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Show PAGE 10 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, BUSINESS EDITOR Grace Leong 0 2008 gleongheraldextra.com Week Ahead Editor's Note: Please submit calendar information for Utah businesses, events, seminars and conferences to gleongher-aldextra.co- ney, guardianships and conservatorships. This special event is open to the public, but seating is limited. If you f ? J ' would like to participate please call the chapter office at to RSVP. Light refreshments will be served. or fax it . to Deadline for submission is the Wednesday of the week before publication. 344-2985- 4 I The 14th Annual TUESDAY CCIM NAIOPUtah Commercial Real Estate Symposium will unite industry profes- I UVSC celebrates Career and Technical Education Month. High sionals representing a 'SrhnnlQ rnllpcJpc anrl variety of segments in commercial real estate for this year's review and forecast of Utah's market conditions on Thursday. Keynote speaker James Brew of the Rocky Mountain universities across the United States will join together during February to celebrate National Career and Technical Education Month, promoting and informing students ' about the benefits of CTE programs. UVSC's CTE Department is joining in by setting up an information booth in Institute , the Sorensen Student will address "Green Fuels the New Economy of Real Estate," The program will also include an economic report by economist Jeff Thredgold of Thredgold Economic Associates. Local real Photos by Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Feb. 25 estate professionals and by holding an institu- will present industrial, tion-wide scavenger inveslnent, office and retail market overviews. , hunt the final week of February. The departReflecting increased dement will also hold a velopment activity along CTE Faculty Thank You the Wasatch Front, this luncheon and reception year's symposium will Feb. 25 from 11:30 held in three locations: a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with Salt Palace Convena presentation on the tion Center, Provo future goals and strate- Marriott and Ogden Eccles Conference gic plan of Career and Technical Education at Center. Coldwell Banker UVSC beginning at 12 Commercial's Howard ' p.m. Layton will provide the for I The Orem Small Bus- market overview iness Development Center will be hosting a free advertising class on Tuesday from 6:30-8:3p.m. the Geneva Building, 1410 W. 1200 South, Orem, in Room GB 121. This class will cover different types of advertising, public relations, direct mail, billboards, 0 trade shows, Internet advertising, philanthropic activities, and promotional items. For more information visit www.uvsc.edusbdc workshops or contact Laurie Ann at THURSDAY The Orem Small Business Development Center will be hosting an Intermediate QuickBooks level class in Heber City at the Utah County. Provo GARY KAZANJIANAssociated Press Sierra Nevada on Feb. 4 at his ranch in Cathey's traditional livestock production, Nitschke and a new ranchers are forging unheard of alliances with environmental groups crop of community-minde- d geared toward minimizing their industry's hoof print on the environment. Beef rancher, Seth Nitschke on the foothills of the Valley, CaUf. Unlike his graying counterparts in Young Bucks New generation of ranchers bucking cattle industry to protect environment ers are buying into the idea that they have a role to play in protecting open space, be it through preserving private wildlands or promoting sustainable grazing in traditional livestock production, techniques. Garance Burke he and a new crop of cattlemen Near Florida's Lake THE ASSOCIATED PRESS are quietly working to minimize Okeechobee, the World Wildlife Nitschke spent his their industry's ecological footFund has recruited ranchers to 20s working at print and are forging unlikely alli- build ditches on their lands to ances with environmental groups. improve wetlands habitat for feed lots before he "Look at this grass. If I don't threatened and endangered birds home to start a like the wood stork and crested business raising beef cattle fed on take care of it, that's my livelithe grasses of the Sierra Nevada hood," Nitschke said, kneeling as caracara. he examined foxtail shoots. "We foothills. In Wyoming, the Audobon Sodress differently than the Nitschke, 31, who herds heifers ciety is trying to persuade oil and we probably vote differ- gas companies to pay ranchers to through pastures near Yosemite National Park, doesn't consider maintain sage brush expanses key ently, but in the end there's a lot himself an environmental activist, of ways in which our core values . to the survival of the sage grouse. are really close." And in Calif ornia, 75 ranching though he's planting saplings to Across the West, cattlemen and organizations, environmental protect nearby streams and runs environmentalists have locked a light herd to let his pastures groups and state and federal breathe. horns over grazing practices for Unlike some of his counterparts decades. But increasingly, ranch See RANCHERS, C9 ; at- Seth tendees should arrive and sign-iby 7:15 a.m.; program begins at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast and presentations. It joins the simulcast at 8 a.m. Register to attend at www.sympo- sium08.com. Audiences in Provo and Ogden will receive localized reports for their respective counties and then join via simulcast the event conducted from the Salt Palace. Three n eco-folk- s, . hours of Utah continuing education will be available to licensed brokers and appraisers who attend entire event. r A 'I P -A I, " SATURDAY ft UVSC Wasatch Camin Room WC204 Lecture Hall from 8:30 pus on Thursday. The class will cover analyzing financial data, setting up inventory, tracking & paying sales tax, generating payroll with QuickBooks, estimating & progress invoicing, tracking time, customizing forms and writing QuickBooks letters. Cost to attend this class is $49. More information can be found by visiting www.uvsc. edusbdcworkshops or calling Laurie Ann Thomas at I The Alzheimer's Association - Utah Chapter will be offering a free seminar on estate planning at Silverado Assisted 1430 E. Living at 4500 South at 6 p.m. on Thursday. The seminar will be conducted by special guest speaker, Douglas Cummings of Callister, Nebeker & McCullough, and will focus on the specific steps to take in planning your estate UVSC's Equity in Education Center is sponsoring the Expanding Your Horizons Conference from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 1 in the Sorensen Student Center at the UVSC Orem campus. The conference is open to all 6th-12t- h grade girls, educators and parents. There will be more than 45 workshops for girls taught by women working in the fields of math, science and technology. The educator and parent workshops include information on attending college and strategies to help stu- dents. Those interested are urged to register as sdon as possible, as many workshops fill up Expanding Your Horhelps girls better izons understand the possibilities and options that are available to them in the future in math, science, technology and careers. Registration for students, parents or educators for the conference is only $25 and includes lunch, a and an information packet. Registration is now open and brochures are available Topics of discussion will include: assets protection wills, financial objectives, current of Utah from school counselors, math and science teachers and online at http:www. as- , liabilitiesexpenses;, advanced directives; the appropriate use of powers of attorney, guardianships, limited guardianships and conservatorships; and triggering events for the use of powers of attor 4 Cattle belonging to rancher Seth Nitschke roam along the foothills of the Sierra Nevada on Feb. 4 " at his ranch in Cathey's Valley, Calif. throughout the state uvsc.educontedc&w horizons. For more information, call the Equity in Education Center To at (801) 863-849ConUVSC call register, ferences at (801) 863-889-4 or register online at the above Web site. Financial strategies caught between Mars, Venus 'hat do you and your significant other fight about? Chances are, money. I've been reviewing surveys on this topic for more than a decade, and money often finds its way to the top spot as a cause of marital tension. And, not surprisingly, the most frequent cause of divorce. But when we fight with a partner about finances, we're not just arguing over dollars and cents; we're fighting about who is in control of the relationship. And we're fighting about stress, says John Gray, the author of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus' (Harper, 2004). In his new book, "Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress," Gray says that money in and of itself isn't it's the stress money the issue causes, and how we cope with that stress, that has us butting heads. LT-- I M quickly. sets. and protecting your 'I We tend to be security-orientewant to ask questions, understand the problem and then make a decision. Men, on the other hand, are wired to react immediately. They want to solve the problem and move onto the next. These two different approaches clash, leaving us both on edge. Here's how to bust through your differences and make those mutual money decisions a bit with it. You really have to go back and dig through all of that, and talk about what money meant in your household growing up," says Laura Rowley, author of "Money and Happiness." It's also a good idea to be upfront about W , J what's likely to push your stress button, and how you typically handle it, so your partner knows I how to react. 1 .. I Know the numbers. Unbelieveasier: ably: Not only do men and women tend to argue about how to spend Dig deep. I know I've written about the importance of actually our money, we can't even agree Talking Money sitting down and talking about , on how much we have. A 2003 money in this space before, but I study published in the Journal of found that when really can't stress it enough. To "There's nothing that causes understand each other's financouples were asked separately cial habits, you have to dig deep. more stress. than money, because about their joint income and total it represents risk and danger. Are Tell your partner how you were wealth, the husband reported 5 we going to use it properly? Will introduced to money as a child, percent more in income and 10 we run out of it? It's a charged whether your parents were big percent more in wealth than his wife. On the other hand, wives subject," explains Gray. spenders or big savers, and anyThe fact that men and women on average reported total debt as thing else that helped shape the are worlds apart in the way they $500 more than their husbands. way you approach the subject manage that stress doesn't help today. matters any. Women, says Gray, See CHATZKY, C9 "Money brings so much stuff YflWnmiDDcTRA,TS Lf- Jean Chatzky Socio-Economi- 52l3 |