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Make a lasting impression with our stunning satin band tablecloths in white. Made from 100% cotton that is soft and durable, your table settings are sure to look elegant and timeless.

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Our satin band tablecloths comes in standard white featuring a satin band design, giving an elegant feel designed to create a real style statement in any dining room or restaurant setting. Made from 100%, ethically sourced cotton that is soft yet durable and is easily laundered.

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  • Cotton is more resistant to heat damage and white goods can be washed at temperatures up to 90C to remove heavy staining.
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Gold Standard Chorus

Gold Standard Chorus

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The Gold Standard Chorus would love to entertain you and is available for corporate events, fundraising activities, and private parties.

The group can tailor their performance specific to your needs with an ensemble from 8 to 40 singers. Presentations can include humorous stories, quartet performances, sing-a-longs and more. Their diverse repertoire ranges from contemporary, oldies, spiritual, patriotic and good old fashioned Barbershop tunes!

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About Us | Visiting Angels

Visiting Angels has been providing compassionate senior care to families across the United States since 1998. Our network of home care franchised agencies is committed to providing families with the best possible in-home care services. Our commitment to you is simple: We’ll help your loved one continue to live at home, and we’ll help you find peace of mind.

At Visiting Angels, we understand you want top quality home care for your senior loved one. You're searching for a qualified, professional elder care provider who will treat your family member with respect and dignity. We can help you find the senior home care provider that meets all your needs. Our senior home care providers are professionals with the training and skills you have been searching for. We’ll match you with a senior home care provider who will care for all your loved one’s health and well-being needs.

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When you rely on Visiting Angels to provide home care services for your family, you expect your loved one’s needs will be met. The expertise of our elder care providers makes it possible for us to provide a wide range of in home care services. Your local Visiting Angels franchised office provides care to meet both temporary and long-term care needs. Our in-home care professionals are available to provide:

Visiting Angels’ elder care incorporates what are commonly known as activities of daily living for older adults. Our service coordinators are trained to create a personalized care plan for your loved one. Visiting Angels provides families with:

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No matter the type of senior care we provide, you can count on our commitment to you and your family remaining the same. We will provide top quality care that enables your loved one to maintain their independence and dignity. Our professional, compassionate caregivers will work closely with your loved one so they can continue to live at home and enjoy the lifestyle that makes them content.

Assisted living facilities and nursing homes aren’t the only options for care services. With Visiting Angels as your in-home care provider, your loved one can continue living at home. Give your loved one the gift of quality care in familiar surroundings.

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Visiting Angels Senior Care in Berea, OH can assist you in providing in-home senior care services in the Berea, OH area. Inviting a caregiver into your home is not an easy decision, but if you are at the point where you need senior care help, we are here to assist you. We have designed a personalized screening system for your peace of mind called the "Select Your Caregiver" process. Using our "Select Your Caregiver" program, you are given the chance to interview any assisted living Berea, OH caregiver that we refer to you for senior care service. You provide your schedule to the senior care provider (i.e. times for waking up, bathing, meals, etc.) and he or she will adjust his or her schedule to yours so that your loved one remains comfortable in their home.

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If you're in need of reliable, trustworthy in-home senior care and companionship, you’ve come to the right place. We can help your loved one live independently at home with the aid of our authorized Visiting Angels franchise located in Berea in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. We offer excellent home care services to the senior citizens residing in Berea and other cities in Ohio. We treat your loved ones with special care and affection, providing you peace of mind.

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If you wish to learn more about the Home care services offered by the Visiting Angels Berea Franchise for Berea, Ohio area and other surrounding areas including Berea, OH, Brook Park, OH, Cleveland, OH, Columbia Station, OH, Fairview Park, OH, Olmsted Falls, OH, Strongsville, OH, and other areas in Ohio, you can Contact Us or you can Call Us at 800-365-4189. We would love to hear from you.
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VJRTC Membership Benefits

The following are benefits of VJRTC membership.

  • Discounted entry fees at VJRTC trials
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  • Participate in Fun Days, Seminars, AGM, Training Days

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Dues for 2021

  • Individual VJRTC Membership is $20
  • Family VJRTC Membership is $30 (Same address) (2 adults & youth age 18 and under)

Persons applying for membership in the Virginia Jack Russell Terrier Club, a proposed affiliate of the JRTCA, must not be a member of a conflicting JRT organization, and must not register their Jack Russell Terriers with any conflicting organization or any all-breed club. Membership in the JRTCA is not required, but encouraged.

All memberships must be renewed by December 31. Applications for new memberships received 3 months prior to December 31 will automatically renew for the following year.

The JRTCA is adamantly opposed to recognition/registration of the Jack Russell Terrier by ANY all-breed kennel club, as it is believed to be detrimental to the preservation of the working Jack Russell Terrier. In keeping with this policy, JRTCA membership is limited to individuals who support the JRTCA’s principles. Registration of Jack Russell Terriers (or any variant thereof) with any all-breed kennel club, or membership in any organization that supports all-breed kennel club recognition/registration, is not acceptable for application to membership in the JRTCA.

The Jack Russell Terrier is a unique working terrier that has remained virtually unchanged for more than 100 years because it has been preserved for work. It is an unspoiled type or strain of working terrier with unique character, working ability, great intelligence, sound physical structure, and broad structural differences within the standard. These characteristics must be maintained to preserve this terrier as it remains today. The JRTCA’s unique registry, with its strict inbreeding limitations and health requirements, breed standard, Breeders’ Code of Ethics, and working certificate, sanctioned judge and field trial programs are all designed to do just that. All those who support the JRTCA’s principles are welcome and encouraged to join the JRTCA and help us preserve this great little terrier.


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Executive Comms Manager to President EMEAR

Executive Comms Manager to President EMEAR

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    £70,000 - £85,000

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A global technology company is seeking an experienced communications professional with demonstrable experience in executive, external and internal  communications gained at an international level in the B2B sector.

You will need solid planning, message development and storytelling skills and the ability to work across diverse teams in the organisation. In particular, the ability to develop a deep understanding of the business with a track record of designing communications that help position a company’s relevance and value, advance its thought leadership and innovation profile, both externally and internally.

Key Skills:

  • Excellent writer with the skills and expertise to develop relevant and engaging content that works across multiple channels.
  • A flexible and resilient problem solver with the ability to gain consensus among others and handle sensitive situations and information.
  • Able to prioritize the most important communications challenges and opportunities as well as pinpoint and discontinue low impact communications.
  • Able to socialise communications platforms with cross-communications teams and key business leaders to advance message consistency and impact
  • The passion and imagination to design high impact integrated communications that deliver tangible results, in support of the company business objectives.
  • Solid project management skills with the ability to meet milestones, tight deadlines, and balance concurrent projects.
  • Strong interpersonal skills; intuitive ability to read people, influence where appropriate and execute when necessary.
  • An ability to work effectively with senior executives and provide objective counsel.

VMAGROUP is the leading international interim and permanent recruitment and executive search specialists for Marketing, Digital and Communications roles. Specialist practices cover internal communications, external communications, marketing, digital, financial services, investor relations and public affairs.

With a truly global reach, VMAGROUP has offices across the UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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A Day With Ana Delgadillo - The Growing Demand for Digital Media

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This week's video on A Day With Ana Delgadillo is her guest, Founder and Editor of ETM Media, Ms. Althea Ledford. She will share insights and helpful success strategies on how to follow your passion and dreams with the entrepreneurship spirit. A must watch video!

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#EndSARS Protesters To Hold Candlelight Procession In Lagos

#SARSMustEnd Protest in Abuja Photos: Sodiq Adelakun/ChannelsTV

#EndSARS protesters in Lagos State are set to hold a candlelight procession later today, in honour of victims of extra judicial killings in the country.

The protesters are billed to hold the session around the Alausa area of the state and the Lekki Toll Gate, which have been the main converging points for those who have been demanding justice for the deceased.

This is the 10th day since the youths began taking to the streets and despite efforts by the government to quell the protests, it only appears to have gained more momentum.

On Sunday, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, announced the dissolution of the unit which is at the centre of the protests – the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

Days later, the IGP, set up a new unit called the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team, to replace the disbanded SARS.

Read Also: #EndSARS Protesters Hold Jummat Prayers On The Road

However, shortly after, a new movement – #EndSWAT dominated the trends as many Nigerians believe that a mere change of name is not the solution to the problem.

The protesters have, therefore, defied all efforts to stop them and are bent on continuing until all their demands are met.

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Muslim #EndSARS protesters hold Jummat prayers in Abuja on Friday. Photos: Sodiq Adelakun/ChannelsTV

Some of the demands include releasing all arrested protesters, justice and compensation for families of victims, the creation of an independent body to oversee the prosecution of officers (within 10 days), psychological evaluation of disbanded officers before redeployment, and the increase of police officers’ salaries.

While the police appear to be making some effort, many Nigerians feel it is not satisfactory.

Beyond setting up a new unit, prospective members of the new team are expected to undergo a psychological and medical examination to ascertain their fitness and eligibility for the new assignment.

The IGP has also ordered all personnel of the disbanded SARS to report to the Force headquarters in Abuja for debriefing, psychological and medical examination.

While a time-frame for the medical evaluation has not been disclosed, the IGP was quoted to have said in a statement by the Force PRO, Frank Mba, that the officers are expected to undergo the process as a prelude to further training and reorientation before being redeployed into mainstream policing duties.

Read Also: Sanwo-Olu Sets Up Judicial Panel, Reveals Identity Of Officers Who Shot At Surulere Protesters

The medical examination will be carried out by a newly set-up Police Counselling and Support Unit (PCSU), a unit which the Force says will, henceforth, engage in psychological management, reorientation and training of the officers of the force deployed for tactical operations and other duties.

As part of steps being taken by the Lagos State Government to address the five-point demands of the youths, a seven-man Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution has been set up to investigate cases of human rights violations.

The panel, which Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu announced on Thursday, is being headed by retired Justice Doris Okuwobi and will sit for six months.

It has been mandated to thoroughly investigate all verifiable claims of abuses and fatalities arising from SARS engagement in the state, with the objective to bring erring officers to justice and get compensation for the victims.

Meanwhile, the governor condemned the violence that marred the EndSARS protest in Surulere on Monday.

Speaking further, he announced that all the four erring police officers who fired live ammunition at peaceful protesters in Area C Police Command in Surulere have been identified and are currently facing an orderly room trial that is being monitored by the government.

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Molten Super Touch Official USAV NFHS Game Ball

Molten’s Super Touch is the official volleyball of USA Volleyball and is the ball of choice for numerous state associations, high schools and junior volleyball clubs across the nation.

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Molten Super Touch volleyballs feature a premium Japanese leather cover and uni-bladder cotton wrapped construction to provide a consistent, quality touch with every contact. Designed for maximum durability, the Super Touch will consistently withstand the daily demands of elite competition.

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During these uncertain times, how can we help?

As the world leader in volunteerism we feel a responsibility to unite our broader community, and to use this moment to become stronger.

See below to access our COVID-19 Resource Hub, and to explore our growing directory of COVID-19-specific and virtual volunteering opportunities.
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The First Tee of Greater Austin

The First Tee of Greater Austin relies heavily on volunteer support to make our programs successful. We offer programs for our participants year-round and have a wide range of opportunities to get involved. Most of our golf volunteer positions do not require golf experience. We provide our volunteers with the training and support necessary to have a successful volunteer experience.

Below are the times, dates, and locations of our Spring Programming Schedule. We would love to have you join our team as a coach or volunteer. If you are interested and available please contact Jennifer MacCurrach at marketing@firsteeaustin.org and visit our volunteer application form to find out more information at https://www.thefirstteeaustin.org/ways-to-give/volunteer/

LOCATION: Blackhawk Golf Course 2714 Kelly Lane, Pflugerville, 78766

DAYS: Monday and Friday (different students at each class)

DATE: February 15, 2021 to May 14

TIME and SKILL LEVEL: 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM (Beginner to moderate proficiency level)

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A local chapter of The First Tee National Organization, The First Tee of Greater Austin's vision is based on the unwavering belief that: 1. We can enrich kids' lives with lessons taught through the game of golf. It is our goal that participants not only learn the life-long game of golf, but that they also acquire personal assets--such as resiliency, self-worth and a sense of integrity and responsibility--which will help them develop long-term physical, mental and social health. 2. Kids from all walks of life should have a place to learn and play. Consequently, our purpose is to introduce kids of all walks of life to the game of golf; and to create facilities and programs that make golf more affordable and accessible. 3. The First Tee of Greater Austin is in need of good mentor/coaches to help teach these valuable lessons in our weekly golf lessons.

The First Tee of Greater Austin is a nationally-affiliated, PGA, LPGA, Augusta National Golf Course, PGA America and USGA endorsed not-for-profit organization that strives to:

Make the seemingly exclusive game of golf all inclusive, accessible and fun for Austin-area elementary, middle and high school youth
Develop in each child life skills related to interpersonal communication, goal setting, healthy behaviors, dealing with adversity and problem solving
Recruit, manage and develop the best coaches, mentors and volunteers available
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WELD Racing brings its application flexible racing technology to the street with a budget-friendly three-piece modular wheel using a unique welded assembly process. This wheel has the classic WELD Racing look and continues the WELD Racing tradition utilizing a forged billet center and cold forged rims. This unique wheel offers 3 mounting pad heights to clear specific drum and multi-piston opposed calipers.

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EVE Valkyrie Dev Talks Origins, Progression Systems & VR Tech

EVE Valkyrie has received a great deal of coverage from VRFocus over the past few weeks due to a commendable outing at EVE Fanfest 2014, and that train is not likely to be derailed anytime soon. As the poster child for virtual reality (VR) videogaming it’s important to present a realistic image of the difficulties faced in developing the title and the path that it’s taking to get to market. Lead Programmer Sigurdur ‘Siggi’ Gunnarsson doesn’t shy away from either of these aspects when it comes to EVE Valkyrie.

One of the founding two members of the EVE Valkyrie development team, working with Rob Clarke on what was originally known as EVE VR, Siggi spoke with VRFocus at EVE Fanfest 2014. Clearly enthusiastic about the technology and the responsibility that comes with developing one of the first high-profile releases for VR, Siggi takes the conversation far beyond EVE Valkyrie and into the ideals behind VR in general. The full interview can be seen below and VRFocus will bring you much more on EVE Valkyrie this week.


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Summit X Snowboarding Gets VR Demo

Last week VRFocus reported on the launch of House of Secret’s virtual reality (VR) snowboarding demo. At the time it was perhaps the first snowboarding experience to be available for a VR head-mounted display (HMD). Just a short while later and another snowboarding title has launched a demo compatible with Oculus Rift VR HMD. That title is Summit X Snowboarding, a PC port of an iOS and Android title from Free Range Games.

The demo is currently available for free over at the official Oculus VR Share Beta. As the developer explains, it has been created as a proof of concept using a single mountain from the full title. Players can journey down the course, performing tricks and stunts as they explore. As well as integration with the Oculus Rift second development kit’s (DK2) positional tracking, the demo features support for Xbox controllers and even a hands-free, head-only control scheme.

Players can race against pre-recorded ghosts in this version, although asynchronos multiplayer has been left out for now. It’s currently not clear is the developer intends to push on with developing the full version of Summit X Snowboarding for release on PC or create this as a simple tech demo. VRFocus will continue to follow any and all applications of VR, reporting back with any further updates.


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New To VR: Use Your Head And Unleash Laser Fire In Vektron Revenge

Whenever you see the word ‘Tron’ as part of a videogame’s name you naturally think it has something to do with classic 1982 Disney film about videogames, computers and in the case of the MCP the danger of a computer that can think and indeed act for itself. Of course most of the time this is not the case, but with new virtual reality (VR) videogame Vektron Revenge there is some piece of common ground and maybe even a little with Captain N.

Vektron RevengeVektron Revenge’s story begins as your character comes across an old arcade machine, and on closer inspection, you get pulled into the action quite literally as you’re sucked through the screen into a world of bright colours and polygonal enemies. At that point game play begins as you engage in a classic arcade-style battle for survival: three lives, no continues, make the biggest score you can. It is up to you to manoeuvre your automatically firing ship around the field of play through head movements, collecting power-ups and dishing out destruction.

Originally developed by Ludovic Texier as a Gear VR submission for the recent Oculus Mobile VR Jam, Vektron Revenge is now available to play on both the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 head-mounted displays (HMDs) and is downloadable from the Oculus VR Share platform.

VRFocus will continue to bring you a regular dose of new videogames, experiences and apps that are available for you to try in VR.


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Control Flight Sims With Greater Precision Using Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS Flight Pack

Thrustmaster is one of the leading companies behind flight stick peripherals, with a catalogue of products for PC and console gamers. Last month it launched the T.16000M, bundling the device with Frontier Developments Elite Dangerous Arena title. Now Thrustmaster has announced the T.16000M FCS Flight Pack which comes bundled with throttle and rudder pedals.

The T.16000M flight stick comes with Thrustmaster’s latest features, including its H.E.A.R.T (HallEffect Accurate Technology) technology, an ambidextrous design for both right-handed and left-handed pilots, 16 action buttons, 4 independent axes, an ergonomic trigger, a multidirectional hat, a wide hand rest and a weighted base.

The T.16000M FCS Flight Pack

While the TWCS Throttle comes equipped with S.M.A.R.T technology, consisting of an exclusive slide rails system for smooth and precise throttle movements. The TWCS Throttle offers 5 axes, 14 action buttons, one mini-stick, one toggle rudder, one rotary radio antenna control wheel, and a connector for the TFRP rudder pedals system.

Finishing off the system are the TFRP Rudder Pedals. The rudder employs a system of 4 slide rails for smooth, high-precision motions, as well as a self-centering rudder axis for re-centering. The pedals’ heel-rests are also removable: with them removed, players control the rudder using the ball of their foot, heel on the floor; while with the heel-rests in place, they can rest their entire foot on the pedal.

Thrustmaster has also added a software element to the T.16000M FCS Flight Pack: T.A.R.G.E.T, which stands for Thrustmaster Advanced pRogramming Graphical EdiTor. With it users can combine the pack’s different hardware components so that they are recognized as a single USB device. Each component can be configured according to the needs of the user and/or of the game being played, all via a drag and drop system.

The T.16000M FCS Flight Pack was demoed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) back in June, alongside Elite Dangerous using the Oculus Rift headset. The system will go on sale next month with a suggested retail price of $199.99 USD.

VRFocus will continue its coverage of Thrustmaster, reporting back with any further announcements.


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The White House Will Be Forced to ‘Investigate’ a Joke From ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

Last week, ABC issued an apology for a child’s remark about China from the October 16 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Nevertheless, a petition calling for the White House to “investigate” the show continued to grow, and it has now acquired the 100,000 signatures required for the Obama administration to comment on the incident.

In the original segment, “Kids’ Table”, Kimmel asked a bunch of six- and seven-year-olds what the US should do about its $1.3 trillion debt to China. One child replied, “Kill everyone in China,” which Kimmel laughed at, ultimately ending the segment with, “Well, this has been an interesting edition of Kids Table – the Lord of the Flies edition.” ABC apologized for the segment, stating, “We would never purposefully broadcast anything to upset the Chinese community, Asian community, anyone of Chinese descent or any community at large.” The comment has been removed from the online videos and will be cut from future broadcasts of the episode.

It’s unclear, then, what the petition is aiming to achieve. The full text of the petition reads:

I was very disturbed by Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Kids Table’ show. It was aired on ABC recently and talked about killing all the Chinese so that the states do not need to pay back their debts to China. The kids might not know anything better. However, Jimmy Kimmel and ABC’s management are adults. They had a choice not to air this racist program, which promotes racial hatred. The program is totally unacceptable and it must be cut. A sincere apology must be issued. It is extremely distasteful and this is the same rhetoric used in Nazi Germany against Jewish people. Please immediately cut the show and issue a formal apology.

 The original clip of the segment is below.

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THE leader of the Church of England has called for one of the most powerful atheist tracts in modern literature to be used as part of pupils' religious education.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, pictured below, advocated pupils studying Philip Pullman's controversial trilogy His Dark Materials at an address to religious leaders and academics hosted by Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Harlech-educated Pullman's Whitbread-winning trilogy - now a stage hit - has been branded anti-Christian propaganda by critics.

The Catholic Herald condemned his work, which reverses Milton's tale of the war in heaven, as "fit for the bonfire".

Rupert Kaye, chief executive of the Association of Christian Teachers, said Pullman's "blasphemy is shameless".

But the Church in Wales yesterday issued a statement quoting from the Archbishop's lecture to signal its agreement with his position.

A spokesperson said, "The Church in Wales would be in agreement with the Archbishop of Canterbury in his insistence, 'That religious education should include serious examination of what loss of faith involves and what are the elements of belief that provoke doubt and conflict is surely axiomatic. But it is in showing how religious beliefs sustain themselves in such circumstances that we best educate students in a critical understanding of their own faith and a critical understanding of faith in general'."

The spokesman continued: "The three pillars of Anglicanism are scripture, reason and tradition and all three should surely be part of what religious education is about."

Educationalists also welcomed the Ystradgynlais-born Archbishop's suggestion.

Rhys Williams, communications director for the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Cymru, who was head of English at Lampeter Comprehensive School for 13 years, described the Archbishop's comments as those of a "mature and confident churchman".

Mr Williams, who attends Bethel Parc-y-Rhos Chapel, in Cwmann, Lampeter, said, "As Alfred Tennyson said in the Victorian era, 'There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds'. We shouldn't be agitated about this - Dr Rowan Williams's response is one of a mature and confident churchman.

"It implies a lack of confidence if you say because Pullman questions Christian beliefs he should be excluded from the syllabus."

Dr Williams said Pullman's tale of Lyra and Will could help address the "inadequacies" of some religious education courses.

"To see large school parties in the audience of the Pullman plays at the National Theatre is vastly encouraging.

"I only hope that teachers are equipped to tease out what in Pullman's world is and is not reflective of Christian teaching as Christians understand it."

Anthea Parker, head of Religious Education at Whitchurch High School in Cardiff, said Pullman's trilogy is not currently used as part of the curriculum, but agreed that schools should take on board the Archbishop's comments.

"If children read a book it doesn't mean they will automatically believe everything, but if it opens their mind and makes them think about their own spirituality, that's fine.

"A lot of children outside RE lessons don't really think about what's beyond this world or what they believe in. We do our best in RE but other than that they need to be reading other things too.

"So it may be that we will take extracts from some of these books and talk about what it means and use them in classes eventually."

But the Archbishop rejected a recent call for the teaching of atheism in schools by Blairite think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research.

"To speak as though atheism were a belief system alongside varieties of religious belief is simply a category mistake," he said.

Dr Williams recently saw the two plays of Pullman's work and will stage a public discussion with the author next Monday, following a joint television appearance last year.

Hilary Jones, manager of the library at St Cyres school in Penarth, said her stocks the Pullman trilogy and she would encourage her own children to read the works.

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Gorillas in Our Midst

For 15 years after the surprise birth of a baby gorilla, life in the National Zoo’s Great Ape House was calm. More babies were born, the leader of the troop was retired, a new leader took his place. Then tragedy struck—twice—leaving the gorillas leaderles

It was a cold winter day at the National Zoo, and Lisa Stevens, curator of the Great Ape House, had placed a building closed sign at the entrance.

History was going to be made this day. Fifteen years earlier, a remarkable event had occurred in the building, and the saga now was coming full circle.

The silverback, or leader, of the zoo’s gorilla troop back in 1992 was a ten-year-old named Gus. Then, as now, there were two adult female gorillas, Mandara and Haloko. Mandara was a sleek ten-year-old who had come from the Milwaukee Zoo. Haloko, at 25, was at the upper end of breeding age; she had a standoffish manner that matched her pointy look, like some character from a George Lucas movie. Having not produced a baby in ten years, she was not considered a potential mother.

But on the morning of April 11, 1992, Lisa Stevens was stunned to find Haloko flat on her back, exhausted from giving birth. And her baby—to be named Baraka—was nursing happily at the breast of Mandara.

A year earlier, Mandara had given birth to her own little boy, Kejana—the first successful gorilla birth at the National Zoo in 20 years. Now, as Stevens took in the scene, she worried: Could Mandara continue to nurse both infants? Would one have to be raised by humans?

As Mandara nursed Baraka, her own infant, Kejana, climbed onto the exhausted Haloko and sat on her lap. From that point on, the two mothers in effect exchanged babies. Haloko took over raising Kejana, and Mandara raised Baraka. Zoologists from far and wide called to get reports on one of the most unusual captive-gorilla stories in the annals of zoos.

As the two boys grew up at the National Zoo, it seemed clear that Baraka, the son of Gus and Haloko, was dominant over his older half-brother Kejana. To those at the Ape House, the chest-beating Baraka seemed born to be a leader, a silverback.

In time, Gus and Mandy, as Mandara was known, produced two more gorillas—Kigali, a girl, and K’Tembe, another boy. With four offspring living there, Gus had effectively fathered himself out of the National Zoo.

The American Zoo and Aquarium Association in 1982 had created organizations of experts for the major species of zoo animals. Each committee was called a Species Survival Plan, or SSP. The gorilla SSP would meet each September at the association’s annual convention. In 1997 the group decided that Gus needed to expand his gene pool. The SSP didn’t want too many gorillas born of the same pairing. The members recommended that Gus and Kejana, father and son, be moved to the Disney Animal Kingdom in Orlando.

To replace Gus as silverback, Stevens put a male named Kuja, who had come from Milwaukee with Mandy, into the main group from a separate enclosure. Kuja had been dominated by Gus for so long that Stevens wondered about his ability to lead. Kuja was quirky—he was playful for a gorilla and loved to toss toys to his keepers. He would spend hours just rocking. Kuja had odd tastes in food—he was the only gorilla who wouldn’t eat corn on the cob.

Living in a smaller enclosure next to the main troop was Mopaya, a fearsome older gorilla known by the nickname Mopie. Despite the nickname, he weighed some 460 pounds and had a chilling stare. If Kuja couldn’t lead the group, Stevens figured, she would give Mopie a chance.

Stevens’s confidence in Kuja was rewarded. While he remained a bit of an oddball, he matured into the group’s leader, fathering two more boys—Kwame and Kojo—with Mandara. The family functioned well for more than a decade.

With Kuja in place as the silverback, there was no role for Baraka at the National Zoo. In 2004, the SSP recommended that Baraka be sent to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. It had invested in gorilla facilities and become known as a way station for male gorillas awaiting openings to be silverbacks at other zoos. So Baraka moved to Omaha, where he lived the solitary life of a young bachelor.

Left behind were Kuja, sons Kwame and Kojo, the adult females Mandara and Haloko, and Gus’s daughter, Kigali.

That was how the National Zoo’s gorilla troop stood a year ago, on March 31, 2006, when Senator Bill Frist arrived at the zoo’s veterinary hospital to perform a symbolic physical examination of Kuja. Cameras snapped pictures of the heart surgeon turned senator. Zoo officials saw Frist’s visits as good photo opportunities. The real work was done by the zoo’s consulting cardiologist for the primates, Steve Rosenthal, along with zoo veterinarian Suzan Murray.

Kuja passed his physical. But a few weeks later Stevens noticed that he had developed a cough and his activity had declined. He began leaving his food untouched and seemed uninterested even in the popcorn strewn about by keepers. “He was clearly ill,” Stevens says.

On June 20 Murray conducted an ultrasound of Kuja’s heart. It was pumping blood at a fraction of the normal rate. At 23, Kuja was suffering from heart disease. Medications were prescribed, but getting Kuja to take them was hard because of his poor appetite and unpredictable tastes.

“Any time we could get medicine in him, it was a major accomplishment,” Stevens says. One of Kuja’s peculiarities was that he liked to eat things that were colored red. Zoo staffers put the pills in red casings, and sometimes he would take them.

As Kuja’s strength waned, the only occupants of the Great Ape House who didn’t appear sad were his sons, Kwame and Kojo, who began taking swats at their weakened father. When Kuja was moved to a quarantine area, the boys flexed their muscles and beat their chests.

By June 30 Kuja had stopped eating.

There seemed to be one chance to save him. In Alabama, a gorilla named Babec had survived after a specialized crew from the University of Alabama at Birmingham successfully implanted something similar to a pacemaker.

“We knew Kuja was in heart failure,” says Stevens. “We weighed all the options and brought in consultants and experts.” Zoo director John Berry kept a close eye on the situation. “We knew it was high risk,” he says. “But the more we heard about it, we became increasingly optimistic.”

The University of Alabama crew was led by Dr. G. Neal Kay, who had successfully treated Babec. He planned to implant a pacemaker to resynchronize Kuja’s heart and restore its ability to contract.

Kuja was sedated by a dart and moved to the zoo hospital’s operating room. A wooden operating table was built because surgeons feared that a standard metal one would interfere with the electrical pacemaker.

As Stevens and Berry watched on a monitor outside the operating room, the doctors anesthetized Kuja and made an incision through which they could reach his heart muscles. But shortly after they attached the first lead of the pacemaker to the ventricle chamber, Kuja’s heart stopped. For nearly 30 minutes, the doctors attempted to shock him back to life. But the silverback was dead.

After tissue samples were saved for the pathology report, Kuja was sent out for rendering.

The behavior of the two young gorillas—Kwame and Kojo—had convinced Stevens that the adult void in the Great Ape House had to be filled. Notwithstanding their chest-beating, they were too young for either to take on the job of silverback. “They needed leadership,” Stevens says.

The dark brown hair of male gorillas begins to turn white around the age of 12, marking their transition into adulthood. Male gorillas begin to breed at that age. Females, whose hair remains dark, begin breeding around age ten. Gorillas live in families that can range in size from five to 25. Each family is dominated by a male silverback who rules either until death or until he is supplanted by a younger, stronger silverback. Males who don’t become dominant usually go off to live by themselves or with other males.

The dominant silverback mediates conflicts, defends the group, and directs its movement from one place to another. When Kwame and Kojo reach silverback age, they will leave the National Zoo and go perhaps to another zoo family whose leader has died. Silverbacks that don’t have families are often placed in small “bachelor” groups of males.

Lisa Stevens knew it would not be healthy for her gorilla family to be without a legitimate silverback too long. Kwame at the time was only six, and Kojo only four.

As she pondered the next step, Stevens put in calls to the Memphis Zoo, where Kuja had been born, and to the Milwaukee Zoo, where he had lived before coming to Washington, to let them know the news.

Stevens thought it would be best, after Kuja’s month long illness, to get Mopie into the family as quickly as possible. Even though Mopie had lived for several years with Haloko, Stevens followed procedures for integrating a new silverback into a troop. She was most concerned about the two youngsters, Kojo and Kwame, the latter almost certainly a future silverback. Stevens closed the Ape House to the public while she watched how Mopie would interact with the clan.

No sooner had Mopie entered than all hell broke loose. Mandara and her offspring, Kwame, Kojo, and Kigali, began running and swatting at the interloper. “There was a lot of chasing,” Stevens says. In the midst of it all, Mopie collapsed, falling face-forward onto the floor.

Stevens put in an emergency call for the vets while she and her staff tried to keep the other gorillas away. It took nearly half an hour to get them out and shut the doors so the vets could examine Mopie.

They were too late—Mopie was dead. In the space of three days, Stevens had lost two of the animals closest to her. And the gorilla troop was leaderless.

“We were just in shock,” Berry recalls. “Poor Lisa and the whole crew, it shook them to their roots losing two gorillas in three days. There is an emotional bond between a keeper and an animal that is difficult for people who don’t work around animals to understand.”

Stevens says she grieved as intensely for Kuja and Mopie as she had for her 84-year-old father, who had been buried at Arlington National Cemetery on July 11.

Although the zoo has been criticized in recent years for the deaths of a lot of animals, scientists observed that the heart problems of Kuja and Mopie seemed to be part of a national trend, possibly having to do with the diet fed to captive gorillas. They were the fourth and fifth US gorillas to die of heart disease last year. Scientists have no definitive answers but believe the deaths are related to either the stress of captivity or perhaps the unavailability of some natural foods that gorillas in the wild can eat. The details of Mopie’s death were added to the pages of documents being studied to discover the cause of heart disease among the gorillas of North America.

Berry says more bad publicity about the deaths of zoo animals was the least of his worries. He knew the staff had done everything possible to save Kuja and that Mopie’s death was unpredictable.

“Who’s to say Mopie wouldn’t have had the same massive coronary that week anyway?” he says. “All we can do is provide the highest-quality care and give it our best shot. That is what we did.”

Early in July, zoo officials released the news that a second gorilla had died and waited for a storm of publicity. It didn’t come.

Stevens worried more about the gorillas than about public reaction. She now was left with a truncated family composed of three females and two young males. She put in a call to Dan Wharton, then the chair of the Species Survival Plan in New York City, and told him everything that had happened.

“We are going to need a new silverback,” she said, noting that the two boys already were acting surly and fighting for supremacy. “They need leadership.”

Wharton said the SSP would meet in September and could make a decision then.

Looking through a list of the 362 gorillas in captivity in North America, Stevens’s eyes stopped at the name of Baraka, still living by himself in Omaha after two years.

It would be rare to bring a gorilla who had been a junior member of a troop back to be the silverback, but it seemed worth a try. The move would have to be approved by the SSP. Baraka would not be able to breed with Kigali, his half-sister, or Haloko, his mother. But he had no genetic link to Mandara, so that would be fine.

In September the SSP met in Tampa and approved the transfer of Baraka from Omaha to Washington. Stevens told zookeeper Mark Zajac to fly to Omaha and bring Baraka back.

In Omaha, Zajac helped the zoo staff load Baraka into a square white truck designed for gorilla transport and, with three Omaha zoo staffers, accompanied him on the ride back, giving him treats at every rest stop.

Baraka fared well during the 20-hour drive from Nebraska. In Washington the doors of the truck were opened and a forklift moved his cage into the zoo’s quarantine area for the next 30 days.

Zoo staff did not have to wonder long whether Baraka would remember his old home. Before leaving Washington, Baraka had been sedated with a dart gun by a zoo vet named Carlos Sanchez. When Sanchez stopped by to see his old friend, Baraka erupted in a tantrum that included throwing things at the vet.

“Once a gorilla is darted, they don’t forget it,” Stevens says.

When the 30-day quarantine was up, it was time to reintroduce Baraka to the other gorillas. Stevens put the building closed sign at the entrance of the Great Ape House. Baraka was reintroduced first to his birth mother, Haloko, now 39 years old. Baraka made several rushes by her to assert his dominance; all were met with motherly swats of disapproval.

Next Stevens brought his sister, Kigali, into the act. Within minutes they seemed to have reestablished their old relationship. While Haloko kept her distance from her 400-pound son, Kigali showed no fear, and before long all three were lying on their backs, dreaming gorilla dreams.

The next day was Kwame’s turn. Stevens was most concerned about how Baraka would get along with the two boys—and how long Kwame and Kojo would stay in the main troop. She could put them in their own bachelor group if need be. But for now the introductions went smoothly.

Finally it came time for Baraka to face Mandara, the gorilla who had nursed him as an infant and delivered half a dozen babies of her own.

The initial meeting was intense. Baraka and Mandara hooted and chased each other around for hours, convincing Stevens that they should be separated for a while. After a week off, she put them back together again. This time they calmed down. The family was back together. Baraka was home.

This spring and summer the family is on display for all to see.

National editor Kim Eisler has been writing about the National Zoo for more than a decade. His 1995 article on the formation of Washington’s gorilla family, “Gorillas Just Want to Have Fun,” can be found here.

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Powers That Will Be

Rising stars who may be the heavy hitters of tomorrow

Breakout kid Duke Chung

Breakout Kid

In the old days, if you had a problem with a product, you called an 800 number and waited through ads and boring music for an operator to help.

Now, using software created by Vienna-based Parature, companies such as Home Depot and Office Depot deliver help online. The service saves companies money by cutting their calls and labor costs. And it can save customers time and frustration, says Parature CEO Duke Chung: “People don’t want to wait for a customer center to open. They want it now, 24/7.”

While attending Cornell, Chung—who grew up in Potomac—created software for college students to post events online. After graduation, he returned to Washington and pitched his ideas for moving this technology into the marketplace.

Today Chung, 29, is a rising star in Northern Virginia’s dot-com industry, which is flexing muscle again after short-circuiting in the late 1990s. Seven-year-old Parature—short for “paradigm of the future”—has some 500 customers ranging from Advantage rental cars to the Weather Channel. The $13.5 million it secured from venture capitalists Valhalla Partners and Sierra Ventures was seen as a breakout.

“We see our market as literally every business,” Chung says. “We’re just getting started.”

—Drew Bratcher

Hot Read

Nothing gets Jeff Kleinman going like a good story. He devoured Milton’s Paradise Lost in one rhapsodic weekend. He bawled his eyes out reading T.H. White’s The Once and Future King.

This enthusiasm has made Folio, Kleinman’s start-up literary agency, one of the hottest shops in town. Of Robert Hicks’s novel The Widow of the South—which Kleinman sold to Warner Books for six figures—he says, “I’m so passionate about it, it makes my fingernails ache and my hair hurt.”

Kleinman—a 41-year-old who cut his chops at the DC literary agency Graybill & English until it closed in 2006—insists he’s not a salesman. He calls what he does “sharing something I love with people I think will love it, too.” But in its first year, Folio sold 125 books to publishers from Random House to Penguin. Each day, book proposals from as many as 50 writers hit his desk.

“I have no idea how they ever hear about me,” he says. “Maybe they find my name on a bathroom wall.”

—Drew Bratcher

Jair Lynch started Jain Lynch Companies in his bedroom with only a laptop and a cell phone.

New Voice For Old Neighborhoods

Jair Lynch, 36, came home to Washington in 1997 with a silver medal in gymnastics from the 1996 Olympics, a Stanford degree in civil engineering and urban design, and a vision for revitalizing historic neighborhoods.

He bought a house in DC’s Shaw and started the Jair Lynch Companies in his bedroom with a laptop, a cell phone, and a staff of one—himself. Lynch now plans, builds, rehabs, and finances projects all over the city. District officials hired him to help develop a plan to revitalize the Southwest waterfront.

Many of his projects are private-public partnerships. Lynch says he learned the business from construction and finance veterans. What have they learned from him? The importance of preserving the soul of a neighborhood. A façade-improvement property that Lynch developed on Georgia Avenue was honored by the American Institute of Architects for sparking a renaissance in the area near the District-Maryland border.

He’s passionate about building neighborhoods integrated by race, class, and age, and he’s pushing for innovative projects that preserve a sense of place.

That’s the lesson he learned in competitive gymnastics: “You can’t win with the same old routine. You need to come up with something more exciting.”

—Leslie Milk

Lost Treasures

If a celebrated painting hangs in a dark room and no one sees it, is it really a masterpiece?

Philip Brookman, the Corcoran Gallery’s new chief curator, refuses to consider that conundrum. For 13 years, Brookman stewarded the museum’s photography and media-arts exhibits. Last year, he moved into the top curatorial job. His new mission: to reclaim and renovate old rooms, adding as much as 70,000 square feet of exhibition space for treasures now stored out of sight.

“The more art is accessible,” he says, “the more different types of people will come.”

In his new job, Brookman will still curate and write. On top of this fall’s Annie Leibovitz and Ansel Adams exhibits, the gallery will showcase the late Richard Avedon’s portraits of power in 2008.

“Phil’s thought to be one of the great photo curators,” says Corcoran director Paul Greenhalgh. “But he’s a man with universal knowledge.”

—Ruth Samuelson

Standing Tall

After 16 years as a lobbyist for the American Cancer Society, Kerrie Wilson saw an ad seeking an executive director for Reston Interfaith, a charity providing shelter, childcare, and other services to the needy. Though she had never led a nonprofit or worked for a community-based group, she was drawn to the mission.

In 2002, a year after she was hired, Herndon officials asked for help with the men hanging out on a main street looking for day work. Wilson’s group and town officials agreed to set up a job site and training center for day laborers, setting off a firestorm. Opponents packed town meetings to blast the idea that tax dollars would support day laborers—most of whom, they claimed, were illegal immigrants.

The center opened in 2005, but pressure mounted to check the immigration status of workers who used it. She said that was the job of their employers: “I refused to get drawn into the immigration debate.”

Herndon now plans to close the center. Although Wilson lost the battle, her tough stand won her admirers. Last year, the Meyer Foundation honored her as one of Washington’s up-and-coming nonprofit leaders.

Says Wilson: “I’m motivated every day by being able to go home at night saying that I made a difference.”

—Mary Clare Fleury

Lindsay Buscher opened Urban Chic in Georgetown.

Almost Famous

When Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria says your boutique is one of the best she’s ever visited and the Bush twins are regulars, you can consider your shop a success.

But when Lindsay Buscher opened the fashionably girly Urban Chic in Georgetown four years ago, she was just hoping to stay afloat. Buscher has always loved fashion—she remembers saving up for a pair of Guess jeans when she was 13—but the Long Island native never considered it a career possibility. “I was one of those people who didn’t know what to do,” she says, “so I just kept going to school.” After she got a master’s in political science, her husband nudged her to think about a boutique. Her father-in-law bankrolled the startup.

Buscher opened over-budget and facing tough competition, but her mix of designers in a range of sizes (many boutiques ignore anything over a size ten) caught on with customers—and celebrities.

A couple of years later, Buscher started a second Urban Chic south of Columbia, and in September she unveiled her biggest store yet—for women’s, men’s, baby, and maternity clothing, plus shoes—in Baltimore. Though she’s expecting a second child in February (daughter Emerson is two), she’s planning four more boutiques—in Annapolis, Bethesda, the upcoming National Harbor in Prince George’s County, and Orlando, Florida.

By 2009, Buscher, 30, hopes to expand to New York City and California. That should make Hollywood starlets like Longoria happy.

—Ann Limpert

Big Plans

Though Harriet Tregoning grew up within walking distance of her high school in a St. Louis suburb, she had to get there by bus because an interstate highway cut off the school from her house. It was a pleasant revelation when she went to Washington University in the city’s downtown, where she could bike to campus and walk to nearby shops and parks. “I’ve never lived anywhere but a city since,” she says.

Tregoning, recruited by Mayor Adrian Fenty to head DC’s Office of Planning, brings with her experience at the Environmental Protection Agency and as a Cabinet secretary for “smart growth” under former Maryland governor Parris Glendening.

DC’s planning office oversees historic preservation and reviews plans for large-scale developments. That means she’ll be mixing it up with developers on the Southwest waterfront, the area around the new baseball stadium, and St. Elizabeths Hospital. Her goal, she says, is to make the city more transit-oriented, more walkable, more environmentally friendly, and more affordable for the middle class.

—Larry Van Dyne

Moving Onto Campus

When Steven Knapp was a top administrator at Johns Hopkins University, he lived on a small sheep farm 20 miles north of Baltimore. Now, having been named president of George Washington University, he’ll walk to work. The university is renovating a historic Foggy Bottom building—once the F Street Club—as its presidential residence. He will be the first president to live on campus.

GW, with 24,000 students, is among the nation’s largest private universities, and its 8,000 employees make it DC’s largest private employer. It’s very much a big-city institution—just like Hopkins, where Knapp spent 13 years as dean of arts and sciences and provost after a career as an English professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

With his broad experience at leading universities, one of Knapp’s jobs is to raise GW’s standing as a research institution. Its endowment of just over $1 billion is smaller than that of many universities its size, so expect Knapp to spend lots of time raising money. “Our endowment,” he says, “is not as large as our aspirations.”

—Larry Van Dyne

Art of the Deal

When Anne Corbett went to work for the nonprofit Cultural Development Corporation in 1998, she was the only employee and managed a budget of $50,000. Today Corbett oversees ten staffers and $1 million. In the past decade, she’s had her hand in almost every new arts facility in downtown DC.

Corbett says her role is to be a matchmaker between the arts and business communities. Acting as a real-estate broker and advocate, she helps arts organizations and artists find space. Among the dozens that owe thanks to CuDC are GALA Hispanic Theatre, the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Artomatic.

Last year CuDC bought the debt-ridden Source Theatre on 14th Street, saving it from becoming a bar and pool hall. The group is restoring Source’s building as a new performing-arts venue.

In 2006, CuDC expanded its reach into the suburbs, where it has forged partnerships with VisArts, a visual-arts center in the new Rockville Town Center, and Arlington’s Cultural Affairs Division.

“So many cities are becoming soulless, covered in Ann Taylor Lofts and TGI Fridays,” says Corbett. “It’s rewarding to shape the city in a way that makes it feel authentic.”

—Mary Clare Fleury

Beer Popsicles and Haute Pizza in the Suburbs

Ten years ago, Michael Babin felt stuck.

A lobbyist by day and Georgetown law student by night, he’d lost interest in both career paths. When a professor asked him to craft a plan for a small business, he indulged his passion for food and wrote about opening a restaurant, a small dining room in Alexandria.

As an undergrad at Yale, Babin had outfitted his tiny dorm room with a two-burner stove. Now he wondered if he could turn his class project into a real restaurant. “I thought, ‘This is completely insane,’ ” Babin recalls. But chef/restaurateur Ann Cashion’s endorsement gave him the confidence to go for it.

In 1997, the funky Evening Star Cafe was born in Alexandria’s Del Ray. Babin’s Neighborhood Restaurant Group has since opened five more spots—all original-thinking, all in Northern Virginia. There’s Vermilion, an Old Town destination starring talented chef Anthony Chittum; Tallula, a wine-centric Lyon Park bistro with a gastro-pub, EatBar, next door; and Buzz, an all-dessert bakery and lounge in Alexandria across from Rustico, an haute-pizza joint.

The goal, says Babin, is “to embed each restaurant in the neighborhood.” These places deliver details you’d never see at a chain: house-made hot dogs, beer popsicles, and a by-the-glass wine list with more than 70 boutique choices.

On the drawing board are more fresh ideas: a chef-run butcher shop as well as a farm (with restaurant) in the Virginia countryside that will supply Babin’s kitchens.

—Ann Limpert

Another Katharine the Great?

Katharine Weymouth, head of advertising at the Washington Post, is considered the “heiress apparent” of the area’s preeminent family business. Namesake of the late Katharine Graham, niece of Post Company CEO Don Graham, and daughter of globetrotting Newsweek correspondent Lally Weymouth, she is the only one of Kay Graham’s grandchildren who seems interested in running the company.

Weymouth, 41, is no trust-fund brat or Georgetown social climber. A divorced mother of three children under eight, Weymouth lives in Chevy Chase DC and says she prefers “to stay out of the limelight.” She studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Law School and worked for the high-powered Williams & Connolly law firm. In 1996, when the firm agreed to lend a lawyer to the Post’s general counsel’s office, Weymouth volunteered. “What a perfect way to dip my toe in the water,” she said then.

Eleven years later, she won’t talk to the press about whether she’ll become CEO when Don Graham, 62, exits. In the meantime, Weymouth—who last year made $280,000 in salary and bonus—has her work cut out for her: Advertising generates more than half of the Post’s revenues, and it’s no secret that the Internet has cut into newspaper ads.

If the stress gets too much, she might distract herself with the Talking Heads, the influential punk band. Her aunt, Tina Weymouth, was a founding member.

—Alicia C. Shepard

More People To Watch

Andy Shallal. The Iraq-born restaurateur has a hit with his Busboys and Poets cafe and bookstore in DC’s U Street neighborhood. He added a second branch in Shirlington this summer and is planning others in DC and Hyattsville.

Victor MacFarlane. The head of a big San Francisco real-estate investment firm bought DC United, then announced a joint venture with JBG to redevelop nearly 100 properties in the area.

Kimberly Moore. The former George Mason intellectual-property professor was recently appointed to the US Court of Appeals—at 39, the third-youngest ever to sit on the federal judiciary.

John Deasy. He’s been on the job for only a year as schools chief in Prince George’s County, but his early initiatives have won praise.

Jim Dinegar. The new head of the Washington Board of Trade has pledged to make the alliance more of a player on local issues.

Ellen Weiss. In April, the 25-year veteran of NPR moved into the top news-management job at the powerhouse network, where she runs a staff of 400 and more than 50 hours of programs each week.

Ernie Jarvis. Son of Southeastern University president Charlene Drew Jarvis, he’s a rising star in commercial real estate.

Maureen Mahoney. The next Supreme Court nominee? An acclaimed appellate lawyer, she’s on the short list if a Republican takes the White House.

Thomas Matzzie. A guru on Internet strategy in politics and Washington director of

Matthew Quinn. Heads the seven-year-old Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which is making a difference with college scholarships for outstanding low-income students.

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An IRS supervisor working out of Washington was personally involved in scrutinizing applications from conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, according to a report by the Associated Press.

The report said that Holly Paz, until recently a top deputy in the division that handles such cases, says she reviewed 20 to 30 applications, a statement that would contradict earlier claims that the political targeting was limited to a small group of employees working out of the agency’s Cincinnati office.

Ms. Paz did not provide evidence to congressional investigators that the Obama administration was involved or that senior officials told workers to target conservative groups, however, according to the AP.

A recent audit by the agency’s inspector general blamed poor management and oversight for the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status during the past several years.

Ms. Paz reportedly told investigators that workers in Cincinnati talked about handling “tea party” cases but that she believed the term was shorthand for both conservative and liberal politically active groups.


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- The Washington Times - Friday, November 9, 2001

Great American tax-cut movement is alive and well

There's further proof that Tuesday's election was "No mandate for big government" beyond what you cite in your Nov. 8 editorial.

By a whopping margin of 59 percent to 41 percent, voters in Washington state approved Initiative 747, a ballot measure that limits the growth rate of property taxes there to 1 percent annually. Property tax increases beyond this limit would require approval by a majority of voters in the affected jurisdiction. In addition, Colorado voters turned down a variety of state and local measures that would have raised taxes or diverted funds for everything from monorails to jails.

The fact that I-747 prevailed in a politically liberal state like Washington is even more remarkable considering that the other forces arrayed against it outspent proponents of the measure by a 3-1 ratio. Their unsuccessful effort to sabotage tax limits sank to a new low, however, when opponents launched a slick ad campaign depicting I-747 as a slap in the face to firefighters the heroes of September 11.

Rather than push the electorate headlong into the arms of big government, the recent terrorist attacks reminded many voters of the principles that make our nation worth fighting for, chief among them personal economic freedom. Even after September 11 not to mention Nov. 6 the great American tax-limitation movement is alive and well.

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Readers respond to Clinton's ' terror is U.S. debt' speech

Former President Bill Clinton reasons that we are experiencing foreign terror on our own soil because of our history of internal terror slavery and the harsh treatment of American Indians ("Clinton calls terror a U.S. debt to past," Nov. 8). He also seems to think we Americans are suffering for the crusades, even though they were fought in the 11th and 12th centuries, long before the American founding. I hope the rest of America recognizes this prattle for what it is: good old Arkansas hogwash.

Wednesday's speech at Georgetown University was classic Clinton, an attempt to shift the blame for our current state of affairs away from his presidency. He says we need to pay more attention to our enemies and the way we are viewed by the rest of the world. Where was that attention during his presidency? He says we need to spread freedom and democracy. Which country did his administration successfully help democratize? He says we ought to pay for the education of the world's children because it is cheaper than going to war. I don't remember him proposing such a program during his presidency.

Oh yes, the former president also had the audacity to warn Americans that we must rid ourselves of our "arrogant self-righteousness." (He arrived 45 minutes late.) Don't we have an ambassadorship available? To Antarctica, perhaps?

Woodbridge, Va.

Your article "Clinton calls terror a U.S. debt to past" is inaccurate and misrepresentative of the speech Mr. Clinton gave at Georgetown University.

As a Georgetown student, I attended the former president's speech on Wednesday, and after reading your article, I was perplexed to see how his words could be construed in any way as a statement that the United States was somehow paying a debt to its past. In reality, Mr. Clinton was simply explaining the history of the use of terrorism, and he pointed to its use even within the United States regarding the treatment of American Indians and slaves. He used this as evidence that while terrorism has always existed, it has never prevailed.

Mr. Clinton's speech to a diverse crowd of students on campus provided hope and vision during a time in our history when we are all struggling to remain strong and have courage. Your story incorrectly implied meanings and unstated partisanship in a speech intended to lift our heads and embrace a positive future for our country.

So Bill Clinton thinks that when "people are kept in kind of a permanent state of collective immaturity it becomes quite easy for them to believe that someone else's success is the cause of their distress." It seems to me that is exactly the type of class-warfare tactic Mr. Clinton used to get elected and re-elected. He also talked about "the nature of truth," stating that God has limited us from knowing "the whole truth."

Perhaps he should ask God what the meaning of "is" is. Has this man no shame?

St. Louis

Bill Clinton's remarks to Georgetown University students, in which he opined that America is "paying a price today" for its past sins, were ignorant and twisted. They do, however, confirm America's inherent strength.

A country that survived eight years with this individual at its helm has little to fear from Osama bin Laden and his suicidal followers.

I agree with Bill Clinton that we are paying for our past but I believe that the past we are paying for is his presidency. Were it not for Mr. Clinton's lame, half-hearted responses to the various acts of terror committed during his tenure, we would not be in this current mess.

Where was Mr. Clinton when terrorists were blowing up embassies, barracks and ships containing members of our military and civil service? Unfortunately, I think our country will be paying for damage done by Mr. Clinton for years to come. Thank goodness we now have someone in office who can take care of the situation. Can you imagine Al Gore in the Oval Office right now?

I am an American, but I grew up in the Middle East and lived in Lebanon and Libya for several years. Bill Clinton's speech at Georgetown University neatly deflects his own direct responsibility for galvanizing Islamic terrorism and once again demonstrates his prowess at subverting the truth.

For many years, the extreme Islamic fundamentalists have labeled the United States as the "Great Satan." When the sordid details of the Monica Lewinsky affair were published globally on the Internet and broadcast by the worldwide media, Osama bin Laden and every other Islamic extremist could point to the president of the United States and the leader of the free world to validate their propaganda.

San Diego

It is shameful enough that former President Bill Clinton took the occasion of his speech at Georgetown University to act as a poster boy for the "America got what it deserves" crowd. But he showed his trademark state of denial and lack of shame when he said the U.S. government is "woefully" lacking on several key terrorism-prevention areas. Hello? Who was president for the past eight years and did nothing in those areas?

Hummelstown, Pa.

Well, well, well. Bill Clinton is still at it, trying to rewrite his legacy. He states that America is "woefully" ill-prepared. I think the reason we are somewhat ill-prepared is that he, as president, gutted the military and our intelligence-gathering efforts. His legacy is that he left us ill-prepared. We didn't get that way in 10 months.

Memphis, Tenn.

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“We have mapped the growth curve within our company and can show that we are flattening the curve.” said Kolterman, “We are excited to share that 29 team members have returned to work and are helping us make food for the country.”

Lincoln Premium Poultry has provided the opportunity for individuals over 65 to self-isolate at home, with pay.  “We will continue to do everything we can to support our team members during this time and will be handing out chicken for them to enjoy with their families this holiday weekend.” said Kolterman.

Lincoln Premium Poultry has implemented additional protection measures recommended by UNMC, including additional screening, strict mandatory use of masks, and additional deep cleaning.  The company had previously limited visitors to the facility, stopped food service and installed dividers on tables, provided further space between workers, implemented nightly intense cleaning interventions, is taking the temperature of all entering their facilities and had provided masks to their workforce.  They have also provided a $2/hour increase to all hourly workers, which began in March, and are regularly providing chicken for their team members.  This virus is not foodborne and cannot be transmitted through food or potable water.

“We will continue to have team members tested who show symptoms or who have been directly exposed,” said Kolterman, “and as we continue testing, our total will grow.  That being said, we are comfortable with the measured growth and will keep working to keep the curve flat.”

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