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Events and Competitions for Sri Lanka Children with Disabilities
The Saviya Development Foundation (SDF) will implement various programmes aiming at disabled children in Galle, Matara and Hambantota districts.
Saviya Athvela Vocational Training Center in Kamburugamuva facilitates male and female students with physical impairment and has made arrangements to obtain the accreditation of tertiary and vocational education commission for the one year courses of repairing domestic
electrical equipments and motor rewinding.
A training centre with residential facilities for female children with autism in Nalavana, Kananke, Weligama and a boys' home for the mentally handicapped in Akmeemana, Galle are also managed by the SDF.
SDF has also organised a series of painting, poster and writing competitions to be implemented at national level.
Children, between 10 to 15 years can participate in the junior competitions while those over 15 years can participate in the senior competitions. Children who are not disabled can also participate in the competitions.
Contributions should be sent before November 20, 2008. Rs. 5,000 will be awarded to the first prize winner while Rs. 3,000 will be awarded to the second and Rs. 2,000 to the third prize winners. Singing and dancing competitions for boys and girls are also planned under senior and junior levels.
Essays can be presented on 'Community participation towards making the persons with disabilities partners in the society, 'Facilitate the fulfillment of aspirations of the persons with disabilities through providing easy access.
Safeguard equality and equity of the persons with disabilities and the necessity to launch community interventions to combat social stigma. Essays of seniors should not be less than 400 words while it should not be less than 300 words for juniors.
The topics of paintings and posters are – "We will came to this world with dignity', "Persons with disability" and "Humanity Rights and A productive alternative through skills development".
Information can be obtained by writing to Saviya Development Foundation, 24A, Wewelwala Road, Bataganvila, Galle or calling 091-2245781 and 091-2234281. email@example.com or email@example.com
This text is taken from an announcement circulated by Ghulam Nabi Nizamani.
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If you're new to We Can Do, what interesting information, news, or resources might you have overlooked from the past few months? Although some older items may no longer be interesting, others may still be relevant and helpful a year or three from now. This post can help guide you through the first 100-plus posts at this blog. You can click from the table of contents below to any section of this page that interests you–and then another click on "table of contents" can take you back to the contents, or "top of this page" takes you back to this introduction.
- About We Can Do
- The five most popular We Can Do posts
- The five most under-rated We Can Do posts
- Finding Practical Resources and Case Studies, or Helpful Organizations
- Finding sources of information, research, papers, or statistics
- Funding sources: leads on where to find funding support
- Academic papers related to disabled people in developing countries
- News related to disabled people in developing countries
- Opinion pieces
- Call for papers for conferences and journals
- International Conference and Event Announcements
- Job, internship, and volunteer opportunities
- Education and training opportunities
- Missed opportunities for events, jobs, etc.
- What's next for We Can Do?
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About We Can Do
To learn more about the purpose of We Can Do, see About We Can Do. For more on its guiding philosophy, go to Why We Can Do.
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The Five Most Popular We Can Do posts
The five listed here are the ones that have attracted the most "page views" since We Can Do began in late July. You may notice that not all of these are featured in the 10 "most popular posts" listed in the right-hand navigation bar. That's because the navigation bar only lists posts that have received a lot of traffic very recently (I think within the past few days; its done automatically by wordpress so I'm not sure how it works). But here I'm listing the five that have the highest TOTAL page views.
- An announcement about the International Day of Disabled Persons, held on December 3, 2007, has received more than 600 hits.
- More than 500 We Can Do readers were especially anxious to learn more about some limited available funding for conference participation from developing nations.
- More than 400 readers wanted to learn from a Case study on early intervention for blind children.
- The international Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) in plain language has attracted more than 400 readers. This version of the CRPD was written for people who have trouble understanding the legal language of the original, or who want a tool to help them translate the CRPD into another language.
- More than 400 people have learned more About We Can Do.
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The Five Most Under-Rated We Can Do posts
Are these posts really under-rated? You'll have to read them and decide for yourself. But in choosing these five, I used two criteria: 1. These are posts that have received fewer than 100 visitors–sometimes far fewer. 2. These are posts that I think could be helpful or interesting to readers and maybe deserve more attention than they have gotten. These are in no particular order:
- See Finding development organizations and resources for a link that can help you find major international development organizations and funders. Some of these organizations already work on disability issues and may be interested in building new partnerships with new DPOs, development organizations, and other NGOs.
- Equipment that enables blind people in industrialized countries to read computer screens can be expensive. But new technology can help bring screen readers and magnifiers to blind people in developing countries. The Sightsaver's Dolphin Pen is cheaper, which means it is easier to afford in countries where the average income may be only a few hundred dollars per person per year.
- Looking for statistics to back up your arguments, or to add to your literature review for your dissertation? You can consult Numbers Don't Feed People–Or Do They?" for a few leads.
- Want to help teach disabled people in your country about the international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)? Handicap International has developd a teaching kit on the CRPD with suggested teaching points, power point programs, Word files and PDF files.
- Teachers, parents, and other advocates for children can use the Child-friendly version of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to teach both disabled and non-disabled children about disability rights.
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Finding Practical Resources and Case Studies or Helpful Organizations
Finding organizations; Resources for inclusive development; Human rights resources; Case studies; Other helpful resources
Finding organizations
Mainstream international development agencies sometimes say that they don't know how to find people with disabilities, or their representative organizations, in the developing countries where they work. Reviewing the July post entitled Finding Local Disability Organizations may help point you in the right direction. Also see Disability Organizations in Afghanistan, Asia, Kenya, Uganda.
Disabled People's Organizations (DPOs) sometimes aren't sure where to find mainstream development organizations and resources that might be willing to collaborate with them.
There is an international network of organizations for families of people with Rubinstein Taybi Syndrome.
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Resources for Inclusive Development
Both disability advocates and mainstream development organizations want to ensure that people with disabilities are not left behind when countries and organizations fight poverty or improve public health, education, water, and other services. But it can be a challenge to figure out how to make projects and government policies more inclusive. The following resources can help:
- Making Poverty Reduction Strategies Inclusive: for disability advocates and other individuals or organizations that want to help national government policies become more inclusive of disabled people when they fight poverty. This handbook can be downloaded for free.
- Handbook on Mainstreaming Disability, for mainstream international development organizations written by Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO). Download for free.
- An On-line book on Universal Design and Visitability can be downloaded for free.
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Resources on the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
By now, you may be aware that a global movement is taking place to ratify the international disability rights treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Many relevant resources are now being produced in relation to the CRPD, some of which have been posted or featured here at We Can Do:
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Case Studies
Reviewing case studies of projects implemented elsewhere can be a valuable source of ideas that could help you figure out how to run or implement your own projects. I would love to post many more best-practice and failed-practice case studies than I have available right now. If you think you have something worth sharing, please check my Wish List of Written Materials and Resource and contact me at ashettle [at] patriot.net.
But for now, here are two case studies:
- A Case Study about an Early intervention program for blind children in Russia
- a collection of short case summaries of projects for deaf children in Burkino Faso, Zimbabwe, Somaliland, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, and India
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- A set of Recommendations on how to empower people with intellectual disabilities in the Asian and Pacific region was developed at a conference held in the region in October 2007.
- A dictionary for Sri Lankan Sign Language has been published.
- A new device functions as a screen reader or magnifier for blind people in developing countries: this Sightsavers' Dolphin Pen is cheaper than the standard screen readers used in industrialized countries. That helps bring it within reach of a wider number of blind people even in countries where the average income is very low.
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Finding Useful Sources of Information and Research
Finding academic research, papers, resources, or statistics
Looking for academic research and academic papers; resources that can be used by people working in the field; or sources of statistics? Some of the following posts may be helpful:
- Disability Knowledge: Hungarian and English
- Numbers Don't Feed People–Or Do They? On finding statistics relevant to disabled people in developing countries
Information on people with disabilities
Interested in learning about the living conditions of people with disabilities in specific nations, or in specific thematic areas? Some of the following may be of interest:
- Report on Disabled People in Zimbabwe
- World Bank Report on Disabled people in India
- A report on research capacity on mental health in low- and middle-income countries was published by the Global Forum for Health Research on Mental Health Day in October 2007.
- The International Labour Organization (ILO) published a report on employment and people with disabilities, which calls for more active and sustained efforts to increase the employment of people with disabilities in part to help meet the Millennium Development Goals.
- An early post reviews information on deaf children with additional disabilities and resources available for them in developing countries.
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Funding Sources
- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) may have some funding for DPOs, NGOs, or other entities to be used for disability inclusion.
- The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) has come out with a resource that could help women's organizations find funding.
- The Worldwide Initiative for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) Global Fund for Community Foundations makes grants of up to $50,000 USD to emerging and developing community foundations or support organizations in developing countries. Note that these funds are NOT meant for individual non-government organizations (NGOs) but for small FOUNDATIONS or organizations meant to SUPPORT NGOs.
- The United Nations Democracy Fund holds an annual competition for funding applications for projects to promote better democratic participation. The 2007 deadline is December 18. Missed it? Review their information carefully and consider preparing early for their next funding round.
- Looking for funding to attend an international or local conference? three organizations have some limited funds available for conference participation from developing countries; two of these are focused on Latin America, but the first one listed (the Ford Foundation) covers other regions as well.
- The Inter-American
Foundations Grassroots Development Fellowship Program offers research fellowships to doctorate (PhD) students who want to study grassroots movements among poor people in Latin America. The application deadline is January 22, 2008.
- Funding is available for South Asian projects on HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination; the application deadline is January 31, 2008.
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Academic Papers
We Can Do has published, or re-published, academic papers, or linked to same, on a range of subjects, including:
- Violence against blind and visually impaired girls in school in Malawi by Abigail Suka
- Changing Face of Disability Movement: from Charity to Empowerment by Kishor Bhanushali
- Impact of the South Asian Earthquake on Disabled People in the State of Jammu and Kashmir by Dr. Parvinder Singh
- Equalizing Educational Opportunity for the Nigerian-Ghanaian Blind Girl Child by Florence Banku Obi.
- Violence Against Women with Disabilities in South Africa by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa.
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September 2007; October 2007; November 2007; Early December 2007
September 2007
At one point in September, the international disability community prematurely thought we might be On the Verge of Making History by ratifying the disability rights community.
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- In October, We Can Do reported that Gabon and India ratified, and Cambodia signed, the International CRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities).
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has initiated a project improving access to services for people with psycho-social (psychiatric) disabilities.
- An activist, Mussa Chiwaula, has been lobbying the Malawi government for disability rights.
- Read a report on the first known African deaf HIV/AIDS workshop.
- Mental Disabilities Rights International (MDRI) reports severe abuse and human rights violations of people with mental disabilities in Argentina.
- A Report was issued on a disability forum held in Pakistan.
A polio immunization drive was launched in Sudan.
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- Mugiho Takeshita at the UNDP's Crisis Prevention and Recovery was seeking information on implementing the CRPD in relation to crisis prevention and recovery for disabilities caused by violence and natural disaster.
- A Report was issued from the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters Conference that was held in Spain in July 2007.
- Mental Disabilities Rights International (MDRI) reports on human rights abuses of disabled children and adults in Serbia.
- The Commonwealth Disabled People's Conference issued a Memorandum calling for Commonwealth countries to support the CRPD.
- A Brazilian journalist and disability advocate received the International Service Human Rights Award for her defense of the human rights of people with disabilities.
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- The International Day of Disabled Persons was held on December 3, 2007.
- A web site on Disability Awareness Week in India was launched.
- Disability advocates have launched a global campaign to ratify the international disability rights treaty.
- The United Nations Secretary General made a statement in support of employing disabled people.
- People in India celebrated the International Day of Disabled Persons.
- Rosangela Berman Bieler made a statement on receiving the International Services Human Rights Award.
- Read a summary of a round table discussion on disability rights in Bangladesh, which held in December 2007.
- Bangladesh, Spain, Namibia, and Nicaragua ratify the international disability rights treaty (CRPD).
- El Salvador, Mexico ratify the CRPD.
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Opinion Pieces
So far, the opinion pieces here are all by me. But I would like for We Can Do to be host to an active exchange of ideas and differing perspectives. If you have a strong opinion about something, please consider submitting it. Yes, that includes opinions that disagree with mine! Consult the Wish list for written materials and resources for ideas of the kinds of topics I'm trying to cover at We Can Do.
Meanwhile, here are a few of my own opinion pieces:
- Dying for Employment
- Channeling Remittances from Disabled Emigrants
- One Laptop Per Child–But is it Inclusive?
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Call for Papers (for Conferences, Journals, Other)
You might be just now starting your academic career as an undergraduate or graduate student. Or perhaps you have been doing quantitative or qualitative research, or writing policy analysis, or case studies, or social analysis, for years. Either way, if you're looking for opportunities to present, publish, or otherwise disseminate your papers or run a workshop, then check out these upcoming or ongoing opportunities:
- A Call for proposals for an international forum on women's rights and development is open until January 28, 2008. The conference itself will be in November 2008.
- A Call for papers for the International Conference on Social Science Research Methodologies is open until February 2008. The conference itself will be in September 2008.
- Authors are needed to Write book chapters for a book to be entitled, "Post-Conflict Rehabilitation: Creating a Trauma Membrane for Individuals and Communities and Restructuring Lives after Trauma".
- If you have ever written a paper about the World Bank for a class or for a dissertation during your post-secondary education, then you can share your university papers on the World Bank.
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International Conferences and Events
Looking for a conference to attend? Here are a few upcoming events:
January 2008; February 2008; March 2008; April 2008; May 2008; August 2008; September 2008; November 2008
January 2008
The South Asian Conference on Autism is being held in New Delhi, India in January 2008.
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March 2008
The 8th annual meeting of the Gulf Disability Society will meet in United Arab Emirates in March 2008.
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- The Pacific Rim Conference on Disabilities will meet in the Hawaii islands, USA, in April 2008.
- The 8th Symposium of the Arab Federation of the Organs of the Deaf "Improving Education and Rehabilitation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing People" will be held in Saudi Arabia in April 2008.
- The Unite for Sight International Health Confernece will be held at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA in April 2008.
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- The Conference on the International Convention on the Rights of Persons on Disabilities will be held in Ethiopia in May 2008.
- The i-CREATE International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology will be held in Thailand in May 2008.
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- The 21st World Congress of Rehabilitation International will meet in Quebec in August 2008.
- The International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication conference will be held in Montreal, Canada, in August 2008.
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- The International Conference on Social Science Research Methodologies will meet in South Africa in September 2008. A Call for Paper/Presentation Abstracts is open until February 2008.
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November 2008
The Association on Women's Rights in Development (AWID)'s International Forum on Women's Rights and Development will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in November 2008. A call for proposals is open until January 28, 2008.
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Jobs, Internships, Volunteer Opportunities
We Can Do will probably never be a comprehensive job-board. Serious job, internship, or volunteer placement hunters will want to explore other means of finding opportunities. For example, jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities in the international field generally, or in the disability field generally, can sometimes be found at www.idealist.org. But I do occasionally happen to come across a job announcement. Here are a few that may still be open to applications:
- Three job posts are available in Luanda, Angola; the deadline for these is December 31, 2007.
- On-line translators for a corporate social responsibility initiative called "Disability Focus". Contact organization to inquire regarding deadline.
- The United Nations is seeking a Senior Social Affairs Officer, P-5. The application deadline is January 14, 2008.
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Education and Training Opportunities
- Leadership training for women with disabilities in South Asia will be available in February 2008.
- Mobility International USA is recruiting men and women with disabilities from Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru for the International Leadership Employment and Disability (I-LEAD) program for 21 days in March 2008 in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
- Study human rights at Central European University, for grassroots activists for human rights involved with a local non-government organization (NGO), or for lawyers with an interest in human rights.
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Missed Opportunities
Missed call for papers; Missed training opportunities; Missed job, internship, and volunteer opportunities; Missed events and conferences
Some of the material I post at We Can Do is time-sensitive material. That means the conferences announced here have come and gone; job posts have been filled; and deadlines are over. So, if it's too late for you to do anything about any of the following announcements, then why bother listing them? First, some conference organizers issue compilations of papers and presentations or other interesting materials after their event is over. If a topic interests you, it may be worth communicating with event organizers to see if any follow-up publications are available. Second, organizations that offer one conference, job opportunity, call for papers, etc., may offer something similar in the future. Many conferences, for example, meet every one, two, three, or four years. Monitoring, joining, or communicating with organizations of interest to you could help ensure that you learn about the next opportunity in time to plan for it.
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Missed Call for Papers
The German Journal for Disability and Development called for papers on art and disabilities to be submitted by the end of November 2007.
Also browse through the listing of upcoming conferences and missed conferences.
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In October 2007, the International Labour Organisation had a training course for professionals from developing countries.
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Missed Jobs, Internships, and Volunteer Opportunities
Remember that it is too late to apply for these specific opportunities. These are listed here in case you want to check out the sponsoring organizations for future opportunities like these:
- Technical Officer: Disability and Rehabilitation, at the World Health Organization
- Executive Director of the Global Partnership for Disability and Development
- Volunteer Opportunity with VSO in Kenya
- Technical Coordinator in Disability in Bangladesh
- Regional Coordinator, South Asia
- English teacher for deaf adults in Jamaica
- Technical Officer: Injuries, violence prevention, disabilities, and rehabilitation, at the World Health Organization
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Missed Event and Conference Opportunities
- The Commonwealth disabled peoples conference in Uganda was held in November 2007. Participants at that conference issued a memorandum asking commonwealth countries to support the international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
- The International Conference on Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Emergency Situations was held in Germany in November 2007.
- A conference was held by the Community Based Rehabilitation African Network on Inclusive Policy in South Africa in November 2007.
- An international conference on intellectual disabilities and mental retardation was held in Thailand in November 2007.
- The 7th International Seminar on Housing the Poor was held in Thailand in November 2007.
- An on-line forum on the sexual and reproductive health of people with disabilities was held via e-mail in November.
- A national conference on the CRPD was held in India in early December 2007.
- An on-line forum on successful family planning programs held in December 2007; people may also wish to full out a survey on this topic.
- A photo competition on decent work and people with disabilities was held by the International Labour Organization, ending in November 2007.
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What's Next for We Can Do?
I am not yet satisfied with We Can Do. I still see many gaps that I want to repair. I want to find, and post, more materials of a pragmatic nature. By which I mean, material that people in the field can put to immediate use in improving the lives of disabled people in developing countries. If you think you can help me locate helpful materials, please review my Wish list for written materials and resources and contact me.
I also want to reach more development professionals at mainstream development organizations and more employees and volunteers at international disability organizations. And I want to reach more small DPOs and individual advocates in more developing countries. The knowledge shared at We Can Do cannot help until it is brought to people with disabilities living in poverty in developing countries. That "final mile" can only be bridged by readers like YOU.
If you want to help, I hope you will consider telling your colleagues and contacts about We Can Do. If you run a web site or a blog, please consider linking to We Can Do at https://wecando.wordpress.com. If you have the skills, the time, and the commitment to launch a We Can Do mirror site translation into some other language, please talk to me (leave a comment or email me at ashettle [at] patriot.net). And please do feel free to print out the more helpful We Can Do posts to share with people you know in developing countries who do not have easy access to the Internet.
For those of you who like numbers: We Can Do had 285 page views in July; 851 in August; 1305 in September; 2936 in October; 4862 in November; and more than 5100 in the first three weeks of December. And who is responsible for making these numbers happen? Why—you, of course! So, thank you for visiting We Can Do.
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Books, at least as we first knew them, are dying. It hurts. But one library in Surrey, British Columbia wants to keep the old boy alive by making it more interactive. No e-readers. You'll be checking people out! Umm?
The new Surrey City Centre Library wants to have people on loan for your literary needs. The idea is you'll have them by your side to strike up conversations and really learn something based on the interaction. Reading about Henry VIII? Phil, an academic and volunteer, will sit with you to discuss his scholarship and his own bout with syphilis. Everyone wins.
Ok, this is a fair idea. Just so long as it doesn't get weird. We all benefit from the perspective a friendly conversation might grant. I can see how this would be great for schoolchildren. But, as an adult, reading remains a fairly solitary activity. I don't care what your perspective on A Clash of Kings is. I'm trying to get through the series in peace without you telling me how you know a guy who's just like Khal Drogo. Well, ok, that's cool. It's just, I like my creepers to be as distant as possible. Preferably on OK Cupid. [Canada.com via The Mary Sue]


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A poignant story about a young man's life journey,
The Ball Player takes the reader into the heart
and mind of a gifted athlete. Burdened by his responsibility
for his best friend's death, and confused by a love
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Russell Golden used his first major speech as FASB's chairman to describe plans to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the board's operations.
Golden provided wide-ranging remarks about FASB's future as he spoke at a one-day conference in New York City celebrating the board's 40th anniversary.
He said the board needs to evaluate its agenda decision process, improve its Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), and attempt to shorten the duration of its projects while enhancing the projects' quality.
Golden said FASB will analyze areas where the ASC may be improved. The board will determine whether it can improve how it writes and communicates changes to the codification.
Some of the more confusing sections will be rewritten, Golden said. The board currently is rewriting the ASC's liabilities and equity section.
"We should listen to our stakeholders across the country who have delivered mixed reviews regarding the codification," Golden said. "Most agree and applaud the concept of the value of the codification, but they also observe that, as presently constituted, it is very cumbersome and not user-friendly."
FASB also plans to:
- Continue improving the way it communicates with stakeholders. Focusing on nontechnical audiences and "plain English" explanations is a key objective.
- Reduce the complexity and cost of applying standards. The work of the Private Company Council (PCC) plays a role in that, but simplicity is sought for both private and public companies.
- Increase its cooperation with its parent organization—the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF)—and GASB, which also falls under FAF's umbrella.
In addition, Golden said, FASB plans to continue pursuing convergence with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) while also carrying out its mission of improving U.S. capital markets. He said this can be accomplished by:
- Completing the remaining major convergence projects on revenue recognition, leases, financial instruments, and insurance.
- Considering IFRS and convergence while making changes to U.S. GAAP.
- Actively participating in the development of IFRS.
- Enhancing relationships and communications with other national standard setters.
A new tool developed by the AICPA provides guidelines to help privately held businesses determine which accounting framework best meets their financial reporting needs.
The AICPA in June released the new Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Entities (FRF for SMEs, available at tinyurl.com/bql5o8e), for use by private, owner-managed businesses when GAAP financial statements are not required.
Meanwhile, FASB and the PCC are developing potential alternatives for private companies within GAAP. Four narrowly scoped alternatives for private companies have been proposed by FASB and are under consideration by the PCC and FASB.
The AICPA developed its decision-making tool with input from the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. The tool, presented as a nonauthoritative aid whose use is not required, takes readers through a step-by-step process for choosing a framework.
The tool, available at tinyurl.com/pyjmkzv, immediately advises use of GAAP financial statements for entities that:
- Face a reporting requirement that demands GAAP-based financial statements; or
- Operate in an industry that uses transactions requiring highly specialized accounting guidance that makes use of a non-GAAP framework insufficient for financial reporting.
For the remainder of privately held entities, the tool presents considerations to help decide whether GAAP, the FRF for SMEs, cash/modified cash basis, or tax basis is the most suitable accounting framework. Organizations also are advised to consult with their CPA firm and external stakeholders, where appropriate.
Before issuing the tool, the AICPA released illustrative financial statements and disclosures (available at tinyurl.com/n9xvsd8) as an aid to implementing the FRF for SMEs that help distinguish between financial statements based on the new framework and GAAP-prepared statements.
FASB formally issued for public comment a proposal that would exempt many private companies from the requirement to apply variable-interest entity (VIE) consolidation guidance to lessor companies under common control.
The proposal, which was originally advanced by the PCC, would create an alternative within U.S. GAAP that would address a common source of frustration for private companies and their financial statement preparers.
Under the proposal, Applying Variable Interest Entity Guidance to Common Control Leasing Arrangements (formerly FIN 46(R) and FASB Statement No. 167), a private company lessee would have the option not to apply VIE consolidation guidance when:
- The lessor and the private company are under common control;
- The private company has a leasing arrangement with the lessor; and
- Substantially all activity between the two companies is related to the lessor's leasing activity.
The proposal is available at tinyurl.com/ozm89xn.
Additional disclosures would be required of private companies that apply this exemption. These disclosures would include:
- The key terms of the leasing arrangements.
- The amount of debt and/or significant liabilities of the lessor under common control.
- The key terms of existing debt agreements of the lessor under common control.
- The key terms of any other explicit interest related to the lessor under common control.
The comment period ended Oct. 14. The effective date would be determined after the PCC considers feedback received on the exposure draft.
After reviewing feedback, the PCC will have an opportunity to make changes and hold a vote that would forward the final version of the GAAP exception to FASB. If FASB endorses the exception, the alternative would be written into GAAP.
Companies that can use the exception would continue to apply other applicable FASB guidance, including Topic 840, Leases, and Topic 460, Guarantees.
FASB voted to propose changes designed to improve the relevance and reduce the complexity of development-stage entity financial reporting.
The board planned to issue an exposure draft by the end of October that would apply to public and private entities.
During a July 16 meeting, the PCC recommended that FASB add a project to its technical agenda that would help decrease the complexity of financial reporting for all organizations that are in the development stage.
According to FASB, a development-stage entity devotes substantially all its efforts to establishing a new business and:
- Has not begun planned principal operations; or
- Has begun planned principal operations without producing significant revenue.
U.S. GAAP requires development-stage entities to present the same basic financial statements and apply the same recognition and measurement requirements as established operating organizations for revenues, startup costs, and other similar costs.
Development-stage entities also are required by U.S. GAAP to present inception-to-date information about income statement line items, cash flows, and equity transactions. The cost and lack of relevance of these additional presentation requirements has led to concerns among stakeholders.
Accounting standards for risk financing and insurance-related activities of state and local governments, including public risk pools, achieve their purpose, according to a Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) review report.
GASB Statements No. 10, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Risk Financing and Related Insurance Issues, and No. 30, Risk Financing Omnibus, were reviewed by a FAF post-implementation review (PIR) team. The full report is available at tinyurl.com/ov4rnha.
In addition, the PIR team:
- Is reviewing FASB Statement No. 157, Fair Value Measurements. The review will include a survey of stakeholders about the application and effectiveness of the standard.
- Will start a review of FASB Statement No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment, later this year.
Parties who would like the opportunity to participate in PIR surveys can register online at tinyurl.com/c467dkj.
FAF issued a revised proposal describing a process that would decide which information GASB could consider for its standard setting for state and local governments.
Under the proposal, GASB would consult with the FAF trustees' Standard-Setting Process Oversight Committee to determine whether particular information falls within the scope of GASB's standard-setting mission.
The revised proposal is available at tinyurl.com/nek2ua5. Comments were due Sept. 30.
The revised proposal diminishes the role the FAF trustees would have performed under the original proposal. FAF Chairman Jeffrey Diermeier said in a news release that many stakeholders had expressed concerns that the trustees were stepping into GASB's standard-setting role.
FASB released its proposed 2014 U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy.
The taxonomy consists of a list of computer-readable financial reporting labels coded in XBRL. The proposal contains updates for accounting standards and other recommended improvements to the official taxonomy, which is used by public issuers registered with the SEC.
Comments on the proposal, which is available at tinyurl.com/lcqcex3, were due Oct. 31. FASB plans to complete and publish the 2014 U.S. GAAP taxonomy early next year.
Although FAF, FASB's parent organization, maintains the taxonomy,
questions about using it to create and submit XBRL-tagged files in
compliance with SEC rules should be directed to the SEC.


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The Row Resort 2014: The Old Man and the Sea
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen credited seafaring uniforms and a vintage photo of a fisherman as the inspiration for their Resort 2014 collection, which explains why it includes so many pieces that look hard-wearing and cozy.
But closer inspection reveals that these mostly casual pieces were cut from some highly luxurious materials. The yellow rain slicker that looks like it could withstand a torrential downpour and gale force winds is actually made from leather, so it's not waterproof at all. The brown and khaki jacket, which the house refers to as a windbreaker, comes with a detachable fur collar. And what looks like a simple knitted vest from behind turns out to be half made from red alpaca.
There are some nods to nautical functionality here as well. A few of the handbags in the collection hang from rope straps tied with sailor's knots, and a double-breasted navy blazer with what appear to be gold buttons actually closes with magnets.


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YORK HARBOR, Maine -- For the first time in its history, 102-year-old Trinity Episcopal Church in York Harbor will extend its season of worship beyond the summer to present a large-scale, community-style Christmas service on Sunday, December 23, at 4 p.m.
Choral music with organ accompaniment will figure prominently in this traditional Anglican "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" service. Trinity Church's mixed choir will be joined by the choirs of St. George's Episcopal and First Parish Congregational churches.
"This is something that Trinity Church has wanted to do for a long time," said Holly Sault, Trinity chorister and key organizer for the event. "As a summer chapel, the historic Trinity Church structure is unheated, and the logistics of a wintertime Christmas service there are quite demanding. This year we had many people asking for us to make the special efforts required to make it possible. This includes not only the obvious things like bringing in heaters and clearing snow, but even bringing in an organ, because Trinity's own organ will be too cold to be pleasing to the ear. We've had many 'Christmas angels' working for months to make Trinity's first presentation of Lessons and Carols very memorable."
The event's organizers have opted to make the service a community-based event, to underscore the idea that all are welcome. Visitors and interdenominational guests, including Judd Knox, the President of York Hospital, will be readers at the service.
The format of the Lessons and Carols service, now used worldwide, features nine short Bible readings beginning in Genesis on the birth of Jesus interspersed with Christmas carols and hymns.
"There are many things about this beautiful service that are meaningful to us," noted The Reverend Craig Burlington, Pastor at Trinity Church. "Our summer chapel, and the holiday-season Lessons and Carols liturgy, both have rich histories of about a century each. Some of the earliest celebrations of Lessons and Carols, at King's College in Cambridge, England, took place during World War II, in a chapel without heat or stained glass in the windows. Their spirit in celebrating Christmas despite adversity inspires us. We hope to welcome many members, and guests of all faiths, to Trinity York Harbor on December 23 to remember the meaning of Christmas and to celebrate the season together."
Father Burlington will officiate at this historic service with The Reverend Aaron Perkins, Deacon at Trinity. First Parish's Director of Music Ministries Wendell Purrington will direct the combined choirs. Trinity's Choral Director and Organist Terrie Harman will accompany and perform on organ, and St. George's Pianist Isaac Everett on piano. Holly Seargeant will be a guest conductor. Solos will be performed by Michelle Poppleton Chumsae, Wendell Purrington, Richard Leigh, and William Wieting.
All attendees to the event should dress warmly.
Dedicated in 1908 and completed in 1910, Trinity Church in York Harbor is a historic fieldstone chapel of the Diocese of Maine of the Episcopal Church. Located at 546 York Street, it has been a place of summertime worship for generations of local and seasonal York residents and Seacoast-area neighbors.
Of Trinity's many distinguishing features, most notable are: a crenellated stone bell tower, a 12-rank Wicks organ, and an authentic Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass window above the altar. Trinity Church was designed in the Gothic style by American architect Henry Janeway (H.J.) Hardenburgh, renowned for numerous New York City landmarks, including the Waldorf and Astoria Hotels, and Boston's Copley Plaza Hotel.
Trinity Church is open from the third Sunday in June to Labor Day Sunday in September each year, with weekly Sunday service at 10:30 a.m.
For more information on Trinity Church York Harbor, or its upcoming Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Christmas service, call (207) 363-3423. To schedule an interview with The Reverends Burlington or Perkins, please call (207) 451-3039.


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The evening featured performances from Adrienne Warren (Bring It On), Zak Resnick (Mamma Mia!), Hannah Elless (Godspell), Julia Mattison (Godspell), Blake Daniel (Spring Awakening), Eric Michael Krop (Godspell) and Mary Kate Morrissey (Hair national tour).
Contreras' original compositions and arrangements have been featured in NYC venues including Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center, (le) Poisson Rouge, the Laurie Beechman Theater, The Duplex and multiple Broadway in South Africa galas at the Manhattan Center.
Contreras wrote the music and lyrics for the musical This Thing Called Love as well as his debut album "Love Me, Love Me Not: The Music of Joey Contreras." He was the recipient of the 2010 ASCAP Foundation Max Dreyfus Scholarship Award and the first Artist in Residence for the Broadway Dreams Foundation.
Click through to see some of the highlights of the evening.
"Love Wildly" (featuring Eric Michael Krop)
"The Feel of You" (featuring Hannah Elless)
"Full of Riches" (featuring Julia Mattison)
"Love Me, Love Me Not" (featuring Zak Resnick)


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Shocking charges that surfaced this week against Mark Berndt raise questions about how long teachers may be able get away with sexually abusing their students before the law catches up with them.
Students are often afraid to report incidents of abuse, victim advocates say, and when they do, too often their stories are dismissed or don't lead to officials stopping the educator from abusing again.
"That message can never stop, that children need to be believed," says Terri Miller, president of Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct, and Exploitation, based in Las Vegas. School staff sometimes ignore warning signs or reports "because they don't want to deal with the … cloud of shame that hangs over a school when these cases come to light," she says.
Mr. Berndt taught at Miramonte Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District for more than 30 years. He was suspended and resigned in early 2011 when the county sheriff's department began investigating charges that led recently to his arrest on 23 counts of committing lewd acts on children.
Those charges date back to 2005. But the alleged troubling behavior may have started much earlier, authorities say.
In 1994, Berndt was investigated by the sheriff's department, but not prosecuted, for allegedly trying to fondle a 10-year-old girl, the Associated Press reported Thursday afternoon.
Two women also said this week that when they were students of Berndt's in 1990-91, they told a counselor of behavior in the classroom that implied that he was fondling himself, the Los Angeles Times reports. One of the women said the counselor "told us it's not very good to make stories up. She said it was our imagination."
The school district is launching its own investigation into how Berndt's alleged behavior could have gone on undetected for years. The case came to light when a photo developer called law enforcement officials in late 2010 about incriminating photos, the LA Times reports.
Berndt is accused of blindfolding and gagging students, and making them play a "game" of tasting strange things, including spoonfuls of a substance that police say was his semen.
Berndt was removed from the classroom as soon as the criminal investigation started. But the school district was asked to hold its own investigation only after the criminal probe was complete.
In a Feb. 1 letter, L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy wrote: "The District takes each and every reported act of criminal and administrative misconduct seriously, and we will continue to aggressively pursue each case … and initiate the appropriate disciplinary measures."
While abusers often select and "groom" a young target to trust them until they can get him or her in a private setting, there have been cases of abuse in front of other students. A 2004 report for the US Department of Education mentions a case in which a teacher would call boys up to his desk one at a time to discuss homework, and then would fondle them.
"Every child in the room knew what was happening and students talked about it among themselves. The teacher repeated this behavior for 15 years before one student finally reported to an official who would act," says the report, prepared by Charol Shakeshaft, now a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond.
In 2010, a report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailed cases of abusive educators moving from state to state and committing new offenses – even sometimes after being convicted of sexual abuse. State laws requiring background checks or reporting of sexual misconduct in schools vary widely.
There have been some small signs of progress. A 2011 law in Missouri may be the first to really try to stop the phenomenon. Known as the Amy Hester Student Protection Act, it "requires school districts to report substantiated allegations of sexual misconduct by educators to another school district that seeks a reference for that educator," according to Courthouse News Service.
On the federal level, no laws regulate the employment of sex offenders in schools, the GAO noted.
But Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (R) of Pennsylvania is trying to change that. In December he introduced the Jeremy Bell Act of 2011 (HR 3766). The bill would bring fines or prison time to a school employer who facilitates a former employee getting a job in another state if he or she has engaged in sexual misconduct with someone under age 18.
The bill would also tie federal funding to requirements that states have laws mandating reporting by school employees of suspected abuse, and give other educators in the state access to such reports. And it would require schools to check employee fingerprints against national databases.
In the late 1990s, Jeremy Bell was sexually assaulted by his school principal and at one point was given a chemical to render him defenseless, which turned out to be lethal. Parents and teachers had reported the principal to the school board, and he had moved across state lines multiple times for jobs.
Under California rules, Berndt will qualify for pension benefits even if he is convicted, Superintendent Deasy noted in his Feb. 1 letter. The California State Teachers' Retirement System did not respond to the Monitor's request for comment.


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"Bittersweet" is a story of an outsider driven by a dangerous desire to fit into a world of privilege.
A lot of summer books are breezy beach reads, but Miranda Beverly-Whittemore's "Bittersweet" ups the ante. Her story of an outsider driven by a dangerous desire to fit into a world of privilege (think Gatsby) has all the sex and secrets typical of summer books. But "Bittersweet" packs a bigger punch.
Beverly-Whittemore tells the story of the sometimes infuriating Mabel Dagmar, the studious and frumpy protagonist who is invited by her wealthy roommate, Ev Winslow, to spend the summer at Winloch, her family's sprawling Vermont estate. A New England summer of first love, friendships, fireworks, midnight skinny dipping, tragedy and digging up family dirt ensues.
The soap opera Beverly-Whittemore has fashioned is sometimes implausible and predictable, but the author is relentless in its telling, leaving clues on every page. While the Winslow family mystery fuels the story, the connection between Mabel and Ev centers it. Theirs is a creepy "Single White Female" dynamic. Ev is the spoiled-brat rich girl and Mabel the poor friend from the wrong side of the tracks desperate to enter Ev's world. Ev is totally unlikable, but that doesn't make her uninteresting. Sociopaths are always entertaining. On the other hand, Mabel elicits underdog allegiance. You might love her one chapter, hate her the next, but you can't help but root for her, despite her twisted and selfish agenda.
The rest of the Winslows are a beguiling cast of characters with affluent names such as Luvinia, Galway, Birch, Tilde and Bard. They're pretty one-dimensional. Each has his or her specific function to drive the plot and add to the mystery at the book's core. It's up to Mabel – and you – to connect all the dots.
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About this building
Part of the Institute of Opthalmology, the Ashton building was built in the 1990s and has a cavity wall construction. It houses a number of laboratories for the Institute. The Bath St additions to the building were made in 2000. Apart from the high electricity demand for the laboratory equipment, significant energy is required to keep the laboratories at a stable temperature throughout the year for the experiments to take place.
Our energy use
This graph allows everyone to access a range of data from Ashton Building and Bath St.. It's updated frequently, as we receive new data from the on-site meters.
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Ashton Building and Bath St. shares its sustainability data so that everybody can help to identify new savings and suggest improvements. The icons below show the utility data currently available for each year.
If you have ideas on how Ashton Building and Bath St. could use energy more efficiently, please let us know!
- Ashton Building and Bath St. 2018 Electricity half-hourly data is generated Daily. It was first created at 3 Apr 2018, 7:01 p.m., last updated at and has a maximum extent of 1 year.
- Ashton Building and Bath St. 2017 Electricity half-hourly data is generated Daily. It was first created at 30 Jan 2017, 12:37 p.m., last updated at and has a maximum extent of 1 year.
- Ashton Building and Bath St. 2016 Electricity half-hourly data is generated Daily. It was first created at 5 Aug 2016, 2:46 p.m., last updated at and has a maximum extent of 1 year.
- Ashton Building and Bath St. 2015 Electricity half-hourly data is generated Daily. It was first created at 7 Jan 2015, 3:49 p.m., last updated at and has a maximum extent of 1 year.
- Ashton Building and Bath St. 2014 Electricity half-hourly data is generated Daily. It was first created at 17 Oct 2014, 11:34 a.m., last updated at and has a maximum extent of 1 year.
Display Energy Certificate
Since 9 January 2013 public buildings in the UK over 500m2 have been required to display a Display Energy Certificate (DEC) prominently at all times. Display Energy Certificates were introduced by the Government in response to the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive which all EU member states were required to implement by January 2009.
DECs are designed to promote the improvement of the energy performance of buildings. They are based upon the actual energy performance of a building and increase transparency about the energy efficiency of public buildings. DECs use a scale from A to G with A being the most efficient and G the least. The Display Energy Certificate for Ashton Building and Bath St. is available here or by clicking the plaque on the right.
Notes about Ashton Building and Bath St.
Notes about Ashton Building and Bath St.
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UCL is currently testing these pages prior to launch. Until this is complete, please note that some energy data may not be accurate. The district heat network supplies a subset of buildings. Some district heat and electricity meters are being worked on on-site, so are not currently included in CarbonCulture visualisations. Gas data will be added in 2018. Please contact the UCL Sustainability Team if you'd like to find out more.
How do you calculate the CO2e emissions from a unit of energy used?
Energy retailers and the government produce conversion factors that describe the typical carbon impact of different energy sources. These allow us to take the energy uses (in their respective units), and calculate the approximate carbon dioxide emissions, normally measured in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents (kgCO2e). Defra's UK conversion factors may be found at Defra's 2018 Guidelines. .
What do the colours on the graph mean?
For buildings, the colours in the graph show approximately how the current level of usage would lead to a given Operational Rating – as set out on a Display Energy Certificate (DEC) – if the performance for a given moment carried on for an entire year. This goes from dark green for 'A' to red for 'G'. We calibrate this using input data used for generating the building's DEC, together with information relating to 'normal' buildings of its type. If we do not have data for all of the utilities noted in the DEC then the graph will appear in a light-blue colour scale, to indicate that the usage displayed on the graph is not representative of the full energy use of this building. Graphs for communities also show in this blue colour scale.
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Birth To Billions: Zagat Survey
This story appears in the August 1996 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
You're planning to descend upon New Orleans-an eating mecca known for its extraordinary creole cuisine-and don't have the foggiest idea where to eat. Any sophisticated traveler will tell you the simple solution: Pick up a copy of the current Zagat New Orleans Restaurant Survey for a list of the city's best restaurants in all price categories. Within 10 minutes, you'll have a rundown of the best restaurants in town-ranked by food, decor, service, cost and more.
No seasoned traveler would think of boarding a plane without a copy of the Zagat survey for their intended destination. In the space of a decade, the famed restaurant guides, which rate more than 15,000 restaurants in 50 cities across the United States and Canada, have become an institution among discerning restaurant-goers. The $10.95 pocket paperbacks are gobbled up as soon as they roll off the press. Don Rieck, manager of Doubleday Books' posh midtown Manhattan location, says the Zagat New York Restaurant Survey is the bestselling book in the store's history.
The brains behind the Zagat publishing empire are a most unlikely pair. Husband-and-wife team Tim and Nina Zagat (56 and 54, respectively) never expected to get into the restaurant-rating business, much less one day see multimillion-dollar sales figures. How did these two former corporate fast-trackers turn into rising entrepreneurial stars?
Food, Glorious Food
Going into business was the furthest thing from Tim's and Nina's minds back in Yale Law School. They met in 1963, married and, after graduation, were hired by prestigious Wall Street law firms. They spent two years in each firm's respective Paris office before being transferred back to New York in 1970.
Besides their jobs and the accompanying high-powered lifestyle, the Zagats had one powerful passion in common: They loved to eat. We're not talking Twinkies or Chee-tos here; you'd never catch the Zagats in a McDonald's or Burger King. No, their passion is gourmet food, exceptional wines and elegant ambience. They love preparing, consuming and talking about food; above all, they enjoy discovering new cuisine in great restaurants. In Paris, the Zagats whiled away entire evenings at the city's best eateries. They returned to the United States lifelong gourmets.
The Zagats never tire of explaining how their passion for food led them into entrepreneurship. A smile lights up Tim's face when he remembers the eating and drinking orgy during which the idea was born. "Back in New York practicing law, we helped organize a group of friends who met for dinner once a month," he begins. "The dinners took place either in someone's home or at a great restaurant. Wherever they were held, they were blowout events." That means they pulled out all the stops and forgot nasty words like calories and cholesterol. The eating extravaganzas featured incredible food and upwards of 10 different wines.
At one dinner, the conversation turned to one restaurant critic and how unreliable his restaurant selections were. There had to be a better way to rate restaurants, someone insisted. Tim put his two cents in and proposed the group rate restaurants by creating a questionnaire and surveying their friends.
Thus, the Zagat survey was born. The concept was simple, yet brilliant: "A group of people are more likely to be accurate about a restaurant than one person," Tim explains. With the help of friends, he and Nina put together a one-page survey, eliciting restaurant ratings and comments from friends, business associates and acquaintances who judged food, decor, service and cost. "Everyone who participated got a copy of the results," says Nina.
The first survey, which polled 100 friends, colleagues and clients, debuted in 1979. A photocopied list of 75 restaurants and brief comments about each-crammed on a single legal-sized sheet of paper-was mailed to everyone who had participated.
"We were just doing it for fun," Tim says. Little did they know they were laying the foundation for a moneymaking enterprise.
More Than They Could Chew?
Over the next few years, the Zagats turned out a new survey annually, each one boasting more participants and more restaurants. By 1982, they had a stable of approximately 600 voters rating 300 New York restaurants. The survey had a loyal cult following not only among avid restaurant-goers but also in the boardrooms of banks, brokerage houses and corporations. Busy executives eat out a lot and are always looking for elegant eateries at which to wine and dine clients.
While producing the survey was a labor of love for the Zagats, it had become an expensive and time-consuming one. By the third year, they had to hire a data-processing firm to tabulate the results. And they were now giving away more than 5,000 copies a year, which Nina calculated was costing them $1,000 a month-not including the actual dining out.
Once they realized they were spending close to $12,000 a year on their hobby, the Zagats decided to put a price tag on the survey and publish it. "We figured even if we couldn't make money on it, we could defray our costs and take a tax deduction," explains Tim.
What to publish? Using other guidebooks as models, the couple designed the guide to be pocket-sized, easily stuffed into a jacket or purse. The next important issue was how to publish. Should they do it themselves or find an established publisher?
After talking to a number of publishers, the decision was easy: None of the prestigious publishers wanted any part of them. Even Tim's uncle, who owned a publishing company, nixed the idea. "My uncle said his company had printed a guidebook by eminent New York Times food critic Craig Claiborne and it never sold more than 30,000 copies a year," Tim recalls. Publishers felt a guidebook was a poor risk. It lacked national appeal, and there was no guarantee even New Yorkers would buy it.
So the Zagats did it themselves. In 1983, their first year, they sold 7,500 copies of the $8 books and broke even. "We owe that to our surveyors, who bought six to eight books apiece," says Tim. "The deal was, you got one free copy if you voted. We were pleasantly surprised to find they were willing to pay full price [for extra copies], demonstrating an incredible loyalty to the project." The following year, sales more than doubled to 18,000 copies, and in 1985, the Zagats outsold The New York Times' dining guide, selling more than 40,000 books.
How did they do it? Hard work. Over and over, the Zagats loaded their station wagon with books, visiting virtually every bookstore in New York City to persuade owners and managers to test the book on their shelves. "It was quite an experience," Nina recalls. "The book trade is a Catch-22 business."
Explains Tim, "Bookstores tend to stock only books that are well-established and selling well."
But booksellers and publishers alike had to eat their words when the Zagat guide became a hot number. In 1985, New York Magazine did a splashy cover story on the Zagats. Soon after, The New York Times and People magazine featured stories on the couple as well. And suddenly, New York-and the rest of the country-discovered the unpretentious little guidebook.
In 1986, Zagat sales took off like a rocket, soaring to more than 100,000 copies. The Zagats were as surprised as anyone else: "We had only expected to sell 35,000 copies that year," says Nina.
"It was quite an experience," agrees Tim, still awed by the way the business took off. "It wasn't like we planned every step." Indeed, he jokes, if they had sat down to plan the business, "we probably would have become frustrated and quit."
But since the guidebook was fun, pouring all their energy into it was easy. By 1986, the Zagats had discovered what entrepreneurship is all about. "Yes, you have to have a great product and make smart decisions," Tim says, "but more important is doing something you love. That's the only thing that kept us going. That's why we worked so hard at improving the books. When you're not quite sure where it will all wind up, what keeps you going is the pleasure of doing something you enjoy. And the real kicker is when you turn profitable and look at the bottom line, and it's all yours."
All They Can Eat
The Zagats realized they were at the helm of something big. At the end of 1986, Tim quit his job and made a full-time commitment to the guidebook; Nina continued her law practice until 1990.
For the Zagats, 1986 was a strategic year. Tim hired their first full-time staffer (today, they have 30 full-time employees and more than 60 part-time guide editors in cities throughout the United States). The couple then built on their success by publishing guides for four new cities-Washington, DC; Los Angeles; San Francisco; and Chicago.
"We knew then we had the tiger by the tail," says Tim with a smile. "With robust sales, we didn't need outside financing to foot the cost of expansion. We could finance it ourselves from cash flow."
From then on, the Zagats began adding new cities each year. Their goal is to cover the entire United States with editions for every major city. At the moment, they're working on Las Vegas and considering cities in the Carolinas and Virginia.
By doing everything themselves in the beginning, the Zagats became masters at cost-cutting. They don't need an enormous staff; instead, they hire just two people in every location they cover-a prominent food writer and a public relations person or food expert. The writer handles the editorial side; the PR person recruits surveyors by tapping wine shops, gourmet food stores, and law, accounting and investment banking firms.
Getting surveyors, known as "Zagateers," to painstakingly fill out Zagat questionnaires was surprisingly easy. In virtually every new city, volunteers couldn't wait to share their opinions of local restaurants. Currently, the Zagats boast a volunteer army of 75,000.
The Zagats also expanded into other types of guidebooks, all based on the same survey concept. In 1988, they released guides covering hotels, resorts and spas nationwide; in 1990, they began surveying airlines and car rental companies; in 1992, they published a pair of national guides, America's 1,000 Top Restaurants and America's Best Value Restaurants. More are in the works: "We're working on filling in the gaps in the United States," says Nina.
Though they expanded their restaurant reviews to cover Canada in 1990 and are working on a London edition, the Zagats aren't yet ready to cover the rest of the world. Aside from logistical problems, Tim points out bookkeeping and cultural difficulties. "In Japan, for example, it is considered impolite to say negative things," he explains. "Americans don't think twice about dumping on restaurants they don't like. The Japanese just wouldn't do that."
No matter: For now, the Zagats have plenty to do. They've created an empire that grows bigger every year. They've also become a well-oiled team, with Tim overseeing sales, marketing and editing while Nina handles operational nuts and bolts.
With so many projects going on at once, Nina says, they've created their own checks-and-balances system to prevent errors and stay on track. After 30 years of marriage, they know how to capitalize on each other's strengths. "My tendency is to try to do too much," admits Tim. "Nina saves me from myself. I have a tendency to jump around; she keeps me focused. We respect each other's opinions."
Like all couples in business, the Zagats have their differences. Yet, perhaps due to their legal training, they've mastered the fine art of compromise and have always managed to find a happy middle ground. In the final analysis, it's as simple as this: They sincerely enjoy working together.
What about tapering off to enjoy the fruits of their hard work? That's not in the cards. The Zagats are having too much fun. Aside from the thrill of building a thriving business, there are other perks to savor. After all, how many of us can walk into America's finest restaurants and be wined and dined like dignitaries?
Nina and Tim Zagat
Birth Dates:Nina:August 12, 1942; Tim: May 13, 1940
Residence:New York City
Family:Two children: Ted, 20; John, 18
Business Philosophy:"Stay focused on your core business and love what you do, since it consumes most of your waking hours."
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Zagat Survey, 4 Christopher Columbus Cir., 4th Fl., New York, NY 10019, (800) 333-3421.


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When a reporter asked Trump why he hadn't gone ahead and declared the emergency yet, Trump said, "Because I would like to do the deal through Congress, and because it makes sense to do it through Congress."
Congress and the White House have gone back and forth over $5 billion in proposed funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a signature campaign promise by Trump. The president reiterated his support for the wall in a series of tweets on Thursday, one day after he walked out of a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
At least three GOP Senators including Susan Collins (R-MA), Lisa Murkowski (R-AL) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) have called for an end to the shutdown and for the Senate to pass a "clean" continuing resolution. Another six senators have also voiced concerns over an extended partial government shutdown.
Last night, eight republican representatives in the House joined Democrats to pass a bill (240-188) that would reopen the IRS and other financial agencies ahead of tax season.
Schumer tweeted Thursday that he would demand McConnell take up the House bills to re-open the government.
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