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To apply for all clinics, please use the Clinic Application and Matching System (CAMS). For specific questions regarding individual clinics, please contact the professors. Their information may be found on the Contact Us page. *Please note: Admission to the clinics in Buenos Aires and Paris is administered by NYU Law Abroad. Please consult their web page for application instructions and details.*
New York University School of Law offers the following semester-long clinics. Please select from the links at the left to learn more about each clinic.
Bankruptcy Appellate Clinic
The focus of the Bankruptcy Appellate Clinic is on the provision of appellate legal services to indigent bankrupt individuals. Insolvent individuals file over a million bankruptcy cases each year, generating hundreds of federal appeals. Many of these appeals involve issues of vital importance to the administration of bankruptcy cases and the availability of bankruptcy relief to overburdened consumers. As an indication of the significance of these matters, over the past twenty years the US Supreme Court has routinely granted certiorari to review at least one bankruptcy appeal per term, most often a consumer case. In most (if not all) of these appellate cases, the debtors involved are unable to afford appellate counsel. On the other hand, governmental and creditor interests are typically well represented. A case in point is Bullock v. BankChampaign, NA, no. 11-1518 (2013), a recent matter in the US Supreme Court. Bullock involved an important issue concerning the scope of the debtor's bankruptcy discharge. (Offered Fall 2014)
Brennan Center Public Policy Advocacy Clinic
This clinic studies public policy advocacy in the context of the Brennan Center's work. Strategies and skills the clinic focuses on include: conducting policy analysis and research; engaging in coalition building and organizing; collecting and analyzing opinion data; drafting and negotiating laws and rules; conducting lobbying; developing public education plans and using media effectively; fundraising; and running a nonprofit organization. All students will do fieldwork at the Brennan Center, in one of the Center's main program areas: Democracy (campaign finance reform, elections and voting rights, fair courts, and responsive government) and Justice (access to justice, economic justice, criminal justice, and liberty and national security). (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Business Law Transactions Clinic
Students participating in the Business Law Transactions Clinic provide legal services on transactional and governance matters relating to the business needs of the clinic's clients. The clinic provides legal services to non-profit organizations, as well as to small businesses, entrepreneurs and social enterprises that may not have access to the traditional legal market and that operate in areas of concern to the public. The students' work will include planning transactions and drafting contracts, memoranda of understanding, leases, promissory notes, employment agreements and other operating agreements; advising executives and boards on governance and disclosure practices; reviewing and preparing bylaws, conflict-of-interest, investment, social media and other board policies and materials, and employee manuals, committee charters; and developing analytical, planning, editorial and counseling skills in the context of client projects and reality-grounded class work; planning transactions; drafting contracts and other operating agreements; and preparing work plan and other project documents. We have a weekly two-hour seminar, which will focus on the business lawyer's multiple roles in supporting the clinic's field work. We also meet regularly throughout the semester on Mondays and Thursdays from 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM and additional times during the week as the client work requires. Taught by adjunct professors Stephanie Abramson and Sean Delany. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Children's Rights Clinic
This course will examine the legal and ethical issues, and the unique skills involved, in representing adolescent clients. The seminar focuses in particular on child welfare proceedings. Students will do their fieldwork in one of 3 different organizations that specialize in representing youth in civil matters of various sorts: Advocates for Children, The Door, and The Juvenile Rights Practice of the Legal Aid Society. Taught by adjunct professor Jacqueline Deane. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Civil Litigation - Employment Law Clinic, Semester-Long
In this clinic, taught by Professor Laura Sager, students represent plaintiffs in claims of employment discrimination and failure to pay minimum way or overtime. The cases are brought in federal and state courts and agencies. Students meet with clients, draft pleadings, discovery requests and motions, take depositions, and appear in court for hearings or trials. They also participate in seminar discussions of substantive and procedural issues related to the clinic's cases, and in simulation exercises to develop written and oral litigation skills. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Community Development and Economic Justice Clinic
The focus of this clinic is the provision of legal services to grass-roots, community organizing groups that engage in a variety of community development, economic justice and social justice efforts. Students will perform fieldwork with attorneys from the Community Development Project (CDP) of the Urban Justice Center, and provide legal services to CDP's clients throughout New York City. Specific casework involves workers' rights litigation, housing code enforcement, and consumer debt defense. Students also assist on transactional matters in areas such as community benefits agreements, tax exemption, bylaws, and incorporation. Taught by adjunct professors Edward De Barbieri and Nasoan C. Sheftel-Gomes. (Offered Spring 2015)
Comparative Criminal Justice Clinic: Focus on Domestic Violence
This clinic offers students the opportunity (1) to compare and contrast different nations' uses of criminal prosecution to combat domestic violence, (2) to develop a critical analysis of the advantages and limitations of various criminal justice strategies, and (3) to work directly with clients in New York City, both complainants and defendants, who are involved in ongoing criminal cases. Taught by Professors Holly Maguigan and Shamita Das Dasgupta. (Not offered 2014-15)
Criminal Appellate Defender Clinic
Students in the clinic, which is operated in conjunction with the Office of the Appellate Defender, represent criminal defendants in appeals of their felony convictions in the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department. There may also be opportunities for students to challenge convictions by means of a motion to vacate the conviction in New York County and Bronx County Supreme Courts. Taught by adjunct professors Eunice Lee and Rosemary Herbert. (Offered Spring 2015)
Environmental Law Clinic
Students work out of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a national, non-profit legal and scientific organization, assisting attorneys in bringing public interest environmental litigation. The students also join in a weekly seminar at which current environmental policy issues, environmental litigation and legal advocacy strategies are discussed. Taught by adjunct professors Eric A. Goldstein and Nancy S. Marks. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Equal Justice and Defender Clinic
This clinic, taught by Professors Bryan Stevenson and Randy Susskind, provides an opportunity to work on racial justice issues or to provide direct assistance to condemned prisoners on death row or children sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Clinic students doing racial justice work will study the history of racial inequality in the United States and work on projects that engage communities directly impacted by slavery, lynching, racial terror, convict leasing and Jim Crow laws. Projects will be focused on communities in the South that have experienced extreme racial violence and terror with a goal of helping communities confront these histories in a meaningful way. Students working on litigation against extreme punishments will be involved in direct assistance to death row prisoners in Alabama or children serving sentences of life imprisonment without parole. The clinic will involve periodic travel for all students to Deep South communities for investigative work, interviewing and local research. (Offered Fall 2014)
EU Regulatory Policy Clinic (Paris)
This clinic in EU law and policy addresses the rising demand to better understand the European Union's work by focusing both on its institutional structures and substantive standards. By providing a supplement to the fieldwork component of the EU Regulatory Policy Clinic, it aims at developing "administrative lawyering" skills and techniques enabling students to acquire a first-hand experience of the EU decision-making processes. The clinic focuses especially on the different avenues enabling citizens not only to gain access to the EU decision-making process but also to analyze, critique and support legislative and regulatory proposals in the areas of public health as well as environmental, consumer, and safety protection. (Offered Spring 2015 in Paris)
Global Justice Clinic
The Global Justice Clinic explores how human rights law can be brought to bear on situations of global injustice. Working on cases and projects that involve cross-border human rights violations, the deleterious impacts of extraterritorial activities by state and non-state actors, and emerging problems that require close collaboration between actors at the local and international levels, students engage in human rights advocacy in domestic and international settings. Fieldwork consists of projects undertaken for or in collaboration with individual clients, human rights organizations in the United States and abroad, and intergovernmental human rights experts and bodies (including the United Nations). Fieldwork focuses on issues related to global injustice such as: economic and social rights; human rights, national security, and counter-terrorism; transnational corporate accountability; weapons development; and the human rights of marginalized groups. These projects give students an opportunity to assist in formulating policy, research, and legal responses to cross-border human rights problems. Taught by Professor Meg Satterthwaite. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Government Civil Litigation Externship - Eastern District of New York (formerly called Government Civil Litigation Clinic - Eastern District of New York)
Because of a policy change at the US Attorney's Office, the clinical program probably will not be able to offer this clinic in the same form in which it was offered in prior years. The Law School is currently working with the US Attorney's Office to develop a new programmatic structure that satisfies the Office's new rule. It appears very likely that the Law School will be able to offer fieldwork placements for credit at the US Attorney's Office next year, which would be accompanied by a seminar taught by an Assistant US Attorney (AUSA). The resulting structure will probably be roughly equivalent to the fieldwork and seminar components of the clinics we offered at these offices in the past. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Government Civil Litigation Externship - Southern District of New York (formerly called Government Civil Litigation Clinic - Eastern District of New York)
Because of a policy change at the US Attorney's Office, the clinical program probably will not be able to offer this clinic in the same form in which it was offered in prior years. The Law School is currently working with the US Attorney's Office to develop a new programmatic structure that satisfies the Office's new rule. It appears very likely that the Law School will be able to offer fieldwork placements for credit at the US Attorney's Office next year, which would be accompanied by a seminar taught by an Assistant US Attorney (AUSA). The resulting structure will probably be roughly equivalent to the fieldwork and seminar components of the clinics we offered at these offices in the past. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Immigrant Defense Clinic
Students will work at the Legal Aid Society's Immigration Law Unit, which specializes in the intersection between criminal and immigration law. The Unit staff handles a wide range of cases in which detained and non-detained non-citizens contest removal/deportation from the United States because of criminal convictions or immigration violations, and apply for various forms of relief including cancellation of removal and asylum. Taught by adjunct professors Yvonne Floyd-Mayers and Jojo H. Annobil. (Offered Spring 2015)
International Environmental Law Clinic
Students research and draft laws and regulations, legal and policy positions, and analysis on international and comparative environmental law issues. Clients include public interest environmental groups in the US and abroad, UN and other international organizations, and developing country governments. Taught by Professors Richard Stewart and Bryce Rudyk. (Offered Fall 2014)
International Organizations Clinic
The challenges of global governance are increasingly addressed by regulatory regimes established or overseen by international organizations. These organizations vary significantly in their size, focus, approach, and the powers they exercise. The academic dimension of this clinic aims to introduce students to a range of legal, political and regulatory theories that help us to understand the role and functioning of these organizations and to appreciate the relevance of inter-disciplinary perspectives to law in global settings. Core lawyering skills (legal research, the ability to integrate factual and legal knowledge, analytical and reasoning skills, and the exercise of judgment) matter a great deal in the practice of international law. The practical dimension of the clinic will give students an opportunity to work firsthand on, and in, these organizations, many of which are based in New York City. Taught by Professors Gráinne de Búrca and Angelina Fisher. (Not offered 2014-15)
The Legal Ethics Bureau at NYU School of Law
Student projects will include: (a) ethics counseling to NYU's own clinics and projects, to national and state public interest organizations, and to private lawyers handling public interest cases in which lawyer regulatory issues arise; (b) preparing research memos that will provide assistance to lawyers who are litigating claims of (e.g.) ineffective assistance of counsel in capital cases, prosecutorial or defense lawyer conflicts, and like issues; (c) assisting bar committees on ethics opinions, on proposed changes to the rules governing lawyers and judges, and on rule of law issues related to the professional responsibility of lawyers and judges worldwide; and, (d) preparing amicus briefs to appellate courts when significant legal ethics issues arise in selected cases, especially in the Supreme Court. Students will work with public interest lawyers in non-profit organizations and in law firms, and with members of professional and judicial ethics committees. Emphasis will be on practical skills including fact-gathering, counseling, and preparing effective oral and written presentations. Taught by adjunct professor Barbara Gillers. (Offered Spring 2015)
Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic
This is a new 14-credit clinic for 3Ls, who will spend the fall semester in Washington, DC. Students will work four days a week in a federal agency or Congressional office, with classroom instruction on the fifth day. Placements within federal agencies will generally be in the General Counsel's Office of regulatory agencies or related positions (e.g., the Office of the Administrator of EPA or OIRA); congressional placements will generally be in leadership offices, with committee staffs or non-partisan congressional agencies. The course work will focus on how the political institutions in Washington (Congress and the Executive Branch) interact, and the roles and obligations of lawyers in influencing that process. The clinic will provide practical experience with how lawyers support the development and implementation of public policy by assisting in defining the available options and identifying and resolving issues before they become the subject of legal contention or litigation. It will emphasize what lawyers do and what they need to know in the policy arena in order to provide effective legal counsel. The clinic will provide an understanding of government decision-making that will be important for those students intending to seek positions in the government and it will offer those heading to the private sector greater insight into the workings of government that often significantly affect their clients. Taught by Sally Katzen and Robert Bauer. (Offered Fall 2014)
LGBT Rights Clinic
Students will work at fieldwork placements in NY-based non-profit organizations which represent LGBTQ individuals. The fieldwork placements may be changing in the coming year as we are in the process of appointing a new adjunct professor to oversee the clinic. The clinic leadership may explore adding impact litigation work to the roster, such as marriage equality litigation. In past years, the non-profits hosting students were: Immigration Equality; the LGBT Project at the New York Legal Assistance Group; The Sylvia Rivera Law Project; the Peter Cicchino Youth Project, and the Anti-Violence Project. Substantive case work may involve: sexual orientation or gender identity-based asylum claims; discrimination claims; transgender documentation issues (such as correcting gender on a birth certificate); housing cases; or orders of protection. Additionally, all students will participate in at least one legal clinic held at the LGBT Community Center by The Lesbian, Gay, LGBT Bar Assocation of Greater New York (LeGal) of New York. A seminar focusing on the unique legal issues faced by LGBT individuals completes the students' work. Taught by adjunct professor Michael Kavey. (Semester TBD)
Litigation, Organizing and Systemic Change Clinic
How can institutions be inspired to respond to the needs of diverse communities and how do members of communities make their voices effectively heard? Clearly neither elections nor the free market make this happen in the absence of organized communities deploying a range of tactics and strategies. Social change lawyers need a flexible and deep base of knowledge and skills to support their clients. Students in this clinic will work with Make the Road New York – an ever-growing membership organization of over 16,000 low-income New Yorkers whose mission is to build the power of working class and Latino communities to achieve dignity and justice; and its national partner, The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), which builds organizing power and works to transform the local and state policy landscape through deep, long-term partnerships with leading community-based organizing groups nationwide. Through fieldwork with the two sister organizations, and coursework delving into civil litigation, policy negotiation and organizing, students will learn to envision and implement multidimensional social change strategies involving grassroots organizing, public policy advocacy and strategic litigation. The Fall clinic seminar is entitled LOSC Clinic Seminar: Major Concepts Applied and the co-requisite course is Civil Litigation, a simulation trial course. Co-taught by Professor Sarah E. Burns and adjunct professors Deborah Axt and Andrew Friedman. (Not offered 2014-15)
Mediation Clinic
First instituted in Fall 2004, the Mediation Clinic is designed to train students in the practice of mediation while also orienting students to major issues in the intersection between law and informal dispute resolution. After students participate in an intensive mediation training, they co-mediate in various venues including New York and New Jersey Small Claims courts, employment disputes referred by City agencies and NYU residence-related disputes. Third year students will have the opportunity to co-mediate foreclosure cases administered by the State of New Jersey Office of Dispute Settlement. Students will also be able to observe the mediation of complex state and federal court cases. Students will learn the application of mediation in diverse contexts and to contrast facilitative mediation with evaluative mediation often used to resolve complex commercial disputes. Taught by adjunct professors Ray Kramer and Eric R. Max. (Offered Fall 2014)
Mediation Clinic - Advanced: Dispute System Design
The advanced course is designed primarily to train students in dispute system design and provide experience working with a variety of organizations using mediation or other dispute system services in the New York and New Jersey. Building on core mediator principles and skills developed in the fall Mediation Clinic Seminar, students move from focusing on conflict at an individual dispute level, to examining conflict and varied responses to it at an organizational or institutional level. Fieldwork involves assisting client organizations in assessing, improving, evaluating or implementing mediation or dispute systems services, as well as continuing to mediate in a variety of venues. The Clinic is only open to students who have completed the Fall Mediation Clinic Seminar course in 2013 or 2014, or who have completed the Mediation simulation course, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiation or had similar experiential training approved by the faculty. Taught by adjunct professors Ray Kramer and Daniel M. Weitz. (Offered Spring 2015)
Medical-Legal Advocacy Clinic
This Clinic employs a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to provide legal advocacy in a medical setting for clients referred by medical professionals. The clinic's fieldwork is in collaboration with will be based at LegalHealth, a project that partners with medical professionals to offer legal clinics in medical facilities that provide free legal services for low-income people with serious health issues and to train health provide free legal services in medical facilities for low-income people with serious health issues and trains health care professionals on the legal issues affecting their patients. The fieldwork has a three-fold approach: direct client representation; education; and identifying and exploring a systemic health care issue. The direct representation part of the fieldwork will be working with LegalHealth in their legal clinics at the hospital site. Taught by Professor Paula Galowitz and adjunct professor Debra J. Wolf, an attorney with LegalHealth. (Not offered 2014-15)
New York Civil Liberties Clinic
Students in the New York Civil Liberties Clinic spend a semester handling litigation with the New York Civil Liberties Union, including cases involving racial and economic justice, free speech, religious freedom, immigrants' rights, women's rights, and the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people. The cases are all on the docket of adjunct professor Corey Stoughton at the NCYLU who, together with Professor Claudia Angelos of the full-time NYU faculty, supervises all the students' work. Clinic students are responsible for their cases and clients and for the tasks that the litigation calls for, including making intake decisions, handling clients, case planning and strategy, taking depositions, drafting pleadings, and preparing and arguing motions. The clinic has dedicated workspace at the NYCLU and the students' work is an important component of the NYCLU's legal program. A seminar completes the students' work in the clinic by taking a simulated civil rights case from initial client interview through settlement. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Policy Advocacy in Latin America (Buenos Aires)
The goal of the clinic is to provide students with the opportunity to build the conceptual foundations necessary for effective human rights advocacy and public policy analysis in Latin America and to explore different approaches to public policy advocacy in the region. Students in this clinic work on projects for a variety of clients working in the areas of free speech, human rights, and environmental protection. Clients include local or international NGOs, advocates in Latin American countries, and research centers affiliated with local universities. Students prepare petitions and draft public comments on proposed regulations, white papers, model laws, as well as amicus curiae briefs to be presented in cases before local and international courts, among others. (Offered Spring 2015 in Buenos Aires)
Prosecution Externship - Eastern District of New York (formerly called Prosecution Clinic - Eastern District of New York)
Because of a policy change at the US Attorney's Office, the clinical program probably will not be able to offer this clinic in the same form in which it was offered in prior years. The Law School is currently working with the US Attorney's Office to develop a new programmatic structure that satisfies the Office's new rule. It appears very likely that the Law School will be able to offer fieldwork placements for credit at the US Attorney's Office next year, which would be accompanied by a seminar taught by an Assistant US Attorney (AUSA). The resulting structure will probably be roughly equivalent to the fieldwork and seminar components of the clinics we offered at these offices in the past. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Prosecution Externship - Southern District of New York (formerly called Prosecution Clinic - Eastern District of New York)
Because of a policy change at the US Attorney's Office, the clinical program probably will not be able to offer this clinic in the same form in which it was offered in prior years. The Law School is currently working with the US Attorney's Office to develop a new programmatic structure that satisfies the Office's new rule. It appears very likely that the Law School will be able to offer fieldwork placements for credit at the US Attorney's Office next year, which would be accompanied by a seminar taught by an Assistant US Attorney (AUSA). The resulting structure will probably be roughly equivalent to the fieldwork and seminar components of the clinics we offered at these offices in the past. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Racial Justice Clinic
Students in the Racial Justice Clinic spend a semester working under the supervision of Professor Claudia Angelos and adjunct professor Dale Ho on cases brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which handles a broad range of racial justice issues nationwide. The work involves advocacy on issues that affect communities of color, including criminal justice, immigrants' rights, education, school to prison pipeline, affirmative action, juvenile justice, poverty rights, voting rights, indigent defense, and national security/post-9/11 discrimination. Each clinic student participates fully in the team that is handling one of these cases and may engage in work ranging from initial investigation of a problem through the drafting of pleadings, participation in discovery, hearing preparation and negotiation. The clinic seminar includes a simulation program in pretrial skills and holds discussions of the issues raised by impact civil rights work and racial justice advocacy. (Offered Fall 2014)
Regulatory Policy Clinic
The Regulatory Policy Clinic gives students the opportunity to participate in regulatory proceedings before federal administrative agencies. Working with non-governmental organizations that focus on improving environmental, public health, and consumer protections, students will prepare petitions, draft public comments for informal rule-makings under the Administrative Procedure Act, and participate in administrative law litigation. Taught by Professors Richard Revesz and Jason Schwartz. (Offered Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
Reproductive Justice Clinic
The purpose of this clinic is to train students in the legal knowledge and skill required to secure fundamental liberty, justice and equality for each person regardless of her gender, sexuality, reproductive or family circumstance. Taught by Professor Sarah E. Burns. (Offered Fall 2014)
Advanced Reproductive Justice Clinic
The purpose of this clinic is to enable students already foundationally trained to do further and more sophisticated work to secure fundamental liberty, justice and equality for each person regardless of her gender, sexuality, reproductive or family circumstance. Taught by Professor Sarah E. Burns. (Offered Spring 2015)
Tax Clinic
Students in this clinic will work in conjunction with tax lawyers at leading law firms to represent low-income taxpayers in cases before the US Tax Court and in various administrative proceedings before the Internal Revenue Service. The fieldwork will be supplemented with weekly classroom discussions of the students' cases and address the procedural and strategic aspects of federal income tax controversy and litigation practice. Taught by adjunct professor Mark Allison. (Not offered 2014-15)
Technology Law and Policy Clinic
The Technology Law and Policy Clinic focuses on the representation of individuals, nonprofits, and consumer groups who are engaged with these questions from a public interest point-of-view, including addressing free speech, privacy, public domain, and fair use issues. It involves a mixture of fieldwork and seminar discussion ranging from technology law and policy to the ethical challenges of representing public interest organizations. Taught by Professor Jason Schultz and Adjunct Professor Catherine Crump. (Offered Fall 2014)


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I liked the concept, but I felt you didn't do the story justice. Though well written, it could be better. I did enjoy it, but sometimes your descriptions are lacking.
The main character needs more of a background. He needs to be given more depth and dimension. More details. How did it get to this point in his life exactly? What was his life like before?
"turned into anger for his unseen captures". Should be captors.
"infuriat" missing an 'e'.
"He momentary numbness" should be 'The' I think.
"He grabbed onto the corner of the bed, held tightly, but the grip was slowly released." This sentence needs re-structuring. Maybe say "and held tightly, but the grip...".
It's contradictory in that he's trying to tire himself out by not sleeping, but we've already been told that once he's under their control, he's superhuman, beyond any of that.
I feel it would have been more emotionally involving to see him kill his wife and child.
The ending was very disappointing. We built up to this point where he would kill his close friends, and then you just shrugged it off and ended it totally open.
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At the 2006 Chobham Festival, Red Priest bowled the audience over with their exciting and colourful performance of music from the Baroque era. This brilliant ensemble of players is now famous throughout the world for breathtaking music making, especially through their 'Pirates of the Baroque' programme.
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In these sequences, players take control of Riley and watch footage from a camera mounted on his tactical vest while sending input through vibrating motors also found on his vest.
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- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Sun, Aug 16, 09 at 23:07
Hi proudgm, Carlos has a wonderful site with a list of vendors he has dealt with. It's called Brighton Park Irises. I have ordered from Schreiner's and Wild Iris Rows and I have been very happy with the quality and service. I would love to try Blue J but they are always out of irises by the time I get my act together. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Brighton Park Irises
Some places that I have had good experiences with for buying irises are: Winterberry Gardens, 1225 Reynolds Rd., Cross Junction, VA 22625 (This is Don and Ginny Spoon's garden); also Mid-America Garden, P.O. Box 9008, Brooks, OR 97305-0008 (This is Paul Black & Thomas Johnson's garden, it used to be in Nebraska?, I think, hence the Mid-America name, which they decided to keep when they moved it to Oregon).... both of their catalogs cost $6.00, Mid-America has a website: www.mid-americagarden.com, but the Winterberry does not have a website. Another hybridizer who grows some really terrific irises is Keith Keppel, P.O. Box 18154, Salem, OR 97305 (no website, either); also, Aitken's Salmon Creek Garden, 608 NW 119 St., Vancouver, WA 98685 [website: www.flowerfantasy.net ]; and, lastly, Chapman Iris, RR #1, 8790 Wellington Rd 124, Guelph, ON. N1H 6H7 Canada [ website: www.chapmaniris.com ] I have dealt with all these people and they are all good. It's probably a good idea to order from somebody in your own area, but that's not always easy..... |
Below is a link to a lot of the links mentioned above. I have purchased from Snowpeak Iris and Daylilies and been quite pleased. Sue |
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I got a quote yesterday and got sold on signing the contract for new windows. They are Ply Gem Pro 200 triple pane. I'm getting a little bit of buyer's remorse because I did not have all my research done and we didn't get any other bids before we signed on. Good job sales people! ;-) So while I'm still in my 3 day window to cancel the contract I'd like to ask your opinion on my deal. The cost is installed. I'm in California. Windows: Ply Gem Pro 200 triple pane, single hung or slide What do you think? And what is your opinion on Ply Gem? I've been reading reviews and it seems that they are average. |
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I am not familiar with Ply-Gems west coast offerings. The price may be good or bad depending on all options and full installation details. I would take the time to get some more bids and wait till you are comfortable. |
That's about 610 per window and about average for a decent window with triple pane.. A higher end vinyl window would cost a bit more than an average window such as plygem. I am assuming this is a very basic install. |
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@mmarse1, thanks for your response. The install was described as they would do everything. Take old windows out and away and put new ones, paint if needed. So basically I would not do anything. |
- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Sat, Jan 5, 13 at 8:32
I am in both camps here. I agree with mmarse that anything in terms of a decent window in triple pane and installed is a good deal at or around $600 (assuming that the contractor knows their craft and will do a good job). I also agree with todd that you should not feel uncomfortable with your decision in any capacity and if you wind up landing back with this contractor, you will have done your research and just delayed the process slightly. I am sure they will still want your business. |
Thank you all for your opinion. I went ahead and cancelled the contract and will educate/shop some more. |
- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 11:20
You may find that you first quote was the best but at least you will feel good about your decision and moving forward. |
- Posted by stormstopper (My Page) on Mon, Jan 7, 13 at 2:38
mrbb008, a wise decision, I must say. Btw, don't forget to read their warranty - no matter who they are! Ply Gem's west warranty doesn't help the buyer as much as it protects the seller. Caveat Emptor |
Here is a link that might be useful: Ply Gem West Warranty
Looks like a tyical warranty.The main thing about warranties is how well the company stands behind it. The other thing is to choose a window that is built well enough and would never have to use it. |
The best warranty is the one you never use. Thats why you invest in a quality window. |
- Posted by HomeSealed (My Page) on Tue, Jan 8, 13 at 9:34
+1 to the above two posts. Windows are no different than any other consumer product. The warranty gives protection to the customer, but most certainly will have some limitations to protect the best interest of the manufacturer. That is just the the way it is, as sure as the sky is blue. Regarding the product in question, be careful in researching the Plygem offerings. Most of the info that you'll find across the web is regarding the product that they offer in the eastern and midwest region. Out west, it is completely different. I can't comment on that particular product simply because I'm not familiar with it, but perhaps someone from your region will weigh in on that. There are a couple of Califonia guys floating around here somewhere ;) ... In fact, at the risk of creating a redundant thread, you might create a second one and put California in the subject for a better response. |
EXTREMELY poor customer service with Ply Gem. We had to constantly follow up with these people. My opinion, steer clear of this manufacturer. If you have problems down the road, you will regret purchasing Ply Gem. |
- Posted by Fenestration_Taylor (My Page) on Wed, Jul 3, 13 at 19:36
I don't have any personal experience with this product but my impression from seeing them at the International Builders Show was that their Vinyl line looked okay but their wood/clad products were subpar. My opinion only. Also being in California, unless you're in the mountain regions I don't see a great need for triple pane, especially with slider or single hung windows that don't perform as well as casements, but as the customer you get what you want. I'd look into Integrity fiberglass, they're represented well in California and have rarely ever seen a problem with them. |
To me plygem make a low quality vinyl offering. I could not recommend them.. There are plenty of high end vinyl offerings; Okna, Himark, Sunrise, Soft lite, and gorell to name a few. |
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NORTH KINGSTOWN — If not for Facebook, the letter Meri Brady wrote to her seventh-grade crush three decades ago might never have been delivered. It might have remained with memories of the boy she liked but was too shy to approach.
"I will be extremely well off if I ever have the guts to give you this note," Meri, now 43, wrote on that long-ago day. "I've liked you ever since we began to read our stories in front of the 5th grade reading class — me with my Super Stories and you with Bruce Davidson, the one who always managed to get away." She did not have the guts, then.
The boy was Kevin Brady, now also 43, and he and Meredith Pickering, as she was known, attended Monsignor Clarke School in Wakefield. Kevin left for another school after seventh grade, and except for occasionally running into each other in high school, life took them down separate paths. For the better part of a quarter century, there was no contact.
And then, thanks to Facebook, there was.
On this recent morning, they sit in the living room of their house in a quiet neighborhood. Their dogs and cats lounge about. Their computers are on. Keri, a planner for the state Department of Transportation, and Kevin, a trauma counselor, married in March 2011 after reconnecting on Facebook in 2008.
Without the social-media site, they doubt they would be together.
"I don't think we would have," Meri says. "I mean, we might have run into each other at some point."
"But I don't know if we would have recognized each other," Kevin says.
"You changed quite a bit after grade school," Meri says.
"Of course."
"Height in particular. When we were in seventh grade together, we were pretty much of a height. That has changed."
As evidence, Meri shows their seventh-grade class photo. They stand next to each other in the center of the second row: two young teens, two friends, one with secret affection for the other who has written a letter that he will not receive until he is middle-aged.
In assessing the impact of the online universe on romance, experts assert that the basic laws of human behavior, seemingly written into the genes, have not changed since the Internet became a fixture of modern American life, starting in the early 1990s.
"Biologically, we are still the same animals with the same desires, needs and wants, but we now have different methods of obtaining these desires, needs and wants," says Marni Kinrys, a Los Angeles-based relationship coach and bestselling author. "I don't believe social media has altered our behavior but rather given us a new outlet for exploring. It can be a good or a bad thing depending on how it's used. Social media have just enhanced our actions and made things a lot faster and easier to do."
Terri L. Orbuch, author and professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, agrees that speed and ease have transformed relationship rituals. No longer does someone have to take her or his chances at a club or a bar — or hope for attraction at work or the store.
Orbuch says: "Social media — and other technologies, such as texting — have definitely changed how we meet, love, stay with and leave others — and rediscover old flames. Given the increase in use of social media and other technologies, there are both advantages and disadvantages to relationships. In my opinion, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
"Social media and other technologies have also helped us to reconnect with old flames, or childhood or high school friends," Orbuch says. "Where once it may have been hard to 'locate' and 'find' people from our past — or people we wish to reconnect with — social media and other technologies, such as high school websites, can connect people together more easily and faster."
They met in first grade and were in the same class through seventh, but Meri and Kevin lost track of each after a few encounters in high school. Both married. Kevin had two children. Meri moved to Cape Cod, Kevin to California. Kevin divorced. Meri's husband came home one day in the spring of 2008 and told her he no longer wanted to be married to her.
"It was very much out of the blue," she says.
Headed toward divorce, Meri later that year relocated from the Cape to the North Kingstown house, formerly her grandmother's, where she and Kevin now live. She had recently joined Facebook. Unknown to her, so had Kevin, who had returned to Rhode Island from San Francisco.
"I friended somebody who I'd stayed in touch with, who I'd known through Monsignor Clarke," Meri says. "They had run into him at some point and friended him. And I said, 'Oh, there he is!' So we reconnected that way. One of us sent a friend request to the other."
As she made her new home, Meri posted a notice seeking help for assembling an exercise bike.
"It turned out he lived a mile away from here," Meri says. "And he responded that he'd be happy to come and help me."
As the hour approached, she says, "in the back of my mind, I actually had a little bit of 'gee, I wonder if this could work out.' But then I set it aside. My goal was really just finding friends in the area — and in this case, actually getting the exercise bike assembled."
"Which didn't happen," Kevin says.
"Little did I know he's not the handiest person in the world."
But the day was no loss.
"I had brought a bottle of brandy or something to that effect, and we split a couple of drinks and were telling our stories and having food," Kevin says.
"He spent about four hours and then he had somewhere else he had to be," Meri says. "Then I decided to invite him to come over for dinner because he was so close."
"And I can't cook to save my life. She enticed me with home cooking."
"It started as regular Monday night dinner. And then we were watching [the TV show] '24' together. So it became dinner and '24.' Then it became two nights a week. Then at some point it was probably three nights a week."
In March 2011, Meri and Kevin announced — in distinctive fashion — their intention to marry.
"We posted on Facebook that we were taking over the world," Meri says. A date and a location were specified, but little more. For their second wedding, the Bradys wanted simplicity.
"We'd both done our 'formal thing' the first time around, and now we were more interested in having an intimate gathering," Meri says. "So we put a cryptic message on Facebook that the friends that knew would understand that something was happening."
On March 17, at Hazard Rock in Narragansett, Meri and Kevin became wife and husband.
Digital technologies can enhance existing relationships, the University of Michigan's Orbuch asserts, becoming especially valuable when one partner is geographically distant for an extended period — on military deployment, for example. Closer to home, she says, they can be a convenient way for partners to stay close during the day.
"For many people, texting means that no matter what you are doing you can be in touch with and connected to your loved ones or partner," Orbuch says. "You can be at a meeting, in a movie theater or on a busy bus. These technologies allow you to share your little triumphs and tragedies, or just something funny that happened."
Meri and Kevin text when they are apart, and also message each other on Facebook.
Once upon a time, they might have written letters.
In seventh grade, say, when Meri did write one that she never sent.
Last December, as she was sorting through her late mother's belongings, she found it folded inside the diary she had kept as a teen. Her mother had saved it.
"I brought it home and presented it to Kevin, who read it with a smile on his face," Meri says. "He already knew everything I'd said in the note. No need to comment further."
The two-page note ended:
"I just want you to know that I've always liked you for your individuality, great sense of humor, smiles and confidence. Don't EVER let anyone take those qualities away from you — don't let your spirit be broken.
"I care about the person you are, Kevin Brady, and I wish you all the success in the entire world.
"Love, Meri
"P.S. care to dance?"
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Increasing supply is not the only answer to a stable energy future. Reducing demand through the improved efficiency of devices and procedures achieves the same effect.
The use of electricity is a dramatic example. During the 1970s, total U.S. electrical consumption increased 4.2% per year. In the 1980s, it grew only 2.6% annually, dropping to 2.3% in the 1990s. Current projections are 1.3% per year. That trend is partly a result of ongoing improvements in efficiency.42
Similar progress is visible in nearly every sector of the economy as a result of independent technological breakthroughs, directed research, government mandates and incentives, consumer education, or a combination of these elements.
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One of the most impressive efficiency successes in modern memory is the result of the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards established in 1975. CAFE standards stipulated that the average fuel economy for new passenger cars would be 27.5 miles per gallon (mpg) by model year 1985 – up from 18 mpg for model year 1978, an improvement of more than 50%.43 The U.S. Department of Transportation later stipulated that the average for light trucks would be 20.7 mpg. Automakers complied, dramatically improving the fuel economy of the nation's light-duty vehicle fleet, reducing dependence on imported oil, improving the nation's balance of trade, and reducing CO2 emissions. Had the CAFE standards not been enacted (and had fuel prices not increased), America's gasoline consumption would now be 14% higher than it is, or about 2.8 million barrels more per day.44
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Automotive technology also demonstrates how developments and breakthroughs in fields unrelated to energy can have a profound effect on the energy sector. The electronics and computer revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s, which continue to this day, led to the development of very small sensors and computers. In addition, the ability to develop new materials such as catalysts – substances that prompt chemical reactions – led to ways to cut down on the pollutants in automobile exhaust (and in power plants). Putting these technologies together into systems on automobiles has led to more efficient automotive drivetrains, more power, better control, and lower emissions.
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At present, such systems are too expensive for broad commercial use. But if they can be made affordable, the effect will be dramatic. By one expert estimate, widespread use of LEDs would reduce consumption of electricity for lighting by 50% – a savings of about $10 billion a year in the United States. And it would reduce worldwide demand for electricity by 10%, an amount equivalent to about 125 large generating plants.50
Industrial Efficiency
Other researchers are exploring ways to make industrial and manufacturing processes much more efficient. Industry accounts for about 32% of all energy consumption in the United States, and seven energy-intensive industries use three-fourths of that power.51 As a result, public/private-sector partnerships and research programs are focusing on those areas.
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A similar effort is under way in analyzing the energy-intensive forest products industry. Researchers have identified enhanced raw materials, next-generation mill processes, improved fiber recycling, and wood processing as candidates for improvements in efficiency.
Nonetheless, improved energy efficiency alone cannot solve all the nation's energy problems. Multiple parallel efforts will be needed, and that recognition has prompted intense interest in a wide variety of new technologies.
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Waterfront deserves better
At the foot of University Street, a hundred feet from where downtown Seattle ends at the sea, stands one of those tourist gateway signs...
Seattle Times staff columnist
At the foot of University Street, a hundred feet from where downtown Seattle ends at the sea, stands one of those tourist gateway signs:
"THE WATERFRONT, SEATTLE," says foot-high gold lettering. If ever something needed an identifying label, it is our city's downtown shore.
You can't see water from this gateway sign. Right behind the sign is a concrete double-decker freeway.
If you look up high, you might see seagulls, suggestive of water. But you can't hear them. The only sound is the crashing surf of cars and trucks coursing along the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Even looking past the pillars, you're out of luck. There is a mostly unbroken wall of tourist restaurants, gift shops, hot-dog stands.
"Maybe they built the viaduct so they could see over all this crap along the waterfront," suggests my companion.
We are walking the length of Seattle's most infamous — and celebrated — highway. In recent months it has been dubbed Public Enemy No. 1 by the mayor (who channeled Ronald Reagan to declare "Tear down this wall!")
And it's been glorified as an only-in-Seattle jewel — a magic carpet ride whisking commuters betwixt the splendor of Puget Sound and the parapets of the Emerald City.
It's less than two miles long. And let me tell you: Traversing it on foot is far less glamorous than from behind the wheel.
There's the smell of dried urine, the mustiness of crumbling cement. Water drips down. It's a gloomy promenade through a concussive, concrete terrarium.
We start at the viaduct's north end. The goal: In advance of a March 13 citywide vote, we're in search of answers for what do with the area.
My hiking partner is Michael Stusser, a writer from West Seattle. He suggested the trek as a way to cast aside the politics and spin.
We're not engineers, he says, but that job has been punted to us. Might as well see, up close, what we amateurs are deciding.
Stusser starts by declaring his love for the viaduct. Just like everyone else in West Seattle, he says.
After someone offers to sell us drugs near the day-worker site at the mouth of the Battery Street tunnel, we set off.
A half-mile later, we are both hoarse. It's that loud under there.
The first third is a no-man's land, sloping down a dirt-covered alley between condos and the Pike Place Market. Under any plan this will remain an elevated roadway.
We meet a guy who lives in an adjacent building. He says his back wall is 18 inches thick, with no windows, to damp down the noise.
Next comes what all the hubbub is about — the flat double-decker stretch from Pike Street to Main. That's seven-tenths of a mile. Only ten blocks.
It's here where a tunnel would begin. It's also here where tunnel backers wax poetic about reconnecting the city with its natural heritage.
Standing under there, I sort of get it. The roadway itself has a brutal, utilitarian beauty. But the effect on its surroundings is bleak. What could be among the finest ten blocks of real estate in America is instead filled with garages, storage warehouses, defunct restaurants.
Yet the most surprising sensation of the walk is what's out there to the west. Namely, a tacky stretch of gift shops, food stalls and curio stands, all mounted on angled piers that seem designed to obstruct any visual connection whatsoever to the water or mountains.
In these ten blocks, there are only three spots where a pedestrian can catch even a glimpse of water behind that wall of commerce.
"Our waterfront is hell even without the viaduct," Stusser shouts.
"What?" I shout back.
I holler an interview with Nathan Liljenstolpe, 37, who works three days a week in a 4-by-6 parking-lot booth underneath the looming roadway.
He says stuff drops from the upper decks all the time — plywood, sheets of plastic, garbage. After a long day, his ears ring a bit. Yet he's probably going to vote for a new elevated.
"More than anything, we just need our roads," he says.
Yes, I suppose we do. But more than ever I wonder why that road can't be a lovely surface boulevard.
There's plenty of room for it. Where the viaduct is now you could build a four-lane, tree-lined road, like Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. There's also room for streetcars or dedicated bus lanes. And you'd have 30 or 40 feet left for a mile-long park.
Yes, cars would have to stop at a few stoplights. Some traffic and parking would have to go elsewhere. But we're talking ten blocks. We could keep the expressway from the stadium district south.
Would it really be a catastrophe if this city declared that for ten blocks in the heart of downtown we are going to cater to something other than cars? You'd still be able to drive through. Just not at magic-carpet-ride speeds or heights.
Of course, that option is not on the ballot.
We keep walking. We pace off how mammoth a new viaduct would be — twice as wide in some places. Even viaduct-lover Stusser decides he can't stomach such a monstrosity.
"I want them to fix the viaduct we already have," he says. "I support the 'brace and pray' option."
That's not on the ballot, either.
We trudge the last half-mile, between the stadiums and the container docks. There's no waterfront to "open up" here.
Where the highway touches down, near Royal Brougham, it does double duty as a lean-to shelter for rows of snoozing homeless.
It turns out the late beat poet Allen Ginsberg traveled much this same route back when the viaduct opened in the mid-'50s. Here was his take on our waterfront then, from the poem "Afternoon Seattle:"
"... the city rots
the fire escapes hang and rust
the brick turns black
dust falls
uncollected garbage heaps the wall
the birds invade with their cries
the skid row alley creeps
downtown the ancient jailhouse groans
bums snore under the pavement ... "
It goes on, but you get the idea. Not much has changed in half a century.
Do we want to change it? That's what this vote is about. The tunnel would do it, but the tunnel feels like a boondoggle. The elevated would be worse than what we've got now. For another half-century.
Walking the viaduct made up my mind. I'm voting no on both. Surely we can do better for our waterfront than this.
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The original house was built in 1710. It started life as a typical yeoman's cottage The cottage was extended in a charmingly rambling manner over the years with the latest addition being just a few years ago. We now have 18 bedrooms to suit differing tastes
The older parts of Beck Hall, with its bedrooms, guest lounge and dining room, are full of antique charm with wood panelling and antique furnishings.


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First ever all-girls team from India participated in SEMA Asia 2011
'Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2011', an initiative by Shell Plc. for young and aspiring engineering and design students from Asia, which challenges the youth to design and build energy efficient vehicles that travel the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel was concluded on July 09, 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
12 countries participated in SEM Asia 2011, including 9 teams from India and 94 teams in all. Amongst the Indian teams, 'Team Vidyottama', from Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Delhi was the only all-girls team in the entire event. First time participants the team stood out from among their male counterparts. The Vidoyattama team designed super mileage vehicle based on the idea of solar energy and won loads of appreciation for the design.
The Vidyottama team consisted of second year students from Mechanical and Automation Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering streams. The team researched for a year before designing the vehicle.
Shell Eco-marathon has been running in Europe since 1985 and the United States since 2007, and was held for the first time in Asia at Sepang last year. The teams participating from India are RV College of Engineering – Bangalore, Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology - Patiala and Jalandhar (3 teams from this college), Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology – Jalandhar, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology - New Delhi, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology - Delhi, Delhi Technological University – Delhi and NIT – Jamshedpur.
Mr. Deepak Mukarji, Country Head - Corporate Affairs, Shell Companies in India, said, "At Shell we thrive hard to develop the best technology for our products and we understand styling and designing of vehicles, along with fuel- efficiency is an integral part of whole manufacturing process, and have always recognized and encouraged new and innovative ideas. Through this contest we want to offer young students a platform who aspire to make it big the in the field of automotive designing which eventually will benefit the automotive industry in the long term."
The process of shortlisting the teams from the colleges was a design report submitted with all technical specifications of the vehicle like engine details, transmission system, chassis along with other minute aspects like materials used, dimensions of each part etc.


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Magister Illyrio murmured a command, and four burly slaves hurried forward, bearing between them a great cedar chest bound in bronze. When she opened it, she found piles of the finest velvets and damasks the Free Cities could produce...and resting on top, nestled in the soft cloth, three huge eggs.
- George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, Volume I: A Game of Thrones
Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to announce the release of Illyrio's Gift, the first Chapter Pack of the new Brotherhood Without Banners cycle of expansions for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, at your favorite local game store and at the FFG webstore!
This Chapter Pack is just the first in an exciting new cycle that will introduce and deepen new subfactions to the existing A Game of Thrones metagame. You can check out "They Swear Allegiance to None", an article previewing this cycle, with insights by the game's designer. Illyrio's Gift is also the first A Game of Thrones Chapter Pack to switch to the new collation format, now featuring 3 copies each of 20 new and unique cards, for a total of 60 new cards for your collection.
Featuring the the wild power of the Dothraki rush for House Targaryen, as well as bannerless brothers, lightning lord Beric Dondarrion and Edric Dayne, Illyrio's Gift will bring a new level of theme and strategy to A Game of Thrones!
Based on George R.R. Martin's bestselling fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, playable by 2-4 players, brings the beloved heroes, villains, locations, and events of the world of Westeros to life through innovative game mechanics and the highly strategic game play. The Living Card Game format allows players to customize their gaming experience with monthly Chapter Pack expansions to the core game.
As a House Targaryen player, I am really looking forward to receiving this CP in the UK. Great event card for my Dothraki focused deck!


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Meeting someone special, falling in love, getting engaged, planning a wedding, living the everyday reality of a marriage. Millions of Americans have taken the plunge until death do us part. In fact, according to Census data, there were 57 million married couple households in 2003. These couples said vows promising to love, honor and cherish. But for some of these couples, there has been one additional wedding caveat: They've decided to start a business with their spouse.
And while it is often said that marriage is hard work, what happens when you decide to combine the work of your marriage with the work of starting a new business? First, "[Don't assume], 'Oh, we get along well in our family life, so we'll get along well in our business together,'" says Bob Murray, who, along with his wife, Alicia Fortinberry, runs Fortinberry-Murray Consulting, a coaching business that specializes in helping people build solid relationships within a business setting. "Running a business together and being a family are two different things," he says.
Adds Fortinberry, "You want to make sure that you're working together because you enjoy being together, the relationship is pleasurable for both of you, and it gives you so much that you want to extend your relationship from home to work." It can be a fun ride, if you're meant for it.
When you're starting your journey through entrepreneurship as a married couple, think of it in the same way you went from courtship to wedding to marriage in your personal life. Read on to meet three couples who have taken the path from altar to entrepreneurship.
Courtship and Engagement
Deciding if you're ready to start a business with your spouse mirrors the choices and self-examination you endure when you're first dating. Says Murray, "[Ask yourself], Do I want to be with this person 24/7?" Can you see yourself working side by side? Are your visions for the future the same?
Adds Fortinberry, "Do you share the same values and vision? That should be discussed, and if you can't come to a clear agreement, then that's a danger signal."
Entrepreneurs Todd and Jan Haedrich, founders of My Flat In London, a high-fashion design company and manufacturer of handbags, accessories, clothing, and body products like lotions and lip balm, could definitely see themselves working together all the time. Jan, 35, had a fashion-industry background and got the idea after creating a handbag for herself and getting stopped on the streets by people asking where she got it. Todd, 34, saw how hard she was working creating the bags at home, and the pair realized they had the makings of a much bigger business on their hands.
Officially founded in 2002 in Boston, the company has since moved to Frenchtown, New Jersey. Jan conceived the My Flat In London moniker after her time spent living abroad, and she still credits her design inspiration to her many travels--accompanied by her husband, Todd, of course.
Still, the key is that the Haedrichs have the same vision for My Flat In London: They see it as a luxury life-style brand. And they detailed that vision during the planning stage of the business when they consulted a third party for an objective outside opinion. "We had a number of conversations with Jan's brother [separately]," says Todd, who saw the value of feedback from an unbiased family member. "He was a person to bounce ideas off of without fighting with each other--and it helped us get started on the right foot." That good start has gotten the company's products into stores like Nordstrom, pushing yearly sales to $4 million.
If the Haedrichs' marriage and business is a good example of what other married entrepreneurs should aspire to, reverse those traits to learn what not to do, says psychologist Linda Miles, co-author with her husband, Robert Miles, of The New Marriage: Transcending the Happily Ever After Myth. Don't be critical of each other--and don't be dismissive or contemptuous of your partner. "Can you [both] attack problems and not the person so that the marriage doesn't suffer?" she asks. Miles also urges being very honest with yourself in the planning stage. Ask yourself if you'll be equal partners and if you're willing to share whatever glory and success your new entrepreneurial venture brings--you know, the "for better or worse" part of your vows.
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This article was originally published in the October 2005 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: For Better or Worse.


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Wi-Fi Protected Setup is a security risk
Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is a standard way to connect to a secure connection without having to enter a complex key. However, it's very vulnerable, and should be disabled…
Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) is a standard way to connect to a secure connection without having to enter a complex key. However, it's very vulnerable, and should be disabled…
Not a day goes by without a new article appearing about the mass collection of personal data by companies and other organizations. The number of reports about hacked servers, which often involve the theft of many people's personal information, is also on the rise. On top of that, there are the reports about data losses as a result of lost or stolen devices such as smartphones, tablets, and notebooks. Antimalware vendors are also identifying an ever increasing number of items of malware that are getting ever better at infecting computers to steal data.
Has technology affected your perception of crime? While the list of criminal acts that take place around the world is still as long as ever, cybercrime in particular seems to be getting more attention than ever before.
It's no secret that the Internet brings a number of dangerous threats with it, but the rise of social media has added an even more complicated layer of problems to the situation. Whether they realize it or not, the truth is that many people let their guard down when communicating through social networks because they feel like they offer a personal experience. That can be true to a large extent, but it's still a good idea to keep your guard up when using social media
The Internet is a child of the United States of America, so it does not come as a surprise that only Latin letters and some scientific characters were used when the systems and the software (then called ARPANET) were designed. In today's world, where roughly half the global population, with its different letters and alphabets […]
Check out what some of the coolest Avira nerds have planned for next year. It will give you a good hint of our guilty little pleasures.
All kinds of fun facts bounce around the internet. You might have seen the one about contextual reading: It deson't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod aepapr, you can sitll raed it wouthit pobelrm. See how this neuro-scientific peculiarity helps phishing criminals earn lots of money and what simple things you can do to protect yourself.
As the holiday times approach, many of us increase our online shopping. Unfortunately, along with the increase in online purchases comes an increase in phishing scams, credit card data breaches and even hacks to physical point-of-sale (POS) terminals.
Here are a few tips for geeks to save their holidays: simple explanations of 3 of the biggest infosec-related threats of the year 2014, to share with their friends & relatives.
If you were asked to name the country that you thought is the source of the majority of hacking attempts, which country would you name?


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Wouldn't it be amazing if you felt secure that all your hard work resulted in beautiful flowers? We are so confident in the results of our product that we don't need to offer a guarantee.
Our goal is to perfect tulip bulbs so they produce the best possible results next season. The harvesting process, handling, and optimal storage conditions of these tulip bulbs is not only beneficial to our customers, but is of vital economical importance to our own business. The better we take care of our tulip bulbs the better results for our next growing season. This treatment is the same for both our retail customers as well as our own business.
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We harvest bulbs every year to separate them into different sizes, store them in perfect temperature and well ventilated controlled rooms, and clean and throw out poor quality bulbs.
Bigger Bulb Size Matters -You probably know that bigger usually means better, but here's why with tulip bulbs. Separating the bigger bulbs from the smaller ones is crucial because every grade or size has a different purpose for the following growing season.
The bigger size tulip bulbs produce the largest flowers because they contain more food and energy to grow a taller plant and a larger flower.
Stronger Because We Baby Them - From the time our bulbs are harvested we store them in the very best climate controlled rooms, 24 hours a day, until the day we plant, sell, or ship them. This makes a big difference in the performance of the bulbs for the next flower growing season. The climate controlled period of perfect temperatures, ventilation, and humidity control is the main reason our bulbs do so well.
Healthier Flowers by Preventing Diseases - Cleaning and throwing out poor quality bulbs is the first step to prevent diseases from spreading amongst the bulbs and in the soil. Next drying the bulbs within 24 to 36 hours after harvesting them is absolutely essential to avoid mold and/or other diseases. Finally, proper ventilation during the storage period is a crucial ingredient to prevent mold from creeping into the bulbs.
Are you beginning to see the reasons why our superior quality tulip bulbs are worth buying over others? Still not convinced? We welcome you to visit us during our annual Woodland Tulip Festival in the spring and see the results for yourself. The same bulbs we sell to the public are the bulbs used in our spectacular display gardens and show fields. Along with that we treat the public to 50 acres of breathtaking tulip fields to enjoy the celebration of spring.
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We, at Holland America Bulb Farms want to share the love of our favorite spring tulips and recognize that repeat business happens with complete satisfaction with our bulbs year after year. Along with the superior quality we offer tulip bulbs at affordable prices because our processes are efficient and we accept a lower profit margin then our competitors.
Now is there any reason why your garden shouldn't be the talk of the block next spring?
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Dordt College News
Volleyball Rated No. 16 In National Poll
October 2, 2013
(Wednesday, October 2; Sioux Center, Iowa) In the first polling since beating then no. 5 Midland, the Dordt College Defender volleyball team moved to no. 16 in the Tachikara-NAIA Volleyball Coaches' Poll released October 1.
The Defenders, with a 13-4 overall mark after beating Mount Marty on Tuesday night, are up three spots from their previous stop at no. 19. Dordt bounced back from a 3-2 match loss to Northwestern and a 3-0 loss to Nebraska Wesleyan to beat Midland in Fremont, Nebraska on Saturday, September 28 by a 3-1 count. The Defenders are tied with The Master's (California) in the poll as both programs earned 315 points in the voting.
The Defenders are one of four GPAC teams in this week's poll and will face Buena Vista in non-conference action on Thursday, October 3 and will host Doane on Saturday, October 5 in a GPAC match. The Defenders are currently 5-2 in the 16 match GPAC schedule.
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