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With, my first bite, the lasagna's flavors exploded in my mouth. While sitting in my chair I did one of my little dances I do when I really love the taste of something. WOW! What was this? Could this possibly be the pesto I'd ignored for all of these years? Of course I knew that Pesto was a sauce that originated in Liguria and here we were in Genoa, its largest city. I also long knew that the name meant "to pound, bruise or crush" from the Latin root word "pestare," but what was this ethereal pesto that I was tasting, as if for the first time?
Once home, after many fabulous meals in Casablanca, Fez, Tunisia, Madeira, Malta Barcelona, Sicily, Gibraltar, The Canary Islands, Rome, Nice, Venice and at sea, I simply couldn't get the flavor of that simple Pesto Lasagna from Genoa out of my mind. I decided to chase that taste. Of course I knew that I was up against centuries of Italian tradition plus pure heirloom Genovese basil, olive oil, probably only six weeks old, garlic grown at a local nearby farm and possibly even handmade fresh pasta - all contributing to the extraordinary flavor of that Pesto Lasagna now so firmly embedded in my mind.
I've often said I cook in my head first then in the kitchen. I also know that the simpler the recipe, the more critical it is to have superb ingredients. But here I was in a small village in Michigan surrounded by mountains of winter snow. No Genovese basil here. I decided to focus on the "to pound or to crush" part of Pesto's lineage. Luckily I had a mortar and pestle, that ancient tool that has been left unimproved by modern technology, which I'd "schlepped" home from the South of France years before. Made of beautiful olive wood, I had always thought of it as more of a kitchen sculpture than a piece of equipment.
In it, I crushed and pounded my usual Pesto recipe (however, with no walnuts on hand, my normal nut of choice, I substituted hazelnuts, toasted of course). Awkwardly handling the pestle as if it were a baseball bat, I struggled to incorporate all of the ingredients, gradually pounding them into a still slightly chunky paste. I stuck my finger in for a taste. Instantly I did my little dance! Could the hazelnuts have made such a difference?
I decided to make another batch using my regular food processor method and the hazelnuts. Tasted side by side there was absolutely no comparison! One was the familiar smooth green glob I'd ignored for years.
The other, made with the same mortar and pestle used by the Romans, was slightly chunky with an uneven texture. It tasted of each of its ingredients, intense and simultaneously clear and complex, yet loaded with nuance and sunshine. Its flavors sparkled! It was superb! I vowed to always make pesto this way and to eat it every day for the rest of my life. I implore you to do the same.
From that day on using my mortar and pestle has become an intricate part of my cooking. It is used almost daily for making all sorts of things; various kinds of pesto, crushing spices and seeds, aioli, mayonnaise, gremolata, smashing olives, grinding nuts, anchovies, or capers ... well, you get my drift.
Of course there is no end to the kinds of "Pesto" one can make ... using basil, parsley, tarragon, arugula, cilantro, mint, sage, sorrel, dill, sun dried tomatoes, capers, broccoli, olives, peas, artichokes, pistachios, red peppers, mushrooms, spinach, roasted garlic, or smoothing beans of all kinds. The only limit is your imagination.
Nor, for the ways that it can make simple dishes absolutely sing by combining it with potatoes, fish, sandwiches, tomatoes, eggplant, pasta, pizza, rice and grains, breads, poultry, stews, soups, or to jazz up just about any vegetable.
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PARCC Webinars
English Language/Arts PARCC Updates
The PARCC Updates Webinar was conducted by the ELA team on December 17, 2013 at 4:00 pm EST.
Description: PARCC has released task generation models and evidence statements along with sample items and tasks to support teachers. In this session, participants reviewed the PARCC documents and the design of the ELA/Literacy Summative Assessment. Participants walked through a complete Literary Analysis Task and reflect on instructional implications.
Let viewers know that that they can find the new rubric here.
PARCC Assessments & Instructional Implications Webinar
The PARCC assessments are here! Attend this webinar to learn about the design of the assessments, explore sample items and how students will be scored (Performance Level Descriptors-PLDs), and discuss implications for curriculum design/instructional practice. Participants will have the opportunity to examine connections to the standards, rubrics for scoring, and implications for special populations.
Parent Focused Webinars
Engaging Family & Community in the CCRS
This webinar will examine how building positive relationships with parents and community members will facilitate the implementation of curriculum. Participants will receive strategies, materials and rationale for involving parents and the community in the full transition to Maryland College and Career Ready Standards.
Carroll County: Mathematics - Connecting School to Home
Parent involvement is a strong factor for student success. In order to support parents with the new standards, teachers from the Carroll County Public Schools created videos for parents to assist with explaining elementary school mathematical concepts. Don Hicks, the Supervisor of Elementary Education, presented on how the videos were created and their impact on students and parents.
Contact Information
Henry R. Johnson, Ed.D., Assistant Superintendent
Division of Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability
Maryland State Department of Education
200 West Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 410-767-0316
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- PARCC Press Release
- PARCC Press Release - Spanish
- PARCC Implementation Timeline
- PARCC Implementation Timeline - Spanish
- Top Ten on Testing
- Top Ten on Testing-Spanish
- Top Five on High School Testing
- Top Five on High School Testing - Spanish
- Maryland Resources for Teachers and Students
- PARCC Webinar Resources
- Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)
- PARCC Accessibility Features and Accommodations Manual
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Roger H. Weaver, headmaster of the fancy-shmancy Crossroads School, has sent a letter to alumni reacting to the profile of the school in last month's Vanity Fair. Choice quote:
The most concerning thing to me… is that despite my multiple conversations with the author of the story and editors at VF explaining that no Crossroads students could be named or identified, which they indicated they clearly understood, the article did just that. Repeatedly.
Later in the letter, Weaver states "though I found the lack of substance in the Vanity Fair article disappointing, I also realize it could have been far, far worse," an allusion to the Crossroads chapter in Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner's book Hollywood, Interrupted, which did indeed portray the school in much less flattering terms.
ABC reports that overall viewership was down from last year, but up among 18-34s. Chris Rock was less outrageous (and less funny and less political) than expected. LAObserved links to a great NPR piece that sums up everything else you need to know about the press coverage. Let's change the subject now.
Thanks to LA.COMfidential for alerting us to the plethora of LA post-Oscar gossip on today's Page Six. Of particular note is the second item, detailing the problem-plagued Oscar Week at Soho House's temporary Laurel Canyon outpost, which repelled a FishbowlLA strike team on Friday. Despite the series of embarrassing fiascos, apparently Soho House is looking to open a permanent LA branch by the end of next year. Let's start organizing a grass-roots resistance now, before it's too late.
You might not have noticed, now that Ken Auletta is focusing on Dan Rather this week (check out the audio, it's worth the wait), but CBS prez Les Moonves' housecleaning is quietly taking shape: Betsy West and Mary Murphy, who held out for the legal cavalry instead of taking the fall for the network's Bush service record scandal, have left the building, CBS chose to confirm – on Oscar night, where two pissed-off interns would have been the only people to pick up that story.
This means that Moonves, who might have faced a raft of suits (and, one supposes, countersuits should he want to sue the suers for not leaving), will now only have to contend with the last of the Three – Josh Howard (see glum picture at left) – who still clings to his desk and refuses to leave, and who promises to be the hardest case to get rid of.
Advantage: Les, even if purging Howard will necessitate being nice to Martin Garbus. Very nice.
Like many major media corporations singlemindedly pursuing total world domination, FishbowlNY has decided to globalize our existing operations. To that end, we're adding a Foreign Correspondent, which brings our staff to three. (Four if you include FishbowlNY Obesity Correspondent and Men's Fitness Editor-in-Chief, Neal Boulton.)
But New York being the center of the universe, we see no real need to cover anything that happens outside of the five boroughs. So rather than sending our Foreign Correspondent to far-flung locales to report on media people in said far-flung locales, we're sending him off to far-flung locales to report on media people in New York.
Without further ado, we're pleased to introduce FishbowlNY Foreign Correspondent, Sacramento Is The New New York—or "SAC" for short. [Translation: we don't know his real name.] We're starting him off slow by having him cover New York bloggers, and when he's ready to deal with the maelstrom of discontent and ego confusion that is New York old media, we'll have him take a crack at the Barry Dillers and Mort Zuckermans.
SAC's initial investigations seemed to indicate that the New York bloggers are merely badly scripted computer programs ("bots," he said) that generate random textual outputs and, occasionally, photos of cats. We pointed out that were this true, it would mean that he was now in the employ of a piece of software—and badly scripted software, at that—but he had his fingers in his ears and was loudly singing a song with the somewhat odd refrain, "I can't heeeeear yoooou…"
SAC's first dispatch, following last week's events:
Will blog for food: Jason Kottke™ has short-circuited, running a stored procedure wherein it quit its day job in favor of working on its blog full-time. In order to do so, the Kottke mechanism has asked its readers to help sustain itself in perpituity. It even randomly generated an adorable banner that you can place on your blog (you do have one, don't you?) to show your solidarity with this brave pioneer. Also, the Kottke is wondering if it can crash on your couch for "a few days, tops and, oh yeah, I drank that six-pack that was in the fridge, it was like, waay in the back so I figured you didn't want it." I suggest that Kottke get himself pregnant and whore out his sure-to-be adorable belly for advertising dollars.
This phenomenon is not without precedent, as proto-bot Andrew Sullivan attempted the same algorithim sometime last year, with mixed results. I say mixed because then it will sound like I have some thoughful insight into Sullivan when in fact, I haven't ever read a single word he's written. I'm not kidding. But I hear that that he can benchpress, like, 500 pounds or something, so don't tell him I said anything. I don't want him to lift almost 3 of me into the air. At least, not without a spotter.
This move has caused a shockwave throughout NYC. People are scrambling to make sense of this, each person dealing with it in their own, unique way. Some have jumped on the Kottke bandwagon and shown their support monetarily, while others have quietly given up blogging althogether. The reaction here in Sacramento can be summed up in the following interaction I had with the bakery girl at Safeway this morning:
Me: Do you have any chocolate old-fashioned?
Bakery Girl: Not yet, they'll be out in about 10 minutes.
Me: That's cool, I'll just grab a glazed instead.
Bakery Girl: (blank stare)
Fishbowl rushes to apologize for the unintelligibility of the above headline, which we think must have been beamed to our page directly from the Governator's brain. Because despite what George Stephanopoulos lets Schwarzenegger get away with on his air, we sense that the one thought most present on the Austrian Oak's mind is "President? I always think about that."
We mean, George, let him deny that he will ever seek office, for cryin' out loud, not be allowed to bury the answer in a joke. You're dealing, after all, with the guy who went public on Leno with his ambition to be Governor, with an operator so canny he'll deny his further ambitions right up to the point where he declares the date of Jack LaLanne's birth a national holiday from inside 1600 Penn Ave. Next time, George, act your resume and try a little Reporting and Writing 101. Because this is embarrassing.
Susan Estrich's LA Times watchdog site was completely re-designed on Friday. Gone are Estrich's jagged anti-Kinsley screeds. (Also gone is the comments section, which, last I checked, was skewing anti- Estrich by a ratio of about 3 or 4 to 1.)
Instead we are treated to a pie chart and a day-by-day tracking of LA Times editorial writers by gender. I can't find a single mention of Estrich on the page, which makes me wonder if she knows she's squandered her credibility. Unless the email address accessed by the 'Spot Check' link, email@example.com, is an Estrich front. But she doesn't seem like the type who would dub herself 'California Girl.'
The new site presents Estrich's central thesis more lucidly and clearly. But, I don't know, I kind of miss her early, raw material, from before she starting trying to appeal to a mainstream audience via slick production values. Fortunately, the old website is still online in the form of a Google screenshot.
Last week I accidentally discovered a sure-fire way to get offered an unsolicited assignment from one of those local upscale lifestyle magazines. You know, the kind named after exclusive Westside neighborhoods that often feature cover stories on Scientology-affiliated movie stars. Call up the publisher and say that you're a media journalist investigating a report of upheaval among the magazine's editorial staff. The publisher may threaten you with a lawsuit, but he'll also offer you work in return for squashing the story. Without even asking to read your clips!
My lifelong ambition– being alluded to in the New York Times Style section– has been realized. (Seriously, I've pitched myself as a subject for 'A Night Out With…' twenty-eight times. If they don't call back soon, I'm giving up.) In a round-up of the state of gossip journalism in LA, James Verini writes:
In January Mediabistro, based in Manhattan, created FishbowlLA to cover Los Angeles media gossip, no small task in a town with only one major newspaper and few magazines.
(Most of the article is about some website called defiler.com or something.)
Verini omits what I think is the real reason there is not much of a local LA gossip scene: Everyone Here Takes Themselves Very, Very Seriously. In New York, the gossip mini-industry exists thanks to an implicit social contract by which media figures and other bold-face names agree that in return for public exposure (and its attendant social, emotional, and financial quasi-benefits), they will be made fun of a little, and moreover, that they will like it. Not so in Los Angeles, where everyone is So Desperate To Be Taken Seriously that they Forget To Laugh At Themselves, and are much quicker than New Yorkers to Fly Off The Handle when someone Points Out Their Foibles.


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Welcome to the Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives (HFHL) Institute! Our mission is to increase and sustain the University's impact in the interdisciplinary arena of food, agriculture, and health by building the University's capacity in research, learning, and community engagement.
This website is your portal for learning about what's going on at the Institute, gathering health and wellness resources, and becoming a part of the Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives community.
About 500 people are expected to attend the third Food Access Summit: Organize for Equity on Oct. 28-30 at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center to explore, expand and engage on food access for Minnesotans with low incomes. They will participate in training, workshops, networking and presentations.
"Hunger in Minnesota is real. The aim of the summit is to increase education and promote access to healthy food," said Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson. "We are making progress in that direction."
This year's summit will mark the public launch of the Minnesota Food Charter, a road map for improving food access in Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Human Services supports the primary goal of the Minnesota Food Charter, which is to provide all Minnesotans, especially those with low incomes, with access to healthy, affordable and safe food.
In addition, over the course of almost three days, participants will listen to keynote speeches and be part of workshops. Mary M. Lee, deputy director of PolicyLink, will give a keynote speech about the role of community-based strategies and public policy initiatives for making food more accessible to people with low incomes.
Heather Wooten, Vice President of Programs at ChangeLab Solutions, will lead the workshop "Getting Started with Healthy Food Access Policies." The workshop will help communities build strategies to promote access to healthy food by reviewing research, identifying successful policy approaches and exploring case studies.
Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius and Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Edward Ehlinger will also speak.
In a survey of last year's attendees, 76 percent of respondents said they started or improved their work for better food access based on what they learned at the Food Access Summit. One of last year's attendees and survey respondents noted, "I personally improved my understanding of the hunger problem and access to healthy foods. It was only during and after the summit that I began to realize the link between all these food programs, and the overall hunger/access issue in Minnesota and the nation."
The Food Access Summit's planning committee includes the American Association of Retired Persons; Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota; Emergency Foodshelf Network; Hunger Solutions Minnesota; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe; Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Education, Health, and Human Services; Minnesota FoodShare; Second Harvest Heartland; United States Department of Agriculture; and University of Minnesota's Extension and Minnesota Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute.
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Who should attend?
The Food Charter will be released in October of 2014. In the meanwhile, you can learn and share what people said during the public input phase.
The Minnesota Food Charter Findings Toolkit makes it easy for you to generate awareness among people in your community, and quickly and easily explain the findings from the public input phase of the Minnesota Food Charter to anyone who's interested.
More specifically, the toolkit shares the challenge and solutions for healthy food access identified by people participating in an 11 month-long public input process, involving more than 2,000 people. These findings reflect participants' opinions and perspectives about healthy food access, contributed at events and online, as well as in interviews and listening sessions.
Click here to download your Minnesota Food Charter Findings Toolkit now.
Research Spotlight: A new project is bringing more training to farmers, which means better produce for kids
In January of this year, in partnership with Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Culinary & Nutrition Services, the University's On-Farm Food Safety Program was awarded a HFHL Community-University Partnership Research Grant to expand the procurement of fresh produce from small, beginning, immigrant and/or minority farmers in the region for Minneapolis students' school meals. The following article, written by the project's University partner, Annalisa Hultberg, was recently posted on the Simple, Good, and Tasty blog.
Did you know that Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is buying free-range, hormone-free turkey from Ferndale market, carrots and red potatoes from the Hmong American Farmers Association, squash from L & R Produce, and kale from Gardens of Eagan?
Farm-to-school is booming at Minneapolis Public Schools, thanks to an innovative new partnership with the University of Minnesota. The university's On-Farm Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Education Program and the Minneapolis Public School Culinary & Nutrition Services are teaming up to provide training and technical assistance to farmers selling to MPS for the school meal program in an effort to boost the amount of fresh, local produce MPS can procure.
It all started two years ago, when MPS began buying large quantities of fresh produce directly from farmers for use in their school meals. While the produce was delicious, MPS quickly realized that they needed to provide some standard, hands-on training to the farmers who were supplying the food.
For small farmers, selling to a large wholesale customer like MPS can be challenging, and quite different than a farmers' markets or restaurant. Given its scale of operation (40,000 meals a day), MPS and their vegetable processor partner Russ Davis Warehouse require that vegetables be graded into sizes and packed in certain industry-standard boxes. Given that young children will be eating the food, best practices for harvest, washing, storing and transporting produce to reduce the likelihood of contamination must be followed.
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Governor Dayton and the Minneapolis City Council both recognized Thursday, October 24, 2013 as Food Day in the state of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis. Read the Governor's state proclamation here. Read the Minneapolis City Council resolution here.
View photos from the U of M Food Day 2013 celebration here:
U Students Like Good Food
Office for Student Affairs
TCF Bank Sponsorship Assistance Fund
Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
University of Minnesota Extension, Cooking Matters, Simply Good Eating
PEACE Coffee
Small Planet Foods
Animal Rights Coalition
Gardens for Humanity
Compassionate Action for Animals
Whole Foods
Grain Up Minnesota
U Students Like Good Food
Down in the Valley Bakehouse
FScN club
Do It Green Minnesota
Open Arms MN
Cooking Matters
MN Nice Spice
Bergin Fruit and Nut Co
Kirschner Colection
Cornercopia & MN institute for sustainable agriculture
Dice n spice
Second Harvest Heartland
PB Crave
Bee Free Honee
Sustainability Services- It all adds up
University YMCA
Bonus Vivus
IonE sustainability Department
Minneapolis Public Schools
Blue Diamond Nuts
Bare Fruit
Angie's Kettle Corn
HFHL is pleased to announce that over $200,000 was awarded in the spring grant cycle to nine projects within three of our grant programs: University (faculty) Research (2), Graduate and Professional Student Research (4) and the first-time Planning Grant Program (3). While each grant program has its own focus, the overarching goals of all of our grant programs are to fund high-impact research that utilizes and helps to build the strengths of the University in the area of food and health, that advances scientific and public knowledge and that influences public policy.
The University Research Grant award winners include a research team that is developing a tool to calculate and measure the variety and nutritional quality of food purchased by local food banks. Another faculty research team is exploring how playful design can be used to encourage children to eat more fruits and vegetables.
Graduate student grant recipients will be exploring research topics such as: Whether or not there is variation in the health and dietary behaviors of international students adapting to US culture and what role acculturation plays in spreading obesity among this student population; another student project may have important implications for agricultural programs in developing countries that seek to promote economic development through cash crop production programs that in turn adversely affect household health and nutrition.
The Planning Grant program is being piloted this year and it supports the development of authentic and sustainable community-academic partnerships related to food, health and nutrition. Project members from the three Planning Grant teams that were awarded are expected to utilize community-based participatory action research and other community-engagement strategies to address community-identified problems as well as prepare and submit a grant proposal this fall to our Community-University Partnership Grant Program. The focus of the planning grant projects include:
Full descriptions of awarded grants can be found here.
HFHL is very excited about the work that was funded this past grant cycle and we wish researchers much success.
Photo: Participants in one of the projects awarded in 2012 - the Harvesting Healthier Food Project: A program of safe food handling practices for immigrant farmers. Farmers are attending a hand-washing station building session.
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (01/31/2013) —Childhood obesity prevention, food safety practices for immigrant farmers and a study of how cruciferous vegetables affect tumors in mice are among the topics funded through a new series of eight grants from the University of Minnesota's Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute.
One set of grants involves partnerships between university researchers and community groups; the other group involves researchers from across the university. All of the roughly $50,000 grants are aimed at funding start-up projects that will have a significant impact on food, health and agriculture. Read more here...
View a PDF of the 2012 awarded grants and learn about our current RFPs here.
HFHL Director Mindy Kurzer co-authors analysis
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (04/09/12) — Menopausal women can find relief from hot flashes by taking soy isoflavone supplements, a new study from the University of Minnesota and other research institutions has found. Past studies have yielded similar results but individual studies were considered inconclusive. For the new analysis, researchers evaluated 19 past trials from 10 countries to reach broader conclusions. The statistical analysis of the findings involved trials that included 1,196 women for hot flash frequency and 988 women for hot flash severity. The results are published in Menopause, the Journal of the North American Menopause Society.
Read UMNews article here.
Read other headlines here.
Read more about the study here.
Reimbursable up to $200 & 50 Wellness points
Lecture: Mondays 9:35 - 11:30am, labs same as 2002
McNeal Hall
Questions? Contact Kris (email@example.com)
Click here for more details and to view course syllabus.
Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives:
Cooking on a Student's Budget
Mon 3-6pm OR Fri 11am-2pm
McNeal Hall
Questions? Contact Kris (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Click here for more details and to view course syllabus.
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Gollust who was recently selected recipient of the University of Minnesota McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, a two-year award designed to enhance the careers of the University's most promising junior faculty. Read more...
Dr. Shaun Kennedy, Associate Professor in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine and HFHL Advisory Board Member, discusses on Dr. Oz the shocking truth about intentionally mislabled foods sold in supermarkets. (Aired Feb. 2013) View video.
Mamta Popat/AZ Daily Star, Associated Press
The American Medical Association has officially recognized obesity as a disease, a move that could induce physicians to pay more attention to the condition and spur more insurers to pay for treatments - both efforts would would help in the fight against heart disease (via Andrew Pollack, New York Times).
Fill out this brief form describing your research interests in Food Policy, Food Safety or Obesity/Chronic Diseases.
Check the Student Opportunities and Student Resources pages for info about other food, health and agriculture-related student organizations, internships, volunteer opportunities and more.


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Situated in Saint Joseph, this bed & breakfast is in the same area as Lakeland Regional Medical Center, Lake Michigan College, and Andrews University. Regional attractions also include Silver Beach and Harbor Shores Golf Club.
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In addition to wireless Internet access (surcharge), Dove Nest Bed and Breakfast provides free self parking, a garden, and a library.
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Dove Nest Bed and Breakfast features a library, a terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. High-speed wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. This Saint Joseph bed & breakfast also offers a garden, coffee/tea in the lobby, and a fireplace in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Dove Nest Bed and Breakfast has designated areas for smoking.
- Total number of rooms - 4
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Nicaragua, a country of about 6 million inhabitants, is a multiethnic and multicultural society, with the majority of the population being urban (57%), female (57%), and young (65%). The indigenous and ethnic communities represent 15% of the population.
The political and social revolution in Nicaragua during the eighties made the country an inspiration for change across the world, a country where the appearance of social activists cleared the path for the theories of equality to become a reality. Decades later, decimated by the ravages of war and natural disasters, Nicaragua has become a deeply indebted country and is the second poorest in the Americas.
Current challenges
As of early 2012, democracy remains a challenge and the country's economy depends in large measure on its agricultural exports, international aid and the remittances sent from abroad by relatives. According to the World Bank, 80% of the population lives on less than two dollars a day and poverty is principally a rural problem.
The gender gap between women and men continues to be significant due to the unequal distribution of power between the sexes in public and private life.
Nicaragua also faces serious environmental problems and is extremely vulnerable to natural catastrophes. From a positive point of view, it has institutional experience, legal frameworks and good community organisation, but it needs to allocate more economic resources to confront these challenges.
Oxfam in Nicaragua
We have been working in Nicaragua for more than 20 years. We believe that the active, organized and autonomous participation of civil society is the key to achieving long-term changes. To do this, we are:
- Promoting active citizenship, with special emphasis on the transformational leadership of women and young people, which exerts an influence both on government and public policies.
- Creating sustainable livelihoods by strengthening the rural economy with local partners.
- Contributing to the preservation of the rights of the most vulnerable groups in Nicaragua so that they are prepared for crisis situations and have access to good quality humanitarian aid.


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Wax models of Prince William and Kate Middleton are now on display at several Madame Tussaud locations.
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Read more: Vacant farm buildings can hold value
Combines may still be harvesting this year's crops, but smart farmers are already thinking about next year's planting.
The Business Journal featured Publisher Scot Darling on '3 Minutes With.'
We asked you to write about what Farm and Dairy has meant to you in 100 words — no more, no less — to celebrate our 100 year anniversary.
Farm and Dairy is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and we'd love you to join our open house Oct. 12.
It's that time of year again: hunting season!
From planters to harvesters, the focus continues to be on high-tech, precision equipment.
Ohio's top producing shale wells as of Sept. 2014.
Follow Farm and Dairy's staff at this year's Farm Science Review, as they crisscross all 80+ acres of ag exhibits, talk with some of the 130,000+ visitors, and watch the field demonstrations.
Here's a photo gallery from Aug. 30 at the Great Geauga County Fair.
The ALS #IceBucketChallenge has gone viral on social media, and farmers are raising awareness for ALS, too.
More funding, more initiatives to combat Lake Erie algae.
Farm and Dairy reporter Chris Kick and Editor Susan Crowell were recently honored with writing awards from the National Newspaper Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Find out who topped the junior fair market livestock competitions at the 2014 Columbiana County Fair.
We're keeping a close eye on the salmon that are making their journey north to spawn in Alaska and we're also checking on the guinea fowl "keets" that are beginning to hatch in Nebraska.
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My Family !
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Welcome to my Family
I bet you'd like to make something like this up for your family!
My Parents
My parents were married in the LDS temple in St. George, Utah. My mother was born in Hurricane, Utah and was an only child till her folks adopted my Aunt Diane who was Grandma's niece. My father was born in Saracuse, Utah and had 14 siblings.
Click HERE to see the family website I built for my parents.
About Me
I'm 53 and live in Springville, Utah. I'm 5'11" and weigh 230 pounds. I have great 4 kids (2 married daughters) and 2 who live with their mother nearby.
If you like the music of wind in the pines or aspens, love being near a stream, and the way the desert smells after a thunderstorm, and thrill at thunder and lightning; if you like sunsets in pastel glory, and sing to yourself, you already know something about me.
If you love children at any stage of life, and enjoy the company of almost any kind of animal, if you have good memories of people and places and yet struggle with your own shortcomings, and leave a trail of 'love you's and 'sorry's behind... if you really know the meaning of these words, then you already know me a little.
If you've been lonely, but believe that we will be able to fly someday, really feel it inside... if you have wants and a need to be understood, if you find evidence of miracles all about you, and have hope; you may know something more about me.
If you look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see, If you know that every kindness you express to anyone is expressed to everyone, and every wrong thing you do is done to all that love and care about you, then we have some things in common.
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My Ordinary Life
I'm just an ordinary man. I have much to be humble about, but I'm not sure if I'm good enough to really be humble. I try things and cry things, and in the deepest parts of night I sleep. I have learned that best way to know and love anyone better is to know and love Christ first.
Have you ever seen yourself as He sees you? I have once walking back to my desk from the water fountain at a job that I did not like. It was less than two minutes, but I'll never forget the feeling. I know what it feels like to really be loved now. And I'm never alone.
I scratch where it itches. My old Jeep is messy inside and out. I feel handsome, have a good sense of humor, and deep set hazel eyes. My daughter says I have a sexy voice. I keep a journal of my life, have for many years, like I think someone might be interested in reading it. I like dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, fish, and my many friends. Strangers are just friends I've not met yet.
When my dog died, and I cried and buried her up Hobble Creek Canyon next to where I buried the red blanket that my first wife and I were last together on. I visit the site often and enjoy the creek running by to remind me that life goes on. I miss having young children and want a grandbaby. I'd wash someone's dishes just to feel useful. I like all kinds of music, especially Celtic. I don't have a radio in my Jeep so I've strung 7 brass bells on a rope and I have lots of music on bumpy roads. I have an old sailboat and a beautifil old BMW motorcycle. I have reading glasses. I'm happy to share my life and my family with the world. I get lonely sometimes. And I still love my ex-wives.
My Interests and Work
My big interest now is Family History. In the past I've had strong interests in Herpetology (reptiles and amphibians), tropical fish, and all kinds of outdoor activities. I'm looking for fun new things to do. I love good music, and have over 333 CDs. (Just got an Apple iPod - WOW!) I like sailing, and like to go caving and hiking, or just 4WD on mountian roads. I've been a Plant Manager and really liked that work. We produced 109 herbal food and cosmetic products. We had lots of machines, and I managed 185 great workers. I worked at Novell for 10 years and now I'm an internet business consultant. I enjoy singing and dancing. Friends are really important to me in this stage of my life - as my kids are too involved with their own families & friends now to want to spend much time with me. I became a grandpa in December of 2005 and love it!
The Loves of My Life
About My First Wife
Ruth Ann and I were married in October 1979 in the Manti Temple. We are the parents of four wonderful kids: Michelle, Daniel, Wendy, and Jessica. She divorced me in September 1996 because I was a jerk. (I think I've learned a lot since then.)
She has done an outstanding job raising our children without me in the home. I spend as much time with my children as possible.
Our "Children"
: is a Radiology Tech & was married to Ian in July, 2004. 1st baby in December 05.
: returned form serving an LDS mission in Scotland in May, 2004. He earned his Eagle Scout and Duty to God Scouting awards earlier. He is attending a local college now.
: is working in Cosmotology & married Scott in September, 2004.
: is in school, and studies the piano and cello when she's not busy with her many friends. She plays softball too... her team took 1st place last year, 3rd place this year.
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These children grew up with lots of animals, music, and outdoor adventures. They have all gone caving, sailing, camping, hiking, and fishing. They all enjoy many fine friends and are close to extended family.
I hope to share with them, (and everyone), the joys of writing and researching Family History. I use both the LDS Church's (FREE) PAF 5.2 software & Family Tree Maker ($30) to keep track of our ancestry and build family trees.
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What a day it was today. You should have been here...well, some of you were. First my friend Pam Rowe came by with an armful of her handmade dolls. They are made from scratch, no pre-made anything.
They are beautiful and the workmanship is wonderful.
It was fun to catch up with Pam and see what she has been creating.
Then a big shipment came in from Michael and Andrea. Samples! Samples for the workshops next month and I am telling you that you must come in and see them in person. They are extraordinary. You will not want to miss these workshops on June 1-2-3.
Last and certainly not least, Leighanna Light arrived for her workshops which begin tomorrow. Her samples are wonderful, too. John has decided to take all three workshops this weekend and is down in his art room gathering supplies. Leighanna is not only a great artist and teacher, she is fun, too.
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10 great places for paddling — in the city
No need to head to the wilderness for a paddling adventure. Most cities are built on water, which means you can kayak, canoe and even whitewater raft just a few miles from downtown, says David Brown, executive director of the American Outdoors Association (americaoutdoors.org). The scenery is often striking. "Many cities have greenbelts associated with their waterway," Brown says. He shares some favorite urban areas for paddling with Larry Bleiberg for USA TODAY.
Potomac River
Washington, D.C.
If you think Congress took the nation on a wild ride this summer, paddlers will find the going just as unpredictable on a whitewater run near Great Falls on the Potomac River. For a calmer ride, paddle along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. "The great thing about the Potomac is that there's access to the river because the National Park Service maintains it," Brown says. 202-789-7000;washington.org
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River starts its long wind to the Gulf of Mexico in Minnesota, offering kayakers a chance to paddle the famed river in a city setting. A Minneapolis trip can include urban sightseeing and a chance to float through a barge lock, dropping (or climbing) 50 feet in just a few minutes. 612-462-2432;abovethefallssports.com
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
This urban river passes through the biggest city in the South, but a paddler would never know it. The area is maintained in a natural state by the National Park Service, which provides several points of access. "People raft it, canoe it and kayak it, even tube it," Brown says. "It's remarkably wooded. You'd hardly know you're in town except for the sounds." 678-538-1200;nps.gov/chat/index.htm
Wisconsin River
Wausau, Wis.
The city's famous Whitewater Park attracts kayakers from around the world, who surf the waves and perform stunts. The course, which has welcomed Olympians, has bleachers from which to watch the action. There are also introductory classes geared toward beginners. "They do a lot of kayak slalom races up there," Brown says. "It's just in the town area, and it's very active." 715-572-6197; wausauwhitewater.org
Puget Soundand Lake Union
Seattle paddlers have their choice of lake and ocean kayaking. Both are great choices, although if you're heading out to open water, it's important to get local advice about hazards and popular routes, says Brown, a former resident. "The University of Washington is where I used to paddle. Right in town, there are shorebirds." 866-732-2695;visitseattle.org
Truckee River
Reno has developed a half-mile whitewater course and downtown riverfront park that's walking distance from its casinos. The park features 11 pools and 7,000 tons of rocks and boulders carefully arranged to create Class II and III rapids and slalom runs. "It's tree-lined. You go under bridges and get some cityscape views," Brown says. "You're really paddling in a park." 775-657-4634;reno.gov/index.aspx?page=311
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
San Francisco
It's hard to beat the San Francisco Bay for urban scenery, but you shouldn't try to paddle it by yourself, Brown says. "It's best to do this with a professional. There is lots of shipping and tides." One company, Sea Trek, runs a kayak trip that starts in the shadows of the Golden Gate and crosses under the bridge on the way to the Marin Headlands. 415-332-8494; seatrek.com
Boise River
You can float or paddle through this scenic state capital. A greenway park offers a 6-mile run, complete with rest stops along the way. "It's a clean, beautiful stretch of river right in the downtown area," Brown says. "There's pretty good fishing there, too." 208-577-4575;cityofboise.org/Departments/Parks/page17909.aspx
Colorado River(Lady Bird Lake)
You'll find everything from kayaks to dragon boats zipping by on this urban waterway through the Texas capital. For a unique experience, go for a summer and early fall bat paddle, when hundreds of thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats emerge at dusk from the world's largest urban bat colony under the Congress Avenue bridge. 800-926-2282;austintexas.org
James River
Richmond, Va.
Virginia's capital offers rafters a thrill on whitewater routes as challenging as Class IV. (The 1-to-6 scale gets more demanding the higher the number.) "It's certainly an authentic whitewater experience," Brown says. "It's a pretty popular urban run." Canoers and kayakers can also find calm stretches to take in the scenery. 804-646-8911; jamesriverpark.org
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On behalf of the nearly 9,400 residents of Shelby, Ohio, I welcome you to our city. Shelby's tremendous infrastructure, workforce training programs and low cost of business regulations makes us home to many growing and profitable business enterprises. Come find out what these companies already have; that Shelby, Ohio is a partner in private business development.
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Michigan Rummy Rules
Michigan Rummy — Casino style game
Three in One (Tripoley) — Casino style game
Michigan Rummy — Casino style game
The casino-style game is also known as Tripoli. The object of the game is to get rid of all of the cards in your hand. The player at the end with the collects the most chips, wins! Each hand has three levels, Hearts, Poker and Michigan.
Players: 3 to 8
Age: 8 and up
Suggested items for play—
14" plastic game tray with 9 compartments
4 stacks of betting chips (96 Pcs.)
1 standard deck of 52 playing cards
How to play Michigan Rummy—
Two is low and ace is always high. Each player draws a card and whoever draws the highest card deals.
Betting chips—
Before the hand begins, every player with the exception of the dealer, places one chip into each of the eight compartments and the bonus compartment in the center of the tray. The dealer then places two chips into all nine compartments.
The deal—
The dealer deals out all the cards in the deck beginning with the player on his left. All players including the dealer and one dummy hand obtains the entire deck of cards. At the end of each round the dummy hand is dealt. It is not necessary that all of the payers receive the same number of cards. The dealer can exchange the dummy hand for his own, only if his hand does not contain any bonus cards. The bonus cards are illustrated on the playing tray. The dealer can sell the dummy hand to the highest bidder. Only players whose have no bonus cards are eligible to bid. The dealer keeps the chips paid for the extra hand. The player that buys the hand plays only that hand. The person that plays the extra hand is the only one who ever sees it.
The hand—
Each hand has three stages, one called Hearts, one called Poker, and one called Michigan. Complete rules for Hearts, Poker ranking & Michigan.
The play—
The player on the left of the dealer plays first. He can play any suit but must play the lowest card in that suit. The player holding the next highest card in sequence in the same suit plays it. this continues with the next player and so on until the sequence is ended either by the ace or by a card in the dummy hand. When the sequence ends the last player begins the next series by discarding the lowest card in a suit opposite color of the last sequence. If he is unable to do so, his turn passes to the player on the left.
Example play—
A player played the 10. The sequence stopped because the J was in the dummy hand. The same player initiates a new sequence by leading his 3. If the next and any other player does not have a red card in their hands, the play returns to the first player who may play a card of the same color.
Money cards—
A player can collect on a money card when he discards the money card during proper sequence of play. When the money card is played, he collects all the chips in the designated compartment. Some of the money cards (7, 8 and 9) of any suit or Q, K must be played in sequence.
If a player leads with a card that is not the lowest in that suit, he must pay one chip to each player and is not allowed to collect for any money cards he plays following this error for the current hand.
If a player does not play a card when he is allowed to, thereby causing a sequence to end, may not collect on any money cards for the remainder of the hand. If the hand ends with chips still on the money card of the suit of a card illegally withheld, the offender must pay and equal amount of chips as those in the compartment to the player (if any) who still holds the money card. If the offender goes out first, he cannot collect any bonus chips, and the game continues.
Object of the game—
Detailed rules for the Michigan Rummy - Casino style game.
Where to buy the Michigan Rummy game.
Three in One (Tripoley) — Casino style game
This casino-style game is played in three stages: The collection of relevant stakes, Poker and the final stage is a Stops game similar to Michigan or Boodle.
Players: Best for 4 to 7, possible 2 to 9
Suggested items of play—
1 board cloth marked to receive stakes
4 stacks of betting chip (96 Pcs.)
1 standard deck of 52 playing cards
How to play Three in One—
Play begins with each player placing nine chips on the game cloth... one chip en each of the labeled spaces of the game cloth. Card ranking is from low to high: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A.
The deal—
The dealer deals the cards one-at-a-time, to each player plus a spare hand that does not belong to anyone. The dealer has the right to exchange his hand for the spare hand. The dealer cannot see the contents of the hand before the exchange. If the dealer decides to exchange hands, he must lay his hand face down. That hand now becomes the spare hand. Cards between the two hands cannot be combined.
Alternatively, the dealer can offer the spare hand to the highest bidder (if any). The buyer places his hand face down on the table and pays the dealer in chips the amount bid for the spare hand.
Players keep the same cards for all three stages of the game, there will be no new deal from here on.
Stage #1 — Collecting stakes for pay cards—
Anyone holding an A, K, Q, J or 10 takes all the chips from that space).
If a player has a K and Q, that player takes all the chips from the King-Queen space and also takes the chips from the K and Q spaces.
The chips in the 8-9-10 space can be taken by a player who has an 8-9-10 sequence in one suit such as 8 - 9 - 10. If two or more of the players have 8-9-10 in different suits, they share the chips equally leaving any remainder for the next winner.
Stage #2 — Poker—
All players select 5 cards from their hand that they wish to play poker with. The remaining cards are temporarily placed aside. You may not want to pick the best poker hand especially if you do not want to reveal your cards until the stops part of the game. Refer to Ranking of poker hands to brush-up on poker combinations.
Poker bets are then placed in the pot area. Betting starts with the player on the dealers left. That player can either bet by putting additional chip or chips in the pot, or he can check. If the first player checks, the next player can bet or check. This continues with the other players clockwise around the table. If everyone checks, all pokers hands are exposed and the player with the highest hand wins the pot.
If a player bets, subsequent players cannot check. After the bet, players have three options:
Betting continues clockwise around the table until one of the following two things happens.
After a showdown and two or more players have equal hands, the pot is split equally between them with any remainder carried over to the next deal.
It is good practice to establish a limit on the bets, and limit on raises.
Stage #3 — Michigan—
After the poker stage, all players unite their poker hands with the remainder of the hand and play the game Michigan. Go here to brush-up on the game of Michigan. The winner of the poker stage begins play by leading a card face up. If there was a tie for the pot, the first winning player clockwise left of the dealer begins play. The card led can be any suit, but must be the lowest card held in that suit.
The player holding the next higher card of the led suit must play it, by laying it down face up in front of them. This continues with the remaining players until an ace is laid down or until no one holds the next higher card of the suit. The last card played is the stop card. This can happen because the next higher card in the suit is in the spare hand, or been played previously.
When the end of sequence is reached the player who laid down the ace or stop card begins again. Any suit except the suit just played can be played. This goes on until another stop is reached. Play continues until a player runs out of cards. The player who ran out of all his cards wins all the chips in the kitty and also wins from each player a number of chips that are equal in number to the number of cards left their hands.
If a player who has played an ace or top cannot lead again, because all their remaining cards are in the same suit that was just played, the turn passes to the player o his left. If that person also only has the suit just played, the turn pass to the left until a player has a suit to lead. If no one has another suit the play ends. Everyone then places a chip for each card they hold. The chips remain on the layout to be won by the winner of stage three of the next deal.
End of game—
The game can continue as long as the players wish. Rather than sharing the remaining chips among the players, it is usual that they be played for. This can be done by playing an extra round of poker. Whoever wins takes all the chips.
Detailed rules for Three in One
Where to buy the board cloth and Three in One game
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WINSTED — The superintendent of schools and the mayor will lead a presentation at the Board of Selectmen meeting tonight regarding the use of the town's three schools and the costs associated with them.
More than six weeks ago, Mayor Maryann D. Welcome decided to form a committee to look at the costs to run the schools over the past five years. She said she wants to end the debate over whether the town ought to close a school to save money.
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This has been a most challenging year in health care and for our own institution. Still, there is tremendous work happening in our hospitals, clinics and research areas every day. This work shapes how well we take care of our patients and their families, defines our organization's culture, and advances the professional practice of nursing. That is why I encourage you to take time to nominate Vanderbilt nurses in a wide variety of categories as part of our annual Nurses Week award process that is already underway.
Whether you have prepared a nomination before or this is your first time, this web site has been designed and refined to make the online nomination process as convenient as possible. A selection committee thoroughly reviews each nomination and chooses the awards recipients.
At the annual Awards and Recognition event during Nurses Week in May, I have the honor of announcing the recipients. These nominations and awards shine a spotlight on the meaningful work nurses are doing throughout our health system.
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Scott Lange (Lucentio / Gremio / Pedant) on the rehearsal process of a six-person The Taming of the Shrew.
It wasn't until the first week of rehearsal that I realized how much work this production was going to take. Not just from me, but the whole cast. My first thought when we decided to produce a small cast show (and I maintain that thought is a correct one), was that we had a cast of smart, talented, Pigeon Creek veterans who would easily bend the production to their will.
For the most part, it has been smooth sailing. Only a few scenes have given us fits about the staging, conversation and discussion has been free flowing, and we've been able to have quite a bit of fun while staying (mostly) productive.
But there are a few challenges that I never expected. With our typical cast size (about 12 people) every actor has just about equal stage time, but everybody gets a break at some point. But when the cast is half of that, everyone is pretty much on stage through the entire play. With an ensemble directed cast, when an actor is not on stage, they are designated as an outside eye to assist the scene. But with a small cast, there are rarely any scenes where more than one or two actors have been able to step back and look from an audience perspective. So even when we are not on stage, we need to be active participants in the rehearsal process. There's no sitting back and letting someone else do the work.
What this results in, at least during rehearsal, is a lot of tired actors. We typically rehearse four hours a night. By the time we hit that fourth hour, everyone looks pretty spent. It takes a lot of energy and mental fortitude to work with this type of show.
There are also on stage challenges. Everyone is doubled to the extreme. So actors may be playing two or more large roles. Sometimes this results in instant on stage costume and character changes. There are only a few of those in the play, but we have had to take a really close look at those to make sure they are clear and precise. With those instant changes, the actors have to work harder to make each and every character distinct. We always maintain that a change of costume indicates a change of character. That is still true with this production, but there will be fewer costumes to help with that. We need to make sure that the audiences can tell when a new character is on stage, even if there was no costume at all. This has been difficult for me to wrap my brain around. I always base my characters physical and vocal attributes on my own. This way, what ends up on stage is me, but not me, at the same time. I feel like with this production I have had to push that farther that I normally would. It has been hard, but I am always happy to be pushed and challenged in ways I never expect.
We have not had anyone outside of the cast come in to watch our craziness yet. I know that day is coming. I am always slightly frightened when that happens. I feel very vulnerable the first time I present my work to a new person. But the point is for someone outside of the process to come in and help us determine what parts of our concept are working, or perhaps not working. They'll help us edit, embellish, and perhaps alter our work if necessary. In the end, it will be for the greater good, and will help us put on the best production possible.


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thank you for your article , Very interesting information as I never even thought of creating a loan to myself !! Thank you for your information Becci
Making a Loan to Your Business – Any Benefit?
Is there a tax benefit for making a loan to my business? Well…it depends…
Is there a tax benefit for making a loan to my business? Well…it depends…
First things first – get a lawyer to document your loan and draw up the appropriate promissory note documents and payment schedules. THIS IS A MUST! the absence of such paperwork may negate the loan in a tax court case.
There are obvious benefits to lending your business cash if you have some to lend such as avoiding the pains of going through all the paperwork and approval process a bank may take and it is quicker to get the cash infused into your business.
But what does that mean from a tax perspective? It really depends on the type of organization you have whether it is a C-Corp, an S-Corp electing to be taxed as a C-Corp or it is a pass through entity (an organization that flows through your own personal taxes).
Pass through entities – because the individual, member or partner making the loan to the business is at risk of loss, then his or her basis in the business increases. In most cases, a business owner may only take losses to the extent of his or her basis, which means that the loan has allowed you to deduct more losses on his or her personal tax return. While the business gets to take a deduction on the interest expense you have to report interest income so that aspect is not as significant as an increased basis.
- As you know everyone has to report interest income on their tax returns, don't try and wiggle out of it by not charging your business an interest rate. A loan made to a business must bear market rate interest rates (which you have to report as income) or else the interest will be required to be imputed i.e. with each payment made to you, it is assumed the interest is built in and thus you still have to pay taxes on the imputed interest. Worse – failure to comply with this rule may cause the IRS to reclassify your loan as a contribution which you will not recover a loan that is reclassified as a contribution to capital unless you withdraw money from your business. If your business is incorporated, generally this distribution must be made in the form of taxable wages or a taxable dividend.
C – Corps: with C-Corps the tax situation is slightly different, the company gets to take a deduction on the interest expense and it becomes a tax benefit to the business since it pays its own taxes. You still have to pay taxes on the interest earned as described above so the benefit is mostly for the business.
The following caution is something to be acutely aware of because it could change your tax situation dramatically.
- Be aware of your debt to equity ratios. If the debt is too high the IRS may determine the additional debt as disguised equity which if that happens, the payments that the company has been making may be considered dividends. Only the interest on loan repayments is taxable, if it were a dividend, the entire payment would be subject to tax. Additionally, while interest expense is deductible for a corporation, a dividend payment is not deductible.
Definitely consult your CPA before moving forward with your transaction – it's better to pay a CPA (which is deductible) than make a mistake that will cost you in taxes!
Learn more about the author, Sharon Abdul, CPA.
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Posted by Becci Harrison, Seattle, Washington |
Jul 01, 2010
Posted by Michael Jurenka, Issaquah, Washington |
Jul 01, 2010
Very good article, As a CPA who specializes in taxes, I would further state that shareholder loans to entities are not something to be taken lightly.
On audit, an IRS agent will definitely look into the documentation surrounding notes to shareholders. Improperly documented promissory notes, not following the terms on the notes, and many other issues will cause lots of problems on audit.
You should definitely consult a qualified CPA before pursuing a shareholder note between your company and you personally.
Posted by Ron Copple, RHU, LUTCF, Auburn, Washington |
Jul 01, 2010
Very insightful article, especially since funds are difficult to obtain from the normal lending institutions. Good subject and good information.
Posted by Sharon Abdul, CPA, Seattle, Washington |
Jul 01, 2010
Thanks Michael for that adding those very important notes.
Posted by Sharon Abdul, CPA, Seattle, Washington |
Jul 01, 2010
Thank you Ron and Becci for reading and commenting
Posted by Norma Maxwell, Minot, North Dakota |
Jul 02, 2010
Sharon - thank you for helping to clarify such a complex issue--much appreciated!
Posted by Parnisia Duckworth, Atlanta, Georgia |
Jul 02, 2010
Thank you very much for this insightful information. I am looking forward to learning more from your articles
Posted by Ramona Lynne, Tacoma, Washington |
Jul 08, 2010
I enjoyed the article. Good information to know. There was a lot of information for me to understand and I had to re-read it several times.
Posted by Julia Robinson, Woodinville, Washington |
Jul 09, 2010
Thanks Sharon, It pays to get the facts and that usually means having the right attorney / accountant - thanks for putting some great information out there!
Posted by Mary Beth Ingersoll, Seattle, Washington |
Jul 15, 2010
Sharon - Nice to see a business article on a subject that many business owners may consider sometime in their ownership. Keep them coming!
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Jul 20, 2010
Thanks for the article, Sharon. It helped to clarify some information for me and goodness knows, information is power! looking forward to seeing more articles!
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Fond is the wrong word for this memory. Inspiring is better. A tragedy that inspired hope was being with Marcia Cooper in her hospital room just before she passed away. I was moved by her passion for education and her unwavering commitment to succeed. Also by the university's humane and responsive ability to react quickly and do the right thing. We took commencement to Marcia so she could graduate in front of her family. I will never forget that. We can do things at Drury that other places may not think of.
Nor will I ever forget the reception given to us when we were introduced to faculty in April 2007. It was warm, welcoming, emotional, and it captured the importance of the moment.
Yes, it was incredibly inspiring.
Another was when I visited my dad in the nursing home immediately after having been elected to serve as Drury's 16th president. He looked up with a weak smile and softly said, "That's a joy with a whole lot of problems." The next morning, he asked the nurse to bring him his suit and tie, which he hadn't worn for months. When asked why, he responded, "I need to go help Todd." He and my mother loved Drury.
And we learn from them. If you listen, they'll talk to you, and they have important things to say.
In the beginning, I started going over to campus when I had time off from work so I could gain a sense of what Drury was like now because of course it had changed from when I was a student here. I started visiting departments and talking with faculty and students. I remember one wonderful conversation I had at Finley while having lunch with several math professors. I had been terrified of that subject as a student and now here I was having this meaningful dialogue. I always walked away feeling energized and challenged.
Being on campus gives you the opportunity for spontaneous interactions with students, staff, faculty and alums. It has been so rewarding to have the opportunity to work with Todd and be able to contribute in my own way to the giving spirit of Drury.
I have leaned from everyone I've met at Drury, from the grounds crew to the Education department. The more people I've met, I've felt the significance of all their roles. The departments are all different but the goal is the same…helping students. Assisting them in that trek to adulthood in a healthy, safe way.
There is a shared, collective concern among the Drury community. To minimize adversity, so students can be successful, satisfied and fulfilled. Truly, life memories for which I am so grateful.
I also enjoyed that it was not like going to work. It was like going to school. There is a feeling of community among all constituencies, grounded in affection for Drury.
Everyone knows I love Move-In Day! It is Drury at her best: warm, welcoming, embracing. And to be moved into a new home in 15 minutes is mind boggling to most. It's an exhilarating day.
Our students want to be called by name and we try to do that every day. Our faculty and staff live up to that. It's a sign of respect.
We can't express how grateful we are for the Drury community's support. We have been through a lot of major challenges together. While we may debate methodology, shared core beliefs have been consistent throughout our time here.
Personal access. That is a core Drury value. At Drury, students are educated, honored and respected on an individual basis, which more often than not translates to personal growth that prepares them for a lifetime of service. This is Drury's gift to the world.
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