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5 similarities between real estate and investing

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Whether you're investing in real estate or stocks, don’t try to time the market, says Martin Pelletier.

Having recently listed my home for sale in Calgary, I was surprised to discover quite a few similarities between the residential real estate market and the stock market.

Here's how to make money investing in real estate

Don Campbell thinks everyone should consider real estate. Of course, you’d expect him to think that given his firm has advised clients on real estate purchases of more than $4 billion. The senior analyst at the Real Estate Investment Network in Vancouver, says every investor should be pondering where they can fit real estate into their overall strategy given the volatilities and uncertainties of the equities market.

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In particular, here are my five main takeaways from my home-selling experience that apply well to investing in the stock market — or vice versa.

1. It is very important to do your own research.

I’ve found that many of the published articles on local real estate trends are overly biased on the positive side, especially if a realtor is featured. Unfortunately, the same often happens regarding stock research from many of the investment banks due to inherent conflicts.

This can be very misleading and, at times, result in costly decisions being made from both a buyer and seller perspective.

For example, upon conducting my own research with the help of my realtor, I soon discovered that the higher-end home market in inner-city Calgary actually tapered off considerably following the June flood.

This may have happened for reasons other than the flood, but the point is that the data was contrary to most, if not all, of the articles that were touting a very robust summer for higher-end home sales. Perhaps such sales were occurring, but certainly not in the market I was selling my home in.

2. Understand the bid and the ask.

Selling or buying a house, for the most part, is not unlike trading an illiquid stock. As an investor, it can be helpful to use reference points to assist in determining the bid or ask in such circumstances, which could involve the last sale price or the price of a comparable stock from a multiple perspective.

The same can apply when buying or selling a house. In the case of someone serious about selling, it’s important to understand what the bids could be and price accordingly. If the bid is likely going to be well below where you believe the real value is, simply don’t list unless you can benefit on the other side of the trade.

3. Don’t try to time the market.

This maxim especially applies if you are selling and buying at the same time in the same market.

Let’s say you sell your house but decide to wait because you think your target purchase is too expensive. What happens if the market rallies and you miss out on the trade?

The same can apply to the sale of a stock. Unless your intention is to go to cash, it’s generally beneficial to switch into a more desirable stock within a reasonable time period following the sale.

4. Know the difference between momentum and value.

It’s important to know what people want. A unique home will often take longer to find a buyer, while a more trendy home will probably move faster. Likewise, value stocks may take time for that value to be realized, while a trendy stock will likely move faster.

That said, beware that a trend today may not be your friend tomorrow.

5. There is value in getting professional help.

It is worth paying for professional help in many cases. Someone with extensive experience in the market will be able to assist with the aforementioned challenges and help maximize value in the process.

It is important to note that there are good and bad realtors and financial advisors, so do your homework.

Make sure the services they provide will appropriately match their compensation levels. Look for full transparency of fees, a full description of the services being provided and a fiduciary duty to act in your best interest.

Martin Pelletier, CFA, is a portfolio manager at Calgary-based TriVest Wealth Counsel Ltd.

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Canadian stocks advance after U.S unemployment claims decline

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Canadian stocks advanced for a third day as financial companies rose after first-time unemployment claims in the U.S. fell to the lowest since April 2008.

Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest lender by assets, advanced 3.4 percent. Goldcorp Inc., the world’s second- biggest gold producer by market value, lost 1.3 percent as the metal retreated. Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., the world’s biggest fertilizer producer by value, rallied 5.4 percent after an analyst at Royal Bank boosted his rating on the shares.

The Standard & Poor’s/TSX Composite Index climbed 103.3 points, or 0.9 percent, to 11,856.83 at 1:44 p.m. Toronto time.

“In North America, the economic data does look relatively good,” Daniel L. Bain, chief investment officer of Thornmark Asset Management Inc. in Toronto, said in a telephone interview. Bain oversees about C$400 million ($391 million). “It’s very encouraging that we will continue to see weak but sustainable growth.”

The S&P/TSX fell 3.7 percent this month through yesterday, led by gold producers, as European leaders failed to agree on a comprehensive solution to the continent’s debt crisis and the U.S. Dollar Index climbed. Canada’s benchmark stock gauge is set for its ninth monthly decline in 2011. The index last dropped nine months in a year in 1981.

U.S. initial jobless claims fell to 364,000 last week from a revised 368,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said today in Washington. Economists had forecast an increase to 380,000, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey.

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of U.S. consumer confidence, released today, rose more this month than 62 of 64 economists in a Bloomberg survey had forecast.

The S&P/TSX Financials Index climbed for a third day as all eight of its banks rose. Royal Bank gained 3.4 percent to C$50.69. Toronto-Dominion Bank, its biggest domestic rival, advanced 1.7 percent to C$74.62. Manulife Financial Corp., North America’s fourth-largest insurer, increased 3.2 percent to C$10.68.

Dundee Capital Markets Inc., the parent of Dundee Securities Ltd., soared 34 percent to C$1.12 after agreeing to be bought by its biggest shareholder, Dundee Corp. The buyer will pay C$1.125 a share for the shares of DCM it does not already own.

Crude futures advanced above $99 a barrel in New York. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., the country’s second-largest energy company by market value, gained 2.2 percent to C$37.56. Cenovus Energy Inc., Canada’s fifth-largest energy company, increased 3.6 percent to C$32.98.

NuVista Energy Ltd., which operates in western Canada, surged 16 percent to C$5.06 after reporting drilling results it called “positive.” The shares jumped as much as 19 percent, the most intraday since October 2008.

Precious-metals producers dropped as gold futures declined for a second day on the Comex in New York. Goldcorp slipped 1.3 percent to C$45.48. Barrick Gold Corp., the world’s biggest gold producer, lost 0.7 percent to C$47.14. Aurizon Mines Ltd., which produces gold in Quebec, decreased 5.9 percent to C$5.10.

Potash Corp. climbed 5.4 percent to C$43.59 after Adam Schatzker, an analyst at Royal Bank, raised his rating on the shares to “outperform” from “sector perform.” Vladislav Baumgertner, the chief executive officer of OAO Uralkali, Russia’s largest fertilizer maker, told Bloomberg Television yesterday his company will produce about 7 percent less potash than planned in 2012 to support prices.

Base-metals and coal producers gained as copper futures advanced for a third day. Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., Rio Tinto Group’s partner in the Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia, increased 6.4 percent to C$18.39. First Quantum Minerals Ltd., Canada’s second-largest publicly traded copper producer, climbed 3.7 percent to C$19.50. Teck Resources Ltd., the country’s biggest company in the industry, rose 3 percent to C$36.54.

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Small businesses and franchises of any development stage can apply for conventional loans. However, because these loans are not guaranteed by the federal government, banks prefer to lend to companies that demonstrate a strong ability to service the debt and have significant collateral to cover the loan if the company ultimately cannot pay back the loan. In addition, business owners seeking these loans are usually required to have exceptional FICO scores, a reasonable debt to worth ratio and provide a solid business plan and projections.

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    SBA loan programs lend to small businesses unable to secure financing on reasonable terms through normal lending channels. The loan programs are operated through private-sector lenders that provide loans which are, in turn, guaranteed by the SBA. The Agency has no funds for direct lending or grants. Most private lenders are familiar with SBA loan programs so interested applicants should contact their local lender for further information and assistance in the SBA loan application process.


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CBN stops banks from lending to Otedola, Dantata, 417 others

By on September 21, 2012

In a move aimed at strengthening financial stability and instilling discipline in the banking sector, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has barred banks in the country from extending further credit to 113 companies and 419 directors/shareholders, including those belonging to Mr. Femi Otedola, Alhaji Sayyu Dantata, Sir Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide, former Power Minister, Prof. Bart Nnaji, Mrs Elizabeth Ebi and Dr. Wale Babalakin.

The CBN arrived at this decision as a result of the reluctance by the debtors to pay back their loans despite the purchase of the debts at an agreed price by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

In a new circular dated September 17, and obtained exclusively by THISDAY, the central bank stated that the restriction would apply to individuals, organisations, companies as well as principal shareholders and directors of companies where the outstanding value of loans purchased by AMCON amounted to N5 billion or above as at the day of purchase, without regard to the actual amount paid by AMCON.

The circular, which was signed by CBN’s Director, Banking Supervision, Mrs. A. O. Martins, stated that “it has become necessary to stop debtors who failed to repay their loans to banks and had these loans subsequently transferred to AMCON, from further enjoying credit facilities from Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) until they fully repay agreed outstandings to AMCON.”

The circular, which was accompanied by a detailed list of the blacklisted debtors, showed that worst hit by the directive are Zenon Petroleum, owned by Otedola, which was indebted to banks to the tune of N192.4 billion; MRS Holdings Limited, which belongs to Dantata – N119.98 billion; Seawolf Limited – N98.32 billion; Arik Air Limited, belonging to Arumemi-Ikhide – N85.481 billion; NITEL Plc/M-Tel – N71.547 billion; and Capital Oil and Gas Limited, which belongs to Ifeanyi Ubah – N48.014 billion.

Others include Falcon Securities, whose Managing Director, Mr. Peter Ololo, was arraigned alongside several bank executives in 2009 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – N162.9 billion; Rockson Engineering Limited, owned by Arumemi-Ikhide – N60.475 billion; BGL Securities – N6.44 billion; Rahamaniyya Oil & Gas Limited – N46.38 billion; Bi-Courtney Limited – N20.214 billion; and Geometrics Engineering, owned by Nnaji – N19.76 billion.

The restriction also applies to: Aero Contractors Company, owned by the family of Olorogun Michael Ibru – N32.579 billion; Tinapa Business Resort – N18.509 billion; Nestoil Limited, belonging to oil and gas entrepreneur, Ernest Azudialu – N13.506 billion; Dorman Long Engineering – N9.667 billion; Ascott Offshore Nig. Ltd, belonging to former banker, Henry Imasekha and the Berkley Group – N64.728 billion; Gitto Constuzioni – N11.838 billion; and Dansa Foods – N14.880 billion, whose directors, Sani and Abdul Dangote, are the brothers of business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.

Commercial banks were also directed not to grant further credit to Cross River and Zamfara States because of the failure of the Tinapa Business Resort and Accountant General, Ministry of Finance, Zamfara to pay back loans collected respectively.
The restriction, according to the central bank, came into effect from the date of the circular and shall remain “until full liquidation of agreed indebtedness to AMCON”.

For Zenon Petroleum whose initial debt of N192.423 billion was priced by AMCON at N140.999 billion, the memo showed that “negotiations are ongoing and with fairly clear roadmap”. It also revealed that MRS Holdings’ debt of N119.986 billion, acquired by AMCON at a price of N91.620 billion has been “restructured and is performing”.

Similarly, while the remark on Seawolf’s debt of N98.328 billion that AMCON priced at N88.496 billion was put at “negotiations ongoing,” it showed also that Arik Air’s debt of N85.481 billion which was acquired by AMCON at N62.970 billion has been “restored but there is a moratorium”.

It also showed that while Capital Oil and Gas’ N48.014 billion has been “restructured and awaiting performance,” Rockson’s debt of N60.475 billion, which was acquired by AMCON at N36.331 billion, is still “pending”.

To ensure compliance, the CBN warned that any bank that flouts the guidelines would be made to make an immediate provision of 100 per cent of total principal and interest outstanding in the account of the customer and related parties, in addition to whatever regulatory penalties the CBN may decide to impose.

Source: THIS DAY

  • jaiyeoba1

    these are the people who killed Nigeria economy. let CBN confiscate their properties, like otedolas and other involved they are not rich. if not for the government money.

  • gabriel esezolonge

    quite revealing. its a shame that these are the kind of people that most nigerians try to emulate. they are nothing but disgrace


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Valpo Wins Pair Of Pitching Duels

Austin Miller turning a double play.

VALPARAISO, Ind. - Butler had perhaps its best pitching weekend of the year, but the Bulldog baseball team was edged twice by Valparaiso on Sunday. Valpo took a 1-0 pitcher's duel in the first game before winning 3-2 in the nightcap.

Valpo's Kevin Wild got a run in the bottom of the 2nd and cruised in a four-hit shutout. He struck out five and walked three as the Crusaders won in a 106-minute game. Butler starter Brad Schnitzer was just as dominant, allowing five hits and just one walk over 8.0 innings. Valparaiso managed just three singles off Schnitzer after the 2nd inning.

Valpo's run came after Schnitzer hit John Loeffler with a pitch. He scored on a single by Steven Scoby.

Scoring two runs in the second game was an offensive surge for Butler. BU got an early lead and the pitching held, as freshman Eric Stout allowed just one run over 5.0 innings. But a late comeback by Valparaiso gave the Crusaders the sweep.

In the series finale, junior Jimmy Risi smacked an RBI single in the top of the 1st to give Butler its first run of the day. With the game tied 1-1, sophomore Marcos Calderon slugged a home run to lead off the 5th and give Butler a 2-1 lead.

In the next inning, Valparaiso loaded the bases against Stout but he got out of the jam. Butler then turned to junior Chase Byerly, who held the lead into the bottom of the 9th. An error and a single put the pressure on, and Valpo would tie the game on an RBI single by Elliott Martin.

After a pop-up in the infield with the bases loaded, Spencer Mahoney walked with the bases loaded to give Valpo the 3-2 win. Both of the runs off Byerly in the final inning were unearned.

BU (19-21, 7-12) will continue on the road this week. Butler is at UIndy Wednesday, April 25 before a three-game set at Wright State next weekend.


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Restaurant Review: Revival Kitchen – Reedsville, PA

Revival Kitchen Logo

I had high hopes for a delightful dining experience at Revival Kitchen during their opening weekend, but I had no idea what kind of treat awaited us!

Revival Kitchen, a farm-to-table restaurant in Reedsville, PA (equidistant between Lewistown and State College) opened to the public July 31, bringing a burst of culinary creativity and artistic passion to the hills of central Pennsylvania. Staying true to their name, Revival Kitchen is committed to strengthening and restoring local economy by partnering with Pennsylvania farms, bakeries, butcher shops and general stores. I had been anticipating this visit for a number of weeks and couldn’t wait to experience the culmination of values and skills!

Pork Belly

Pork Belly

My dining companion Mark and I began our evening, rather appropriately, with a couple starters. First up was a Crispy Pork Belly with a Peach Caramel, Thai Herbs and Mung Bean Sprouts. The beauty of the plate was just a foretaste of the sweet, tender pork and fresh, minty salad.

Beef Bone Marrow

Beef Bone Marrow

We followed the pork belly with Beef Bone Marrow with Bacon Onion Marmalade, Preserved Lemon, Herb Salad and Grilled Sourdough. Nourishing and mouth watering, this dish was the perfect spread for hearty slices of sourdough.

I may have demanded more as I savored my last bite of the marrow, except for the Roasted Balsamic Beet Salad that came next. Accompanied by house-made Greek yogurt and topped with puffed wild rice granola, also made in-house, the balance of textures and tastes was bold but by no means overdone.

Beet Salad

Beet Salad

At this point, we were sold on this place, and we hadn’t even made it to the entrées. Not only were we speechless with nearly every bite, but the service and atmosphere was warm and welcoming. Staying true to their name, owners Quintin and Liz became masters of repurposing as they designed and decorated Revival Kitchen. Their creative use of old rope, mason jars, tractor seats, barn wood and the like give the space the simultaneous feeling of coming home and moving forward. A chalk board gives a shout out to all the local farmers and food producers that have contributed to the menu. Each name on the board represents a relationship formed around local food—a testament to the ever-growing and strengthening local economy in central PA.

Revival Kitchen House

Revival Kitchen

Gnocchi with Summer Vegetables

Next came the large plates—Corned Pork Shank with Gruyere Cheese Potato Puree, Caraway Pepper Slaw & Natural Jus and House-Made Gnocchi with Summer Vegetables, Ricotta Cheese and Sage Brown Butter. First of all, the pork shank was the tenderest pork I’ve ever had. So tender, in fact, that the meat fell from the bone with the first gentle stab of Mark’s fork. The potatoes and slaw were the perfect complement, making me feel like I was celebrating St. Patty’s Day in a renowned Irish pub. Neither did the gnocchi disappoint. The gnocchi and vegetables were fresh and firm, perfectly seasoned and buttered so the summer flavors were center stage. And did I mention the gnocchi is made in-house?

Speaking of house-made, we finished with Revival Kitchen’s homemade Bourbon Maple Cheesecake with Blueberry Jam and Lemon Verbana. How do you describe the perfect dessert? Because this was it–the perfect ending to a phenomenal dining experience.

Quintin and Liz’s attention to detail, focus on originality and commitment to local food came through every aspect of the Revival Kitchen experience–in each dish that came across our table, in the ambiance created through the décor (pro tip: check out the bathroom’s penny floor when you visit!) and even in their creative twist on comment cards.

Welcome to central PA, Revival Kitchen! We’re glad you chose us!

Revival Kitchen serves dinner Wednesday through Sunday, 4:30-10pm.

Lisa Hershey owns and operates LeFevre Bakery, a bakery in Huntingdon County that specializes in naturally fermented, locally sourced and wood-fired breads. She chose to start the bakery after witnessing how food builds community, from the field to the farmers market to the table.

Local Food as a Human Connection

Christina Kostelecky and husband Halston

Christina Kostelecky and husband Halston

For me, local food conjures up so many images. Among the happy memories are winter prunings, spring plantings, summer harvestings, and fall picklings. The unifying theme in each, though, is the friend beside me. So for me, local food means an intimate connection with people.

I’m lucky enough to have farmer friends around the world. In South Korea I met dozens of Seoul dwellers eager to trade city life for a weekend of hard work in the countryside. I’m still in touch with many of them.

Walking home from work one evening I met a family making their fall batch of kimchi, a spicy pickled cabbage that Koreans eat with every meal. They invited me to join this very family-centric activity and they won me over! Laughing while bent over barrels of salty cabbage is a great way to make friends.

I was also lucky enough to meet a very talented farmer who apprenticed under Eliot Coleman. “THE Eliott Coleman?!” I asked when we first met and then proceeded to have a forty-minute discussion about our favorite types of tomatoes. I miss her dearly and love seeing shots of her fabulous veggies that she caringly cultivates in South Korea still.

In France I ate so many local farm-made cheeses, meats and veggies. Each farmer was incredibly patient as I asked questions in my kindergarten French. “When this milk getting from her cow?” “How old is happy cheese?” They didn’t mind and were happy to talk about their craft. I can still taste the freshness of the nettle soup I made. The conversations I had with my French farmer while picking were well worth the sting of the nettles.

Now I’ve been in Pennsylvania for nearly four weeks. Already I’ve been connected to more than a dozen helpful and friendly individuals. I’ve done as Lisa Hersey recommended in her last blog post and used local foods as a map to the area. I’ve visited farmers markets and chatted with the vendors. From the vendors, I’ve learned about restaurants supporting those vendors and other local foods. From the restaurants I found networking and volunteer opportunities. From one such event, I’ve started making friends. So, in a very real way, local food has connected me with friends in such a short time.

In the coming weeks there are more volunteer opportunities and more good food to be eaten. My benefits of connecting to local food are friendship, appreciation for the complexity of my meal, and great food. These are true no matter where in the world I happen to be.

We’d love to hear where you’ve made connections with local food. Please feel free to comment below.

Christina Kostelecky and her husband recently relocated to the Lewisburg area after nearly four years of living in South Korea. While in South Korea she was at the forefront of developing and organizing local and sustainable markets and organizations.  She is dedicated to supporting and furthering local sustainable food.

This is who I am, who are you?

–by Dan Waber

I was a professional chef for the first ten years of my working life. Whoever said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” was definitely not a chef. Every chef I’ve ever met was insatiably curious about ingredients and always looking at not just how other people were cooking but what they were cooking with. Whenever we travel outside our own area we always eat at local places, and the first questions are always: What’s good here? What are you known for? What shouldn’t we miss? Great (and often spirited) conversations always result.

Pride of place is strong in people who are passionate about food. By asking the questions What’s good here? What are you known for? What shouldn’t we miss? you begin with respect for the uniqueness of the other which I find is always returned. You tell me what’s good here, and you’ll be interested when I tell you what’s good where I’m from. We both gain from the exchange.

Local food, to me, isn’t a closed community serving itself to the exclusion of others. It’s the realization that everywhere is local for someone, and exploring the variations inherent in a healthy diversity. Local food isn’t just a way of saying, “This is who I am.” it’s a way of saying, “This is who I am, who are you?”

Rettew’s farmstand

Local for me, right now, is a small farmstand that’s about a minute walk from my door (Rettew’s in Akron, PA). The John Boy peaches have just ended (I put up a small batch of jam before they were gone; you had to eat them over a sink and wash your chin when you were done), and the Red Havens are coming in now (smaller, redder, and a more concentrated peachnitude; I fell for the tang of the skin which really makes it). They’ve got Early Gold and Pristine apples that will make you want to go back through time and slap every apple you ever bought from a supermarket. The Early Gold is a yellow apple with a rich and complex flavor that includes a faint hint of the woodiness of its stem (in a good way), and a texture that is at times powdery soft without being mealy. The Pristine is a green apple, but only gently tart, with a texture that is firm without being freakishly ultracrisp. They are exceptionally juicy with a taste I can only describe as earthily fresh. There’s sweet corn now, and green beans, and lima beans in their pods, tomatoes of course, onions, potatoes, and quite a few other things. Every day it’s a little different.

Their produce is all so excellent in quality that it is changing my cuisine. I’ve begun to completely rethink the protein/veg/starch 50/25/25 plate and now think in terms of simplicity of preparation, simplicity of presentation, and methods of giving each individual ingredient its own moment on the stage.

Tomorrow we’re having guests for dinner. I plan to put out some Cowgirl Creamery cheeses (local to Point Reyes Station, CA and maker of my current favorite cheese ever, called Red Hawk, a soft, washed rind cheese made with wild bacteria—meaning its flavor is unique to its place of manufacture, which gives local another shade) for nibbling to start, and throughout. Then I’m serving the best chicken stock I’ve ever made (procedure available upon request), clarified, alone in a cup, garnished only with two or three freshly-bruised, freshly-picked rosemary leaves from a planter on my back porch. Followed by a dish made by cutting the green beans into corn kernel sized circular segments, blanching them, shocking them in ice water, then sauteing them in butter with an equal amount of corn cut from the cob, salt and pepper, just until the corn is heated through. The corn is so good right now it’s spectacular even when raw. Then, another course, freshly shelled lima beans, blanched and chilled, tossed with diced heirloom tomato, and drizzled with olive oil. Nothing I could do would improve the flavor and texture of these peak-picked items. I would like dessert to be a half of a perfect Red Haven peach, drizzled with Scottish heather honey (not local to me, but it’s made by bees in a single and singular place), and oven-toasted skin-on almond slices. I’m hopeful, but I don’t have final say on dessert matters in this kitchen, and I’m okay with that. The peach dish I hope for, which we named Peach Jennius, was put together by the love of my life as a lunch dessert a few days ago, and it’s what really triggered the thought process behind the whole menu.

Peach Jennius

Peach Jennius

I’ve thought of dozens of ways that I can do more to these dishes, but I keep checking myself with the realization that with the ingredients I have available to me now the prime consideration isn’t how can I make these better, it’s how can I be sure I don’t diminish them. This is not anything new. Restaurants everywhere are embracing the tasting menu, but I don’t think it’s the way most Americans cook at home. The French have considered the vegetable to be a course all its own for hundreds of years, the Japanese have a respect for simplicity and showcasing ingredient freshness that’s unequaled. But I’m not French, and I’m not Japanese, so a shift like this is, in a very quiet and personal way, radical.

I am curious how our guests will react. I wonder if they will understand or just consider me quirky. I wonder if what local food means to me will resonate with what food (let alone local) means to them. Either way, I know that conversation will happen, because the meal, and I, will be saying, “This is who I am, who are you?”

Dan Waber is a poet, playwright, publisher, and digital artist whose work is almost (but not always) text-based ( His professional life has been in food and sales and marketing. His life was well and truly changed by reading “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan, and he has committed the next stage of his life to supporting sustainable food by all means possible. He can be reached at

When Your Meal Becomes A Map

I smirked as my dad predictably took us on a counter-clockwise tour around his dinner plate, telling us nothing we didn’t already know.
Farm fresh vegetables

“This beef was raised right here in our own pasture,” he points out the window where two Holstein steers graze serenely.

“The beans, potatoes and salad from that land there,” he says, referring to the plot of green adjacent to the pasture.

“Even the eggs in the salad are from our little corner!” he finishes with a flourish.

This was a commonplace litany in my childhood home, especially in the summer months when the garden spewed forth greens and tomatoes, potatoes and corn. Yet despite this most ordinary and life-long experience of knowing his food’s source, my father’s obvious delight at the land, work, and food connection has never waned.

Not only has he maintained his joy in being connected to his food, he’s passed it on.

I, too, now delight in surveying my dinner plate—my physical nourishment extending into a map of places, people and memories.

Sweet potatoes from Micah and Bethany at Plowshare Produce, friends and spiritual comrades. The tubers are not only flavored with butter and salt, but with memories. Memories of weeding the sweet potato plants on a drizzly summer day alongside friends as Micah explained why this particular field had the best soil on the farm. Memories of digging through the dry and crumbly sod on a crisp fall morning like a team of archeologists, our treasure of bushels upon bushels of sweet potatoes a worthy reward. Imaginary prizes handed out to the largest potato, the most bizarre shape, one which most resembles a living creature.

Cheese from Clover Creek in Williamsburg, my weekly neighbors at the local farmers market. Each bite of cheese is the result of one family caring for and milking the cows, creating new cheese recipes, culturing the cheese and bringing the cheese to market. This is industriousness and creativity I am happy to support.

Bread from my oven made with grain I can picture growing at Small Valley Milling and slathered with honey from Andy of Tug Hollow Honey, who keeps me regularly informed about the plight of the bees in our area and country. Bees that have enjoyed the cover crops across the road at Plowshare Produce and dutifully pollinated our vegetables in return.

And in my eating, I am connected. For ultimately, eating locally is about connection. Environmental stewardship, local economy, individual health and all the other reasons we eat local work to restore connections and seek wholeness.

As Wendell Berry says in his essay “The Pleasure of Eating”:

“A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes. The pleasure of eating, then, may be the best available standard of our health… Eating with the fullest pleasure—pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance—is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.”

Choosing local food goes beyond physical necessity and nourishes our need for connection to the earth and to each other. And in restoring these connections, we become a bit more grateful, a bit more humble, and a bit more whole.

How does eating locally restore your connections? Please answer in the comments.

Lisa Hershey owns and operates LeFevre Bakery, a bakery in Huntingdon County that specializes in naturally fermented, locally sourced and wood-fired breads. She chose to start the bakery after witnessing how food builds community, from the field to the farmers market to the table.

Finding Connection In Local Food

by Roberta Cosentino

It’s June and my garden has been my obsession for several weeks. Each new flower on the chipotle pepper plant has me counting the days to fresh salsa. As always, ramp season was too short, but berries are ripening and summer is in the air. I am looking forward to the summer season and all of its wonderful spirit, energy, opportunity…and flavor!

A few years ago at a PASA conference I purchased a copy of Simply in Season – what would come to be my go-to recipe book. Organized by season and indexed by ingredient, I found myself at home with my first CSA share thumbing through pages of recipes with ingredients I actually had on hand. It was after my first rhubarb pie that I immediately started buying the recipe book for my friends and family.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, purchasing Simply in Season would eventually have the great effect of helping me connect my food to my surrounding landscape. As the seasons passed, I flipped through the book to the appropriate pages and started to realize that indeed, I had no reason to cook a summer dish in the dead of winter! There were other great recipes I could enjoy during those months, with seasonally appropriate ingredients. As the title of the book suggests, it was simple.

Eventually I would come to adopt something equally as simple: buying fresh and buying local. Without a doubt, this means different things to different people. What is local, anyway? Is it my town? My state? The east coast? The answer I choose is, simply, as close to me as possible.

Whether it’s my garden, the farm down the street or my favorite soap maker from Centre County, buying fresh and buying local is not a steadfast rule, it’s just a simple choice. At first it’s a choice about paying attention to where things come from until inevitably, one day, you enter a big-chain grocery store and feel like you’ve just taken a trip to strange, faraway land.

As a non-native Pennsylvanian I attribute my connection to my community with the Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign. Having moved here from a major city, my first months in PA were spent driving down gravel roads, giddy to find my dairy farmer. I met like-minded folks at the farmers markets, and generally appreciated the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of the area. I quickly found myself living peacefully – as a responsible and conscious consumer. And in this small, simple way, I started connecting my plate to my earth and my earth to my neighbors and my neighbors to the world around me.

In the coming months I’ll be turning this discussion outward, connecting with the Buy Fresh Buy Local community throughout the state – producers, businesses and individuals alike. In the meantime, I welcome input, questions, requests or musings.

Until next time, I wish us all a bountiful season and merry salsa-making. Cheers!

Roberta Cosentino is a native New Englander who now lives, works and eats in Chester County, by way of Washington, DC. Since becoming a PASA member, her passion for small-scale farming, food security, cooking and community have guided her academic, professional and personal goals for nearly a decade.

The many faces of Marty’s Market

A three-faceted business, Marty’s Market has achieved a hemostasis that mirrors the balances found in nature. The Strip District business boasts an American-style café, a market, and a coffee bar, all of which work together to provide affordable, all natural, organic, and often locally grown products. “The idea was to have a model where people could experience food in many ways in one space,” says Johanna Klotz, Marty’s Market Strategist.

Klotz explains that, in addition to being convenient for customers, combining three food outlets into one space reduces waste. For example, produce that is not aesthetically fit for sale in the market can be incorporated into a café dish. Extra meat from the market’s butcher, whose products come entirely from local farms, can also be cooked into café meals instead of composted. By ordering for all three sectors at once, Marty’s Market is also able to cut down on transportation waste.

“The goal for this market is to really try to be a part of strengthening the region’s food system. We really feel strongly about supporting local growers,” Klotz says. “We like to see more money entering the local economy. But also we are really interested in how things taste and how fresh they are, and that’s something you can only achieve by ordering locally.”

Marty’s Market disproves the misconception that ordering locally means a limited selection of crops. If anything, their intimate connection with local farmers allows for a greater variety of produce. “We have a staff that is really dedicated to educating themselves about food, but then also transferring that education onto customers. We might get something that’s really rare that we would only get from a farmer directly, and not from a distributer. We get really excited about being able to talk about it with our customers,” Klotz says. Adding these more obscure fruits and vegetable to the café menu allows customers to try, and learn how to cook, foods that they may not buy on their own.

Food demonstrations led by visiting chefs are another way Marty’s Market connects with the community. Other special events include children’s cooking classes, cosponsored by Slow Food Pittsburgh, and raw vegan workshops. Marty’s Market also hosts monthly Healthy Eaters’ Meet and Greets. The Meet and Greets are not based around dieting, but allow community members to discuss ways to maintain healthy lifestyles. The next Meet and Greet is scheduled for April 11.

Not even a year old, Marty’s Market shows that there is a demand for organic foods in the Pittsburgh community. “Our customer base has proven that people really want [healthy foods] and they are willing to come to a small store in the Strip District to purchase these items,” Klotz says.

About PASA

The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) is a nonprofit organization working to improve the economic prosperity, environmental soundness and social propriety of Pennsylvania food and agricultural systems. We work with farmers who grow our food, consumers who eat the food, and those concerned with the ecological wellbeing of our environment and natural resources, among many other interest groups.

PASA is the only statewide, member-based, sustainable farming organization in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, and is one of the largest in the nation. The Association seeks to address the sustainability of the entire food and agriculture industry, and places great value on efforts to build bridges between various and disparate participants in the food system.

PASA creates networks and markets to strengthen the ties between concerned consumers and family farmers. PASA is building statewide channels that link farmers with farmers, farmers with consumers, and consumers with markets. As our organization has grown, we’ve had some real successes with a variety of educational programs – both on and off the farm, that are shaping new partnerships that enhance the lives and livelihoods of producers and consumers.

PASA is a network of people who care – we all have a role in assuring the health and longevity of our regional farms and food supply. PASA is the catalyst that brings together those dedicated to advancing sustainable food and farming systems. PASA is a dynamic new model for partnerships between traditional agricultural and our ever-changing society and has worked to forge positive and needed changes in the way food is grown, harvested, distributed, and marketed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Our family farms face enormous threats and whether we can save farming in time is up to all of us. They can and will be saved – if they have enough friends (and farmers). Please be one of them. Please join us.


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Black and white and dead all over

Michael Kinsley writes a, well, cute column about the Rube Goldberg process that produces newspapers and how it’s likely doomed. Not sure what the news is there. In it, he asks:

No one knows how all this will play out. But it is hard to believe that there will be room in the economy for delivering news by the Rube Goldberg process described above. That doesn’t mean newspapers are toast. After all, they’ve got the brand names. You gotta trust something called the “Post-Intelligencer” more than something called “Yahoo” or “Google,” don’t you? No, seriously, don’t you? Okay, how old did you say you are?

The latest Ad Age, in a special issue with American Demographics, asks Americans just that question (no link, damn them):

What Web site provides the most reliable source of information on the internet?

Top picks were Yahooo (cited by 11.3% of U.S. consumers), MSN (10.4%), Google (9.9%), CNN (8%), AOL (5.2%) and Consumer Reports (3.1%). Google scored first among younger consumers, with 22% of the 18-24 crowd and 15% of the 25-34 group choosing to Google.

In Europe, no single media property emerged as most trustworthy and objective. But Eruope has a clear choice for most-reliable Web information source: Google ranked tops in France, Germany, Netherlands and Spain, and scored No. 2, behind the BBC, in the U.K.

Google’s strong showing in the U.S. and Europe as a reliable Web information source is intriguing since the site largely leaves it to users to figure out what in the sea of unedited search results should be believed or discarded. But that leaves consumers in control, and those consumers count on Google to lead them to the truth.

Behind these stats lie a few phenoms: Yes, online brands are trusted. And in a world of new ubiquitious and international uberbrands, it’s impossible for a local or niche brands to rise up in top lists such as these. But don’t get trapped into old, media 1.0 big-think: The aggregation of the smalls is the powerful force here. Small is the new big.

But the real lesson is what Ad Age said at the end: This is about control, about finding, packaging, editing, judging sources on our own.

The challenge for those black, white, and dead-all-over old properties is to find the ways to contribute to that new world and be found when Google is the front page.

The Digg society

Here’s a good exploration of the complementary species that make up the Digg ecosystem [via my son’s dugg links]. It shows how news organizations need to look at themselves — as ecosystems, rather than as manufactured products.

There are five groups of people who make what it is.

There are the readers: an educated guess would be that probably ten to twenty percent of those ever click ‘digg’, they are mostly just there for the end product of the digg machine: an array of interesting news and links often presented before the other news sources.

There are the diggers: some percentage of the readers, probably ten to twenty percent. They bother to vote for the stories on, which changes the numbers next to the stories and enables stories to get to another queue – the diggnation podcast.

Then there are the hardcore diggers – people who sit in the queue of submitted stories and watch for breaking news that should make its way up to the front page, or report stories as being spam or irrelevant.

An even smaller subset of users are the submitters: people who post fresh stories. It’s difficult to post a fresh story to digg at this point, it’s a competition for who can submit it first.

Finally there are the news publishers themselves, often bloggers who want to get readership for their content.

What’s really interesting about these groups is that each of them is required for the system to function, they all came together relatively quickly, and each of them have different and complementary rewards for what they do.

If a newspaper truly handed control of itself over to its community — Digg-like or Craig-like — then a similar society could emerge: reporters, on staff and off; contributors; creators; alerters; readers-now-kn0wn-as-editors…..

I feel like a crack dealer

Jon Friedman has a funny column watching a focus group put on for show filled with readers of Entertainment Weekly, my baby, who were forced to give up the magazine for a month.

It was endearing, even heartwarming, to observe the obsessive loyalty of these subscribers. The dinner occurred smack in the middle of a horrendous industry slump. Magazines are desperately seeking advertising dollars these days….

That said, I’d hasten to add that these 12 EW subscribers truly need to get out and smell the flowers once in a while, too. (One of them talked about renting a hotel room while in college so she could watch the Oscars ceremony without having her roommates milling around and distracting her from the broadcast. She said that, by the way, with a shrug, as if this amounted to perfectly normal behavior. I don’t know about you, but I could barely afford to buy a slice of pizza when I was in college)….

They dearly missed EW during their period of deprivation. Zoe, a charming lawyer-turned-aspiring-actress, confessed to the group: “I felt lonely,” before smiling gamely and adding reassuredly, “just to the not-pathetic-side of lonely.”

The other panelists nodded knowingly….

Juan commiserated with Kevin, saying: “It was like not having a pen-pal write to me.” He then paused and added sheepishly: “You probably think it’s kind of … freaky.”

I’d like to hear more from those fans and not about the magazine but about the movies. Did Zoe find King Kong sexy? Did Juan get into arguments about Munich?

The point of this little show Friedman attended was, of course, to show the wonders of magazines. It’s all about the magazine. But see the post below about newspapers and community.

EW, I’m glad to see, does exactly what we hoped it would do: It attracts an community of people who love entertainment. But the internet didn’t exist when the magazine was born. Now it does. So now they could bring those people together to share their reviews with fellow movie fans. The magazine has a community. The magazine is a community. So now what?

Nobody here but us chickens

Scott Anderson, a newspaper online exec at Tribune Co., writes an honest, sad, and true post at his blog, Online News Squared, about community and newspapers. Quoted in entirety:

A little compare and contrast about the NYC transit strike gets us quickly to the heart of a serious problem that faces newspaper.coms.

Visit here, our friend Mr. Newmark’s storied List. Feel your clicking finger go tingly as you navigate through page after page after page of people offering rides or looking for rides into and out of New York.

Now, visit here, the Ride Share board on, (part of Mama Tribune’s happy family). Feel how it’s about as lonely and forlorn as a subway platform during the strike.

Yet another crisis and Craigslist commands the community. Newspaper.coms command . . . Well, not the community.

Squared isn’t at all picking on his colleagues at Newsday; in fact, he’s very proud that they put the rideshare board into play. It’s just frustrating that even when we TRY, we more often than not find we are absolutely losing what may be one of the most important parts of the business as it more and more moves online — the ability to connect people to one another and to activate conversations. To not just be the deliverer of news and information with glitzy bells and whistles and more related content than you could shake a latte stirrer at, but the catalyst of connection.

How is it that a decade deep into the online news business that isn’t our franchise? Are we only about news, not about the people who consume the news? How come Craig organically can touch lives on so many personal levels — and Craig’s users can touch each other’s lives on so many levels? Connecting buyers and sellers. Connecting employers and employees. Connecting single men and women and combinations thereof. Connecting old friends. Connecting people who need a ride.

Nobody should know its community better than a A community, to connect within itself, should need to turn to nobody but a A decade in, we’ve mastered only the disconnect.

And I think the reason is clear and simple: It’s about control. My first law of media and life: Give the people control and they will use it. Don’t, and you will lose them.

Craig created a tool and stood back and, as I now quote him in every PowerPoint to which I subject people, followed one simple rule: “Get out of the way.” He handed over control.

Newspapers are allergic to that idea; they have defined themselves by their control: They report, they confirm, they edit, they package, they product, they distribute. We read. Oh, they’re trying to hand over more control. I was proud at Advance that, thanks to the insistence of our boss, we created forums where everyone had their say. But truth be told, that may have been ahead of other newspaper companies but that wasn’t saying much. The people couldn’t create their own forums, package their own news, use the site to congregate and conspire.

It’s a hard lesson to learn and I still learn it every day. I was working with some folks on a project and we had a light-bulb-over-the-head moment about handing over control. I spoke with a journalist I respect the other day about media today and we had to remind ourselves that the people package news now and don’t wait for us to.

The truth is that newspapapers have to recognize is that the people already have control. What can they do about that?

New News: The newsroom as classroom

This is the second in a series about suggestions on how to change newspapers.

After scaring the bejesus out of the newsroom and other departments in a paper, the next step has to pick up the pieces and educate the people there, to take the fear out of the unknown by making it known. I think that the newsroom should start to act like a classroom in three ways.

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First, I would train everyone in a newsroom — everyone: reporter, editor, photographer, artist, boss, clerk — on the lite content creation and publishing tools of online. I’m going to be involved with such a session for the faculty at the new Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY next month, showing everyone how to use blogging, podcasting, vlogging, wiki, rss, blog search, and other tools. I hope the lesson learned is as simple as, “is that all there is to this?” (Cue Peggy Lee.) I’ve seen it happen scores of times with publishing folks who are accustomed and resigned to long and complex processes to get their product out. It happened when I showed James Wolcott how to blog (but, of course, not what to say): He tapped out a bon mot and hit the publish button and then was amazed that his post was presented to the world: no senior editors, no copy editors, no production meetings, no delay. He grinned, devilishly.

Once these folks see how easy these tools are to use, it will help them understand why they’re proliferating like Tribbles and what the possibilities are both in the newsroom and in their communities.

And so I would tell newspaper bosses that they should not only allow but encourage — though not necessarily require — people in the newsroom to use these tools, to create and converse and publish and broadcast. Oh, no, I can hear them saying, without copyediting? Yes, without copyediting. You can’t copyedit a podcast but you can always take it down. You can put out a policy that boils down to this: Don’t be a stupid jerk. Oh, and start interacting with your public, who will warn you when you’re being a stupid jerk.

And then great and surprising things can happen. Newsrooms can be and should be creative and curious places and these tools can break out those instincts. I’ve seen that happen, too. I’ve seen still photographers get reenergized professionally and creatively when they can shoot video. I’ve seen reporters freed to publish quickly with links having a ball finding themselves in conversation — for the first time in their careers — with the folks who used to merely read them.

I think you’ll find most of the newsroom embracing these new tools. And in fairness, I think you’ll find many who’ve long wanted to try but they were stopped either by newsroom fear or by online folks, some of whom have started to turn their craft into a priesthood, just like newspapering. But there will be naysayers. Newsrooms are filled with them and in the culture of the place, their caution usually wins the day. I’ve seen that, too: One person can shake her head freetting about all the bad things that could happen if we actually link out to strangers and so it doesn’t happen because no one wants to be responsible. So managers have to ignore the naysayers and pay attention to the creators. This doesn’t mean that you have to love it all; quality matters and you should improve or kill the bad stuff. But you should concentrate on sharing the gems and the excitement.

The print and online folks should not get caught up in the respective niceties and intracies of their crafts. Don’t spend months designing new templates for podcasts, watching the work fall farther down the priority list at every meeting because “there isn’t revenue attached.” Instead, use the tools that exist: Put up blogs and let newsroom folks publish links to their vlogs and podcasts from them and then show them how to track the links to them via Technorati et al. Keep it simple because it is so simple.

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Second, I would invite people from the community to come into the newsroom — or go out to them — to teach them whatever they might want to learn from you. I’m not sure what that is. So find out. Ask. Terry Heaton, who has done more to innovate in newsrooms than anyone I know, helped the folks at WKRN-TV in Nashville invite bloggers and vloggers to the station to learn how to shoot better video. It doesn’t much matter what the curriculum is, for the real lesson here is about sharing. We shouldn’t act as if we have the keys to the kingdom. But if people want to learn how to file a FOIA or create a news graphic or select fonts, then let them in on the knowledge.

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Third, I would invite people from the community to come to newsrooms — or, again, go to them — to have them teach the journalists. Again, the syllabus doesn’t matter for the real lesson is that journalists want to learn and the community knows much worth teaching. So if financial people say we always mess up stories about P&Ls, then invite them in to teach us. If sports fans think we don’t understand what’s really happening in the local football league, then buy them a beer and listen. If religious leaders think they’re misunderstood, then have them explain their beliefs to us. It’s our job to listen.

If that works, then invite the whole community to come join in. And if that happens, then you’re starting to get to where I think a newspaper should be: Not a repository of knowledge, not a spout for it, but a — pardon the icky poetic imagery — fountain around which people gather to share. Once again, Hugh McLeod said it better than I just did: We need to think as “a point on the map where wonderful people cluster together to do wonderful things.” How do we help people gather to share what they know and need to know? How do we turn newspapers into newsplaces? This, I hope, is a start. More to come….

New news: The fear factor

Below, I promised to start making more tangible suggestions for remaking newspapers from papers into places. Here’s a start (they’ll all be tagged ‘newnews’):

The first job is to instill fear in the newsroom. Oh, there’s fear there now. But it is fear of the unknown. What we need is fear of the known: the facts about falling readership and advertising and the reasons behind both and about new competition. Fear alone won’t lead to a strategy, of course. But until there is an imperative to change inspired by that fear, it won’t be possible to move past the complacency and resistance that populate so many newsrooms now. In later posts, we’ll look at means to replace fear with excitement about new opportunities. But first things first.

So before doing any reorganizing, strategizing, or off-siting, the first thing I think a newspaper should do is report about the future of news. Assign your best reporters and editors — the Bejesus Task Force — to get all the prognostications about the future and all the data about the present — about where the audience and dollars are going, about new competition, about new technologies, about best and worst practices, about new definitions of news — and bring it together in a report for the entire staff. Make the assignment clear: Find the most frightening stuff you can. Now is the time to face every devil. Leave none unearthed.

This is for the entire staff. All of this is. If you do this just for management — or just editors, for that matter — it will not work. And it’s not just for the paper. You need to take that task-force report about the future of news and print it in the paper — and online, of course — and ask the people to tell you what to do. Know that you’ll be reaching only the people you reach now. But you’ll set a new tone in the relationship and will, I guarantee, get good ideas. So set up the means to capture those ideas: public forums, online and in person. Meet the readers.

Next, go talk to your former readers and never readers. OK, do some focus groups. But better yet, go out to folks you do not serve and meet them face-to-face, preferably over beer. Give managers and staffers strict instructions to listen, not talk. They may only ask questions, not argue and never lecture. Tell them to get answers to key questions, including how people define news today, where they go to get it, what their frustations are, what they really care about, why they don’t read newspapers, what they hate about papers, whether they trust us, what they know, what they can contribute.

Then you can bring in some prognosticators and bullshit artists (my current job description) to scare you, but judge what they say based on the reporting you’ve just done. Later, you can challenge them, as my editor friend challenged me, to get real. But now, treat them like horror-movie producers and ask them for their scariest stuff.

Now bring in your competitors: bloggers, podcasters, community organizers. Don’t kidnap and torture them. Ask them how and why they do what they do and what they need to do it better. Later, you’ll look for ways to work with them; in fact, that will be a key to any future strategy. But now, just look at all the ways they’re smarter and nimbler than you and how they’re having so much more fun. You need to know what you don’t know. Jay Rosen even suggests giving the staff a test — but he’s a tougher teacher than I will be.

Finally, have an open meeting about the numbers. Go ahead and show how profitable you are today. But show every bad number and every bad trend you don’t want your advertisers, shareholders, analysts, and bosses to see. If you don’t do this, it won’t work. You might as well call in the private equity firm and call it a day.

The idea is to make everyone in the organization understand the strategic imperative for change. If they think they can just sit back and do what they’ve done for years, then they won’t be doing it much longer. If they want to change, they will. The danger is that the smartest staffers will get so scared they will want to quit and blog for a living. That’s why there’s no time to spare getting to the next steps so you can hold onto them and harnass their iimaginations. More on that later….

One newsroom, two newsrooms, or none?

There is a debate in the land of newspapering: Should print and online operate separately or together? Jay Rosen argues today that in the recent kerfuffle at The Washington Post, he sees benefit in separation. And you’d think I’d agree, since I set up separate operations when I was at But I don’t think I do, not anymore.

The commonly held wisdom — or rationalization — among those of us who took separate routes is that we needed to create autonomous operations so that the online staff could do what was appropriate for this new medium (like enabling interactivity) and so that the online brand and bottom line would not be shortchanged in ad deals as merely value added. And I think that was true.

But it is also true today that if newspapers themselves do not change radically to embrace the future, they will become things of the past. So I have argued that newspapers have a choice: Either totally upend newsroom culture and get people to face the strategic imperative of gathering and sharing news in new ways across all platforms … or move most of the staff to online — where the audience is now and revenue growth, if not equivalent revenue, will be — and leave the dinosaurs behind. But if you take the former course, if you take the challenge of exploding the newsroom, then you probably have to give those people control for all the products and hold them accountable for audience growth and satisfaction and for keeping up with all their new competitors, small and smaller. And if they can’t do it, then you get new people who can. Quoth Yelvington once more: “It’s time to change your people, or change your people.”

Jay argues persuasively that in l’affaire Froomkin, the ability of online monarch Jim Brady to make appropriate decisions for the dot-com apart from newsroom king Len Downie is productive:

They’re not equals (780 in one newsroom vs. 65 in the other; fewer than one million subscribers vs. eight million users), but Washington and Arlington have their own spheres. Over the newspaper and reporting beats Len Downie is king. Over the website Jim Brady is sovereign. Over the user’s experience no one has total control. There’s tension because there’s supposed to be tension. It makes for a more dynamic site.

Well, but it also makes for blinders aside the eyes of the newsroom princes. That is why Post political editor John Harris thought he could be so haughty as to publicly scold his online colleagues for not following his rules and for embarrassing him with his White House, even snaring the — what shall I say, unsuspecting? — ombudsman in his crusade.

No, Harris and company do not need to confront the online people. They need to confront the future. They need to confront the fact that more readers read the online product. They need to confront the fact that the economics of news are changing, whether they approve or not.

I once had an argument with an editor of People who wanted a redesign to do what technology at the time — and logic — could not do. He kept stomping his foot: If I want it, it must be so. Make it so! I kept explaining why it could not happen. Round and round it went until finally I snapped, “Jim, damnit, I’m not your enemy, reality is.”

The people in the Post print newsroom acted as if the online newsroom were their enemy. No. Reality is.

: So are The New York Times and USA Today right to combine newsrooms? Only if they blow up the newsrooms in the process and force every journalist at every desk to reinvent not only the product but also the process of news — and reinvent themselves as they do it. An organization chart is not the answer. An attitudectomy is.

When I visited with The Guardian’s management, I found an impressive cultural change already underway: The print folks and online folks together worried that they were behind,that the digital age was well underway and they were still trying to hop on. They didn’t try to alter reality. They wanted to get ahead of it.

That cultural change is what matters, not whether there are one or two newsrooms.

In fact, I’ll argue that there should be no newsroom. Now you may have thought that the reference to no newsrooms in the headline above was another smart-assed prediction of the fall of papers. Not at all. Instead, it’s a suggestion: Just as you should stop thinking of your product as paper, as a thing, so should you stop thinking of your operation as a room.

The old saw in designing space for a business is that you should give the sales department as little space as possible — or no space at all — because, after all, aren’t the sales people supposed to be out there, selling?

So shouldn’t the same be true for newsrooms: Give the reporters no space, have them live out of their laptops, so they are out there reporting? Now go the next step: What if some and soon much of the news doesn’t come from reporters — allowing the reporters to concentrate on what they do best, on their real value, reporting — but from the people we used to call readers? And what if the people help edit too (see: Digg)? What if there is no newsroom? Or rather, what if the newsroom is the community and the community is the newsroom.

OK, I just went to far. It’s what I do now: I push the point to make a point. At a recent breakfast with pr execs, a sage news exec — guess who — defended me at such a moment, saying it’s now my role to push the imperative and it’s still their job to get their jobs done. I was grateful for the defense, particularly from him.

But I also went to lunch last week with a print editor/friend I now like to call Fred Flintstone who challenged me back and said, ok, after resisting the Gospel according to Jetson, he was now ready to sign up and build a new future. But how? How, exactly? It’s fine to talk theory but what’s the reality?

He was right to push back and since I now spend so much time in this space with abstractions that will make fine book chapter titles but not blueprints — but since I also have faced the specific practical challenges of merging newsroom views if not newsrooms — then I need to get more practical: Mouth, meet money.

So I hope to start writing a series of posts with explicit suggestions for news organizations. Take them for what they’re worth. Oh, I’ll argue that there are actually lots of practical suggestions amidst the 9,009 posts that precede this one (yow, that guy can blather!). But I can see how the forest can get lost for the kudzu. So I’ll write some posts that are at least more direct. Starting shortly with suggestions about how to merge those newsrooms… but first, how to scare them….


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advertising sales at Walt Disney Co's sports powerhouse ESPN are running slightly ahead of the level they reached at the same point last year, Disney Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo said on Wednesday.

At the ESPN cable television network, "we have now seen a slight improvement" in the pace of ad sales compared with a year ago, Rasulo said at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference.

The assessment for the cable network, a key driver of Disney results, was rosier than the one Rasulo gave when the company released quarterly earnings on November 8. At that time, Rasulo said quarter-to-date ESPN ad sales were "pacing down modestly."

Rasulo declined to comment on ad sales at ABC, which like other broadcast networks has suffered from a ratings decline this fall. Among the broadcasters, only Comcast Corp's NBC has seen primetime viewership increase compared with last year.

ABC took a big ratings hit with the network's decision to have past top-rated contestants on "Dancing with the Stars" face off in an all-star competition, Rasulo said.

"It didn't work out," Rasulo said, perhaps because "people didn't want to see people they knew could dance, they wanted to see people who couldn't dance.

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Urban cool to Kevin Durant: The ways bikes are being used to sell you stuff

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Something interesting has happened to cycling over the past five or six years, other than its emergence as the urban political battle de jour: it got cool.

And like everything that gets cool, it’s being exploited to sell stuff. It’s been interesting to see how bikes are increasingly showing up in advertising and marketing schemes in the past few years (which is much different than the long tradition of using bikes as the butt of jokes in ads). Here’s a breakdown of the ways bikes are being used to separate you from your cash.

Young Hip and Urban

As bikes become increasingly popular among young urbanites, many companies are trying to tap into some of their inherent coolness. Just put a trim young model on a fixie and send them down a city street with the camera rolling and, bam, you’re hip. Right, Blackberry?

A bike, especially if the front wheel is bigger than the back one, says something specific. It points to a simpler time, when Victorian housewives went for quaint rides in the English countryside, and then called on their British stoicism to avoid mentioning all the times their nutty bikes sent them crashing onto their heads. That’s why these usually sepia-toned images are used to sell everything from soap to, like this one I spotted recently, storage bins.

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Cycling also brings with it that old baggage of being good for the earth, which makes them an easy point of reference for those trying to portray themselves as green. Even when you’re trying to sell the world on the merits of coal.

French romance

A certain kind of bike, especially one with a  basket filled with a baguette or fluffly pastery,  instantly conjures up the romance of the French countryside. That’s why Calgary’s Pascal’s Pasteries use a bike in their logo (they are French, they told me, and they love bikes almost as much as they love baking).

Something to make you sweat

Bikes, especially mountain bikes, have long been used to sell things as “extreme.” So seeing NBA star Kevin Durant riding a bike as a way to increase his endurance is a bit of a new take on an old theme. (The sport of cycling has been wringing its hands over its failure to appeal to minorities all over the world, so this must be seen as a coup. Next step? Finding a bike frame to properly fit Durant’s six-foot-seven-inch frame). It should, however, be pointed out that Durant isn’t the first basketball star to cop to cycling. Bill Walton bragged to Bicycling magazine last year that he “was doing centuries before we called ’em centuries.”

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When Mikael Colville-Anderson of Copenhagenize told me about this ad, a Miller beer commercial featuring an all-American tough guy on a bike in the snow, I hardly believed him. But here it is, perhaps the strangest, most awesome ad featuring a bike in history.

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The Gayest Things You'll See This Week

First of all, I must send out massive congratulations to my angel Matty, who today set a new Guinness World Record for longest continuous kiss. Matty and his friend Bobby kissed for 33 hours straight (no pun intended). This marks the first time that the record has been set by a same sex couple. I am so very proud of him.

You can read all about it here on Towleroad. There's already been talk of the boys appearing on "Ellen," though I'll believe that when I see it. Matty appeared in the JTMF production of The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, was Assistant Stage Manager for Sordid Lives and will be seen next June in the JTMF production of Die Mommy, Die!

And thanks to my dear Stephen in Portland, comes the trailer for the gay romantic comedy* Bear Country City, in selected cities now and available on DVD in December. As a big ole bear (and bear aficionado) myself, Uncle P is really looking forward to seeing this one. Trailer may be NSFW:

*I look forward to the day when I no longer have to qualify a romantic comedy as 'gay.'

Okay - I'm off to (hopefully) finish the sound plot for Top Girls. We open Thursday, so I may be quiet (well, online, at least) for a few days. Wish me broken legs.

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A majority of colleges and universities have implemented emergency preparedness plans for their campuses, according to a new survey by the Campus Safety and Security Project. Of the 342 institutions surveyed, 85 percent reported having a plan that, at a minimum, meets the standards set by the National Fire Protection Association. Of the types of hazards covered in the plans, 98 percent met the standard of preparation for acts of violence; 97 percent met the standard for a natural disaster; and 76 percent were adequately prepared for a pandemic. Slightly more than half also cover cyber disruptions.

Three-quarters of those institutions include mechanisms for communicating during an emergency by electronic means such as e-mail, Web pages, and text messaging. Yet seven in 10 of those that use text messaging require participants to opt into the system, and only about 20 percent said that all or most of the campus community (at least 75 percent) had signed up for the notification service.

The project is an initiative by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and a consortium of professional organizations focused on campus safety and security. The project was funded in part by the Lilly Endowment.

About 77 percent of institutions develop their plans by committee that includes members from student affairs, the business side, public safety, and the provost's office. The largest institutions--those with at least 15,000 students--tend to hire an emergency manager with responsibility for emergency planning and preparation. That's far less common for smaller schools.

Most respondents said they distribute information about their emergency plans to the campus communities by paper, such as posting on campus buildings and in publications. Half post the information to the campus Web site. A third include the information on the campus intranet. Six in 10 say they reference the plan in student and faculty/staff orientations.

Because the results represent only about 16 percent of its member institutions, the researchers said the survey results should be considered "more exploratory than definitive." On the positive side, the report concludes, "emergency preparedness plans and strategies tend to recognize the need to balance campus safety and security concerns within an environment of openness and freedom of expression that is an essential characteristic of the higher education community." However, the survey also points to several areas "that need further exploration and attention," such as a bigger commitment by smaller institutions to have emergency managers with dedicated campus safety responsibility and a requirement at colleges and universities for faculty, staff, and students to join a text messaging emergency network.

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