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I have spent so much time in my career talking about the importance of increasing revenue by creating exciting art and marketing that some people believe it is all I think is necessary to run a successful arts organization. This is clearly not the case. There is a wide range of requirements for managing a healthy arts institution, from developing a productive board to inspiring staff and maintaining the facility to reaching out to the community. The list is a long one and arts managers must be able to focus on many issues at once.Because I stress the importance of building revenue, many people believe I am not interested in the other side of the profitability equation: cost reduction. I have often written that one cannot save one's way to health in the arts, and I mean it. I have yet to see a struggling arts organization turn itself around simply by reducing cost. Health in the arts is tied to increasing the amount of both earned and unearned income.More...

Cost Containment Matters Too

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Physicians across the country were greeted these past few weeks with a mysterious fax purporting to be from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.There was some good news to share. Gingrich had settled on the 100 or so doctors who would receive his "2010 Champions of Medicine." An email informing his staff as to who had "made the cut" was pasted on to letter heard and sent to the award winners. The subsequent pages included an invitation from Gingrich's conservative group, American Solutions, to an election night event in Washington D.C., were recipients could take in returns and toast the beginning of the end of the president's health care law.More...

Gingrich Faxes Doctors, Promising Award, In Shady Fundraising Pitch To Celebrate Obamacare's Demise

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The 50 calories burned every hour is good. It is more reliable than walking alone. According to an article, running is the best physical activity one can commit in this life. It is said to be the natural activity of the body. It can increase mental speed, mental clarity and stability of thought.

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This past August, when I got on the phone with Repower America members, one thing was clear: We have a great deal of work to do.We've accomplished so much this year. We've fought off all attempts to gut the Clean Air Act, and I am so proud of the work we've done. But in a year of record temperatures and catastrophic environmental disasters, both you and I know what comes next. We have to roll up our sleeves and continue this fight, with more commitment than ever before.More...

Standing Up Against the Oil Lobby, in California and Beyond

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It's that time of year again. No, not autumn, when all the leaves turn to beautiful shades of red and yellow. (That doesn't happen in southern California, where I live, anyway.) No, not postseason baseball showdowns. (My Angels are out of it this year.) And no, not the new fall television line-up of cop shows and medical dramas. (My wife is a fan, but I'm still waiting for a new "Star Trek" series to come out.)I'm talking flu shots. Every October the new flu shots come out, people panic that this may be the worst flu season ever, and everyone scrambles to get injected. I won't bore you with all the pros and cons of whether or not you should get a flu shot. I want to focus on making sure those of you who get one are doing so in the safest manner possible.More...

Why You Shouldn't Mix Flu Shots With Other Vaccines

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Private military contractors get called all sorts of things and are categorized in an infinity of ways. But the idea that "American use of privatized force reflects and accomplishes normative and democratic commitments of international and domestic law that would be impossible to replicate through other policy avenues." is new to me.Yet such is the view ably articulated in a law journal article published earlier this year. The article Private Force / Public Goods by Scott M. Sullivan was published earlier this year in the Connecticut Law Review. Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Louisiana State University Law Center.More...

Max Weber was Wrong

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WHO: Jonas Mekas, Carolee Schneemann, Ken JacobsWHAT: Counter Culture, Counter Cinema - An Avant-Garde Film Festival Presented by MOCA and PDCMore...

Jonas Mekas, Carolee Schneeman and Ken Jacobs in Avant-Garde Film Festival

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Gutenberg started this craze for ink-and-print. Before then, we had woodcuts and copyists, laboriously transcribing the prophets, the words of the Almighty, the words about the Almighty, and almighty words, mostly onto parchment... After Gutenberg, though, sales of books about non-religious subjects began to proliferate.Finally, five hundred years after Gutenberg, in the wake of World War II, everyone went to college, either on the GI Bill or his or her parents' wallet, and a vast new market for non-fiction books mushroomed out of what had been paper-marshland. It was like agribusiness -- with a proliferation of publishers' imprints. Soon, every self-respecting graduate (whether of college or the school of knocks) wanted to "be published." It was Everyman's fifteen hours of fame calling to us, long before Andy Warhol reduced it to minutes for the pictorati.More...

Apocalypse in Print

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Why was Anderson Cooper in a bunny suit Wednesday?  The apes asked him to.The CNN anchor and future daytime talk show host was in Iowa working on a story about ape communication, when the apes reportedly asked him to don the bunny suit.More...

Anderson Cooper In A Bunny Suit (PHOTO)

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Rather than turn around a feeble performance as commander in chief and rectify a foreign policy that is drawing threats to America ever nearer, President Obama has signaled matters will get even worse as his term lurches into its second half.  This is the safe conclusion to draw from the appointment of Tom Donilon as national security advisor.The recently published book by Bob Woodward, Obama's Wars, paints a revealing portrait of Donilon and the state of mind of the president.  Donilon shares not only President Obama's sharp partisanship but also his lack of depth and experience on national security issues.More...

Obama's Mini-Me