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Why Business Valuation?

The business valuation (sometimes referred to as a business appraisal) can be used for many reasons.
The top 5 reasons to obtain a business valuation are:

1. Partner Dispute / Divorce / Litigation
2. Obtaining Financing
3. Preparation For Sale of Business
4. Gift Tax / Estate Tax Planning
5. Periodic Assessment of Marketplace

How Do We Establish Value?

A business is ultimately worth what the market will bear - it is worth the highest price a willing Buyer is willing to pay! Although we look at many valuation methodologies, there are four that are most widely accepted:

1. multiple of earnings / cash flow
2. comparable transactions analysis
3. asset-based valuation
4. discounted cash flow analysis

Valuation experts, mindful of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in each approach, will value a company with more than one of the methodologies, simultaneously comparing results to determine a correct valuation. Included in the process is an analysis of growth potential, risks, industry factors and other variables that may impact the value of an enterprise.

How Do We Get Started?

All businesses are different. Some businesses keep great books and records - others may not. We can work within any situation, however, to get started, most often we require:

1. Signed engagement letter.
2. A check for 50% of the agreed upon fee.
3. Three years of business tax returns or profit-and-loss statements.
4. Current year-to-date profit-and-loss statement.
5. Current balance sheet.
6. Approximate value of furniture, fixtures, equipment, and inventory

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Limited Scope Valuations, which are often used for obtaining lender financing, preparation for sale of the business, or conducting periodic analysis of the marketplace, can typically be completed within 5-10 business days.
Full Appraisals, which are typically required for any form of tax planning or litigation will require 3-4 weeks to complete.

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The cost of the valuation varies with many factors including purpose (whether for internal or external purposes, acquisition or litigation), business size, type of corporate identity, years in business, whether the business has clean books, etc.

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Vermont Artisan Coffee & Tea provides artisan roasted coffees and exotic teas to retail establishments,  food service markets, and to customers throughout Vermont, the North East, and via the Web. The company is owned and operated by Mané Alves, a native of Lisbon, Portugal, who has worked in the specialty coffee industry for the past 18 years, and prior to that, in the wine industry in California. Mané (pronounced “Meh-nay”)  travels extensively every year to coffee producing countries throughout Central America, South America and Asia where he speaks and teaches seminars on coffee production and quality standards. With most trips, Mané cups coffees from the latest harvests and discovers unique lots of green coffees that he purchases and has shipped back to Vermont to roast.

Farm Direct. Because of his extensive travels to source,  Mané has nurtured direct relationships with many of the coffee farms and families who cultivate the very products we sell. Speaking both fluent Spanish and Portuguese, Mané often collaborates with the farmer and Co-ops directly in a mutually beneficial way to create great tasting coffees which are fully traceable and are sustainable by current social, economic and environmental indicators.

Organic & Fair Trade Coffees. Many of Vermont Artisan Coffee’s offerings are certified Organic and Fair Trade. We offer a variety of the finest Arabica coffees from which you can choose.

Sustainability. We believe in sustainable business practices. Whether it is collaborating with farmers on best coffee growing practices, offering chemical-free, naturally processed decafs, or selecting eco-friendly packaging, we are in it for the long haul. We believe in Local First. Although coffee isn’t grown here, we purchase all our other needs as close to home as possible and embrace our local community by donating weekly to our local food shelf, supporting local fund drives with product and services, working with our high school for employment outreach, and gifting all compostable materials to local farmers and more.

Fresh Roasted Coffee. One of the keys to great tasting coffee is drinking it freshly roasted. We roast on demand and in small batches every day.

Recycle, Reuse. Your coffee will arrive in a reusable aluminum can equipped with a high-tech barrier and a resealable plastic lid. Our packaging guarantees a “just roasted” flavor for 6 months, and it encourages customers to reuse & recycle. Visit www.earth911.org and learn!

Membership. Vermont Artisan is proud to be a member of: Vermont Fresh Network, Vermont Specialty Foods Association, Vermont Chamber of Commerce, The Specialty Coffee Association of America, and the Roasters Guild. We are a certified organic processor as certified by VOF.

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Edelstein: Admission Is Tina Fey’s Application to the School of Mainstream Rom-Coms

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It’s depressing to watch performers who’ve carved out their own distinctive niches try to broaden their appeal by doing the same damn thing as everyone else. Take Tina Fey in Admission, which could be her application to the school of mainstream rom-comedy. She plays Portia Nathan, a Princeton University admissions officer (for sixteen years) with a patronizing professor boyfriend (Michael Sheen) and an aversion to kids — several of whom are hauled in for the sole purpose of letting her be averse. In part because her job consists of rejecting exponentially more students than she admits, Portia has been able to keep life at bay, remaining brittle, judgmental, and emotionally insulated. This makes her ripe for breaking in — humanized — by a nonconformist do-gooder heartthrob (Paul Rudd). In other words, Fey has the Sandra Bullock role — exactly the kind of part that she has spent the last decade transcending. She’s not bad in it, though. She’s actually very good in the second half, when Karen Croner’s hitherto formulaic script begins to go in darker, less expected directions. But you’re still conscious that she’s wasting a good part of her brain.

That first half of Admission is a lot for an actress to overcome. It’s not just very bad, it’s very fast, as if someone had overwound the metronome. Fairly naturalistic lines are delivered at the pace of screwball zingers — which stubbornly refuse to zing. Portia is in a fierce competition with the even-more-driven Corinne (Gloria Reuben) to succeed the current dean of admissions (Wallace Shawn), which is why she ends up (highly improbably) at New Quest, a low-profile, agriculture-oriented New England alternative high school — she wants to show her boss that she can broaden the applicant pool. Teacher John Pressman (Rudd) thinks she should get to know a weird but brilliant student named Jeremiah (played by former medium teen idol Nat Wolff). He also thinks she should get to know him. He’s smitten from the get-go.

Rudd is one of the movie’s biggest problems, not because he’s so wrong but because he’s so right. Face it: Everybody doesn’t like someone, but nobody doesn’t like Paul Rudd. He could beat a puppy to death onscreen and you’d worry about the ill effects on him. In Admission, he’s an idealistic international humanitarian who has adopted a Ugandan orphan and spends his days teaching sustainable irrigation while stopping to deliver calves. And his family is rich — although his values are such that he distances himself from them. But he’s rich. And single. And not gay. And Paul Rudd. And he adores her. And Portia’s boyfriend has knocked up a colleague and moved out. And he’s Paul Rudd. The course of true love never did run this smooth.

When Portia is just uptight, a mass of nerves, Fey is fun enough but nothing special. But she and Admission take a great leap forward when Pressman informs Portia that Jeremiah might be the son she gave up for adoption in college. (This isn’t a spoiler — it’s in the previews.) Suddenly, Portia is at odds with herself, unable to reconcile her wild new emotions with her hard-won super-stable persona — and Fey is brilliant at showing what happens to single-minded people when forced to hold dual thoughts. She really comes into her own in the scenes between Portia and her mother (Lily Tomlin), a first-line feminist scholar who proudly discourages her from forming lasting relationships with men. This might seem like classic feminist-backlash material if the actresses weren’t Fey and Tomlin, who carry the mantle of feminist self-respect in every gesture — and who also know that just because you’re an admirably strong woman doesn’t mean you can’t also be hilariously addled or plain bonkers.

It’s when Portia decides that her alleged son belongs at Princeton that she becomes most seriously bollixed up — and Admission raises creepy (and ever pertinent) questions about who gets into prestigious colleges and why. The process is so ugly that it’s surprising no one bothers to say that there are schools other than Princeton. Director Paul Weitz finally stops the metronome and lets the absurdity of the whole situation sink in (though not the pop songs sprinkled like MSG over everything, as if by a chef whose palate has been dulled by fast food). Atrocious spoiler alert: Fey and Rudd become a couple.

This review previously ran in New York Magazine's March 25 issue.


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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have always been pioneers in the Music Video field.  They use the medium as another avenue to freak you out.

Jane's Addiction's new video for "Underground" is filled with freaks. No surprise there. Do you know what album cover and band they are referencing in this video? Leave your guess in the comment section below.

Eddie really kills it here. I hope DLR's voice makes it to The Boston show on 3/11.

This is brilliant. I kind of love the song now too...but only this version.

 Thank you Jimmy Fallon:

This is Red Fang. They are from Portland, OR. They Like Beer....and ROCK! They apparently also enjoy recycling. Check out the video. It will make you thirsty...or puke.

What do you think? Your thoughts are always welcome in the comment section below.

Thanks to Doug Sherman for sending this to me.  Fair quality for a phone/camera.  David Lee Roth sounds like he's struggling a little but he's been doing it for 40 years.  Still a great showman.  What do you think?  Letme


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Before applying for financial aid it is important that you understand the general requirements for eligibility. To receive financial aid, a student must meet the following qualifications:

  • Be accepted for admission to Texas State Technical College and be enrolled for a minimum of six credit hours in a program of at least six months in duration. Exception: The Federal Pell Grant program is funded for eligible students enrolled less than six credit hours. All accepted students must have a high school diploma or a GED.
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Neil Janson advanced to the Upper Midwest and T.J. Steward won the Sportsmanship trophy as Wadena hosted the Region IV boxing tournament Friday and Saturday at the National Guard Armory.

Janson was declared the unopposed Class A champion at 123. He will now see action in the Upper Midwest April 19-20 at the Palace Casino in Cass Lake. The Upper Midwest tournament will have boxers from Minneapolis, St. Paul, Central Minnesota and North Dakota squaring off. Upper Midwest winners advance to the National Golden Gloves tournament in May at Las Vegas, Nev.

Janson already had his trip to Cass Lake sewed up when he faced St. Cloud 114-pounder Gian Paulo Grubjt Saturday. Grubjt was the winner in a first round TKO.

Steward lost his 152-pound bout with St. Cloud’s Greg Whalen on a split decision.

Other Wadena fighters seeing action Saturday were John Johnson at 141, Dewayne Steward at 165 and Joe Mench at 178. Johnson “was in poor shape” for his fight with St. Cloud’s Joe James according to Wadena boxing coach Bob Tubandt and lost by a decision. Steward ended a three-year layoff when he entered the ring against St. Cloud’s Angel Pacheco. The three-round fight was non-stop and Pacheco was awarded the victory by split decision. Mench was defeated by St. Cloud’s Victor Hernandez.

One of Saturday’s top fights was a battle between Brainerd’s Blake Herron and Willmar’s Eloy Zavala. Zavala won the 132-pound bout on a split decision and went on to the Best Boxer trophy. Herron was also honored for his performance in the match when he was awarded the Fightingest Fighter trophy.

The St. Cloud Boxing-Wrestling Club took Class A team championship honors.

Wadena heavyweight Elliot Stoll saw action Friday in a regular bout and scored a third round TKO against St. Cloud’s Rory Anderson.

Verndale’s Adam Umland lost a decision in his 92-pound fight Friday with Jake Koskela of the Iron Range team. Verndale’s Matt Umland lost a split decision to 95-pound foe Ryder Grove of the Iron Range.

Jim Rude was awarded the Fan of the Year award by the Wadena Boxing Club.

Region IV Boxing Tournament

Friday Results

Jake Koskela (Iron Range) dec. Adam Umland (Verndale)

Kyler Chanmouny (St. Cloud) dec. Ronald Hullet (Leech Lake)

Anthony Duran (Willmar) dec. Alex Cantu (Iron Range)

Elliot Stoll (Wadena) third round TKO over Rory Anderson (St. Cloud)

Anthony Lalim (St. Cloud) second round KO over Adam Ducette (Brainerd)

Class A

Eloy Zavala (Willmar) second round TKO over Chaz Roper (Leech Lake)

Joe James (St. Cloud) dec. Charles Oothoudt (Leech Lake)

Saturday Results

Robert Cemintia (Iron Range) dec. Chris Van Wert (Detroit Lakes)

Ryder Grove (Iron Range) dec. Matt Umland (Verndale)

Class A

Gian Paulo-Grubjt (St. Cloud) first round TKO Neil Janson (Wadena)

Eloy Zavala (Willmar) split dec. Blake Herron (Brainerd)

Joe James (St. Cloud) dec. John Johnson (Wadena)

Greg Whalen (St. Cloud) split dec. T.J. Steward (Wadena)

Angel Pacheco (St. Cloud) split dec. Dewayne Steward (Wadena)

Victor Hernandez (St. Cloud) dec. Joe Mench (Wadena)

Avery Miller (St. Cloud) unopposed

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Mike Robinson (Leech Lake) unopposed


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Schweppes lemonade multipack cans 12x150ml

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Sparkling lemon flavour soft drink with sugar and sweeteners, made with real lemons.

Carbonated Water, Sugar, Lemon Juice from Concentrate (2%), Citric Acid, Flavourings, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrate), Sweeteners (Aspartame, Sodium Saccharin), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Contains a source of Phenylalanine

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The bold coffee - bittersweet chocolate and hints of hazelnut; rich and well rounded.

Not content with the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean lapping at its shores, Nicaragua boasts a colossal in-land sea. Nicaragua?s full bodied coffee is as bold and unique as the two volcanoes that dominate the view.

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A family goes green

The Clarke family of Bedwas have agreed to take up the Go Green challenge to try to live in a more environmentally-friendly way.

With the inescapable shadow of the credit crunch taking top billing in the news, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the green agenda could take a back seat for a while for families in Wales as they look to slash the cost of living.

But – puns excused – being green needn’t cost the earth. In fact, taking the green route can help you save money too.

But it’s not that easy to juggle responsibilities of work and family, let alone allocating the time and effort to cut your carbon footprint.

Just ask the Clarke family of Bedwas, Caerphilly.

Dad James, mum Emma and youngsters Joshua, 7 and Lewis, 3, have agreed to take up the Go Green challenge to approach everyday life in a greener way.

And while they don’t claim to be the greenest family in Wales, they think they have a pretty good idea of what it means – and that they could do better.

“I think there’s more that we could be doing in regards to being green,” said 28-year-old dad, James.

“To me, being green means being good to the environment – recycling, keeping utilities like electricity and gas down, and driving fuel-efficient cars.”

With much spoken about the need for families to take more responsibility for their contribution to keeping global warming down, and the controversial headlines that the subject creates, sometimes it’s hard to tell what information is useful.

“You read news articles and see the telly, and you hear about global warming and the more you see, the more you think that it’s a lot of hype,” said James.

“I’m no scientist, so I can’t say whether too much is made of it by the media. It is confusing actually knowing what carbon neutral or carbon zero mean. There’s a lot of hype around it.”

James works at Bridgend Designer Outlet, a round trip of approximately 44 miles every day, while Emma works in a fast food emporium in nearby Caerphilly. Given the relatively isolated positioning of Bedwas, and the lack of public transport available – particularly to the Bridgend area – not having a car isn’t an option.

But the family use a relatively low-polluting vehicle, for the savings to be made in road tax.

“We drive quite a fuel efficient car, but it’s not our first choice. We’ve got a Renault Megane diesel, which only costs £35 a year to tax,” explained James.

“I don’t think people would use public transport even if it was there,” he continued. “It’s just not as convenient. And if you’ve got a family, it’s probably cheaper too.”

When it comes to the family shopping, rather than using the medium-sized Co-op store nearby, the family makes a weekly trip to a much larger supermarket four miles away in Caerphilly, to save money.

“We never think about food miles at all,” said James. “It seems to be the case that you pay a premium for buying green products.”

While he admits that his knowledge of what being green actually means, and how you actually go about it achieving it, leaves something to be desired, he believes that his boys will be much better informed.

In fact, young Josh, in the first year of junior school, is a member of its Eco Committee scheme. Mum Emma, 26, even goes as far to suggest he knows more on the subject that they do.

“It’s important to be green, because if not our country will be dirty,” said Joshua, who isn’t shy of pointing out a few of Mum and Dad’s environmental shortcomings – even if they do only extend to leaving empty soft drink cans in the car.

“They always get recycled though,” quipped James.

But even environmentally-conscious Josh is guilty of the odd slip-up: usually leaving his TV or light on during the night. “I’m too tired to turn it off,” he said.

James said: “Back when I was in school, there wasn’t anything ever said about being green, apart from picking up litter. But our sons are going to know about it from a young age.”

And some measures are already in place. The family’s smart and comfortable house has mostly energy-efficient lightbulbs, and the family already recycles, albeit somewhat reluctantly.

“Recycling can be awkward as you’ve got to store the rubbish, wash it out, clean it, and everything,” admitted James.

“But recycling is definitely easier than it was 10 years ago when you’d have to make trips to the bottle bank. But the little green box isn’t enough.”

The family will begin their journey to becoming greener by fitting a thermostat to the boiler and being more careful with the recycling, and plan on measuring their carbon footprint soon.

“I don’t think you can tell how green you are unless you have had your carbon footprint measured,” said Emma.

So will the Clarkes be able to keep up their challenge of becoming more green? James isn’t too confident.

“Change is always hard, and it’s difficult to keep it going,” he said. “Short of putting solar panels up on the roof of the house, I’m not sure what else we can do.”

“It seems to be the case that you have to make massive changes,” agreed Emma. “With family and work, making the changes permanent may be hard.”

Joshua though, is more optimistic. “It’ll be easy,” he said.

“We are excited about it,” said James. “It’ll be an eye-opener to see how we are actually doing.”

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What to Do if You Lose Your Wallet

by Odysseas Papadimitriou on June 21, 2012

lost walletWait, where is it? Back pocket? Nope. Purse? Not there either. Even a quick sweep of the house comes up empty. You’ve lost your wallet, and the panic is starting to set in. As your mind races through all of the places where you could have left it, you wonder what to do if you can’t find it. That’s a very good question, and one which we should all know the answer to (especially the ADD folks among us)!

When you lose your wallet, it’s not just a folded piece of leather that you’re missing, but also your IDs, debit card, credit card(s), gift cards, cash, health insurance information, family photos, and maybe even your Social Security card. The ramifications of your loss are therefore many, and to be safe you unfortunately have to operate under the assumption that it’s been stolen. That necessitates a sort of lost wallet triage.

Protect Your Social Security Number & Notify the Authorities

First, if you had your Social Security card in your wallet, it’s very important that you file reports with the Federal Trade Commission (1-877-438-4338), the Internet Crime Complaint Center, and the Internal Revenue Service Identity Protection Unit (1-800-908-4490) in order to avoid falling victim to identity theft. You can then apply for a new Social Security Card through the Social Security website.

You’ll also want to file a police report in order to establish a record of your missing property. This can help prevent fraud as well as result in the safe return of your wallet if someone turns it in. Remember to ask for the file number of your report in case you need to give it to anyone in dealing with the ramifications of your loss.

Cancel Your Cards

Once you’re sure that your wallet is either lost or stolen, you need to call your bank and cancel all of your cards (i.e. credit cards, debit cards and ATM cards). While credit and debit cards have $0 liability policies for unauthorized purchases, which means you shouldn’t ultimately be out any money even if a criminal decides to go on a spending spree, promptly canceling your cards before this happens will prevent any unnecessary hassle. Given that your account numbers will no longer be active, you should also make arrangements to pay any bills linked to your cards as well as update any automatic monthly payment information once replacement cards arrive.

Replace Your ID & Lock Your Mailbox

You’ll need to notify the DMV if your driver’s license is missing as well as get a new one (which you can hopefully do online and thereby avoid standing in line). This is important because if a fraudster has your name and address, it’s possible that he could apply for a lot of things under your name as well as steal your mail to keep you from finding out about it. In this same vein, if your keys are also missing, you should also change your locks.

Protect Your Credit Reports

Start by putting fraud alerts on your major credit reports (i.e. Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax). You may also consider putting a security freeze on your accounts in order to password protect them and prevent anyone else from accessing your credit history. In addition, you may want to sign up for a credit monitoring service for at least a few months after your wallet goes missing so that you’ll be alerted to any changes to your credit reports.

Make a List

Finally, make a list of everything that you believe was in your wallet. You’re not going to forget about the big things (i.e. credit cards, IDs, etc.), but certain other things could easily slip your mind. It might seem insignificant, but it will be important to do things like request a new pass card from work or your gym or change certain passwords that you may have written on a slip of paper and stashed in your wallet.

After you tie up all the loose ends related to your lost wallet, it’s time for the rebuilding effort to begin. That obviously means filling a new wallet with replacement cards and forms of identification, but it also necessitates making changes to avoid hassle should you lose your wallet again in the future. For example, it might be a good idea to create a file at home where you can store important documents like your insurance information and Social Security card (there’s little reason to carry it with you anyway). You may also find a lost wallet app helpful, as it will allow you to save important information such as card numbers, passwords, etc. Maybe you can even get one of those chains that connects your wallet to your pants!

Ultimately, we all hope to never lose our wallets, but if we do, it’s important to know how to handle things in order to minimize complications and financial ramifications.

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Leadership Walton Class projects at Topsail State Park

Published: Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 11:06 AM.

Leadership Walton Class of 2013, a program of the Walton Area Chamber Foundation, has selected two projects to enhance Topsail Hill Preserve State Park, a well-maintained treasure in our community.

The first project is the design and construction of an ADA appropriate dock that will extend out and over one of the parks many ponds. This improvement will provide accessibility for the handicapped as well as improve the overall fishing experience for all guests.

Their second project will include enhancements to the park’s 5K hiking trail. The class will design, assemble and install seven fitness stations along the hiking trail.  These stations will include Balance Beam, Body Raise and Pull-up, Hand Walk and Body Dip, Pull-up Bar, Quadriceps and Sit-up and Leg Raise.

History of the project:

The class was approached by a staff member at Topsail Hill Preserve State Park when they were in the brainstorming phase determining what could be done to improve Walton County. This staff member emphasized the need for these improvements and explained that full state funding is not a possibility due to recent cuts. Weather permitting, they will be constructing on March 22-23. The total costs for the project are projected to be $7,000, with most going to material costs.

According to Park Manager Jason Cutshaw, “A goal of the park service is to provide more accessible recreation to the stewards of the park. The addition of an ADA accessible fishing deck would give an opportunity for individuals and families to safely enjoy one of our lakes. This and the fitness trail will become future key points in the park for many years to come, helping us to provide resource-based reaction while preserving our Florida.”

As part of the project, the class is accepting tax free donations to assist in the construction of both the deck and the fitness stations.  If you would like to contribute to this project, feel assured that your investment into Walton County's beautiful landscape will be enduring and thoroughly enjoyed by both locals and visitors in the community.

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When the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it was giving a record $70 million to the University of Washington to further genetic research, everyone on the campus was ecstatic.

Well, almost everyone.

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On the second floor of Gerberding Hall there was one senior official who felt that his job just got a little harder. At the very moment the gift was announced, the state Legislature was trying to close a $2.6 billion deficit projected for 2003-05. The UW's government relations director in Olympia, Dick Thompson, '68, knew what was coming from some lawmakers in state capitol hallways.

"The gist of their comments was 'You've got all those private donations, why do you need more money from us?'" he says.

Thompson says that some legislators grumble that the UW "whines too much," that with all the money coming in from other sources, the University should stop complaining about its declining state support. (In 2001-02, the UW was 16 percent behind the average of its peer institutions in the amount of state funding it receives per student-about $92 million annually.)

It's probably true that after reading the headlines about the Gates gift, some alumni may have felt the same way. But they were very, very wrong.

Since 1861, the first mission of the University of Washington has been teaching. In this issue, we celebrate the teaching achievements of seven top UW faculty (see "Gallery of Distinction," page 34). But these outstanding teachers-or any other UW classroom legend such as Edmond Meany, Giovanni Costigan, Hugh Bone, Dee Boersma, Charles Johnson, Willis Konick or Victoria Lawson-would not be here without state support.

You've got all those private donations, why do you need more money from us?

The truth is that state funds and student tuition support the UW's teaching mission. Without the state's contribution, our teaching function would either wither away-or the UW would become a private university.

The UW is proud of the many gifts it receives each year. Last year we received a record $239 million in private gifts and grants, and it looks like 2002-03 will be another record year. In the case of the historic Gates Foundation gift, $60 million will go toward the construction of new building to house genome sciences and bioengineering, and $10 million will support genetic research to benefit global health issues.

But 99 percent of private giving is dedicated to specific programs and units. If there is a sudden drop in state funding, the UW can't simply transfer a gift to make up the difference.

It all goes back to what Dick Thompson tells the lawmakers. "You have to support the teaching mission. It is the foundation we have to have in place to have a great research institution as well," he explains.

Are they listening in Olympia?

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Speakers and panelists were also CBI participants; many have disabilities and/or are women or racial/ethnic minorities. Broad issue areas discussed included K-12 education, recruitment/transition to higher education, retention in higher education, graduate school enrollment and retention, and employment.

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alicewalkerShe’s best known as the author of The Color Purple, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983 (before becoming a movie and a touring musical). But Alice Walker is also a renowned essayist and activist. She’ll be discussing several recent nonfiction works tonight at Busboys & Poets on 14th Street.

Walker’s new works, Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel and The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker, explore the historical and contemporary ideas and problems that she’s most concerned with.

Overcoming Speechlessness, which was released April 1,  chronicles two of Walker’s recent trips. In 2006, she visited Rwanda and Eastern Congo through Women for Women International to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. In 2009, she visited the Gaza Strip on behalf of the anti-war group Code Pink, and saw the suffering resulting from the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

The World Has Changed, which comes out April 27, is edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and compiles a series of conversations between Walker and Gloria Steinem, Howard Zinn, and Margo Jefferson, offering insight into her life and work. Spanning from 1973 to 2009, the conversations touch on Walker’s activism, spirituality, and art.

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Now that you’ve met our daters, we’ll check in with them weekly to see what’s happening in their lives when it comes to romance, chemistry, and maybe even love. What follows below are excerpts from interviews with our daters, so you’ll hear about their ad

Monday, the guys reported on their dating lives. Today, the women fill us in.

Meet our daters: Mark Drapeau | Dana Neill | Sally Colson Cline | Michael Amesquita | Kate Searby | Max Schwartz | Lucas Wall

Kate Searby: I had gone into a coffee shop to pick up dinner—no makeup on and my hair was wet. I saw him there and thought he was cute. I was waiting for my food and he went outside to talk on his cell phone. I went out the back door. He came racing down the street and said he went outside to be smooth, but was going to try and talk to me when I came out. That didn’t work when I went out the back door. He walked me home. He was so cool. It was crazy all the things we had in common. I asked him what he was working on at the coffee shop. He said he was watching Caddy Shack on YouTube. It’s one of my favorite movies. And I think most guys would make themselves sound important.

We went out a few times. He’s a really cool guy, but he isn’t that nice to other people. I took him to an open mic night, and he was making fun of the people who were performing. I thought that was so rude. It takes a lot for people to get up there. That was a big turn off. I think we’ll stay friends, but I don’t want to go out with him again. My dad used to say, “Watch how he treats other people because he might be nice to you, but if he’s mean to others, it’s only so long before that changes.” That’s a big red flag for me. He called and I haven’t called him back yet. I’ll call him back. I think it’s really rude to leave them hanging. I want people to be honest with me so I try to be honest with everyone.

There’s this other guy that I met at Bourbon. On paper we don’t match up very well. He’s really very Catholic. I’m spiritual, but not very religious. He’s a Republican. I’m more of a Democrat. He’s funny. He treats people really well. One of my dogs is a rescue. He just rescued a dog. I’m such a sucker for that. The chemistry is right.

Dana Neill: I put a personal ad on Craigslist and got a few responses. I ended up going out with two of them. One is very nice and really fun to be around, but there doesn’t seem to be much chemistry. The first time we met, we walked around outside. We had lunch in a café and sat outside talking. There’s no attraction. I think he’s an attractive man, and he’s a fun guy to be around. But we don’t have that unique flutter. We talked about it. It’s really nice to be honest with someone. We’ve done a couple of other things together. It seems like we might just be friends.

The second guy, we met and had drinks. We ended up having a really good time. There was that laughter right off the bat. It was comfortable and easy right away. We talked about travel and music and what shows we’ve been watching. We ended up staying for dinner. There’s a physical attraction. He has a great smile. We have traveled to some of the same places and we have similar music interests. We both have children. His are just slightly younger than mine.

The second guy and I went out again. He invited me over one night after work. We had Chinese food. He had this trip planned to Florida with his daughter. Now she can’t go, and on the second date, he asked me to come with him instead. I told him we should have a few more dates. We have, and we’re going Friday. It’s crazy. But life is short. Have fun. We’re going to hate each other or really like each other. I’m committing to a weekend, not the rest of my life.

Sally Colson Cline: I haven’t been out with anyone for a while. I’ve been going out with my friends. I’ve been meeting people at bars, but not really going out after. I think lesbians tend to settle quickly. I know I don’t want to settle down, but I think it’s going to be hard to find someone who’s going to want to date casually.

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Heiner’s ‘Winging It’: Striking photos, paintings, collages of birds

Frank Day, "Live Human Target," 2004, archival pigment print. (Courtesy Frank Day and Addison/Ripley Fine Art)
July 5, 2012

Depicting living creatures used to begin with killing them. So it’s encouraging to learn that some of the eeriest images in “Winging It,” an avian-themed group show at Heiner Contemporary, are of birds that are merely being inconvenienced. Photographer Todd R. Forsgren follows scientists who trap birds in nets so they can tag and release them. Allotted a few minutes during the procedure, Forsgren slips a white backdrop behind the captives and fires away. The resulting images feel uncannily detached from the creatures’ natural habit — often a Central American jungle — but throw the birds’ colors, markings and textures into high relief.

Forsgren’s work provides several of the highlights of “Winging It,” which includes paintings and collages as well as photos. (Two of the latter, startlingly crisp pictures of bird remains by Colby Caldwell, were in his recent show at Hemphill.) Connecting to the ornithological tradition, the selection includes a few prints by famed naturalist Roger Tory Peterson, as well as Megan Greene’s collages of traditional bird illustrations and Jenny Sidhu Mullins’s precisely detailed little pencil drawings of birds, insects and plants. Also small and exacting are Beverly Ress’s colored-pencil renderings on sheets of paper that have been scored with circles or arcs.

The most striking of the nonphotographic works are by Justin Gibbens, who works in watercolor, gouache and ink; he also uses tea to add earthy stains to his generally muted palette. Trained in scientific illustration and traditional Chinese painting, Gibbens depicts his subjects realistically but places them in stylized settings. The featured birds in such works as “Hovercraft (glossy ibis)” and “Simulator (plover)” are shown next to bodies of water whose waves and ripples emulate the style of traditional East Asian screen paintings. There’s contemporary science in these works but also an ancient sense of wonder at the beauty around us.

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Sometimes, a group-show concept can be so broad that it barely qualifies as a concept. Addison/Ripley Fine Art concedes that about “Click: Time & Space,” a survey of photographs it amiably calls “not at all comprehensive.” The work stretches from 1925 (and perhaps earlier) to 2011, from fetish-fashionista Helmut Newton’s 1979 picture of lingerie-clad women in a black forest to Dan Treado’s 1988 suite of 14 portraits of D.C. punk-rockers in boxing poses. All are frozen in time but otherwise have little in common.

What looks to be the oldest piece here is an undated, uncredited special-effects image of a woman in a dramatic pose, buffeted by white swirls. The other antiques include two architectural abstractions by Weegee (who was better known for crime scene snaps). The recent works tend to be bigger and more aggressively colorful, and they reflect the current taste for arresting the movement of things that are already permanently arrested: E. Brady Robinson depicts tableaux from Jesusland, a pious amusement park, while James Osher grabs blurry impressions of Old Master canvases. Multiple views of the same subject, shot from different angles or at different moments, are also common. Such gambits insist on the subjectivity of vision — even a vision captured “objectively” by an electro-mechanical device.

Dan Treado, "All My Friends are Prizefighters" (detail), 1988 – present, archival pigment print, 13 x 19 inches. (Courtesy Dan Treado and Addison/Ripley Fine Art)

London, Berlin and Kazakhstan are among the locations, but most of the pictures depict America the beautiful (vast skies, epic terrain) or shabby (battered frame houses, a graffiti-tattooed resort boardwalk). Some of the photos were made locally and depict Washington scenes or luminaries (Christopher Hitchens in 1990). But if that’s a subtheme, it’s a minor one. Better just to take these images, or series, one at a time. They may not add up to a coherent idea, but many of them are individually lucid.

Beyond the Park

A busy cafe is not the ideal place to view art, since the process often involves staring over or around irked patrons. But Politics and Prose’s Modern Times Coffeehouse has two advantages over Photoworks’ normal venue, its exhibition space at Glen Echo Park: The bookstore has a more accessible location and much longer hours. So it’s a convenient place to see “Beyond the Park: Images by the Photoworks Faculty,” which marks the gallery and school’s 30th anniversary with a selection of images by some of its instructors.

Unlike many recent photography exhibitions, this one is short on digital-age gimmicks and teasing anti-realism. Most of the pictures are direct, elegantly composed and in black and white — although closer inspection of Eliot Cohen’s glacial landscape reveals hints of blue in the predominantly icy scene. Emma Norman’s photo of a cloaked figure is beguilingly mysterious, but most of the images are straightforward. They may isolate their subjects, as Karen Keating’s studies of faces do, or place them in context, as in the case of such environmental portraits as Richard Pippin’s “Dan at the Diner” or Frank Van Riper’s “Madonna of the Penny Candy.” Either way, these photographers show their dedication to photography as a way of seeing, and not of deceiving.

Megan Mueller

Photography isn’t entirely excluded from Megan Mueller’s “I Built This for You,” but it’s wood, whether painted and not, that’s central to this mixed-media work. Like many shows at Flashpoint, Mueller’s is a site-specific installation. The artist’s goal, the gallery explains, is to “merge her interests in both sculpture and drawing.”

Since the objects she’s made for us include a small house-like structure and blades of blue-green paper that resemble grass, it seems that Mueller also intends to merge nature and architecture. That formula equals the suburbs, which some of these pieces evoke. But others are more abstract or ambiguous: A series of slats, arrayed on the floor, is painted to show one turn of the color wheel. A different sort of wheel, designed to a precise standard of wobbliness, welcomes visitors to the gallery. It suggests — gently and in pleasant hues — that the world we’ve all built is off-kilter.

Jenkins is a freelance writer.

Winging It

on view through July 27 at Heiner Contemporary, 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW; 202-338-0072; www.heinercontemporary.com .

Click: Time & Space

on view through July 14 at Addison/Ripley Fine Art, 1670 Wisconsin Ave. NW; 202-338-5180; www.addisonripleyfineart.com .

Beyond the Park: Images by the Photoworks Faculty

on view through July 15 at Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW; 202-364-1919; www.politics-prose.com .

Megan Mueller: I Built This for You

on view through July 14 at Flashpoint, 916 G St. NW; 202-315-1305; www.culturaldc.org/visual-arts/

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Reader: My daughter recently graduated from an acclaimed eastern college. She has sent out many résumés for internships with no response. I’ve noticed the requirements listed on many of these internships include previous work experience and technical training. These descriptions are identical to real job requirements, yet the internships rarely pay. It’s clear to me these places want free labor, and they’re very selective.

My fear is that she will give up. Would it be wrong to ask them politely why they never contacted her?

Karla: I’m sure you’d be polite, but I really think your daughter should handle this.

Oh, wait — you mean, would it be wrong for her to follow up with them? Not at all. In fact, she should probably make a habit of contacting companies several days after applying to confirm that her application was received, and then checking in with them a few weeks later to ask whether they’ve reached a decision. If the decision is “Not you,” she can politely ask for suggestions to improve her prospects.

Now that we’ve dispensed with job-search etiquette, let’s talk about whether these unpaid internships are worth your daughter’s time — or are, in fact, legal.

The Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division has a list of criteria an internship program must meet to be exempt from minimum wage and overtime rules. In a nutshell, the program has to be designed for the benefit of the interns, not the employer. It must provide training similar to that found in an educational environment, and cannot use interns to displace regular employees. So, no exploiting desperate newbies for free labor at the expense of full-timers.

By those criteria, the “internships” you describe sound suspicious to me, too.

Some former interns have sued employers, including Fox Searchlight and Hearst Corp., for violating labor laws. According to employment attorney Sharon Snyder of Ober | Kaler, employers who lose such cases can be slapped with hefty damages. Personally, I’d rather turn down a dodgy gig in advance than join a class action afterward, hoping for a payout.

Of course, many students, grads and career-switchers are eager for the prestige and connections an internship promises — even if it means they spend their time making coffee and collating. And in some fields, internships remain the best way to get a foot in the door. The down side is that you can’t pay the rent with prestige; why do the same work for free that Starbucks will pay for?

But, assuming she’s not expecting you to foot her bills, it’s up to your daughter to decide whether she wants to intern for a place that seems to want to take advantage of her existing skills without offering her additional skills, or much of anything else, in return.

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Hannah is a young-adult female hound and retriever mix. Bobbett is an adult female Maine coon cat mix.

The Fauquier SPCA is at 9350 Rogues Rd., Casanova. Hours are noon to 7 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays; noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays; and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. For information, call 540-788-9000.

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It’s a rite of passage for many teenagers: the moment when they get behind the wheel and start driving. But this often has a tragic corollary.

Teenagers are significantly more likely to crash in their first month of driving than they are after their first two years of solo driving, according to a new study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

During this initial month, teens are 50 percent more likely to crash as they are after a year and twice as likely to crash as they are after two years.

“The fact that the parents are no longer in the car can make a big difference,” said AAA Mid-Atlantic spokesman John B. Townsend II. “There’s not enough life experience and not enough time under their belt to negotiate everything that can crop up on the road.”

Invariably, the parent or guardian who initially rides shotgun is replaced by other teenagers, resulting in distractions, loud music and peer pressure, Townsend said.

The same three mistakes were at the root of 57 percent of crashes at least partially caused by teens in their first month of licensed driving, according to the study: failing to slow down, failing to yield and a lack of attention.

Car accidents are the leading cause of death for teens in the United States, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. More than 2,300 drivers between 15 and 20 years old were killed nationwide in 2009, the last year for which data were available. More than 70 percent of those drivers were male.

Other studies from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety show that laws that restrict teen driving contribute to lower crash rates. The District and most states, including Maryland and Virginia, have graduated licensing laws that restrict nighttime driving and the number of passengers in the car.

“It’s proving to be a successful way to keep teens safer,” said Anne McCartt, senior vice-president for research at the institute.

The number of drivers between the ages of 15 and 20 involved in fatal crashes dropped 37 percent between 2000 and 2009, according to NHTSA. For all drivers, the decline was 21 percent over the same period.

Although the number of teen fatalities has decreased, it remains a major problem, said Kara Macek, spokeswoman for the Governors Highway Safety Association.

“We’re losing thousands of teenagers every year on our roads, so we still have a lot of progress to be made,” Macek said.

The new study, which was released to mark the beginning of National Teen Driver Safety Week on Sunday, was conducted by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center for the AAA Foundation. Researchers looked at crashes involving new drivers in North Carolina from the beginning of 2001 through 2008.

“Teens have an elevated crash rate because they’re youthful, immature and inexperienced,” McCartt said. “Drivers of any age that are newer drivers have higher crash rates, but for teens that’s compounded by being young.”

Parents can play a hands-on role even after they stop riding along for every outing, Townsend said. They should continue to talk to their children about their driving habits and emphasize careful driving.

“They want their independence, but if you get them through their first month, you’ll probably save lives and prevent a lot of accidents,” Townsend said. “This is instructive and a wake-up call for adults, too.”

Mark Berman is a reporter on the National staff. He runs Post Nation, a destination for breaking news and developing stories from around the country.
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The author, her new haircut and her daughter on a pre-chemo family getaway in the Shenandoah Valley. (David Larimer)
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When I got most of my hair cut off recently, friends, co-workers and neighbors commented and complimented, but no one asked why.

I’m not sure why I thought they would. The question has a whiff of judgment. But I wanted them to, because then I wouldn’t need to find a way to introduce the topic: I was just diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The kind of chemo I need to have is the kind that almost always makes you lose your hair. I thought it would be easier to have smaller piles of hair on my pillow and in my shower drain.

I wasn’t sold on the haircut at first, and my 13-month-old daughter didn’t appear to be, either. The day I came home with the new look, she seemed unsure that I was the right person.

Fair enough. I’m not totally sure, either. I’m not sure I’m the person who can handle being the mother of a toddler and undergoing chemo. I’m not sure I can be a reasonably good wife and mother (whatever that means) while dealing with this.

I know that, for a mom with cancer, I have it relatively easy. Hodgkin’s is curable. There’s a decent chance I will have six months of chemo and then I’m done. I’m not being given months to live. Surgery and radiation are unlikely. I have a supportive husband, good insurance, a job at a wonderful company, and friends and family who are happy to help with my daughter or the dog. Many people have it much worse.

But it still sucks. I might be on the lucky side for a cancer patient, but I’m a 33-year-old mom who has to deal with this major medical issue.

A little background: My only symptom has been itching. A lot of it. For months. I felt silly going to the doctor about it, and then I felt silly for going to get the chest X-ray she ordered. But then the technician took the X-ray and told me to wait for the radiologist. There was no way that was a good sign. A CT scan followed. There was a mass in my chest.

It could be a lot of things, most of which fell into the category of “crappy but could be worse.” I had a procedure to get some tissue for biopsy, and after a weekend of waiting, I received the diagnosis of Hodgkin’s, a cancer of the immune system.

Having a diagnosis is better than having an unnamed mass in your chest. The latter is more likely to make you stare at the ceiling at night and think about what you’d do if they told you you had six months to live.

But no one told me that.

And so I count the ways in which I’m lucky. I haven’t had time to wallow over this diagnosis or feel sorry for myself. As bad as I feel that Matilda got stuck with a mom who has cancer, it’s nice to have someone else’s needs and emotions come first — and Matilda has plenty of both. Since the discovery of the mass in my chest, what I’ve been most struck by is how much joy she has. Her joy — at my arrival home from work, at reading a book (for the 500th time), at eating a new food — lift up my mood and make the days not just bearable but enjoyable.

And so here I am. Writing can be therapeutic, and selfishly I’m hoping to find answers from parents who’ve been here. I will use this as an excuse to call experts for tips on how to deal with this, what to tell kids at different ages, how to learn to ask for help when you need it. I’d like to explore the joy and stress. I’d like to know when, or if, I get to be selfish. I’d like to know what to expect when they start pumping these drugs into me.

Been there? There now? Have things you want to see me tackle? Please e-mail me at terri.rupar@washpost.com.

This article is reprinted from The Post’s On Parenting blog.

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April 9, 2014

The deleveraging of America is over, or mostly over — and that’s good news and possibly bad. All that “leverage” (loans, debts, mortgages) impeded recovery. Borrowers were overborrowed. Lenders were overlent. Credit standards were too lax. It would take time, we were told, for these excesses to shrink. Borrowers would pay down debts. Lenders would write off bad loans. But now that this ugly process seems mostly done, more money can flow into old-fashioned consumer and business spending. The recovery should strengthen.

That’s the good news, and the bad could be: If this improvement doesn’t occur, it suggests that the economy suffers from deeper and harder-to-cure ills.

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For now, the evidence on deleveraging is overwhelming. All the economy’s major sectors, with the conspicuous exception of government, have lightened their financial burdens. This includes households, banks and major corporations. They’ve reduced their debts or refinanced at lower interest rates so that servicing their loans is less costly.

A new study from economists at Morgan Stanley finds the following, based largely on Federal Reserve data:

●From the last quarter of 2007 to the last quarter of 2013, the debt of U.S. households dropped $638 billion to $13.8 trillion. All the decline occurred in home mortgages (down $1.2 trillion over the same period). Still, credit card debt grew slowly. Moreover, much of the debt — led by mortgages — has been refinanced at low interest rates, says Morgan Stanley. As a result, consumer debt payments as a share of disposable income have dropped to levels not seen since the early 1980s.

●The debt of major nonfinancial corporations (excluding banks, insurance companies and other financial firms) hasn’t decreased but has been refinanced at lower rates. Companies are less burdened by debt service. At the depth of the financial crisis in 2009, corporations had about $1.50 of cash flow for every $1 of interest payments they owed. Now the ratio is about $3.50-to-$1. Debt maturities have also lengthened. Stronger cash positions and longer maturities make firms less vulnerable if short-term loans aren’t renewed.

●Financial firms have reduced leverage. At the end of 2007, their debts equaled about 110 percent of the economy, or gross domestic product (GDP). At the end of 2013, their debts had fallen to nearly 80 percent of GDP. (Financial firms tend to borrow at one interest rate and hope to earn a slightly higher rate when those funds are lent out or invested.) Banks also have more shareholder capital to absorb losses. In 2008, bank capital equaled about 6 percent of banks’ loans, securities and other assets; now, capital is almost 9 percent.

To some extent, deleveraging has liberated the economy from the legacy of the credit bubble. Consumers are in a better position to consume. Businesses are in a better position to invest. Banks are in a better position to lend. There could be a virtuous circle. That’s one reason many economists forecast a pickup in economic growth, from slightly more than 2 percent for 2010-13 to 3 percent for the next three or four years.

It could also be a false dawn. In this economic recovery, forecasts have consistently proved too optimistic. People and firms haven’t behaved the way the economic models said they would. The models are based on past behavior. But the financial crisis and recession may have changed how people behave.

A new Federal Reserve study notes that total “labor earnings fell more in the period from 2007 to 2009 than during any other post-war [World War II] recession.” Declines occurred at every income level. True, some workers received increases, but their gains were overwhelmed by others’ losses. Among the lowest-paid workers, average drops were 20 percent to 25 percent; even among the 90th to 99th percent best-paid workers, the average decline was 9 percent — and, interestingly, the average drop among the top 1 percent was 23 percent. Has this searing experience made consumers so cautious that they might continue deleveraging?

Good question. We’ll soon learn whether deleveraging prevented a stronger recovery — or signifies something far more stubborn.

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Over the weekend, workers at a hospital morgue in Tikrit unloaded bodies of people killed over the four days of sectarian violence in and around Balad.
Over the weekend, workers at a hospital morgue in Tikrit unloaded bodies of people killed over the four days of sectarian violence in and around Balad. (By Bassim Daham -- Associated Press)

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OUTSIDE BALAD, Iraq -- At midweek, Shiite Interior Ministry commandos and their Shiite militia allies cruised the four-lane hardtop outside the besieged city of Balad, trying to stave off retaliation for a deadly four-day rampage in which they had all but emptied Balad of Sunnis.

Sunni insurgents pouring in to take that revenge patrolled the same highway, driving battered white pickups and minivans, their guns stashed out of sight. Affecting casualness, more Sunni men gathered on rooftops or clustered on the reed-lined edge of the highway, keeping an eye on the Shiite forces and the few frightened civilians who dared to travel the highway past Balad.

What brought this Tigris River city north of Baghdad to this state of siege was a series of events that have displayed in miniature the factors drawing the entire country into a sectarian bloodbath: Retaliatory violence between Sunnis and Shiites has soared to its highest level of the war, increasingly forcing moderates on both sides to look to armed extremists for protection.

The Shiite-led government's security forces, trained by the United States, proved immediately incapable of dealing with the sectarian violence in Balad, or, in many cases, abetted it, residents and police said.

More than 20,000 U.S. troops are based within 15 miles of Balad, but, uncertain how to respond, they hesitated, waiting for Iraqi government forces to step up, according to residents, police and U.S. military officials.

And all that was left holding Balad, and Iraq, together -- the desire for peace and normality still held by the great majority of Iraqis, and the generations of intermarriage and neighborliness between ordinary Shiite and Sunni Muslims -- was ripping apart.

"The people of Balad should not kill the Sunnis who are among them," said one slightly built Shiite man, fleeing his home on the outskirts of Balad. He and 13 women and children of his family were crammed into a single, battered Toyota sedan, stranded by a flat tire near the highway turnoff to the city. "Our relations are not of months or years. It's since the beginning of time," he said. "This relationship has been destroyed in a second."

The principals involved give a straightforward timeline of how that happened.

The trigger event, U.S. and Iraqi officials said, was the killing of two or three Sunni men from the area earlier this month. One of the men had been a local leader of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, a U.S. military spokesman.

On Oct. 13, Sunni insurgents took their revenge. In Duluiyah, a Sunni hamlet four miles and across the river from Balad, insurgents kidnapped and beheaded 17 Shiite laborers who had come to work in the date palm groves there. The U.S. military later arrested two Sunni police officers from the town for alleged involvement in the deaths.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters instigated the killings, then stood by as innocent Sunnis were killed in the retaliation that followed, said police Maj. Hussein Alwan in Duluiyah.

Hours after the beheadings, outraged and frightened Shiite elders of Balad telephoned an office of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Kadhimiyah, a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad. Sadr leads the Mahdi Army, the most feared Shiite militia in Iraq.

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The DEMO Spring 2011 conference kicked off yesterday in Palm Springs, featuring 27 startups in the consumer, enterprise, and cloud sectors. Each company was allowed six minutes to make their presentation and try to wow the audience with their product launches. Some let their products do the talking, while others added humor to their pitches. For example, Dr. Shamus Husheer, inventor of the technology behind DuoFertility ¿ a monitor that helps couples struggling to conceive ¿ began by saying, "my name is Shamus, and my job is to get millions of women pregnant".From mind-reading headbands and Coinstar receptacles for your old electronic devices to applications that protect your Facebook page from spam, here (in no particular order) are introductions to 7 of the most interesting companies from Day 1.AboutOne: AboutOne is a secure online family management system that makes it easier to organize your family life. Targeting valuables like household information and memories, the platform enables you to store digitized pictures, video, and text, and access this information anytime from any web-enabled device. The service also allows you to store digital scans of children's artwork, create photo albums from your family pictures, store insurance contracts, as well as keep track of anniversary dates, birthdays, and post instructions to the family baby sitter. Connecting with other services via API, AboutOne takes away the need to input all of this information manually. Enter your car's VIN number, for example, and AboutOne is able to automatically import the model, make, year, etc. into its system. Founder & CEO Joanne Lang was previously on the cloud team at SAP, and though the demo wandered a bit, AboutOne seems to be assembling features that you would otherwise have to go to multiple different services to employ, so the future may be bright for AboutOne.Manilla: Manilla is a free online account management service, which gathers your household bills, financial accounts, travel rewards, and subscriptions all in one place. Sign on once and access all of your accounts, and view your bills the way they look in hard copy. Manilla recently announced partnerships with Comcast and Citibank, yet, as there are quite a few automated payment platforms already up and running, Manilla's success will depend on its UI and how quickly it can bring all of the big banks and utility companies into the fold.ecoATM: If the folks at ecoATM are correct in saying that 500 million electronic gadgets are purchased yearly ¿ and that this number will only continue to grow ¿ the market for recycling these devices is enormous. Enter ecoATM, the Coinstar for electronic devices. ecoATM is a self-serve recycling kiosk that buys back consumer electronics. Using its "patented machine vision, electronic diagnostics, and artificial intelligence", ecoATM assesses the pristine or crappy condition, maker, and year of your device. It then ascribes a price and offers you the chance for instant cash back or store credit. The large device manufacturers have the infrastructure and manpower to potentially win this race in the long haul (take Verizon's Trade-In Program, for example), but cash-back and a quick-to-market strategy could build gain ecoATM some serious traction.NeuroSky: NeuroSky are the makers of a futuristic brain and attention-scanning device that looks, in practice, like a BlueTooth headset for your noggin. NeuroSky calls their device "exercise equipment for children?s minds", as it works by monitoring electrical EEG brainwaves from the forehead, which then pass through algorithmic functions to determine the intensity of mental states like "relaxation" and "attention." The company has said that the technology will be used in a number of different products that target ADD and ADHD. (A large reason this one is so close to my heart. Well, brain.) NeuroSky then allows the user to connect to one of ten educational, neuroscience apps, designed to help kids learn math and to improve their focus ¿ all by playing games. Will this help fight the shrinking modern attention span? I hope so.CVAC Systems, Inc: Straight out of "2001: A Space Odyssey" comes this newfangled pod that simulates high-altitude living. The so-called Cyclic Variations in Altitude Conditioning (CVAC) process apparently improves your fitness by applying "precisely composed rhythm-based changes to pressure, temperature and density of air" to your body as you sit in the egg-shaped pod. According to CVAC, its technology promotes longevity (adding years to your life), especially for those with diabetes. Supposedly, the combination of exercise and high altitude conditioning offers an array of health benefits. To their credit, CVAC cited numerous scientific studies to support their claims, but for now, it still requires a leap of faith.Ajax Cloud9 IDE: Ajax's Cloud9 IDE is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) for JavaScript developers that supports HTML5, Python, Ruby, and PHP. The environment will allow developers to build apps and create projects that can be accessed, edited or shared anytime, anywhere. Thanks to the cloud, all you need to operate the environment is a browser and a computer, removing the burden of managing and maintaining large developer infrastructures. During their demo, Cloud9 said that Mozilla would be merging its Skywriter project with their technology and that they are in talks with IBM about Eclipse. If these claims are true, HTML5 developers might soon be on Cloud9. Ey-oh!Websense's Defensio for Facebook: Defensio for Facebook is an app that provides companies with active Facebook and other social network accounts added security measures for preventing unwanted content, spam, and spyware. Thanks to the ease and low cost of creating fake applications for Facebook, many brands and companies watch as their pages suffer from an overload of spam. Using Websense's monitoring and analytics technology, Defensio offers the user a host of cloud-based configuration tools, allowing you to moderate the comments on your page, Facebook Wall, news stream, photos, and block the content you don't want. You can also choose from, or input, a list of sites you don't want your page to link to or language you may not want to appear ¿ and you can have Defensio monitor multiple pages. Very cool.Nimble: Nimble is a social relationship manager, which you can use to easily connect your contacts, calendars, and communications. The platform integrates with your mail, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts, bringing them into one environment and allowing you to see all of your connections with a particular person across all of those media. If, for example, someone sends you an email, it can pull up any previous conversations with them from any platform, or if you aren't familiar with the person, you can pull their info from social networks. Nimble is free for individuals, but requires a small fee for the paid features that come with company plans and small groups. The company is aiming to make it easier for brands to interact and converse with their customers. With a seamless UI and deep integration with all social networks, Nimble could become a highly usable platform. I'm excited to test it.Photo credit: Rodrigo PeñaCrunchBase InformationAboutOneManillaecoATMNeuroSkyCVAC Systems IncAjax Cloud9 IDEWebsenseNimble CRMInformation provided by CrunchBase

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Returning starters: F Louis Birdsong, G Dre Smith, G John Vaughan

Top player: Vaughan averaged 12.3 points as the third offensive option behind Folarin Campbell and Will Thomas a year ago, and his scoring figures to rise this season. But his greatest value might come at the defensive end, where he routinely locked down the likes of Virginia Commonwealth´s Eric Maynor and Northeastern´s Matt Janning a year ago. Both are back and playing for CAA title contenders - but so is Vaughan.

Outlook: The final cornerstones of the 2006 Final Four team - Campbell and Thomas - are gone, but George Mason long ago established itself as one of the CAA´s top teams regardless of personnel losses. Vaughan remains a defensive stopper, while Smith is a dangerous perimeter option who went 10-for-10 beyond the 3-point line in a game last year. Darryl Monroe returns after missing last season following toe surgery and will fortify the frontcourt, while sophomore Cam Long should emerge as a factor at point guard. Look for freshmen Andre Cornelius and Ryan Pearson - both of whom played extensively in George Mason´s exhibition game - to establish roles for the defending CAA tournament champions.

Last year: 9-17 (5-11 Atlantic 10)

Coach: Karl Hobbs, eighth year, 123-82

Returning starters: F Rob Diggs, F Damian Hollis, G Xavier Alexander

Top player: Diggs led the Colonials in virtually every statistical category last season as a junior. The 6-9, 202-pound Brandywine native was second in the A-10 in offensive rebounds and was fourth in the conference in field goal percentage.

Outlook: Hobbs has his leading scorer (Diggs), 3-point shooter (guard Noel Willmore) and defender (forward Wynton Witherspoon had 30 steals in 2007) back from last season’s disappointing squad. Gone are team troublemakers Maurice Rice, Cheyenne Moore and Miles Beatty, who were dismissed from the team last spring. The senior core of Diggs, Willmore and Witherspoon should help ground a group that is picked to finish fourth from the bottom of the A-10. Its early season schedule — which includes games against area rivals Maryland and American and a trip to Honolulu for the Rainbow Classic in late December - and a competitive conference slate will render GW’s postseason hopes all but obsolete.

Last year: 6-26 (3-13 MEAC)

Coach: Gil Jackson, fourth year, 22-70

Returning starters: G Randy Hampton, G Eugene Myatt, C Paul Kirkpatrick, F Adam Walker

Top player: Hampton, a senior swingman, returns after averaging 11.6 points a game in an injury-plagued junior season. The homegrown talent (Dunbar High School) suffered a concussion and missed significant time during the Bison’s woeful 2007 campaign. The transfer from Drexel should be even more effective if he can manage to stay healthy.

Outlook: Jackson’s team has nowhere to go but up with a more experienced squad returning for 2008. Myatt, who last year averaged 14 points, should team with Hampton to provide some much-needed frontcourt firepower, and an infusion of talent from newcomers Calvin Thompson and Chris McHenry has Howard fans hungry for more wins. The Bison start the season in the spotlight when Oregon State and coach Craig Robinson - the brother of first lady-to-be Michelle Obama - visit the nation’s capital.

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- Associated Press - Wednesday, March 14, 2012

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. (AP) - Never has IndyCar had so much to look forward to in an upcoming season, and so much to overcome at the very same time.

The entire 2011 season was a buildup for this year, when IndyCar introduces competing manufacturers, a new car, new faces and what’s expected to be the most wide-open championship race in years. But all of the momentum the series had built was halted in the season finale, when popular two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon was killed in a horrific 15-car accident.

Now, the series attempts to regain its footing and move forward while also honoring its fallen star. IndyCar opens its 16-race schedule March 25 with the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, where Wheldon lived and won the inaugural race through the city streets of his adopted hometown in 2005.

“You had a tragedy in our last race. This down season has been terrible, quite frankly,” said IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard. “Any driver or owner will tell you the same thing. There’s so many good things going on, it’s part of the closure. It’s life. We need to figure out how we close it personally and move onto the next step.”

Wheldon’s absence will be felt all season but most notably during next week’s season opener and in May around the Indianapolis 500, which he won for a second time last year.

At the same time, his death could be the catalyst in an aggressive push to upgrade safety for both the series and the tracks where IndyCar competes.

Improvements were well underway before Wheldon’s accident by way of the first new car to the series since 2003. Wheldon, who entered only three races last season, spent most of the year helping Dallara with its development.

The car was designed to add numerous safety upgrades and update technology. After the accident, it was named the Dallara DW12 to honor the work he’d put into the project. After initial gripes about everything from the car’s appearance, its handling and its lack of speed, intensive winter testing has left drivers optimistic that everything will be just fine.

More important, it could level the playing field.

“There’s going to be teething problems, absolutely,” said four-time champion Dario Franchitti. “But I think it’s exciting that it’s a completely new car, and everyone has to figure it out.”

The car will be introduced at the same time as IndyCar welcomes two new engine manufacturers. Honda had been the sole supplier since 2005, but Chevrolet and Lotus have entered the series and engine reliability could be an issue for the first time in seven years.

Chevy, with Penske Racing and Andretti Autosport in its stable, will go head-to-head this year with Honda and Chip Ganassi’s four-car fleet. Ganassi drivers Scott Dixon and Franchitti paced last week’s spring training testing at Sebring and don’t appear to have missed a step in the transition to new equipment.

Lagging behind is Lotus, which came into the series late and has yet to catch up. The manufacturer is struggling to get its engines built and enters the season-opener with only five teams in its fleet. Its teams lagged behind in testing, with all five finishing in the bottom nine on the overall speed chart.

“It’s not ideal, especially with a new car,” said Lotus DRR driver Oriol Servia. “We knew they were starting late. It’s all about faith. Just need to make sure every lap counts in analyzing data and getting good conclusions.

“Where the engine stands, I don’t know.”

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- The Washington Times - Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The Marine Corps Band has confirmed that it, along with Beyonce Knowles, faked Monday’s national anthem at President Obama’s second Inaugural.

Band director Colonel Michael J. Colburn conducted the Star-Spangled Banner energetically, but the band members were actually mimicking blowing into their instruments. It’s been reported that Beyonce even removed her earpiece during the performance while lip-syncing the lyrics.

“We don’t know why Beyonce decided to use prerecorded music,” a spokesperson for the Marine Corps Band told the Washingtonian Tuesday. “All music [for inaugural ceremonies] is prerecorded as a matter of course, and that’s something we’ve done for years and years. The Marine Band did perform live throughout the ceremony but we received last-minute word that Beyonce wanted to use the recording.”

There are no reports of a singer ever lip-syncing the national anthem during a president’s inauguration.


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10 Things About Me

Because I often post about the various things that I love, I thought I’d do a fun little about me post.

What things do you love to do?  Let me know in the comments!

  1. I love sailing, but rarely am able to go.  I take full advantage of the time I spend in California with my parents to go sailing with my dad.
  2. We own two dachshunds.  I volunteer with dachshund rescue as a foster home, do some fundraising work for them, and provide some graphics.
  3. You know that parent at kids’ athletics – the one always goofing around with their kids having way too much fun?  That’s me.  I taught myself to play soccer as the kids have learned over the years.  My 6 year old who plays club level can still out-maneuver me, though – yeah, it’s pathetic.
  4. I don’t have a volunteering problem per se, but I am fairly organized so things usually work out.  I am team manager for two soccer teams, help as I can with scouts, and teach a short preschool class on Fridays.  When I say no, though, I mean no.
  5. I have an unholy relationship with coffee.  It would be a great thing to give up for Lent, but that’s just not happening.
  6. I actually enjoy getting up early, ridiculously early to work out.  As a homeschooling parent and co-owner of  a small business, the wee hours of the morning are my only “me” time.
  7. I taught myself how to use the various frameworks for websites, and now manage three websites.  I can’t code though.
  8. I having a baking problem.  I really enjoy baking and finding new ways to remake my old favorites into new favorites with freshly milled grains.
  9. My house and car resemble an Adidas store.  We have soccer stuff everywhere.  It’s taking over.
  10. I like Doctor Who – have tons of pins on Pinterest related to Doctor Who,  a TARDIS key chain, and a few shirts.  I used to watch it with my dad when I was a kid, now hubby and I watch together.

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    As it is my first time here, it was great to find this post. I love these sorts of posts, it allows you to get to know the person behind the blog, which is so very important as I believe the true essence of blogging is building personal/real connections. It is lovely to meet you. :)

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CARY, NC, June 2, 2011 -- Kruger has completed startup and commissioning of a Hydrotech Discfilter system for the Tertiary Filtration and UV Disinfection Facility Improvements Project in the city of Galt, CA. The project goal was to improve effluent water quality from the facility prior to discharge into Laguna Creek.

The Hydrotech system includes three (3) HSF2210-1F Discfilter units. It is designed to filter a capacity up to 6 MGD in order to produce effluent with average turbidity ≤ 2 NTU in accordance with California Title 22 requirements for the use of recycled wastewater. The system was commissioned for use in November of 2010.

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Francis Edward Fekkers of Wauneta, Neb., died Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009, at the Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial, Neb. He was 82 years of age.
Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 4 at 10 a.m. MT at the Redeemer Lutheran Church with Pastor Greg Stuckwisch officiating. Burial was at the Fort McPherson National Cemetery at Maxwell.
Survivors include his son, Mike Fekkers of Corvallis, Ore., a daughter, Ruth Liedle of Lincoln; a sister, Barb Blickenstaff of Arapahoe; three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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