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20 plus reasons why investing in journalism and media creates lasting change
May 18, 2011 by Eric Newton
Over time, we've noticed a growing myth about media grant making – that the outcomes aren't quantifiable, that it doesn't produce a tangible, measurable impact.
In a new report, the International Center for Journalists offers 20 plus reasons to the contrary. That's how many changes to government policies were brought to bear by the work of fellows. For example, in
Kenya, a series on shoddy care in public hospitals resulted in $7.5 million to improve care;
Indonesia, a series on medical waste prompted the government to order hospitals to build their own wastewater treatment facilities; and in
Peru, after crimes by unlicensed cab drivers are exposed, taxis were required to show official identification
How did 19 fellows accomplish so much in such a short time? ICFJ made major changes to its flagship program, the Knight International Journalism Fellows. The center extended the fellowships to at least a year, recruited international fellows and targeted developing countries where the opportunity for impact was greatest.
Along the way, we also made some important discoveries about what works:
Strong journalism skills are not enough to ensure a fellow's success. The most effective fellows are entrepreneurs with solidmanagement skills needed to lead complex projects in difficult environments.
High-impact projects need a strong commitment from local partners. We need to get buy-in, not just from top management at our partner organizations, but also from those working most closely with the fellow. By putting their own resources into the project, local partners have a stake in its success.
Projects are more likely to be successful in stable countries with a relatively high level of media freedom.
Projects focusing on digital journalism are more likely to produce lasting impact. Mobile phones reach many more people in developing countries than other media. Authoritarian regimes tend to regulate traditional media more than the Internet.
Fellows have greater success the longer they are in the field. But we ask only the strongest fellows to extend.
Language fluency is essential for success. Previous experience working in a country is not.
Innovations developed by Knight fellows can be replicated in other ICFJ programs.
By sharing this report, we hope that others in the field can learn from it – and that they too will share their best practices and lessons learned.
Eric Newton
Senior Adviser to the President, Knight Foundation
and Joyce Barnathan
president, ICFJ
Funding in media and journalism: A discussion on opportunities and challenges
April 12, 2011 by Eric Newton
With 15,000 journalism jobs cut in recent years, hurting the in-depth local news that helps sustain our democracy, more funders are making journalism and media grants. And many of them attended a Monday morning session on the topic at the Council on Foundations conference in Philadelphia for a robust discussion on the opportunities and challenges of media grant making.
The session, "Informed and Engaged Communities through Journalism and Media Grant Making," was designed to provoke questions from the foundations thinking about making such work and answers from the foundations making media grants. Here's a sample of the conversation:
How does media grant making fit into overall foundation strategy? Media funding can help reach any strategic goal. Good urban planning is important to The William Penn Foundation, so it funds an informative site called Plan Philly; another funder interested in homelessness supports coverage of the topic area on a Connecticut news site.
How do you go about producing content that is relevant to your audience? Stay close to your audience, said Knight Foundation's Paula Ellis. They will guide you so that you don't overbuild a site that solves a problem nobody has.
How do you sustain news sites once foundation funding ends? Diversify funding sources, between ad sales and public radio type funding models and others. Also, make sure the people who run the site have business sense, and that slices of the budget are spent on marketing and other business areas. Said one audience member: We had two experiences with fine journalists, one of them after three years barely knows he has to hire someone to work on sustainability. In the other case the person transformed himself into a fabulous entrepreneur. You have to build it in to how you think about the project.
How do you go about making partnerships with traditional media: The California Endowment, which promotes community health, works with local newspapers to create and fund community health beats. Mary Lou Fulton said while the Endowment respects journalists' independence, they do negotiate the scope of coverage so that it goes far beyond the typical coverage of health care reform, weight loss and yoga.
Read through the entire conversation on the session's liveblog here.
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For more tips on funding in this area, download the booklet "Journalism and Media Grant Making, Five Things You Need to Know, Five Ways to Get Started."
Economics of investigative reporting
Ken Doctor, who writes well about Newsonomics, has taken apart the economics of a single investigative story with this report on the Nieman Lab site. He features a strong California Watch story about how state regulators have routinely failed to enforce earthquake safety laws for public schools, "allowing children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws and potential safety hazards reported during construction." KnightBlog has written about this before because Knight Foundation gave a $1.32 million grant to the organization behind the stories as part of our Investigative Reporting Initiative.
Ken asked me why Knight Foundation supports investigative reporting. Here's what I said:
"No community can clean up a toxic dump, or remove a corrupt official, or fix dangerous schools, or right any other kind of wrong, if it doesn't first know about it. Investigative reporting tells us what we need to know -- not what we want to hear -- what we need to know -- what good citizens need to run their communities and their lives. But today we seem to be in a weird kind of investigative reporting drought. Weird because the overall volume of news and information is exploding – but traditional news outlets, in their mad scramble to cope with the digital age, are producing less local accountability journalism.
"Without a lot of fanfare, Knight Foundation has been making investments in investigative reporting grant. Brant Houston's web site explains some of them. We are interested in the development of new economic models for investigative reporting on digital platforms. Recent national support has gone to the Center for Investigative Reporting, ProPublica and the Center for Public Integrity. We've also supported the Sunlight Foundation and Sunshine Week, because you need freedom of information to investigate.
"We have funded university-based models at Boston University and through News 21 to explore how its 12-campus investigative reporting project might adopt a self-sustaining model. USC, the University of California at Berkeley, Nebraska, Arizona State, Missouri, Northwestern, Maryland, Syracuse, University of Texas, the University of North Carolina, Columbia and Harvard. In the past we've made two endowment grants that we count as part of our Investigative Reporting Initiative. The training endowment we gave to the Investigative Reporters and Editors and we endowed a Knight Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Journalism at the University of Illinois.
"We believe non-profit investigative reporting is gaining momentum across the country. Its practioners are winning top journalism awards and more than that they are creating major social changes worth many times the cost of these reports. The key to the sustainability of these enterprises is that they develop multiple revenue streams to augment their launch support from foundations. Several of them are making major strides in that direction. Especially important is that the local projects win local support. It's a fact of life that local news must have local support, and it's heartening to see community foundations coming into this field as part of the Knight Community Information Challenge."
Ken then asked "a big question," which was whether California Watch can expect continued foundation support: "There really isn't a foundation community that thinks with a common brain (same situation as in the news community). Each foundation makes its own decisions using different criteria. Some foundations see their role as launching new things and letting nature take its course. Other see their role as helping orgs develop business-savvy and capacity for sustainability. Others want to fund particular content channels. Others only want to fund high-impact content. Others want to fund innovative new forms of engagement. How California Watch does with each of the different types will depend on how it has done so far on the different issues they care about: web traffic, community engagement, social impact, particular beats or topics, fundraising from the community at large. California Watch is supposed to do a report to the news community explaining how it is doing and that will be helpful information to all the foundations following them."
Eric Newton is senior adviser to the president.
How much "Comfort News" is in your information diet?
August 14, 2011 by Eric Newton
Today's Miami Herald has a piece I wrote on the dangers of "Comfort News."
Here's how it starts:
"We the people are fat. So much so medical experts have declared an epidemic and declared costs to this nation of untold billions. But there's an even bigger epidemic out there, less obvious but no less dangerous. Just as we consume comfort food, our high-calorie midnight ice creams, we are, more and more, consuming 'comfort news.' "
Comfort News is politics, entertainment or other kinds of news that is more opinion than fact. It tastes great but isn't really that good for you -- or for society.
The piece is based on a speech I gave earlier this year at the University of Nebraska.
(Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, writes and speaks on journalism and media issues.)
Looking at the Economist series on the future of media
August 3, 2011 by Eric Newton
When the fellow pictured here on the right, dean Gary Kebbel, ema em iled me about the Economist series on the news industry, I asked him what he thought of it. This is our usual sequence of doing things. Gary, now dean of the University of Nebraska college of journalism and mass communications, was the journalism program director at Knight Foundation as we started the media innovation initiative (now a regular part of our work). I was VP of Journalism, and got in the habit of hearing him out. True to form, he replied with more than a tweet. So below is what a new American journalism dean says in reaction to this major series. My comments follow, and I'll my own review of the series in a future post.
Writes Gary Kebbel: For its readers who are asking what's going on with online media, the Economist articles are useful. I think the main benefit of the package is to point out that we've been here before - before 1833, that is. Media did well before and after the rise of mass media. Journalism used to be more local. It used to seek citizen contributions. (I still remember reading one of the newspapers hung in the National Press Club that asks readers to come to the riverboat as it pulls in to their city and tell their stories to the reporter on board.)
The future of news? Four different sources weigh in
It is no secret that the news industry is struggling in the midst of our digital revolution. But what exactly is happening? How are these changes affecting our communities? And what should be done to make sure that people are getting the information they need? This summer, four different reports that address these questions have been released (a fifth, by the New America Foundation, will be out shortly). These reports come from different sources—a British weekly news magazine, the U.S. government, an educational institution, and a non-profit—so they bring different perspectives and ideas to the table. But many themes, like the need for innovation and collaboration, recur. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I will discuss the content of these reports, as well as their strengths and weaknesses.
The Economist series, published July 7, includes social media, how media is faring in different countries, WikiLeaks and other media "newcomers," among other articles. One of the highlights of the series comes from an article about impartiality, where, in a show of refreshing forthrightness, the Economist describes Fox News as "offer[ing] distinctively right-wing opinion and commentary," and says that "MSNBC…has lately been positioning itself to appeal to a left-wing crowd." Maybe because the Economist is a British magazine, it seems to be more straightforward about news slant than many American journalists. Overall, the Economist piece provides pretty thorough coverage of the problems facing modern media, but is short on solutions. Their coverage of "philanthrojournalism," is particularly feeble: a suggestion is put forth that foundations should fully endow non-profit journalism, which a lot of foundation leaders worry would actually undermine the connection between the news organization and the community that it serves (for more on this topic, see this blog post about the four "C"s of community media).
Digital Democracy: A More Perfect Union?
September 30, 2011 by Eric Newton
In "Reinventing Journalism", Robert Rosenthal writes personal account of his career
October 5, 2011 by Eric Newton
This week, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is releasing "Reinventing Journalism," Executive Director Robert Rosenthal's personal account of joining CIR and launching California Watch, its statewide investigative team.
As he says in the opening paragraph, Robert had no idea what he was getting into when he walked into CIR in 2008. "Reinventing Journalism" is his personal account of finding his way: from working as a copyboy to reporting assignments around the world, to being in the ring for the collapse of the traditional media business model, to seizing the opportunity to create a new kind of journalism organization, to his own evolution from journalist to what he calls "salesman/evangelical entrepreneur."
Rosenthal also writes about the launch of California Watch – how the distribution and impact of its first stories exceeded his wildest expectations – and addresses the search for sustainability, looking forward to the future of investigative reporting and the non-profit model.
A free copy of "Reinventing Journalism" can be downloaded to your digital reading device through Project Gutenberg. It will be available soon at iTunes and the Google eBookstore.
As part of "Reinventing Journalism", Rosenthal also identified "10 lessons learned" about his time at Center for Investigative Reporting.
We hope this report, written at Knight Foundation's request, will help other nonprofit reporting ventures, and shed light on where the rapidly changing landscape of journalism and investigative reporting might be headed.
Would nutrition labels work for news?
October 11, 2011 by Eric Newton
Matt Stempeck, research assistant at the MIT Center for Civic Media, recently asked the question: "What If We Had a Nutrition Label For News"?
His call for feedback prompted a response from Eric Newton, senior advisor to the president at Knight Foundation, who equates the fundamental nutritional elements of food directly to their counterparts in news.
Newton wrote:
Congratulations for taking on this fantastic topic. Anyone who can break down and communicate the nutritional value of news will be an American hero.
As you note, the idea of a food label for news has been kicking around for a long time. I first started talking about it nearly 15 years ago with some other folks at the Newseum in various programs we had in the broadcast studios there. I got some bits on the record five years ago in the book Mega Media, and most recently I wrote "Junk-food news turning us into fat-heads" in the Miami Herald.
We've known for ages that words are food for the mind. The devil is in the details. Every previous effort I've seen has failed to properly unwind the metaphor. Listing the various failures may not be as helpful as talking aspirationally about the real goal.
What we really need is a food label not so much on each news outlet but on each news story. (ie, Marissa Mayer's point at Google about the new unit of organization of news being the story, not the outlet).
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More noteworthy journalism and media books by Knight partners
March 1, 2012 by Eric Newton
Clay Johnson argues for infoveganism at the Center for Civic Media. Photo Credit: Flickr user J. Nathan Matias.
Noteworthy journalism and media books by Knight partners keep coming. These two made me want to flash back to two previous blogs:
Killing the Messenger: Thomas Peele of the Bay Area News Group has written a story that cries out for a movie deal. It's about "radical faith, racism's backlash and the assassination of a journalist." In vivid detail, Killing the Messenger gives you the big picture around the death of Chauncey Bailey, the Oakland Post editor shotgunned in 2007 on a street corner for investigating a troubled local business called Your Muslim Bakery. Bailey was the first journalist murdered for trying to do journalism in this country since Don Bolles was killed in 1976 by a car bomb for exposing mafia ties to Arizona land deals.
Peele tells the history of Black Muslims, leading you to Oakland where the movement became a cover for a violent cult run by Yusuf Bey, who beat and raped dozens of women he claimed were his wives and fathered more than 40 children. Bey's 21-year-old son, Yusuf Bey IV, took over the bakery after his father's death. It was Bey IV who was convicted of masterminding the Bailey murder. Bey IV and an accomplice are looking at life without parole. The trigger man, who confessed, got 25 years.
Knight Foundation's role was to grant the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education $125,000 to create the Chauncey Bailey project – so nonprofit, commercial and student journalists from all media could investigate the murder. Thomas Peele was an important member of that project.
Did the project matter? Said District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley: "I would especially like to recognize and acknowledge the Chauncey Bailey Project (which) worked diligently and tirelessly to ensure that the defendants responsible for these senseless murders were brought to justice." A public official speaks highly of journalists! Even so, you won't find those words in Peele's book. Like many good investigative reporters, he does not like to put himself into the story. I spoke about this issue at last year's investigative reporting convention. My question: If investigative journalists don't explain their impact, who will?
More recipes for success of nonprofit news ventures
March 14, 2012 by Eric Newton
The latest cookbook for nonprofit news ventures comes today from the Investigative News Network, supported by Knight, is an eclectic mix of big, small, old, new, national, local, digital, print, neutral and progressive nonprofit news organizations. As you might expect, its recipes for success are as varied as sushi and Boston baked beans.
The white paper, Audience Development and Distribution Strategies, was written by digital news expert Elizabeth Osder. It is similar to our earlier reports on nonprofit news success, but also offers new advice, excellent context and fresh views from the nonprofit news leaders themselves.
Its thrust: the story is not the only thing that matters in news. Explains Margie Freigvogel, editor of the St. Louis Beacon: "We started with a passion for journalism coming out of a newspaper background and we found ourselves running a business and technology enterprise." The Beacon started in 2008 to create "a better St. Louis powered by journalism" and is still going strong.
These folks are, in my mind, heroes. Many started their new digital news ventures just in the past five years, as print newspapers have been shrinking and a lack of creative change in public broadcasting has so far failed to fill the gap. These new news leaders really care about informed and engaged communities. Suddenly, through their own web sites and their traditional media partners, they are reaching many millions of people. Someone should add up that number: It's big.
An easy way to learn about the State of the News Media 2012
Two Knight partners are coming together in a webinar next week designed to get everyone on the same page with the State of the News Media 2012. It's the latest Webinar from Poynter's NewsU, and features Tom Rosenstiel, who founded and directs the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Tom Rosenstiel
The one-hour webinar, costing $10.95 and set for 2 p.m. EST Wednesday March 28, will cover journalism and the mobile market, changing audience habits and local TV news, newspaper pay models, Facebook's impact on news, nonprofit news sites and more. You can sign up for State of the News Media 2012.
Knight investments co-founded and then helped expand NewsU as it has grown into the nation's premiere online journalism training site, with more than 210,000 registered users.
Why we need new models for arts journalism
Today, Knight Foundation and the NEA announced the winners of its Community Arts Journalism Challenge. Here, Knight's Eric Newton gives some insight into why both organizations decided to fund innovations in arts coverage and criticism.
Update: Two of the winning projects, CriticCar Detroit and the Charlotte Arts Journalism Alliance, were recently profiled in The Huffington Post and The Charlotte Observer, respectively.
When Knight Foundation first started working with the National Endowment of the Arts on the issue of arts journalism, we asked four questions: Is arts journalism in trouble? Does it matter? Can anything be done to help? How can we - the Knight Foundation, the nation's leading private funder of journalism innovation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation's leading advocate for the arts – improve the situation. Let's look at the questions and answers:
1. Is arts journalism in trouble?
Nationally, arts journalism is doing well. Locally, it is not.
Nationally, the medium of film is an example of the positive post-internet trend. Even as film critics shrink in traditional media, the victims of the new economics of the digital age, they are blooming in cyberspace. Typical was famed film critic Roger Ebert reporting in his January 2011 Wall Street Journal article, "Film Criticism is Dying? Not Online.": "The Web and HTML have been a godsend for film criticism. The best single film criticism site is arguably davidbordwell.net, featuring the Good Doctor Bordwell and his wife Kristin Thompson. Their names are known from their textbooks, studied in every film school in the world. But they are not users of the obscurantist gobbledygook employed by academics who, frankly, cannot really write. They communicate in prose as clear as running water."
How the Challenge Fund for Journalism helped nonprofits develop better business practices
June 5, 2012 by Eric Newton
Photo Credit Flickr User Steve Bowbrick
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how journalism funders this past decade were working together more often. Here's an example of that. During the past seven years, we teamed up to help journalism nonprofits develop better business practices in a project called the Challenge Fund for Journalism.
A recent study of the Challenge Fund for Journalism showed how the project helped 53 journalism nonprofits, both professional organizations and media outlets. The fund's partners were Ford, which created the project, as well as Knight, McCormick, and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism. The management consulting firm TCC Group coordinated the project.
Some organizations, usually the smaller ones, got fundraising and administrative training only. Others got training as well as a grant that they could collect only if they could raise twice as much themselves. That's like giving away a fish if someone can catch at least two more on their own. Hence, the name of the report on the project: Learning To Fish. As we've said before, the largest amount of philanthropic money given away each year in the United States is donated not by foundations but by individuals. The challenge fund helped nonprofit journalism groups learn to fish where the most of the fish really live.


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Hurricane Dorian is putting real estate deals in a holding pattern as it approaches South Florida.
Insurance companies hold the key to any real estate closing that involves a mortgage, so it's no surprise that a major storm would throw a wrench in a buyer's plans to close on a property.
In recent years, insurers have moved away from using the box method – which meant that if a storm fell within a certain geographic box, insurance companies would not bind new policies for properties in that area until after the storm passed and properties were re-inspected.
Now, insurers generally rely on the National Weather Service's watches and warnings, according to South Florida real estate attorneys and title brokers.
Marcie Gregorio of Brickell-based Worldwide Title tells her clients to have their insurance agents bind their policies by the date of the closing, prior to the NWS issuing a warning or watch. "As long as they do it and bind it by that effective date, [the insurance company] will honor that," she said.
Gregorio has some clients who had their closings delayed due to Hurricane Dorian, which is expected to make landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm early next week. Others got their insurance binders before the storm became a threat.
"I always recommend a local insurance agent. They know exactly what happens, especially in your neighborhood," she added.
Nancy Klock Corey, regional vice president of Coldwell Banker, said the brokerage has post-storm documents available to its agents that can be added to contracts if closings are delayed.
A hurricane can also impact refinances, said Gary Singer of the Fort Lauderdale-based Law Firm of Gary M. Singer. With home purchases, it's important to make sure that buyers have their policies bound in time. "People get a quote and don't bind it in time," he said.
Lenders require homeowner's insurance, but if it's an all-cash deal the closing could still occur.
"If it's a cash deal, there's really nothing stopping you," Singer said.
Most contracts include a force majeure clause, which would give the buyer or seller the ability to delay the closing within a certain period of time after the storm passes. After 30 days, either party could cancel.
"You want to get the house re-inspected" following a storm, Singer said. "Everything depends on the contract. Typically the seller is responsible to turn the property over in the condition it was in the beginning. … If that becomes too expensive, they may be released."
Fred E. Karlinsky, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's Insurance Regulatory and Transactions Practice Group, said that if a property is damaged, that could impact whether it can be insured.
Karlinsky represents a wide range of commercial and residential insurers in Florida and across the U.S.
"Whenever you're in a state like Florida, you always have these issues and you need to be cognizant of them when you're dealing with real estate closings," he said.
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Florida Teen and Mom Facing Prison for Rigged Homecoming Votes
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Florida is never shy on the amazing crime stories, with the exception of yesterday's Santa hat bus thief in Louisiana. Emily Grover, 18, and her mother Laura Carroll, 50, allegedly made their way into the school district's network to manipulate the votes for homecoming court at Emily's school. At the time of the allegations, Emily was a minor and attending school in the Escambia County School District.
Now, the duo weren't some crazy computer hackers. Mother, Laura, is actually an assistant principal at an elementary school within the same district. With that inside info, the pair were able to allegedly use student accounts to vote for Emily for homecoming court for the 2020 election. The district got wise after they noticed over 100 votes being cast for Emily from the same IP address using a virtual voting system called Election Runner.
If that wasn't enough, Emily apparently ran her mouth at school that they were using her mother's access to get the votes put in. Court documents showed that allegations of Emily even using her mother's access into the school's system to check her grades and other student's grades, as well.
Since Emily is now 18, she will be prosecuted as an adult along with her mother. The mother and daughter duo are facing charges of offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks, and electronic devices; unlawful use of a two-way communications device, criminal use of personally identifiable information, and conspiracy. Max sentence for these charges could be 16 years in prison. They are both currently out on bond.
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The first wave of COVID-19 vaccines is underway across our senior living campuses. Thank you to those who have chosen to get vaccinated and for your patience and support as we coordinate the many logistics that go into vaccine deployment. As we prepare for the follow up clinics, here few reminders and commonly asked questions about the vaccine.
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Rocket Lab Launches 13 CubeSats on its First NASA Mission – Its Third Orbital Launch in 2018
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An Electron launch vehicle belonging to California startup Rocket Lab lifted off on Dec 16 from the company's Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula at 07:33 pm local time (01:33 am EST).
It was carrying with it a payload of as many as 13 small satellites for NASA's ELaNa (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites) program.
The Sunday launch was not only the company's first NASA mission but also the space agency's first launch under its Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) program.
NASA is currently in contract with three space companies, including Rocket Lab, Firefly Aerospace and Virgin Orbit – a spinoff of British space company Virgin Galactic – to provide dedicated launch vehicles for the VCLS initiative.
"The NASA Venture Class Launch Service contract was designed from the ground up to be an innovative way for NASA to work and encourage new launch companies to come to the market and enable a future class of rockets for the growing small satellite market," said ELaNa-19 mission manager Justin Treptow in a Dec 4 press release.
"Matching ELaNa-19 with the Electron rocket gives these advanced scientific and educational satellites first-class tickets to space while providing valuable insight for potential NASA missions in the future," Treptow added.
While the mission itself was called ElaNA-19, the Electron that made it happen was named "This One's for Pickering" in honor of the late New Zealand-born scientist, Sir William Pickering, who immigrated to California as a young man, headed the NASA team that developed the United States' first satellite called Explorer 1, and also served as the director of the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California.
After MECO (Main Engine Cut-Off), the first-stage booster separated and dropped back towards Earth for an intended plunge into the Pacific Ocean.
Meanwhile, the second-stage continued on with its payload, propelled by a single Rutherford engine that fired for about six minutes to give the rocket the required speed to beat the planet's gravity and enter orbit.
Developed in-house by Rocket Lab, all of the Rutherford's primary components are 3D-printed and it uses battery-powered pumps – all of which translates to reduced manufacturing time and, more importantly, reduced costs.
Nine minutes into the launch, the Curie kick-stage separated from the second-stage Electron booster and entered coast phase, flying for about forty minutes before firing its main engine, which uses a "green" monopropellant to produce 120 N, or 27 lbf, of thrust (1 lbf = 4.44822 Newton.
After a 90-second burn, which stabilized the kick-stage' trajectory, the thirteen nanosatellites were deployed in an elliptical orbit at an inclination of 85 degrees, some 500 kilometers above Earth.
"All payloads deployed!! Perfect mission," Beck tweeted, confirming the release of the nanosats.
The thirteen nanosats that are now orbiting Earth include those built by American academic institutions as well as NASA-developed ones, including the Compact Radiation Belt Explorer (CeREs) satellite from the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Advance Electrical Bus (ALBus) from NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
While the CeREs will study how energized electrons escape from the Earth's radiation belts, the ALBus will demonstrate an advanced power management and distribution system and solar array deployment technologies.
Also among them is a US Naval Academy-developed RSat that will test robotic arms designed for future spacecraft that will service orbiting satellites.
The Sunday launch was Rocket Lab's third orbital mission of the year, having successfully put three small satellites into orbit on behalf of Spire Global and Planet in January, and six small satellites as recently as last month.
The November mission, nicknamed "It's Business Time," saw the successful launch of two Lemur-2 satellites, two Proxima satellites, a CICERO 10 satellite, and an Irvine01 Cube Sat.
It also launched a NABEO drag sail built by Germany's HPS GmbH (High-Performance Space Structure Systems GmBH) for the purpose of testing a technique that will help reduce space junk by deorbiting small satellites at the end of their operating lives with the help of atmospheric drag.
Speaking to Spaceflight Now last month, Beck said that despite the launch delays this year, Rocket Lab had laid the groundwork for a faster launch manifest.
"With the motor controller, we haven't rushed to get back to the pad," he said at the time.
"What we've, in fact, done is taken our time to really set the business up to succeed in a high volume kind of way," Beck said.
With a new high-volume factory in Auckland and one in Huntington Beach, California, Rocket Lab is looking at a production capability of one new launch vehicle every week.
Between its New Zealand launch site and an under-construction launch pad at Wallops Island, Virginia – expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2019 – Rocket Lab has up to 16 Electron launches planned for 2019, according to Beck.
"Our goal by the end of next year is to be launching once every two weeks, and as we move into 2020, launching once a week," Beck said, adding that the company was "tracking a pretty big pipeline of customers, and we've been very fortunate that people have put their trust in us."
With its growing backlog, the company is contemplating more launch sites, including one in Scotland and a second in the U.S.
On Nov 15, Rocket Lab announced it had managed to raise $140 million, closing a Series E funding round led by Future Fund – Australia's independently managed sovereign wealth fund.
The Series E round was also joined by other existing investors, including Khosla Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC (Data Collective), Greenspring Associates, Promus Ventures and K1W1, as well as new investor, Accident Compensation Corporation of New Zealand.
"This funding also enables the continued aggressive scale-up of Electron production to support our targeted weekly flight rate," Beck said at the time.
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Volans at 60
Kevin Volans celebrates his sixtieth birthday in July this year. Volans' musical idiom has been shaped by an unusually diverse range of influences, including studies with Stockhausen in Cologne, field trips to Africa to study traditional music, his own involvement with the 'New Simplicity' movement and a love of virtuoso piano music which he per forms, broadcasts and records. Volans' music resists compartmentalisation and he is as comfortable working in conventional genres as embarking on innovative collaborations with artists of other disciplines, particularly visual artists. It is therefore wholly appropriate that a concert to celebrate his birthday is being held in the Irish Museum of Modern Art. A further concert on July 5 includes Cautiva by Alberto Iglesias, whose music Volans admires enormously.
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CHICAGO — A 17-year-old Chicago boy shot several times in the head was mistaken for dead and covered with a sheet until bystanders noticed him moving and told paramedics.
Chicago Fire Department officials are trying to determine how the mix-up happened after the early Monday shooting that left one dead and five wounded.
Paramedics administered CPR to the boy, who was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago said investigators are trying to piece together the decision making leading to the teenager being mistaken for dead.
Police say a woman whose name hasn't been released was pronounced dead at the scene.
They say the gunfire erupted after two cars circled a party near the University of Illinois-Chicago campus,
at the ABLA Brooks Homes public housing complex, reports CBS Chicago.
Police First Deputy Supt. Anthony Riccio told reporters none of the surviving victims were cooperating with police, but evidence at the scene suggested there was an exchange of gunfire among several people. Riccio said there's ongoing gang conflict in the area, and the shooting appeared to stem from some sort of dispute.
Riccio said the 17 year old was on full life support, and his family was deciding how to proceed.
"That individual has a catastrophic injury. He was shot in the head, and the prognosis is not good," he said.
Riccio said he didn't know how long the teen lay under the sheet before paramedics began CPR.
Police said a weapon, possibly a MAC-10 submachine gun, was recovered near the body of the 17-year-old.
Detectives also were reviewing video from several cameras in the area.
The wounds to the other four victims were considered non-life-threatening, authorities said.
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FAITH DOING JUSTICE
Vol 23 No 14
The alchemy of Australia's personality politics
Fatima Measham
Over the past couple years, I have observed with some sympathy the frustrations of Labor members over the apparent media obsession with leadership contests. Their argument that political discourse should be about policies rather than personalities is valid. The reality, however, is far more complex. We have always voted, with varied intensity, for personalities. We are susceptible to charisma — a quirk that has been exploited since the first televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon. We saw it at work here in Bob Hawke.
It was at play when Kevin Rudd won in 2007 and Barack Obama in 2008. If it were only a matter of ditching the incumbent and voting for change, any of their predecessors could have delivered. After all, party platforms rarely shift from one leadership change to another. These men won because they seized public sentiment in a way that preceding candidates did not. The success of their campaigns echoes Bill Clinton's image-driven run in 1992, which mined his childhood and featured an election-turning saxophone performance on The Arsenio Hall Show.
The straightforward explanation for this phenomenon is that we are social beings. It is in our nature to be captivated or repulsed by people. The argument recently posed by veteran journalist George Negus — that voters should vote for the ideology of a party rather than its leader — is therefore inadequate.
It ignores the fact that our attachment to ideas and organisations is often inextricable from our attachment to their leading proponents. This is as much the case in politics as it is in other areas like religion, economics and philosophy. Our belief systems or loyalties live and die according to the perceived credibility of leaders. It explains in part why questions regarding trust and authenticity are potent in elections, or rather, toxic for the hapless candidate, as former Prime Minister Julia Gillard found.
Mere ideology doesn't bind if the sense of betrayal and disillusionment runs deep enough. This is not necessarily a matter of sentimentality. In the postmodern setting, where politicians themselves seem to pick and choose which aspects of their party philosophy to stand by, it shouldn't be a surprise that voters have lost their compass. The problem is not that they have abandoned their ideological sensibilities, as Negus implies. Our political parties have.
Consider, for instance, how an ostensibly economically Liberal Party under Tony Abbott has been vociferous in its opposition to a market-based policy on climate change. Or an ostensibly socially democratic Labor Government downgraded single-parent payments to leverage workforce participation, when single parents have been identified as at risk of falling into poverty. We see the same dissonance across the Pacific, where a Democratic government led by a Nobel Peace Prize winner has been far more hawkish on war and security than its Republican predecessors.
In other words, voters find it difficult to buy ideas wholesale when they don't make sense in retail. This is gritty stuff: imagine a voter who would like to see the Labor Party build on reforms in education and health but cannot abide its policy on asylum seekers. 'Ideology' has limited value under such conditions.
This is where the focus on personalities actually matters. Much of the dissatisfaction with leaders ultimately rests on a public assessment of the way policies are prosecuted. The fact is that whoever is on top does determine the policy direction for the party and the cohesiveness of its agenda. There is no clearer demonstration of this than the fact that the Liberal Party backtracked on an emissions trading scheme that had been negotiated in good faith by Malcolm Turnbull, by replacing him with Tony 'Climate Change is Crap' Abbott.
In the case of Labor, the justification in 2010 that 'the Government has lost its way' under Rudd turned out not to refer to policy but his character. Partisans can thus hardly complain that the media obsesses over personalities.
As for the electorate, the focus on personalities does not always constitute undemocratic laziness or a reality-show mentality, but a demand for leadership on specific issues. If anything has been reinforced lately it is that there is alchemy to political leadership. It turns out that one can govern reasonably well, build consensus, and institute important reform but still not convince. Maybe we're poorer for that. Or perhaps as an electorate, we have become more astute about the nuances of our choice.
Fatima Measham is a Melbourne-based social commentator who contributes regularly to Eureka Street. Her work has also appeared in The Drum, ABC Religion & Ethics, and National Times. She is a recipient of the Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship in 2013. She tweets as @foomeister.
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Much food for thought here Fatima. In his recent book "Bedtime Stories" the antithesis of shock-jockery, Phillip Adams, mentions the British politician Tony Benn's categorisation of political leaders: there are the straight men, fixers and maddies. So personality is important, and so is a sense of trust. Even if we are 'let down' as we inevitably will be, something indefinable will allow us to keep trusting. And I wish I could articulate the recipe.
Pam | 15 July 2013
"Imagine a voter who would like to see the Labor Party build on reforms in education and health but cannot abide its policy on asylum seekers." The Labor Party's 'policy' on refugees is much more humane than its performance suggests. Which was more or less forced on it by the Liberal Party tapping into the reluctance of so many Australians to shoulder the burden of supporting refugees. The Labour Party should have learned from the success of introducing "New Australians" after WW2, when they sought the blue-eyed blonds from Northern Europe to introduce the idea. If some of the problems facing persons with whom we could empathize were high-lighted, a more humane approach might become more acceptable to all.
Robert Liddy | 15 July 2013
An elegant discourse on the progressive decline of the Western World, Fatima. Perhaps you are describing the primacy of man and secularism over the humble acceptance of human unimportance in the face of God and a life built around human virtue rather than selfish indulgence.
john frawley | 15 July 2013
whether we like it or not Western society has inherited the propaganda methods of Nazi Germany. That if one tells lies long enough and often enough people will believe you. At least in the commercial world the consumer has legal redress, Unfortunately in the world of politics this does not apply. it is important that in education pupils should learn not to accept all one sees or reads without analysis. In elections there should be more room in the media in stations like the ABC and SBS for serious discussion.
John ozanne | 15 July 2013
mmm... food for thought, Fatima - intellectual nourishment. Your reference to Bill Clinton's election-turning saxaphone performance in 1992 reminds me of the image of Kevin Rudd walking through the Queensland floodwaters juggling a suitcase as I believe he helped a household of foreign students to dry ground. How could you NOT trust this man to lend a hand?
Bob GROVES | 15 July 2013
Yes indeed personalities are on display and the media love it! I will venture to predict that when it comes time to actually cast a vote most thinking majority will stop and think about what Labor delivered in the past years - failed asylum seeker policy, failed financial management that has us in severe debt, Labor party infighting, broken Labor promises, not a surplus in cooee etc etc... All started under Rudd who was so bad they got rid of him; replace him with a worse package, and now he's back in all jis glory pontificating how he is so positive... Rudd is a dud and Labor had him pegged as a psychopath, egocentric control freak and those in Labor that have any shred of integrity have either resigned or wil not work with Rudd... Does a Leopard change its spots? No does not! And in the end that's what will sway the voter the second they put pen to ballot.
Cherna | 15 July 2013
An interesting piece. I am not sure I agreed with anything in it and I found some of the comments on it interesting (to say the least) but it certainly made me think. My personal opinion is that, in our politicians, "personality", as described by their PR machines and the commentariat, is inversely proportional to genuine character and ability. My ideal politician in the West would be Angela Merkel. With her you get what you see. Steady, (possibly dull to those who enjoy our Punch and Judy politics) and effective governance. The decline of Western politics/democracy is a long, long way away. In fact I find most prognostications on it, from a non-responsible armchair usually, incredibly fatuous. We need less narcissistic politicians who can actually do something. I think we also need to beware of expecting either Labor or the Liberals to live up to their Platonic Forms. Politics is the art of compromise. This need not be cynical but needs to be realistic. Sending all the boats back or accepting everyone planet who wishes to enter this country are both hopelessly impractical. We need proper border protection with compassion. Paradoxical? Life and politics are. Heaven on Earth is impossible.
Edward F | 15 July 2013
"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that Tony Abbott, with all his noble qualities ...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.'' CharlesDarwin? http://www.independentaustralia.net/Wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Cartoon-Howard-to-Abbottport-fazzari-620x3491.jpg
Game Theory | 17 July 2013
We should all have the same free and equal right to vote, free from government coercion. Our decision to vote should be democratic. Then our leaders would need to inspire us to vote instead of just being the least repulsive alternative. They would also then need to motivate their base, which would distinguish the major parties ideologically instead of squabbling over the centre-ground. I've experienced federal elections living in the UK and USA and our political debate, if you could call it 'debate', is embarrassing. We need democratic voting.
Jason | 20 August 2013
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Die Ökoregion   befindet sich im Süden der Südinsel von Neuseeland und umfasst das Distriktgebiet des   , den östlichen Teil des , den südlichen Teil des  , den nördlichen Teil des  und den westlichen Teil des Stadtgebietes von .

Klimatische Bedingungen
Merkmal der Ökoregion   in klimatischer Hinsicht ist, dass die Region vom Südwesten über den Westen und Norden bis hin zum Nordosten von Bergen umgeben ist, die regenreiche Wolken abhalten und das Klima trotz der Nähe zum Meer einem kontinentalen Klima ähnelt, mehr als einem maritimen. Die Sommer sind entsprechend warm und trocken, die Winter hingegen, kalt und schneereich. Dementsprechend ist   die regenärmste Region des Landes.

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Vor der Besiedlung
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Boys Lacrosse: Garden City holds SWR goalless for 35:48
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04/18/2019 10:52 PM |
Signage in Garden City High School's maroon and gray colors, attached to a fence adjacent to Warren King Field, lists the championship years of its boys lacrosse team. It's a staggering testimony to the winning tradition of the defending state Class B champion Trojans, holders of seven state championships, 19 Long Island titles and 25 Nassau County crowns.
As if all of that doesn't make a big enough statement, consider what Garden City did on Thursday.
The non-league clash between Shoreham-Wading River and Garden City, two powerhouses that entered the game with 9-0 records, was expected to be a battle. Garden City is ranked No. 1 among Class B teams in the state while SWR is positioned second in the Class C poll by the New York State Sportswriters Association.
Before the game, Garden City coach Steve Finnell was asked how good his team is this year.
"We're going to find out," he answered.
Judging by its performance Thursday, Garden City is exceptionally good. The Trojans used a 10-0 run — holding SWR scoreless for 35 minutes, 48 seconds! — to roll over the Wildcats, 12-5.
"They have talent," said Trevor Kessel, part of a besieged SWR defense along with Jake Wilson, Jake Meeker, Tyler Schwartz and goalie Liam Daly. "They have a good program, and they always have."
Will Puccio produced four goals, James Basile had two goals and two assists and Trevor Yeboah-Kodie added two goals and an assist for Garden City, which received 12 saves from Eric Mueller.
Also finding the net for Garden City were Brady Sullivan, Joe Scattareggia (one goal, two assists), Gavin Pappas and Nick Rosato. Jack Muldoon had two assists.
"They just move the ball really well," said Daly, who made 13 saves. "They were really organized and they just took advantage of all of our mistakes when they happened. Whenever you play Garden City, you know that they're going to have good shooters. You just got to go and always be prepared. They have some good kids."
It was a promising beginning for SWR when Xavier Arline scored a flashy goal off a feed from Gavin Gregorek just 14 seconds into the contest. After Puccio equalized, SWR went in front again, this time on a strike by Schwartz, also assisted by Gregorek.
But Sullivan drew the teams even at 2-2 at 5:50 of the quarter. That was the start of the incredible 10-0 run. SWR didn't score again until Arline pumped in his second goal 7:26 into the fourth quarter, with the outcome long since all but decided.
Garden City's defense was like a wall.
"I knew getting off the bus what I was in for," SWR coach Michael Taylor said. "Steve runs a great program and I knew it was going to be a battle for us and a good gauge for our kids to show how much more they need to work. We got to work harder; we got to get better."
An illegal check to the head by Wilson not only cost SWR a penalty in the second quarter, but it may have fired up Garden City.
"I think that was a momentum swing for them," Taylor said. "I think it kind of woke the sleeping giant … I thought we had momentum, then we took a bad penalty and I think they got angry about it."
Brett Callagy brought SWR two goals in the final 3:32 (one set up by Declan Beran).
SWR suffered a loss within the loss. Junior midfielder Jack Erb exited the game in the second quarter with an injury. Taylor said Erb had strained his Achilles tendon.
Kessel said the way the game played out "shocked us, but it showed us what we need to work on."
Garden City had also defeated SWR in a non-leaguer last year on the same field.
"When you say lacrosse anywhere in this country, Garden City is going to be in the conversation as far as history and tradition," Taylor said. "I try to play teams that we're going to really struggle with. I want to use non-leagues as preparation for the playoffs."
Before boarding the team bus for the ride home, Daly could look at the bright side. "You can always take away something from a game like this," he said. "We just got to keep playing our game. We're a really good team and if we just play our game, we'll be fine."
Said Taylor: "It's good for us to play a team like this … We need to get these experiences so that when we get in the big moments that count, we're ready. Today we were not."
Photo caption: Shoreham-Wading River's Jeffrey Lachenmeyer tries to evade Garden City's Connor Gunn during Thursday's non-league game. (Credit: Bob Liepa)
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