Life is a One-Way Ticket: Herman Leonard\u27s Eightieth Birthday Celebration

Life is a One-Way Ticket is a twenty-three minute documentary about jazz photographer Herman Leonard\u27s 80th birthday party. The event took place at Rosy\u27s Jazz Hall, a club in the uptown section of New Orleans where musicians including Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Stevie Wonder once performed. Within the documentary, I show the celebration as an analogy for the life of Herman Leonard. In short but moving passages, Herman Leonard reflects upon the nature of his longevity, the world today, and the luck he has had with photography. In addition to the voice of Herman Leonard, interviews with Herman Leonard\u27s friends and family show him as both a world-class photographer and the down-toearth human being. Upon completion of the documentary, the final cut will be authored onto a DVD. This will allow for extra features, including an extended interview with Herman Leonard

Should Mission Statements Be Promises? (And should they have to be?)

This paper explores how mission statements might become a resource for improving nonprofit governance and accountability. The author asks what legal duty or moral obligation nonprofit organizations should be under to articulate a mission statement that others (the government, donors, prospective beneficiaries, the public at large) could use to assess their goals and performance. The paper explores how mission statements might include auditable claims, rather than vague aspirations, and raises questions about how various stakeholders might be empowered to use mission statements in holding an organization to account.This publication is Hauser Center Working Paper No. 33.5. Hauser Working Paper Series Nos. 33.1-33.9 were prepared as background papers for the Nonprofit Governance and Accountability Symposium October 3-4, 2006

Herman Leonard, L’Œil du jazz

Avant de devenir un photographe de mode et de « charme » (il collabora à Cosmopolitan et à Playboy), l’Américain Herman Leonard fut un des maîtres de la photographie de jazz. Dans un superbe livre, tout en noir et blanc, Francis Paudras, pour l’occasion concepteur graphique, et Philippe Carles, qui a réuni les commentaires de Leonard au début de chaque chapitre, ont collecté quelque deux cents photographies de l’artiste. Y sont représentés les grands musiciens du jazz américain des années 195..

Amnesty, Enforcement and Tax Policy

Amnesties are widely used in society to rehabilitate past sinners, to collect resources, such as library books, that would otherwise be unrecoverable, and to make enforcement easier by reducing the ranks of delinquents. Over the past four years, tax amnesties have emerged as a major instrument of state revenue policy. Twenty states conducted amnesties. Record collections were made by New York ($360 million) and Illinois (income tax amnesty dollars 3.4$100 billion tax evasion problem, now offer an amnesty of its own? What type of federal program would most likely be offered? What would it be likely to accomplish? State tax amnesties have generally bean coupled with enhanced enforcement efforts, a feature intended to preserve the legitimacy of the tan system. The amnesty/enforcement combination twists the penalty schedule, lowering it non raising it later, in that way encouraging prompt payment. With no past sins to hide, future compliance also becomes less costly, hence more probable. Any federal amnesty, we predict, would be accompanied by a strengthening of enforcement. After reviewing the state experience, we speculatively estimate that a federal amnesty/enforcement to annual revenues on the order of $10 billion.

Anna Serum Interview, 1955-1956

Typed summary of two interviews with Leonard Sackett. First interview (2 leaves) with Anna Serum mentions the death of her father, working for Rachel Holstrom, and some of the men employed at Grandin Farm. Second interview (1 leaf) with Amelia (Melting) Oien, Anna's sister, a cook for threshing crews at Grandin Farm No. 1, includes mention of her wages, her husband, Clark Oien, and their purchase of farmland near Halstad, Minn. Also includes commentary (2 leaves) on a photograph of Anna Serum, seated before a lily pool on Grandin Farm No. 1 and wearing the uniform required by Rachel Holstrom. Includes comments by Frank Herman on other housekeepers employed by Rachel Holstrom, men who cooked for Grandin Farm crews, comments by Amelia Oien and Frank Herman on a photograph of farm crews in the winter and a description of buildings at the Grandin farmstead

Methods of Storing Alfalfa for Fattening Cattle

Cattle feeders and ranchers of South Dakota winter and fatten a great number of cattle on harvested grasses and legumes. The forages are stored for winter feeding both as hay and as silage. Alfalfa is one of the important crops in both the eastern and western portions of the state. The use of alfalfa, particularly as silage, in cattle feeding is increasing. This has raised many questions regarding the efficiency of alfalfa silage in relation to hay. A number of experiments have been conducted at various stations in which the feeding value of grass and/or legume silage has been compared with hay from a similar crop. Most of these experiments have compared silage with hay on the basis of the weight of forage fed. Such experiments do not give an accurate value of the amount of feed obtained from a given acreage as silage or hay, since the amount of nutrients lost during harvesting and during storage is not considered. A considerable amount of nutrients may be lost during the harvesting of hay, and most farmers and ranchers seem well aware of this fact. Since silage is put up in the green state, little loss of nutrients occurs during harvesting. Little attention appears to have been given to the losses that may occur in silage during storage. Silage is stored by various methods varying from an above ground pile, representing no structural cost, to the expensive gas-tight silo. Many questions are received from farmers and ranchers concerning the relative value and cost of different methods of storing silage. The loss of nutrients under various methods of storage is an important consideration, as well as the cost of the silo. Little information is available from previous work from which to answer these questions. The experiment reported herein was conducted to compare the relative feeding value of alfalfa hay and alfalfa silage when stored by different methods for fattening steers. Silage was stored in a conventional tower silo, a trench and an above-ground pile. The experiment was conducted so that the feeding value of a given acreage or tonnage of forage, stored by the various methods, could be determined