Yay for Golden – I Miss Home

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Golden Parks and Recreation National Gold Medal Award Winner

The American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration (AAPRA), in partnership with the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), announced the City of Golden Parks and Recreation Department the Grand Plaque Recipient of the National Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Parks and Recreation Management. The award was announced live during NRPA’s Annual Congress and Exposition in Minneapolis, MN on Wednesday, Oct. 27. Golden was nominated as a finalist for the award for the second consecutive year.

The Gold Medal Award honors communities throughout the United States that demonstrate excellence in long-range planning, resource management, volunteerism, environmental stewardship, program development, professional development and agency recognition. Each agency is judged on its ability to address the needs of those it serves through the collective energies of citizens, staff and elected officials.

“The Golden Medal Award recognizes our department as one of the top four national leaders in the provision of high quality parks and recreation, the highest honor in the parks and recreation profession,” said Rod Tarullo, Director of Parks, Recreation and Golf.

A requirement for finalists, the Golden Parks and Recreation Department submitted a video demonstrating parks and recreation in Golden. View ”Golden in Golden.” Golden competed for the Gold Medal Award with three other finalists in population category 25,000 and below including the City of Green River Parks and Recreation Department, WY, the City of Fairfax, VA and the City of Cullman Parks and Recreation, AL.

Efficiency is free

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Subscribe to the good words of Seth Godin

Philip Crosby wrote a seminal book (Quality is Free) in which he argued that it’s cheaper to build things right the first time than it is to fix them later. Obvious now, but heresy in Detroit 1980. Quality quickly became not just a better way to manufacture, it became a marketing benefit as well. Not only was quality cheaper to make, it was cheaper to sell.

I’m struck that we need a new book, call it Efficiency is Free.

It’s cheaper to build carpets that don’t create poison gas than it is to do the easy thing and let people suffer later. It’s cheaper to build an 8 passenger car that gets 30 miles per gallon than it is to suffer the consequences of the 12 mile per gallon Suburban. It’s cheaper to design smaller, lighter and recyclable shipping containers once than it is to buy and hassle with billions of foam peanuts in the long run.

So why doesn’t everyone do this? For the same reason the quality revolution took a full generation to take hold–it costs more right now. It takes planning right now. It requires change right now.

Right now will always be difficult. But efficiency is still free.

Top 10 September Viral

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The top 10 picks for September, with links to view on YouTube:
1. Tipp-Ex – A Hunter Shoots a Bear, agency: Buzzman
2. Diesel Sneakers – Kick Ass, agency: Santo
3. Samsung – Cute Little Girl Has a Catchy Dance, agency: The Viral Factory
4. DC Shoes – Ultimate Playground, agency: Mad Media
5. Arab Dairy – Never Say No to Panda, agency: Advantage Marketing & Advertising/Elephant
6. Intel – Intel Bass Jump, agency: Intel
7. Phillips – Nigel & Victoria, agency: Wenneker.tv
8. Cebu Pacific – Cebu Pacific FAS Dancing, agency: Cebu Pacific
9. French Connection UK, YouTube, agency: Poke
10. Samsung, Memory Card Testing, Overkill Edition, agency: The Viral Factory

Overall – Not impressed with this list.

Like a G6

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Hello Party People,

Less than a week before we all Matty boy turn into “old balls” in an evening not soon to be forgotten. Below I have listed the information straight from Senor Brian who we all owe big time for this generous gift to Matt. We will be flying on the world’s fastest civilian aircraft in the sky… a Citation X.

Plane departs 5:30pm out of landmark at San Diego airport. You should all be there by 5:00pm if possible, 5:15pm at the latest. They will wait for you, but don’t be late as it will screw up their flight plan.

The pilots should only need to see your ID.

There will be catering on the plane, along with booze, water, pop, etc. Help yourselves to anything on there – even the small booze bottles in the bar area. You will have to serve yourself during the flight. Trays flip up along the wall between the seats. Feel free to move around and do that as soon as the seatbelt lights are off. You can also talk to the pilots at anytime during the flight – feel free to ask them anything during the flight – just walk up there and ask.

There will be a limo at Boeing field to take all of you to the party right from the airport. There is a bathroom in the terminal if someone needs to change, etc.

As far as I know half of you are staying at Pete’s and the other half at Matt’s. So I have the limo stopping at Pete’s at 12:30pm on Sunday, then going to Matt’s then dropping you off at the airport.

Try not to trash the plane too much :-)

Pilots don’t take tips, but if you can tip the ground crew ($10.00+ a head or so – usually 2-3 of them helping with luggage, etc) on both ends it is a good thing.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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The Hydle Travel Blog

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Wednesday morning (12:53am) I flews from Denver to JFK. It was as full of a flight as my wallet was empty. I brewed a morning informational cup of fair trade while sitting in the airport waiting for a 9:30am flight to Boston. Two travel legs down (of 13 in the next 2 weeks) I reached Post Office Square and went to work.

Green Mountain Coffee out of Waterbury Vermont is celebrating National Fair Trade Awareness Month. I’m on a contract job through their agency (Cercone Brown) to help aide the social effect – making short videos that entertain the fact that not very many people know much about fair trade. And you can’t blame them… I knew nothing about it either. Armed with a right hand drive pink pocket camera – October also happens to be national breast cancer awareness month – I creatively document.

2 days down and some free time later – Videos are in circulation. I’m looking to expand on the creative story telling process a bit more in the next week markets of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC.

Tomorrow (Saturday) morning I’m jumping on a flight to San Diego… then boarding a Citation X which will deliver and remove us from Seattle. Saturday up – Sunday back. What happens in-between is anybodies guess.

San Diego to Las Vegas — the Dew Tour finals at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will be calling my name Sunday night along with a surprise birthday party for Simon Tabron.

Monday back to New York for a dinner with Noah Brooks and an early train ride to Philadelphia to work in market with Green Mountain Coffee. A night or two with Golden Nabor Jon turned Philadelphia Nabor Jon… I’ll assess some recent flood damage and then flood the media outlets from Baltimore and DC.

October 24th can’t come soon enough. Because then I’ll route my self back to the left side and rock the Simon Tabron + Shanna Bridges in wedding we trust on the 30th.

Wish me luck.

Warren Miller is Free Again

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It’s been a long time coming — but now it’s final. Warren Miller officially owns his own name again. He just needs to stay away from using it around skiing. What does this mean? It means… that even though Warren Miller Entertainment (the film company) may have won the battle. Warren Miller (the man) won the war.

Here is a recap of what began last year beginning with the release of Level 1 Productions 10th film Refresh.

Continuing forward – lets start a link trail.
10.08.10 — Freeskier

10.14.10 — Business Link <— official release 10.14.10 — Level 1 Productions
10.14.10 — Newschoolers
10.14.10 — ESPN

10.15.10 — Denver Post <— nice summary 10.15.10 — 9News