention Of Not Lying

By Mike Wise Saturday, October 3, 2009 There is no more popular pro sports owner in Washington than Ted Leonsis today and, miracle of miracles, it has nothing to do with his competition. He isn't embraced for his blow-kisses-to-the-crowd showm... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100204624_pf.html-2009-10-02 topics: INTEGRITY MGT LD KEY SPORTS PATIENCE)

Study: Increased Dementia in Ex-Players: NFL Retirees Have More Memory-Related, Less Heart-Related Disease Than Population

By Mark Maske Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 1, 2009 A study commissioned by the NFL to assess the health and well-being of retired players found that they reported being diagnosed with dementia and other memory-related diseases at... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/30/AR2009093004732_pf.html-2009-10-01 topics: SPORTS MEDICINE PERS-HLTH)

Scramble For Funds At House Of Ruth: D.C. Cuts $500,000 In Aid to Victims of Domestic Violence

note[ D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence - umbrella; funding from the Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness, which lost money when the city's Department of Human Services budget was reduced. ] By Susan Kinzie Washington Pos... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/30/AR2009093004837_pf.html-2009-10-01 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION HUM-SRV NONPROFIT-GVT ADVOCACY DC NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

City Year Program Mentors Aim to Change Lives, One Student at a Time

By Joanna Chakerian Thursday, June 18, 2009 Anthony Buenafe was sure he could motivate the kids in his sixth-grade class to do something besides playing with paper footballs or fighting. So he brought his childhood chess set into school. Buena... (http://www.cityyear.org/dynamic_ektid14341.aspx-2009-10-01 topics: CMTY-SRV NONPROFIT-INNOVATION EDUC SOLUTIONS FS-RSC)

BOSTON FDN MISC

http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/PubApps/benchmarks.php?db=boston - Benchmarking http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/PubApps/sharedServices.php?db=boston - Shared Goods and Services --- PARTNERS: http://www.mass211.org/ - 36 mentoring programs vs 79 990search ... (-2009-10-01 topics: NCCS)

RE: THE RUBBER ROOM: A letter in response to Steven Brill’s article (August 31, 2009)

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2009/09/28/090928mama_mail3 SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 Steven Brill’s “The Rubber Room” I was disappointed by the absence of any discussion of teacher retention in Brill’s article. I began working in the New... (-2009-09-30 topics: EDUC NYC GVT-MGT HR)

Why Tuesday? Fixing our voting system one question at a time

Rich Benjamin - demos, Ctr for Ameri. Progress, etc. (http://www.whytuesday.org/about/-2009-09-30 topics: NONPROFIT ADVOCACY ALLIES LIBERAL)

Campaign Engagement: volunteering in Obama and McCain campaigns (matt maronick)

Hey Tom, The specific article with the Obama and McCain volunteer statistics is actually from USA Today but was corroborated by several other sources. You'll see it as the second annotation on the list. Matt Campaign Engagement Elizabeth Holla... (-2009-09-30 topics: VOLUNTEER FS-RSC KEY-A)

Economists for an Imaginary World

SUM[ The problem with that, Robert Skidelsky argues in a new book on economics after the fall, "Keynes: The Return of the Master," is that it neglects one of Keynes's central insights -- that an uncertainty attends human affairs that transcends quan... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092903001_pf.html-2009-09-30 topics: ECON UNCERTAINTY WISDOM KEY HUM-NAT)

Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (Hardcover)

sum[ TOP 10 NONFICTION BOOKS NYT: 3 conserv.] by Michelle Malkin Michelle Malkin (Author) --- Top 10 New York Times Bestsellers in Hardcover Nonfiction "True Compass" by Edward M. Kennedy Read more "Where Men Win Glory" by Jon Krakauer Read m... (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1596981091/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books-2009-09-29 topics: CONSERVATIVE PUB-OP CORRUPTN)

Vow of Poverty

http://corporationsole.insights2.org/Poverty.html A person who has been initiated into a Religious Order may take a vow of poverty at any time during their membership in the Order. The vow of poverty is not to be interpreted as being for ever poor,... (-2009-09-29 topics: COMPENSATION RELIGION)

Car-Free Diet Hard to Swallow For Many

By Robert McCartney Thursday, September 24, 2009 Tuesday was World Car Free Day, so I left the Camry at home. I decided to see how it was to cover the event and go about my other business using only public transit and my legs. I concluded the foll... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR2009092304566_pf.html-2009-09-29 topics: BIKES FS-RSC COOP GLOBAL-WARMING KEY)

Look Ma, No Brakes! Stripped-Down Fixies Have Long Been The Bike of Choice Among Couriers. Now, Hip Urbanites Have Gotten the Message.

By David Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 28, 2009 What a profile they cut, slicing through the city: gorgeous, exotic, dangerous. You see them parked like emaciated steeds outside the coolest clubs. They don't make much ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/27/AR2009092703241.html-2009-09-29 topics: BIKES)

CONCEPT LIST

* Privatize gain * problem of multiplicity - One thing a scientist doesn’t want to mess up is the problem of multiplicity (also known as ‘field significance‘). It’s just like rolling a die 600 times, and then getting excited about getting r... (-2009-09-29 topics: CONCEPTS LIST)

Downturn Weighs on Poor: More Children Fall Into Poverty as Family Incomes Shrink; Ms. Smith Sells Her Recliner

By CONOR DOUGHERTY Poverty rose in the West and Midwest last year, as slowdowns in housing and manufacturing sent more families below the poverty line, according to a Census Bureau report released Tuesday. Kimberly Calvillo prepares food baskets f... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125417989137347729.html?mod=djemITP#printMode-2009-09-29 topics: POV DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

THE RUBBER ROOM: The battle over New York City’s worst teachers.

SUM[ The promise of school funds might also push the legislature, which controls issues such as tenure, to allow a loosening of the contract’s job-security provisions and to repeal the law that forbids test scores to be used to evaluate teachers.... (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/31/090831fa_fact_brill?printable=true-2009-09-29 topics: EDUC GVT-MGT OUTCOME-MEAS HR GVT-ROLE DEMOCRATS CORRUPTN NYC)

Terms of Use for Independent Sector’s FutureLab Utilizing Imaginatik’s Idea Central software

INTRODUCTION The following terms and conditions of use (“Terms”) apply to and govern your access to and use of this online community website, with a home page of independentsector.imaginatik.com, and any content, communications, tools, or servic... (-2009-09-28 topics: INTEL-PROP USER-AGREEMENT)

What is so Great about Private Insurers.

September 20, 2009 11:06 PM EDT views: 60 | rating: 10/10 (2 votes) | comments: 12 Competition lacking among private health insurers By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (AP) – Aug 22, 2009 WASHINGTON — One of the most widely accepted arguments agai... (http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977820021&grpId=3659174697241980-2009-09-28 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY PUB-PLAN WEB2.0)

Measuring Progress At Shaw With More Than Numbers

By Jay Mathews Monday, September 28, 2009 On July 11, Brian Betts, principal of the District's Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson, was at Dulles International Airport about to leave for a vacation in Spain. He was feeling good. His first yea... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/27/AR2009092702918_pf.html-2009-09-28 topics: EDUC DC OUTCOME-MEAS KEY MGT NO-EASY-ANSWERS CMTY-NEEDS)

UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC POLICY: CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO HEALTH CARE REFORM

== Public Option == * Market clout ** AP, 9/25/09: no incentive for monopoly insurers to negotiate with providers *** Profit of insurers? Providers? ** Blue Cross/Blue Shield conversion experience == understanding public policy issues == Same idea,... (-2009-09-28 topics: HLTH-FIN IDEAS)

Study: CEO Salaries At Nonprofits Up In 2008

by PAM FESSLER Listen to the Story Morning Edition[4 min 52 sec] Study The Numbers Nonprofit Pay In 2008: The Chronicle of Philanthropy surveyed 325 of the nation's biggest charities and foundations on the compensation of their top executives for ... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113184003-2009-09-28 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP KEY)

Uncharitable Charities

sum[At the beginning of the year, Obama proposed limiting the deduction to 28 cents on the dollar, which would have raised more than $300 billion and solved much of the health-care financing problem. But Obama's idea was shot down, and now, a grou... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR2009092303678_pf.html-2009-09-28 topics: NONPROFIT EC-TX CORRUPTN)

Let's Beat the Extremists Like We Beat the Soviets

sum["The competitive challenge facing the West is not to prove that Islamic fundamentalism won't satisfy the aspirations of humanity, but to demonstrate that democratic capitalism can, even for committed believers. In short, the key to winning the c... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/25/AR2009092502011_pf.html-2009-09-28 topics: F-PLY FS-CURRICULUM KEY-A)

Grading the Baucus Health Plan

Henry J. Aaron, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies New York Times September 16, 2009 — Groucho Marx famously said that he would not join any club that would have him as a member. American voters are about to find out whether the U.S. Congress will... (-2009-09-28 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG REPUBLICANS)

Community Games

Apples to Apples Connect 4 Cranium Twister (-2009-09-28 topics: FS-RSC)

Taste the freedom that comes with bicycling

Sue White June 18, 2008 WHEN the Danish urban designer Thomas Ermacora sat down to study global bicycle culture, he began by making a world map of cycling capitals. Unfortunately, Australia didn't make the grade. "Australia doesn't really have a... (http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2008/06/17/1213468423212.html-2009-09-28 topics: BIKES URB)

Gates Foundation chief earns top pay among foundation CEOs

Posted by Kristi Heim When the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it would pay its next CEO more than its first, it wasn't kidding. While Patricia Stonesifer received a salary of just $1 during her decade-long tenure, the current foundation Chi... (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thebusinessofgiving/2009959059_gates_foundation_pays.html-2009-09-28 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP)

Boston Foundation: Intro

pages: http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/PubApps/sharedServices.php?db=boston http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/PubApps/benchmarks.php?db=boston - PETER LEVINE - STATE CHARITY OFFICE A database for what purpose? Let me offer several options. Some tools are ... (-2009-09-28 topics: NCCS IDEAS)

Parenting Tips: Praise Can Be Bad; Lying Is Normal

SUM[ Instead, he recommends that parents pause children in the moment before they suspect a lie may be coming and say, "You make me really happy if you tell me the truth." As for teenagers, Bronson says the best way to discourage lying is to set co... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112292248&sc=nl&cc=es-20090927-2009-09-28 topics: PARENTING LYING PSYCH METHODOLOGY KEY)

'What Should I Do With My Life?'

Book Chronicles Quest to Answer 'Ultimate' Question sample chapter: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=896361&ps=rs website: http://www.pobronson.com/ see also: Charlie Peters, Tilting at Windmills January 3, 2003 Po Bronson call... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=896041&ps=rs-2009-09-28 topics: JOBS WISDOM FS-CURRICULUM ALLIES)

In Poll, Public Wary of Obama on War and Health

sum["But the poll suggests that Mr. Obama is in a decidedly more commanding position than Republicans on this issue as Congressional negotiations move into final stages. Most Americans trust Mr. Obama more than Republicans to make the right decision... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/us/politics/25poll.html?_r=1-2009-09-28 topics: PUB-OP OBAMA HLTH-FIN PUB-PLAN)

The Big Initiatives ... to make the world a nicer place for cycling and for walking

May 25, 2008 By: Peter Smith Category: Advocacy NOTE[ GOOD EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: 17) Create and aggressively market a ‘Corporate Cycling Certification’ program that will help large companies move more of their employees onto bicycles. [l... (http://googlemapsbikethere.org/2008/05/25/the-big-initiatives/-2009-09-28 topics: BIKES URB KEY SOLUTIONS ENV FS-RSC NONPROFIT ADVOCACY LD)

New Signs That Recovery May Come in Dribs and Drabs

By JACK HEALY New figures on home sales and manufacturing activity suggested on Friday that economic recovery was likely to occur in fits and starts because of high unemployment, a mercurial stock market and shaky consumer demand. “It’s not goi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/business/economy/26econ.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-27 topics: RECESSION UNEMPLOYMENT ECON DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Positive Psychology resources and funders

* http://qlrc.cgu.edu/links.htm - Claremont Quality of life research center, Csikszentmihalyi == Associations/Organizations == Penn Positive Psychology Center Stanford Center on Adolescence Claremont Graduate University School of Behavioral and Orga... (-2009-09-27 topics: PSYCH LIST SOC-SCI ALLIES FUNDERS)

Enter the Recession’s Waiting Room

SUM[ Life in small nebraska town with lots of manufacturing, no unions and a "big brother"-like support for fast food chains and wal-mart. "We take care of you." What happens when credit dries and wind turbine mfr lays off workers?] By DAVID SEGAL ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/27hire.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print-2009-09-27 topics: CULT KEY CMTY UNIONS RECESSION UNEMPLOYMENT)

To Reduce Hedge Fund Risk, Let Everyone In

By THE DEAL PROFESSOR It is time to get serious about hedge fund risk. This, however, is not the usual argument for more regulation of hedge funds. Here is a contrarian view: the best course for our capital markets may actually be in the other dire... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/business/17HEDGE.html?sq=hedge%20funds&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print-2009-09-27 topics: STOCK-MARKET SOLUTIONS)

Hedge Hogs

Published on The New Republic (http://www.tnr.com) Author Info Needed June 4, 2007 | 12:00 am Imagine for a moment you were a car salesman and that you drew mostof your income from commissions--sell a few more minivans, get abigger paycheck, and so... (http://www.tnr.com/article/hedge-hogs-2009-09-27 topics: EXEC-COMP EC-TX CONG CORRUPTN FAIRNESS)

What is the WHATWG?

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a growing community of people interested in evolving the Web. It focuses primarily on the development of HTML and APIs needed for Web applications. The WHATWG was founded by individu... (http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_the_WHATWG.3F-2009-09-27 topics: KN-MGT INFO PROGRAMMING COMPLEXITY KEY NO-EASY-ANSWERS OPEN-SOURCE DELIB)

Health Co-op Offers Model for Overhaul

By KEVIN SACK SEATTLE — As Dr. Harry J. Shriver III examined 70-year-old Eleanor L. Riley one recent morning, he seemed in no hurry. He asked about her phlebitis and her gall bladder, and whether her gout was acting up. They discussed her blood p... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/health/policy/07coop.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-09-27 topics: HLTH-FIN CO-OP)

Leader self-sacrifice and leadership effectiveness: The moderating role of leader self-confidence

An article from: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes by D.D. Cremer (Author), D.v. Knippenberg (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Leader-self-sacrifice-leadership-effectiveness-self-confidence/dp/B000RR0TSY/ref=docs_dop_ican Product D... (-2009-09-27 topics: LD SACRIFICE KEY TODO)

Authentic Leadership: A Self, Leader, and Spiritual Identity Perspective

see also: http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/ijls/new/previous_issues.htm -- full issues online Volume 3, Issue 1 / 2007 Authentic Leadership: A Self, Leader, and Spiritual Identity Perspective Karin Klenke Leadership Development Instit... (http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/ijls/new/vol3iss1/klenke/klenke.htm-2009-09-27 topics: LD KEY SACRIFICE SOC-SCI)

Relationship of Emotional Intelligence with Transformational Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Atika Modassir Wipro Technologies Tripti Singh Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore This manuscript examines the relationship of emotional intelligence (EI) with transformational leadership (TL) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) of ... (http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/ijls/new/vol4iss1/IJLS_V4Is1_Modassir_Singh.pdf-2009-09-27 topics: LD PSYCH KEY SOC-SCI)

It’s Easy Being Green

sum[ Even corporations are losing patience with the deniers: earlier this week Pacific Gas and Electric canceled its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in protest over the chamber’s “disingenuous attempts to diminish or distort the reali... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/opinion/25krugman.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print-2009-09-26 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS KEY LYING ECON)

In Hard Times, Charities Urged to Do More to Recruit Minority Workers and Volunteers

By Heather Joslyn Washington With 9.7 percent of American workers unemployed—a figure that will probably hit 10 percent “and linger there until sometime next year“—demand for the services charities provide will continue to increase, Rep... (http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=9632-2009-09-26 topics: NONPROFIT-JOBS VOLUNTEER ALLIES)

Canning and Gardening: list

Kim O'Donnell - 8/'09 huffington post - canning - "Well-Preserved" (bk) SplendidTable.org MontgomeryVictoryGardens.org... (-2009-09-26 topics: AGRICULTURE GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS FS-RSC)

Historically, what percentage of annual contributed revenue does your organization receive in the last quarter of each year?

Posted by Ben Glenn II on December 18, 2008 at 12:00pm View Discussions Let us hear from you! Share Attachments: Thumbnail with tagline.gif, 4 KB Thumbnail with tagline.gif, 4 KB ▶ Reply to This Replies to This Discussion Permalink Reply by Dav... (http://nonprofit911.ning.com/forum/topics/historically-what-percentage-2009-09-26 topics: GIVING NCCS STATS)

How to Build and Drive Consensus

By Steve Tobak May 18th, 2009 @ 11:02 am Categories: Best Practices, Board Management, Entrepreneurialism, Executive Focus, Hiring... Tags: Process, Leadership, Public Relations, Management, Marketing... I can’t imagine how any manager can be su... (http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=2223-2009-09-26 topics: FS-RSC MGT LD DECISION-MAKING)

Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's (Hardcover)

by Tim Page (Author) see Studio 360 website for interview: http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2009/09/25 Amazon Exclusive: John Elder Robison Reviews Parallel Play John Elder Robison is a writer, speaker, and advocate. He is the author of Look Me i... (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385525621/studi360-20-2009-09-26 topics: CHARACTER KEY-A NEURO-PSYCH CHARACTER TOLERANCE BK)

Strength in What Remains

Strength in What Remains is an unlikely story about an unreasonable man. Deo was a young medical student who fled the genocidal civil war in Burundi in 1994 for the uncertainty of New York City. Against absurd odds--he arrived with little money and ... (http://www.amazon.com/Strength-What-Remains-Tracy-Kidder/dp/1400066212/ref=pd_sim_b_3-2009-09-26 topics: IMMI CHARACTER LD SACRIFICE BK INTL-DEV AFRICA EMPATHY)

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/043/043567502/043567502_200806_990.pdf - PAGE 18: VERY LOW COMPENSATION FOR EXEC. DIR: $75K FOR 60 HR WEEKS. AND FARMER IS ONLY EXEC. VP. (A) Name and address hours per week devoted ( If not paid, e... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Farmer-2009-09-26 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP LD SACRIFICE KEY BK INTL-DEV)

355: The Giant Pool of Money

SUM[ MBA in CDO (credit default swaps) business explains that they sort of should have known about potential harm they were causing but never really...] Host Ira Glass talks with an NPR business and economics correspondent about two gatherings he ... (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242-2009-09-26 topics: POLITICAL-MATURITY SELF-DECEPTION APATHY IGNORANCE KEY)

Gov. Paterson’s Choice (NY $2.1 B. DEFICIT)

Americans are never sure when to take politicians at their word. One good time is when they tell the world that they don’t really want the office they are seeking. Or in the case of Gov. David Paterson of New York, the office he is holding. Earli... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/opinion/26sat1.html/?pagewanted=print-2009-09-26 topics: JOBS MISMATCH POOR-LD POLITICS GVT-FIN)

Solar Power, Without All Those Panels

By ANNE EISENBERG THE main way for homes to harness solar power today is through bulky panels added to the rooftop or mounted on the ground. But companies are now offering alternatives to these fixed installations, in the less conspicuous form of ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/27novel.html?ref=business-2009-09-26 topics: SOLAR-ENERGY)

Did Bankers’ Pay Add to This Mess?

By MARK HULBERT PROPOSALS to cap the compensation of bank C.E.O.’s have gained traction lately as a means of heading off another financial crisis. World leaders at the G-20 summit meeting last week in Pittsburgh agreed in principle to reform ex... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/27stra.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print-2009-09-26 topics: EXEC-COMP RECESSION ECON)

If Not Passion for the Job, at Least Warm Feelings

SUM[ Argues that match between skills and challenge; autonomy; supportive mgt; and job security are key. ME: implications: Then no need for excessive compensation.] By ALINA TUGEND IF there is one word I’m rapidly growing tired of, it’s passion.... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/your-money/26shortcuts.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-26 topics: JOBS GOOD-LIFE KEY FS-CURRICULUM PSYCH NONPROFIT-COMP ALLIES)

U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio

By PETER S. GOODMAN Despite signs that the economy has resumed growing, unemployed Americans now confront a job market that is bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment prospects are still getting worse. Job seekers now outnumber ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/economy/27jobs.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-26 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT ECON)

The College Calculation

By DAVID LEONHARDT The most subversive question about higher education has always been whether the college makes the student or the student makes the college. Sure, Harvard graduates make more money than graduates of just about any other college. A... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27fob-wwln-t.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print-2009-09-26 topics: HIGHER-ED JOBS ECON)

The End of Oil?

By MICHAEL HIRSH CRUDE WORLD The Violent Twilight of Oil By Peter Maass Illustrated. 276 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27 Oil is the curse of the modern world; it is “the devil’s excrement,” in the words of the former Venezuelan oil minister Ju... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/books/review/Hirsh-t.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print-2009-09-26 topics: ENER F-PLY BIG-THINK FS-CURRICULUM)

Schwarzenegger to Children: Hurry Up in There!

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER LOS ANGELES — In a new twist on an old saw trotted out by generations of parents who think their children have it easier, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken to monitoring his children’s water use by timing how long they... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/us/26gov.html?sq=schwarzenegger&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-09-26 topics: PARENTING ENERGY-CONSERV KEY CHARACTER)

Morals Class Is Starting; Please Pass the Popcorn

sum[ “In a way, the book and the course try to model what public discourse would be like if it were more morally ambitious than it is,” Mr. Sandel said. “The title is ‘Justice,’ but in a way its subject is citizenship.” He tells the clas... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/arts/music/26sandel.html?sq=sandel&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-09-26 topics: JOURNALISM ALLIES DIALOGUE KEY)

independent sector FutureLab

About FutureLab: An Online Challenge for the Nonprofit Community to Chart a Vibrant 2020 The goal of the FutureLab is to help the nonprofit and philanthropic community sector build a better 2020. By providing a forum to share big ideas and identify ... (http://www.independentsector.org/future/about.html-2009-09-25 topics: NCCS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION BIG-THINK)

Round Up the Neighbors

By Soraya Nadia McDonald Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 18, 2009 Gloria Ashe was taking a quick break recently from stirring, frying and presiding over her neighborhood block party. It was the ninth one, her last as the reigni... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091701364_pf.html-2009-09-25 topics: GOOD-CMTY FS-CURRICULUM KEY)

New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 25, 2009 Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate p... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092402602.html-2009-09-25 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY FS-CURRICULUM)

In Tough Times, Volunteering In America Remains Strong: New Federal Report Ranks 50 States and 200 Cities, Shows Young Adults & “Do-It-Yourself” V

New Federal Report Ranks 50 States and 200 Cities, Shows Young Adults & “Do-It-Yourself” Volunteers Leading Compassion Boom Washington, DC – A new report released today by the Corporation for National and Community Service finds that even du... (http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/newsroom/releases_detail.asp?tbl_pr_id=1426-2009-09-24 topics: VOLUNTEER)

NCCS Overview - Fall 2009

IRS * efiling * classification - NTEE, NPC * Financial analysis Government funding Asking the right research questions * Neighborhoods and communities: Can people work together better? How manifest? Volunteering for formal organizations, helping ... (-2009-09-24 topics: NCCS IDEAS)

Mary Winkler: Charity Navigator found that only 10% of orgs can report on results

Source? (-2009-09-24 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS KEY)

AP What is so Great about Private Insurers.

September 20, 2009 11:06 PM EDT views: 52 | rating: 10/10 (2 votes) | comments: 12 Competition lacking among private health insurers By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (AP) – Aug 22, 2009 WASHINGTON — One of the most widely accepted arguments agai... (http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977820021&grpId=3659174697241980-2009-09-24 topics: HLTH-FIN)

iMentor

New York City Impact: This year, iMentor will connect 1,000 high school-aged youth (mentees) one-to-one with volunteer adult mentors. Every mentor-mentee pair cultivates their relationship using iMentor's pioneering combination of weekly email corre... (http://www.imentor.org/-2009-09-24 topics: NONPROFIT-TECH ALLIES NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE YOUTH-DEV)

Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey (Putnam, 2000)

11 dimensions of social capital covering: * trust, * political engagement, * giving and volunteering, * faith-based engagement, * informal socializing, * involvement in associations, * civic leadership, * diversity of friendships, and * equ... (http://www.cfsv.org/communitysurvey/results_pr.html-2009-09-24 topics: SOC-CAP KEY)

Jute - Changing the way the world manages its network

Demo use by James Siegal at Independent Sector. (http://jutenetworks.com/blog/-2009-09-24 topics: WEB2.0 KN-MGT NCCS APPS-OF-INTEREST)

The Numbers and Health Care Reform

Two authoritative surveys in recent days have underscored why all Americans have a stake in successful health care reform. Too many people are being hit with relentlessly rising premiums or are at serious risk of losing their coverage to allow the s... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/opinion/23wed2.html?sq=health%20co-op&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print-2009-09-24 topics: HLTH-FIN CMTY-NEEDS)

MOUNT RAINIER BIKE CO-OP

3601 Bunker Hill Rd., Mount Rainier. 301-277-2110. http://www.mrbikecoop.com.... (-2009-09-24 topics: NONPROFIT CO-OP BIKES)

To Go Solar, Start Local: Co-Ops Can Help You Jump Through Hoops and Start Saving Energy

By Elizabeth D. Festa Special to The Washington Post Saturday, September 19, 2009 One March day in 2008, Ketch Ryan, a long-time environmentalist, sent a message to her neighborhood group e-mail list in the town of Chevy Chase, inviting neighbor... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/18/AR2009091800078_pf.html-2009-09-24 topics: CO-OP NONPROFIT-INNOVATION FS-RSC KEY SOLAR-ENERGY)

Obama's Quiet Success on Schools

sum[ The stimulus included $4.35 billion for competitive grants to states to improve elementary and secondary education -- the largest-ever amount of discretionary federal funding for school reform. The administration's proposed regulations on these... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092203009_pf.html-2009-09-23 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN EDUC KEY CHARTER-SCHOOLS)

Ms. Rhee's Belt-Tightening: How D.C. budget cuts can eliminate ineffective teachers

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 CRITICS OF D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee say she is using the city's budget problems as a way to get rid of teachers she doesn't want. They're probably right. But that doesn't make Ms. Rhee wrong to take... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092203476_pf.html-2009-09-23 topics: EDUC GVT-MGT DC GOOD-MGT)

Read This! Can legislators really read every word of every bill?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 POLITICIANS are asked to make all sorts of unwise promises. The latest: A group of well-meaning professional activists -- and, so far, over nearly 60,000 online petitioners -- want members of Congress to sign a pled... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092203473_pf.html-2009-09-23 topics: CONG KN-MGT KEY NO-EASY-ANSWERS TOO-MUCH-INFO)

The Deadly Silence of the Electric Car: Automakers Propose Adding Some Artificial Vroom to Alert Pedestrians

By Peter Whoriskey Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 23, 2009 After years of trying to make cars sound as if they were riding on air, engineers are considering how they might bring back some noise. They're trying to make some of... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092204290_pf.html-2009-09-23 topics: AUTOMOBILE ENV ENERGY-CONSERV)

For French, U.S. Health Debate Hard To Imagine: But National Insurance Faces New Challenges

By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, September 23, 2009 MARSEILLE, France -- When Jean-Louis Aloy could no longer walk comfortably among his olive trees in the hills above Marseille, he knew the time had come. Bowing to doc... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092204289_pf.html-2009-09-23 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

New Technology Used For Streamlining Data: Government Transparency Is a Top Goal

By Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 23, 2009 The administration began a Web program Tuesday that eliminates red tape in the immigration process by allowing applicants to follow their status via text message and e-m... (-2009-09-23 topics: GVT-INFO CPTR-BUS PUB-INFO NCCS KEY GVT-MGT TECH)

The Republicans' Deaf Ear Is a Preexisting Condition

By Dana Milbank Wednesday, September 23, 2009 The Senate Finance Committee was barely an hour into its consideration of health-care reform on Tuesday morning, but Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) already knew where he stood. "I do not support a govern... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092203343_pf.html-2009-09-23 topics: HLTH-FIN DIALOGUE CONG REPUBLICANS)

In S.C., One Road Divides Two Ways of Thinking: Views on Obama, and Race, Hold Firm

By Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 22, 2009 ORANGEBURG, S.C. -- The Bolen and Elmore homes, three blocks apart in opposite directions off Columbia Road in this small city, could not seem more alike. Both are simple... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/21/AR2009092103775_pf.html-2009-09-23 topics: SOUTH NO-EASY-ANSWERS PUB-OP BLCK DIVISIVE HLTH-FIN)

Terror Suspect Had Bomb Guide, Authorities Say

By DAVID JOHNSTON and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM The central figure in what authorities describe as a widening inquiry into a possible plot to detonate explosives in the United States had been trained in weapons and explosives in Pakistan and, according t... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/us/21terror.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-09-21 topics: TERRORISM)

McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure': Top U.S. Commander For Afghan War Calls Next 12 Months Decisive

SEE: http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Assessment_Redacted_092109.pdf?hpid=topnews - pdf http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/21/AR2009092100110.html?hpid=topnews -txt By Bob Woodward Washington Post S... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092002920_pf.html-2009-09-21 topics: AFGHAN CORRUPTN KEY)

For ACORN, Video Is Only Latest Crisis

By Carol D. Leonnig and Alexi Mostrous Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, September 20, 2009 The liberal political organizing group ACORN faced internal chaos and allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud long before two young conservati... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091902550_pf.html-2009-09-21 topics: NONPROFIT-MGT)

The Truth About Bureaucracy

sum[ Such is the paradox inherent in our relationship with the state. Much of what government does actually works as it should, sometimes on a staggering scale. But inevitably, even those feats seem to come with unintended consequences and bureaucra... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20FOB-WWLN-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=print-2009-09-21 topics: GVT-MGT GVT-ROLE GVT-LIMITS PUB-OP OBAMA LD)

EHP

2/25/10 - DERMATOLOGIST: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html http://www.asds.net/find.aspx - derm surg Katalin Korossy, MD 11126 Woodson Ave Kensington, MD 20895 Phone: (301) 949-1650 --- 1/15: joan: 9:25 am arrive. medicare.gov... (-2009-09-21 topics: PERSONAL)

Primary Care Physician Supply, Physician Compensation, and Medicare Fees: What Is the Connection?

SUM[ Excellent backgrounder includes good data on cost of a practice and (surprisingly) low liability insurance. Primary care docs get 1/2 of surgeons' median salaries.] Author: Laura A. Dummit Summary: Primary care, a cornerstone of several health ... (http://www.nhpf.org/library/issue-briefs/IB827_Physician_Income_11-03-08.pdf-2009-09-20 topics: HLTH-FIN MCR KEY COMPENSATION)

CBO: HELP Bill's Public Plan Not Much Help on Costs

by GoozNews ~ 10 Sep 2009 04:59pm The green-eyeshade meanies in the Congressional Budget Office took another whack at the public plan today, at least the one contained in the health reform bill passed by the Senate Health Education Labor and Pens... (http://www.gooznews.com/node/3076-2009-09-20 topics: HLTH-FIN)

HEALTH CARE REFORM AND FINANCING RESEARCH ORGS & PUBS

* http://www.nhpf.org/ - National Health Policy Forum (no listserv, Kellogg funding) ** good list of other links * http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/06/pdf/health_competitiveness.pdf - Health Care Competition Insurance Market Domination Le... (-2009-09-20 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-INFO LIST EXEC-COMP)

Physician Payment Services System (MEDPAC)

The RVUs for physician work reflect the relative levels of time, effort, skill, and stress associated with providing each service. P1... (http://www.medpac.gov/documents/MedPAC_Payment_Basics_08_Physician.pdf-2009-09-20 topics: HLTH-FIN COMPENSATION JOBS)

Green in the Garden Doesn't Translate to Green in the Wallet

By Martha White Sunday, September 20, 2009 Media outlets are fascinated with green shoots -- not the signs of economic health Ben Bernanke says we should be expecting, but literal green shoots. Gardening is having a moment. Articles have been tyin... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091900063_pf.html-2009-09-20 topics: GARDENING ENV AGRICULTURE SOLUTIONS KEY)

Is the Mayo Clinic a Model Or a Mirage? Jury Is Still Out: Duplication Wouldn't Be Easy, Critics Say

SUM[That, Mayo physicians said, has drawn doctors more committed to their professional obligations than to making high salaries by racking up procedures. "I didn't go to medical school to be the hardest-working guy in the room. I went to medical sch... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091902575_pf.html-2009-09-20 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION NONPROFIT-COMP KEY)

Deeds Shows Big Gains In Va. Poll: More in N.Va., Women Describe McDonnell As Too Conservative

SUM[McDonnell, a former state attorney general and legislator, continues to top 50 percent among likely voters and boasts far more enthusiastic supporters than Deeds. The Republican also still holds advantages on handling an array of major issues, i... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091902552_pf.html-2009-09-20 topics: PUB-OP IGNORANCE)

Test-Driving His Defense: Focused Blache Is Still Getting a Feel for Redskins' Unit

SUM[ There is, through all the bluster, a bottom line, and Blache believes in only that. He does not buy into numbers. He does not run information through statistical models. Looking for an answer you want, rather than the answer Blache believes in,... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091902405_pf.html-2009-09-20 topics: LD INTUITION SPORTS)

A Lifeline for Victims of Violence Needs One of Its Own: D.C. Nonprofit Set to Close as Funding Dries Up

By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 20, 2009 Anne Garcia tried to read aloud a letter of thanks from a woman who had been saved from an abusive husband, but she kept having to stop, mouth trembling. Other staff members a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091902383_pf.html-2009-09-20 topics: RECESSION NONPROFIT-FIN NONPROFIT-GVT HUM-SRV NONPROFIT-BIRTH)

You Have No Idea What Health Costs: If You Did, You Might Just Want Real Reform

SUM[The average health-care coverage for the average family now costs $13,375, according to Kaiser. Over the past decade, premiums have increased by 138 percent. And if the trend continues, by 2019 the average family plan will cost $30,083. About 1... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/19/AR2009091900112_pf.html-2009-09-20 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

Eager Students Fall Prey to Apartheid’s Legacy in S. Africa

SUM[Most teachers in South Africa’s schools today got inferior educations under the Bantu system, and this has seriously impaired their ability to teach the next generation, analysts say. Teachers are not tested on subject knowledge, but one study... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/world/africa/20safrica.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-09-20 topics: INTL-NEEDS AFRICA EDUC)

Obama Requests That Paterson Drop New York Campaign

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and JEFF ZELENY WASHINGTON — President Obama has sent a request to Gov. David A. Paterson that he withdraw from the New York governor’s race, fearing that Mr. Paterson cannot recover from his dismal political standing, acco... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/nyregion/20paterson.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-20 topics: OBAMA LD POLITICS BLCK)

Exploring Group Dynamics: How to Be a Great Team Player (Lundin, Gardner, et al)

As American congressman Sam Rayburn reportedly said, "You cannot be a leader and ask other people to follow you unless you know how to follow, too." Mastering the basics of good teamwork can help you be more effective in either role. "Be willing to... (-2009-09-20 topics: LD TEAM FS-CURRICULUM KEY-A)

Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity

SUM[ Worldwide, consumer electronics now represent 15 percent of household power demand, and that is expected to triple over the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency, making it more difficult to tackle the greenhouse gas em... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/business/energy-environment/20efficiency.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-20 topics: ENER GLOBAL-WARMING CONSUMER SOLUTIONS)

Boards Face Expanded Responsibilities

By JOANN S. LUBLIN The Federal Reserve's new push to regulate pay at U.S. banks will make things more difficult for boards and their compensation committees, already under fire for controversial pay practices. The planned Fed move could increase t... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125331481529224335.html?mod=djemITP&mg=com-wsj#printMode-2009-09-20 topics: CORP-GOV)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey shows physicians support reform plan that includes both public and private options.

September 14, 2009 http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1790 - NEJM article http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/48408physician.pdf - full report (9pp) By: Keyhani S, Federman A and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation A RWJF survey summarized in the Septe... (http://www.rwjf.org/healthreform/quality/product.jsp?id=48408-2009-09-20 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP KEY)

Community: The structure of belonging

sum[David Bornstein-Allan Cohen: scale, speed and emergent design 25 small scale, slow growth - "B. written about Grameen Bank and other soc. innovations that have become large movements. ..Each was begun with very little funding, no fanfare, and l... (-2009-09-19 topics: CMTY FS-RSC SOC-PSYCH BIG-THINK KEY-A BK INSPIRATION)

Mass Medical Clinic's Sobering Message

SENDTO[ SPIEGELMAN] August 9, 2009 by HOWARD BERKES I write and talk for a living. And I've pontificated endlessly about exploding volcanoes, mass shootings and disastrous storms. But some of what I saw at the county fairgrounds in Wise, Va., last m... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111676259-2009-09-19 topics: HLTH-FIN POV SOLUTIONS DOMESTIC-NEEDS PUB-HLTH)

Stevens Institute, Officers Sued by New Jersey for Mismanaging

By David Voreacos Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Stevens Institute of Technology, a New Jersey university, was sued by state Attorney General Anne Milgram for allegedly mismanaging school finances, improperly handling investments and overpaying its presi... (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=aigVmBY_5HU8-2009-09-19 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN ENDOWMENTS NONPROFIT-COMP CORRUPTN HIGHER-ED)

Cooperative Health Care: The Way Forward?

By Karen Davis SUM[ Examples of successful integrated systems, both nonprofit and consumer-driven. "The key to the success of cooperatives in other sectors of the economy has been the ability to leverage purchasing power to obtain lower rates—fo... (http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Blog/Health-Cooperatives-The-Way-Forward.aspx-2009-09-18 topics: HLTH-FIN CO-OP MCR)

HEALTH CARE CO-OPS -- Selected bibliography

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_cooperative * http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Blog/Health-Cooperatives-The-Way-Forward.aspx -- 2009-09-18 - Karen Davis, Cooperative Health Care: The Way Forward? * http://www.washingtonpost... (-2009-09-18 topics: NCCS LIST HLTH-FIN CO-OP)

Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Paperback)

by Eric D. Beinhocker http://www.amazon.com/dp/1422121038?tag=compleadwikis-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1422121038&adid=0X0JC3VB5B4NA92TGVYZ& Accounting for the creation of wealth has long challenged humanity's best min... (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1422121038?tag=compleadwikis-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1422121038&adid=0X0JC3VB5B4NA92TGVYZ&-2009-09-18 topics: SOC-SCI COMPLEXITY MGT)

Studio Theatre Leader Announces Exit: After 35 Years, Co-Founder Joy Zinoman's 2010 Departure to Mark Major Shift

SUM["I really do feel that 90 hours of work a week, although I love every moment of it, is not a rational life after 35 years," Zinoman, 66, said..."] By Peter Marks Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 17, 2009 After 35 years at the h... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091602983_pf.html-2009-09-18 topics: ARTS NONPROFIT-BIRTH LD SACRIFICE)

CFC: rural electric co-ops' own financial powerhouse

sum[National Cooperative Services Corporation (NCSC) is a privately funded, member-owned, taxable cooperative that began operations in 1981. NCSC provides electric cooperatives and their affiliates with specialized financing and related financial se... (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KFU/is_3_71/ai_n6276249/-2009-09-18 topics: CO-OP NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

Lack of Progress in Mideast Defies Obama’s Hopes

By MARK LANDLER and ETHAN BRONNER WASHINGTON — President Obama had hoped to go to his first United Nations meeting next week with at least one diplomatic coup: a plan to restart the long-stalled Middle East peace talks, to be announced in a three... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/world/middleeast/19diplo.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-18 topics: MIDEAST F-PLY NO-EASY-ANSWERS OBAMA)

Obama's Summit Flop

By Jackson Diehl Monday, September 7, 2009 Just over two years ago Barack Obama triggered the first and most enduring foreign policy debate of the presidential campaign when he was asked whether he would "be willing to meet separately, without pre... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090601186_pf.html-2009-09-18 topics: OBAMA F-PLY NO-EASY-ANSWERS COOP-LIMITS LD-LIMITS)

Unhappy Labor Day

By Harold Meyerson Monday, September 7, 2009 Labor Day 2009 is a terrible time to be an American worker. Official unemployment hovers just under 10 percent, its highest level since the early 1980s. Add in the partly employed and those who have gi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090601194_pf.html-2009-09-18 topics: DOMESTIC-NEEDS RECESSION JOBS ELDERLY HLTH-FIN UNEMPLOYMENT KEY EC-TR FS-CURRICULUM)

Bad Future for Jobs?

By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, September 7, 2009 The first Labor Day, held in New York City in 1882, was less a celebration of the dignity of work than a demonstration in favor of the eight-hour day, down from the prevailing 10 to 12 hours. Compar... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090601187_pf.html-2009-09-18 topics: DOMESTIC-NEEDS RECESSION UNEMPLOYMENT)

It Won’t Be So Bad: A Q&A With the Author of $20 Per Gallon

By ANNIKA MENGISEN It’s notoriously hard to predict gas prices. Who would have thought in 2006 that we’d be paying $4 a gallon in 2008? Or, as prices peaked last year, that we’d be filling up for $2.50 a gallon this summer? That said, civil e... (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/it-wont-be-so-bad-a-qa-with-the-author-of-20-per-gallon/-2009-09-18 topics: ECON KEY ENER ENV BIG-THINK GOOD-CMTY SUBURBS)

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Includes both household and employer survey data -- 39,000 private-sector organizations. "Researchers in government, the health care industry, think tanks, advocacy groups, and universities use MEPS data for policy-related and behavioral research on... (http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/about_meps/index_researcher.jsp-2009-09-17 topics: NCCS DATA NONPROFIT-FIN HLTH-FIN)

Is Bicycling Bad for Your Bones?

By Gretchen Reynolds Getty Images In 2006, Aaron Smathers, then 29, was a graduate student in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at the University of Oklahoma, gathering data for a study of brittle bones in cyclists. One of his subjects ... (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/is-bicycling-bad-for-your-bones/?pagemode=print-2009-09-17 topics: MEDICINE SPORTS BIKES)

Chevy Chase Draws A Bead on Speeders: Police Set to Install Laser Cameras

SUM["Speeding tickets delivered by the postman tend to upset people more than those handed to them by a uniformed officer..."There's been a big backlash in Great Britain, where they have 6,000 cameras on that little tiny island," said Joe Scott, who... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091503394_pf.html-2009-09-16 topics: CRIME COOP-LIMITS REG)

Public Option Fades From Debate Over Health Care

SUM["In battering the proposal for a public option, Republicans have made effective use of estimates by the Lewin Group, a consulting concern, which said that more than 100 million people might sign up for the government-run insurance plan. By cont... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/health/policy/13plan.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-16 topics: HLTH-FIN UNCERTAINTY NO-EASY-ANSWERS KEY)

Health Care Reform and ‘American Values’

SUM[ politicians and pundits from both sides of the aisle are now doing the same, using incorrect beliefs about “American values” as a smokescreen in the health care reform debate. Phrases like “uniquely American” have become high praise, wh... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/health/10chen.html?ref=health&pagewanted=print-2009-09-16 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP RHETORIC CULT DIALOGUE)

Big Spenders? They Wish

SUM[As she watched her car being hauled off, she sensed that this was the beginning of a descent into a crisis from which she might not easily escape. Without money to pay the towing and storage fees, she could not extract her car from the lot, and ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/economy/13excerpt.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print-2009-09-16 topics: POV UNEMPLOYMENT NO-EASY-ANSWERS RECESSION KEY)

Poll: News media's credibility plunges to new low

SUM[The survey found that 63 percent of the respondents thought the information they get from the media was often off base. In Pew Research's previous survey, in 2007, 53 percent of the people expressed that doubt about accuracy... The poll found 71... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/13/AR2009091303265_pf.html-2009-09-16 topics: PUB-OP JOURNALISM NO-EASY-ANSWERS DISTRUST)

Sizing Up the Protests at the Capitol

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 As a Canadian visiting Washington, I was struck by two distinct impressions as I witnessed Saturday's anti-Obama protest. On the one hand, it seemed that many protesters had little understanding of how unhistorical th... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091503482_pf.html-2009-09-16 topics: CONSERVATIVE CULT PROGRESS-POSSIBLE DIALOGUE)

The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) - the Children's Outcomes Monitoring Center (COMC)

The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) operates the Children's Outcomes Monitoring Center (COMC), devoted to evaluating the outcomes of children and adolescents participating in mental health treatment. COMC permits the secure capture, aggregat... (https://www.comc.umaryland.edu/about.aspx-2009-09-16 topics: CHILD-WELF OUTCOME-MEAS)

Lost in a World Without Courtship

sum[ Mid-20s is sweetspot for sustainable marriages; serial cohabitation yields bad habits...] By Michael Gerson Wednesday, September 16, 2009 There is a segment of society for whom traditional family values are increasingly irrelevant, and for wh... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091502981_pf.html-2009-09-16 topics: MARRIAGE GOOD-LIFE SOC-SCI PSYCH)

John Sweeney's Real Triumphs

By Harold Meyerson Wednesday, September 16, 2009 At the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, American labor will see a changing of the guard. John Sweeney, head of the federation since 1995, is stepping down, and Rich Trumka, Sweeney's d... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091502982_pf.html-2009-09-16 topics: UNIONS SOLUTIONS AM-HIST LEG)

Who's Afraid of A Terrorist Haven?

sum[But the operations most important to future terrorist attacks do not need such a home, and few recruits are required for even very deadly terrorism. Consider: The preparations most important to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks took place not in train... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091502977_pf.html-2009-09-16 topics: AFGHAN INTERNET F-PLY OBAMA-ADMIN TERRORISM TECH KEY)

Young Adults Likely to Pay Big Share of Reform's Cost

sum[According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll last week, young adults are more optimistic about the outcome of health-care reform than those age 30 and older, but they are evenly divided on the cost implications, with 32 percent expecting their c... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091503716_pf.html-2009-09-16 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP)

Why a nonprofit database? Intro; Data and Research for What Purpose?

My starting point for thinking about nonprofit data may be different from yours. Probably a more elaborate theory of change and a more complex psychology. I wish I could simplify it, but cannot. So please bear with me. We think in metaphors, men... (-2009-09-16 topics: NCCS IDEAS)

The Body Count at Home

sum[Complex arguments are being batted around in this health care debate, but the central issue isn’t technical but moral. The first question is simply this: Do we wish to be the only rich nation in the world that lets a 32-year-old woman die beca... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13kristof.html?sq=kristof&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print-2009-09-16 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY RHETORIC BK MORALS)

LETTER TO SCHOOLS FOR GREATER DC CARES

Principal Grant - I am writing as a volunteer for Greater DC Cares. The organization was started around 20 years ago and connects volunteers to community needs. We work with around 12,000 volunteers and 500 nonprofit organizations and schools in t... (-2009-09-16 topics: FS-GEN)

The Internet and Civic Engagement

by Aaron Smith, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry Brady Sep 1, 2009 Print Share Email Read Full Report View Online Download Explore Survey Questions View Online Overview Political and civic involvement have long been dominated by those wit... (http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/15--The-Internet-and-Civic-Engagement.aspx-2009-09-16 topics: CIVIC-ENGAGEMENT INTERNET)

Did Davos Meeting 'Embrace' Philanthropy?

sum[ thp: Focus on "big philanthropy" but not grassroots collective action.] With the world’s economic crisis grabbing the headlines, observers wondered: would philanthropy be played down during the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland? Fo... (http://philanthropy.com/giveandtake/index.php?id=894-2009-09-16 topics: NONPROFIT BIG-THINK)

Volunteering on Vacation

(Photograph by Guy Stockton/Earthwatch Institute) By Nicole Wallace The people at Earthwatch Institute believe science by itself is not enough to solve the world's environmental problems. So, in addition to making grants to support conservation ... (http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v21/i20/20000501.htm-2009-09-16 topics: VOLUNTEER INTL-DEV ENV SOLUTIONS)

Senator Baucus Releases Health-Care Proposal for Hospitals

A health-care proposal announced by Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, would require nonprofit hospitals “to conduct a community health needs assessment at least once every three years and adopt an imple... (http://philanthropy.com/news/government/index.php?id=9523-2009-09-16 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS HOSP NONPROFIT REG)

4q - web survey to get user feedback on web experience

http://s4532.4q-web1.4q.iperceptions.com/study.aspx - 4q - web survey to get user feedback on web experience... (-2009-09-16 topics: WEBSITE NCCS APPS-OF-INTEREST)

The Good Soldier

By DEXTER FILKINS WHERE MEN WIN GLORY The Odyssey of Pat Tillman By Jon Krakauer 383 pp. Doubleday. $27.95 The story of Pat Tillman, the professional football player killed in Afghanistan in 2004, was simultaneously appalling and inspiring —... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/books/review/Filkins-t.html?_r=1&nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3&pagewanted=print-2009-09-16 topics: CHARACTER MILITARY AFGHAN CULT LYING)

When a Parent’s ‘I Love You’ Means ‘Do as I Say’

SEE ALSO: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/columns/mind/index.html - MIND: A regular Science Times column on behavior and the brain --- By ALFIE KOHN More than 50 years ago, the psychologist Carl Rogers suggested that simply loving our chi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/health/15mind.html?emc=eta1&pagewanted=print-2009-09-15 topics: PARENTING WISDOM PUB-INFO PSYCH PROGRESS-POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS)

Interview with Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code author, by David Seigal

Gets up at 4am 7 days a week including xmas to write (http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=112751885&m=112853505-2009-09-15 topics: WRITING DISCIPLINE INSPIRATION HUMOR)

Is Happiness Catching?

SUM["As Fowler pointed out, if you want to improve the world with your good behavior, math is on your side. For most of us, within three degrees we are connected to more than 1,000 people — all of whom we can theoretically help make healthier, fit... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13contagion-t.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-15 topics: PSYCH PROGRESS-POSSIBLE SOC-PSYCH BIG-THINK KEY HAPPINESS)

Global Warming and War Both Require Sacrifice: Australia and New Zealand, Afghanistan, Climate Change, International Relations

Michael Fullilove, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy The Sydney Morning Herald September 08, 2009 — What kind of role should Australia play in the world? One way to answer this question is to consider two seemingly unrelated issues, cl... (http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0908_global_warming_war_fullilove.aspx?p=1-2009-09-14 topics: F-PLY GLOBAL-WARMING AFGHAN SACRIFICE)

Nonprofit Groups Upset at Exclusion From Health Bills

By STEPHANIE STROM Nonprofit organizations say they are upset that Congress and the Obama administration have not addressed their rising health care costs in the various health care proposals being floated on Capitol Hill. The main bill in the Hous... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/health/policy/14nonprofit.html?tntemail0=y&_r=1&emc=tnt&pagewanted=print-2009-09-14 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION HLTH-FIN)

MENTORING - National Resources

* http://www.mentoring.org/ * http://www.americaspromise.org/Resources/Research-and-Reports/Every-Child-Every-Promise.aspx... (-2009-09-14 topics: LIST YOUTH-DEV NONPROFIT-YOUTH NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine

Doctors cite red tape from insurance companies, government agencies Med school students shy away from family medicine Shortage of primary care physicians predicted to be 35,000 to 40,000 by 2025 By Val Willingham CNN Medical Producer (CNN) -- Ne... (http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/17/primary.care.doctors.study/-2009-09-14 topics: JOBS HLTH-FIN)

D.C. Schools Show Progress on Tests: But Fewer Meet Goal Under U.S. Law

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 14, 2009 --- Gains at the middle and high school levels were more modest. Reading proficiency grew from 39 percent to 41 percent; math proficiency, from 36 percent to 40 percent. elementa... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071301476_pf.html-2009-09-14 topics: DC EDUC DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

INTRO SPEECH FOR PROJECT NORTHSTAR ORIENTATION

Thanks for coming Proj. Northstar was founded ... Gains at the middle and high school levels were more modest. Reading proficiency grew from 39 percent to 41 percent; math proficiency, from 36 percent to 40 percent. elementary grades, where almost... (-2009-09-14 topics: MPP)

MPP NORTHSTAR INTRO

Thanks for coming. Gains at the middle and high school levels were more modest. Reading proficiency grew from 39 percent to 41 percent; math proficiency, from 36 percent to 40 percent. elementary grades, where almost half of the students tested w... (-2009-09-14 topics: MPP)

Lashing Out at the Capitol

Tens of Thousands Protest Obama Initiatives and Government Spending By Emma Brown, James Hohmann and Perry Bacon Jr. Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, September 13, 2009 Tens of thousands of conservative protesters, many complaining that the n... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/12/AR2009091200971_pf.html-2009-09-13 topics: PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE)

Community Tree Planting Program

The Casey Trees Community Tree Planting (CTP) Program, established in 2005, is a grassroots approach to planting trees in neighborhoods throughout the District of Columbia. Individuals and groups interested in adding trees – ten or more – to th... (http://www.caseytrees.org/planting/ctp/index.php-2009-09-13 topics: URB SOLUTIONS AGRICULTURE YOUTH-VOLUNTEER)

HOME ENERGY AUDITS & OTHER ENERGY-SAVING MEASURES

* http://ase.org/uploaded_files/homeenergycheckup/home.html#climate * http://www.environmentmassachusetts.org/uploads/b-/2b/b-2bivJME6RGDNiug8F7YA/Global-Warming-Solutions-that-Work.pdf -... (-2009-09-13 topics: LIST FS-RSC SOLUTIONS GLOBAL-WARMING)

‘Athens’ on the Net

By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS PERHAPS the biggest big idea to gather speed during the last millennium was that we humans might govern ourselves. But no one really meant it. What was really meant in most places was that we would elect people to govern us a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/weekinreview/13giridharadas.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=print-2009-09-13 topics: DEMOCRACY PUB-OP NO-EASY-ANSWERS WEB2.0 KEY INTERNET)

Plato's Philosopher-King (PHILOSOPHER KINGS)

He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasure--I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. That is most certain. Such a one is sure to ... (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plato-republic-philosopherking.html-2009-09-13 topics: POL-PHIL LD)

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

has expanded greatly since its creation, and now contains hundred of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net. See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals. See the Help! page for all the help on research I c... (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html-2009-09-13 topics: PUB-INFO FS-RSC WISDOM QT)

Flaw in Free Markets: Humans

By ROBERT H. FRANK THERE is broad agreement that Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, was wrong to have believed that market forces alone would insulate society from excessive financial risk. But Mr. Greenspan was wrong for reasons very differen... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/economy/13view.html?_r=1&ref=business&pagewanted=print-2009-09-13 topics: ECON CAPITALISM BANK SOLUTIONS PSYCH KEY)

Wall Street’s Math Wizards Forgot a Few Variables

sum[The drive to measure, model and perhaps even predict waves of group behavior is an emerging field of research that can be applied in fields well beyond finance. Much of the early work has been done tracking online behavior. The Web provides res... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/13unboxed.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print-2009-09-13 topics: ECON COG-SCI COMPLEXITY STOCK-MARKET)

But Who Is Watching Regulators?

sum["Here’s a novel thought. Instead of creating more regulations to try to prevent this kind of mess from recurring, why not figure out how to hold regulators accountable when they perform as poorly as they did in recent years? Edward J. Kane, a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/13gret.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print-2009-09-13 topics: REG HUM-NAT SOLUTIONS ECON RECESSION KEY)

ActBlue

ActBlue is the nation's largest source of funds for Democrats. Launched in 2004, ActBlue created and deployed the next generation of online fundraising tools, enabling individuals and groups to raise money for the Democratic candidates and committee... (http://www.actblue.com/-2009-09-12 topics: WEBSITE ADVOCACY)

10 things every teacher should know (discussion)

http://www.teachermagazine.org/forums/?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat:047dba43-3f1d-45c3-831f-9125f292c0a4Forum:a77154b5-96a4-42b4-b64f-789a4e486d39Discussion:b75dea24-7d35-47f1-aa5b-7986243d2625&plckCategoryCurrentPage=0 1. Get... (http://www.teachermagazine.org/forums/?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat:047dba43-3f1d-45c3-831f-9125f292c0a4Forum:a77154b5-96a4-42b4-2009-09-12 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS)

CBS Poll: Americans More Favorable About Obama's Health Plan After Speech

Print Share Email TOPICS: POLITICS, HEALTH REFORM SEP 11, 2009 President Obama's Wednesday night speech about overhauling the country's healthcare system appears "to have been successful — to some extent" according to a CBS poll, which "shows th... (http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2009/September/11/CBS-poll.aspx-2009-09-12 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP PROGRESS-POSSIBLE OBAMA RHETORIC)

Emotional Jordan Steals Show at Hall

By Michael Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 12, 2009 SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept. 11 -- Michael Jordan buried his head into his hand, wiped the sweat from his brow, then rubbed away tears before they poured from his eyes. It was a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091103730_pf.html-2009-09-12 topics: SPORTS CHARACTER COMPETITION ADVERSITY)

ACORN Fires 2 After Hidden Camera Video: 2 Southeast D.C. Workers Are Shown Advising Couple on How to Buy House to Use as Brothel

By Megan Greenwell Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 12, 2009 The nonprofit group ACORN Housing fired two employees from the organization's Southeast Washington office Friday after a video from a hidden camera showed them advising a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/10/AR2009091003644_pf.html-2009-09-12 topics: NONPROFIT REG INDIV-BEHAVIOR CONSERVATIVE ADVOCACY)

Attacks Were Defining Moment for Obama: Many Decisions Now Rooted in Threat of That Day, but Critics Question Focus

By Scott Wilson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 11, 2009 In marking his first Sept. 11 anniversary as commander in chief, President Obama told a solemn audience at the Pentagon on Friday, including relatives of those who died there ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091104134_pf.html-2009-09-12 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN N-DEF TERRORISM)

Md. Church, School Owe $4.7 Million, Records Show

sum[ pastor owes $600k+ in back taxes] By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 12, 2009 A Temple Hills church and school facing the possible loss of its property in a foreclosure auction appear to owe at least $4.7 mil... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091102974_pf.html-2009-09-12 topics: NONPROFIT CORRUPTN NONPROFIT-COMP DC RELIGION REG)

Groups Back Health Reform, but Seek Cover

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON — The top lobbyists for every major sector of the health care industry publicly insist they are squarely behind the Obama administration’s health care reform. But as the debate gets down to the details, the li... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/health/policy/12lobby.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-12 topics: HLTH-FIN LOBBYING NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Lehman Had to Die So Global Finance Could Live

sum[ Better to be lucky than good. Post-lehman collapse created pol. will to save AIG.] By JOE NOCERA What if they’d saved Lehman Brothers? What if, a year ago this weekend, the government and the banking industry had somehow found a way to keep ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/business/12nocera.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-12 topics: RECESSION BANK REG UNCERTAINTY ECON LD POLITICAL-WILL)

BIKE STRETCHES

http://www.freewebs.com/velodynamics2/stretching.pdf (-2009-09-12 topics: SPORTS)

Our Blocks.net -- good list of community building sites

ed: please feel welcomed to copy COMM-ORG with responses to Leo's query.] From: Leo Romero We're putting together what we hope will be an easy-to-use online resource for people who want to make a difference in their neighborho... (-2009-09-12 topics: ALLIES WEBSITE FS-RSC KEY-A PUB-INFO CMTY)

COMMUNITY GARDENS

http://mtpleasantdc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=24142&sid=ad44b6473bffbb1a1ac79abb83ac118f, which led to a useful chart at: http://www.hgic.umd.edu/_media/documents/hg16_000.pdf FALL PLANTING: Think "upland cress" -- something I'd never heard of befor... (-2009-09-12 topics: SOLUTIONS AGRICULTURE CMTY FS-RSC)

GOP Sees Protest As an Opportunity: 'Taxpayer March' in D.C. Attracts Party Leaders, but Some Are Wary

sum["According to an August Washington Post-ABC News poll, 18 percent of respondents said they were "angry" about health-care reform efforts. But of that group, only 35 percent had a great deal or good amount of confidence in Republicans in Congress... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091103997_pf.html-2009-09-12 topics: PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE DIALOGUE-NEED DISTRUST KEY)

Raising The Root: Some City Dwellers Are Hoping Rooftop Farming Will Bear Fruit

By Robin Shulman Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 12, 2009 NEW YORK Like many a farmer, Ben Flanner rises with the sun. Like most crops, his need water and weeding -- bright tomatoes and fragrant basil, delicate nasturtiums, mottle... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091103836.html-2009-09-12 topics: AGRICULTURE GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS KEY)

Urban Farming, a Bit Closer to the Sun

By MARIAN BURROS THIS summer, Tony Tomelden hopes to be making bloody marys at the Pug in Washington, D.C., with tomatoes and chilies grown above the bar, thanks to the city’s incentives for green roofs. Mr. Tomelden, the Pug’s principal owner... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/dining/17roof.html-2009-09-12 topics: AGRICULTURE URB SOLUTIONS)

Jobless, Sleepless, Hopeless

By BILL MARSH "I am not married, my parents have passed away, so am quite scared of what will happen if I do not land a job within the next couple months. The thing I identified with the most - my work - has left me feeling lost." So wrote one of ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/weekinreview/06portrait.html?partner=rss&emc=rss-2009-09-12 topics: UNEMPLOYMENT DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

While Europe Sleeps, Bosnia Seethes

By NICHOLAS KULISH BERLIN NEARLY 14 years after peace for Bosnia was hammered out in Ohio, the hills rising up around Sarajevo can still lead a visitor to uncomfortable thoughts about sightlines for snipers. As I stood there in person on a visit ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/weekinreview/06kulish.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-09-12 topics: EUR F-PLY INTL-NEEDS VIOLENCE)

FEDERAL DATA SOURCES

* http://www.usaspending.gov/aboutthissite.php * See \docs\core\federal*.doc memo on federal data sources for EB, NCN... (-2009-09-11 topics: NCCS DATA LIST)

In D.C., Kicking Inclusion Up a Notch: As Group Lobbies for More Pickup Soccer Fields It Hopes to Empower D.C.'s Latino Community

By Martin Ricard Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 3, 2009 Every evening, on the open patch of grass of an unkempt softball field in the Shaw neighborhood of Northwest Washington, a group of men of all ages gathers and plays soccer ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090203725.html-2009-09-11 topics: IMMI SOCCER DC GOOD-CMTY)

Living In A 'Medical Home': How experiments in Vermont and other states are prompting calls for national improvement in care for the chronically ill.

TOPICS: HEALTH COSTS, DELIVERY OF CARE, HEALTH REFORM By Susan Brink SEP 11, 2009 LYNDONVILLE, Vt. -- When Rita Pinard learned she had diabetes three years ago, she never imagined she would end up in an ambitious experiment that has become part o... (http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2009/September/11/vermont.aspx-2009-09-11 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS)

Shortages of Medical Personnel at Community Health Centers: Implications for Planned Expansion

Roger A. Rosenblatt, MD, MPH; C. Holly A. Andrilla, MS; Thomas Curtin, MD; L. Gary Hart, PhD DISCUSSED AT: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2006/March/02/dr00035750.aspx?referrer=search (NPR) JAMA. 2006;295:1042-1049. Context The US ... (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/9/1042-2009-09-11 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT-COMP SOLUTIONS JOBS)

Facts in Politics: What Do Citizens Know, How Do They Use Information, and Does it Matter?

sum[ Argues that facts don't necessarily matter for quality of citizen decision-making: 3 scenarios: wrong info (Jews in Cong; Iraq; blacks on welfare); correct but wrong interpretation (Homer gets a taxcut); or correct, but causality unclear at mic... (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1259167-2009-09-11 topics: POL-PHIL PUB-OP DEMOCRACY ALLIES)

Beyond Red vs. Blue: Republicans Divided About Role of Government - Democrats by Social and Personal Values

may 10, 2005 --- FULL REPORT (110PP): http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/242.pdf (saved at home): P.81 - Attitudes toward gvt SURVEY: http://typology.people-press.org/typology/ WHERE DO YOU FIT? To identify your typology group, we will show you a ... (http://people-press.org/report/242/beyond-red-vs-blue-2009-09-11 topics: PUB-OP KEY FS-CURRICULUM GVT-ROLE)

Fostering innovation and risk in federal grantmaking at NIH

Frances Collins on Science Friday, npr: Success of pioneer grants. "We finally have to weapons to win the war on cancer, unlike Nixon's war when we didn't." DNA, genome work.... (-2009-09-11 topics: SCIENCE INNOVATION)

How American Health Care Killed My Father

POLICY SEPTEMBER 2009 After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care-2009-09-11 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

State Discriminated Against Mentally Ill, Judge Rules

email form to Dis. Advocates: Congratulations on the recent decision. I have a quick question related to my work at the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute: The NY Times article indicates that all the group homes were for-p... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/nyregion/09mental.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-10 topics: ADVOCACY HUM-SRV NONPROFIT-ROLE REG DISAB)

UI Walking teams

Join the NEW UI fitness walking program. It’s EASY. Here’s how:  Sign up.*  Attach the pedometer you will find in your Wellness Fair goody bag (or any pedometer).  Walk!  Running also counts – this is based on any steps you take... (-2009-09-10 topics: FITNESS SOLUTIONS FS-RSC)

A Speech Focused on Two Constituencies: Independents, Seniors

By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:29 PM After a month of angry town hall meetings and dire predictions about the state of his top domestic priority, President Obama moved forcefully Wednesday night to take... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/09/AR2009090903464_pf.html-2009-09-09 topics: HLTH-FIN OBAMA RHETORIC)

8 Questions About Health-Care Reform Reporting

by Ceci Connolly and Alec MacGillis President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday in an attempt to restart his push for reform. Obama has said he hopes to provide affordable coverage to every American while reining in medica... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/8-questions/index.html-2009-09-08 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-INFO KN-MGT)

Obama wants smaller raises for fed employees: The president intends to trim their Jan. 1 pay increase from 2.4 to 2 percent

By From Federal Daily Sep 03, 2009 Citing the economic downturn and the skyrocketing federal budget, President Obama on Aug. 31 sent Congress a letter announcing his intention to trim the Jan. 1 pay raise scheduled for most federal employees from... (http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/09/03/Obama-wants-smaller-raises-for-fed-employees.aspx?s=fcwdaily_080909&p=1-2009-09-08 topics: GVT-COMP)

Review: High salaries for aid group CEOs

By Ken Dilanian, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Four chief executives whose government-funded non-profit corporations are paid to deliver U.S. foreign assistance earned more than half a million dollars in 2007, a USA TODAY review of public tax records sh... (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-08-31-us-aid-groups_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip-2009-09-08 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP INTL-DEV CONG)

Health Care in Japan: Low-Cost, for Now: Aging Population Could Strain System

SUM["There is compulsory obesity screening for 70 percent of the population. If people are found to be too fat around the waist, they are required to receive counseling on exercise and diet. The law was passed three years ago, so it is too soon to k... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090601630_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: HLTH-FIN JAPAN SOLUTIONS PUB-HLTH OBESITY)

Obama Readies Reform Specifics: In Health-Care Address, President Is Expected to Take Firmer Positions

By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 7, 2009 Looking to rescue his signature domestic policy initiative with a prime-time address to Congress on Wednesday, President Obama for the first time is poised to "draw some lines... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090602336_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: OBAMA HLTH-FIN)

Group Advocates Geoengineering Solutions to Warming

SUM["The group, headed by statistician Bjorn Lomborg, issued a report by five economists that suggested it made more sense to spend money on marine cloud whitening research and green energy development than to protect forests, clean up diesel emissi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/03/AR2009090303723_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS)

Another Town Hall Meeting, Another Illustration of Obama's Challenge

SUM["Rep. Ed Perlmutter, who represents a suburban Denver district, found himself caught between two neighbors with differing views while pumping gas one morning a few weeks ago. One neighbor said he worried that Obama is trying to do too much too s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/03/AR2009090303541_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: HLTH-FIN NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

A New Era of Responsibility: Individual Choice, Not Government Action

Ultimately, we simply must expect more from each other if we are to tackle our major challenges. Whether the issue is health care, global warming or Afghanistan, it is the totality of our individual choices, behaviors and attitudes just as much as ... (-2009-09-07 topics: IDEAS)

Charity: US troops stormed through Afghan hospital

By KAY JOHNSON The Associated Press Monday, September 7, 2009 3:47 AM KABUL -- A Swedish charity accused American troops Monday of storming through a hospital in central Afghanistan, breaking down doors and tying up staff in a search for militants... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/07/AR2009090700217_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: AFGHAN INDIV-BEHAVIOR)

A Speechwriter's Tip for Obama: Silence Is Golden

By Matt Latimer Sunday, September 6, 2009 I've made a decent living as a speechwriter over the past decade and even realized my dream of becoming one of the few to have crafted the words of an American president. Deserved or not, my name can at le... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090402278_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC COMMUNICATIONS)

Setback in Afghanistan: The right response is not a retreat.

Thursday, September 3, 2009 LAST MONTH we expected that Afghanistan's elections would mark a modest step forward for the country. Now it appears that they could be a major reverse. Though the election campaign was positive in many respects, Electi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090203083_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: AFGHAN F-PLY)

Obama using 5 measures to assess Afghan report

By STEVEN R. HURST The Associated Press Wednesday, September 2, 2009 8:39 PM WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is weighing an expected request for more U.S. troops against concerns that an expanded American presence could be perceived by Afghan... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090202891_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: AFGHAN)

A Hero's Death in Afghanistan, and the Question 'Why?'

By Dana Milbank Tuesday, September 1, 2009 6:12 AM On Saturday, millions watched as Ted Kennedy made his final trip to Arlington National Cemetery. With rather less attention, Arlington's soil opened again Monday to accept the remains of one of Ke... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/01/AR2009090100664_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: AFGHAN SACRIFICE)

THE PIRATES’ CODE

SUM["...at the core of which was an explicit agreement about the sharing of booty, power, and responsibility called a chasse partie. Before attacking Panama, for instance, the buccaneers stipulated that Morgan was to get a hundredth part of the loot... (http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/07/09/070709on_onlineonly_surowiecki?printable=true-2009-09-07 topics: DEMOCRACY ACCOUNTABILITY HIST)

Neighbourhood social capital and individual mental health

Tampubolon, Gindo, Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, 13. August 2009 Neighbourhood social capital is often claimed benecial for health, yet evidence of this contextual eect in the UK has been thin. To ex- amine this eect, I d... (http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16778/1/MPRA_paper_16778.pdf-2009-09-07 topics: SOC-CAP CULT-CHANGE)

HOW UNIVERSAL IS HAPPINESS?

Ruut Veenhoven Paper presented at conference on International Differences in Well-Being, Princeton University, USA, October 12-14, 2008. ABSTRACT There is a longstanding discussion on whether happiness is culturally relative or not. The following qu... (http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16853/1/MPRA_paper_16853.pdf-2009-09-07 topics: HAPPINESS)

Password Hackers Are Slippery To Collar

By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 7, 2009 When Elaine Cioni found out that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, she became obsessed, federal prosecutors say. So she turned to YourHackerz.com. And for only $100,... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090602238_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: CPTR-SECURITY CRIME INTERNET)

Planting the Seeds of the Sixties

Sunday, September 6, 2009 1959 The Year Everything Changed By Fred Kaplan Wiley. 322 pp. $27.95 In the pantheon of pivotal years -- 1815 (the Congress of Vienna), 1865 (Lincoln is assassinated, the Civil War ends), 1914 (World War I begins), 1... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090402172_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: BK AM-HIST)

My Rivals, My Solace . . . My Sisters

By Deborah Tannen Sunday, September 6, 2009 "We're like sisters," women say of their friends, meaning they're very close and completely for each other, like the friends in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." But then there's the moment in Edw... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090402272_pf.html-2009-09-07 topics: GENDER FRIENDSHIP PSYCH)

France Mulls CO2 Taxes on Citizens

By JAMES KANTER Agence France-Presse/Getty Images President Nicolas Sarkozy is considering what amounts to a CO2 tax on citizens. The French government plans next year to begin making heavy users of household and transport fuels bear more of the tax... (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/france-mulls-co2-taxes-on-citizens/?pagemode=print-2009-09-07 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING EC-TX EUR SOLUTIONS)

Winslow Homer’s Maine

By GERALDINE FABRIKANT DOWN a narrow road that traces the Atlantic shore in southern Maine sits a series of sprawling shingled homes with names like Twainways, Daisy Sailer and Juniper Ledge. Many are weather-beaten, with gardens of day lilies, hyd... (http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/travel/06culture.html?8dpc=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-07 topics: MAINE GOOD-CMTY)

Volunteers Find Muck and Meaning in Service

slide show: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/07/us/0907LAND_index.html By DAN BARRY NORTH EAST, Md. On a late summer morning so muggy that merely standing constitutes a workout, nine young adults in drenched T-shirts clear a trail in Elk Ne... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/us/07land.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss-2009-09-07 topics: YOUTH-VOLUNTEER CMTY-SRV KEY SOLUTIONS)

Shake the Government’s Helping Hand. Or Bite It.

sum["The most relevant political framework instead appears to be a more problematic one inherited from his predecessor: a general loss of faith in government. Four years after the botched response to Hurricane Katrina deepened skepticism about Washi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/weekinreview/06stevenson.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-09-07 topics: PUB-OP KEY DISTRUST CONSERVATIVE HLTH-FIN GVT-ROLE LD)

How Americans View Government: DECONSTRUCTING DISTRUST

sum[ The national mood and trust are both up from the mid-1990s, but still just 20% of Americans are highly satisfied with the state of the nation and only 34% basically trust the government....By a margin of 67%-to-16%, the public has more trust in... (http://people-press.org/report/95/-2009-09-07 topics: DISTRUST PUB-OP GVT-ROLE)

Independents Take Center Stage in Obama Era: Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes: 1987-2009

sum["While the Democrats gained a sizable advantage in partisan affiliation during George Bush’s presidency, their numbers slipped between December 2008 and April 2009, from 39% to 33%. By contrast, the percentage of self-described political indep... (http://people-press.org/report/517/political-values-and-core-attitudes-2009-09-07 topics: DISTRUST GVT-ROLE PUB-OP KEY)

Critical Care

SUM[Blumenthal and Morone’s most provocative finding is that presidents who have been most successful in moving the country toward universal health coverage have disregarded or overruled their economic advisers. Plans to expand coverage have consi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/books/review/Reich-t.html?pagewanted=print-2009-09-07 topics: HLTH-FIN AM-HIST BK-REV KEY SOC-SCI-LIMITS LD PRES)

Up From Calamity

sum[A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, By Rebecca Solnit: "As the prevailing order — which she elliptically characterizes as advanced global capitalism, full of anomie and isolation — collapses, anot... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/books/review/Vanderbilt-t.html?pagewanted=print-2009-09-07 topics: CMTY KEY-A COOP DISASTER PUBLIC-INTELLECTUALS ALLIES FS-CURRICULUM SOC-PSYCH TODO BK-REV PROGRESS)

Nonprofit social media: 5 hrs per week & ROI

Social media takes time to do well, a minimum investment of 5 hours a week. With financial pressures, you need to know how much time it takes you and figure out how to be efficient. Two years ago, I started to use my kids timeout timer to keep on tr... (http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/02/nten-and-techsoup-webinar-share-your-story-roi-and-social-media-slides-and-notes.html-2009-09-07 topics: WEB2.0 KEY NONPROFIT-CONSULTING NCCS)

5-minutes, 20 slides, 15 secs each -- Ignite sessions

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.... (http://www.igniteseattle.com/about/-2009-09-07 topics: COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTING)

He Works for The Times, Too

By CLARK HOYT DAVID POGUE, the popular technology columnist, is a high-energy, one-man multimedia conglomerate. In addition to his weekly “State of the Art” column in The Times, and his blog and videos on the newspaper’s Web site, and his wee... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/opinion/06pubed.html?sq=pogue&st=Search&scp=2&pagewanted=print-2009-09-07 topics: JOURNALISM CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST JOBS GOOD-LIFE)

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

sum[ Saltwater "neo-Keynesians" vs. freshwater monetarists: all but a few like Rbt Schiller failed to predict the housing bubble. Back to: We are all Keynesians now. Mathematical equations were neat, but they weren't right. Lets get back to messy r... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=print-2009-09-06 topics: ECON HUBRIS SOC-SCI KEY)

26-School D.C. Cheating Probe 'Inconclusive'

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 4, 2009 District officials revealed Thursday that they commissioned an investigation last summer into possible cheating at 26 public and public charter schools where reading and math... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/03/AR2009090302129_pf.html-2009-09-04 topics: DC EDUC NO-EASY-ANSWERS OUTCOME-MEAS LYING)

Harry Jaffe: D.C. politicians fiddle while gangs kill

By: Harry Jaffe Examiner Columnist September 4, 2009 The gangs of Washington, D.C., exist in a parallel universe; they live and die in their own place and time. We read about the tragic case of Deborah Ann Brown, a young woman who was killed Satu... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/D_C_-politicians-fiddle-while-gangs-kill-8194646-57037087.html-2009-09-04 topics: DC CRIME NO-EASY-ANSWERS VIOLENCE)

Group Health’s Pricey Panacea

Anyone who thinks the local co-op is the cure for our insurance-reform woes should examine the bankruptcy case of Eugene and Yukiko Gatlin. By Nina Shapiro published: September 02, 2009 Nina Shapiro Gatlin with the bill.Two weeks ago, as the natio... (http://www.seattleweekly.com/content/printVersion/751614-2009-09-04 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT)

Thank you, Chief Lanier and MPD Detectives on the arrest made in the horrific murder of an innocent bystander, Deborah Ann Brown.

17 year old Devonte Carlton has been charged as an adult with Murder One While Armed (see Mayor Fenty’s press release below). My thoughts and prayers continue to be with Ms. Brown's family. MPD confirms reports that I had, that Devonte... (email from jim graham, to columbia heights yahoo group, 9/3/09-2009-09-03 topics: DC VIOLENCE CRIME CMTY-NEEDS GVT-MGT)

Allegheny Valley president: School's sale led to $3 million in deferred compensation

By Bill Zlatos TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, August 30, 2009 Don't cry in your Terrible Towel, but Regis Champ, president and CEO of Allegheny Valley School, made nearly $4 million last year, making him perhaps the highest-paid nonprofit employee in the... (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/print_640699.html-2009-09-03 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP CORRUPTN KEY)

NONPROFITS' OUTLOOK AFTER A YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY

These are nerve-racking times in New York City's largest private employment sector, delivering crucial social services. And next year looks worse. > By Anne Noyes Saini City Limits WEEKLY #700 August 31, 2009 Nearly a year after the global... (http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=3794-2009-09-02 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN NYC RECESSION KEY)

Review: High salaries for aid group CEOs

sum["It conflicts with most people's notion of what a non-profit organization is about when they're paying themselves salaries that are several times higher than what a U.S. Cabinet secretary would earn," said Sen. Patrick Leahy,] By Ken Dilanian, U... (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-08-31-us-aid-groups_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip-2009-09-02 topics: INTL-DEV NONPROFIT-COMP NONPROFIT-GVT KEY NONPROFIT-REG)

Ted Kennedy Quotes: In His Own Words

The Legendary Senator Was Known for His Oratory And Fiery Speeches By HUMA KHAN Aug. 26, 2009— Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died of brain cancer at the age of 77 Tuesday night in his Massachusetts home, had a storied 46-year Senate career and was cred... (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TedKennedy/story?id=8417543-2009-09-02 topics: QT AM-HIST DEMOCRACY LD)

The Mediocre Multitasker

By RUTH PENNEBAKER Read it and gloat. Last week, researchers at Stanford University published a study showing that the most persistent multitaskers perform badly in a variety of tasks. They don’t focus as well as non-multitaskers. They’re more ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/weekinreview/30pennebaker.html?sq=MULTITASKING&st=cse&scp=7&pagewanted=print-2009-09-01 topics: COG-SCI)

Study Raises Questions About Cost Savings From Preventive Care: Reform's Backers Say Such Measures Will Help Pay for Overhaul of Health System

By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 1, 2009 Preventive services for the chronically ill may reduce health-care costs, but they are unlikely to generate the kind of fantastic savings that President Obama and other Dem... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/31/AR2009083103854_pf.html-2009-09-01 topics: PUB-HLTH HLTH-FIN SOC-SCI RESEARCH)

London's Calling: From Cop to Coach

By Les Carpenter Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 1, 2009 RICHMOND -- In an alley, on the south side of town, Mike London is sure he is about to die. It is the late 1980s, and for three years, London has been a detective on the Ric... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/31/AR2009083102416_pf.html-2009-09-01 topics: LD SPORTS CHARACTER AMANDA)

For Building Up Young People, Nothing Beats Athletic Competition

sum[ One program that has formalized the on-field, off-field link in a special way is Girls on the Run. As they train for a noncompetitive 5K fun run, girls in the third through fifth grades also spend time at each practice learning about the seriou... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082702941.html-2009-09-01 topics: PUB-HLTH GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY MPP SOLUTIONS EXERCISE EDUC)

HITS Alert: AHIMA Foundation receives $1.2 million HIE grant from ONCPosted: September 1, 2009 - 8:00 am EDT

The American Health Information Management Association Foundation has been awarded a one-year, $1.2 million grant by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to continue a state-level health information exchange con... (-2009-09-01 topics: NCCS HLTH-FIN STANDARDS NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

D.C. summer jobs payroll will near $28 million

By: Michael Neibauer Examiner Staff Writer September 1, 2009 The D.C. government will have paid nearly $28 million to its 2009 summer jobs participants when the final numbers are tallied next week, a troubling omen for 2010, when the initiative wil... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/D_C_-summer-jobs-payroll-will-near-_28-million-8179381-56396457.html-2009-09-01 topics: DC YOUTH-DEV GVT-MGT GVT-LIMITS NONPROFIT-GVT)

D.C. police receive hundreds of calls about violence at schools

By: Leah Fabel Examiner Staff Writer September 1, 2009 The buildings and grounds of D.C. Public Schools were the sites of 3,500 emergency calls to the D.C. police during the 2007-08 school year, according to a new report by the Heritage Foundation ... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/D_C_-police-receive-thousands-of-calls-about-violence-at-schools-8179288-56406237.html-2009-09-01 topics: DC EDUC CRIME)

Mind Garden psychological tests

(http://www.mindgarden.com-2009-09-01 topics: PSYCH SOC-SCI METHODOLOGY KN-MGT INTEL-PROP)

Opposite of Bold (STATE OF THE UNION)

In and of themselves, the economic initiatives announced this week by the Obama administration are not objectionable. One is a modest package of tax credits and other subsidies intended to help middle-class Americans with some big expenses, like da... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/opinion/27wed1.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-09-01 topics: OBAMA ECON)

Vote Near on Montgomery College Chief: President Accused of Lavish Spending, Neglecting Duties

By Daniel de Vise Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 2, 2009 A $4,051 hotel bill in Delhi. A $780 tab for limousine service in Boston. And a growing tally of missed meetings and unexplained absences at home. Critics of Brian Keith J... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/01/AR2009090103743_pf.html-2009-09-01 topics: NONPROFIT-GOV NONPROFIT-COMP CORRUPTN MGY-CO HIGHER-ED)

Role of social science

“[T]he role of the social sciences is to be troublesome, to disconcert the habitual arrangements by which we manage to live along, and to demonstrate the possibility of change in more adequate directions . . . like that of a skilled surgeon, [soci... (-2009-09-01 topics: SOC-SCI KEY QT IDEAS)

Reluctance to Spend May Be Legacy of Recession

SUM[IMPLICATION FOR GIVING: Economists subscribe to a so-called wealth effect: as households amass wealth, they tend to expand their spending over the following year, typically by 3 to 5 percent of the increase. Between 2003 and 2007 — prime year... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/business/economy/29consumer.html?_r=1&nl=your-money&emc=your-moneyema2&pagewanted=print-2009-08-31 topics: RECESSION CONSUMER PROGRESS-POSSIBLE GIVING)

FAH asks HHS to drop pay, quality improvement req

By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer Posted: August 27, 2009 - 11:00 am EDT The Federation of American Hospitals has asked federal information technology officials responsible for setting the “meaningful use” criteria, which hospitals and other... (http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20090827&Category=REG&ArtNo=308279950&SectionCat=&Template=printpicart-2009-08-31 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS HLTH-FIN HOSP GVT-INFO CPTR-BUS)

Annual 'Party With a Purpose' Expands Invitation List

By Dagny Salas Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 31, 2009 Not long after her son was killed in Southeast Washington in early July, Ella Carey noticed a red robin flying around her mother's house. Something about it reminded Carey of her... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/30/AR2009083002705_pf.html-2009-08-31 topics: DIALOGUE PROGRESS-POSSIBLE PSYCH SUBTLE)

In the Arts: Money Crunch Dooms Long-Running PBS Show

Reading Rainbow, one of the longest-running children’s shows on public television, broadcast its final episode Friday, National Public Radio reports. No one, including PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the show’s home station, B... (-2009-08-31 topics: NONPROFIT ARTS RECESSION EDUC)

Israel's Wealthiest Woman Says She Can See the Future

By Howard Schneider Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 31, 2009 TEL AVIV The office door has a steel vault veneer, and Shari Arison -- controlling stockholder in Israel's largest bank and its largest construction company, heiress to the C... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/30/AR2009083002473_pf.html-2009-08-31 topics: ALLIES RICH)

Starting Over On Health Care: Obama Has to Write His Own Bill

By Bob Dole Monday, August 31, 2009 Health-care reform is the No. 1 domestic priority. With all the charges and countercharges, those who will be affected, the American people, are understandably confused. Many are angry. Reform of our health-care... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082802603_pf.html-2009-08-31 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG LEGIS OBAMA-ADMIN)

Per-Student Spending Gaps Wider Than Known

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/education/p/PRIVATE_REPORT.pdf By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 31, 2009 Private schools without religious affiliation spend almost twice as much per student as their public and C... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/30/AR2009083002335_pf.html -2009-08-31 topics: EDUC NONPROFIT RELIGION FORM990 NONPROFIT-RES)

Place-Based Analysis and Leadership (for Boston Foundation, 7/2009)

\\UI1\VOL1\CENTERS\CNP\TPOLLAK\DOCS\bostonFdn\mass-db-overview.doc: During his campaign, President Obama promised to support the creation of major place-based initiatives modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone in twenty cities around the country... (-2009-08-31 topics: FS-GEN IDEAS)

Gabe: possible consequences

Talked talked disrespectfully when I asked him why he needed new shoes. I let it go for now, offered to talk to him tomorrow morning but "I don't have time...I will be getting new shoes tomorrow." - http://www.nccs2.org/KnowledgeBase/ideaShow.php?id... (-2009-08-31 topics: GABE)

Rbt Blendon

(http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/robert-blendon/publications/-2009-08-31 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP)

Hospital Executives Worry About the 'What-Ifs' of Reform: Some See Pluses While Others Fear Mandates

By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 30, 2009 AUSTIN -- Charles J. Barnett's fears about a federal health-care overhaul are outrunning his hopes. From his perch as the chief executive of a nonprofit hospital network that dr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/29/AR2009082901571_pf.html-2009-08-31 topics: HLTH-FIN HOSP KEY)

We Have the Hope. Now Where's the Audacity? Kennedy passed the liberal torch to Obama. Let's run with it.

By Peter Dreier and Marshall Ganz Sunday, August 30, 2009 On Aug. 25 last year, Sen. Edward Kennedy strode onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and announced to a roaring crowd of party faithful the beginning of a new gen... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082801817_pf.html-2009-08-30 topics: FS-GEN CMTY-ORGANIZING HLTH-FIN KEY-A ALLIES)

Was Bernie Madoff an Evil Genius? That's Just Half Right.

By Carlos Lozada Sunday, August 30, 2009 TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff By Erin Arvedlund Portfolio. 310 pp. $25.95 BETRAYAL The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff By Andrew Kirtzman Harper. 307 pp. $25.99 MADOFF WITH T... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082802030_pf.html-2009-08-30 topics: CORRUPTN HUM-NAT CRIME)

No Government Health Care! (Except for Mine.)

By Ezra Klein Sunday, August 30, 2009 "We need to protect Medicare," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele exhorted last week, "and not cut it in the name of 'health-insurance reform.' " It was a rousing defense of government-run h... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082802109_pf.html-2009-08-30 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE IGNORANCE KEY)

Majority Rule on Health Care Reform

The talk in Washington is that Senate Democrats are preparing to push through health care reforms using parliamentary procedures that will allow a simple majority to prevail in their chamber, as it does in the House, instead of the 60 votes needed ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/opinion/30sun1.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-08-30 topics: CONG HLTH-FIN LEGIS)

City's Finest Get a Little More Fit: Forget the Doughnut Jokes: D.C. Police Dept. Loses 1,100 Pounds

By Theola Labbé-DeBose Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 29, 2009 The morning quiet of the Mall is punctuated by a few joggers and walkers at 6 a.m. on a recent weekday. The sun is barely out, and cars move quickly on the empty pre... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082802666_pf.html-2009-08-29 topics: SPORTS SOLUTIONS FITNESS PUB-HLTH)

Recreation Funds Flow Freely in D.C.: Fenty Promotes New Pools and Playgrounds, but Can City Afford Them?

By Tim Craig Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 29, 2009 Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is engaged in a major overhaul of the District's long-troubled network of recreational offerings, spending tens of million of dollars on school yards, playgr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/28/AR2009082803843_pf.html-2009-08-29 topics: FENTY DC GOOD-CMTY GVT-ROLE GVT-FIN SPORTS)

For Best Results, Take the Sting Out of Criticism

By ALINA TUGEND THIS may come as a surprise, but I don’t like criticism. I prefer constant praise and approval from my friends, family and bosses. On the other hand, I feel that my friends, family and bosses should be open and accepting of any c... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/business/29shortcuts.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-29 topics: PSYCH MGT COMMUNICATION)

Co-ops: Rife with Corruption, Mismgt, Criminality.

by BenGoshi see also: http://www.harvardjol.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/335-376_Cooper.pdf (Rep. Jim Cooper essay critical of electric co-ops, Hrvd Lw Rev) Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 05:04:05 AM PDT Senator Kent Conrad likes Co-ops. Making Heal... (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/28/758698/-Co-ops:Rife-with-Corruption,-Mismgt,-Criminality.-2009-08-29 topics: NONPROFIT CORRUPTN CO-OP HLTH-FIN)

Biden: Kennedy's Legacy Is How We Look at One Another

Font size Print Share 10 comments Posted by Kevin Hechtkopf "He had an incredible impact on me, and I noticed everyone around him," Biden said. The vice president also talked about Kennedy's impact in the Senate, saying that he other "act bigger."... (http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5272565.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody-2009-08-29 topics: LD PROGRESS-POSSIBLE CONG)

Distrust in leaders: dimensions, patterns, and emotional intensity.

by Keyton, Joann & Smith, Faye L. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies • August, 2009 • Without prompting, stratified randomly selected employees addressed communication improvements at their manufacturing facility. More than one qu... (http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/print/205746068.html-2009-08-28 topics: TRUST PSYCH KEY SOC-SCI)

Developing communities of leaders: outcomes of a statewide initiative.

by Wituk, Scott^Warren, Mary^Heiny, Pat^Clark, Mary Jo ^Power, Chris^Meissen, Greg Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies • Spring, 2003 • insights from The Kansas Community Leadership Initiative Community leadership programs are the m... (http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/print/105440122.html-2009-08-28 topics: LD KN-MGT CMTY SOLUTIONS ALLIES)

Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies & other leadership links

other sites: * http://leadershiplinks.blogspot.com/ * http://changingminds.org - David Straker website: leadership, sales, etc. * http://www.amazon.com/Bass-Handbook-Leadership-Managerial-Applications/dp/0743215524/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2 - The Bass Han... (http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/pub/0NXD.html-2009-08-28 topics: FS-RSC LD PUB-INFO)

Follower behavior and organizational performance: the impact of transformational leaders.

sum["Bass (1985) identified four components of transformational leadership: Idealized Influence Leaders are admired, respected, and trusted. Followers identify with and want to emulate their leaders. Among the things the leader does to earn credit w... (http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/print/159696522.html-2009-08-28 topics: LD SOC-SCI KEY)

Bass' Transformational Leadership Theory

Disciplines > Leadership > Leadership theories > Bass' Transformational Leadership Theory Assumptions | Description | Discussion | See also Assumptions Awareness of task importance motivates people. A focus on the team or organization produces b... (http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/theories/bass_transformational.htm-2009-08-28 topics: LD KEY)

Harry Jaffe: A trickle of D.C. students joins the college migration

By: Harry Jaffe Examiner Columnist August 28, 2009 This is the season of the great college migration. Parents are packing up cars with clothes and books and posters -- perhaps a blankie -- and driving their precious offspring to college campuses ... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/A-trickle-of-D_C_-students-joins-the-college-migration-8163306-55470152.html-2009-08-28 topics: EDUC DC DOMESTIC-NEEDS MPP)

Shalala: Health Revamp May Mean Doctor Shortage

August 1, 2009 As legislators continue to work on an overhaul for the U.S. health care system, numerous questions linger. Here's one of them: If millions more Americans get health insurance, will there be enough doctors to handle the increase in pa... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111447841-2009-08-28 topics: HLTH-FIN JOBS)

Cooperatives' Record Weighed in Health-Care Debate: Some Herald Them as Cure for Health Care; Others Question Their Power, Costs

By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 27, 2009 Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), a pivotal lawmaker in the health-care debate, wants to deliver coverage to the uninsured by starting up new cooperatives modeled on rural electric... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/26/AR2009082603485_pf.html-2009-08-27 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT CO-OP)

World’s Best Health Care

Critics of President Obama’s push for health care reform have been whipping up fear that proposed changes will destroy our “world’s best” medical system and make it like supposedly inferior systems elsewhere. The emptiness of those claims ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/opinion/26wed3.html?_r=1-2009-08-27 topics: HLTH-FIN URBAN-INST)

Foundation Center Mapping tool

(http://www.philanthropyinsight.org-2009-08-27 topics: NCCS WEBSITE DATA)

CBO estimates that cap-and-trade will cost $175 per household in 2020

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/06/23/cbo-cap-and-trade-to-cost-175-per-household/ http://www.eenews.net/public/25/11455/features/documents/2009/06/22/document_daily_01.pdf The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the U.S. cap-a... (-2009-08-27 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING SOLUTIONS EC-TX)

Why the deficit will raise taxes: The nation's debt must be brought to heel, and doing so will require tough choices beyond spending cuts, experts say

Their economic forecasts In addition to updating their deficit estimates, the White House and CBO updated their economic forecasts. Unemployment - Real GDP 2009 CBO 9.3% -2.5% OMB 9.3% -2.8% 2010 CBO 10.2% 1.7% OMB 9.8% 2.0% 2011 CBO 9... (http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/27/news/economy/deficit_taxes/-2009-08-27 topics: ECON EC-TX RECESSION FED-BGT KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Why Obamacare Is Failing

By Michael Gerson Wednesday, August 26, 2009 At first it seemed plausible that President Obama had a communications problem on health care -- to which the solution was always more and more Obama. But exposure did not translate into persuasion. Th... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/25/AR2009082502545_pf.html-2009-08-26 topics: HLTH-FIN OBAMA PUB-OP)

The Greenback Effect

SUM["Slowing them down will require extraordinary political will. With government expenditures now running 185 percent of receipts, truly major changes in both taxes and outlays will be required. A revived economy can’t come close to bridging that... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/opinion/19buffett.html?_r=1&sq=warren%20buffett&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print-2009-08-26 topics: FED-BGT POLITICAL-WILL KEY FS-CURRICULUM)

Estimate for 10-Year Deficit Raised to $9 Trillion

By JACKIE CALMES WASHINGTON— The nation’s fiscal outlook is even bleaker than the government forecast earlier this year because the recession turned out to be deeper than widely expected, the budget offices of the White House and Congress agree... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/economy/26deficit.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-08-26 topics: FED-BGT)

Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools

By GERRY SHIH This fall, law students are competing for half as many openings at big firms as they were last year in what is shaping up to be the most wrenching job search season in over 50 years. For students now, the promise of the big law firm ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/26lawyers.html?src=linkedin&pagewanted=print-2009-08-26 topics: JOBS PUB-SRV HIGHER-ED)

Real Choice? It’s Off Limits in Health Bills

By DAVID LEONHARDT Consider the following health insurance plan. It refuses to pay for certain medical care and then doesn’t offer a clear explanation. It does pay for unhelpful care that ends up raising premiums. Its customer service can be har... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/economy/26leonhardt.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-26 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG KEY)

Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy Dies at 77, After Cancer Battle

He stayed in the race until the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York's Madison Square Garden, where the party faithful got a glimpse of the candidate who might have been when he delivered one of the great speeches of his career. In powerf... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/26/AR2009082600063_pf.html-2009-08-26 topics: CHARACTER LD AM-HIST)

Grassley Feels the Heat

By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, August 26, 2009 The last, faint hope for truly bipartisan health reform rests with Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa -- and faint may be overstating the prognosis. The 75-year-old Republican has been browbeaten by his leadersh... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/25/AR2009082502543_pf.html-2009-08-26 topics: HLTH-FIN LD CONG ALLIES)

Debbie Curtis, chief of staff to Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.); professional staff, House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health

Age: 42 Birthplace: Arlington, Va. Education: B.A., Boston University Curtis is quick to minimize the influential role she has played for more than a decade in setting health policy agenda on Capitol Hill. “I am part of a talented team on the Wa... (http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_111/news/33652-1.html-2009-08-26 topics: FRIENDS HLTH-FIN ALLIES)

K Street Pants Over Potential Hot Recruits From Hill

Dec. 10, 2007 By T.R. Goldman Roll Call Staff also see: http://www.rollcall.com/features/Welcome-Back-Congress_2008/welcome_back/21652-1.html Call it K Street’s holiday shopping list. Based on an informal survey of 42 lobbyists and headhunters,... (http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_68/vested/21273-1.html?type=printer_friendly-2009-08-26 topics: FRIENDS ALLIES)

NICHOLAS WISE NORMAN

Swinging the club: relations between the United States and the British Commonwealth in the economic transition from war to peace, 1943-8. Nicholas W. Norman. (Dr. Peter H. Lyon.) London Ph.D. 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=9KpXi0GIqHgC&pg=P... (-2009-08-26 topics: FRIENDS)

Test-Preparation Pioneer Built the 'Poor Man's Private School'

By Patricia Sullivan Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Stanley H. Kaplan, 90, who founded the nation's first and largest test preparation company and transformed the way students prepare for higher education, died Aug. 23 of a ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/24/AR2009082402105_pf.html-2009-08-26 topics: CHARACTER GENIUS ENTREPRENEUR)

Don't Want a Public Plan? Well, What Do You Think of Medicare?

sum["According to a Kaiser Family Foundation study, in 1988, 73 percent of people covered by employer-based plans had conventional health insurance; in 2008, that figure was 2 percent. Why did this happen? Because private health insurers shifted tow... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/25/AR2009082501075_pf.html-2009-08-26 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

Farm to Hub to Table: New Nonprofit Feeds Appetite For Local Food

By Jane Black Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 26, 2009 CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Dick Proutt is a small farmer. A very small one. At Down Branch Farm, he raises chickens and quails and grows lettuce, squash, melons and tomatoes on about an... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/25/AR2009082500861_pf.html-2009-08-26 topics: NONPROFIT-INNOVATION COOP AGRICULTURE)

Batten school public leadership, UVA

heidi metcalf http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=1857 Block, who also shepherded the idea of a professional, stand-alone school, said that recent discussions with the Faculty Senate's Academic Affairs Committee reinforced the alrea... (http://batten.virginia.edu/courses.html-2009-08-26 topics: LD FS-RSC TODO)

Ubuntu

A colleague of mine on another listserv posed the following question/comment. He said I could share the post and his contact information - he is in the process of joining ARNOVA and the listserv. Any thoughts on what he has to say below? Ubuntu: ... (ARNOVA LISTSERVE 8/25/09-2009-08-26 topics: CMTY GOOD-LIFE KEY)

UCLA HERI CIRP College Senior Survey reports

(http://www.heri.ucla.edu/publications-brp.php-2009-08-25 topics: YOUTH-VOLUNTEER FS-RSC KEY PUB-OP)

The National Compensation Survey (NCS)

...provides comprehensive measures of occupational wages; employment cost trends, and benefit incidence and detailed plan provisions. Detailed occupational earnings are available for metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, broad geographic regions,... (http://www.bls.gov/ncs/-2009-08-25 topics: NCCS DATA JOBS)

Neighborhood Corps

Neighborhood Corps is sponsored by Serve DC - The Mayor's Office on Volunteerism and the Washington, DC Citizen Corps Council. Neighborhood Corps are groups of emergency trained volunteers that are capable of self deploying and responding to emergen... (http://www.serve.dc.gov/cncs/cwp/view,a,3,q,553927.asp-2009-08-25 topics: DC VOLUNTEER NONPROFIT-GVT)

Carbon Free DC and other grassroots enviro groups

* http://greeneffect.nationalgeographic.com/ - Green Effect * http://www.newdream.org/holiday/index.php * http://www.carbonfreedc.org/ 8/25/09: http://www.carbonfreedc.org/contact-us.html?submit-confirm: I've been working on a project this summer g... (-2009-08-25 topics: ENV DC VOLUNTEER FS-RSC ALLIES)

Last Chance for the Public Option? Reports of its demise could be premature.

Paul Waldman | August 25, 2009 | web only If it could turn back the clock, the Obama administration would probably go back to late November and undertake an elaborate war game on health-care reform. It would lock its smartest people away in ... (http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=last_chance_for_the_public_option-2009-08-25 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG)

Visualization tools improve transparency by making sense of raw data

By Joab Jackson Aug 24, 2009 IN THIS REPORT --- web content development *** http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/index.shtml Data visualization When visualizing data, beware of gratuitous rendering - http://gcn.com/articles/2009/08/24/data-visualization... (-2009-08-25 topics: NCCS DATA WEBSITE-DESIGN)

No Boos (Yet) for a Plan That Isn't Called 'Pay for Performance'

By Joe Davidson Tuesday, August 25, 2009 RENO, Nev. In a delicate dance, the Obama administration took its plan to reward federal employees based on how well they do their jobs, rather than on tenure, to a group known for its fierce opposition ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/24/AR2009082403447_pf.html-2009-08-25 topics: GVT-MGT HR GVT-LIMITS)

Members of Black Sorority at Odds Over Leader's Spending

By Ian Shapira Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 20, 2009 On the top floor of the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, around the corner from the gift shop, stands the statue of a dignitary in a long green beaded gown. ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/19/AR2009081903871_pf.html-2009-08-25 topics: NONPROFIT CORRUPTN NONPROFIT-COMP NONPROFIT-GOV HIGHER-ED BLCK)

Little Keeps Nigeria From a Crisis of Hunger: Country Suffers From Unreliable Agriculture Output

By David Hecht Special to The Washington Post Sunday, August 2, 2009 8:59 PM KANO, Nigeria -- The nation blessed with Africa's largest oil reserves and some of its most fertile lands has a problem. It cannot feed its 140 million people, and relat... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/02/AR2009080202091_pf.html-2009-08-25 topics: AFRICA INTL-NEEDS)

Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?

By BARBARA EHRENREICH IT’S too bad so many people are falling into poverty at a time when it’s almost illegal to be poor. You won’t be arrested for shopping in a Dollar Store, but if you are truly, deeply, in-the-streets poor, you’re well ad... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09ehrenreich.html?_r=1&sq=ehrenreich&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-08-25 topics: POV DOMESTIC-NEEDS CRIME FAIRNESS INEQUALITY KEY FS-CURRICULUM)

U.S. Boots On Congo Ground: A New Kind of Force Could Provide Security

By Michael O'Hanlon Friday, August 14, 2009 When Hillary Clinton visited eastern Congo this week, she stepped into a land of fairy-tale beauty and incredible potential. I remember vividly the day in 1982 when my incoming "class" of Peace Corps ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/13/AR2009081302900_pf.html-2009-08-25 topics: SOLUTIONS INTL-NEEDS POLITICAL-WILL FS-CURRICULUM AFRICA INTL-DEV WAR)

The Truth About Death Counseling

By Charles Krauthammer Friday, August 21, 2009 Let's see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing against her. She's a remarkable political tale... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082003035_pf.html-2009-08-25 topics: HLTH-FIN GVT-ROLE CONSERVATIVE)

BIKE WEBSITES AND BLOGS

* http://www.thewashcycle.com/ * (-2009-08-25 topics: BIKES)

37,000 to Start D.C. Public School Year, Well Below Budgeted Figure: Rhee, City Had Agreed to Plan on Almost 45,000 Students

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 24, 2009 Despite an advertising campaign and an early push to sign up students, the D.C. public school system will begin classes Monday with an enrollment of about 37,000 -- 17 percent ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/23/AR2009082302153_pf.html-2009-08-24 topics: EDUC CHARTER-SCHOOLS DC)

losing hearts and minds indiscriminately

searched wp and nyt: "shooting indiscriminately" and "losing hearts and minds" (-2009-08-23 topics: POLITICAL-MATURITY)

After the Shooting, Another Showdown

Deadly Clash Underscores Rift Over Interpretation of U.S.-Iraq Deal By Ernesto Londoño Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, July 25, 2009 ABU GHRAIB, Iraq -- When insurgents attacked an American convoy with AK-47 rounds and a couple of grena... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/24/AR2009072403877_pf.html-2009-08-23 topics: IRAQ HUMAN-RIGHTS POLITICAL-MATURITY)

Soldiers in Colorado slayings tell of Iraq horrors

Posted by bmeyer July 26, 2009 18:27PM Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado -- Soldiers from an Army unit that had 10 infantrymen accused of murder, attempted murder or manslaughter after returning to civilian life described a breakdown in... (http://blog.cleveland.com/world_impact/2009/07/soldiers_in_colorado_slayings/print.html-2009-08-23 topics: IRAQ HUMAN-RIGHTS POLITICAL-MATURITY)

A Local Paper's War Story

August 07, 2009 The Gazette of Colorado Springs recently published a series about the psychological struggles of a group of Iraq War veterans who'd been arrested for violent crimes at home. But while doing that reporting, journalist Dave Philipps un... (http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/08/07/03-2009-08-23 topics: IRAQ HUMAN-RIGHTS POLITICAL-MATURITY JOURNALISM)

Casualties of War, Part I: The hell of war comes home

DAVE PHILIPPS 2009-07-24 11:48:02 Before the murders started, Anthony Marquez’s mom dialed his sergeant at Fort Carson to warn that her son was poised to kill. It was February 2006, and the 21-year-old soldier had not been the same since being w... (http://www.gazette.com/common/printer/view.php?db=colgazette&id=59065-2009-08-23 topics: IRAQ HUMAN-RIGHTS POLITICAL-MATURITY)

Casualties of War, Part II: Warning signs

DAVE PHILIPPS 2009-07-24 17:27:36 After coming home from Iraq, 21-year-old medic Bruce Bastien was driving with his Army buddy Louis Bressler, 24, when they spotted a woman walking to work on a Colorado Springs street. Bressler swerved and hit the... (http://www.gazette.com/common/printer/view.php?db=colgazette&id=59091-2009-08-23 topics: IRAQ HUMAN-RIGHTS POLITICAL-MATURITY)

The myth of social capital in community development

(http://www.mi.vt.edu/data/files/hpd%2012(4)/hpd%2012(4)_defilippis.pdf-2009-08-23 topics: SOC-CAP CMTY-DEV KEY)

Mobilizing minority communities: Social capital and participation in urban neighborhoods

Kent E Portney; Jeffrey M Berry The American Behavioral Scientist; Mar/Apr 1997; 40, 5; ABI/INFORM Global pg. 632... (http://sitemaker.umich.edu/sw560.articles/files/portney___berry_article.pdf-2009-08-23 topics: SOC-CAP CMTY-DEV KEY)

In Maine, Tensions Over Ailing Lobster Industry

By ABBY GOODNOUGH MATINICUS, Me. — This tiny island, 22 miles out at sea, is generally so quiet that it is hard to imagine the chaos that descended one midsummer day. Early that morning, one veteran lobsterman shot and seriously wounded another ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/us/23lobster.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-23 topics: ECON)

CMS National Health Acccounts

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/03_NationalHealthAccountsProjected.asp#TopOfPage... (-2009-08-23 topics: HLTH-FIN NCCS STATS)

'Better to Be Deported Alive Than to Be Dead' (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HELD FOR RANSOM)

For undocumented residents, a call demanding ransom for a kidnapped loved one can lead to an equally fear-inducing call to federal immigration authorities. By Josh White and Dagny Salas Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, August 23, 2009 Ulises ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/22/AR2009082202356_pf.html-2009-08-23 topics: IMMI VIOLENCE CRIME DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Grass-Roots Battle Tests The Obama Movement: His Supporters Play Catch-Up on Reform

By Eli Saslow Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 23, 2009 RACINE, Wis. -- The last three years had unfolded in an unrelenting series of what Jeremy Bird called Big Moments, and here began the latest on a sweltering afternoon earlier this ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/22/AR2009082202343_pf.html-2009-08-23 topics: HLTH-FIN ADVOCACY OBAMA)

Rhee's 200-Page 'Framework' Spells Out Teaching Guidelines

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 23, 2009 So what exactly is D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's idea of good teaching? A highly skilled teacher should never have more than five instances of "inappropriate or off-... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/22/AR2009082202251_pf.html-2009-08-23 topics: EDUC DC SOLUTIONS INDIV-BEHAVIOR)

It's 3 a.m. Do You Know Where Hillary Clinton Is?

She's not answering those crisis calls at the White House. But she's quietly revolutionizing American foreign policy. By David Rothkopf Sunday, August 23, 2009 When it comes to Hillary Rodham Clinton, we're missing the forest for the pantsuits. C... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082101772_pf.html-2009-08-23 topics: F-PLY OBAMA-ADMIN)

Bring Your Internship to a Strong Close

By Vickie Elmer Special to The Washington Post Sunday, August 23, 2009 When Katie Funk left her summer internship in the director's office at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, she wrote thank-you notes to each person she worked with. During winter vaca... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/22/AR2009082200712_pf.html-2009-08-23 topics: FS-RSC JOBS COMMUNICATION)

PHP parse address utility

Good map of zip boundaries: http://www.city-data.com/zipmaps/Washington-District-of-Columbia.html zipcodes: 20001, 20005, 20009, 20010 (irving - NH&GA), 20011 School list: https://octo.quickbase.com/db/begjewdfy?act=API_GenResultsTable&qid=119 http... (-2009-08-21 topics: PHP FS-RSC DC)

Oval Office Visit Hints at Daschle's Role: President Consulting Man He Once Wanted as Czar on the Issue

By Philip Rucker and Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, August 22, 2009 Former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle's visit to the Oval Office on Friday, at the invitation of President Obama, was more than just a meeting ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103633_pf.html-2009-08-21 topics: CONG LD OBAMA-ADMIN HLTH-FIN LOBBYING)

We Still Need Visionary Leaders (PRODUCTIVE NARCISSISTS)

In turbulent times like the present, we need visionary leaders in government and business. These are the political leaders who will take big risks to make a better, more productive society, and the entrepreneurs who will latch on to the game-changin... (http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/panelists/2009/08/we-still-need-visionary-leaders.html?hpid=smartliving-2009-08-21 topics: LD KEY)

Reach Out And (Virally) Touch Someone: BBYO Provides New Options for Jewish Teens

BBYO’s international president, Lauren Shenfeld, addressing the International Convention body. by Carolyn Slutsky Staff Writer In the fall, instead of going straight to college like the rest of her peers from Ridgeway High School in Memphis, T... (http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a15545/News/New_York.html-2009-08-20 topics: KEY-A ALLIES YOUTH-VOLUNTEER SOLUTIONS FS-GEN RELIGION JEW)

Juvenile Justice Agency Starts Free Lawn-Service Program

Thursday, August 20, 2009 Elderly residents of Ward 5 in the District will get their lawns cut once a month free through a program created by the city's juvenile justice agency to give youths under court supervision a chance to give back to the... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/19/AR2009081901663_pf.html-2009-08-20 topics: YOUTH-VOLUNTEER SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-GVT)

So What’s a Health Insurance Co-op, Anyway?

By Anne Underwood Stuart Isett for The New York Times Dr. Harry J. Shriver III meets one of the patients of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, one of the nation’s larger health co-ops. If a public insurance option were to be abandoned, i... (http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/so-whats-a-health-insurance-coop-anyway/-2009-08-20 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT CO-OP KEY)

EXPANDING THE ROLE OF NONPROFITS IN HEALTH CARE --- & OTHER FIELDS

== Introduction == * Nonprofits, at least in theory, provide a healthy balance of incentives between organizational sustainability and profit-seeking, on the one hand, and a mission-driven focus community or public benefit. * Unlike government, nonp... (-2009-08-20 topics: HLTH-FIN IDEAS CO-OP NONPROFIT-ROLE)

BURMAN: Catastrophic budget failure

Leonard Burman ANALYSIS/OPINION: Last month, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published the latest version of what has become a very scary document called "The Long-Term Budget Outlook." CBO Director Doug Elmendorf is scheduled to walk the Se... (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/14/catastrophic-budget-failure/-2009-08-20 topics: FED-BGT FS-CURRICULUM DOMESTIC-NEEDS KEY)

Consensus and Polarization in Small Group Deliberations

SEE ALSO: "The discussions are led by moderators trained to enforce balance, in both participation and argument—to ensure, so far as possible, that nobody talks too much or too little and that competing arguments and counterarguments are heard. Th... (http://cdd.stanford.edu/research/papers/2007/consensus-polarization.pdf-2009-08-20 topics: DELIB PROGRESS KEY)

Deliberative Trouble? Why Groups Go to Extremes

3 - "The standard view of deliberation is that of Hamilton and Rawls, as quoted above. Group discussion is likely to lead to better outcomes, if only because competing views are stated and exchanged. Aristotle spoke in similar terms, suggesting that... (http://yalelawjournal.org/images/pdfs/449.pdf-2009-08-20 topics: DELIB)

Deliberation Day

(http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/deliberation%20day.pdf-2009-08-20 topics: DELIB BK)

Habermas, the Public Sphere, Ideal speech situation,

Democratic public life only thrives where institutions enable citizens to debate matters of public importance. He describes an ideal type of "ideal speech situation",[6] where actors are equally endowed with the capacities of discourse, recognize ea... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Habermas-2009-08-20 topics: DELIB GOOD-CMTY POL-PHIL)

TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN DC

* Youth Power Network * WIN * BUILD (Balt.) * IAF --- http://dcyouthpowernetwork.org/ - Started in late-2008 by a small group of long-time DC youth workers and community activists, DC Youth Power Network (YPN) was founded on the core belief that, in... (-2009-08-19 topics: CMTY-ORGANIZING DC FS-RSC BK)

Don't Believe the Hype: Support for Health Care Reform is Still Fundamentally Strong

Andrew Baumann Read More: Health Care, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform Polls, Obama Health Care, Polls, Politics News In the last two days several new public polls have been released showing some softening of suppo... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-baumann/dont-believe-the-hype-sup_b_248202.html?view=print-2009-08-19 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP)

Pedalmania in the District: Everyone benefits from increased bicycling.

Sunday, August 16, 2009 "EVERY TIME I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." So said H.G. Wells, nearly a century ago. Wells would be heartened if he could visit the District today. The presence of b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081502327_pf.html-2009-08-19 topics: BIKES DC URB SOLUTIONS)

Activist Co-Founded Arlington Housing Corp.

sum["For more than 20 years, Mrs. Davis was president of the Nauck Civic Association. She and her husband wrote and produced 1,000 copies of the Nauck newsletter every month. She was also influential in creating the housing group's home improvement ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702893_pf.html-2009-08-18 topics: URB POV SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION COOP HOUS FS-RSC)

Our Cells, Ourselves, and a Lifesaving Bond

By Ibby Caputo Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 18, 2009 The first things I noticed about Kerry Lutz were her bright, red, curly hair and her relaxed, tomboyish attitude. I liked her instantly. We have a lot in common, I realized. We'r... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702101.html-2009-08-18 topics: AMANDA PUB-HLTH GIVING)

Cooperatives Being Pushed as an Alternative to a Government Plan

By David S. Hilzenrath and Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, August 18, 2009 As prospects fade for a public, or government-run, option as part of health-care reform, key senators are considering another model to create compe... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702965_pf.html-2009-08-18 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT KEY NONPROFIT-ROLE)

Virginians Divided On Obama's Actions: Poll Shows Support for President But a Split Over Reform Initiative

By Jon Cohen and Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Most Virginians are satisfied with their health care and, despite deep concerns about future costs, there is broad public skepticism about the reforms advocated by... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702933_pf.html-2009-08-18 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP)

Public Option Called Essential: Democratic Lawmakers Express Concern

By Anne E. Kornblut and Perry Bacon Jr. Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Several leading Democrats voiced concern Monday about an apparent White House shift on health-care reform, objecting to signals from senior administr... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702859_pf.html-2009-08-18 topics: HLTH-FIN NO-EASY-ANSWERS LIBERAL)

Town Halls by Invitation

sum["...to facilitate discussion, participants are sent balanced briefing materials about the issues to be discussed ahead of time...When they first arrive at the deliberative poll, attendees answer a confidential questionnaire assessing their posit... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/opinion/16fishkin.html?_r=1&sq=deliberative%20democracy&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-08-18 topics: FS-CURRICULUM PROGRESS DELIB DIALOGUE KEY-A)

Metro's Costs Have Pushed Some to Grab the Car Keys

Sunday, August 16, 2009 Dear Dr. Gridlock: I've been a big fan of Metro since I came to D.C. for college in 1983. Watched the system grow; cheered it on. Love the architecture, the cleanliness and the (usual) efficiency. Two jobs ago, I used M... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081502620_pf.html-2009-08-18 topics: URB DC TRANS BIKES)

Cap and Rage: The fight over health-care reform could hobble climate-change legislation. (NEED CARBON TAX)

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 THE RANCOROUS debate over health reform has given voice to considerable uneasiness among Americans. Many are worried about how a new system will be paid for in an economy that has unraveled, and they are anxious about a k... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/17/AR2009081702477_pf.html-2009-08-18 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING CONG EC-TX KEY SOLUTIONS)

COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICS

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/health/policy/26clinics.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=community%20health%20clinic&st=cse http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/opinion/15herbert.html?pagewanted=print - Bob Herbert Also see: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/bu... (-2009-08-18 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS NCCS)

Hard to Believe!

By BOB HERBERT Plainfield, Vt. It was strange to find in this economically stressed, rural region of Vermont, not far from the state capital of Montpelier, a good news story about health care. Those who live in the area, no matter what their incom... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/opinion/15herbert.html?pagewanted=print-2009-08-18 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS)

PUBLIC SERVICE CAREERS

* ggl: survey public service career (-2009-08-18 topics: PUB-SRV JOBS PUB-OP KEY LIST)

What Change Can We Believe In? Successful campaigns to alter public behavior share common features.

By John D. Donahue | August 12, 2009 John D. Donahue is the Raymond Vernon Lecturer in Public Policy and director of the Weil Program in Collaborative Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School. About This Column: Management Insights is published in... (http://www.governing.com/column/what-change-can-we-believe-2009-08-18 topics: PROGRESS-POSSIBLE CULT GVT-ROLE)

Groups aim to overhaul human-services funding

http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/us_ps_FinancingHumanServicesReport_080709.pdf August 18, 2009 About $1 trillion flows into the U.S. human-services sector each year from government coffers and philanthropy, ... (http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/news/groups-aim-overhaul-human-services-funding-2009-08-18 topics: NONPROFIT-GVT HUM-SRV)

Q+A: Co-ops in focus in healthcare debate

Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:19pm EDT Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page[-] Text [+] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers debating an overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system are focusing on proposals that would form healthcare cooperatives to help p... (http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-HealthcareReform/idUSTRE57G4PA20090817?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true-2009-08-18 topics: HLTH-FIN CO-OP NONPROFIT-GVT)

Room for Debate - NY Times Blogs & Blogroll

Collects half a dozen experts' opinions -- all non-NY Times people -- on a given topic. Great list of key blogs and websites: Hundreds! Divided into econ, general, foreign policy...... (http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/-2009-08-17 topics: PUB-INFO KN-MGT FS-RSC)

Reviving the Dinner Party and 'Serial Socializing' - Real Friends Over 30

Ask yourself this question: what percentage of time do you spend communicating with friends in person, vs. IM, Tweet, email or text? Has it shrunk considerably in the last few years? Finding yourself 'too busy' to get together? Creating and maintain... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kari-henley/reviving-the-dinner-party_b_259415.html-2009-08-17 topics: SOC-CAP FS-RSC FAMILY GOOD-LIFE CMTY SOLUTIONS)

‘Public Option’ in Health Plan May Be Dropped

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG PHOENIX — The White House, facing increasing skepticism over President Obama’s call for a public insurance plan to compete with the private sector, signaled Sunday that it was willing to compromise and would consider a pr... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/health/policy/17talkshows.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-17 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT)

10 Steps to Better Health Care

By ATUL GAWANDE, DONALD BERWICK, ELLIOTT FISHER and MARK McCLELLAN see: http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/Hospital/Search/Welcome.asp?version=default&browser=IE%7C7%7CWinXP&language=English&defaultstatus=0&pagelist=Home WE have reached a sobering p... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/opinion/13gawande.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print-2009-08-17 topics: HLTH-FIN OUTCOME-MEAS KEY NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT)

Grand Junction a microcosm of efficient healthcare

The small Colorado city runs a system that experts hope the nation can learn from. The innovative approach started with a nonprofit HMO that offers some free services and promotes preventive care. By Nicholas Riccardi August 14, 2009 Reporting fro... (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-grand-junction14-2009aug14,0,3734546,print.story-2009-08-17 topics: HLTH-FIN NONPROFIT-INNOVATION KEY)

Is Obama Punking Us?

SUM[ "an Obama voter, a real estate agent in Virginia, featured on the front page of The Washington Post last week. “Nothing’s changed for the common guy,” she said. “I feel like I’ve been punked.” She cited in particular the billions of... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09rich.html?_r=1&sq=frank%20rich&st=cse&scp=6&pagewanted=print-2009-08-16 topics: PUB-OP OBAMA KEY CONSERVATIVE DISTRUST)

Squeaking by on $300,000

SUM[ The Steeds are big community volunteers. They're also known for their zany parties. They come up with an idea to get people talking, and soon the invitations are in the mail: You are invited to a recession party. Serving: Cheap Wine and Beer ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081502957_pf.html-2009-08-16 topics: RICH RECESSION PUB-OP CULT CONSUMER KEY AMANDA GOOD-LIFE GOOD-CMTY)

Is Race for Governor More About Obama? Some Voters Who Backed President Disillusioned Over Economic Pledges

By Sandhya Somashekhar Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 5, 2009 The coffee was still brewing when Chris Ann Cleland got her first reminder of the day that voting for Barack Obama might have been a mistake. The Prince William County ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/04/AR2009080402787_pf.html-2009-08-16 topics: PUB-OP OBAMA)

Northeast Shooting Injures At Least 5

By Yamiche Alcindor and Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, August 16, 2009 At least five young people were shot Saturday evening when disputes apparently broke out after a community event in far Northeast Washington, according to po... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081502580_pf.html-2009-08-16 topics: DC VIOLENCE NO-EASY-ANSWERS FS-RSC)

In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition: Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage

By Rick Perlstein Sunday, August 16, 2009 In Pennsylvania last week, a citizen, burly, crew-cut and trembling with rage, went nose to nose with his baffled senator: "One day God's going to stand before you, and he's going to judge you and the rest... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081401495_pf.html-2009-08-16 topics: CONSERVATIVE PUB-OP AM-HIST)

Sermo: social networking and knowledge management for physicians

BANNER: Unite, lead, monetize, research, network. Sermo: Know more, know earlier. 30,000 discussions; 3m. comments http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/tech_startups_you_should_know_2009/ http://www.sermo.com/how-it-works/money How We ... (-2009-08-16 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-INFO WEB2.0 KN-MGT KEY-A SOLUTIONS)

In Helmand, Caught Between U.S., Taliban: 'Skittish' Afghans Wary of Both Sides

By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 15, 2009 MIANPOSHTEH, Afghanistan -- U.S. Marines pushing into Afghanistan's southern Helmand province are running up against a skeptical Afghan population heavily influenced by Tali... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081403568_pf.html-2009-08-15 topics: AFGHAN NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Fatty Foods Affect Memory and Exercise

By TARA PARKER-POPE Alan Zale for The New York Times High-fat foods may have detrimental effects on muscle power and the brain. Eating fatty food appears to take an almost immediate toll on both short-term memory and exercise performance, according... (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fatty-foods-affect-memory-and-exercise/?pagemode=print-2009-08-15 topics: DIET KEY)

Health Debate Fails to Ignite Obama’s Web

By JEFF ZELENY MUSCATINE, Iowa — At her home on Tom Sawyer Road here the other night, Bonnie Adkins agreed to begin spreading the word that President Obama’s embattled health care plan needed help. Ms. Adkins, who for the past two years devote... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/health/policy/15ground.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-15 topics: PUB-OP HLTH-FIN OBAMA)

The Great 'Prevention' Myth

By Charles Krauthammer Friday, August 14, 2009 see: http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/104xx/doc10492/08-07-Prevention.pdf In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health-care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to S... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/13/AR2009081302898_pf.html-2009-08-15 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

Physical Culture | Gear Test With Hugo Giron, Bike Courier - BIKE LIGHTS

AS more commuters ride bikes, more cyclists put themselves in danger. Should riding across the Williamsburg Bridge at night really be a deadly adventure sport? From 2007 to 2008, the New York City Department of Transportation recorded a 35 percent i... (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/28/fashion/0129-PHYS_index.html-2009-08-15 topics: BIKES PUB-HLTH)

The Mature Personality

Allport's (1955) mature personality: * Realistic assessment of self, one's skills, and one's external reality * Acceptance of self and others; ability to relate warmly to others in appropriate situations * Ability to plan and delay gratification * S... (-2009-08-14 topics: PSYCH GOOD-LIFE KEY)

The MBA oath: a new era of responsibility?

09 Jul 2009 | Nic Paton To the more cynical among us it might look very much like a case of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, but an "oath" launched by students at Harvard Business School urging future MBA graduates to "create va... (http://www.management-issues.com/2009/7/9/research/the-mba-oath-a-new-era-of-responsibility.asp-2009-08-14 topics: LD MGT OBAMA RHETORIC)

Role of government and role of social science evidence, Paul Wyckoff (Urban book)

gvt: * Redistribution * Investment * Service * Regulation * Behavior change We pay too much attention to behavioral aspects and not enough to others. Politicians overpromise but we lose opportunity to focus on what can be changed. == Hierarchy of... (-2009-08-14 topics: PUB-INFO GVT-ROLE SOC-SCI SOLUTIONS PUB-OP)

Feed The Children Charity chief Larry Jones cedes control: Feed the Children founder Larry Jones settles lawsuit over leadership

Comments 18 Buzz up!BY NOLAN CLAY Published: August 14, 2009 Feed The Children founder Larry Jones has agreed to give up operational control of his charity but will stay on — for now — as a spokesman and fundraiser. Feed The Children founde... (http://newsok.com/feed-the-children-charity-chief-larry-jones-cedes-control/article/3392746-2009-08-14 topics: INTL-DEV NONPROFIT-REG CORRUPTN NONPROFIT-GOV)

Amanda: FSH and POF /premature ovarian failure

http://books.google.com/books?id=RdAlexq3i_wC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=FSH+AND+LEUKEMIA+CHEMOTHERAPY&source=bl&ots=W4CbuMC2PM&sig=h7J9oLe_1uhI7IdH5jaD1OPZdho&hl=en&ei=BkKGSsjNNJaJtgfSlNXnDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#v=onepage&q=FSH&f=false... (-2009-08-14 topics: AMANDA MEDICINE)

Designing Peace - Scott Bollens (rec'd by Colby Clabaugh; see, esp., On Narrow Ground)

Submitted by Suzi Steffen on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 19:03. A peace-keeping wall in Belfast. Image courtesy of Scott Bollens. A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog-only article about an urban planner and his lecture on divided cities. That planner was ... (http://blogs.eugeneweekly.com/node/434-2009-08-13 topics: SOLUTIONS WAR URB F-PLY PEACE)

Nonprofits revisit budgets as earmark cuts loom

Nonprofits Revisit Budgets as Earmark Cuts Loom By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 21, 2009 For some D.C. nonprofit agencies, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's recent proposal to sharply cut earmarks was more bad news in a troubled e... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072002994_pf.html-2009-08-13 topics: DC NONPROFIT-FIN)

New Border Fear: Violence by a Rogue Militia

By JESSE McKINLEY and MALIA WOLLAN ARIVACA, Ariz. — “Somebody just came in and shot my daughter and my husband!” the woman shouted to the 911 dispatcher. “They’re coming back in! They’re coming back in!” Multiple gunshots are then hea... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/us/27arizona.html?_r=1&sq=BORDER%20FEAR%20ROGUE%20MILITIA&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-08-13 topics: CRIME MEXICO GLOBALIZATION DOMESTIC-NEEDS NO-EASY-ANSWERS CIV-SOC DIVISIVE DISORDER)

Community Colleges See Demand Spike, Funding Slip

By Valerie Strauss Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Hundreds of thousands of students are likely to be turned away from low-cost community colleges across the country over the next year because of funding cuts at the very time ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063003786_pf.html-2009-08-13 topics: HIGHER-ED RECESSION GVT-FIN JOBS DOMESTIC-NEEDS)

Political Shifts on Gay Rights Lag Behind Culture

SUM["Some elected Democrats in Washington remain wary because they remember how conservatives used same-sex marriage and gay service in the military against them as political issues. The Obama White House in particular is reluctant to embrace gay ri... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/us/28stonewall.html?sq=POLITICAL%20SHIFTS%20ON%20GAY%20RIGHTS&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1250172229-T2zZZwjJ40%20-2009-08-13 topics: GVT-LIMITS CULT PROGRESS GAY OBAMA)

Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe

By GINA KOLATA Among the recent research grants awarded by the National Cancer Institute is one for a study asking whether people who are especially responsive to good-tasting food have the most difficulty staying on a diet. Another study will asse... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/health/research/28cancer.html?scp=1&sq=PLAYING%20IT%20SAFE%20IN%20CANCER%20RESEARCH&st=cse-2009-08-13 topics: GVT-LIMITS SCIENCE PUB-HLTH UNINTENDED-CONSEQUENCES KEY NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.

* http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0516/p01s02-ussc.html - 8-15 mil. depending on who is estimating. * http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=112 - Pew Hispanic Center - 11.5 mil. Mexican-born residents of U.S. * http://pewhispanic.org/repo... (-2009-08-13 topics: IMMI LIST KEY)

With virtual town halls, Maryland legislators sidestep potential mob scenes

Health care reform: While the focus shifts from D.C. to the rest of the nation, Md. Democrats say they're changing their strategy to assure constituents are heard By Paul West | paul.west@baltsun.com August 8, 2009 WASHINGTON - The last time Co... (www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.strategy08aug08,0,300080.story-2009-08-13 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP MD)

WSU's Ripple Effect pushes frontier of education philanthropy

Kristi Heim Washington State University is known for its agricultural expertise, knowledge that it spreads around the world through a dozen international development projects. Now it's linking those programs with online giving in a new initiative c... (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2009640345&zsection_id=2008812014&slug=&date=20090811-2009-08-13 topics: YOUTH GIVING FOUNDATIONS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION INTL-DEV)

Pitch for Conservatives and Moderates

/* conservativePitch.txt - 08/13/09 - C:\docs\freedomSummer\ - Easton, MD Frank Kratovil attacked by angry constituents, hung in effigy. Americans for Prosperity denied involvement. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/annapolis/2009/07/effigy_pictur... (-2009-08-13 topics: FS-RSC IDEAS)

Check for stolen content on web

Since I know that many of you are in positions where you counsel people looking for jobs in the non-profit sector, I want to warn you about an unethical non-profit job-hunting site. I submitted one of my articles about leadership development to ez... (http://www.copyscape.com/-2009-08-13 topics: WEBSITE INTEL-PROP)

Neighboring - Points of Light and Casey Foundations

Here's the link to the "Neighboring" website: http://archive.pointsoflight.org/programs/neighboring. It seems to be spearheaded by the the Points of Light Foundation "in partnership" with Casey. The focus is on "transforming "tough" neighborhoods ... (-2009-08-12 topics: ALLIES FS-GEN DC FUNDERS)

On the Commons

(http://onthecommons.org-2009-08-12 topics: COOP WEBSITE ALLIES CMTY)

A Steely Kind of Moral Energy

sum["Eunice and her Sargie had the soundest kind of marriage: a union based less on being together than on working together. They raised five loving and lovable children, each now working to fulfill their mother's call to "believe in possibility." ]... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/11/AR2009081101878_pf.html-2009-08-12 topics: CHARACTER LD INSPIRATION KEY-A PERSONAL MARRIAGE)

The Joyful Revolution (Eunice kennedy Shriver)

By Michael Gerson Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a civil rights hero, and unique even in that select company. Most civil rights revolutions are made by rhetoric and law -- ignited by protest, summarized in memorable speeches... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/11/AR2009081102754_pf.html-2009-08-12 topics: CHARACTER LD NONPROFIT INSPIRATION)

Change We Can't Believe In?

By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Candidate Barack Obama offered a lofty vision of how his White House would operate. When the details of health reform were being hammered out, he vowed, "We'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN so ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/11/AR2009081102810_pf.html-2009-08-12 topics: OBAMA KEY INTEGRITY POLITICS DISTRUST PUB-OP)

Behold, a National and Rational Conversation on Health Care

By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Republican strategists and their media rabble-rousers cleverly thought they could dispatch their shock troops this month and kill health reform once and for all. Instead, they're on the verge of gen... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/11/AR2009081103300_pf.html-2009-08-12 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY DIALOGUE)

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Influential Founder of Special Olympics, Dies at 88

By CARLA BARANAUCKAS Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of one of the most prominent families in American politics and a trailblazer in the effort to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, died early Tuesday morning at Cape Cod H... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/us/12shriver.html?sq=shriver&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-08-12 topics: CHARACTER LD INSPIRATION)

Parents, kids take interest in birthday boot camps: With exercise theme, parties give gift of fitness

by Andrew Ujifusa | Staff Writer After several years in the newspaper business, Katie Filipczyk Howard stopped fretting about headlines and began focusing on young waistlines. Howard, a Chevy Chase native and Germantown resident, was working as a ... (http://www.gazette.net/stories/08122009/bethnew193206_32521.shtml-2009-08-12 topics: SPORTS SOLUTIONS)

Ambassadors hit the streets to help tourists, clean sidewalks

By: Maria Schmitt Special to the Examiner August 11, 2009 Most D.C. residents probably don't know much, if anything, about the brightly clad crews that cruise city sidewalks, cleaning, helping tourists and keeping an eye on the neighborhood. They a... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Ambassadors-hit-the-streets-to-help-tourists_-clean-sidewalks-8075205-52912517.html-2009-08-11 topics: URB SOLUTIONS EC-TX JOBS DC)

Old Hiring Habits Die Hard in D.C. Government: Fans, Foes Weigh In on Patronage

By Paul Schwartzman Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Robert Adams, a contractor who lives in Southeast Washington, tells of a friend who found jobs for four relatives at the D.C. Public Works Department. Another friend, a Di... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002841_pf.html-2009-08-11 topics: GVT CORRUPTN DC NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

ORG NOTES APPLICATION

SELECT CONCAT("",DateDue,'') as Date_Due, m.name as Org_Name, n.status as Status, substring(Note,1,100) as Notes from nccs.nteedocAllEins m, nccs.userCustomListNotes n where m.ein = n... (-2009-08-11 topics: PROGRAMMING)

Loose Network of Activists Drives Reform Opposition

By Dan Eggen and Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, August 16, 2009 The rowdy protests that threaten President Obama's health-care reform efforts have been spurred on by a loose network of activists -- from veteran advocacy groups... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081502696_pf.html-2009-08-11 topics: CONSERVATIVE HLTH-FIN ADVOCACY NONPROFIT)

Senator Goes Face to Face With Dissent

By IAN URBINA and KATHARINE Q. SEELYE LEBANON, Pa. — They got up before dawn in large numbers with angry signs and American flag T-shirts, and many were seething with frustration at issues that went far beyond overhauling health care. More than ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/health/policy/12townhall.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-11 topics: PUB-OP CONSERVATIVE)

The Lesson of the 38 Candy Bars

SUM[ importance of small gestures, hard work: But also implies a limit to how many people one can interact with.] This interview with Gary E. McCullough, president and chief executive of the Career Education Corporation, was conducted and condensed ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/business/09corner.html?sq=corner%20office&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print-2009-08-11 topics: LD CIVILITY KEY MGT COMMUNICATIONS LD)

Students, employers, traditional colleges weigh new options

11:32 PM CDT on Saturday, August 8, 2009 By Candace Carlisle / Staff Writer With more students heading back to school to gain new skills for a tough job market, online degree programs are becoming increasingly popular. But are they a good inves... (http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_online_0809.c0a22c19.html#-2009-08-10 topics: HIGHER-ED JOBS)

The Two Faces of Ghana

By LABAN CARRICK HILL AT midday, the heat was so palpable that it had its own color, a pulsing, iridescent yellow. I paused at a tiny market stall and bought a peeled and sliced half pineapple — sweet and juicy, not like the tart pineapples in the... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/travel/09ghana.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-10 topics: AFRICA CULT)

Lazarus at the Gate:Economic Discipleship Guide (Aaron Graham)

four Lazarus commitments: * spending joyfully, * spending differently, * spending less and * giving more.... (-2009-08-10 topics: FS-RSC RELIGION GIVING SOLUTIONS)

FREEDOM SUMMER: Options for Fall 2009 and 2010

== Urban Inst./Community Foundation Intro == * Interdisciplinary * Not a simple next step from existing projects. Instead, draws elements from a variety of research threads and pilot projects. * Flows seamlessly from Urban "fire alarms" on the feder... (-2009-08-10 topics: FS-GEN IDEAS KEY-A)

Tax ruling will help nonprofits: Landlords charging less can get exemption, which benefits tenants

August 1, 2009 By Carrie Ritchie carrie.ritchie@indystar.com An Indiana Tax Court ruling could benefit the state's nonprofits, especially smaller ones, according to the United Way of Central Indiana. In a case involving Heartland Church in Fishe... (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009908010430&template=printart-2009-08-10 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN ENDOWMENTS)

Seniors Remain Wary of Health-Care Reform: Administration Aims to Reassure Older Americans Fearful of Losing Access to Care

By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 9, 2009 Senior citizens are emerging as a formidable obstacle to President Obama's ambitious health-care reform plans. The discontent in the powerful and highly organized voting bloc ha... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/08/AR2009080802367_pf.html-2009-08-09 topics: HLTH-FIN ELDERLY)

Expanding Preventive Care May Add to Costs, CBO Says: Letter Cites Health Benefits but Few Savings

By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 8, 2009 Expanding preventive medical services may well improve public health, but it is highly unlikely to save the government money, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday. In... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080703822_pf.html-2009-08-09 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

The Town Hall Mob

By PAUL KRUGMAN There’s a famous Norman Rockwell painting titled “Freedom of Speech,” depicting an idealized American town meeting. The painting, part of a series illustrating F.D.R.’s “Four Freedoms,” shows an ordinary citizen expressin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/opinion/07krugman.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: HLTH-FIN ADVOCACY DIVISIVE POOR-LD CONSERVATIVE)

Democrats Weigh the Calculus of Public Insurance (PUBLIC PLAN)

By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 7, 2009 As Congress breaks for its August recess, the debate back home will center on Democratic proposals to create a government-run insurance option, which insurers and Republicans ar... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/06/AR2009080601574_pf.html-2009-08-09 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

A Public Health Plan (PUBLIC PLAN)

As the debate on health care reform unfolds, no issue has caused such partisan rancor — and spawned such misleading rhetoric — as whether to create a new public insurance plan to compete with private plans. The nation already has several huge ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/opinion/21sun1.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: HLTH-FIN)

Schools Need Teachers Like Me. I Just Can't Stay.

sum["But there is more to those numbers than "burnout." That term is shorthand for a suite of factors that contributed to my choice to leave the classroom. When I talk about the long hours, for example, what I mean is that, over the course of four y... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080702046_pf.html-2009-08-09 topics: EDUC JOBS IDEALISM KEY AMANDA GVT-MGT GVT-COMP PUB-SRV)

Beyond Beltway, Health Debate Turns Hostile

By IAN URBINA The bitter divisions over an overhaul of the health care system have exploded at town-hall-style meetings over the last few days as members of Congress have been shouted down, hanged in effigy and taunted by crowds. In several cities, ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/us/politics/08townhall.html?pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP DIVISIVE)

Health Care Hullabaloo

By CHARLES M. BLOW One of the most frustrating aspects of the health care debate is that the people who most want reform are the most apathetic about it. According to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released on Wednesday, nearly 8 in 10 Democrats said ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/opinion/08blow.html?pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP IGNORANCE REPUBLICANS KEY DOMESTIC-NEEDS FS-RSC DEMOCRACY)

Get involved and stay involved: Courtney and Abby's speeches at ECAC Social, 8/8/09

== Intro == What we've tried to do this summer is get people more involved. This social, our 2 block parties, the neighborhood cleanup. All were planned first steps, but we have a long way to go. == Spread the word == We hope to see you at the next... (-2009-08-09 topics: FS-GEN IDEAS KEY)

An Unhealthy Debate: Rhetoric and distortion imperil the opportunity to fix the American health-care system.

Sunday, August 9, 2009 WHEN IT comes to health-care reform, August is shaping up as the loudest month. Angry protesters, spurred by conservative groups, shout down Democratic lawmakers at meetings to discuss reform, with congressional Republica... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/08/AR2009080802064_pf.html-2009-08-09 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-OP DIVISIVE)

For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics

By STEVE LOHR MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — At Harvard, Carrie Grimes majored in anthropology and archaeology and ventured to places like Honduras, where she studied Mayan settlement patterns by mapping where artifacts were found. But she was drawn to w... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/06stats.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: JOBS TECH BIG-THINK EDUC AMANDA GABE)

Governors Fear Added Costs in Health Care Overhaul

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS SEATTLE — The fraying of the nation’s Medicaid system has many indicators, and one of them is Connie Baugh’s stockings. Ms. Baugh received a letter the other day from the state saying that as a result of budget cuts, Medic... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/business/07medicaid.html?ref=health&pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY MCD)

Elderbloggers Stake Their Claim

By LEE ROBERTS PRESCOTT LUSTIG, 84, posts to his Weblog every day or two, writing on the demise of such things as orange crates, or on more serious issues like "the conditions of aging and the challenge of living with those conditions." Mr. Lustig,... (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/business/retirement/11blogs.html/partner/rssnyt?ei=5070&en=703f4921aea85985&ex=1156564800&pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: INTERNET ELDERLY SOLUTIONS ALLIES FS-RSC JOURNALISM)

Unpaid Work, but They Pay for Privilege

By GERRY SHIH With paying jobs so hard to get in this weak market, a lot of college graduates would gladly settle for a nonpaying internship. But even then, they are competing with laid-off employees with far more experience. So growing numbers of... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/business/09intern.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: JOBS UNTAPPED-CAPACITY VOLUNTEER)

Job Growth Lacking in the Private Sector

By FLOYD NORRIS http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/08/07/business/20090808_CHARTS_GRAPHIC.html FOR the first time since the Depression, the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. The total numbe... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/business/economy/08charts.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: JOBS DOMESTIC-NEEDS FS-CURRICULUM KEY)

Community organizing books

Paul Loeb's "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear" http://paulloeb.org/newimp/impindex.htm Michael Jacoby Brown's Building Powerful Community Organizations... (-2009-08-09 topics: FS-RSC LIST BK KEY ALLIES CMTY UNTAPPED-CAPACITY)

VOTING BY ZIP CODE AND COUNTY

* http://www.opensecrets.org/address/pres.php?zip=20895 !!! * http://www.colorofmoney.org/zipcode.asp SUMMARIES * http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/fec.asp - Political contributions by name of contributor, w/n a zip (2009-08-09) * http://www.opens... (-2009-08-09 topics: DEMOGRAPHICS)

At Home in the Houses of the Lord: Church Missions, Portfolios Embrace Residential Real Estate (ASSETS)

By Ovetta Wiggins Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 8, 2009 The new apartments in Landover have all the features one expects to find in a luxury complex. There's a state-of-the-art fitness center, a quiet courtyard, nine-foot ceilings ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080703689_pf.html-2009-08-09 topics: RELIGION NONPROFIT-FIN)

Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security

By JOHN M. BRODER WASHINGTON — The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass mig... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/science/earth/09climate.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-09 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING KEY FS-CURRICULUM)

Apocalypse Later? I'm Going Local Now.

http://www.dougfine.com/ By Doug Fine Sunday, August 9, 2009 GRANT COUNTY, N.M. I've spent the past three years trying to get petroleum out of my life and live locally. Where I differ from many locavore cruncholas is in my determination to do the... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080504266.html-2009-08-09 topics: AGRICULTURE GOOD-LIFE GLOBAL-WARMING ENV CHARACTER WRITING)

A Better Umpire for Corporate Pay

By Amity Shlaes Sunday, August 9, 2009 What is talent, and how should we pay for it? Among the many who aren't sure of the right answer is -- you guessed it -- Congress. Last month, the House moved to shame some key, ambitious, highly paid risk-ta... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080703169_pf.html-2009-08-09 topics: EXEC-COMP RHETORIC)

Fire Official Given No Special Treatment, Report Says: November Crash in Montgomery Still Being Reviewed

By Miranda S. Spivack and Dan Morse Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, August 9, 2009 Montgomery County police did not give favorable treatment to then-Assistant Fire Chief Gregory J. DeHaven when they decided against giving him a breathalyzer ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/08/AR2009080800832_pf.html-2009-08-08 topics: GVT CORRUPTN LYING FAIRNESS)

‘Nice’ Wasn’t Part of the Deal

By JOE NOCERA A few weeks ago, a woman named Judith Kipper asked Lawrence Summers a question that’s been on everyone’s mind — one that helps explain why the country is so angry at the big banks right now. Mr. Summers, the president’s top ec... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/business/01nocera.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-08-07 topics: BANK CAPITALISM EXEC-COMP OBAMA-ADMIN)

Online Discussion Next Week: How Data Can Improve Fund-Raising Results

Using Data to Boost Your Fund-Raising Performance Tuesday, July 28, at 12 noon, U.S. Eastern time How can fund raisers best use research tools to identify potential donors and make strategic decisions about their fund-raising campaigns? How should ... (http://philanthropy.com/live/2009/07/boost/index.shtml-2009-08-07 topics: NCCS DATA FUNDRAISING)

Atlanta Groups Protest Loss of Millions in Federal Aid

Community-development organizations in Atlanta are up in arms over plans to return some $30-million in federal funds unspent by an urban-renewal program set to expire at the end of the year, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The Atlanta Ren... (http://philanthropy.com/news/?id=8992&pth&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=lefttop-2009-08-07 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN NONPROFIT-GVT GVT-FIN RECESSION)

Reports Show Weakness in Nonprofit Hospitals' Fiscal Health

Two reports released this month show how hard the recession is hitting nonprofit hospitals, according to the American Medical Association’s American Medical News. According to a July 7 Standard & Poor’s report, 60 nonprofit health institutions ... (http://philanthropy.com/news/?id=8995&pth&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=lefttop-2009-08-07 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION HOSP TODO SEND:KEN)

Résumés Matter: What Nonprofit Employers Want to Know About Job Seekers

By Jennifer C. Berkshire When the nonprofit research and education group Public Agenda, in New York, advertised for an entry-level communications manager in May, the response was staggering. More than 400 people applied for the position, including... (http://philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v21/i19/20090806.htm-2009-08-07 topics: JOBS FS-RSC AMANDA)

The Economy’s Impact on Back to School: Volunteerism, Education Confidence and Preparedness

w w w . h a r r i s i n t e r a c t i v e . c o m ©2008, Harris Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Amid economic and educational concerns, new poll finds parents plan to volunteer at schools, reconsider school options, and shop smarter In a gr... (http://www.greatschools.net/news/back-to-school-poll-results.page-2009-08-07 topics: EDUC VOLUNTEER OBAMA PUB-OP KEY)

A Community Solution that Helps Everyone Win: My Visit to an Innovative Program in Iowa

Posted by Melody Barnes Since the President spoke to us last month about his "community solutions" agenda, a number of people have asked me, "What exactly do community solutions look like?" Well, many of us already have them in our own neighborhoods... (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/A-Community-Solution-that-Helps-Everyone-Win-My-Visit-to-an-Innovative-Program-in-Iowa/-2009-08-07 topics: FS-RSC SOLUTIONS EDUC YOUTH-DEV ELDERLY)

Seeger Still Strumming After Hard Knocks

Fellow Folk Veterans and the Boss Unite to Celebrate Singer/Activist's 90th Birthday (CBS) On a May night, backstage at Madison Square Garden, more than 50 musicians warmed up for a birthday party. Folk hero Pete Seeger was turning 90, and the o... (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/02/sunday/main5204928.shtml-2009-08-07 topics: INSPIRATION LD ENV)

43 Things: List your goals, share your progress, cheer each other on

(http://www.43things.com/-2009-08-07 topics: WEB2.0 INSPIRATION KEY FS-RSC)

NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP CIRCLES (Deliberation)

Let's say that the average block of 30 homes has at least half a dozen people who believe, as we do, that we must work to find new opportunities for working together if we are to overcome our nation's challenges. What if we could get them meeting to... (-2009-08-07 topics: DELIB KEY-A IDEAS FS-RSC SUM)

The Impact of Giving Together: Giving Circles’ Influence on Members’ Philanthropic and Civic Behaviors, Knowledge and Attitudes

The Impact of Giving Together: Giving Circles’ Influence on Members’ Philanthropic and Civic Behaviors, Knowledge and Attitudes Angela M. Eikenberry and Jessica Bearman With Hao Han, Melissa Brown, and Courtney Jensen... (http://www.givingforum.org/s_forum/bin.asp?CID=611&DID=25090&DOC=FILE.PDF-2009-08-06 topics: GIVING SOLUTIONS KEY FS-RSC)

Vertigo and the Intentional Inhabitant: Leadership in a Connected World (LAWRENCE COMMUNITY WORKS)

SUM["At LCW, we try to build language, tools, and systems to help us recognize, create, preserve, and defend space. We try to resource the demand environment in many different ways so that we can improve on resourcing real-life opportunities rather ... (http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/index.php?view=article&catid=156%3Anonprofits-and-immigration&id=1384%3Avertigo-and-the-intentional-inhabitant-leade-2009-08-06 topics: LD ALLIES SOLUTIONS FS-RSC CMTY DELIB NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

Ned Hall

by Nancy Hoffmann; photo by Phil Hoffmann Every year, Maryland loses 30,000 acres of open land to sprawl . That’s an area more than one-fifth the size of Calvert County. To slow that erosion, the state, counties and citizens have erected a bulwar... (http://www.bayweekly.com/year02/issueX11/baylifeX11.html-2009-08-06 topics: PERSONAL FAMILY MD)

MICO-VIZ MAPPING TOOL

RE: Third Sector Geo-Web: A Proposal - MICo-Viz consortium Pete, Nancy, Tom, Roger, Robert, Elizabeth, Georges Grinstein; Kahn, Charlotte; Helen Lyons Peter Manzo; Nancy Stutts; Pollak, Thomas; Roger A. Lohman; Elizabeth Roark Pete suggests the oth... (-2009-08-06 topics: NCCS ALLIES DATA WEB2.0 NONPROFIT-TECH OPEN-SOURCE)

Our Funders:

AID is supported by the CarEth Foundation, Connect US Fund, DarMac Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Ford Foundation, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, JEHT Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Institute, Planet... (http://aidemocracy.org/about.htm-2009-08-06 topics: ALLIES FS-GEN FUNDERS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION YOUTH-VOLUNTEER)

Journal for Jordan

Journal for Jordan, by Cannady - very touching story of husband's letter to unborn son. Parents married when they were relatively old. Wife struggled with weight. They just clicked after meeting at parent's home in their 30s. Had not known each othe... (-2009-08-05 topics: LOVE WAR CHARACTER GOOD-LIFE)

Chris Cooley (Redskins) mom - cancer survivor?? tough

(-2009-08-05 topics: CHARACTER)

Global Integrity

... generates, synthesizes, and disseminates credible, comprehensive and timely information on governance and corruption trends around the world. As an independent information provider employing on-the-ground expertise, we produce original reportin... (http://www.globalintegrity.org/-2009-08-05 topics: NONPROFIT THINKTANKS INTL-DEV TRANSPARENCY CORRUPTN ALLIES)

grassroots.org - free websites for nonprofits

The mission of Grassroots.org is to serve as a catalyst for positive social change by leveraging modern technologies and best business practices. We currently serve 1,736 charitable organizations in the US and Canada and have provided them with a t... (http://www.grassroots.org/-2009-08-05 topics: NONPROFIT-TECH)

Current TV (Al Gore)

SUM[ seems dumb, but maybe i just haven't seen enough] Current is a new breed of cross-platform media company that works with its young adult audience to create and distribute content that informs, enriches and inspires. We believe media should be ... (http://current.com/s/about.htm-2009-08-05 topics: WEB2.0)

Former La. Congressman Convicted of Taking Bribes

Jefferson Found Guilty on 11 of 16 Counts By Jerry Markon and Allison Klein Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, August 5, 2009 6:32 PM Former Congressman William J. Jefferson was convicted of corruption charges today in a case that featured $... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503195_pf.html-2009-08-05 topics: CORRUPTN CRIME CONG)

Online Scammers Prey on the Jobless

By RIVA RICHMOND When Claude Vera responded to the customer-service job opening he saw on the online-classified site Geebo.com back in February, it seemed like one of a hundred small acts that might get him back to work. Most of his e-mail messages... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/technology/personaltech/06basics.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=print-2009-08-05 topics: CRIME RECESSION EVIL)

Are Liberals More Corrupt?

By GAIL COLLINS AND ROSS DOUTHAT Chip East/Reuters Former New Jersey Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, a Republican, was one of more than 40 people, from both political parties, arrested recently in a corruption scandal that has rocked the state. Gail C... (http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/are-liberals-more-corrupt/?pagemode=print-2009-08-05 topics: LIBERAL CORRUPTN CONSERVATIVE POLITICS)

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OVERVIEW

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics: cognitive models of decision making under risk and uncertainty overconfidence, projection bias, and the effects of limited attention the theory of Bounded Rationality by Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon... (-2009-08-04 topics: ECON PSYCH SOC-SCI)

Achieving Culture Change: A Policy Framework

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/strategy.aspx - Cabinet Ofc Strategy Unit Cultural capital – our attitudes, values, aspirations and sense of self-efficiency – has an important influence on the actions and behaviour we choose. While governments ... (http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/cabinetoffice/strategy/assets/achieving_culture_change.pdf-2009-08-04 topics: ALLIES KEY-A CULT PROGRESS-POSSIBLE FS-CURRICULUM SOC-CAP WISDOM PUB-INFO CONCEPTS CMTY-ORGANIZING SUM)

Standards in Public Life (public opinion on gvt in UK)

THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC LIFE SELFLESSNESS Holders of public office should act solely in terms of the public interest. They should not do so in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their family, or their friend... (http://www.public-standards.gov.uk/-2009-08-04 topics: PUB-OP TRUST ETHICS KEY NONPROFIT-COMP GVT-COMP HR)

Harlem Program Singled Out as Model: Obama Administration to Replicate Plan in Other Cities to Boost Poor Children

By Robin Shulman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 2, 2009 NEW YORK -- On a recent Saturday morning in Harlem, a few dozen pregnant women in a parenting class made resolutions for life after the baby's birth. Avoid cursing. Provide he... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/01/AR2009080102297_pf.html-2009-08-04 topics: URB EDUC SOLUTIONS HUM-SRV FS-RSC)

Obama's Great Course Giveaway

By Marc Parry Logan Stark's classmates scramble for courses with professors who top instructor-rating Web sites. But when the California Polytechnic State University student enrolled in a biochemistry class on the San Luis Obispo campus, he didn't ... (http://chronicle.com/article/Obamas-Great-Course-Giveaway/47530/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en-2009-08-04 topics: HIGHER-EDUC JOBS INTERNET TECH PUB-INFO OBAMA-ADMIN)

Job pressures noted in study of nurse turnover

By Joe Carlson Posted: July 27, 2009 - 2:00 pm EDT As more than one-quarter of all new nurse graduates leave their first job out of school within two years, a new study finds that dissatisfaction with “a variety of unexpected situations” they... (http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090727/REG/307279954/-1-2009-08-04 topics: JOBS HLTH-FIN)

Understanding MySQL Appliances and Hardware Acceleration

Believe it or not, there are servers specifically designed to run MySQL — not to mention other hardware that help to accelerate your databases. Here’s a look at what’s out there. Jeremy Zawodny Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 Share This: ... (http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7453/1.html-2009-08-03 topics: NCCS TECH PHP)

Get Smarter: Is Google actually making us smarter?

Pandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels. What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the challenge. But this time we don’t have to rely on natural evolution to make us smart enough to s... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligence -2009-08-03 topics: TECH WISDOM KEY PROGRESS KN-MGT BIG-THINK)

The Elusive Green Economy

SUM["The interplay of technology, policy, and finance has always determined the rate at which clean technologies advance. Today these are aligned for the first time since Jimmy Carter—and more strongly now because the environmental imperative and ... (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/carter-obama-energy -2009-08-03 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING ENER ECON KEY TODO)

Say Everything: The value of blogs

(-2009-08-03 topics: BK INTERNET KN-MGT)

How the Mind Works

(-2009-08-03 topics: BK PSYCH)

Why kids kill

Psychologists' assessment. Three types of kids: * Narcissistic and sadistic * Hallucinations and delusions * Abused and traumatized... (-2009-08-03 topics: VIOLENCE DOMESTIC-NEEDS COMPLEXITY SOC-SCI BK)

Building emotional intelligence (in kids)

(-2009-08-03 topics: PSYCH PARENTING SOLUTIONS BK)

A Self-Help Book for Societies (review by Too Much newsletter, 8/3/09) (NATIONAL INEQUALITY = POOR HEALTH & WELL-BEING)

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. The Penguin Group: Allen Lane, 2009, 331 pp. Huge numbers of people in the United States hold prescriptions for anti-depressants. Huge numbers of... (http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/-2009-08-03 topics: EQUALITY FAIRNESS RICH KEY-A BK FS-RSC ALLIES)

Building a Nonprofit Website on a Shoestring

Filed under: Nonprofit, Politics, Technology — Tags: Communication, Fundraising, marketing, Nonprofit, Social Media, Technology — kgilnack @ 1:09 pm I had the pleasure of being invited to guest post on FrogLoop, an exceptional nonprofit marketi... (http://kgilnack.wordpress.com/-2009-08-03 topics: WEBSITE KEY NONPROFIT-TECH)

Despite a Decade of Controversy, the ‘Faith-Based Initiative’ Endures

By PETER STEINFELS Ten years ago this month, in a campaign speech in Indianapolis, George W. Bush promised to direct $8 billion in federal financing to “armies of compassion” that he believed could combat social ills in ways that government prog... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/us/01beliefs.html?_r=2&sq=faith%20and%20bush&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=print-2009-08-03 topics: NONPROFIT HUM-SRV RELIGION)

PUBLIC OPINION: KEY RESOURCES

* Public Agenda Foundation * Center for American Progress - http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/culture/public_opinion ** http://www.americanprogress.org/experts/TeixeiraRuy.html * Pew Center for People & the Press - http://people-press.org/ * Ga... (-2009-08-02 topics: PUB-OP LIST)

CO-OPERATIVES

Template:Co-operatives - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Co-operatives * by Governance: consumers, workers, and purchasers * by Purpose: Agriculture, housing, utility, banking...food, childcare, insurance * The Statement on the Co-operative Id... (-2009-08-02 topics: CO-OP NONPROFIT KEY POL-PHIL EQUALITY FAIRNESS)

COOPERATION AND EQUALITY

* http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/egalitarian_motives.pdf - Egalitarian motives in humans. Dawes, et al. Nature 2007. Good experimental design. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism - a few useful citations... (-2009-08-02 topics: COOP EQUALITY SOC-PSYCH ALTRUISM)

Giving Circles and Oprah's Angel Network

Angel Network: slick web 2.0 tools and interaction: "Tell us about what you are doing..." "Share with others..." Share Your Story, Invite Your Friends But only 4,000 members, 2,000 O Ambassador Clubs (8/2009) --- Hmong Women's giving circle video: h... (http://oprahsangelnetwork.org/how-to-help/giving-circles-2009-08-02 topics: GIVING SOLUTIONS FS-RSC)

Donors Turn To Giving Circles As Economy Drops

by PAM FESSLER SEE ALSO: http://www.givingforum.org/s_forum/bin.asp?CID=611&DID=25090&DOC=FILE.PDF Editor's Note, June 10, 2009: Since this report aired, the Gather and Give, Let's Eat giving circle decided to give its money to Pathways to Housing D... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104151828-2009-08-02 topics: GIVING SOLUTIONS FS-RSC CMTY)

The Essential Bennis

"Looking over a lifetime of work, I see that certain themes have always fascinated me. Early on, I felt that bureaucracy was doomed and that something flatter and more collegial would triumph. The need for candor and transparency has been a frequent... (-2009-08-01 topics: LD)

Are Credit Unions Superheroes?

SEE ALSO: http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/99/09/9909we.pdf - Credit Unions and the Common Bond By NANCY FOLBRE Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Credit unions always seemed like ... (http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/are-credit-unions-superheroes/-2009-08-01 topics: NONPROFIT-ROLE BANK SOLUTIONS EXEC-COMP TODO)

‘Nice’ Wasn’t Part of the Deal

By JOE NOCERA A few weeks ago, a woman named Judith Kipper asked Lawrence Summers a question that’s been on everyone’s mind — one that helps explain why the country is so angry at the big banks right now. Mr. Summers, the president’s top e... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/business/01nocera.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-08-01 topics: BANK EXEC-COMP FAIRNESS)

Tastier Names Trouble for Seafood Stocks: Former 'Trash Fish' Join the Ranks of Depleted Species

By David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 31, 2009 If the slimehead were still a slimehead, it wouldn't be in this kind of trouble. An arm-long fish with the look of a prehistoric fossil, the slimehead lived in obscurity a... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073002478_pf.html-2009-07-31 topics: ENV OCEAN INTL-NEEDS REG)

Killings This Year Low by Comparison, but Only by Comparison

By Robert McCartney Thursday, July 30, 2009 Once the politicians and police have finished congratulating one another for this year's drop in killings, they should pause and remember Thomas Short, 18. Known as Noodie, Short died Sunday after being ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072903431_pf.html-2009-07-31 topics: DC VIOLENCE DOMESTIC-NEEDS FS-CURRICULUM KEY)

Live and Let Live: Sir Paul McCartney

By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 30, 2009 NEW YORK Paul McCartney likes to get out of the Beatle bubble he's lived in since he was 21 and just be a regular bloke. So he does. No disguises, no bodyguards. Just Paul. Someti... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072903542_pf.html-2009-07-31 topics: GOOD-LIFE MUSIC ARTS RICH)

Grassroots Community Strengthening Initiative: Organizing Communities for the Challenges of the 21st Century

Face it: We are in big trouble. The U.S. faces an array of major challenges both now and into the foreseeable future. Global warming, a jobless economic recovery, persistent poverty at home and abroad, enormous longterm federal budget problems. All... (-2009-07-31 topics: FS-GEN KEY-A IDEAS)

Different Teams, Common Goals: Camaraderie, Competition Unite Area Ethnic Groups on the Soccer Field

By Tara Bahrampour Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 28, 2009 The Uighurs eased their cars into George Mason University's Lot I, as they do most Sundays. They dropped their bags on the edge of a field and pulled on cleats and blue shirts.... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072702787_pf.html-2009-07-31 topics: SOCCER IMMI GOOD-CMTY SPORTS CMTY)

Doctors Reap Benefits By Doing Own Tests

By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 31, 2009 In August 2005, doctors at Urological Associates, a medical practice on the Iowa-Illinois border, ordered nine CT scans for patients covered by Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073004285_pf.html-2009-07-31 topics: HLTH-FIN CORRUPTN JOBS NO-EASY-ANSWERS CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST)

Industry Is Generous To Influential Bloc (BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS AND HEALTH CARE REFORM)

By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 31, 2009 On June 19, Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas made clear that he and a group of other conservative Democrats known as the Blue Dogs were increasingly unhappy with the direction that health-c... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073004267_pf.html-2009-07-31 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG LOBBYING)

Once More, With Feeling!

The Editors, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Credit: Robert Neubecker In the last month, Michael Jackson departed us for the great Neverland in the sky, and Jon dumped Kate for a younger woman. And yet, with perhaps the g... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=dd99df23-ad60-425c-b4f3-e3d8c03d8aa7-2009-07-31 topics: OBAMA HLTH-FIN RHETORIC MORAL-SENSE)

IRS Is Investigating Finances, Pastor of Sterling Church Says

By Michelle Boorstein Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 31, 2009 The pastor of a Sterling church says the IRS is investigating his control of church finances, which include $8.5 million in church real estate and hundreds of thousands of do... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073003799.html?hpid=moreheadlines-2009-07-31 topics: NONPROFIT-REG RELIGION CORRUPTN)

Business Is Brisk for Teacher Training Alternatives

By Michael Alison Chandler Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 31, 2009 The high unemployment rate has provided an unexpected boon for the nation's public schools: legions of career-switchers eager to become teachers. Across the country, in... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073003798_pf.html-2009-07-31 topics: JOBS PUB-SRV VOLUNTEER RECESSION EDUC)

Mind the Gap: What the right wing really thinks about inequality.

Jonathan Chait, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Should we care about economic inequality? That question is the subtext for most debates in American politics. It just remains below the surface because the party that thinks... (http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=ab981331-13e8-40d3-89b7-26406e29af5a-2009-07-31 topics: INEQUALITY MORAL-SENSE REPUBLICANS TODO TO-READ)

Health Care Fight Spotlights Community Organizers

by Pam Fessler July 28, 2009 The Virginia Organizing Project is one of many community organizing groups that hoped to have more clout after the election of President Obama, a former community organizer. The group is finding that it has certainly b... (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111104637&ft=1&f=1003-2009-07-31 topics: OBAMA HLTH-FIN LOBBYING NONPROFIT ADVOCACY FS-CURRICULUM)

Farmer in Chief

By MICHAEL POLLAN Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something American presi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-07-31 topics: COOP SOLUTIONS SACRIFICE AGRICULTURE)

Leaders, Humanitarians and Inseparable Brothers

By Patricia Sullivan Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 31, 2009 Two brothers, Stone Weeks, 24, and Holt Weeks, 20, died July 23 in a multi-vehicle collision on Interstate 81 near Interstate 66 in Warren County, Va., as they were on their w... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073003984.html-2009-07-31 topics: TRAGEDY)

A Look at Who Naps

By SAM ROBERTS Wake up, America! Fully one in three adults admit that on any typical day they take a nap, according to a national survey released Wednesday. The proportion of self-proclaimed nappers was even higher among adults who had trouble sle... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/us/30nap.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-31 topics: MEDICINE PUB-HLTH GOOD-LIFE)

Pursuit of happiness cartoons (NYT)

(http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/can-do/?em-2009-07-31 topics: CREATIVITY GOOD-LIFE HAPPINESS)

White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters

SUM[Studies show that white roofs reduce air-conditioning costs by 20 percent or more in hot, sunny weather. ..What is more, a white roof can cost as little as 15 percent more than its dark counterpart, depending on the materials used, while slashin... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/science/earth/30degrees.html?em-2009-07-31 topics: ENERGY-CONSERV)

The Unchilled Life

sum[Life without air conditioning: Families get closer.] By TERI KARUSH ROGERS TO many Americans, abstaining from air-conditioning is a masochistic folly akin to refusing Novocain or renouncing the dishwasher. Yet as this particular summer finally... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/garden/23air.html?ref=environment-2009-07-31 topics: ENERGY-CONSERV GOOD-LIFE FS-RSC)

Efficiency Drive Could Cut Energy Use 23% by 2020, Study Finds

By KATE GALBRAITH The biggest opportunity to improve the nation’s energy situation is a major investment program to make homes and businesses more efficient, according to a study released Wednesday by the consulting firm McKinsey. An investment o... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/business/energy-environment/30energy.html?ref=environment&pagewanted=print-2009-07-31 topics: ENERGY-CONSERV SOLUTIONS KEY-A FS-RSC)

Californians’ Global Warming Fervor Cools

By FELICITY BARRINGER View Larger Map Californians’ eagerness to battle global warming seems to be cooling a bit: The latest survey on the state’s environmental attitudes, released on Wednesday, showed that 47 percent consider the threat of gl... (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/californians-global-warming-fervor-cools/-2009-07-31 topics: GLOBAL-WARMING PUB-OP)

Success Stories in Energy Efficiency

By KATE GALBRAITH A McKinsey report on energy efficiency in the United States, released today (see related post), cites $1.2 trillion in potential savings by 2020 if the country first invests $520 billion in efficiency improvements like better insul... (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/success-stories-in-energy-efficiency/-2009-07-31 topics: ENERGY-CONSERV)

Homeowners Associations: The Enemy of Solar?

By KATE GALBRAITH Kirk J. Condyles for The New York Times Not all homeowners associations approve of this sort of thing. John Wood, a homeowner in Woodbury, Minn., wanted to put solar panels on his roof. Last month, his homeowners association rejec... (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/homeowners-associationsthe-enemy-of-solar/-2009-07-31 topics: SOLAR-ENERGY NONPROFIT-IDEALS ADVOCACY)

Wise Muddling Through

sum[ Argues that at least one part of the federal government is wisely led.] By DAVID BROOKS Everybody wants to be a striding titan. Almost all alpha-leaders want to be the brilliant visionary in a time of crisis—the one who sees the situation cle... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/opinion/31brooks.html?pagewanted=print-2009-07-31 topics: LD WISDOM KEY POLITICS NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Living in Tents, and by the Rules, Under a Bridge

By DAN BARRY PROVIDENCE, R.I. The chief emerges from his tent to face the leaden morning light. It had been a rare, rough night in his homeless Brigadoon: a boozy brawl, the wielding of a knife taped to a stick. But the community handled it, he sa... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/us/31land.html?em-2009-07-31 topics: HOMELESS GOOD-CMTY)

Health Care Realities

By PAUL KRUGMAN At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.” The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a gov... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/opinion/31krugman.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-31 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

Teacher, Can We Leave Now? No.

by Thomas L. Friedman I confess, I find it hard to come to Afghanistan and not ask: Why are we here? Who cares about the Taliban? Al Qaeda is gone. And if its leaders come back, well, that’s why God created cruise missiles. But every time I star... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19friedman.html?_r=1-2009-07-31 topics: AFGHAN N-DEF F-PLY KEY)

Tax Sugary Sodas to Combat Obesity? Proposal in Current Health Care Bills Could Raise $140 Billion in Revenue; But Beverage Industry Is Pushing Back

By Nancy Cordes SEE ALSO: NYT SEARCH FOR 'OBESITY TAX' Americans consume 250 more calories every day than they did in the 80s. But now there are several proposals for tackling obesity buried in the health care reform bills. Nancy Cordes reports. P... (-2009-07-31 topics: REG PUB-HLTH HLTH-FIN EC-TX FOOD)

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D.C. Council weighs tax credit for volunteer youth mentors

By: Michael Neibauer Examiner Staff Writer January 8, 2009 D.C. residents who volunteer their time to mentor District youth would be in line for a city income tax credit under legislation to be considered by the D.C. Council. Ward 6 Councilman Tom... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/DC_Council_weighs_tax_credit_for_volunteer_youth_mentors.html-2009-07-30 topics: NONPROFIT-YOUTH YOUTH-DEV DC SOLUTIONS EC-TX)

What’s Wrong With a Single-Payer System? ('Talking Between Columns')

By David Brooks and Gail Collins Gail Collins: David, your writing on health care has been incredibly thoughtful, so I’m going to take this opportunity to poke you a little. Then I’ll shut up so you can talk. The other week I said I agreed with... (http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/whats-wrong-with-a-single-payer-system/?pagemode=print-2009-07-30 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-INFO KEY LEGIS)

Nursing Schools Should Warn Students About Grueling Hours, Article Says

By Katherine Mangan Nursing schools should do a better job preparing students for the grueling hours, often unrealistic expectations, and lack of respect that await them when they enter the work force, says an article scheduled for publication today... (http://chronicle.com/article/Nursing-Schools-Should-Warn/47468/-2009-07-29 topics: JOBS HLTH-FIN)

Bob Egger campaign

(HTTP://www.V3campaign.org-2009-07-29 topics: NONPROFIT ADVOCACY ALLIES)

Doctors Oppose Giving Commission Power Over Medicare Payments

By JACOB GOLDSTEIN Proposals from the White House and Congress to give an independent commission significant power over Medicare payments are drawing opposition from the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons. Both group... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124882395288788407.html#printMode-2009-07-29 topics: HLTH-FIN MCR RICH GVT LOBBYING CORRUPTN)

Liberals Fear Losing Public-Plan Option

By LAURA MECKLER and NAFTALI BENDAVID WASHINGTON -- Liberals who see the effort to overhaul health care as a once-in-a-generation opportunity are growing anxious that a final deal -- and a Democratic president they backed -- will negotiate away the... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124882375969988353.html#printMode-2009-07-29 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS NONPROFIT ADVOCACY)

Just a Closer Walk With Thee: Friars Trudge 300 Miles and Find Kindred Souls on the Way

By William Wan Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 29, 2009 They've been mistaken for Jedi-wannabes headed to a Star Wars convention. They've been investigated by police, approached by strangers, gawked at from cars and offered gifts of c... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072803220.html?hpid=artslot-2009-07-29 topics: SACRIFICE RELIGION ALLIES SYMBOLIC-ACTION FS-CURRICULUM RISK FAITH)

Money Woes Stir Debate Over Area's Tax Burdens: D.C. Fears Fee Hikes Could Reinforce Image

By Tim Craig Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 29, 2009 The D.C. Council is struggling to determine whether it can close a $666 million revenue shortfall without raising taxes and fees, reopening a debate about whether District resid... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802925_pf.html-2009-07-29 topics: DC GVT-FIN)

D.C. Council eyes deep cuts to education, human services

By: Michael Neibauer Examiner Staff Writer July 29, 2009 D.C. Council members are likely to protect the city's reserve funds by cutting deep into programs like public education and human services that have long been considered untouchable "sacred c... (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/D_C_-Council-eyes-deep-cuts-to-education_-human-services-8032771-51933097.html-2009-07-29 topics: DC GVT-FIN)

13 Schools In District to Offer Specialty Programs

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 29, 2009 D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, seeking to stanch declining enrollment and the exodus of students to the District's fast-growing charter schools, announced Tuesday t... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072801721_pf.html-2009-07-29 topics: )

Seed School and Foundation

The SEED Foundation is a national nonprofit that partners with urban communities to provide innovative educational opportunities that prepare underserved students for success in college and beyond. The SEED Foundation is a catalyst for change in ur... (http://www.seedfoundation.com/about_seed/index.aspx-2009-07-29 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION CHARTER-SCHOOLS)

DC MENTORING AND TUTORING NEEDS

* Maybelle Bennett, Howard: ** Working with Jumpstart, Americorps - 300 hrs/per child for mentoring - focus on preschoolers; ** Girls Inc opening hq in area with more work on tutoring and mentoring planned * http://www.cyitc.org/ - DC Children an... (-2009-07-29 topics: FS-GEN DC SOLUTIONS)

Volunteer Continuum & Typology

Build, think, act - service learning continuum Volunteer, donate, advocate - continuum of involvement From: Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity staffer (Jill k?) --- http://www.volunteertoday.com/PDF/multiparadigm%20POLF.pdf Nancy McDuff - 4 types of... (http://www.tchabitat.org/Page.aspx?pid=294-2009-07-29 topics: VOLUNTEER ADVOCACY CONCEPTS)

VISTA Community-Building One Pak

VISTA members, in their critical role of capacity builders, are essential to advancing community building endeavors. And you, as their Supervisor, are integral to leading and managing your members so they can get the most out of their service year, ... (http://vistacampus.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=273-2009-07-29 topics: VOLUNTEER FS-CURRICULUM TODO KEY-A)

Poll Shows Obama’s Clout on Health Care Is Eroding

sum[ "Overall, the poll portrays a nation torn by conflicting impulses — and confusion. In one finding, 75 percent of respondents said they were concerned that the cost of their own health care cost would go up if the government did not create a ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/us/politics/30poll.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-29 topics: HLTH-FIN OBAMA PUB-OP)

In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable

SUM[ I'd been wanting to find an article on leadership and intuition for you so you will better understand how I make decisions. (I can't always provide a full explanation for why I pick a particular course of action, but subtle clues must be weighe... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/health/research/28brain.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-29 topics: COG-SCI INTUITION LD)

Leggett Proposal Would Keep Links Open Another Year

sum[ MSI wanted space for soccer fields!] By Miranda S. Spivack Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 30, 2009 Sligo Creek Golf Course, the nine-hole Silver Spring course beloved by many women, seniors and minority golfers, would remain open... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072902439_pf.html-2009-07-29 topics: SPORTS POLITICS MGY-CO NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

House Seems To Be Set on Pork-Padded Defense Bill

By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 30, 2009 The Democratic-controlled House is poised to give the Pentagon dozens of new ships, planes, helicopters and armored vehicles that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says the m... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072902676_pf.html-2009-07-29 topics: CONG CORRUPTN FED-BGT KEY)

The Senate's Bad Deal

By Harold Meyerson Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Congress, it's now clear, is crafting two quite different kinds of health-care reform. And the day that President Obama has to choose between them grows near. Three committees have reported out bills pl... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802115_pf.html-2009-07-29 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG)

Nearly 10 percent of health spending for obesity

By LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press Monday, July 27, 2009 4:23 PM WASHINGTON -- Obesity's not just dangerous, it's expensive. New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who's normal we... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072701657_pf.html-2009-07-28 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY-A PUB-HLTH SOLUTIONS FS-CURRICULUM)

A Case of Getting What You Pay For: With Heart Attack Treatments, as Quality Rises, So Does Cost

By David Brown Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 26, 2009 Two decades ago, a famous clinical experiment showed that if a patient in the throes of a heart attack chewed and swallowed an aspirin tablet, the risk of dying fell from 13.2 perce... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/25/AR2009072502381_pf.html-2009-07-28 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY NO-EASY-ANSWERS FS-CURRICULUM)

The Health-Care Sacrifice: What President Obama needs to tell the public about the cost of reform

Sunday, July 26, 2009 PRESIDENT OBAMA sometimes presents health-care reform as a pain-free proposition, as simple as choosing the red pill over the blue -- one that's no more effective but costs twice as much. Asked at his news conference whether ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/25/AR2009072501949_pf.html-2009-07-28 topics: HLTH-FIN SACRIFICE HONESTY OBAMA)

The Ghosts of Clintoncare

By Ezra Klein Sunday, July 26, 2009 Barack Obama's strategy to pass health-care reform seems based on a simple principle: Whatever Bill Clinton did, do the opposite. Where Clinton and his team crafted their health-care reform plan in the executiv... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/24/AR2009072401876_pf.html-2009-07-28 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

S.C. Senator Is a Voice Of Reform Opposition: DeMint a Champion Of Conservatives

By Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 28, 2009 WEST COLUMBIA, S.C., July 27 -- On the second floor of the Lexington Medical Center here, Burrell Best, 37, an electrical engineer, and his wife celebrated the birth of their sec... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072703066_pf.html-2009-07-28 topics: HLTH-FIN CONSERVATIVE)

Health Care for the Blue Dogs

By Jacob S. Hacker sum[ Good case for public plan.] Tuesday, July 28, 2009 The fate of health-care reform hangs on what President Obama and leading Democrats do in the next few weeks. In particular, it hinges on an effective response to moderate D... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072701906_pf.html-2009-07-28 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

Taming the Cost Drivers: Some Suggestions

Sunday, July 26, 2009 The Washington Post's online panel Health Care Rx provides a forum for experts to offer real-world insights into how to improve health care. Last week, panelists were asked to address the question, "The Blue Dog coalition wor... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/25/AR2009072502379_pf.html-2009-07-28 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

AnswersTV

Model for "WisdomTV"; comes up at top of Washington Post search results for health care.... (http://www.answerstv.com/AnswersTV/index.aspx-2009-07-28 topics: VIDEO INTERNET KEY-A WISDOM)

What percentage of people will act against material self-interest to engage in altruism or other acts, even if they know nobody is watching?

* The nature of human altruism, Ernst Fehr & Urs Fischbacher - Nature 2003 * http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/how-pure-is-your-altruism/ * “Media Coverage and Charitable Giving After the 2004 Tsunami,” by Philip H. Brown and Jess... (-2009-07-28 topics: ALTRUISM GIVING INTL-DEV)

Altruism, the Global Interest, and the National Interest

http://www.americans-world.org/ - a project of http://www.worldpublicopinion.org - U.Md. http://pewglobal.org/ - Pew Global Attitudes Project A large majority of Americans feel that US foreign policy should at times serve altruistic purposes indepe... (http://www.americans-world.org/digest/overview/us_role/nat_interest.cfm-2009-07-28 topics: PUB-OP F-PLY KEY ALTRUISM GIVING INTL-DEV)

State of American Political Ideology, 2009: A National Study of Values and Beliefs

sum[ 80% agree that Americans should adopt a more sustainable lifestyle by conserving energy and consuming less. Only 7% disagree. This has higher support than any of the other "40 ideas that shape American idealogy." p.10] see also: http://www.thed... (http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/political_ideology.html-2009-07-28 topics: PUB-OP KEY-A ENERGY-CONSERV CONSUMER FS-GEN FS-CURRICULUM)

What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (Paperback)

by Jennifer L. Hochschild --- p.21b - 28 intensive, qualitative and unstructured interviews for "complex and slippery topics" permit "textured, idiosyncratic responses"...the researcher must be wary of channeling interviewees responses into own pr... (http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0674950860/ref=ed_oe_h_olp-2009-07-28 topics: PUB-OP COMPENSATION POL-PHIL KEY FAIRNESS TODO SOC-SCI METHODOLOGY)

Charity Aimed at Change: An idea for solving ‘100 million dollar problems.’

OPINION JULY 27, 2009 By William A. Schambra It is often noted that, after billions of dollars in ­government spending over the past several ­decades, we have seen precious little progress in solving American’s major social problems, from famil... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203609204574314580689861174.html#printMode-2009-07-28 topics: NONPROFIT CONSERVATIVE SOLUTIONS NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

High performing organizations: Metrics, means and mechanisms for achieving high perf. in the 21st Century Public Mgt Enviro.

GAO, 2004 (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04343sp.pdf-2009-07-28 topics: GVT-MGT OUTCOME-MEAS)

In New Jersey, Ideal Conditions for Corruption

SUM[ Culture, but more important 500 small jurisdictions that pay tiny salaries to elected officials and attract the relatively uneducated. Even the idealistic succumb to the temptation.] By MICHAEL BARBARO Cash in an envelope. In return, a promise... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/nyregion/27jersey.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-27 topics: POLITICS CORRUPTN HUM-NAT)

Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future

sum[ Officials probably selling educ. records of good students to poorer ones, ruining prospects for good ones.] By SHARON LaFRANIERE WUBU, China — For much of his education, Xue Longlong was silently accompanied from grade to grade, school to sch... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/world/asia/27china.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-27 topics: CHINA EDUC CORRUPTN FAIRNESS)

Obama's Cairo speech to Muslim World: On a new beginning

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/ REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON A NEW BEGINNING Cairo University Cairo, Egypt 1:10 P.M. (Local) PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very much. Good afternoon... (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/newbeginning/transcripts/-2009-07-27 topics: OBAMA RHETORIC MUSLIM)

As Charter Schools Unionize, Many Debate Effect

By SAM DILLON CHICAGO — Dissatisfied with long hours, churning turnover and, in some cases, lower pay than instructors at other public schools, an increasing number of teachers at charter schools are unionizing. Labor organizing that began two y... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/education/27charter.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-27 topics: EDUC CHARTER-SCHOOLS NONPROFIT HR UNIONS NONPROFIT-COMP)

An Incoherent Truth

SUM[ Blue Dog Democrats' incoherent perspective on health care reform: Keep revenue neutral but ax the employer mandate. Billy Tauzin: From Dem to Repub. to "lavishly paid president of PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry lobby."] By PAUL KRUGMAN Righ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/opinion/27krugman.html?pagewanted=print-2009-07-27 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG GVT-COMP SACRIFICE EXEC-COMP KEY)

Team Haupt Bone Marrow Donor Drive (DKMS.org)

It was only this past March that Jonathan was diagnosed with acute leukemia. None of us can fully wrap our heads around the events of the past few months, but perhaps the best way to begin is to share with you how all of this craziness unfolded. On ... (http://teamhaupt.org/marrow-drives/-2009-07-27 topics: VOLUNTEER MEDICINE)

What newly licensed registered nurses have to say about their first experiences

Linda Honan Pellico, PhD, APRN, Carol S. Brewer, RN, PhD, Christine Tassone Kovner, RN, PhD, FAAN To understand factors that promote retention of Newly Licensed Registered Nurses (NLRNs) and those that contribute to turnover, a survey of a national... (http://www.nursingoutlook.org/article/S0029-6554(08)00268-6/abstract-2009-07-27 topics: JOBS)

Seeking The Good Community

SEE ALSO: Good bibliography at end Ohio State University Fact Sheet Community Development 700 Ackerman Road, Suite 235, Columbus, OH 43202-1578 L-703 Introduction Did you ever stop to think about what makes your community a good place to live? On t... (http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-fact/l703.html-2009-07-27 topics: GOOD-CMTY BK)

In Praise of Partisanship

By David Brooks and Gail Collins sum[Brooks: "Second, I’ve come to think that mentality is more important than ideology when judging a politician. The people on that list have styles that somehow appeal. Third, there is the repulsive force of tea... (http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/in-praise-of-partisanship/?pagemode=print-2009-07-27 topics: LD KEY DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS POL-PHIL DEMOCRACY)

Everyday Democracy; Song of a Citizen videos

* http://www.everyday-democracy.org/en/NewsArticles.aspx - Formerly Study Circles * http://www.everyday-democracy.org//en/Article.944.aspx - "Not Kumbaya moment" - Jeffrey Abelson. It's part of his "Song Of Citizen" project - exec. dir. of org. Mar... (-2009-07-27 topics: ALLIES DIALOGUE DEMOCRACY FS-GEN FS-VIDEO KEY-A)

RESOURCE SHARING WEBSITES

* http://hyperlocavore.ning.com - Yardsharing community, "because everyone loves a homegrown tomato." Intro video * http://www.davezillion.com/ - Find trusted friends and neighbors to accomplish tasks for free. Only 398 "complete projects." ** Find ... (-2009-07-26 topics: COOP SHARING WEBSITE LIST WEB2.0)

Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

sum[ The "singularity," when computers' intelligence exceeds man, almost here. Huge dangers of used for nefarious purposes: mining iPhone data, pretending to be a human on a phone call...Job losses when robots start driving cars, serving as personal... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-07-26 topics: JOBS BIG-THINK CPTR COG-SCI DOMESTIC-NEEDS TECH)

THE CAPITALIST;God Is in the Packaging

By Michael Lewis A FEW YEARS AGO, the Harvard Business School gave its blessing to the Willow Creek Community Church. In a distinctly flattering case study, the school sought to explain why this particular interdenominational evangelical church was... (http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/21/magazine/the-capitalist-god-is-in-the-packaging.html-2009-07-26 topics: RELIGION NONPROFIT MARKETING)

Opening Doors on the Way to a Personal Robot

By JOHN MARKOFF Consider it one small step — or a roll, actually — for a robot, one not giant, but significant step for robotics. Willow Garage, a Silicon Valley robotics research group, said that its experimental PR2 robot, which has wheels a... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/science/09robot.html?pagewanted=print-2009-07-26 topics: BIG-THINK JOBS TECH)

What Is a ‘Just’ Physician’s Income?

By UWE E. REINHARDT SUM[ “just price doctrine,” of Adam Smith: We trust our health to the physician: our fortune and sometimes our life and reputation to the lawyer and attorney. Such confidence could not safely be reposed in people of a very me... (http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/what-is-a-just-physician-income/-2009-07-26 topics: COMPENSATION ALLIES TODO FS-CURRICULUM KEY-A HLTH-FIN POL-PHIL ECON)

How to estimate wage changes

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/the-minimum-wage-and-senators-salaries-throughout-history/ http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpirsdc.htm CPI Research Series Using Current Methods (CPI-U-RS) For assistance on how to read PDF files. "CPI research... (-2009-07-26 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP JOBS KEY POV NCCS NCCS-STATS STATS)

Why the doctor can't see you now

Last updated November 21, 2008 2:42 p.m. PT --- see note at http://newstrust.net/stories/31473: Review by Patricia Blochowiak (19 answers) - Nov. 24, 2008 Note While there is much to be said for this story, it would be much stronger if it differe... (http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/388903_smiley23.html (seattle post-Intelligencer)-2009-07-26 topics: HLTH-FIN JOBS COMPENSATION)

ORGANIZING KNOWLEDGE

* http://denham.typepad.com/km/2003/10/organizing_know.html * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizing_Knowledge_Cognitively People store knowledge in many different ways. The main storage types are: Concepts, Schemas and Scripts, and Personal Theori... (-2009-07-26 topics: KN-MGT PUB-INFO)

MAYTAG SOAP RELEASE LATCH STUCK

* ggl: maytag soap release latch stuck shut jetclean dishwasher quiet plus mdb6100aww == MAINTENANCE == * http://www.home-wizard.com/maintenance/dishwasher.asp * http://shared.whirlpoolcorp.com/assets/pdfs/literature/6_915720.pdf... (-2009-07-26 topics: HOME)

America's Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs: Education and Training Requirements in the Next Decade and Beyond

Harry Holzer, Robert I. Lerman SEE ALSO: middle-skill jobs GGL Publication Date: November 01, 2007 Other Availability: PDF | Printer-friendly summary Permanent Link: http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=411633 This paper, written for the Workforce Allian... (http://www.urban.org/publications/411633.html-2009-07-25 topics: JOBS KEY)

As Officers Face Heated Words, Their Tactics Vary

By MICHAEL WILSON and SOLOMON MOORE Police departments issue their officers Kevlar vests to stop bullets, and thick helmets and even shields to protect them from bottles and bricks. But there is nothing in the equipment room to give an officer thic... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/25cop.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-07-25 topics: BLCK CRIME COMMUNICATIONS SOC-PSYCH KEY TOLERANCE)

Obama Shifts Tone on Gates After Mulling Debate

By PETER BAKER and HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON — President Obama tried Friday to defuse a volatile national debate over the arrest of a black Harvard University professor as he acknowledged that his own comments had inflamed tensions and insisted he... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/politics/25gates.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-07-25 topics: OBAMA BLCK NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Hospital Savings: Salaries for Doctors, Not Fees

By GARDINER HARRIS COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Visiting the Cleveland Clinic this week, President Obama held up that well-known hospital as a model for the rest of the country. But for most of the nation’s nearly 6,000 hospitals, copying the Cleveland ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/health/policy/25doctors.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print-2009-07-25 topics: HLTH-FIN HOSP NONPROFIT-IDEALS)

Zoning Changes For Cash

Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 6:34am EDT Developers in D.C. are fast becoming aware of a new cost of doing business in the city, and the fact that it's a largely unregulated cost probably comes as no consolation. Under community benefit agreements, or ame... (http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/breaking_ground/2009/07/zoning_changes_for_cash.html?t=printable-2009-07-24 topics: DC URB CMTY-DEV CORRUPTN NO-EASY-ANSWERS KEY)

A $4 Billion Push for Better Schools: Obama Hopes Funding Will Be Powerful Incentive in 'Race to the Top'

By Michael D. Shear and Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, July 24, 2009 President Obama is leaning hard on the nation's schools, using the promise of more than $4 billion in federal aid -- and the threat of withholding it -- to s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/23/AR2009072303881_pf.html-2009-07-24 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN LEGIS CHARTER-SCHOOLS PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE OUTCOME-MEAS HR EDUC)

Hope Builds for the Economy As Positive Reports Pile Up

By Neil Irwin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 24, 2009 Companies that a few months ago were too fearful even to project their future earnings are now seeing glimmers of hope in the year ahead. The rate of home sales has risen for three s... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/23/AR2009072301609.html?hpid=moreheadlines-2009-07-24 topics: RECESSION ECON)

Jobless Checks for Millions Delayed as States Struggle

By JASON DePARLE WASHINGTON — Years of state and federal neglect have hobbled the nation’s unemployment system just as a brutal recession has doubled the number of jobless Americans seeking aid. In a program that values timeliness above all el... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/us/24unemploy.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-24 topics: GVT-FIN RECESSION POV UNEMPLOYMENT)

When, Oh When, Will HELP Be WANTED?

By LOUIS UCHITELLE see also: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/beware-the-bounce/?scp=2&sq=jobless%20recovery&st=cse, "jobless recovery" The nation’s economists are cautiously crawling out of their bunkers. The guns of recession are quie... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/weekinreview/19uchitelle.html?sq=jobless%20recovery&st=cse&scp=5&pagewanted=print-2009-07-24 topics: ECON UNEMPLOYMENT RECESSION)

Our Silent Education Emergency

see also: "middle-skill jobs" ggl By E.J. Dionne Jr. Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:27 PM It's the silent education crisis, the one we don't talk about much because its existence undermines the story we like to tell about our country. The problems we... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071502751_pf.html-2009-07-24 topics: EDUC KEY-A JOBS ECON)

Better Together: Restoring the American Community

Telling a handful of stories. * Bridging and bonding social capital 3. "Bonding c is a kind of sociological Super Glue, whereas bridging capital provides a sociological WD-40 [lubricant]." * Community building isn't free of conflict and controversy:... (-2009-07-24 topics: SOC-CAP FS-GEN)

Seeing is Believing: Promising Practices for How School Districts Promote Family Engagement

http://www.hfrp.org/family-involvement/publications-resources/seeing-is-believing-promising-practices-for-how-school-districts-promote-family-engagement Helen Westmoreland, Heidi M. Rosenberg, M. Elena Lopez, Heather Weiss see also: http://www.hf... (http://www.hfrp.org/family-involvement/publications-resources-2009-07-24 topics: EDUC SOLUTIONS YOUTH-DEV)

Why Richard Florida's honeymoon is over

RICHARD LAUTENS/TORONTO STAR Richard Florida in his office at U of T’s Rotman School of Management, June 24, 2009. The urban guru arrived two years ago as the toast of the town. Today, his critics argue he is a glib salesman and elitist. How di... (http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/656837-2009-07-24 topics: ARTS CMTY-DEV NONPROFIT)

Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds

Microsoft has released code for inclusion in the Linux kernel, but should it be accepted? Linus Torvalds gives his perspective. Christopher Smart Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Community Tools Recommend This [?] (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Use... (http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html-2009-07-23 topics: OPEN-SOURCE CPTR-BUS KEY NONPROFIT-FORPROFIT)

On the Path to a Confrontation: City's Moves Toward Requiring Sidewalks Split Neighborhood

By Yamiche Alcindor Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 23, 2009 Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's plan to install 200 miles of paved walkways throughout the District has provoked what residents of one neighborhood are calling a "sidewalk war." ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/22/AR2009072201476_pf.html-2009-07-23 topics: URB CMTY NO-EASY-ANSWERS FS-CURRICULUM)

Greg Little's Thank you note

It's not every day, nor every summer for that matter, that you have the opportunity to surround yourself with people that genuinely care about everybody and every day. (Your selflessness and willingness to get your hands dirty will be rewarded in th... (-2009-07-23 topics: FS-GEN KEY-A)

Creativity

 This psychologist found that among his 90 subjects, an astonishing 30 percent of men and 20 percent of women had lost their fathers before they turned thirteen. (Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity, p.167)  Almost all idolized their lost fathers. He des... (-2009-07-22 topics: PSYCH)

Online -- and in the Loop -- With D.C. Police

By Theola Labbé-DeBose Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Kent Boese was watching television in his Northwest Washington home when he heard a series of popping sounds. So he did what has become natural to thousands of D.C. re... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/21/AR2009072103324_pf.html-2009-07-22 topics: CMTY TECH CRIME COOP FS-GEN)

Red Cross Has Cut Deficit, Met Fundraising Goals, Official Says

By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 22, 2009 The president of the American Red Cross said Tuesday that over the past year, the organization has been able to dramatically cut its deficit and exceed fundraising goals, desp... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/21/AR2009072102037_pf.html-2009-07-22 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION)

Utopia at a Discount: Housing Bust Puts Disney-Designed Suburb Within Reach

By Theresa Vargas Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 21, 2009 CELEBRATION, Fla. -- Half a Tank is a summer-long quest to find the stories of lives altered by a flattened economy. Reporter Theresa Vargas and photographer Michael Williamso... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072003342_pf.html-2009-07-22 topics: GOOD-CMTY RECESSION)

A Defining Moment Nears for President

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON — Six months into his administration, President Obama is at a pivotal moment. He has pushed through a $787 billion economic stimulus package, bailed out Wall Street and, on Tuesday, managed to beat the defense ind... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/us/politics/22obama.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print-2009-07-22 topics: HLTH-FIN OBAMA INTUITION NO-EASY-ANSWERS)

Nonprofits Revisit Budgets as Earmark Cuts Loom

By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 21, 2009 For some D.C. nonprofit agencies, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's recent proposal to sharply cut earmarks was more bad news in a troubled economy -- the sudden reduction of grants they ha... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072002994_pf.html-2009-07-22 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN NONPROFIT-GVT KEY DC GVT-FIN)

O'Malley Pitches $281.5 Million in Md. Cuts, Shifts: Aid for Public Universities on List of Trims

By John Wagner Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Tuesday proposed cutting aid to public universities, rolling back rates paid to nursing homes and community care providers and cutting advertis... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/21/AR2009072102346_pf.html-2009-07-22 topics: GVT-FIN MD RECESSION HR GOOD-MGT)

'Benefits Go Beyond Sports': Autistic Children Find an Outlet In Swimming

By Bill Oram Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 22, 2009 When Justin Etherton reached the end of the pool, he didn't execute a flip turn like the other boys in his 14-and-under 50-meter freestyle race. Instead, he lifted his body from... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/21/AR2009072101560_pf.html-2009-07-22 topics: CMTY NONPROFIT SPORTS SOLUTIONS MD)

Measure to Expand Gun Rights Falls Short in Senate

sum[ 60 vote requirement helps liberals on gun control] By BERNIE BECKER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday turned aside the latest attempt by gun advocates to expand the rights of gun owners, narrowly voting down a provi... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/us/politics/23guns.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-22 topics: CONG)

Ticket Sales, Business Models & Community - Five Ideas To Build Community

I was a bit surprised by some of the reaction to my last post on the unsustainability of the ticket sales model in the Attention Economy. Boil down my argument and it's essentially this: products used to compete primarily with other products in thei... (http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical/2009/07/of-ticket-sales-business-model.html-2009-07-22 topics: ARTS CMTY)

Obama Nominates Nonprofit Health Care Provider for Surgeon General: Not all Nonprofit Health Care is Alike

SEE ALSO: http://www.bayouclinic.org/default.aspx?id=21 President Obama's Surgeon General nominee, Dr. Regina Benjamin (shown above) is probably much more a representative figure for what tax exempt nonprofit health care should be than are the large... (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit/2009/07/obama-nominates-nonprofit-health-care-provider-for-surgeon-general-not-all-nonprofit-health-care-is-2009-07-21 topics: NONPROFIT-COMP LD HLTH-FIN OBAMA-ADMIN)

PHP ver. 6

(http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7433/1.html-2009-07-21 topics: PHP PROGRAMMING)

Government performance management

* http://www.expectMore.gov (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/summary/10001055.2003.html-2009-07-20 topics: OUTCOME-MEAS PUB-INFO GVT-MGT NCCS)

Work of Peter Dobkin Hall

* http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~phall/ - Bibliography and links * http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~phall/ - Peter Dobkin Hall... (-2009-07-19 topics: CIV-SOC FS-CURRICULUM KEY TODO READING CIVIC-ENGAGEMENT NONPROFIT-HIST)

His Maternal Instinct

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF KARACHI, Pakistan She is an illiterate woman from the tribal areas of Pakistan who almost died in childbirth a year after marrying at the age of 12. She suffered a horrific injury during labor called a fistula that left her ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19kristof.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-07-19 topics: INTL-NEEDS LD INDIV-BEHAVIOR PAKISTAN PUB-HLTH)

Obama's Plan Isn't the Answer

By Martin Feldstein Tuesday, July 28, 2009 For the 85 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, the Obama health plan is bad news. It means higher taxes, less health care and no protection if they lose their current insurance because... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072701905_pf.html-2009-07-19 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

Why We Must Ration Health Care

By PETER SINGER You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-19 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

What's Next, Mr. President -- Cardigans?

By Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie Sunday, July 19, 2009 Barely six months into his presidency, Barack Obama seems to be driving south into that political speed trap known as Carter Country: a sad-sack landscape in which every major initiative meets... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/17/AR2009071702093_pf.html-2009-07-19 topics: OBAMA CONSERVATIVE)

The Cost of Taxing Health Benefits

By James Klein and John Sweeney Monday, July 20, 2009 Congressional discussions over how to pay for health-care reform are being hindered by several myths that obscure the value of the employer-sponsored health plans covering more than 160 million... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901761_pf.html-2009-07-19 topics: HLTH-FIN EC-TX UNIONS)

Why Obama Likes His Odds

By E.J. Dionne Jr. Monday, July 20, 2009 It was not the soaring rhetoric that is Barack Obama's signature, but he recently offered the sound bite that may define his presidency: "Don't bet against us." There are reasons to believe that his confid... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901758_pf.html-2009-07-19 topics: OBAMA PUB-OP CONG)

The Squandered Stimulus

sum[ "Already, 28 states have increased taxes and 40 have reduced spending, reports the Office of Management and Budget."] By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, July 20, 2009 It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed "economic stimulus" hasn't done mu... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901762_pf.html-2009-07-19 topics: OBAMA FED-BGT RECESSION GVT-FIN)

The DRY principle - Dont Repeat Yourself

Context: Duplication (inadvertent or purposeful duplication) can lead to maintenance nightmares, poor factoring, and logical contradictions. Duplication, and the strong possibility of eventual contradiction, can arise anywhere: in architecture, req... (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DontRepeatYourself-2009-07-18 topics: KN-MGT)

Resources on Crime Prevention

Neighborhood Watch - MPD: http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1242,q,560689,mpdcNav_GID,1523,mpdcNav,|.asp http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/frames.asp?doc=/mpdc/lib/mpdc/info/comm/neighborhoodwatch/nw_manual_06.pdf MPD-USAO Community Resource Guide: http://m... (-2009-07-17 topics: FS-RSC)

Testing Tactics Helped Fuel D.C. School Gains: Tutoring, Eligibility Review Had Roles

sum[ "At the middle and high school levels, reading proficiency grew from 39 percent to 41 percent; math, from 36 percent to 40 percent. " Only around half of elementary students were proficient.] By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604177_pf.html-2009-07-17 topics: DC EDUC CMTY-NEEDS FS-GEN)

Fenty Alters Proposal To Close Budget Gap: Reserve, Stimulus Funds Would Be Used

By Nikita Stewart Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 17, 2009 D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty will propose dipping into the city's contingency cash reserves and leaning on federal stimulus money to help close what is now a $666 million revenu... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071602787_pf.html-2009-07-17 topics: DC GVT-FIN RECESSION)

Charter Schools Gain in Stimulus Scramble: Cash-Strapped States, Districts Signal Expansion of Public-Education Alternative Despite Some Teachers' St

Charter Schools Gain in Stimulus Scramble: Cash-Strapped States, Districts Signal Expansion of Public-Education Alternative Despite Some Teachers' Strong Opposition By ROB TOMSHO Some cash-strapped states and school districts are signaling a major ... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124778613357254605.html#printMode-2009-07-17 topics: CHARTER-SCHOOLS NONPROFIT RECESSION FED-BGT)

VOLUNTEER PROMOTION, 2009

* http://www.liveunited.org/publicpolicy/ * Serve America * http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=510... (-2009-07-17 topics: VOLUNTEER FS-GEN LIST)

Where the Payoffs Are Big, So Are the Paychecks

By Steven Pearlstein Friday, July 17, 2009 The rest of the country may be stuck in a nasty recession, but on Wall Street, where it all began, business is booming. This week, Goldman Sachs reported a record profit for the latest quarter while ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604161_pf.html-2009-07-17 topics: EXEC-COMP)

Recession Lesson: Share and Swap Replaces Grab and Buy

By Nancy Trejos Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 17, 2009 The recession is reminding Americans of a lesson they first learned in childhood: Share and share alike. They are sharing or swapping tools and books, cars and handbags, time and... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604201.html-2009-07-17 topics: COOP CMTY WEB2.0 FS-RSC KEY-A TODO)

Gates Sharpens Rhetoric In Dispute on F-22 Funds: Secretary Pushes to Terminate Program

SUM[ Congress refuses to do what both Bush and Obama admininstrations recommended. Too much porkbarrel spending...] By Greg Jaffe Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 17, 2009 CHICAGO, July 16 -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates made an impa... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071603872_pf.html-2009-07-17 topics: CONG POLITICAL-WILL CORRUPTN N-DEF)

Tight times shut Family Services of Mid-South: Institution founded in 1893 to close; United Way rescues crisis hot line

By Michael Lollar Wednesday, July 15, 2009 It began in 1893 and survived the Great Depression, but the 115-year-old Family Services of the Mid-South is shutting down this summer as a victim of ongoing financial problems. "It's the economy," sa... (http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/jul/15/tight-times-shut-family-02/?printer=1/-2009-07-16 topics: HUM-SRV NONPROFIT-FIN RECESSION)

D.C. Misses Payment to 60 Charter Schools: Staffs' Checks May Be Delayed as City Turns to Reserves

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 16, 2009 The District missed a $103 million payment due to its 60 charter schools yesterday, meaning a payless Friday for some teachers and other cash flow troubles for many of the publi... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071502301_pf.html-2009-07-16 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN ENDOWMENTS DC NONPROFIT-GVT RECESSION)

Charter Schools Make Gains On Tests: Headway by Poor Children Linked To Rigorous Methods, Ample Funds

SUM["But enrollment has continued to shrink, falling 42 percent since 1996. The growth of charters has accounted for almost all of that decline. The city's charter system is now one of the largest in the country, fueled largely by word of mouth am... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/14/AR2008121402654_pf.html-2009-07-16 topics: EDUC DC NONPROFIT-ROLE CHARTER-SCHOOLS)

CBO Chief Criticizes Democrats' Health Reform Measures: Director Says Proposed Changes Would Weaken Economy

By Lori Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:51 PM Instead of saving the federal government from fiscal catastrophe, the health reform measures being drafted by congressional Democrats would worsen an already bleak b... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071602242_pf.html-2009-07-16 topics: HLTH-FIN CONG OBAMA POLITICAL-WILL)

Players Wish Acta Had Been More Stern

By Chico Harlan Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 15, 2009 One day before the Washington Nationals opened their season in Florida, Manny Acta called a late-afternoon state-of-the-team meeting with his players. Twenty-four players showed... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071403235_pf.html-2009-07-15 topics: SPORTS LD)

A (Warning) Shot in the Dark

By Thomas Boswell Tuesday, July 14, 2009 ST. LOUIS In '06, Ryan Zimmerman's manager was Frank Robinson. They adored each other. They just didn't know it. Neither realized that the other was gushing praise. Zimmerman, then 21, had a season he stil... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071301461_pf.html-2009-07-15 topics: SPORTS LD)

Part-Time Workers Mask Unemployment Woes

By DAVID LEONHARDT In California and a handful of other states, one out of every five people who would like to be working full time is not now doing so. It is a startling sign of the pain that the Great Recession is inflicting, and it is largely m... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/business/economy/15leonhardt.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: ECON JOBS RECESSION)

With Help, Conductor and Wife Ended Lives

By JOHN F. BURNS LONDON — The controversy over the ethical and legal issues surrounding assisted suicide for the terminally ill was thrown into stark relief on Tuesday with the announcement that one of Britain’s most distinguished orchestra con... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/world/europe/15britain.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: SUICIDE MARRIAGE GOOD-LIFE)

Sotomayor Leaves Passion Behind in Her Testimony

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON — During her enforced silence, Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been portrayed as a woman of passion. Her speeches, endlessly dissected in the weeks since President Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court, reveal a fie... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/us/politics/15judge.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: LD CHARACTER S-CT)

Afghan War’s Buried Bombs Put Risk in Every Step

By JAMES DAO FORWARD OPERATING BASE ALTIMUR, Afghanistan — The call came just after dinner: a pickup truck carrying Afghan national police officers had hit a buried bomb, and all five officers inside were dead. When First Lt. James Brown and his... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/world/asia/15ied.html?hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: AFGHAN NO-EASY-ANSWERS LD)

The Way We Live Now (SOTOMAYOR)

By DAVID BROOKS The senators at the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings on Monday told the story that public officials are expected to tell on these occasions. It is the civil rights story — about a young minority woman from humble circumstances... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/opinion/14brooks.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: CHARACTER LD GOOD-LIFE MARRIAGE)

In Azerbaijan, a Donkey Suit Provokes Laughs and, Possibly, Arrests

By ELLEN BARRY MOSCOW — Late last month, a group of Azeri bloggers posted their latest tongue-in-cheek opus, a video in which a donkey holds a news conference before a circle of gravely nodding journalists. Dressed in a voluminous gray costume, ... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/world/asia/15azerbaijan.html?hp-2009-07-15 topics: HUMAN-RIGHTS ASIA)

Nancy Drew, Supreme: What a Girl Detective Helped Teach a Judge

By Kathleen Parker Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Doubtless thousands of other women's ears perked up when Sen. Charles Schumer, introducing Sonia Sotomayor at Monday's confirmation hearing, mentioned the Latina jurist's girlhood affection for Nancy Dre... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071402892_pf.html-2009-07-15 topics: CHARACTER FICTION PARENTING)

Saving a Drowning Girl

FAITH IN ACTION By Katherine Marshall As the G8 meeting took place in Italy last week, three different voices spoke up on the same subject: the wide gap between promises made to address poverty and the realities on the ground. It's worth pausing t... (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/2009/07/saving_a_drowning_girl.html?hpid=talkbox1-2009-07-15 topics: LD ALLIES KEY FS-RSC)

Obama's Scientific Peacemaker

By Michael Gerson Wednesday, July 15, 2009 According to one survey, just 7 percent of elite American scientists believe in a personal god -- the kind to whom you pray. About 8 percent, however, affirm their belief in personal immortality -- indica... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071402890_pf.html-2009-07-15 topics: OBAMA RELIGION SCIENCE)

Whiz Kids, Wall Street Division

By Harold Meyerson Wednesday, July 15, 2009 The death of Robert McNamara has confronted the architects of another massive national catastrophe with a challenge: Will they, like McNamara in his post-Vietnam agony, acknowledge their failings and con... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071402893_pf.html-2009-07-15 topics: CHARACTER POOR-LD HUBRIS)

A 9-1-1 for Health-Care Reform: Send Leadership Now

By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, July 15, 2009 There are moments in the life of any important policy debate when things hit a dead end. There aren't any easy answers, any options that don't involve real political risk. And it's at those moments whe... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071403593_pf.html-2009-07-15 topics: UNIONS HLTH-FIN DEMOCRATS POOR-LD OBAMA POLITICAL-WILL)

Health-Care Plan Would Add Surtax On Wealthy: House Democrats Propose to Expand Insurance Coverage

By Lori Montgomery and Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, July 15, 2009 House Democrats announced a plan yesterday that would force the richest 2 million U.S. taxpayers to shoulder much of the cost of an expansion of the nation... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/14/AR2009071403709_pf.html-2009-07-15 topics: HLTH-FIN RICH EC-TX)

Higher Taxes, Anyone?

By George F. Will Sunday, July 12, 2009 Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of the second stimulus is stirring talk about the need f... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071002938_pf.html-2009-07-15 topics: CONSERVATIVE EC-TX GLOBALIZATION RECESSION)

In health bill, billions for parks, paths: Supporters cite prevention, but add-ons’ critics see pork

By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | July 9, 2009 WASHINGTON - Sweeping healthcare legislation working its way through Congress is more than an effort to provide insurance to millions of Americans without coverage. Tucked within is a provision that c... (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/07/09/in_health_bill_billions_for_parks_paths?mode=PF-2009-07-15 topics: HLTH-FIN PUB-HLTH BIKES SOLUTIONS GVT-ROLE)

Explaining public support for the environmental movement: a civic voluntarism model

see also: Stern, belief-value-norm theory of social movements: http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her62/62sternetal.pdf --- SUM[The civic voluntarism model has four components. The first is resources, such as time, money, and communication... (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11881314_ITM-2009-07-15 topics: KEY-A TODO ENV VOLUNTEER)

Carter’s Speech Therapy (JIMMY CARTER)

By GORDON STEWART IN the summer of 1979, as millions of Americans idled in creeping gas lines, President Jimmy Carter was preoccupied with matters abroad: first he was in Vienna completing SALT II with Leonid Brezhnev, next pleading for it before Co... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/opinion/15stewart.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: SACRIFICE LD)

Illnesses Afflict Homes With a Criminal Past

By SHAILA DEWAN and ROBBIE BROWN WINCHESTER, Tenn. — The spacious home where the newly wed Rhonda and Jason Holt began their family in 2005 was plagued by mysterious illnesses. The Holts’ three babies were ghostlike and listless, with breathing... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/us/14meth.html?em=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: DRUGS CRIME PUB-HLTH)

Medicare’s Mixed Legacy

By REED ABELSON Should the government get in the health insurance business? The question will be debated fiercely in coming months as President Obama and some Democratic lawmakers push for the creation of a government-run plan to compete with priva... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/weekinreview/05abelson.html?partner=rss&emc=rss-2009-07-15 topics: MCR HLTH-FIN KEY PUB-INFO GVT-ROLE)

Boiling the Frog

By PAUL KRUGMAN Is America on its way to becoming a boiled frog? I’m referring, of course, to the proverbial frog that, placed in a pot of cold water that is gradually heated, never realizes the danger it’s in and is boiled alive. Real frogs w... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/opinion/13krugman.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: POLITICAL-WILL KEY FS-CURRICULUM)

Clean, Sexy Water

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF People always ask: What can I do to make a difference? So many people in poor countries desperately need assistance. So many people in rich countries would like to help but fear their donations would line the pocket of a cor... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12kristof.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: INTL-DEV OUTCOME-MEAS GIVING NONPROFIT-FIN NONPROFIT-INNOVATION FS-CURRICULUM NONPROFIT-COOP)

Would You Let This Girl Drown?

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF It’s the Group of 8 summit in Italy, and world leaders are strolling along when they spot a girl floundering in a pond, crying out and then dipping beneath the surface. There are no cameras around. The leaders could safely... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/opinion/09kristof.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print-2009-07-15 topics: INTL-DEV KEY SACRIFICE ALLIES FS-CURRICULUM)

HOWARD UNIVERSITY PEOPLE AND RESOURCES

* Ernest Quimby When Communities Assess Their AIDS Epidemics is a detailed ethnographic description of the AIDS epidemic in eleven cities in the United States and in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Employing a rapid ethnographic assessment methodology, cit... (-2009-07-15 topics: FS-GEN)

CHAR MOLLISON - OVERVIEW OF SECTOR

== PREPARATION == * SALAMON, RECESSION * HANSMANN * SIMON * BRAD GRAY * EB PRESENTATION * ADVOCACY * TRENDS BRIEF (KATIE) * ECON CENSUS == Trends == * volunteering * giving * organization formation * revenue == Analytic Frameworks == * NTEE * IRS ... (-2009-07-15 topics: NCCS)

City Neighborhoods Dig In to Protect Fragile Gains

In Philadelphia's West Oak Lane, Community Group Tries to Identify Struggling Residents Well Before Homes Are Abandoned By CONOR DOUGHERTY PHILADELPHIA -- This year, Margaret Shepherd is knocking on the front door of nearly every house in West Oak... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124752153068534983.html#printMode-2009-07-15 topics: CMTY FS-CURRICULUM)

Economic downturn fails to dampen philanthropy: Philanthropy is flourishing despite the downturn, according to a Barclays Wealth report published toda

By Rachel Cooper Published: 12:01AM BST 13 Jul 2009 A survey by Barclays Wealth of 500 wealthy individuals in the UK and US revealed that around 75pc had not reduced their contributions to charity, while more than one in four had increased their gi... (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/5811996/Economic-downturn-fails-to-dampen-philanthropy.html-2009-07-14 topics: GIVING RICH)

Summit Collaborative - Marc Osten

I formed the Summit Collaborative in 1999. It provides an alternative working structure for me and my colleagues who devote their professional work to building a more just and healthy society. These talented individuals wear many hats and serve as c... (http://sc.blogs.com/summit_collaborative/who.html-2009-07-14 topics: NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

A Mooning Festival Is Something The Mayor Just Can't Get Behind : As Town Turns Its Back on 30-Year-Old Event, Will Train Flashing Go Into Eclipse?

By SARAH MCBRIDE The biggest event of the year in Laguna Niguel, Calif., is coming up on Saturday, but Mayor Robert Ming has a message for those planning to attend: Keep your pants on. For 30 years, the town has played host to an affair dubbed "Mo... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124718939724920855.html-2009-07-14 topics: HUMOR CMTY)

World Vision lays off more than 4 percent of U.S. staff

The Business of Giving Exploring philanthropy, non-profits and socially motivated business, from the Gates Foundation to your donation. A fresh look at the economy of good intentions. July 6, 2009 at 1:39 PM Posted by Kristi Heim World Vision ha... (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thebusinessofgiving/2009425434_world_vision_lays_off_50_emplo.html-2009-07-14 topics: NONPROFIT-FIN INTL-DEV RECESSION NONPROFIT-COMP)

Nonprofits should care about DREAM Act

Rick Cohen | June 29, 2009 Rick Cohen Nonprofits should be on the front lines of our society trying to protect, aid and support immigrant children and families regardless of the documentation they might possess or lack. The most important legisl... (http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/news/nonprofits-should-care-about-dream-act-2009-07-14 topics: NONPROFIT IMMI ALLIES)

The Functional Approach to Volunteers’ Motivations

Gil Clary and Mark Snyder College of St. Catherine University of Minnesota --- NOTE: saved at work: /docsFromOthers/volunteering.../ Also see full research report: * www.nonprofitresearch.org/usr_doc/15864.pdf (saved at same location) * http://www... (http://oregonmentors.org/files/library/Volunteer%20Function%20Inventory%20scale%20_Clary%20et%20al_.pdf-2009-07-13 topics: VOLUNTEER FS-RSC CONCEPTS)

Americorps VISTA: Volunteers in Service to America

== Core Principles (p.8) == * Anti-Poverty Focus: VISTA supports community efforts to overcome poverty. Any nonprofit organization, educational institution, or tribal or public agency with a project explicitly designed to alleviate poverty may spons... (http://www.americorps.gov/pdf/08_1210_ac_vista_report.pdf-2009-07-13 topics: VOLUNTEER GVT-ROLE NONPROFIT-INNOVATION FS-RSC)

White House Gives Some Details on Social Innovation Fund

The White House has offered some details about the timing for awarding grants from the $50-million Social Innovation Fund that was discussed by President Obama at a White House event last week. If Congress approves the money, the Corporation for N... (http://philanthropy.com/news/government/8837/white-house-gives-some-details-on-social-innovation-fund-2009-07-13 topics: FS-GEN NONPROFIT-GVT KEY-A)

Give Up A Benefit, Gain Jobs

By Leonard E. Burman Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:03 AM With union membership shrinking and wages strained, it might sound crazy to argue that labor should voluntarily give up a huge fringe benefit: tax-free health insurance provided by employers. ... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070803345_pf.html-2009-07-13 topics: HLTH-FIN LEGIS KEY)

BLOCK BY BLOCK AND COMMUNITY BUILDING

ggl: block by block organizing and community building * http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/2_14_block_organizing.html * http://www.wellstone.org/blog/block-block-brick-brick * http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/122/BlockGroups.html - National Hous... (-2009-07-13 topics: FS-GEN KEY-A TODO)

White House Eyes Bailout Funds to Aid Small Firms

By David Cho Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 11, 2009 The Obama administration is developing an initiative to take money from the $700 billion rescue program for the banking system and make it available to millions of small businesses,... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071003206_pf.html-2009-07-11 topics: OBAMA-ADMIN LEGIS RECESSION SMALL-BUS NONPROFIT-FIN)

Wind Projects at a Standstill: Despite Washington's Enthusiasm, Recession and New Regulations Slow Firms

By Jonathan Starkey Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 11, 2009 The Obama administration has made offshore wind energy a priority and an important part of its plans to create jobs and combat climate change, but even such favorable politic... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/11/AR2009071100148_pf.html-2009-07-11 topics: SOLAR-ENERGY ENTREPRENEUR RECESSION)

Resident Leadership and Facilitation Work Book

The Resident Leadership and Facilitation Training is designed to help participants gain an understanding of the skills needed to lead successful meetings that result in decisions about actions that will achieve desired results. --- http://www.aecf.o... (http://www.aecf.org/~/media/PublicationFiles/RLF_workbook%202005%20new%20version.pdf-2009-07-11 topics: FS-RSC COMMUNICATION LD)

Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities

Welcome to the website of the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. We are pleased to provide this resource to assist funders and organizations interested in creating more livable communities through better decision making regar... (http://www.fundersnetwork.org/-2009-07-11 topics: FOUNDATIONS PUB-INFO NCCS NONPROFIT-INFRASTRUCTURE)

Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance

http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i40/40college2.0.htm COLLEGE 2.0 By JEFFREY R. YOUNG Once they were hosts to lively discussions about academic style and substance, but the time of scholarly e-mail lists has passed, meaningful posts slowing to a tri... (-2009-07-11 topics: WEB2.0 HIGHER-ED KN-MGT)

Salary surveys published by The Chronicle of Higher Education

(http://chronicle.com/stats/salary/salary.htm-2009-07-11 topics: HIGHER-ED NONPROFIT-COMP)

Lime survey

* http://docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=Question+Types - types of questions... (-2009-07-11 topics: APPS-OF-INTEREST TECH)

Healthy examples: Plenty of countries get healthcare right.

By Jonathan Cohn | July 5, 2009 “I DON’T WANT America to begin rationing care to their citizens in the way these other countries do.” That was Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, speaking last month about healthcare reform. But it could have been virt... (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/07/05/healthy_examples_plenty_of_countries_get_healthcare_right?mode=PF-2009-07-11 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY)

Leaders in House Seek to Tax Rich for Health Plan

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON — House Democrats will ask the wealthiest Americans to help pay for overhauling the health care system with a $550 billion income tax increase, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said Frida... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/health/policy/11health.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print-2009-07-11 topics: HLTH-FIN KEY EC-TX)

To Fix Health Care, Some Study Developing World

Cost-Effective Medical Practices Deployed in Poor Nations Deliver Good Results, but Can They Work in the U.S.? By AMY DOCKSER MARCUS When doctors running the AIDS clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham wanted to increase the number of pa... (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124648865046182847.html#printMode-2009-07-11 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT)

How Canadians Feel About Their Health Care: Wait Times and Spending

By IAN AUSTEN This is the third in a series about how Canada regulates its economy. Usually Canada’s unelected Senate does its business without any reference to its counterpart in the United States. But last month, the issue of health care brough... (http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/how-canadians-feel-about-their-health-care-wait-times-and-spending/?pagemode=print-2009-07-11 topics: HLTH-FIN SOLUTIONS KEY)

FREEDOM SUMMER SURVEY

Rank the following problems: Not a problem Short-term crisis Don't know enough to decide Global warming National economic crisis Global poverty, danger of nuclear terrorism & similar issues Personal or family financial issues Other personal or f... (-2009-07-11 topics: FS-GEN IDEAS)

Ashoka Changemakers Competitions

competitions for $5k prices used to generate list of innovative orgs. Discussion groups appear to be little used despite "you asked, we listened" rhetoric.... (http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/competitions-2009-07-11 topics: INTL-DEV NONPROFIT-INNOVATION)

How to Start a Company (and Kiss Like Angelina)

By JULIE CRESWELL IN their star turns in James Bond movies, Ursula Andress and Halle Berry perfected the art of emerging from an ocean swim and walking onto the beach in a dripping-wet bikini. For everyone else? Not so easy. But there are some tri... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/business/12howcast.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print-2009-07-11 topics: WEB2.0 INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR)

NeighborWorks America

... creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives and strengthen their communities.... (http://www.nw.org/network/ps/default.asp-2009-07-10 topics: ALLIES CMTY NONPROFIT-INNOVATION WEBSITE FS-RSC)

International Physical Activity Questionnaire

(http://www.ipaq.ki.se/downloads.htm-2009-07-10 topics: SURVEY GOOD-LIFE)

The Sandtown-Winchester Neighborhood Transformation Initiative

Lessons Learned about Community Building and Implementation Prudence Brown, Benjamin Butler, Ralph Hamilton 2001 This report examines the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative's (NT) first decade and draws a series of lessons from the successes an... (http://www.chapinhall.org/research/report/sandtown-winchester-neighborhood-transformation-initiative-2009-07-10 topics: CMTY-DEV SOLUTIONS NONPROFIT-INNOVATION FOUNDATIONS POV)

PLACE-BASED or COMMUNITY-BASED INITIATIVES (LE

Dimension 1:	Excludable	Non-excludable
Rivalrous:	Private goods	Common goods / (Common-pool resources)