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Ahtna Support and Training Services, LLC
B-400947.2: May 15, 2009
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Ahtna Support and Training Services, LLC, of Anchorage, Alaska, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Goldbelt Falcon, LLC, of Newport News, Virginia, by the Department of the Army, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912NW-08-R-0013 for motor pool/support equipment operations services at Corpus Christi Army Depot, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Ahtna argues that the agency misevaluated past performance, and treated the protester and the awardee unequally in evaluating their experience operating a government motor pool.
We sustain the protest.
B-400947.2, Ahtna Support and Training Services, LLC, May 15, 2009
The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release.
Matter of: Ahtna Support and Training Services, LLC
Max D. Garner, Esq., and Thomas F. Klinkner, Esq., Birch, Horton, Bittner and Cherot, for the protester.
Antonio R. Franco, Esq., Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., and Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for Goldbelt Falcon, LLC, an intervenor.
Maj. Walter R. Dukes, and Alex Lopez, Esq., Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, for the agency.
Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph O. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
Protest is sustained where the agency evaluated the awardee and the protester unequally by crediting the awardee with the experience of its subcontractor, but not similarly crediting the protester with the experience of its subcontractor, even though the agency viewed both subcontractors as having relevant experience.
Ahtna Support and Training Services, LLC, of Anchorage, Alaska, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Goldbelt Falcon, LLC, of Newport News, Virginia, by the Department of the Army, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912NW'08'R-0013 for motor pool/support equipment operations services at Corpus Christi Army Depot, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Ahtna argues that the agency misevaluated past performance, and treated the protester and the awardee unequally in evaluating their experience operating a government motor pool.
The Army issued the RFP on May 27, 2008, seeking proposals to operate the motor pool at Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD), which controls over 390 vehicles (including mobile equipment, such as forklifts and pallet stackers). The Performance Work Statement described several core duties, which included dispatching vehicles and equipment; training, testing, and licensing vehicle operators;[1] managing a parts store; and removing airfield debris. RFP at 24. The solicitation was set aside for participants in the Small Business Administration's section 8(a) program.[2] The resulting contract was to have a base term of 1 year, and four annual option periods.
The RFP provided for award to be made based on an evaluation of three factors, listed in descending order of importance: technical capability, past performance, and price. The past performance factor was divided into three subfactors, also listed in descending order of importance: relative experience in motor pool management and operation,[3] quality of services, and customer satisfaction. RFP at 227-28. Thus, the past performance factor addressed both the offerors' experience and their past performance.
The RFP instructed each offeror to submit past performance information on its five most relevant prior contracts, including contracts performed by the offeror, its subcontractors, or its mentor/prot-g- partners. For each identified contract, the offeror was also instructed to explain the relevance of the past performance to the CCAD contract. RFP at 223.
The Army received initial proposals from five firms, including Goldbelt and Ahtna.
In its proposal, Goldbelt provided information on three contracts it had performed, and on two contracts performed by its subcontractor, ICI Services, LLC. Agency Report (AR), Tab E, Goldbelt Proposal, vol. II, at 11. Goldbelt also prepared and included a matrix showing which firm had experience in performing each of the 25 separate tasks that Goldbelt had identified under this solicitation.
Goldbelt's proposal first identified its experience performing a contract for supply services operations for the Navy at Dahlgren, Virginia (the "Dahlgren contract"). Goldbelt advised that its performance involved supplying 8.5 out of 16.5 full-time equivalent workers, who
manage[d] the complete supply operations in the functional areas of receiving and delivery, material storage and warehousing, receipt control, domestic and international shipping, packing and crating, disposal of excess property, reutilization, handling of hazardous materials and management.
AR, Tab E, Goldbelt Proposal, vol. II, at 15-16. Goldbelt further advised that the Dahlgren contract required dispatching its own vehicles to deliver incoming supplies, and coordinating the maintenance for those vehicles. AR, Tab E, Goldbelt Proposal, vol. II, at 16.
Goldbelt also identified two other prior contracts--a contract for maintenance and repair of research laboratory equipment, and a subcontract for a variety of shipping, warehousing, and equipment maintenance-related services. AR, Tab E, Goldbelt Proposal, vol. II, at 19, 24. To establish ICI's experience, the proposal identified ICI's performance as the incumbent prime contractor for motor pool services at CCAD, as well as ICI's performance of a warehouse services contract. AR, Tab E, Goldbelt Proposal, vol. II, at 28, 34.
In its proposal, Ahtna provided information on four contracts it had performed, and identified one contract for its proposed subcontractor, All Star Technical Services. AR, Tab F, Ahtna Proposal, vol. II, at 22. Ahtna provided a narrative explanation of the relevance of each of these contracts to the CCAD contract requirements.
Ahtna's proposal first identified its experience providing training and device support, and repair and warehousing services, at Fort Richardson and Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Ahtna explained that the work included improvements to the operation of warehouses at the two Army bases, and automating the property accounting process. AR, Tab F, Ahtna Proposal, at 27. Ahtna identified three other prior contracts--one for training services; one for engineering services and equipment maintenance; and one for services in support of Army simulation, training, and instrumentation. AR, Tab F, Ahtna Proposal, vol. II, at 29, 30, 34. To establish All Star's experience, the proposal identified All Star's performance as the incumbent subcontractor for motor pool services at CCAD. The proposal narrative stated that All Star was responsible for vehicle maintenance, operation of the parts store, fueling, and hazardous material management at CCAD. AR, Tab F, Ahtna Proposal, vol. II, at 36.
In evaluating Goldbelt's past performance under the motor pool experience subfactor, the Army identified no weaknesses and three strengths, set forth below:
- Both Goldbelt and ICI displayed excellent past performance on exact and relevant Motor Pool government contracts.
- Both Goldbelt and ICI have partnered on multiple types of government contracts i.e.... FFP, Time & Material, and Cost Plus Award Fee.
- Both Goldbelt and ICI demonstrated remarkable similar experience in operating contracts involving all services required by this solicitation.
AR, Tab D, Summary Proposal Evaluation Worksheet for Goldbelt, at 1. At the conclusion of the evaluation, Goldbelt received 20 of 20 available points under the motor pool experience subfactor. Id.
In contrast, the Army identified two strengths for Ahtna--both for All Star's performance as an incumbent on the motor pool contract at CCAD--but the evaluators explicitly limited those strengths to All Star. At the same time, the Army evaluators concluded that Ahtna's prior experience was not relevant to the operation of the CCAD motor pool, and assigned a weakness to the proposal. AR, Tab D, Summary Proposal Evaluation Worksheet for Ahtna, at 1. Thus, Ahtna received only 10 of 20 available points under the motor pool experience subfactor.
After the initial evaluation, the overall scores and evaluated prices of the protester and the awardee were as follows:
Past Perf.
Total Price
AR, Tab D, Source Selection Decision (SSD), at 2.
The Army established a competitive range of three firms, and held discussions with Goldbelt, Ahtna, and the third firm. Both Goldbelt and Ahtna submitted timely revised proposals.[4] The Army's evaluation of the final proposal revisions resulted in no changes to the evaluation, and only slight downward adjustments to the evaluated prices for both firms: Goldbelt to $6,445,500; Ahtna to $5,506,566.
The contracting officer (CO), acting as the source selection authority, reviewed the final evaluations and noted that Goldbelt's technical and past performance scores were "nearly perfect." She observed that Ahtna was evaluated as having a weakness in its staffing, and having past performance that was significantly inferior due to Ahtna's lack of motor pool experience. The CO ultimately selected Goldbelt for award on the basis that Goldbelt's advantage under the technical capability and past performance evaluation factors outweighed Ahtna's evaluated price advantage. AR, Tab D, SSD, at 3.
Following a debriefing, Ahtna protested to our Office.
Initially, Ahtna argued that the Army improperly downgraded its proposal for its lack of experience, even though it had proposed one of the incumbent CCAD motor pool operators as a subcontractor. After receiving the agency report, Ahtna refined its position to argue that while neither firm had relevant prime contract experience operating a government motor pool--and both had relied on subcontractors with motor pool experience--Ahtna was downgraded for its lack of prime contract experience, but Goldbelt was not. Thus, the protester contends that the agency treated the offerors unequally by crediting Goldbelt with the experience of its subcontractor, but not similarly crediting Ahtna.
The evaluation of proposals is a matter within the discretion of the contracting agency. Our Office will question the agency's evaluation only where it lacks a reasonable basis or conflicts with the stated evaluation criteria for award. SC&A, Inc., B'270160.2, Apr. 10, 1996, 96-1 CPD para. 197 at 7. The record must reasonably support the evaluation of the proposals. Intown Properties, Inc., B-262236.2, B'262237.2, Jan. 18, 1996, 96-1 CPD para. 89 at 5. It is also fundamental that the contracting agency must treat all offerors equally, and therefore it must evaluate offers evenhandedly against common requirements and evaluation criteria. Tidewater Homes Realty, Inc., B-274689, Dec. 26, 1996, 96-2 CPD para. 241 at 3.
In its initial agency report answering this protest, the Army argued that its evaluation of past performance was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. The Army also contended that it was not required to credit Ahtna fully for the experience of its subcontractor. AR at 5. Since the initial agency report did not address the argument of unequal treatment, we asked for a supplemental report. The Army responded that Goldbelt's proposal, unlike Ahtna's, showed experience in performing work "closely related" to motor pool services, particularly Goldbelt's experience in dispatching its own vehicles to provide supplies for its Dahlgren contract. Therefore, the Army argued, Goldbelt's proposal provided a valid basis for the Army's evaluation of Goldbelt as superior to Ahtna. Supplemental AR at 2-3.
Ahtna countered that the record did not support the claim that Goldbelt had experience in motor pool operation, and noted that Goldbelt's proposal matrix acknowledged that its subcontractor, ICI, provided the requisite experience for several of the required tasks. Additionally, Ahtna argued that Goldbelt's Dahlgren contract could not reasonably be considered relevant to the complex operation of the CCAD motor pool.
Since, in our view, the record lacked sufficient information to reach a conclusion about this issue, our Office convened a hearing to understand better how the agency had assessed the experience of each offeror and its subcontractors. During the hearing, the Army's evaluation panel chair testified about the criticality of the motor pool services to CCAD's mission, and the complexity of keeping the motor pool equipment in operation. Tr. at 23-24, 91-92. The panel chair also testified that both of the incumbents being proposed as subcontractors here, ICI and All Star, were considered to be equally outstanding and experienced in the evaluation. Tr. at 22.
With respect to Goldbelt's evaluation, the panel chair explained that the three evaluated strengths attributed to "[b]oth [Goldbelt] and ICI," were intended to reflect the strengths of the two firms together, as a team. Tr. at 41-42. When cross-examined on whether each of the three strengths was equally valid if applied to Goldbelt alone (exclusive of ICI), he acknowledged that Goldbelt's experience did not include operation of a motor pool as a prime contractor. Tr. at 42. Nonetheless, the evaluation panel chair maintained that Goldbelt's Dahlgren contract for supply services operations was "remarkably similar" to the operation of the CCAD motor pool. Tr. at 61. He explained that this conclusion was based on Goldbelt's representations, in its proposal, that it was required to dispatch and maintain its own vehicles, and that the Dahlgren contract also involved licensing forklift operators. Tr. at 23-24. Although Goldbelt's proposal did not describe how many vehicles or forklift operators were managed at Dahlgren, the chair of the evaluation panel acknowledged that the evaluators had not sought more information from either Goldbelt or the Navy--the agency for whom Goldbelt performed the Dahlgren contract. Tr. at 63, 68-69, 88.
With respect to Ahtna's evaluation, the panel chair testified that he had viewed Ahtna separately from its subcontractor, All Star. Tr. at 50. When asked to characterize the meaning of the weakness assessed to Ahtna, he testified that Ahtna's lack of experience in operating a motor pool was "extremely significant" to the evaluation because "[i]f the prime contractor doesn't have that experience, that is a significant risk." Tr. at 93.
During the hearing we also heard the testimony of the CO, who explained that the difference in Goldbelt's and Ahtna's evaluation under the motor pool experience subfactor was a significant factor in her award decision. Tr. at 148. She also testified that she concurred in the evaluators' judgment that Goldbelt's experience on its Dahlgren contract was relevant to the CCAD scope of work. Tr. at 149'50. In addition, the CO testified that all three of Goldbelt's past performance contracts--including those for maintenance and repair of research laboratory equipment, and for shipping and related services--were "very relevant" to the services here. Tr. at 151-52. In contrast, she testified that, in her view, Ahtna's four prior contracts were "not very relevant." Tr. at 152-54, 160-61.
In assessing the evaluation here, we note first that the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) sect. 15.305(a)(2)(iii) directs agencies to take into account past performance information regarding subcontractors that will perform major or critical aspects of the requirement. On the other hand, the significance of, and the weight to be assigned to, a subcontractor's past performance is a matter of contracting agency discretion. See Loral Sys. Co., B-270755, Apr. 17, 1996, 96-1 CPD para. 241 at 5; see also Strategic Res., Inc., B-287398, B-287398.2, June 18, 2001, 2001 CPD para. 131 at 5-6. The weight to be assigned a prime contractor's past performance--or lack thereof--is also a matter of contracting agency discretion. Alpha Data Corp., B-291423, Dec. 20, 2002, 2003 CPD para. 18 at 4-5.
Nevertheless, while an agency may reasonably emphasize one firm's lack of a particular type of relevant experience, it cannot then ignore another firm's similar lack of experience. E.g., U.S. Prop. Mgmt. Serv. Corp., B'278727, Mar. 6, 1998, 98'1 CPD para. 88 at 6 (protest sustained where agency emphasized protester's lack of corporate experience, but disregarded similar lack of experience for the awardee by substituting experience of the awardee's key personnel).
In our view, the record here demonstrates that the Army did not treat these offerors equally under the motor pool experience subfactor within the past performance evaluation factor. Rather, the agency combined the experience of Goldbelt and its subcontractor, ICI, for purposes of that evaluation, and, in certain respects, assessed strengths for both companies that are based on the subcontractor's (ICI's) experience.[5] In contrast, when the Army evaluated Ahtna, the agency focused separately on Ahtna's lack of motor pool experience, without similarly considering its subcontractor, All Star (the incumbent subcontractor for the CCAD motor pool), even though the record shows that the evaluators viewed the experience of ICI and All Star as essentially equal. Tr. at 21-22, 30, 46-48. There is no reasonable basis for this disparate treatment in the record.
To the extent that the agency's evaluation was based on its conclusion that Goldbelt's Dahlgren contract was "remarkably similar," Tr. at 61, to the operation of the CCAD motor pool, we find that conclusion lacked significant support in the record. Instead, the record indicates that Goldbelt's Dahlgren contract involved--according to the description in Goldbelt's proposal--providing 8.5 of 16.5 full time equivalent workers, primarily for managing supply operations, not for providing motor pool services to the Navy. AR, Tab E, Goldbelt Proposal, vol. II, at 16. There appears to be a significant difference in the apparent scope of the effort at Dahlgren and the work here, which, as described above, involves over 390 vehicles, and numerous other activities, including training and licensing 2,000 to 3,000 vehicle operators. RFP at 24; Tr. at 23, 88.
While we conclude above that the evaluation of past performance here was unreasonable, our Office will not sustain a protest unless the protester demonstrates a reasonable possibility that it was prejudiced by the agency's actions; that is, unless the protester demonstrates that, but for the agency's actions, it would have had a substantial chance of receiving the award. McDonald'Bradley, B'270126, Feb. 8, 1996, 96'1 CPD para. 54 at 3; see Statistica, Inc. v. Christopher, 102 F.3d 1577, 1581 (Fed. Cir. 1996).
Throughout this protest, both the Army and Goldbelt have argued that since Goldbelt's technical proposal was evaluated as superior to Ahtna's under the technical capability factor, and since that factor was more important than either the past performance factor or the price factor, any error in the evaluation of past performance did not result in competitive prejudice. We disagree. Both the contemporaneous documentation and the hearing testimony show that the evaluation of past performance played a significant role in the agency's decision to select the Goldbelt proposal, despite its higher evaluated price. Given that the difference between these proposals under the technical capability evaluation factor is not great, we think that, but for the unequal evaluation of past performance, Ahtna's lower-priced proposal would have had a substantial chance of receiving the award. Accordingly, we conclude that Ahtna has established the requisite competitive prejudice to prevail in a bid protest.
We recommend that the Army reevaluate both proposals under the past performance factor, consistent with this decision. We also think such a reevaluation should include, at a minimum, an independent assessment of the relevance of each offeror's past performance information, rather than simply reviewing each proposal's claims of relevance, as the chair of the evaluation panel testified was done here. Tr. at 99'100. After the reevaluation, we recommend that the Army prepare a new selection decision; if that decision results in the selection of Ahtna, we also recommend that the Army terminate for convenience its contract with Goldbelt. We further recommend that the agency reimburse the protester the costs of filing and pursuing its protest, including reasonable attorneys' fees. 4 C.F.R. sect. 21.8(d)(1) (2009). The protester's certified claim for costs, detailing the time spent and the cost incurred, must be submitted to the agency within 60 days after receiving this decision.
The protest is sustained.
Daniel I. Gordon
Acting General Counsel
[1] As discussed below, our Office held a hearing at which we received testimony from the chair of the evaluation panel, who also serves as the contracting officer's representative for the motor pool contract. Among other issues, he explained that the solicitation's requirements for training and licensing involve between 2,000 and 3,000 operators. Hearing Transcript (Tr.) at 23, 88.
[2] Both the protester and the awardee have explained that they are 8(a) program participants, and are subsidiaries of Alaska Native Corporations.
[3] For the remainder of this decision, we will refer to this subfactor as the "motor pool experience" subfactor.
[4] The third firm did not submit a timely revised proposal, and it was eliminated from consideration. Also, although the Army reports one additional round of proposal revisions, the record does not reflect that either offeror made any changes to its past performance information.
[5] For example, as quoted above, the evaluators concluded that "[b]oth [Goldbelt] and ICI displayed excellent past performance on exact and relevant Motor Pool government contracts." AR, Tab D, Summary Proposal Evaluation Worksheet for Goldbelt, at 1 (emphasis added).
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2 cups quinoa
1 cup amaranth
3 cups water
2 cups carrots, peeled
1 cup ripe olives, wedged
3 tbsp. chives, snipped
3 tbsp. dill, fresh
24 butterhead lettuce leaves
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1⁄3 cup grapeseed oil
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Anna Baltzer's words spill out with the nervous passion of someone who wants to save the world if only someone would listen. The 28-year-old Jewish-American woman, though, is focused on a small patch of the world known as Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Her view is that the Israeli government is oppressing the Palestinian people thanks to what she said is a Zionist vision of a Jewish-only state and a desire to control resources and wield power.
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so far the only thing I can say is they've fucked me like it's going out of style. I joined 11 months ago, I went through boot camp, in itb I injured my knee the second week, what did they tell me? the corpsman called me a pussy and told me to suck it up, the combat instructors blasted me non stop for it. I finished and got to the fleet, and the co gunny saw me limping and made me go to medical. The corpsman could see my knee was fucked up and told the mo, he looked at it and said it was nothing but inflammation. After going back everyday for about a week or two, I convinced them to take an xray which showed that my tibia was fractured, when I told them it wasn't just my shin, it was mostly my knee, they told me it was just inflammation. it took about 3 months to finally convince them to look at my knee, they saw that my knee wasn't just inflamed but that it was seriously fucked up. I finally got a bone scan and an MRI, they told me it was just a small tear in my ACL that physical therapy would heal, about 3 months of that with no improvement, they put me on limdu. While they were looking up my medical files on the computer, I snuck a peek and noticed that it said my ACL was torn, my meniscus was torn, my proximal patellar tendon was torn and I had PFPS (twisted knee cap). the surgeon told me my knee is so fucked that he's afraid he'll fuck it up more if he cuts me open. he also told me I'm never going to run again, I'll be lucky if I can stop having to use a cane and if I stop limping. anywho, they are doing absolutely nothing for my knee, and they stopped physical therapy, if that wasn't bad enough, my chain of command is disregarding my limdu chit that says no prolonged standing (more than 5 minutes), no pft/cft, pt at own pace, and making me stand during (3) hour and a half long formations, running a partial pft, and making me pt for an hour everyday. If I say anything about this, what happens? I get in trouble on paper, and the nco's snco's make my life a living hell.
If that's not bad enough, I'm JUST getting started.
Theeeen, there's mental health. Starting in boot camp, getting a little worse in itb, and then plummeting in the unit is my depression. It's gotten bad enough that I'm on anti depressants, have a snco that I have to check with everyday, and I have to go to mental health appointments every week to keep from killing others or myself.
There's also the anxiety and stress set on by my unit, it's gotten so bad that I have panic attacks almost every day or every other day, it's so bad that when my phone rings, I start freaking out thinking it is my coc calling to SOMEHOW fuck me over. Even if it's on my home phone which the unit doesn't know the number to. I don't answer my cell or home phone when I'm off work anymore, my wife does.
and then there's the shear stupidity of the unit. I'm in rbe since the unit is deployed, our bright ass 1stsgt is being investigated for hazing, disrespect, and a handful of other ucmj orders that have been broken. He went to peoples houses on AND off base to do field day inspections. His idea of running the bn? making all of us broken guys go to the field and running training ops to "retain our infantry skills" (Thanks you boot ass supply/di piece of shit that has never actually been in combat)(made 1stsgt in 14 years, target time is 17.5-20 years).
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I couldn't remember the last time I had even made it over to West Seattle for a cruise along Fauntleroy to Beach Drive with its stretch of colorful wood-sided homes and small span of dunes that recalls summers spent with my family in Redondo Beach.
Weaving through the Viaduct's re-route, a Burton-esque journey from Belltown to the West Seattle Bridge, I realized how much I liked looking at its guts. Politics aside—or perhaps because of the past decade's passionate, lurching debate—driving through the wreckage of this faltering dinosaur was worth the trip itself.
I thought of all the years that it stood silently mouldering before the Nisqually Quake, an effective albeit ugly passage between Shoreline and Burien. Ugly, that is, unless you were headed north on the upper deck, taking in sweeping views of the city and the Sound. The possibility of that unimpeded view is what has kept it around this long, though some might not admit it.
As my lane became the middle deck, the Viaduct seemed to personify a faltering relationship: outwardly functional with growing cracks in purposefully unexamined joints, waiting for a cataclysmic event to bring to light its overwhelming flaws.
Until confronting its failure was unavoidable, we distracted ourselves with its beautiful vistas, safely complaining about how it severed our waterfront from downtown, like a wife kvetching about her husband who never picks up his dirty clothes. Complaining is a safe habit, and we are nothing if not creatures of it. Like asking for a divorce—a serious move—we only sent out the guys with hard hats and measuring equipment when we were forced to.
Tossing a glance towards the water, I caught sight of the next section scheduled for demolition just past where the road now gently veers left, sloping down to First Avenue South with the guidance of orange barricades. Continuing straight is the road to nowhere. A few hundred of feet of Viaduct is all that remains after the wrecking ball: crumbling concrete skin broken open, jagged rebar skeleton exposed, wire cabling hanging out like overstretched tendons, altogether spent before it becomes invisible.
Still in its infancy, the new road rises again to give clearance to the train tracks below. A rich rusty copper patina wraps large pipes on the left while a series of skinny gray posts destined for an unforeseen purpose stand alertly to the right. Without a hint as to their final form, they reference structures of the past while allowing us to see inside whatever will stand in the future.
What will we have learned, I wondered: what will we jettison and what lessons will we carry forward from the Viaduct when it's all gone? Like the analysis of any failed relationship, the investigation into its faults and the celebration its faltering beauty seems as important to note as its impending destruction.
Lately, similar thoughts have taken me from considering my tenure in the Pacific Northwest to the lamplit streets of Paris, where they are wise enough to build Metro tunnels instead of viaducts. It seems a non-sequitur until I reveal that I submitted an essay this week to Hugo House's 2012 New Works competition whose theme is "The End of the Line." My entry detailed a journey to Paris with my husband in 2005, which —in hindsight— I identify as the end of the line for our marriage.
I've spent the past few weeks walking the cobbled streets of the Rue Cler, drinking delicious yet inexpensive red wine, examining bones in the catacombs with my fingertips, tip-toeing through Père Lachaise Cemetery to visit Jim Morrison, eating coq au vin, browsing bookshelves at Shakespeare & Co.—and feeling it all unravel with every footstep.
Looking back, there were warning signs roiling under the skin of our outwardly functional relationship long before the earthquake in the spring of 2006. Those months before were a prelude to the pinpoint of failure—a moment impossible to ignore or recover from. Like the meeting of the Nisqually and the crumbling of the Viaduct, once Paris was behind us, there was only room for decisive forward movement—any triage would only delay the inevitable.
Both the Viaduct and we were destined to end eventually, no matter how many patch jobs one might have applied. In each case, the necessary dismantling was more the result of inherent flaws than a degradation of things designed for historic greatness—we were neither the pyramids nor the Pantheon.
Every time I return to that thought, I realize why I have never regretted my decisions to get married or divorced; it's also why I don't see those ten years as a waste of time. While most relationships don't last forever, the brevity of their duration doesn't indicate a diminished impact or significance on our lives.
Like the Viaduct, there's beauty in our failed and flawed relationships, in both their functionality and obsolescence as much as their role in helping to make us who we are. While riding those roads we often found smooth stretches lit by sunsets and festooned with birds dipping in and out of ocean breezes before any road blocks appeared. But, with only a single route from north to south, we'd never veer off into side streets or discover our capacity for navigation by heading off course. The roads of our past must be demolished to make way for those of the future.
As we wait for them to appear, getting lost and discovering dead-ends helps us slow down and occasionally pause, discovering moments which I consider to be found time, not lost.


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Courtesy the Mawaka family.
Elizabeth Mawaka of Hartford, Conn., has sued makers and sellers of chicken jerky dog treats, which she blames for the death of two dogs, including Toby, shown above. She called on Nestle Purina PetCare Co. officials to allow U.S. inspectors to test samples from China plants.
Chinese government officials overseeing plants that make chicken jerky pet treats blamed for thousands of illnesses and deaths among American dogs have refused to allow U.S. inspectors to collect samples for independent analysis, newly released records show.
Investigators with the federal Food and Drug Administration came away empty-handed after conducting April inspections at four jerky treat manufacturing sites in Liaocheng and Jinan, China, according to the records.
The plants make pet treats sold by the St. Louis-based Nestle Purina PetCare Co., including the popular Waggin' Train jerky brands.
Chinese officials stipulated that FDA officials could collect samples only if they agreed to specific conditions, including a requirement that the samples be tested in Chinese-run laboratories.
As a result, "no samples were collected during this inspection," wrote Dennis L. Doupnik, an FDA investigator who visited the sites.
In addition, the reports showed that the Chinese plants conducted either no laboratory tests or only sporadic tests of the raw materials, including meat used in treats fed to many of the 78.2 million pet dogs in the U.S.
The FDA found no significant violations and issued no citations, but warned plant owners about problems that included broken supports on metal screens, a torn gasket door on a mixer and failure to file proper paperwork to list actual treat manufacturers instead of shippers or brokers in FDA records.
That means the agency appears to be no closer to solving the mystery of about 2,000 reports of illnesses or deaths in U.S. dogs that ate jerky treats made in China, lawmakers and pet owners said on Tuesday. Despite tests of hundreds of treats in the U.S. over five years, the FDA has found no significant levels of contaminants in the products.
"It's hard to believe the FDA would send a team of inspectors over to China without first getting a guarantee that they could bring samples back," said Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who has been tracking the jerky problem. "They're doing nothing of consequence. The FDA's tone-deaf on this one."
Elizabeth Mawaka, 57, a Hartford, Conn., woman who says her two Boston terriers, Max and Toby, died after eating tainted treats, called on Nestle Purina to demand that samples be released to the FDA.
"It really comes down to the company," said Mawaka, who is suing jerky treat makers and retailers. "We can talk all we want about China, but it's really the company."
However, a Nestle Purina spokesman said the inspections demonstrated no problems with the firm's products and no evidence that they've led to illnesses in animals in the U.S.
Keith Schopp, the firm's vice president of public relations, said that it's common for countries to refuse to have samples tested outside of the country of origin and that the terms of the inspection were set by the U.S. and Chinese governments, not by Nestle Purina or the manufacturing site officials.
"There was no attempt by Nestle Purina or the Chinese facilities to restrict sample collection," said Schopp said in an email to NBCNews.com.
"Nestle Purina will continue to cooperate fully with FDA to assist its investigation," added Schopp, who has consistently said the treats are safe to feed as directed.
Tamara N. Ward, an FDA spokeswoman, said in an email that the inspections helped to identify additional areas that the agency may investigate, but there is "no evidence indicating that these firms' jerky pet treats are the cause of pet illnesses in the United States."
Ward did not respond to NBC News questions about the impact of the Chinese officials' refusal to allow FDA to collect samples.
Last November, the FDA issued its third warning since 2007 about potentially dangerous chicken jerky treats after new reports of health problems in dogs surfaced, ranging from diarrhea and vomiting to kidney failure and death. In the months since then, the agency has been swamped with reports of animal illness. Last month, it expanded the caution to include duck and sweet potato jerky treats.
The FDA sent a letter to Chinese officials in March identifying five Chinese firms for inspection. Investigators were sent for several days to each of four plants: Gambol Pet Products Co. Ltd.; Shandong Honva Food Co. Ltd.; and Shandong Petswell Food Co. Ltd., all in Liaocheng, China, and Jinan Uniwell Pet Food Co. Ltd. in Jinan, China, according to reports posted this week on the agency's animal and veterinary website. The fifth report is pending because of the need for additional information and will be posted later, said Ward, the FDA spokeswoman.
The inspections were pre-arranged and supervised by officials with China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, known as AQSIQ.
AQSIQ officials refused to allow FDA inspectors to collect samples unless they agreed to "certain sampling conditions," including having the jerky analyzed only in a Chinese government-run laboratory, or a third-party lab in China, wrote FDA investigator Doupnik. FDA investigators would have been allowed to witness the analysis, but not to remove samples.
"I was informed that FDA would not be allowed to ship any samples outside of China for testing in an FDA laboratory due to the issue of national sovereignty among other reasons," Doupnik added.
Before each inspection, the reports indicated that Doupnik asked AQSIQ officials if their position on the sampling had changed. When he was informed it had not, Doupnik wrote that he did not ask to collect samples during the inspections.
The heavily redacted documents, known as Establishment Inspection Reports, traced the production of jerky treats from raw meat through final packaging. In each case, plant officials said they were aware of few complaints of any kind and none about the treats causing death or illness in dogs. That's despite documented FDA reports of complaints related to each site, Doupnik noted.
At the Shandong Petswell plant, an unidentified plant representative told inspectors that "it is her perception that the firm is making a good product."
No FDA import alerts or import refusals have been issued for the firms, Ward said. However, she added that the FDA is conducting increased surveillance of shipments of jerky treats from China to provide guidance on possible products to target for sampling and analysis.
But Kucinich said that Chinese officials' refusal to release samples to U.S. inspectors should be grounds for banning the products from import -- or for a mandatory recall.
"That would do it for that product. I would pull them all off the market," said Kucinich. "Fine. You're done."
Consumers have petitioned the FDA to urge Nestle Purina and other jerky treat manufacturers to recall the products. However, FDA officials have said they can't force a recall based solely on customer complaints.
Related stories on Vitals:
- Jerky treats from China blamed for pet deaths; owners sue
- 3 big brands may be tied to chicken jerky illness in dogs, FDA records show
- FDA data dump shows few toxins in jerky treats
- Arthur Dogswell recalls cat chicken jerky treats, FDA says


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Designing a website to advertise your business online is an exciting yet difficult process, particularly with all of the video and sound aids which you can use to enhance it. However, don't fall victim to the frequent mistake made by beginners of thinking that it's better. Even a Flash presentation, requires a very long time to load and several consumers would rather proceed to the company's the site of the next company than waste their time waiting. Pop-ups are nothing more than an annoyance to most buyers. Restrict your use of photos and images, and be certain they are all relevant. If you choose to add audio to your site, give the user the choice of clicking on a button to listen to it, if you choose to add music to your site. A customer who is currently visiting your store while in work or one who is at home with a sleeping baby within earshot, is not going to love music or sales pitches that play automatically perform appreciate.
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Put graphics on your page which provides users an notion about what to expect from your products. You may include images of your merchandise at the hands of smiling people. When it is you ought to have before and after images.
Be certain that you provide your customers extra incentives in addition to the purchases that they create on your website. This may include items like free transport options, gift wrap options, and even more. You can use numbers like the first X number of clients get this motivator or that everyone can find this incentive should they purchase by this date.
Among the great things about online is that it doesn't need a huge investment of capitol for novices. It may even be done by high school or college students having the right skills and business spirit. If you can, you should start your first job young to have a sense for this.
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To target your audience you need to track where every single visit came from, and where the person ended up, particularly if they clicked on an ad and bought a product. You can do this thanks to traffic monitoring tools easily. This permits you to see what directs people to your website.
When designing a site to market a product or service online, include a resources section. Adding a resources department brings potential customers to your website clients by increasing your search engine ranking. It also usually means that viewers of your website are inclined to return to view those sources, and might end up purchasing your product later.
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Contain a website banner which contains your mission statement or slogan, or possibly both slogan or your assignment statement, or maybe both or slogan, or maybe your assignment statement. This will let people know exactly who you are and help them to remember you. A banner is a great way to highlight your enterprise.
If your client base is on the internet and you would like to reach them out remain in constant contact. However, do not be overly burdensome either. Send out emails on a periodic basis emails on a regular basis out reminding them of your service or product, or even of new specials. This should make certain you keep your existing clientele and may quite could possibly help you expand your clientele.
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Choosing Google to handle your advertising is always the best, so try whatever you can to be certain you're using Google. It's possible to use ad services alongside Google, but keep in mind that Google is the king and the rest of the services are merely pretenders to the throne. Follow Google's guidelines for approval and keep in mind this is a make-or-break variable of your business.
Post all of your articles on your site. This will help your readers and potential customers to know who you are and where to look for you. It adds to a aura of credibility and trustworthiness. In addition, by adding your good articles to your site, may bring in lots of good targeted, great keyword traffic your way.
When deciding on quality sites to become linking partners with, avoid opponents when deciding on quality websites to become linking partners together with. Pick at websites which will be useful to people of your own site. Look for sites with source pages which provide quality content of interest to visitors you'd like to attract. You are able to find possible sites by searching for keywords that your customers would use to find you.
Ensure that the colours you use on your site that do not make it hard for users to locate navigation links. If your website is in black but your navigation links are in blue users might not see them and that will mean less time they'll spend on your website.
Don't expect {visitors to buy items to be bought by visitors, convince them to! You can't simply post a list of the products that you need for Christmas and hope that your customers will blindly agree and purchase them. You should write an explanation of why you want each product, detail its use, include a photograph, and mention.
Keeping up with your competition is another important component of online . You need to be current with what your competitors do. There is a lot is that you may get from watching others. And perhaps above all, find out from other people's mistakes so that you do not make them yourself!
Whenever you're becoming interested in online you have to steer clear of the concept that it is a get rich quick type of deal. While there are always tales of those people who were successful in this way, for the large part it is a great deal of work to generate a small to moderate return.
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Capsule endoscopy is a test done to take pictures of the digestive tract. It uses a capsule with a tiny camera in it. The capsule is swallowed like a pill. As the capsule travels through the digestive tract, it takes pictures. These pictures are sent to a recorder that is worn outside the body. The capsule passes out of the body through the stool within a few days. Capsule endoscopy is most often done to check for problems in the small bowel (intestine). These problems include bleeding and tumors. The test can also help diagnose Crohn's disease. This is a condition that causes inflammation, sores, and narrowing of the bowel.
Let your doctor know of any medications you're taking. This includes vitamins, herbs, and over-the-counter medications. Certain medications may need to be stopped for a time in the days before the test. In addition, let your doctor know about prior surgeries that could cause the capsule to be stuck.
Switch to a clear liquid diet 16 hours before the test.
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The test is done in a doctor's office or hospital:
You'll be asked to raise your shirt.
Small, sticky, round patches are placed on the skin over your abdomen. The patches contain antennas that are attached to short wires (leads).
The wires are then plugged into a data recorder. The recorder is attached to a belt that is worn around your waist.
Once the recorder is confirmed to be working, you'll be given the capsule to swallow. (In rare cases, the pill may be placed in the small bowel with the help of an endoscope. This is a thin, flexible tube that can be inserted through the mouth and down into the digestive tract. Your doctor will tell you more about this, if needed.) The capsule works by sending pictures to the recorder as it moves through your stomach and small bowel.
After you swallow the capsule, you're usually allowed to leave the facility. You can drink clear liquids after 2 hours, and you can eat food or take medications after 4 hours. Be sure to follow any other instructions given by your doctor. For instance, you may be told not to do certain activities if they can affect your test results.
You will be instructed when to return to your doctor's office or the hospital. All of the equipment is then removed.
To prevent complications, do not schedule an MRI exam or be near the MRI device until the capsule has passed out of your body.
The capsule is passed out of your body through your stool. If this does not occur within 3 days, let the doctor know right away. Treatment may have to be done to remove the capsule. Your doctor will tell you more about this, if needed.
Once the pictures are reviewed, your doctor will go over the results with you. This is usually within a few days. If the pictures were blurry or unclear, the test may need to be done again.
There is a small chance that the capsule will not pass out of the body. In such case, the capsule is most likely stuck in the bowels. Procedures such as surgery or endoscopy will be needed to remove the capsule.


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I forgot to ask Seth what he's calling these things, so I'm just calling it a tarp.
Well, you guys know me. Something new comes along and I want it; something new comes along from somebody in my state, I'm getting it! Soooooo, I got me a Trek Light tarp and a Trek Light bugnetting. I'll let you know on the netting as I haven't had an opportunity to use it for a night. At altitude, once it gets cool the bugs are gone. No need for a net.
Of course, I left the weight at home. Totally forgot to stick the slip of paper in my pocket this morning. I did take some pics so ya'll can see it. First thoughts on the first trip; ummmmm, it's heavy. However, there are a couple of things that I really like about this tarp. First of all it is black; a nice thick black. The interior of the tarp is a very light gray. I don't know if it's two layers of fabric stitched together (would be odd) or maybe a heavy exterior with a liner. I obviously have more playing to do. Whatever, the combination of the weight and the black surface make sleeping in during the morning a breeze. Very nice and dark under the tarp when it's closed up. Second, the weight gives the tarp a little more staying power in the wind. To a point, anyway.
You can see in the pics below, it has 3 tie-outs on each panel. The stuff sack is attached (you can see it in the fuzzy pic) and mostly out of the way. It is a rectangular tarp with straight edges. I couldn't get the taught pitch that I am accustomed to, but it certainly gets the job done. I didn't think to throw together any extra tensioners before we left, but I'm not sure they would have held this tarp; probably need to go with the surgical tubing to have any hope of exerting any real force on this tarp.
We camped up at about 10,000' on the edge of a mountain field in a nice valley. Translation: Windy! We had constant gusts all afternoon and evening Saturday night. You know the kind, where it takes you 4x as long to get the tarp deployed because it keeps fluttering this way and that, it's ends cracking like the end of a demonic whip. Well, that's what it looked like when Genuine Draft was setting her MacCat anyway. Me, I was 15' away having almost no problems. Apparently, a heavy tarp is a good thing sometimes. To add to the drama, the ground was thick with pine needles. Some of them probably walked on by early settlers. This means one needs to dig down through several inches decaying pine needles to find solid ground in which to plant the stake. Even then, the ground is loose so stakes being pulled out is not unusual. The MacCat lost her stakes 3 times, the Trek Light tarp once. Score a couple of points for the Trek Light.
When I went to sleep Saturday night, I closed the porch to block the wind. What a great job it did! With the three tie-outs and the heavy material, I didn't hardly feel a breeze all night....but I heard it.
I hated the weight at first, but I think this is going to become my go-to car camping tarp. It's a really nice tarp as long as you don't have to carry it too far. Lets me sleep in, holds and blocks the wind very nicely, and I don't have to worry about loosing a stuff sack.
For your viewing pleasure. These are iPhone shots and I'm still learning how to use a Macintrash machine; better pics, and the numbers on the weight, will follow soon.
One last unrelated thing. As Genuine Draft and I were driving down from Guanella Pass we came around the corner and stopped to stare in disbelief. I mean really, I'm all for access to the wilderness but this is a new kind of low; a STOP LIGHT! What the ........?!
Turns out, they were rebuilding the road and had it down to one tiny little lane. So the light made sense, I guess. We had to wait about 10 minutes before it changed. It was a very surreal experience and there was another one about 5 miles further down. It just seems to me that there are some places where traffic lights just have no business being. Ah well, progress.


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New York City is seeing an outbreak of a rare skin infection that comes from handling raw seafood, causing skin lesions, pain and swelling to the hands and arms and even difficulty moving fingers, officials said.
Health officials are warning those who purchase raw fish and seafood at Chinatowns in Manhattan, Queens or Brooklyn to wear waterproof gloves when handling those items, and to seek medical care if they discover red bumps on hands or arms.
The bacteria causing the infection is called Mycobacterium marinum and it gets into the body through a cut or other injury, the Health Department said.
If the infection goes deep enough, surgery may be necessary.
Officials say 30 cases have been identified, and all of those report handling live or raw fish bought at markets in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Queens.
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It was pre-OSX. The problem I've found with Macs in general is that they aim for simplicity rather than consistancy. Take the device configuration procedures, in the versions I've used you'll select to configure the mouse and it'll give you something like two options: one for mouse speed, and one for click sensitivity (or something, I forget :). So what happens when you need to load a new mouse driver? That's located somewhere completed different not cross-referenced at all. A different more "advanced" operation? Somewhere different entirely. Macs have often appeared to me as something that has been over-engineered for ease of use at the sake of usability. Oddly enough, I often feel the same way about Perl.
I'm coming from using almost exclusively Linux and BSD-based operating systems, so my assumptions and what I find intuitive are probably quite different from the average user. However, I think Apple could benefit substantially from a control center approach (such as KDE) that is directly referenced from the more "user-friendly" configuration menus. Then again they may already have done this in OSX ;-).
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