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Loaves & Fishes Christian Food Ministry took out an advertisement in The Times-News this month, informing the public that its overhead expenses for 2012 was a low 3.91 percent. The announcement followed a report by the Alamance News in June stating cumulative salaries, wages and benefits accounted for 43.9 percent of the nonprofit's 2010 administrative expenses.
The organization's executive director Brenda Allen told The Times-News that percentage is so high in years prior to 2012 because Loaves & Fishes hadn't been listing the in-kind donations, mainly large food donations, in its revenues and expenses.
By not including the millions of dollars' worth of food and other in-kind donations in the tax years prior to 2012, "It's going to look heavy as far as salaries go," when compared to total annual administrative expenses, Allen said.
In 2011, Loaves & Fishes reported $745,552 in total expenses. Of that, $315,173 – or 42.3 percent — was for salaries, wages and benefits, according to seven years of tax returns provided by the organization.
In 2012, when listed contributions included $8,532,599 non-cash or in-kind donations, Loaves & Fishes reported $9,351,252 in total expenses. The $374,805 accounting for 2012 cumulative salaries, wages and benefits was thus 4 percent of administrative expenses.
"In the past, we've just done dollars that were given and salaries that were paid," Allen said. "This was the first year that our accountant said, 'You can put that on your tax return.'"
Thomas Chandler Thomas & Hinshaw LLP, in Burlington, has prepared Loaves & Fishes' tax returns for several years up to and including 2007, at which point a certified public accountant serving on the organization's board offered to file tax years 2008 through 2010 through the Grant Thornton LLP accounting firm. The local firm regained Loaves & Fishes as a client in 2011.
When asked why 2012 was the first year an accountant with Thomas Chandler Thomas & Hinshaw had informed the organization it should list its in-kind donations, Clark Kernodle, CPA, said, "They previously did not have a practice of reporting a value of donated goods."
Kernodle, who prepared Loaves & Fishes' 2011 and 2012 tax returns, said, "After we took over in 2011, I recommended they track that and record (them)." He said though his firm had prepared the organization's taxes for years through 2007, Kernodle hadn't personally prepared them until 2011.
According to the 2006 tax return, B. Scott Thomas, CPA and partner with the Burlington firm, prepared the 2006 document. Thomas was out of the office Wednesday through the rest of the week, and unable to tell the Times-News why Loaves & Fishes hadn't been previously advised to include its in-kind donations.
"Recording the value of those goods, it doesn't change the net income," said Kernodle. "The bottom line is still the same."
In other words, even though an extra $8,532,599 in in-kind donations was recorded in 2012, the net assets or fund balances at year's end were similar to what they've been throughout the past seven years, according to tax records reviewed by The Times News.
In 2012, Loaves & Fishes' net assets were listed as $380,651. The average fund balance amount, from tax years 2006 through 2012, is $375,245. The highest year was 2009 with a fund balance of $412,682, and the lowest was 2010 with net assets of $331,122.
Allen said the organization is left with little overhead because all the food collected from 13 grocery stores and drop-offs, donated furniture and money is distributed to about 7,000 people a month via home deliveries, Hospice care, pickups at the Loaves & Fishes facility and through sandwich programs.
"That's people that we actually keep track of," she said. "You've got to remember there's hundreds of people that drive through our parking lots, especially on our giveaway days, that pick up stuff.
"Everything that comes in goes out."
All except for the salaries of the organization's two paid officers.
ALLEN IS PAID for her position as executive director, and Larry Allen, her husband, is paid for his technical director position. He also serves as the board of director's treasurer.
"Larry's not paid to be the treasurer," said Brenda Allen. "He's paid to be the technical director and all the things that he does in that capacity." But because he's paid and considered a "key employee" on tax records, Larry Allen is listed as "treasurer" in the tax return, with his salary as technical director listed, said Brenda Allen.
The two paid Loaves & Fishes employees have seen an increase in both of their salaries since 2006. The executive director's grew from $58,962 in 2006 to $80,938 in 2012, and Larry Allen's increased from $12,480 in 2006 to $53,987 in 2012 — a 332.5-percent increase in the seven years.
Brenda Allen said more job responsibilities and increased hours accounted for Larry Allen's bigger salary, and the $80,938 listed for her 2012 salary included insurance and retirement benefits.
"That's where you're seeing the huge increase for Brenda," said Steve Floyd, Loaves & Fishes board member.
"I've been with Loaves & Fishes almost 15 years," Brenda Allen said. "I've just had the same salary basically for the last five years."
"Larry Allen's job has changed. He's been the technical director and he's added different responsibilities," said Brenda Allen. "So that's raised his salary."
According to tax documents, Brenda and Larry Allen have also increased their hours per work week.
Brenda Allen worked 40 hours a week in 2006 and as of 2012 she worked 60 hours a week. Larry Allen worked 20 hours a week in 2006 and 45 hours a week in 2012.
"The organization has grown," said Brenda Allen. "It was one small building over on Front and Fisher Street(s), and then it grew to this large organization with ... the Mebane location, at one time the Graham location, the Saxapahaw location, the Whitsett location, and managing lots of people and activities."
She said in addition to food distribution, the facility at 509 S. Lexington Ave. in Burlington is also used by Loaves & Fishes for packing food and sandwiches for its sandwich program, and is used by several other local nonprofit organizations as a meeting or event space.
Brenda Allen said Loaves & Fishes partners with the Friends of Mebane's Animals for pet food giveaways, with Alamance Regional Medical Center to offer HIV and syphilis testing, and several other agencies in town.
"(People) see us as a food distribution center, but it's a multi-faceted operation what goes on here," Floyd said. "I think what people don't understand is that this facility is used tremendously."
"It (is) a pretty much 24/7 job," Brenda Allen said.
Nonprofit organizations are required by federal law to list their officers, directors, "key employees," and the five highest-paid employees. But in 2011 Brenda and Larry Allen's salaries weren't listed on the tax return, as they had been in prior years and in 2012.
"The accountant inadvertently left off Larry and I, for whatever reason, and he has offered to do an amendment to that tax return to reflect that," said Brenda Allen, adding that she approximated her 2011 salary to be about $62,500.
Kernodle said when he first filed for Loaves & Fishes in 2011, "At the time I did not feel like they fit the definition," of the positions required to be included or that "their positions qualified for that level of reporting."
He has since changed his mind and reported both the Allens' salaries in 2012, and Kernodle said he would amend the 2011 tax return.


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Revisiting history, Washingtonians naturally ask what took so long. Fast forward a generation and students will ask the same of us.
Today a core liberty that touches thousands of Northwest families -- the right of same-sex couples to marry -- is in the hands of Washington voters. It's time for Washington to side with equality, to follow the lead of Gov. Gregoire and the Legislature and legalize same-sex marriage.
Make no mistake: Referendum 74 preserves the rights and liberties of religious institutions. Clergy and religious organizations are protected from having to recognize or perform same-sex marriages (that said, a large segment of the Northwest's faith community has mobilized to approve R-74.) Marriage equality stands as the quintessential Northwest cause, a call for government not to interfere with the liberty and rights of same-sex couples.
Opponents have expressed concern that legalizing same-sex marriage will imperil the nuclear family. Evidence suggests otherwise. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the Children's Alliance, and the Washington Psychological Association have all endorsed marriage equality. As an institution, marriage is the cornerstone of strong families, irrespective of gender.
One of the biggest anti-marriage myths, popularized by opponents, revolves around R-74's legal fallout. In brief, lawsuits won't take off after same-sex marriage is legalized. That has not been the case in New York and other states that have approved marriage equality. Schools and existing anti-discrimination laws will not be affected.
The Herald has been here before. Two decades ago, editor Joann Byrd and publisher Larry Hanson agreed to run commitment-ceremony notices. It was the right thing to do, but the decision kindled a backlash of threats, cancelled subscriptions and fulminating letters. The we-heterosexuals-are-threatened recriminations sound backward today, but emotions ran raw, just as they do now. It was an object lesson in human nature, that acceptance of rights and liberties takes time. (Recall the military's recently discredited policy of "don't ask, don't tell." It's history, just as marriage discrimination will be someday.)
Writing in Sunday's Herald, Rachel Taber-Hamilton, the rector at Everett's Trinity Episcopal Church, distilled marriage equality to its essence. "Fidelity, commitment and faith are not values exclusive to a particular race, creed or orientation of people; they are transcendent values that belong to all."
The Herald Editorial Board strongly recommends voters embrace equality and support R-74.
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Maryland at Boston College
Prediction: Boston College
Maryland (18-7) will be playing their first game after their upset 83-81 win at home versus Duke on Saturday. We had the Terrapins in that one for our ACC Game of the Year -- but we expect a major letdown for this team in this spot. As it is, Maryland is just 7-18-1 ATS following a victory. Now the Terrapins go on the road where they are just 2-4 with an average losing margin of -2.4 PPG. Additionally, Maryland is just 5-15-1 ATS in their last 21 games on the road against teams with a winning record at home. Boston College (11-14) is 9-6 on their home court this season. They have also covered the point spread in 6 of their last 8 games at home. And in their last 10 games against teams with a winning percentage over 60%, the Eagles have covered the point spread in 7 of these contests. Take the points with Boston College in this one.
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Ross Benjamin
Wichita State vs. Indiana State
Play: Indiana State
The Indiana St. Sycamores are a very good 10-1at home this season automatically giving this selection home underdog value. The Sycamores are an excellent 14-2 ATS versus teams with a winning record this season. Although the Shockers will be playing with revenge they can't help being mentally affected knowing they were beaten at home by 13 points at home in the first meetings between these two clubs this season. Any team that's coming off 2 road favorite straight up losses, versus an opponent playing with same season revenge in which they scored 60 points or less is 26-4 ATS (86.4%) since the start of the 1997 season. Play on Indiana St. Plus the small number.
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Andre Gomes
Boston Celtics +8.5
Denver ended the first half of the season banged up and beaten up by losing their last three games. It was a brutal span for them that ended up in Brooklyn with the Nuggets playing their fourth game in five nights, having played a triple overtime game at Boston in the middle of that span. To make things worse for them, Andre Iguodala and Danilo Gallinari didn't play the last two games and even though Denver was competitive, they couldn't win the two games down the stretch. For today, Denver finally had some rest and Iguodala and Gallinari will be back for tonight's contest, where Denver is coming back home where they have a 22-3 record so far on this season.
The game between these two teams at Boston two weeks ago was one of the best games of the season so far. Boston should had won in regulation, but then they should have lost in the first overtimes. The Celtics have been losing players almost every single week, but they keep remaining competitive due to a great team chemistry that they hadn't shown early on the season. Paul Pierce and Jason Terry are rested for tonight's game, while Kevin Garnett only played six minutes in the All Star game, so the Celtics's veteran players won't have to deal with dead legs for tonight's showdown. The Celtics were obviously outrebounded by Denver in the first game between the two teams, but they managed to compensate that by forcing turnovers, while being more assertive at the free throw line. They will need to do the same thing tonight if they want to be competitive on this contest, as Denver will surely be ready for some payback tonight.
Just because the Nuggets are playing at home, this doesn't mean that they will crush every single team that they face in Denver! Before going on their recent road trip, the Nuggets had a series of games where they crushed their opponents at home, but where they also had some favorable matchups. We know that Denver crushes their opponents in transitions, especially at home, and they faced Sacramento (#26 on transition defense), Houston (#27), New Orleans (#28), Milwaukee (#21) and Chicago (#29)! Boston is still ranked #30 on transition defense, but since their game against Miami where they lost Rajon Rondo for the season, they received a huge boost on this area by starting Avery Bradley and Courtney Lee together in the backcourt. Boston is allowing 1.23 PPP this season on transition plays, but since that game, they have allowed just 1.07 PPP! Boston's defense has been an elite team on defending pick and roll ball handler plays and in forcing turnovers, so I like the Celtics on this matchup and this is why I took them with a -2 line in the game played at Boston two Sundays ago.
Of course that Denver will be playing at home, but we aren't talking about one of those bad physical spots where the Celtics are crushed due to their lack of physical ability. I expect Boston to be competitive tonight, with their offense taking advantage of the fact that Denver's defense is a weak team in closing out on the shooters. This is why in the first game Boston had more success on the outside with 13-30 (43.3%) 3pts than on 2pts shots, where they shot 30-78 (38.6%) FG! I believe the Celtics will be a competitive underdog tonight, so I'll be taking them in here.
Re: Free Picks: Service Plays for Tuesday February 19
Dave Price
Missouri State +5.5
The Northern Iowa Panthers have caught a little fire. They have won each of their last five games. However, they are just 4-9 in games played outside Cedar Falls this season, and recent history suggests they can't be trusted laying points on the road. The Panthers are a poor 4-13 ATS as a road favorite or pickem over the last 3 seasons and 8-18 ATS in road games against conference opponents over the last 3 seasons. Missouri State is 12-3 ATS versus conference opponents this season and 7-1 ATS when checking in off a loss against a conference rival this season. Northern Iowa won the season's first meeting by 11 at home but that victory isn't all that impressive consider the Bears were 15 of 55 from the field and 3 of 21 from three. They won't shoot that poorly in their own building. Missouri State won by 12 in last season's home meeting. Prior to that, these two played four consecutive 1-point games. Take the points in what should be another tight one.
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Joseph D'Amico
NC State -7½
FSU is 4-6 SU and 1-9 ATS their L10 including a 1-3 mark on the road. In the first meeting, NC State shot 29% and committed 17 TOs, leading to their 76-62 defeat. The Wolf Pack won their L2 games . Certainly, the return of Brown rounds-out five starters that all average 11 or more PPG. Leslie and Howell own the boards (18.6 RPG combined), while the "O" leads the Conference , ranking 5th nationally in FGs with a 49.9% rate. The Wolf Pack wants payback in this one, not to mention improving their shot at the Big Dance. Take NC State.
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Jeff Alexander
Sacramento Kings +9
The Spurs are a soft 1-7-1 ATS in their last 9 games versus a team with a winning percentage below .400. The Kings, meanwhile, are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games versus a team with a winning record. They are also 5-0 ATS in their last 5 games when playing on 3 or more days' rest.
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John Martin
Memphis Grizzlies -2
The Memphis Grizzlies are clearly the superior team in this match-up with the Detroit Pistons. That will show on the court tonight as these two meet in Detroit. That has proven to be the case in this head-to-head series in recent meetings. Memphis is a perfect 6-0 SU & 6-0 ATS in its last 6 meetings with Detroit. It has won all six contests by 6 or more points, including four by 12 or more.
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North Carolina -3½
The Tar Heels should get points from McAdoo, PJ Hairston, Marcus Paige, Strickland and Reggie Bullock. UNC is a better rebounding team and beat Ga Tech by double digits in the Dean Dome. I think we see UNC win by 6 and cover the small number.
Re: Free Picks: Service Plays for Tuesday February 19
Joe Duffy
Chicago Bulls vs. New Orleans Hornets
Play: Chicago Bulls
No handicapper has had a more decorated career than Joe Duffy's GodsTips. That continues Tuesday with a 3-0 sweep in college basketball. The free pick is to take Chicago Bulls (-1.5) to New Orleans.
Both teams have actually played better on the road than at home. Chicago has a slight plus on total road points, while New Orleans is -2.5 points per game at home. That in and off itself does not demand a pick. However, remember in about 85-90 percent of the cases, the home team is more rested.
Both teams are well rested coming off the all-star break. Also, one of our Golden Rules is rest benefits the teams that need it the most and hurts teams in a groove. Yes New Orleans was playing their best basketball of the year. Problem is they have not played in six days.
Chicago needed the break as they were struggling. But overall, the Bulls are the much better team. Chicago had guys in and out of the line-up and played seven of their last eight games before the break on the road. So no team will benefit from the time to refocus more than them.
It also gives Kirk Hinrich time to ease back into the line-up. He missed seven games and that added to the struggles.
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Final Score: Washington 17, (8) Stanford 13
Seattle, WA (Sports Network) - Kasen Williams' 35-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter gave the Huskies the lead, and Washington held on for a 17-13 upset victory over the eighth-ranked Stanford Cardinal at CenturyLink Field.
One year after losing to Stanford by 44 points, and two weeks after the Cardinal knocked off national title contender USC, Washington (3-1, 1-0 Pac-12) used a stifling defense to win its Pac-12 opener.
Stanford (3-1, 1-1), in its first road test, mustered just 10 first downs, 235 yards and did not score an offensive touchdown, ending the program's 11- game winning streak in September.
Bishop Sankey ran for 144 yards on 20 carries, including a 61-yard score on the last play of the third quarter that sparked Washington's stagnant offense.
Keith Price threw for 177 yards with a touchdown and an interception on 19- of-37 throws for the Huskies, who snapped a four-game losing streak against their conference foe.
"I'm a senior, this is my last year and I have never beaten Stanford until now," Washington fullback Jonathan Amosa said. "Words can't explain it. It does not get any better than that."
Stepfan Taylor, who amassed a career-high 213 yards from scrimmage against USC, gained just 75 on 21 carries in the loss.
Josh Nunes completed only 18-of-37 passes for 170 yards and was intercepted with Stanford driving for a potential go-ahead score.
"I thought it was not his best effort," Stanford coach Jim Shaw said of Nunes. "I think he can play much better. I think we can all do a much better job."
With Stanford leading 13-10, the eventual game-winning drive was extended midway through the fourth quarter when Dezden Petty ran for two yards on 4th- and-1 from the Washington 44-yard line.
After another first down, Price hit Williams for a quick out along the right sideline. The sophomore wideout shook off a tackle, momentarily bobbled the ball and dragged a defender over the goal line with 4:53 to play. Williams lost the ball in the end zone, but only after crossing the plane.
Stanford took over on its own 34 and reached the opposing 34, where it faced a 4th-and-4 with under two minutes to play. Nunes threw a jump ball to the right, and Desmond Trufant intercepted it at the 8-yard line.
A neutral-zone infraction against Stanford on 3rd-and-4 moved the chains and allowed Washington to run out the remaining 1:39 on the clock, clearing the way for the home fans to rush the field.
Jordan Williamson hit a 31-yard field goal on Stanford's second possession of the game, and Travis Coons answered with a 43-yarder in the final three minutes of a punt-filled opening quarter.
Both offenses continued to sputter, but Zach Ertz's 35-yard reception down to the Washington 40-yard line got Stanford moving late in the half. The big play came on third down, and another third-down conversion set up Williamson's 28- yard field goal with 1:10 remaining in the half.
Marvin Hall appeared to give Washington a lead with just over three minutes left in the third quarter, but he stepped out of bounds on his would-be 74- yard punt return.
On the next snap, Stanford defensive end Trent Murphy read a screen in the flat and tipped Price's pass before corralling it and taking it 40 yards the other way for a 13-3 Stanford lead.
The Huskies responded on the last snap before the fourth quarter, as Sankey took a handoff to the right, slipped through the line of scrimmage, split a pair of defenders in the secondary and sprinted 61 yards for a touchdown.
Game Notes
Both teams were coming off bye weeks ... Before Williams' touchdown, Stanford had not allowed a point in the fourth quarter and Washington had not scored in the final frame ... Williams finished with 10 catches for 129 yards ... Ertz led Stanford's receivers with 106 yards on six catches ... Stanford, which had a school record 446 rushing yards in its 65-21 over Washington last year, gained just 65 on the ground.
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The Stomp project is the Streaming Text Orientated Messaging Protocol site (or the Protocol Briefly Known as TTMP and Represented by the symbol :ttmp). Stomp provides an interoperable wire format so that any of the available Stomp Clients can communicate with any Stomp Message Broker to provide widespread interop among languages, platforms and messaging brokers.
Stomp is a very simple and easy to implement protocol, coming from the HTTP school of design; the server side may be hard to implement well, but make it very easy to write a client. For example you can use Telnet to login to any Stomp broker and interact with it! Many developers have told us that they have managed to write a Stomp client in a couple of hours to integrate their particular language, runtime or platform into the Stomp network. So if your favoured language/runtime of choice does not offer a good enough Stomp client please try write one and let us know about it!
Stomp Clients
Pick the right Stomp client for your particular language or platform...
- Dynamic C for Rabbit® microprocessors
- C# and .Net
- Delphi
- Delphi and FreePascal
- Erlang
- Flash
- haXe has the hxstomp client
- Java
- Lisp
- Objective-C
- Perl
- Pike
- Python
- Ruby and Rails support.
- Smalltalk
Stomp Brokers
The following is a list of the various Stomp compliant Message Brokers which can be used with any of the Stomp Clients
- Apache ActiveMQ which can also support other protocols like OpenWire, REST, Ajax, Cometd, XMPP
- StompConnect provides a bridge to any other JMS provider. This means that all major commercial and open source message brokers can be used with Stomp! (The only significant message broker which doesn't implement JMS is TibCo's RV which is now legacy and the long term replacement is TibCo EMS which does support JMS).
- StompServer a lightweight pure Ruby Stomp server
- CoilMQ is a lightweight pure Python Stomp broker inspired by StompServer.
- Gozirra is a lightweight Java Stomp broker
- HornetQ puts the buzz in messaging
- PocoMQ is a highly configurable, extensible and stable Perl based Stomp server
- WS-Ramp - SOAP based asynch messaging profile
- WS-ReliableMessaging - SOAP based asynch messaging profile
- WS-Reliability SOAP based async messaging profile. I think this one has fallen out of favor with the WS-Glitterati
- XMPP - XML based messaging protocol originally created for IM, but not really bound to it.
- TOC- Text oriented messaging protocol created for interop with AOL Instant Messenger. I've seen people use it for arbitrary asynch messaging, so am listing it. Please don't serioulsy consider it.


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A college student slept late.
Even at MIT, that wouldn't be news. But on Monday, the day of the Boston Marathon bombing, sleeping late meant former Kinston resident Wegene Tadele didn't make it to his volunteer assignment with the marathon.
Instead, the junior — studying electrical engineering and physics — went to the library to study. It was a nice day, he said — one of the few sunny days recently in the area. It was at the library that he heard the bombing.
"The campus is really quiet, now," Tadele said in a phone interview on Tuesday. "People are really sad and shocked."
MIT's Green Building, facing Boston across the Charles River in Cambridge, lit up its windows in the colors of the American flag Monday night.
Tadele said it wasn't something you're ready for, especially with his experience with people being friendly and welcoming in Boston.
Kinston attorney Jimbo Perry, who opened his home to the Ethiopian native when Tadele was a junior at Arendell Parrott Academy, echoed the same.
"You know, being from the South, sometimes we think we have a corner, down here, on hospitality," Perry said. "But our experience in Boston has been — you know, it is an extraordinarily friendly place, and people are so proud of their city."
In response to the bombing, Tadele said Boston-area residents have stepped up.
"People are really hopeful and people are just helping each other, providing comfort and also accommodations to those who needed it," Tadele said. "It's really important that people get help, because (public) transportation halted after the explosion, because there were further suspicions that there would be bombs on (public) transportation."
Tadele mentioned an online hub where area residents and stranded bombing victims have connected since the explosions. Writing in Slate, Will Oremus said a public Google document led to people giving of their homes, spare beds and a pet or two to play with.
By Tuesday afternoon, Oremus wrote, more than 5,500 people in the Boston area added their names and what they had to offer to the spreadsheet.
"Who knows how many people took them up on it, if any," Oremus wrote. "Clearly the supply of generosity exceeded the demand. But that doesn't matter. For anyone tempted to question the goodness of humanity in the wake of a very public act of pure hatred, the list is a salve in itself."
Back in Kinston, Perry said his family was immediately concerned about Tadele's condition. Perry said he knew the accomplished student to be punctual and socially involved and thought Tadele might be with other students, helping out at the marathon.
After four hours, the family was able to make contact. Perry said he feels blessed for Tadele's safety, but sad for so many who, by circumstance, became victims of Monday's attack.
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @WolfeReports.


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First Known Use: 15th century
verb ab·solve \əb-ˈzälv, -ˈsälv, -ˈzȯlv, -ˈsȯlv also without l\
: to make (someone) free from guilt, responsibility, etc.
: to give forgiveness to (someone who has sinned) or for (a sin)
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: to set free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt
: to remit (a sin) by absolution
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PUNXSUTAWNEY — This past weekend, Punxsutawney Area High School played host to more than 550 total wrestlers for a pair of youth tournaments: The Groundhog Classic, open to wrestlers ages eight to 15 of all experience levels, and the Groundhog Novice Tournament, limited to wrestlers between six and 12 years of age who are in their first two years of wrestling.
Wrestlers came from all over the state to participate, and the event was a success, with the parking lot at PAHS so packed that it was difficult to find a parking space: A good problem to have at such an event.
Mulberry Square announced its 2012 Groundhog King and Queen Tuesday: Macklin Snyder (seated, left) was crowned the king, and Rose Goyette was crowned the queen. They were also heralded by "Phil's Dancers," the Inner Circle, and Mulberry administration. They are (back, from left): "Snowburst" Sierra Milton; "Tropical" Tori Martin; "Misty" Marisa Stockdale; "Solar" Samantha Winebark; Ron Ploucha holding Punxsy Phil; Mulberry Administrator Karen Brown; Jason "Big Chill" Grusky; "Katastrophe" Keaton Mohney; "Sunshine" Shaina Reddinger; "Celsius" Calena Spearing; and "Evaporation" Emily Smith.
• 3 to 8 p.m. — The 18th Annual Groundhog Day Souvenir Sale. Pantall Hotel, 135 E. Mahoning St. Everything groundhog made by 20 local artists.
• Ongoing events — Worldwide Adventures of Phil, Phind Phil, Cookie Decorating, Phil's Friends in Barclay Square.
• 9 a.m. to midnight — Punxsutawney Phil's Souvenir Shop, 102 W. Mahoning St. Everything groundhog and Punxsutawney Phil! Official souvenirs sold here.
• 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. — 2012 Groundhog Day Art Show. Punxsutawney Art Association Inc., 401 W. Mahoning St.; Punxsutawney Historical Society's Lattimer House.
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Monday, State Rep. Sam Smith (R-66) announced he will run for re-election to Pennsylvania's House of Representatives this year.
"It is a privilege to serve the hardworking men, women and families of the 66th Legislative district in the state legislature," Smith said.
Paul Wachob, 52, Prospect, Tenn., passed away Friday, Jan. 27, 2012.
He was born Feb. 7, 1959, a son of Viola L. (Blondie) Bodenhorn Wachob and the late Lyman Wachob.
Mr. Wachob was a truck driver.
In addition to his mother, surviving relatives include a daughter, Charity Hollingsworth and husband Mike of Minor Hill, Tenn.; a son, Kent Wachob and wife Leslie of Prospect; a sister, Helen Booth and companion Ron Baker of Salem, Ind.; two brothers, Harry Boyd Wachob and wife Carolyn, and Jacob E. Wachob and wife Wanda, all of Punxsutawney; and four grandchildren.
NEW OXFORD — Traveling across the state to a top-tier tournament can be intimidating for young wrestlers, but for the Punxsutawney Chucks, it was an opportunity to show their skills in front of some of the best teams in the states.
Twelve Chucks traveled Friday and Saturday to New Oxford, and six of them walked away with medals.
"Half of the guys that participated made the medal rounds," Chucks head coach Eric Eddy said. "They performed well, and the losses we suffered were usually only to kids that should've beaten us."
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Where in the world are you today? Why, you're in Punxsutawney, the Weather Capital of the World, the home of Punxsutawney Phil, of course.
Certainly, there are cities and towns all over the world that have unusual highlights and notable residents or natives, but none of those cities and towns have the fame and notoriety possessed by Punxsutawney.
Oh, you don't believe it? Well, consider these "Punxsy-isms," and ask yourself the following:
WHERE IN THE WORLD …
BROOKVILLE — A Punxsutawney man who served as the jury foreman in the Steven Rebert double-homicide trial, which concluded late Friday, said the jury became deadlocked while deliberating whether or not Rebert should be put to death.
Rebert was sentenced to life in prison by Jefferson County President Judge John H. Foradora, after the jury could not come to a consensus as to whether or not he should be put to death in the murders of Wayne and Victoria Shugar, both 61, Brockway, who were found shot to death in their home April 12, 2010.
PUNXSUTAWNEY — If there was only one word to describe Ella Whitaker, the most appropriate choice would have to be "determined." From her choice of careers, to her decision to marry, to her travels across the globe, to her ability to deal with major physical problems, the remarkable 99-year-old lady has consistently demonstrated a strong will to deal with life head-on.
Frank Albert Hetrick, 92, Brookville, died Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at Golden Living in Clarion.
He was born Nov. 10, 1919, in Knox Township, a son of the late Gilbert Jackson and Clara Etta (Wolfe) Hetrick.
April 22, 1944, he married the former Betty Jane Himes, who preceded him in death Nov. 8, 1996.
Mr. Hetrick was a member of the First Baptist Church. He was a man of strong faith and encouraged others in their own faith.
He worked on the Pittsburgh and Shawmut Railroad.


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On the end of USPS 1st Class Saturday delivery:
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
On the end of USPS 1st Class Saturday delivery:
If Congress wouldn't interfere with the USPS plan to shut down redundant and unnecessary offices, like two in my city 0.8 miles apart, both with lines and only 2 of 5 windows open that they could merge and have 4 windows open and 1 less manager+, perhaps they wouldn't be in the red. I won't mention there's at least another 5 POs within a 5 mile radius of these two, and most of those are better run and are my preferred goto locations when I need something. The only time I step into "my" PO is when I'm forced to because of a package or delivery problem.
Are you one of the people who makes more than $35 an hour, and is resentful of somebody else making as much as you?
Or are you one of the people who makes less than $35 an hour, and is jealous of somebody else making more than you?
I'm against it, strongly. . . (Score:5, Interesting)by g1powermac (812562) on Saturday February 09, 2013 @09:38PM (#42847315)Though the reason is because I'm also a postal employee, and one that would be directly affected by this. However, I also have an inside view of how things work at the post office, and I truly don't see how they're going to save much money doing this. There's quite a few reasons for this. One, all the letter and flat (magazines and catalogs) volume is just going to be shifted to the rest of the week. So, whatever time each route is evaluated at (and hence what we're paid for) will go up. So, instead of 8 hours of route time for 6 days, it'll be maybe 8.5 hours for 5 days. And if it goes close to or over overtime limits, the route will have to be split, creating more routes and hence, more employees needed. Second, since they're still planning to do package delivery and keep the offices open on Saturday, that means they still need almost the full complement of support staff at each office. This includes clerks, maintenance, and management. Might need fewer clerks in the early morning for processing from dispatch, but that's about it. They're also still going to need dispatch trucks coming to and from the post office to the distribution center to drop off and pick up parcels and express mail.
So, the only area they save money is by extensively cutting hours to employees like me. I'm a RCA (rural carrier associate), which means I fill in for the regular rural carrier. I run Saturdays and any days the regular takes off. So, under the new system, they wouldn't need the usual one RCA per route like it is now. With just package runs on Saturdays, one person could handle multiple routes worth of packages, or instead of working a full day, each RCA now works just maybe a half day on Saturday. No one knows just yet how the upper management is going to implement this. Interestingly enough, local management and carriers heard the news after it hit the national news. The guys in Washington are not giving us any heads up on this causing a lot of outrage among the employees.
by Austerity Empowers (669817) on Saturday February 09, 2013 @11:35PM (#42847793)
As far as I can tell Congress is every bit as retarded as any wall street owned corporate management I've ever had the pleasure to work with. We have all the right pieces: idiotic shareholders (we call them voting taxpayers) who expect infinite return for little or no investment, dominated by a board of directors (i.e. wealthy elite) with only their selfish best interests at heart, a figurehead CEO (we call him the pres) who pushes an agenda tailored to ensure the shareholders who can get him fired are hoodwinked, some mindless middle management (congress) and a whole lot of employees who, to varying degrees, don't give a flying fuck (civil servants).
Normally I'd say the best solution to this problem with government is the same as with large multinationals: split them the hell up and let the fragments manage themselves. But I don't think our state and local governments have anything like the infrastructure to manage themselves, so many of the states founding articles are antiquated and inconsistent. Note that I ignore hte "efficiency" argument, it's as much bullshit on the government level as it is on the corporate level.
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Interesting)
The time to get parcels between the US and Australia varies so much, it's weird.
Just in the last couple of months I've had:
- Something posted in mid-November arrive around New Year's.
- Something posted on a Monday arrive on Thursday the same week
Both were standard rate USPS parcels. The slow one was a bit physically larger than the fast one, and was posted from the Midwest rather than California (which is a little closer obviously), but still, it's incredibly inconsistent.
You're looking at it the wrong way. It should be "why is the minimum wage so ridiculously low".
That is less than half of the minimum wage in the country I live in. And almost noone actually gets paid the minimum wage here (government or private sector). No company paying only the minimum wage would be able to attract and retain employees. Even my first ever job when I was a teenager, stacking shelves at a supermarket part time was paying $19/hr (and significantly higher on Sundays/public holidays).
For the most part I wouldn't care about lack of Saturday delivery, except for Netflix.
Of course, I'm sure that Netflix won't mind: longer mail transit times means that high usage customers may now be pushed into profitability, or get ticked off and leave altogether also saving them money.
In Finland, most people make $25 or more. Their economy is doing pretty well. Their high school students have better scores in the international exams than ours.
Our service industry should be decimated. I don't need to stay at luxury hotels where maids making the minimum wage clean out my room. Pay them enough to live on or shut down your hotel.
I don't need to buy hamburgers at MacDonald's for $2 served to me by counter girls who don't make enough to buy health insurance. The people working for the same MacDonalds corporation in Europe get health insurance and better benefits than American workers. Pay Americans as well as you pay your workers in Europeans.
You want Americans to live in poverty. You want America to be a country of inequality and poverty. That's the conservative vision of America.
You think you're doing pretty well now. Well, a lifetime is a long time. Sometimes during your lifetime your technology may become obsolete, which happened to a lot of workers. Or the bosses may figure out a way for somebody in India to do your job for a fifth as much as you charge, which happened to a lot of workers. Then you'll be one of those service workers who gets $7 an hour or whatever your minimum wage is. And you'll be competing with a lot of younger and more energetic people for that $7 an hour.
Re:Missing option (Score:4, Interesting)On Brazil it takes 2 weeks average to a package come all the way from China to Brazil, and a whole month or so to get it delivered home...
Re:Missing option (Score:5, Interesting)
The time to get parcels between the US and Australia varies so much, it's weird.
Just in the last couple of months I've had:
- Something posted in mid-November arrive around New Year's.
- Something posted on a Monday arrive on Thursday the same week
I used to get magazine subscriptions from the US and it wasn't unusual for different months' issues to arrive in reverse order. I would see part 2 of an article and think "WTF, I don't remember reading part 1?". Part 1 would arrive 3 days later.
I'm guessing they were creating a LIFO stack with shipping containers. The earliest post gets shoved down the back of the shipping container and gets unloaded last.
Re:Externalized costs (Score:5, Interesting)by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 11, 2013 @06:16PM (#42865813)
Sorry to hijack the thread here but everyone should read an article in this month's Esquire entitled "Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office? [esquire.com]"
The fact of the matter is that the postal service does not LOSE money, but they are being forced to pre-pay their pension obligations (something no other government entity has to do). Other entities simply rely on the full faith and credit of the United States for their pension payments. Congress is using the pension payments to pad the budget. It's politics, pure and simple. The post office is one of the few things that makes our nation great.
Also, when you think about the postal service and what they do, it's not just mail. It's the infrastructure and standards to send mail. Without standardized addresses, ZIP codes and the like, the private delivery businesses built on top of that model would never be able to succeed. What, FedEx is going to directly interface with every county in the nation to maintain its address database? I don't think so. Sure, in the digital age we send less physical mail, but the post office is uniquely positioned to get into the identity business, something we really need and something I don't trust the actual government to implement. In many other countries, the postal service also became the telephone company or internet provider, because they were already well versed in the procedures to manage communications. An IP address isn't that much different than a street address, when it comes to delivering packets. With IPv6, it's certainly possible for the USPS to acquire and assign an IP address or subnet for each physical address it knows of and give everyone in the country their own location-sensitive IP address. I think the list of other things they could do could be expanded drastically with a little thought.
Re:Externalized costs (Score:5, Interesting)by Dynedain (141758) <slashdot2.anthonymclin@com> on Monday February 11, 2013 @09:55PM (#42867591) Homepage
Without standardized addresses, ZIP codes and the like, the private delivery businesses built on top of that model would never be able to succeed. What, FedEx is going to directly interface with every county in the nation to maintain its address database? I don't think so.
Actually yes, they do. A zip code is not required by Fedex, in fact, they don't want to rely on it because their shipping routes don't match up to zip codes. Zip codes are for USPS facilities and delivery routes.
Fedex maintains their own database, which is why they can handle out-of-zone fuel surcharges and the like. And believe it or not, there are places without physical USPS addresses that Fedex will deliver to. Think houses way out on back-country farms that have an in-town or near-highway shared mailboxes, but Fedex can deliver directly to door.
USPS was entirely self-sufficient on postage fees alone, with surplus revenues, up until Congress passed legislation that mandated USPS pay forward *75 years* of retiree health benefits within *ten years*. No other organization, business or government, has such a mandate.
"Taxpayer-funded" kicked in after that point, as you'd expect it would.
Wealthy congresscritters want to kill off USPS so their cronies in the private sector will benefit, IMO.
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/07/20/how-congress-is-killing-the-post-office/ [reuters.com]
http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2011/nov/11/sanford-bishop/bishop-signs-letter-saying-post-office-faces-big-p/ [politifact.com]


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The Night Owl
Well, Aaryn is HOH for the freaking 4th time this season, but for once I am actually kind of glad that for the most part Amanda controls her. I want to see Helen or Elissa evicted this week, and that is likely going to happen.
As soon as the feeds returned after the HOH live show, we found Amanda once again crying and picking a fight with McCrae because she didn't win HOH. The amusing part about this particular time was that both McCrae AND Aaryn tried to throw it to her, but she STILL couldn't win it. I take that back, the MOST amusing part about it was that she crawled behind a trash can in the pantry to cry about it.
Shortly after the hiding behind the trash can incident, Amanda pulled herself together to go immediately get in Aaryn't ear and let her know they were evicting Helen this week. Aaryn was totally okay with the idea of putting up Elissa and Helen, and Elissa did not help herself by apparently making comments about not wanting to sit near GinaMarie or Aaryn during the live show.
Right before or after (I don't remember which) the time that Amanda and Aaryn were deciding to put up Helen and Elissa (with Spencer as a replacement if one of them comes down) McCrae and Andy had a chat with their fake alliance member Helen and promised her to try to pitch for Spencer to be the one to go up on the block with Elissa so they could vote out Spencer. This of course won't actually happen, but everyone is trying to get Helen to believe she is not the target.
While Andy and McCrae sweet talked Helen, Amanda filled in Spencer on what was going on in the other room. Since it's necessary to put up Helen with Elissa (so that Helen can't win veto and use it on Elissa) Spencer will not be going up, so Aaryn and Amanda agreed they must make deals with him this week.
After Helen was finished talking to McCrae and Andy, she went and briefly spoke with Aaryn and GinaMarie about the things Elissa had been saying about them during the live show. She could tell they were pretty upset and she then fled the room to go find Elissa and try to get her to apologize and play nice with Aaryn to keep herself off the block. Elissa being..well..Elissa, was not okay with the idea of apologizing to anyone. Most of her argument consisted of her talking about how she has more to worry about than some 22 year old. She has kids at home.. blah blah blah. I really thought Rachel was weird in her first season, but finding out that Rachel was the normal one of the two sisters continues to blow my mind on a daily basis. Elissa proceeded to talk about how she would walk if she were sent to Jury because she would rather go home to her family than spend time with the people in the jury house.
This conversation sent Helen flying back up to the HOH room where Aaryn, Spencer, Andy, McCrae, and Amanda were all hanging out. Helen turned on the tears and sobbed it out about how she NEEDS Elissa's vote if she is in the final 2, and now she can't help Elissa anymore, but she has to play for herself. In my opinion, all of this (including the tears) was Helen speak for "You can't put me up on the block if you feel sorry for me because I'm sobbing and I'm a mom." Apparently I'm not the only one who felt that way since Amanda and McCrae want downstairs and chatted about how they both had no sympathy for what Helen was doing.
Helen eventually calmed down and after that everyone hung out in the HOH (well everyone except for Elissa) and chit chatted for the predominant part of the rest of the night. They all spent a while telling Helen she just has to play for herself etc.. They did Candice impersonations. They talked about Jury house and how awkward it will be when Jessie gets there, and they tried to make Helen feel comfortable because no one wants her freaking out or knowing she is the target. They want her to believe the target is Elissa, and from what I understand, they want Elissa to believe she is the target as well until they blindside Helen.
Helen has now gone downstairs and says she is going to bed. Everyone else seems to be winding down, and I am about to give up since they won't stop talking about production and getting the feeds cut every few seconds. I am very very VERY excited to see Helen on the block as the target this week, but I do have reservations. The jury twist was announced on tonight's live show. The absolute LAST thing I want to happen is to have Helen evicted this Thursday only to bounce RIGHT back into the house by winning the competition against Judd, Jessie, and Candice. I feel like if Elissa got booted, it would likely be Judd or Jessie (hopefully Judd) going back in, but if Helen goes out...it makes me nervous. I will just have to see how the week plays out. For all we know Helen could win veto and save herself leaving them to oust Elissa. Or if Elissa makes them miserable enough this week, they may oust her anyway.
Either way, there should be a have-not competition this morning followed by nominations in the evening. Helen and Elissa should go up unless something drastic changes between now and then. Hopefully nominations bring fireworks! As always, you guys can follow me on twitter @ashes2ashes13 for more overnight live feed updates. Until tomorrow night...


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News from WTOP
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Mike Causey
Shows & Panels
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- Agency of the Month
- Business of Government Hour
- The CFO Agenda: Delivering value from financial transparency and audit efforts in the public and private sector
- Cloud-Driven Data Insights in Government
- CXO Surveys
- Disaster Resilience for America
- Federal News Countdown
- Government Perspectives on Mobility and the Cloud
- Reducing Risk in the Cloud
- Reimagining the Next Generation of Government
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- AFCEA Answers
- American Readiness: Renewable Power and Efficiency Technologies
- Ask the CIO
- The Business Case for Cloud Computing in Government
- Cloud-Driven Data Insights in Government
- Connecting the Dots: Digital Authentication in Government
- Cybersecurity Game Changer: Real-Time Event Processing in Government
- Data-Centric Approaches to Government in the Cloud
- Delivering the Digital Government Mission
- Federal Executive Forum
- Federal News Radio's National Cyber Security Awareness Month Special Panel Discussion
- Federal Tech Talk
- The Future of Government Data Centers
- Government Perspectives on Mobility and the Cloud
- Industrialized, Interoperable and Insight-driven Federal Health Panel
- Innovation and Tech Superiority through Acquisition Reform
- Mitigating Insider Threats in Virtual & Cloud Environments
- Moving Agency Applications to the Cloud with PaaS
- Reducing Risk in the Cloud
- Security in the Age of Targeted Attacks
- Air Traffic Management Transformation Report
- The Business of Cloud
- Cloud First Report
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- Disaster Resilience for America
- General Dynamics IT Enterprise Center
- Gov Cloud Minute
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- Homeland Security Cybersecurity Market Report
- The Intersection: Where Technology Meets Transformation
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- The New IP for Federal IT
- The Social Platform Solution for the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Technology Insights
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- Cloud-Driven Data Insights in Government
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- On DoD
- Pentagon Solutions
- Reducing Risk in the Cloud
- Reimagining the Next Generation of Government
- Transforming Business Operations at the Defense Department
Feds as roadkill
Tuesday - 2/12/2013, 2:00am EST
Politicians who are trying to break the sprits of federal workers are doing a pretty good job, so far. They've threatened benefit cuts (so far none have materialized) and — both parties — have brought us to the brink (again) with the threat of sequestration-triggered across-the-board cuts coming in March.
Staunch defenders of federal workers are on the endangered species list and with a few notable exceptions are keeping rather quiet.
If the sequestration process (originally approved by both the White House and Congress) is triggered, federal workers in many agencies could be furloughed until an agreement is reached, or the start of the new fiscal year in October. Worst-case scenario: That would mean up to 22 days of furlough.
The maximum furlough bite would be 20 percent from March through the end of September or 4 percent (at least) for calendar year 2013.
A couple of weeks back I read somewhere that because of sagging morale, work had come to a standstill in federal offices. I suspect that it was somewhat of an exaggeration. Of course, it hasn't. And probably won't, no matter what happens. Work will stop or slow when and if employees are furloughed and forced to go home. Otherwise people will keep on keeping on no matter what their leaders in Washington say about them.
But are feds unhappy? Could they be more motivated and productive? A good guess would be yes! Consider these comments from on-the-job feds:
- "...It has been literally forever that a certain political party has been beating on the federal worker, even occasionally getting the Democrats to join in. So we do the work IN SPITE of the idiots in charge. But I really believe that the sequestration is a good thing — it will finally set off the wholesale leaving (of experienced employees). Will our government collapse?
"I always think I have seen everything. A president (John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan) shot, a presidential resignation ( Richard Nixon), a president who napped, a president who couldn't keep his pants on. But I guess there is more to see. A political party ruled by the crazies. Life is quite interesting." Jonathan
- "...There is a saying that is very common today: people paying their fair share! What people, other than federal employees (with their two-plus year pay freeze) are paying their fair share to prevent a sequester? I don't mind paying my fair share, but as a Defense Department civilian, it has just been take, take and take. From Me!" Lee at DoD
The Senate could hold hearings blaming the Republicans, the House panel would pummel the Democrats and White House. But the public might remember who forced agencies to shutdown all non-essential services which — in hindsight — might turn out to be rather essential.
Compiled by Jack Moore
Golf balls used to be smooth. The dimples on modern golf balls were added after early 20th-century golfers discovered that scuffed, worn balls traveled further.
(Source: Life's Little Mysteries)
White House details widespread furloughs, cuts to agency programs
Civilian agencies now have a clearer picture of life under sequestration. The Office of Management and Budget said Friday hundreds of thousands of furloughs and cuts to nearly every agency program can be expected if sequestration goes into effect next month. OMB Controller Danny Werfel said the effective percentage cut to each civilian agency would be about 9 percent over the next seven months. DoD can expect cuts of 13 percent
Obama to back 1 percent pay increase for feds in 2014 budget President Barack Obama will recommend a 1 percent pay increase for federal employees in his fiscal 2014 budget request, according to federal-employee unions. The pay increase will apply to both civilian federal workers and military members. The White House is expected to release its full budget request next month.
SBA head Karen Mills resigning
Karen Mills, the head of the Small Business Administration, is resigning. In a note to staff, Mills announced she would step down as administrator after a successor is confirmed "to ensure a smooth and seamless transition."


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Recognized for Performance, Leadership; Sterling Companies Inspire Company-Builders
Capital Connection'12, a nationally recognized technology industry conference, will pay tribute to a select group of successful businesses singled out for achieving significant accomplishments with a special "Sterling Company" award. The companies were selected unanimously by some of the country's top private investors as "market maker" companies to share the spotlight as the Capital Connection conference celebrates its 25th anniversary.
"Marking 25 years as one of the nation's largest entrepreneur-focused business and investor conferences is a significant milestone. Reaching a silver anniversary is an achievement that couldn't have been accomplished without a dedicated investor community and the likes of the Sterling Companies we honor at this year's event. It is due to the efforts of companies like these, that we're celebrating our 25th year," said Julia Spicer, Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association.
The following companies are the first ten to be announced that will be recognized during Capital Connection for their industry leadership and business performance. Each serves as a model for company-builders embarking on comparable journeys with the hope of achieving similar successes. These stand-out companies' successes are each measured differently and range from holding a market or industry leadership position, to continued exceptional business growth, to having achieved public company status, market leadership and high growth performance. Many are Capital Connection alums, having been prior presenters on stage.
1st Ten Sterling Companies (more to be announced)
2tor, Inc.
Millennial Media
Note: a description of each company follows the release
In recognition of the Capital Connection silver anniversary, these trailblazing companies will be presented with a special "Sterling Company" award. The management teams from these Sterling Companies will be recognized by spotlighting their business success and with a celebratory reception in their honor held during the Capital Connection'12 conference.
"Capital Connection is known for attracting promising and accomplished entrepreneurs, along with seasoned CEO peers renowned for their accelerated year-over-year growth. During our 25-year history, more than 1500 companies have now become "alums" of Capital Connection, having presented in front of our audiences at various stages of their company life cycle," Tom Roberts, Partner, Harbert Venture Partners. "We celebrate these Sterling Companies as role models for the younger firms that come to our program each year to learn, to engage and to grow with the support of the expert and invaluable resources provided by our community of investors and advisors and through peer-to-peer interaction."
Key features in this year's Capital Connection and TechBUZZ conference:
• Keynote Speakers: Chairman and CEO of Revolution, Co-Founder of America Online and ultimate entrepreneur, Steve Case; Gilt Groupe CEO and Co-Founder, Kevin Ryan; and CEO and Founder of Opower, Dan Yates.
• Who's Hot: A who's who of hot companies and recognizable market leaders.
• What's the BUZZ? The high energy, fast-pitch TechBUZZ program showcasing what's new and fresh from Seed Stage startups. This year featuring the Best of the BUZZ with real-time feedback from audience participants.
• Easy Access: A new rate structure to make the conference accessible to a broad range of entrepreneurs, angel investors, incubators and companies across all stages of growth.
• Opportunity to Tell the Company Story: An unparalleled opportunity for early, growth and late stage firms to present business models for investment or showcase their success.
Capital ConnectionTM, one of the nation's most respected industry conferences, will be held this year on May 23-24 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Registration for Capital Connection'12 with its featured innovative TechBUZZ event is now open on the conference website located at www.capitalconnection.org.
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About Capital ConnectionTM
In its 25th year, Capital Connection brings together the broad community of entrepreneurial companies and potential partners to help enhance business and economic growth. Opinion leaders from business and government share their knowledge and expertise, along with leading technology companies at all growth stages who showcase their capabilities to a nationwide audience of investors, advisors, partners and entrepreneurs at the annual signature event. Launched in 2011, TechBUZZ provides start-ups and seed-stage companies center stage in spotlighting the "next big thing." For more information and to register, go to www.capitalconnection.org.
About TechBUZZ
TechBUZZ was first piloted in 2010 and launched in May 2011 as a half-day conference preceding Capital Connection in response to the growing impact start-ups and seed-stage companies are having in recent years on the investment ecosystem overall. MAVA is dedicated to continuing to foster and celebrate this vital area of our membership by bringing together investors and entrepreneurs in a dynamic and meaningful format. TechBUZZ shines a well-deserved light on the visionary innovators and company-builders in our region who are actively developing their concepts, testing their beta or prototype products and services and pursuing a path toward market entry.
1st Ten Sterling Companies
2tor, Inc. partners with top-tier universities to deliver rigorous, selective graduate programs online. Founded in 2008 by a unique team of education veterans, the company provides universities with the web technologies, infrastructural support and the capital needed to compete in a space previously dominated by mediocre online programs. 2tor is one of the highest-funded education technology startups in the United States. The company has partnered with prestigious research universities to deliver the six groundbreaking online degree programs. For more information, please visit www.2tor.com.
Alarm.com, founded in 2000, is the industry leading technology provider of interactive security solutions. Through its proven technology platform and advanced wireless, mobile and web-based solutions, Alarm.com helps protect and empower hundreds of thousands of residential and commercial customers throughout North America. Alarm.com delivers interactive security, video monitoring, home automation and energy management to users exclusively through a network of thousands of licensed and authorized Dealer Partners. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.
BroadSoft provides software that enables mobile, fixed-line and cable service providers to deliver voice and multimedia services over their IP-based networks. The Company's software, BroadWorks®, enables service providers to provide enterprises and consumers with a range of cloud-based, or hosted, IP multimedia communications, such as hosted IP private branch exchanges, video calling, unified communications, collaboration and converged mobile and fixed-line services. For more information, please visit www.broadsoft.com.
Founded in 1999, Cvent is the world's largest meetings and event management technology company and has over 950 employees worldwide. Cvent offers web-based software for meeting site selection, online event registration, event management, e-mail marketing, and web surveys, and helps over 10,000 clients in 90 countries manage hundreds of thousands of events, surveys and e-mail campaigns. The company has processed over $2 billion in online payments and has managed over 30 million event registrations and survey responses for its clients. Cvent's client base ranges from small non-profits to large corporations, and includes over 30 companies from the Fortune 100. A leading authority on Strategic Meetings Management (SMM), Cvent's technology has been used to implement SMM programs around the world. For more information, please visit www.cvent.com.
Eloqua provides solutions to help its customers accelerate revenue growth through Revenue Performance Management. Eloqua provides powerful business insight to inform marketing and sales decisions today that drive revenue growth tomorrow. The company's mission is to make its customers the fastest growing companies on Earth. More than 1,000 clients rely on the marketing automation power of Eloqua to improve demand generation and lead management while driving more qualified leads. Eloqua's customers include Adobe, AON, Dow Jones, ADP, Fidelity, Polycom, and National Instruments. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, with offices in Cambridge, San Francisco, Austin, Toronto, London, Brussels, Frankfurt and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.eloqua.com.
Millennial Media is the leading independent mobile advertising platform company. Our technology, tools and services help app developers and mobile website publishers to maximize their advertising revenue, acquire users for their apps and gain insight about their users. We offer advertisers significant audience reach, sophisticated targeting capabilities and the ability to deliver rich and engaging ad experiences to consumers on their mobile connected devices.
Opower is the global leader in energy information software providing the utility industry's only cross-channel customer engagement platform proven to drive energy efficiency gains on a large scale. Using cutting-edge behavioral science and patent-pending data analytics, the Opower platform enables utilities to provide targeted energy data and advice to individual customers. More than 70 utilities—including 8 of the 10 largest in the US—partner with Opower to improve the effectiveness of their energy-efficiency portfolios and motivate their customers to become more energy efficient, and increase the level of customer engagement and overall customer satisfaction. For utilities with Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), the Opower platform represents a cost-effective way to convert hourly data into measurable energy savings, delivering a clear return on investment directly to the customers. Founded in 2007 and privately held, Opower is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and has regional offices in San Francisco, California, and London, England.
Primatics Financial is the market-leading enterprise software company that uses its proven domain expertise to provide integrated solutions for complex business problems in the financial services industry. Primatics combines domain-rich, enterprise software and integrated services to enable clients to better process, model and analyze their loan portfolio, comply with existing and new regulatory requirements, and grow their business. Its solution, which is used by many of the most important industry leaders, delivers timely, repeatable, scalable, automated and controlled results for institutions in today's rapidly-changing financial market and regulatory environment.
ScienceLogic facilitates centralized IT operations and dynamic cloud management by uniting and correlating critical IT functions such as performance, fault, availability, asset, service desk, automation, and event management, all in a single product. The cohesive ScienceLogic platform provides an accurate, actionable view of business service delivery across any mix of physical, virtual and cloud environments. Beyond just monitoring, ScienceLogic technology gives service providers and enterprises the management and customization capabilities needed to deliver optimal application performance, improve IT efficiency, and confidently move to new architectures and differentiated service offerings.
TEOCO (The Employee Owned Company) is a leading provider of assurance and analytics solutions to communications service providers worldwide. By taming the glut of telecom network, operational and business data, TEOCO leverages its expertise and 'big data' and 'real-time' capabilities to analyze and optimize network and business performance. We help over 100 of the largest service providers around the world to run their businesses more efficiently and effectively by delivering solutions service providers require to remain competitive and profitable in rapidly evolving industry. TEOCO is devoted to constant innovation. We are setting new standards in technology solutions, with a strategic emphasis on growing an organization that puts people and planning before profits. The core ethical values that were adopted when TEOCO was founded remain our guiding principles today. We take great pride in our work and in providing meaningful business results for our customers.


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***at this point in time this log contains the use of pramipexole, huperzine A, cjcDAC, GHRP2, and ipamorelin***
This morning at 5:30am I took 200mcg of huperzine A on an empty stomach. Huperzine A is a somatostatin inhibitor. It's important to inhibit the release of somatostatin in order maximize HGH levels. Somatostatin is part of the bodies set of checks and balances system that regulates the amount of active HGH in the body. When HGH levels are too high the body secretes somatostatin to bind to HGH so that the HGH doesn't fit into the HGH receptor which renders the HGH useless.
cjcDAC and GHRP2
One hour after I took the huperzine A, I took 150mcg GHRP2 and 100mcg cjcDAC. CjcDAC only needs to be administered weekly as it remains active for up to 16 days but I plan to take it with each GHRP2 or ipamorelin injection. Thanks to huperzine A blocking the somatostatin, it allowed the GHRP2 to work to full capacity so the GHRP2 hit real hard causing me to sweat profusely. The appetite increase from GHRP2 is just what I'm looking for as I'm in bulk up mode.
CjcDAC causes constant HGH bleed which really burns fat and keeps the muscles full all the time. Yesterday afternoon I took my first dose of cjcDAC at a fat dose of 500mcg along with GHRP2 at 150mcg and .1mg pramipexole. I ate triple the normal amount of food I eat per meal. I then tried to nap and ended up going to the gym and trained delts, traps, and calves.
This is my first run with pramipexole. After the gym I decided to take a big dose of pramipexole at .5mg. I did this because I read prami releases approximately 4ius of HGH at this dose and inhibits somatostatin for 4 hours. Huperzine A inhibits somatostatin for 5.5 hours but it is a neurological stimulant and I only want to use it in the morning and afternoon. I learned from dosing prami so high that it knocks you out so in the future I'll only use it before bed. After taking prami I ate and went to bed at 6:30pm and didn't get up to eat until this morning.
This morning I woke up looking quite different than usual. My muscle had a better look to them. The muscle bellies were round and full, plus I had less subcutaneous water, most likely due to not eating for 12 hours and the fact that I got up to urinate a good 8 times in that 12 hour period. I keep water mixed with crystal lite lemonade on my bed and drink it all night so I get up to urinate a lot. The look I had this morning really impressed me. This is a real nice stack!


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Revised 08/06/03
Adopted 01/01
Section Title
143.010 Purpose
143.020 Permitted Uses
143.030 Conditional Uses
143.040 Approval Standards for Conditional Uses
143.050 Conditions Imposed Where Zone Change to CC zone Abuts Residential Zone
143.060 Property Development Standards
143.070 Landscaping
143.080 Traffic Impact Analysis
143.010 PURPOSE. The purpose of the CC Community Commercial zone is to implement the Rural Development policies of the Comprehensive Plan. This zone is applied to land committed to or intended for commercial uses within Urban Unincorporated Communities, Rural Communities, and Rural Service Centers, as those terms are defined in the Comprehensive Plan and Oregon Administrative Rules. The uses within the CC zone are functionally classified by description of the particular activity or by reference to a category in the "Standard Industrial Classification Manual, 1987 (SIC)." The SIC index number is referenced as an aid to interpretation of uses. Where the term used to describe a use is defined in Chapter 110, the definition takes precedence over any SIC classification.
143.020 PERMITTED USES. Within any CC Community Commercial zone no building, structure, or premises shall be used, or arranged, except as permitted by this ordinance. Only the following uses may be permitted in the specified unincorporated community, as those communities are defined in the comprehensive plan:
(A) All communities. The following uses are permitted in an existing building or a new or expanded building up to 4,000 square feet in a rural community or in a new or expanded building up to 8,000 square feet in an urban community, subject to Section 143.060(D):
(1) Automobile repair (SIC 7532 and 7538);
(2) Restaurant (SIC 5812);
(3) Tavern (SIC 5813);
(4) Office for professional services;
(5) Nursery, lawn, and garden supply store (SIC 5261);
(6) Used merchandise store (SIC 5932);
(7) Hardware store (SIC 5251);
(8) Meat and fish markets (SIC 5421);
(9) Fruit and vegetable market (SIC 5431);
(10) Candy, nut, and confectionary store (SIC 5441);
(11) Retail bakery (SIC 5461);
(12) Gift and souvenir shop (SIC 5947)
(13) Retail art dealer;
(14) Service station (SIC 5541);
(15) Household appliance store (SIC 5722);
(16) Radio, television, and consumer electronics store (SIC 5731);
(17) Sporting goods store (SIC 5941);
(18) Book store (SIC 5942);
(19) Florist (SIC 5992);
(20) Coin-operated laundry and dry cleaning (SIC 7215);
(21) Photographic studio (SIC 7221);
(22) Beauty and barber shop (SIC 7231 and 7241)
(23) Shoe repair shop (SIC 7251);
(24) Repair services, including electrical; watch, clock and jewelry; reupholstery and furniture (SIC 76);
(25) Watch, clock and jewelry repair (SIC 763);
(26) Video Tape Rental (SIC 7841);
(27) Gunsmith;
(28) Special trade contractors (SIC 17);
(B) All communities. The following uses are permitted without size limitations, unless specified in an unincorporated community designated in the comprehensive plan:
(1) Grocery store, limited to a maximum of 8,000 square feet of floor space in an urban community and a maximum of 4,000 square feet of floor space in a rural community (SIC 5411 and 5499);
(2) Agricultural equipment repair;
(3) Agricultural services (SIC 07);
(4) Caretaker's dwelling;
(5) Uses legally established and existing on July 19, 2000. Such uses are permitted pursuant to this section only on the lot(s) or parcel(s) where they existed on July 19, 2000;
(6) Wireless communication facilities attached, subject to Section 125.110;
(7) Expansion of an existing commercial use under the following circumstances:
(a) The use will have a maximum floor space of 4,000 square feet in a rural community or 8,000 square feet in an urban community after the expansion; or
(b) The use is intended to serve the community and surrounding rural area or the travel needs of people passing through the area;
(8) Fire station;
(9) Public and private utility facilities and buildings including cooperatives necessary for public service.
(C) Brooks-Hopmere
(1) Used motor vehicle sales (SIC 5521) with a maximum of 8,000 square feet of floor space;
(D) Labish Village
(1) Used motor vehicle sales (SIC 5521) with a maximum of 4,000 square feet of floor space;
(E) Mehama. The following uses are permitted in an existing building or a new or expanded building with a maximum of 4,000 square feet of floor space.
(1) Food store (SIC 54);
(2) Eating and drinking places (SIC 58);
(3) Building materials, hardware, garden supply, and mobile home dealers (SIC 52);
(4) General merchandise store (SIC 53);
(5) Automotive dealers and gasoline services (SIC 55);
(6) Apparel and accessory stores (SIC 56);
(7) Home furniture, furnishing and equipment (SIC 57);
(8) Miscellaneous retail (SIC 59);
(9) Depository institutions (SIC 60);
(10) Nondepository credit institutions (SIC 61);
(11) Security and commodity broker, dealer and services (SIC 62);
(12) Insurance carrier (SIC 63);
(13) Insurance agent, broker and services (SIC 64);
(14) Real estate (SIC 65);
(15) Holding and other investment offices (SIC 67);
(16) Photographic portrait studio (SIC 7221);
(17) Tax return preparation service (SIC 7291).
(F) Quinaby
(1) Public warehousing and storage (SIC 422) with a maximum of 4,000 square feet of floor space.
143.030 CONDITIONAL USES. When authorized under the procedure provided for conditional uses in this ordinance, the following uses will be permitted in a CC zone, subject to section 143.040:
(A) Home occupations, subject to section 120.075;
(B) Retail and service uses not listed in section 143.020 and not exceeding 4,000 square feet of floor space in a rural community or 8,000 square feet of floor space in an urban community (SIC 50 through 89 except 70 and 88);
(C) Wireless communication facilities subject to section 120.080.
143.040 APPROVAL STANDARDS FOR CONDITIONAL USES. Conditional use requests in the CC zone are subject to all the following criteria:
(A) The use will not force a significant change in, or significantly increase the cost of, accepted farm or forest practices on surrounding lands devoted to farm or forest use;
(B) The proposed use will not, by itself or in combination with existing uses in the community, result in public health hazards or adverse environmental impacts that violate state or federal water quality regulations;
(C) The proposed use will not, by itself or in combination with existing uses in the community, exceed the carrying capacity of the soil or of existing water supply resources and sewer services; and
(D) The traffic generated by the proposed use is consistent with the identified function, capacity, and level of service of transportation facilities serving the community; and
(E) The proposed use will not create significant adverse effects on existing uses or permitted uses on adjacent land, considering such factors as noise, dust and odors.
143.050 CONDITIONS IMPOSED WHERE ZONE CHANGE TO CC ZONE ABUTS A RESIDENTIAL ZONE. In any zone change or reclassification of property to a CC zone where the territory proposed to be changed abuts upon a residential zone, or abuts upon a street or alley which would be the boundary line between the proposed CC zone and the residential zone, conditions to preserve neighborhood qualities may be imposed by the governing body relating to:
(A) Size and location of signs;
(B) Size, type and location of outdoor lighting;
(C) Landscaped areas;
(D) Screening;
(E) Building setbacks;
(F) Ingress and egress for commercial uses.
(A) Height. The maximum height of any structure shall be 35 feet.
(B) Setbacks.
(1) Front Yard - No structure other than a fence, wall, or sign shall be located closer than 20 feet from a public right-of-way. When by ordinance a greater setback or a front yard of greater depth is required than specified in this section, then such greater setback line or front yard depth shall apply (see Section 112).
(2) Side and rear yard - No side or rear yard setback is required where abutting property is zoned for commercial or industrial use. Where not abutting a commercial or industrial zone, structures other than fences, walls, and signs shall comply with the following setbacks:
(a) Residential or public zone - 10 feet
(b) Farm or forest zone - 30 feet
(3) Parking - Parking spaces may abut public right-of-ways and side and rear property lines adjacent to commercial, industrial, or public zones, subject to the landscaping requirements in Section 143.070. Parking spaces shall be set back a minimum of 10 feet from residential, agricultural, and forest zones.
(C) Lot Area.
(1) Rural communities: The building site shall be of sufficient size to accommodate on-site sewage disposal and water systems unless these services are provided by a public or community source or can be accessed by easement, required parking, landscaping, and yard areas.
(2) Urban Communities: The minimum size of any new lot or parcel shall be one acre.
(D) Parcel Coverage.
(1) Rural communities: No more than 60 percent of a lot or parcel shall be covered by all buildings located thereon.
(2) Urban communities: No more than 75 percent of a lot or parcel shall be covered by all buildings located thereon.
(E) Parking. The off-street parking and loading requirements of Chapter 118 apply.
(F) Access to state highways. Any new or expanded use with frontage on a state highway shall demonstrate that the property has access approved by the Oregon Department of Transportation or approved access to an alternative public right-of-way.
143.070 LANDSCAPING. The following provisions apply to lots and parcels upon which a new structure is erected, or where a graveled or unimproved lot is paved, or a lot is newly developed for the outdoor sale or display of merchandise, goods or services:
(A) Front yards shall be provided with a landscaped area at least three feet wide adjacent to the right-of-way line, exclusive of through direct driveways, on every lot upon which a new structure is erected, or where a graveled or unimproved lot is paved, or a lot is newly developed for the outdoor sale or display of merchandise, goods or services.
(B) Side and rear yards abutting a residential zone shall be landscaped adjacent to parking and loading zones.
(C) The landscaping required in subsections (A) and (B) of this section shall include a single type of shrub or tree or a variety of shrubs, trees, and ground cover.
143.080 TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS. Applications for all new uses and expansions of existing uses of greater than 25 percent of the floor area on July 19, 2000 in the Community Commercial zone within an urban community shall:
(A) Be accompanied by a traffic impact analysis, approved by the Marion County Department of Public Works, that:
(1) Quantifies the effect of the proposed development on the transportation facilities serving the community, and
(2) Identifies proposed improvements and modifications, if necessary, to ensure that the traffic generated by the proposed use is consistent with the identified function, capacity, and level of service of transportation facilities serving the community; and
(B) The improvements and modifications described in subsection (A)(2) of this section shall be completed prior to approval of the building permit for the new or expanded use.