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Bobby thought it was wrong to suck pecker for money. I didn't think too
hard about it. I mean, I never planned on doing it. Never planned on jack.
Jack's my name. I just think you can love a thing, even though it lives in
more than one person. Late one night after I'd run off from Daddy's, this
thick arm stuck out the winder of a pulled-over cop car and just stuck there
real still while I peered at it from between the rails of the concrete steps
where I'd made my home on for the night. Sure as a blink, that thumb
twitched and sent a burning ash sailing over the sidewalk from the tip of a
smoke. His arm had that weight about it just like Daddy used to have.
Daddy used to weigh down the backyard hammock, stretching the woven
rope until it almost kissed the dirt an inch below. He'd be coolin' down from
the heat of mowing that patch of grass back there flicking his burnin' cigar,
while I'd watch through the kitchen winder of our air-conditioned house.
He'd yell for a beer and I'd bring it out to him before Mama could get it, my
hand freezin', drippin' from the cold can. I loved that beer smell when he'd
crack it open. He'd say, "What're you starin' at? I know I'm good-lookin'.
Go help Mama in the house." I'd go back inside and watch him from the
winder. I'd tuck it—all boys do it I guess—you know, tuck your prick
between your legs to look like a woman. But it warn't a joke like my friends
did it sleepin' over. It was real. After Daddy took to the bed after Mama
died, I'd stand there and look out at the loose hammock, all twisted and
empty and imagine Daddy back in it instead of the bed. I'd be wearin' my
Mama's old silky panties and tuck my pecker back and rub my finger over
my slit, while I'd imagine Daddy's cigar burnin' down. "Jack!" Daddy
would yell from his sick bed, coughing up somethin' that sounded like
death. "Medicine!" He wanted his pill and Old Grand Dad. Not my
Grandad cuz he's dead, but whiskey. I'd get the tray ready and drip a little
Grand Dad on my finger and brush my teeth with the stuff—felt like
Novacane. I would anoint Daddy's lips with whiskey, let it drop onto his
tongue—sizzle the cigar tip. I'd rub some down under Mama's panties--the
fumes of whiskey burning my nostrils. "Boy!" So I brought Daddy his
medicine on the plastic tray that Mama used to bring his dinner on when he
used to sit up in the living room. Now he's lying on the bed reeking of piss
and feces. Paper tissues cover his body and maroon bedspread spill onto the
floor around him like some picture – like he's already strewn with yellowed
white flowers lyin' in his casket. "God damn, give it t'me boy! Don't spill
it! Don't tremble like a girl!" He was alright till the Death-Man got inside
our house. Till He took away Mama and half of Daddy's breath and turned
him into a quarter of a man gasping for air, his body seepin' into the bed,
meltin' away into that plastic cover wrapped around the mattress. I'd get all
welled up in the eyes seein' him lyin' out there, remembering him all lively,
how I used to grab at him, grab his hat, knock on his newspaper all the time
when he'd sit in his chair and finally he'd slap me good, and I'd taste my
own blood. I'd suck on the blood from my cheek or lip and think about how
it must taste the same as his since we had the same blood. It tasted good.
Now he could hardly try and scream somethin' without coughing somethin'
up, his body melting into the mattress, cries for pills and whiskey, and death-
smell coverin' his room intense like shit, and I had to get out before it got
And I did. And when I seen George--that cop--flick his ash, my heart
reached down to my gut. And then just as still as he'd flicked his ash, he
signaled me over to the car. I think I should have been scared now when I
think back on it—scared that I was getting' in trouble--but I warn't. I just
marched on over to him like I was bringin' a cold beer to Daddy in the back
yard. He asked me my age and looked down into his lap. He asked me how
much for a blow job and I melted into his midnight blue uniform, dark as the
night, as Daddy was meltin' into the mattress back home.
Bobby told me it was wrong to get paid for it, but I didn't know him yet. I
would have done it for nothin' with George. I wanted to marry him. But he
gave me 25 bucks every time. Right in the car and he'd drop me off
wherever I wanted. A gentleman—not like some. George was obliged to
his Mrs. So he'd never take me home with him. I wished she would die, but
then she'd haunt me for wishin' Death on her. So I stopped wishin' it.
Between Daddy angry cuz I left and Mama gone, I couldn't get with another
ghost yet. I had a power for the death-wish cuz I felt His breeze go by me
when he came for Mama. And I'd breathed His air in Daddy's room.
George stopped bein' in our spot where I'd first seen him parked that night.
I went every night, but he warn't there. After some hours, somebody else
would pull up and ask for a suck and I'd be cold to 'em. But finally my
body got cold and George warn't there, so I charged 'em 30 since I didn't
love 'em and got in their heated car. Then I liked getting' money cuz I got a
place to stay, so I kept it up. Mostly, it warn't bad. Only took a few minutes
most times. Sometimes they'd be drunk and hit you. I tasted my blood but it
warn't the same as like my Daddy's cuz I warn't their blood. I warn't've cared
if George had hit, but he didn't. He would sometime rub my cheek when I was
down there. He was strong, too. But didn't hit. Arms like a tree. Like
Daddy used to be.
When I met Bobby, he made me quit with the men—said they would chip
away my soul and make me hollow inside like a gourd. I said, money. I
need money for my room. I want to fix it up. But he learnt me how to live
outside the grid with no want for money. Just stuff and "know-how." He
was like a bat—a vampire. In a good way. That's the way I seen him when
I saw him coming at me. I was lyin' out on the concrete seein' dizzy—
couldn't move. He swooped down like a vampire bat, velvet angel, black
leathery wings. And next we're on a rooftop looking out at lights, yellow
lights shining down on concrete and the sound of a train rushin' to
somewhere and I can breathe and I thought I'd gone to heaven.
Now I'm in hell cuz he's gone. But I got my pills and my bottle and
memory. He's in every brick of the house. Every floorboard. Every piece
of Wayne's coat. I don't leave the house much. I watch from the winder—
the trucks and the train and the dogs from the scrap yard. I feel the bricks. I
lick the bricks come night. I feel the sun change, move across the sky. And
at night the moonbeams tell me about a pond somewhere where Bobby used
to swim. He was part reptile--he could swim good. He was hot-blooded
though, like a mammal. He was like a bat. Even the dirt tastes good cuz I
know Bobby's in there now. I want to leave life to be there with him but
Mama always said she would've done it but then you burn in Hell forever. I
wonder if Bobby's in Hell or Heaven or somewhere else. Them spiders
crawl and talk and tell about him but I can't quite hear—they whisper. I
can't hear cuz the train's screaming and sometimes I can hear my heart
pumpin' in my ear so loud I can't sleep good and the light shines in from the
moon like a spotlight cuz I lied and Bobby knew.
Bobby would go out on his scavenger hunts every now and again and he'd
be gone for days. They would do stuff. He'd be looking for "materials"
from torn down places or "cleanin' up the neighborhood," like down from
where we stayed was an old house that looked abandoned—well ours did
too—but ours is nice. This one looked like it might cave in and had plastic
stuff on the sides. Well, Bobby said those people were bad and would hurt
us and would probly catch their own house on fire from the crack pipes, but
I never seen any of them do nothing bad. 'Cept one time this one fella broke
in when we was out walkin'. Bobby caught him when we come back and
that man was runnin' out the winder. He had some stuff of ours, some of
Bobby's tools, and started running out—he jumped onto the roof next to
ours and Bobby chased him. Then that house down the road burned down
while Bobby was gone for a while. He came back—didn't say much about
it. Said something about crack babies. This man asked me about it. The one
I still got paid by at times. He was a cop like George. I'd quit cuz Bobby
told me to, but I kept on only with Roy. He asked me how that house had
burned when we was sittin' in his car. He said it was fine—better that it was
gone, but folks shouldn't be taking the law into their own hands. I didn't
know, I told him. He laughed and pushed my head down. But I felt sick
when he pulled it out. I kept seeing Bobby's face and I didn't like the smell
of it, so I jumped out the car and run off and back towards home. Then he
drove right next to me hollerin' out the winder that he'd have us kicked out
of the squat if I didn't do it. He said he'd have Bobby arrested. He said
he'd tell Bobby about what I did to him for money. I did stop, with the
others. But he—I used to pretend he was George. I'd shut my eyes when I
rode in the car and smell the leather or fake leather vinyl seat and the smell
of cigarettes in that cop car ashtray and it was like I was visitin' George
again and it was like with Daddy again and we needed some money for food
even though we did ok off the grid and all. Bobby didn't seem to notice if I
bought food with the money, and soap, too, even though Bobby made soap,
but his soap he made my face rashed. We'd go eat at Taco Bell and go to
the movies. I'd say my aunt gave me some money when I'd visited her, but
I didn't even have no aunt. Sometimes I think Bobby knew it, too. He'd
always talk about how he hated Johnny Law and all that, but when Roy
came by, he'd talk all loud to him about how he fixed the plumbing himself
and Roy would say how that was an awesome talent and on and on and
every once in a while Roy'd look at me and I hated it. I asked Bobby why
he'd talk so much with a cop if he hated 'em so much. And he'd say how
Roy was alright and didn't mess with a man's castle—didn't bother into our
affairs. He said he needed man-talk sometimes. "Talk about numbers," he
said. "What numbers?" I'd ask. He said I didn't understand, but he loved
me for other reasons. He said he felt a power run between us when he'd
have his finger in my bottom and he'd be jerkin' his prick. Or when he put
it in me. Or when he shined the flashlight under the blankets up around
there. He said I looked like a statue. He said he felt a power. His chest had
two gray hairs and the rest were black—not thick like George's—just a
sprinklin'. His hands were strong and rough from workin' on the building
but he could be gentle at times. And when he reached for my hole, I knew
he owned me. I want to leave life to be with him again. He used to cry
sometimes and he'd look like a little boy. He used to laugh real loud. He
used to get mad about the black folks who lived in that house that burned
down. I never thought they did no harm. 'Cept that one who robbed us. I
don't think Bobby'd done nothin' to that house if that man hadn't come into
his castle. It was like a spirit had been in the house who was evil or bad
when we seen him. I don't know how Bobby knew whether or not he even
lived in that house they burned. He said you have to prove a point. I hope
nobody died. But I feel their ghosts running through the house cold at times
like when we seen that one man run through with our stuff. I don't like it.
Maybe Bobby was right about 'em being bad cuz after that man ran through
the house was when things started to turn bad.
Bobby said Roy was decent, but I knew the truth after he made me keep on
with him. He didn't even pay anymore. He said that was our rent money. I
told him Bobby would kill him. But that's not what happened. Bobby
caught us at it in the car once. That's when I felt like he said I would.
That's when I knew I'd be hollow forever. When I felt Roy go stiff in his
body and limp in the other place. I knew. I didn't have to look. My body
froze and I heard Bobby scream at me and thud on the winder and then
again. I looked and the glass didn't break and I saw his wild stare at me and
then Roy jammed him with the door. I screamed and reached for Roy to
hold him back. I don't remember. I was throwin' up on the street but
nothing was comin out and I saw Bobby pinned down and I had a crushed
torn can in my hand and hit Roy's head and he fell off and Bobby rolled on
top and had him by the throat and I still had the can to slice against Roy's
neck but I got the end of Bobby's finger instead and then it all switched and
Roy told Bobby to freeze—we'd go the hospital. Bobby wouldn't freeze.
Roy pointed his cop gun. I told Bobby to freeze—just freeze. He gave me
that wild eye again. His blood pourin' out of his finger--everywhere, he was
still swingin the other hand and Bobby wouldn't freeze and Roy said to
freeze and I said to freeze, to do what Roy's telling him--and Bobby
tried to grab the gun and punched Roy and then they rolled more and then
the sound. And it was quiet. And it echoed. And I was sick and the blood,
now Bobby's face. All—the street. Pieces. I couldn't walk. When I woke
up I was back inside.
The pills are my friends now my only friends are the pills and Bobby's hairs.
I get out the bowl and count 'em up. I like to open his sock drawer. It still
smells the way his socks always smelled after he'd wash 'em with his soap.
The dirty ones don't smell like him no more. They did for a while. I kept
the window closed after Bobby died to keep his smells in as long as I could.
I didn't wash his pillow or his clothes. I'd get out a fresh shirt or underwear
or socks every few days to sleep with—one that still smelled of him before I
wore it off. I found piss in the toilet he hadn't flushed. I sat down next to the
can and stared at it. I found some of his hairs on the bathroom floor and
gathered 'em together. I didn't want to use the toilet—didn't want to mess it
up. So I would go back behind the house. I didn't want to flush it. I would
go in and smell it and just sit there next to it. I licked the rim in case there
was any there. I hunted the soap dish and shower for hairs. I ate some of
the soap he had made with his hands. I licked his razor to get his hairs out
and it cut my tongue. I don't know where he's been buried but I'm lookin'.
Roy hadn't been around since, but I think I saw his car drive by one day.
One day I washed in the toilet water. The rest of it started looking so nasty
I finally flushed it cuz it started to stink. And then wished I hadn't flushed
Bobby and Daddy and Mama swirling and Ol' Grand Dad and Mema and
my body floats away. When I was with Bobby I felt Grand Dad and Ma
close and all the elders near. When we were together, I felt all the ghosts of
the ancestors present in the hall and the room and in the floorboards. Now
they swirl around the room, down the hall, they call to me, reach out. Bobby
with that wild look when he caught me. I didn't want it, to do it to him.
Roy would get us kicked out. He said Bobby would go to jail. But if I had
told him, Bobby would have killed him and we would still be alive together.
Does Bobby know why I done it? Does Christ give mercy to the sick? Find
him. Do they get wise after they cross over? Be together there. Is it forever
there? Is it frozen like ice? Like the moonbeam spotlight through the
winder? Are they all there? Or separate? Can we find each other like on
the earth? He found me and claimed me for his own. Did Daddy lead him to
me—guide him to save me from dying on the concrete. It's cold there. Is
Bobby cold? Can he see me? I'm filthy. Bobby knew it when he saw me
with Roy. He hated me when he died. Does that mean he'll hate me always
in eternity forever? I see his face looking through the winder. I want him
back inside me. I want to be wrapped around each other again in the
blankets. I wonder if he and Daddy hate me together in their world and
make plans to destroy me. Make me suffer. Do they know how I'm sorry?
Am I alive?
Troy Hill is a writer living in New York City, originally from Atlanta,
Georgia. He directed a full production of his play, "Home Again" at the
Abingdon Theater in New York in 2004. This play was published in Lodestar
Quarterly in the Summer 2003 issue and was also part of the Genesius Guild's
Raw Reading Series that same summer. His play, "The World Was All Before
Them" was given a reading by the Nomad Theatrical Group in December 2004,
and his short play "Como Te Atreves" was part of the Untitled Theater
Company's 24/7 festival in March 2005. He recently directed a reading of
his new play, "unlovable" in the Ensemble Studio Theater¹s Octoberfest. He
studies playwriting with Keith Bunin.


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Yesterday (Jan 21) we had the slalom racing with the course set right in front of the club house where some of the racing was streamed live to yacht clubs across Australia and on Facebook. The racing was a knockout draw with 8 initial heats of 8 sailors where the top 4 from each heat would progress to the next heat until reaching a final.
The course had a reaching start out to a mark rounded to port to then begin running downwind, around a second mark to starboard, and continuing downwind to round the bottom mark to port and finishing the race. With the breeze these races were super quick, only a couple of minutes long.
Race 1
I had a cracker start coming second off the line and as I approached the first mark I decided to continue right as there was more and consistent pressure on that side of the course. As I went out that way I crossed through some wake of a ferry with lots of bubbles in the water which made the boat very unstable which cost me some speed. As soon as I could get some stability I gybed onto port to get across to mark 2. In the ferry wake a boat had overtaken me putting me into third. I just needed to keep it clean to get a top 4 finish to progress and with 2 more nice gybes it was onto round 2.
Race 2
In this race I setup to high for the start. I tried to get down but I was not able to lay the boat end so with less than 30 seconds til the gun I needed to gybe. Gybing at low speed when you're not foiling is risky with the sail filling with force on the new tack with a high chance of capsizing. This is exactly what happened, I got the boat back up but still had to gybe back to starboard to get going. The race began an I was not off to a good start. In the race I manage to nail some gybes and hold great speed to get past a couple of boats to finish 5/6 which meant I was eliminated.
The Slalom racing was a cool alternate race style that's very fast paced and unforgiving to mistakes. Tomorrow the worlds Grand Prix style racing begins.


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When Gabrielle Andrews arrived for work at the ATL Airport District Convention & Visitors Bureau in Georgia on May 7, she was surprised by an email from Gilad Berenstein, CEO of Utrip, the Seattle-based travel itinerary planning startup.
"It is with deep sadness that I inform you that Utrip, Inc. will be ceasing operations," read the message, sent early that morning to the company's corporate and institutional customers. "This follows our extended efforts to bring about a transaction for the company's continuance that fell through at the last second. We are devastated to no longer be able to continue to operate and partner with you."
The message thanked them for their partnership, laid out a schedule for the Utrip service to shut down, and directed any questions to an attorney representing the company.
Andrews couldn't believe it. Just five days before, she said, Utrip had taken a $10,000 check from the ATL Airport District. The organization paid a lump sum to use Utrip's itinerary-planning software for a year. Andrews submitted the check after Utrip prompted her to renew the annual subscription that the visitors bureau had first purchased a year prior.
"We reached out to our bank to try and stop payment but it was too late," she said. "We were all really pissed about the fact that it went down like that."
Utrip officially shut down this spring after eight years in business. Despite raising millions from high-profile investors and generating revenue from about 80 clients, many of whom still praise the product, Berenstein told GeekWire that the company could not continue down the path it was on. He said Utrip had been in negotiations to be acquired by a larger travel company, but an unexpected twist in the eleventh hour of those talks dealt a fatal blow to the startup.
However, some former employees said the seeds of Utrip's demise were sown months earlier.
The behind-the-scenes story of the company's ending shows the risks of betting on startups, the cost of gunning for an exit, and the fallout when things don't go according to plan.
Rising star
Berenstein was raised in Israel before moving to Washington state in the late 1990s when his father got a job at a startup. He launched Utrip in 2011, when he was 23 years old, with his father, engineer Yair Berenstein, and startup entrepreneur Edan Shahar as co-founders. He got the idea for an itinerary-planning app for travelers when planning a European trip after grad school at the University of Washington.
The first iteration of Utrip was a trip-planning app built on machine learning technology. Users entered information about their interests, the dates of their trips, and other details. Utrip then produced a complete schedule that accounted for things like distance and time to get from one activity to the next.
In a 2012 Startup Spotlight on GeekWire, Berenstein offered advice to other entrepreneurs: "Execute, execute, execute," he said. While it's "great to have awesome ideas," he said, it's far more important to be able see them through.
By every indication, he was doing just that. Utrip rolled out new features in 2013 and launched out of beta in 2014 with a $750,000 funding round led by Virtuoso CEO Matthew Upchurch and New York-based CB Alliance. A few months later, Utrip raised another $850,000 and added new investors, including Costco CFO Richard Galanti.
By late 2014, Utrip had hundreds of thousands of users and was serving 32 markets. That early momentum helped Berenstein win Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2015 GeekWire Awards, based on votes from members of the Pacific Northwest tech community.
But Berenstein discovered the same challenge that had plagued other consumer startups.
"Driving traffic is really hard and really expensive," he said in an interview with GeekWire.
The direct-to-consumer travel business is crowded and littered with failed attempts. Travel startups have to compete with big incumbents including TripAdvisor and Expedia, which has made a habit of gobbling up competitors through acquisitions. Other well-funded tech giants such as Google and Airbnb are also becoming leaders in the travel planning space.
Even though travel tech companies were attracting hundreds of millions in venture capital, in 2016 travel research firm Skift found that trip-planning startups receive the least funding of any segment of the industry. Utrip faced an additional challenge. Rather than comparing Utrip to other travel startups, investors measured it against artificial intelligence companies with much more substantial revenue, Berenstein said.
Faced with those odds, Utrip shifted to a business-to-business model, licensing its software to other travel companies. The pivot worked. Utrip signed new clients and raised a $4 million Series A round in 2017. It also launched a partnership with JetBlue.
2017 was a big year for Berenstein. He married Lisa Bridge of the Ben Bridge Jewelry family. She had recently been promoted to president of Ben Bridge, the Seattle jewelry company under the Berkshire Hathaway umbrella. The two shared a passion for travel and adventure, according to a New York Times marriage announcement.
At that point, one Utrip investor noticed a shift. The investor spoke with GeekWire on the condition of anonymity to be able to speak candidly about behind-the-scenes issues related to the company. "Gilad's heart wasn't in the game anymore," the investor said.
Berenstein said his personal life did not impact the company negatively.
"After I got married, we signed the biggest clients we ever signed," he said. "We raised more money than we'd ever raised." He also noted that Utrip saw the greatest revenue growth between 2016-to-2017 than any other year in its history.
The acquisition that wasn't
One year later, in 2018, Berenstein decided Utrip needed more funds to scale up sales and marketing. He began courting venture capital investors to raise a larger round. When it didn't look like a major venture round was in the cards, he started considering an acquisition.
A large travel company agreed to buy Utrip and the two companies went into the due diligence phase, said Berenstein, who declined to name the would-be acquirer, citing a confidentiality agreement. But what was expected to take 4-to-6 weeks stretched out over nearly four months, he said. Finally, the two companies negotiated a 94-page acquisition agreement that was ready for final approval. The deal was set to close in 48 hours. All that remained was sign-off from an oversight board within the buying company. That's when things fell apart, according to Berenstein.
He said he never learned why the oversight team did not sign-off on the deal. He just "knew that it was over."
"We informed our team the next day," he said. "We informed our clients and investors the day after that."
Investors wondered why Utrip couldn't continue to operate after the acquisition fell through. The company had more than 80 paying clients and the technology had promise.
"We thought it was a gold mine for itinerary building or trip planning," said Andrews, Utrip's Atlanta client. "It's unfortunate how the whole thing ended up."
Staying afloat after the acquisition fell apart wasn't a realistic option, Berenstein said. The company didn't have the capital necessary to expand its sales team and continue landing top engineering talent.
"There wasn't an option for a company like ours to reduce burn and lay some people off and try to be really lean and do that. If we had done that, we would have found ourselves in the same position later," he said, explaining that this desire to "do it right" was why the company wanted to raise a larger round the year before. "We wanted to be able to invest in technology and in sales and marketing at the same time."
Shahar, Utrip's co-founder, concurred. He remained a shareholder and board member until the closure, and said continuing on after the acquisition fell through simply wasn't an option.
"There was just no money," he said. "It's just a startup. Every single month it costs more to keep the team on than the money that's coming in."
A former employee, who asked to remain anonymous to share internal company details, said Utrip's leadership prioritized the acquisition over everything else.
"We wouldn't make sales because of it," the former employee said. "We wouldn't help our partners because of it. Clients left us. We were losing more clients than we were getting in 2018. We lost more partners than we gained and that's because the endgame was to sell. We weren't helping our partners, we weren't helping our clients at all."
The fallout
Berenstein's May 7 email was Andrews' first indication that the company was having financial trouble. She was one of several clients and investors surprised by Utrip's sudden demise.
Christian Watts is CEO of City Sightseeing San Francisco, a tour bus operator in the Bay Area. He had a 3-month contract with Utrip that was billed in January but didn't know the company had shut down when contacted by GeekWire.
"It's a shame," he said. "It's got value."
Three days after Berenstein announced Utrip would shut its doors, he posted photos to Instagram from Virtuoso Symposium, a luxury business travel conference in Australia, one stop on a multi-city trip that included island resorts and live entertainment.
A huge thank you to @MatthewUpchurch, #visitvictoria, to the #crownMelbourne, and the whole #Virtuoso network for an amazing symposium filled with fun,… https://t.co/gkbLXJAIMc
— Gilad Berenstein (@giladb87) May 10, 2019
It's not unusual for an entrepreneur to take time to decompress when a tumultuous startup journey comes to an end, and Berenstein told GeekWire there was nothing out of the ordinary about his trip. He's on the board of a luxury travel brand.
"I started a travel company," he said when asked how often he was out of the office. "My clients, investors, and advisors were located across 50 cities around the world."
But the timing and optics of this particular trip, so soon after Utrip shut down, felt like "salt in the wound," said the investor who spoke with GeekWire anonymously.
The investor said the trip reflected a broader trend of Berenstein going off the radar in the startup's final weeks. In his experience, the investor said, "the lack of communication was unique. It was absolutely not aligned with the norms of investing."
Some investors and insiders disagreed that the shutdown was unusual.
"I've invested in a number of companies and some of them do well and some of them do not do well," said Felix Anthony, an early Utrip investor and former Amazon vice president. "Sometimes when things aren't going well, entrepreneurs go into a shell."
"We are, of course, disappointed when any of our investments fail to achieve success," said Susan Preston, managing partner of the SeaChange Fund, formerly known as Seattle Angel Fund, another Utrip investor. "Early-stage investing is high risk, which drives a commensurate need for high potential return specifically because many of these companies fail. Despite our best efforts at the time of investment, you cannot entirely predict or control a company's future course."
Shahar, Utrip's co-founder, said that some criticism is to be expected. But what happened at Utrip was not out of the ordinary, he said, based on his experience.
"It's Monday morning quarterbacking," Shahar said of the second-guessing. "I'm sure if there was a positive outcome, maybe there would be a different perception."
Lessons learned
Berenstein disagrees with assertions that Utrip's closure was a result of mismanagement. However, he acknowledged something he would have done differently, in hindsight. Knowing what he knows now, he said he would have objected to the timing of the oversight review during the acquisition process.
"I certainly would not have agreed to it being 48 hours before the deal was going to close," he said. "I would have said, 'let's do it two weeks ago.'"
Berenstein said he wishes he had more time to communicate with investors and clients but the last-minute review didn't make that possible. In the weeks since Utrip shut down, he has been working to sell off company assets to try and get a return for stakeholders.
Aimee Willig, the lawyer referenced in Berenstein's email to customers, declined to comment for this story. A search of bankruptcy filings and other court records did not show any pending cases involving Utrip.
"Everything happened really quickly," Berenstein said. "We did the best we could to give both our clients and our team the longest possible notice that we could to try to ease the transition whenever possible."
Shahar echoed his co-founder. "We were fighting to get the thing done until the very end," he said. "That was part of it, to continue to serve all of the clients and all of the investors and all of the team members until the very end. Once it was clear that there was no path forward, information was made available."
But that doesn't satisfy the ATL Airport District, which is out $10,000 as a result of the closure.
"It was a deal that fell through at the last minute but that has nothing to do with the fact that we paid him for a service that he did not provide, so we're highly upset," Andrews said.
Asked what lessons she learned from the experience she said, "We're now super cautious with the partners that we do business with. We're probably not signing any annual agreements and we're going to look more into the longevity of whatever company that we're looking at."
Berenstein expressed regret about what happened with the ATL Airport District. "I'm really sorry," he said when GeekWire asked him about the situation. However, he noted that software-as-a-service products renew automatically on an annual basis.
Andrews did receive a notification when the subscription was up for renewal. She contacted Utrip with questions about the service but had a hard time getting answers, even when she was connected directly with Berenstein.
Berenstein said he was working throughout the process to do right by all of the company's stakeholders.
"I'm sorry that I wasn't responsive," Berenstein said, "but as you can imagine it was a very challenging time."


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On Friday, May 13th, many gathered at the Fourth District Seniors Resource Center at the George L. Stevens Senior Center to celebrate Older Americans Month. Established in 1963, at a time when only 17 million living Americans had reached the youthful age of 65, with a third of them living in poverty, President John F. Kennedy along with members of the National Council of Senior Citizens saw fit to designate May as a month for our country's seasoned citizens.
At the resource center under the direction of Ms. Rosemary White-Pope, its Executive Director, community members and seniors who frequent the center, celebrated the month under the theme of "Blaze a Trail." Ms. Pope opened the event sharing "Today, we are acknowledging our perennial adults, our seasoned seniors that are aged to perfection." Friday was a hats off salute to the seniors and the center's partners who keep the facility's doors open. "We're having a hats off salute to our community partners, and saying thank you," shared Ms. Pope. Many community supporters greeted the seniors with a welcome at the podium, sharing how important their lives and the center is to the community. Fourth District Councilwoman, Myrtle Cole shared "It's always emotional and hard to be here, because I always remember Charles Lewis," who once represented the 4th District as a Councilman before his sudden passing. "You're always so beautiful and decked out," Cole added, sharing that the seasoned seniors remind her of her mother.
Additional greetings came from Ignacio Del La Torre of AT&T, Wendell French of Wells Fargo, Darnisha Hunter and Stacey LoMedico of Mayor Kevin Faulconer's Office, Ellen Schmeding of Aging and Independence at the County of San Diego, Humana, and countless others.
Attendees were able to enjoy food from the delicious menu that is served to the center's seniors daily, which for Friday's event, consisted of catfish, potato salad, steamed vegetables and tasty desserts, including peach and cherry cobbler.
The event culminated with a hat fashion show, in which participating seniors were able to parade in front of the community judges, donning their most stylish hats, keeping in the vein of "hats off."
Established in 2002, the Fourth District Seniors Resource Center has worked to enhance and embrace the quality of life for San Diego's elderly by offering them a safe and wholesome environment, in which they can continue to thrive and flourish. For more information on the center, contact (619) 266-2066.


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May 12, 2017: Markets opened mixed Friday following lackluster earnings results from two more retailers, Penney's and Nordstrom. Investors are also concerned that the turmoil in the Trump administration will delay the President's promised tax cut package. Utilities and tech stocks traded higher while industrials provided the biggest drag. WTI crude oil for June delivery settled at $47.84 a barrel, up a penny on the day, but closed the week up 3.5%. June gold added 0.3% for the day to settle at $1,227.70 and a gain of less than 0.1% for the week. Equities were headed for a mixed close shortly before the bell as the DJIA traded down 0.16% for the day, the S&P 500 traded down 0.21%, and the Nasdaq Composite traded up 0.04%.
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Merck & Co. Inc. (NYSE: MRK) traded down 1.41% at $63.52. The stock's 52-week range is $53.59 to $66.80. Volume was 15% below the daily average of around 9.2 million shares. The company had no specific news Friday.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) traded down 0.93% at $171.71. The stock's 52-week range is $128.53 to $176.14. Volume was about half the daily average of around 3.5 million. The company had no specific news Friday.
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) traded down 0.79% at $33.37. The stock's 52-week range is $26.46 to $34.60. Volume was about 20% below the daily average of around 19 million shares. The company had no specific news Friday.
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Hourly MACD – The MACD for BCH/USD is gaining pace in the bearish zone.
Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for BCH/USD is now near the oversold levels.
Major Support Level – $1150
Major Resistance Level – $1250
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Other Names: Hyderabadie Francolin, Grey Partridge
Subspecies: F. p. mecranensis, F. p. interpositus, F. p. pondicerianus.
Range: Southeastern Iran and Pakistan, throughout India to Bangladesh, northern Sri Lanka. Has been introduced northern Oman, the Hawaiian Islands, several islands in the Indian Ocean including Seychelles and Mauritius. Attempts have been made in the USA, but it is doubtful there are any sustainable populations.
Habitat: Grasslands and scrublands, also cultivated areas and near villiages.
Status in Wild: Considered by many to be the most common game bird in southwestern Asia and India.
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In Straight Talk From the Homebuilder CFO: The tricks builders use to disguise the true losses on their, the impairment game was discussed as a method of hiding losses on builders' balance sheets by taking impairments on what could be considered exaggerated book values. The exaggeration may not be that hard considering how far, how fast, and potentially how long property and land values can continue to fall.
Again, I refer to the comparative chart that shows the appreciation rate of Japan's major city real property values as their GDP started to ramp up and out of a major recession:
This brings me to mind of what is actually going on in the CRE space now. As my regular readers know, I tend to actually analyze the portfolio of REITs by hand, which acts as a check and balance against overzealous reporting of book values that may or may not run in line with realistic market values. Upon performing this exercise with General Growth Properties, solvency issues became quite obvious during a time when most of the street still had a buy on this company ( see my work with GGP).
Well, I'm back to taking the forensic microscope to various companies' portfolios and it is interesting what can be found. Here, an institutional real estate owner describes a voluntary impairment of its asset in a recent 8K filing:
The Board's decision considered that The Pier's current cash flows, as well as estimates of future cash flows, are insufficient to cover debt service and operating costs due to economic conditions, tenant sales performance, high capital requirements to complete the property's lease-up, high operating costs, and the anticipated refinancing shortfall at the loan's maturity in May 2017. After recognizing the noncash impairment charge, representing the excess of book value of the investment over its estimated fair value, the consolidated joint venture's remaining book value of the investment will be approximately $52 million. A default on this loan will not trigger any cross defaults on the Company's lines of credit or any other indebtedness. The Company's cash investment in The Pier is approximately $35 million.
The Company has concluded that the investment in Regency Square is also impaired based on current estimates of future cash flows and the expected holding period. After recognizing a non-cash charge in the range of approximately $55 million to $58 million, representing the excess of book value of the investment over its estimated fair value, the remaining book value of this investment is expected to be approximately $30 million. At the current level of cash flow, Regency Square intends to continue to service its non-recourse mortgage loan. This loan has a current principal balance of $74.5 million, with
$71.6 million due on this amortizing loan at its maturity in November 2011. On September 22, 2009, the Company issued a press release announcing the write down of the book value of The Pier and Regency Square to fair value.
This company has seen its share price rise despite these negative evens, and further analysis reveals that this is probably going to be necessary another 3 to 6 times over the coming quarters (or potentially 25% or so of their portfolio) - all on top of a rising share prices and what I see as a further deteriorating macro environment. The big question is, "Who is there to call this, or any other REIT, out on valuation issues?" The sell side has strong buys on the company and not one that I know of has bothered to seriously address the valuation of the portfolio. This is/was the case with GGP, and all of the other REITs that I have covered or are anticipating covering.
The underlined phrases above are instrumental in determining true value in the REIT portfolio. 100 LTV+ loans (in reality, any loan over 85 LTV in the CRE space), negative cash flows and excessive vacancies are the banes of this industry of the next 12 or so quarters. Many loans that are underwater from a valuation perspective will be able to continue debt service, with the blessing of many (or most) banks making the ability to truly identify distress in these situations a bit more befuddled due to the government endorsed "extend and pretend" rules now in place. We have government complicity in the purposeful opacity of the values of mortgage assets (see the FDIC "Prudent Commercial Real Estate Loan Workouts" guidance issued Oct 30th, as reported by the WSJ: Banks Hasten to Adopt New Loan Rules and the new FDIC guidance that states performing loans "made to creditworthy borrowers" will not require write downs "solely because the value of the underlying collateral declined").
Now, keep in mind that although banks may not be calling these under water loans in, they are essentially under collateralized, or in some cases literally uncollateralized loans (any mezzanine level loans should be considered worthless in many of these deals). This changes the risk profile immensely, and if the graph above depicting the Japanese land values bears any semblence to what is to come in the US, the pretending stance of the banks will simply lead to defaults with minimal or zero, if not negative recovery values. This may increasingly be the case in non-recourse situations when the borrower has tough decisions to make. Very much like the residential home owner and jingle mail, certain REITs may simply throw in the towel, which will leave the banks in a lurch, particularly since they decided to ignore prudent lending practices by pretending the loan that shouldn't have been written now doesn't need to be called in when there is some value left in the term recovery value.


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The Board selected Denise Duffy & Associates (DD&A) in May 2016 to perform this work.
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The Board selected Denise Duffy & Associates (DD&A) in May 2016 to perform this work.
In January 2016, the FORA Board authorized the release of a Request for Proposals to hire a professional consultant to prepare a Draft Oak Woodland Conservation Area Map and Draft Oak Woodland Area Management and Monitoring Plan. This FORA led effort will assist the City of Seaside and County of Monterey to meet their BRP Oak Woodlands Policies and Programs. California Department of Veterans Affairs (CDVA), adjacent jurisdictions (CSUMB, Marina, etc.), and stakeholders will also be actively engaged in this process and be provided opportunity to participate. One of the work products is to assist the CDVA to meet oak woodland mitigation measures for the California Central Coast Veterans Cemetery site.
In June 2015, FORA staff received a special request from the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CDVA) to assist their effort to meet oak woodland mitigation measures for the California Central Coast Veterans Cemetery site.
In October 2014, FORA staff prepared an Administrative Draft RFP to assist Seaside and the County in the oak woodland conservation process. On May 8, 2015, the FORA Board adopted FY 15/16 annual budget that included a line item to address the Oak Woodlands Policies and Programs.
At its December 14, 2012 meeting, the FORA Board adopted the Base Reuse Plan Final Reassessment Report. The Report noted that Seaside and the County had yet to complete their Category III Oak Woodlands Policies and Programs obligation. Subsequently, FORA Board assigned FORA staff to work with jurisdiction staff to identify and propose a strategy to assist jurisdictions with completion of Category III items.
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- Ariella's Keeper
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As things heat up, the clock is ticking, and the time for seduction is running out.
Alternate Reality Romance (parallel universe) from NYT & USAT Bestselling Author
In a world obsessed with medical advancement, Dr. Gerard Fauchet longs for something more. When he's assigned as the liaison to a dignitary from an parallel unierse, he never imagined she'd be so stunningly beautiful, or so damned frustrating. One second she's kissing him, the next she's pretending nothing is between them.
The passion is scorching, everything he ever dreamed of having with a woman. He'll make her admit she wants him—or die trying.
Dr. Cecilia Markos is keenly aware that she's been shoved through a portal to an alternate reality for one reason—to bring home medical advancements for the betterment of her people. Unfortunately, she only has two months to learn a world's complete medical knowledgebase. It's an impossible task made even more so by the distractingly handsome Gerard who she can't seem to keep her hands or her mind off of.
As the clash heats up between Gerard and Cecilia, the clock is ticking, and the time for seduction is running out.
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Hereditary neuropathies are large group of genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous disorders affecting the peripheral nervous system. The peripheral nervous system is divided into the somatic and autonomic nervous system. The somatic nervous system relays motor and sensory information to and from the central nervous system. The autonomic nervous system, which regulates involuntary bodily functions, for example, heart rate, breathing, and digestion.
Symptoms of the hereditary neuropathies vary according to the type and may include sensory symptoms such as numbness, tingling, and pain in feet and hands, or motor symptoms such as weakness and loss of muscle bulk, particularly in the lower leg and feet muscles. Certain types of hereditary neuropathies can affect the autonomic nerves, resulting in impaired sweating, postural hypotension, or insensitivity to pain. Some affected individuals may have foot deformities such as high arches and hammer toes, thin calf muscles, or scoliosis. The symptoms of hereditary neuropathies may be apparent at birth, or appear in middle life, or late life. Symptoms can vary among different family members, with some family members being more severely affected than others. The hereditary neuropathies can be diagnosed by nerve conduction studies, nerve biopsies, and genetic testing.
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Get crazy fit like the influential trainer
His grandparents' house was an understated work of art. But the new owner tore it down. Why would he do that?
This champion and future legend is driven by vivid memories of near misses and ancient slights. What drives your two-minute drill?
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Beachside Burleigh Heads apartmentWith the famed Burleigh Headland and National Park presenting as your neighbour, world famous surfers bought in this building for a reason. This has an amazing view and all you have to do is jump down to beautiful Burleigh Headland for that swim, surf or Sunday afternoon picnic without even getting in the car!
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The lifestyle position and choices that the property presents is second to none. Whether it's a serene nature headland walk through the many tracks of Burleigh Headland or a stroll to James Street and its trendy cafe's, restaurants, bars and retail outlet precinct only a 5 minute whisk away from the front door as well.


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Kidnappers and Armed Robbers' house & mosque demolished by Governor of Kogi State
The Kogi State government has demolished a storey building in Okene, known as the hideout of kidnappers and armed robbers.
The house is said to be owned by a kidnap kingpin, .Tijani Abubakar.
A mosque owned by a suspected group was also demolished by the state government, Governor Yahaya Bello supervised the demolition of the buildings. This is in line with the state's law on terrorism.
The building belonging to Abubakar at Oyunkoko Ward in Okene Local Government was the first to be demolished at about 2:30pm yesterday.
The mosque belonging to the notorious Ahlul-Sunnah in Inike, also in Okene, was demolished later.
The mosque was said to have been hijacked by the notorious terrorists group, Boko Haram in 2015 and had been serving as their operational base.
The buildings were identified by the Military Joint Task Force which recently arrested some 17 robbery, kidnap and terrorism suspects.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Wilson Inalegwu and heads of other security agencies, accompanied the governor during the demolition.
The police chief said "This is a strong message to kidnappers and hoodlums that they must change their ways. They should work hard and earn a decent living. We want to make Kogi safe so that those living here or travelling through will not have fear of being kidnapped.''


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How to Start a Personal Brand
Hey mama boss,
I hope you are having an amazing Thursday!
It's currently freezing AF up here in the mountains. I wanted to stay cuddled up in my cozy bed, drinking bottomless mugs of hot coffee, while wearing extra fuzzy sweatpants and remaining bra-less. Oh, while binge watching the Real Housewives while someone else took care of all the dishes and 75 loads of laundry. #goals
Buutttt.... life calls, amiiiright?
So, instead, I took my son to school at the booty crack of dawn, went to my workout class, AND did all the dishes AND cleaned my kitchen. You know what?! It feels damn good, too. I have energy, my body feels alive, and a clean kitchen just lights my soul on fire.
The laundry? Oh yeah... it's still there. Haha. #balance
MKAYYYY, so I know why you're really still reading this. You're on the edge of your seat... you're dying to find out... WHAT IS EPISODE 05 of The Mompreneur Mastermind Show all about?! SQUEALLLLL...... it's SO GOOD. A must listen for every. single. female. entrepreneur. Are you ready to get your learn on?!
When you are doing laundry, dishes, or driving in the car today - play this bad boy and learn....
How to Start a Personal Brand!
My life (and finances) changed when I started branding ME instead of 'my business', 'my products', and 'my opportunity'. TRUST me when I say, there are endless possibilities when you create an umbrella brand that can GROW with you.
In Episode 05, I'll be teaching specifically five areas that will set you up for success when it comes to branding YOU. I also talk about why you need a brand and what branding consists of. You'll learn SO much in this show from crafting an esthetic brand (logo, colors, online personality) to adding valuable content that solves a problem for your niche market. Seriously, a MUST LISTEN for any female entrepreneur.
I hope you enjoy.
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Yesterday I posted a story about the college judging competition and a picture of Lindsay Spencer. Well, today I got to meet her and I interviewed her about how she got involved in dairy judging.
This is actually her second competition! So she's certainly off to a great start and competing with the best of the best here at World Dairy Expo.
You can listen to my interview with Lindsay here: (3.7MB MP3 File)


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Cat and I love to travel. It doesn't matter if it's a short day trip, a weekend getaway, or a long vacation; getting away and recharging is good for the soul. Now that we are over 50, traveling seems even more important. For us travel expands our world view. The greatest way to dispel misunderstandings about one another is to stop learning about one another from our couch but rather learning about one another face-to-face. I think we should all travel, meet a stranger, share a meal, and most importantly make a friend.
We will continually add travel information, helpful tips, historical information (I am a professor after all), and hopefully spark you to get out and travel. I truly believe we should strive to be travelers and not tourists.


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My family and I are moving to Santiago, Chile in November of this year. We will be down there for 2 to 4 years. We are moving because my husband got a transfer opportunity within his company. He is pretty fluent in Spanish and his family is from Argentina. I know some basics but I am not fluent by any means. We have an 8 month daughter. She will be just turning 1 when we arrive.
I am concerned about language delays because all she has heard is English and then in a matter of a 9 hour flight, she will hear only Spanish.
Thanks so much,
Dear Stephanie,
When your family land in Santiago, your daughter will not founder in a world that is alien to her, and she will not start hearing only Spanish. Neither will you. The family is moving, which means that your ways and your language will be travelling with you.
You don't need to prepare your daughter in any way for your move. It is likely that she will spontaneously learn Spanish in Chile, without any intervention on your part. She will naturally make friends while you are there, and naturally use their languages, whether English or Spanish. Children become aware of their surroundings and of themselves from around age 3, so she won't notice that she will be learning a new language, just like she has no idea that she is already learning something called 'English'.
Having contact with a new language does not delay language acquisition. Language delay is a clinical condition which affects monolinguals and multilinguals alike, and which therefore has nothing to do with the number of languages that one is exposed to.
You are not alone: your situation matches the experience of countless expatriate families worldwide. Just relax, enjoy your new country, and watch your child enjoying it. She will adapt to her new environment with no problem at all. Moving country will be a great opportunity to expose her to a different culture, and you may even come to realise that your daughter will be the one teaching you how to feel at home in different languages and different cultures.
Do feel free to contact me privately, if you wish to discuss these matters in greater detail.
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Numerous counties in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington D.C. have declared a state of emergency. While there is no law prohibiting marketing to these areas, limiting solicitation calls and texts is recommended during Hurricane Florence.
Contact Center Compliance will continue to monitor the development of this storm and issue additional advisories as warranted.


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With the deadline to mail in ballots for the Nov. 3 election nearing, it seems appropriate to pause and give a shout out to those far-sighted folks who got Boulder started on its open space acquisition.
When Matt McCue was a freshman walk-on to the University of Colorado cross country team in the summer of 2001, he showed up for his first run at the Potts Field track. The were only three runners at Potts that day; future NCAA champions and Olympians Jorge Torres and Dathan Ritzenhein, as well as Edwardo Torres. McCue got hammered that July morning, but he hung tough with the "skinny Trinity" the entire 12-mile run.
"It's so satisfying, much more satisfying than doing something that would make a lot of money," said Sandrock, who is also a freelance journalist specializing in running. "One World Running is really a great name because we're all running together. We're all connected."