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I'm so glad you wrote this article. I for one, am not a freelancer but I will be doing it soon once I get my business going on the side. I actually work for a social outsourcing site, called VOIS.com(Virtual Outsourcing Is Social) as moderator or catalyst and boy, I'll tell ya, I get all kinds of opinions on how well or how terrible outsourcing is for them. The truth is that, that most of the members on such sites are sellers and a majority really are from india, not that it's a bad thing, but they will do the work for the cheapest price. I have also received messages from Buyers on the site that will not deal with anyone out of the nation becuase they feel uncomfortable conducting business with the seller. It's a mix! Vois.com is actually free, and does not have any walls or boundaries.
How to Find Freelance Clients: Part Two
Last time, "How to Find Freelance Clients: Part One" discussed some of the things you would need to do to prepare for freelancing. In Part Two of this article, we'll cover where to find the actual clients who pay freelancers.
Where Your First Client is Hiding
Everyone has a different level of comfort with marketing activities. Some people become freelancers in hopes of not having to deal with the public as is necessary with most other professions. Despite the fact that you might work from your home or a small one-man (or woman) office; you will need to network and market yourself to become successful.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a rock out there that you could just turn over and find your first client's hiding place?
Instead, you need to do a little investigation to find your first client; and probably step outside your comfort zone at times.
Freelance Bidding Sites: One possible place to find your first client is through the use of freelance bidding sites. These sites are similar to auctions, in that a buyer posts the specifications of the work he or she needs doing; and then multiple service providers/freelancers place "bids" to complete that work.
Freelance bidding sites are controversial among the freelance community. Some freelancers swear by them, and get most (or even 100%) of their clients through the use of these websites. Others refuse to use the sites because of the tendency for the work to be on the low end of the pay scale when compared to the freelance industry pricing as a whole.
As a new freelancer, you might find the bidding sites to be an easy way to land yourself your first client or two, gain a testimonial from a happy client to add to your growing "proof" pile, and make a few dollars in the process.
Some of the bidding sites are free to use as a service provider, but you'll pay a fee if you land a job through the site (typically a percentage of the project price). Other bidding sites require a membership fee from providers, or a pay-per-bid price.
Take a look at a number of bidding sites to see the types of jobs that are posted, and which bids are being selected as the service provider. Not surprisingly, buyers who use freelance bidding sites are often after the lowest price; but there are buyers who use the sites for convenience and make their selection based on who they feel can provide the best quality within their deadline and price range. When you are reviewing the bidding sites and projects listed, also look to see what the winning bidder is including in their "bids" - how they are worded, what type of information they include and what they leave out, whether they are well-crafted or casually written introductions about their freelancing skills. Try to model your own bid responses on the style of bids that seem to be winning projects.
Using freelance bidding sites is a bit of a numbers game; you might have to apply for (bid) a number of jobs before you "win" one. As soon as you win a project, do your best (even if the project pays less than you intend to charge your clients moving forward) as you are starting your reputation as a freelancer with this first client.
Examples of freelance bidding sites you may want to try:
www.rentacoder.com (I found my first freelance clients here)
Getafreelancer.com (affiliate link)
99Designs: Are you a designer? 99Designs.com is a site which allows prospective customers to request their logos, web design, t shirt designs and other design needs as a contest through the site. You can register for a designer account with 99Designs and start entering your designs to open contests. If chosen, you win the contest fee.
Direct Contact: Use the internet to find businesses who typically use the services you offer. For example, you could contact marketing agencies to offer your graphic design skills for their brochures, business cards, and direct mailings. If you are a web developer, instead of looking for a new business without a web presence to help them get online with a site – try contacting existing web design businesses that seem to be doing very well to see if they have a need to outsource any of their work. You can make initial contact via email or contact forms on the websites of the businesses you decide to contact – or you might phone them directly. Both options are free (with the exception of your time) and are very effective for drumming up your first client (as well as finding clients regularly!)
Ask Everyone You Know: Don't be afraid to let your friends, family and co-workers know that you're starting a freelance business and ask if they know of anyone who might need your services. Word of mouth and referrals is by far the best type of marketing there is, and these people are all included in your "warm market". If a friend refers someone they know to you, you already have the trust of that prospective client simply because their friend referred them. Having the trust of your prospects is key to turning them into paying clients.
Try eBay: eBay.com is not really designed to market yourself as a freelancer, but if you type in "freelance" in the search box on eBay.com, you'll find a few hundred people who are advertising on eBay. It only cost a few cents to list an ad, so if you can figure out how to present yourself to potential eBay users, you might be able to benefit from the hundreds of thousands of visitors the site receives each week. Keep in mind that most people are visiting eBay to buy products, not services, but there have been freelance writers and graphic designers who have done very well for themselves by adding an auction listing for their work. You can sell web content articles for $10 or $20 a piece; a single logo design for $50 – whatever service you offer as a freelancer can be listed on the eBay in an auction format. It may not be the best long term strategy for incoming business (although never say never!) but you may be able to find yourself your first client with a little auction posting of your own.
Job Sites: Even though job sites are primarily for full time and part time positions, many online job listing sites include jobs for freelancers; sometimes classified as "telecommute" or "contract work". All of these terms basically mean the same thing – you're working from your own home or office and you're not considered an employee of the company for tax purposes. Try searching the major job sites and classified listings for jobs that are in your area of expertise and are offered on a contract, telecommute or freelance basis.
Here are a number of sites to help you get started on your search:
www.craigslist.org (under jobs category for every state and city of the US, you can find your industry and then view the listings for free. Apply to any that are contract or telecommute that you can do).
In "How to Find Freelance Clients: Part 3", I'll give you some tips for applying for the freelance work found online.
Disclaimer: The links and mentions on this site may be affiliate links. But they do not affect the actual opinions and recommendations of the authors.
Wise Bread is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.
The bidding sites are really worthless. They drive down prices and your competing against people in other countries where the average wage due to currency differences is a fraction of what the average wage is in the US. Your better off putting the time into sites and networking that cater more towards professionals trying to cultivate a career rather than lowest bidder ones.
I do actually agree that the quality of the jobs being posted on most bidding sites have gone downhill. 6 years ago, I started my freelance business through the bidding sites. The reason I still recommend them is because ... 6 years later, I still have a number of the clients I connected with through the sites initially.
You'll never compete on price with people working from other countries where the US dollar is worth so much more - but there are still a number of buyers/clients who want what a native-english speaking, US worker can provide and they are willing to pay more for that service. They may be using the freelance bidding sites for the same reason a freelancer is - they're new to the world of freelancing and not sure how to connect with workers and not because they hope to find someone to do the work for a few pennies.
I definitely agree that freelancers need to be putting their effort into other networking opportunities, and establishing themselves as professionals in their industry. Just saying that I don't label the freelance bidding sites as completely worthless, because every now and then you will find a fair priced job, and you just might make connections that lead to bigger and better.
Great post, Debbie, but I was surprised by the lack of social media resources. Maybe you are planning this for another post? For the past few years, I've gotten almost all of my referrals either through word-of-mouth or social media. In fact, despite the constantly waffling opinions, I've found Twitter to be a valuable part of my social media marketing efforts. It's allowed me to connect with folks that might not be so accessible. LinkedIn has also become a primary tool in my freelance marketing efforts as its so easy to connect with professionals that I can collaborate with or assist. I, personally, have found freelance auction sites a complete waste of time, particularly for any type of web design/development folks.


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Did you like the way the demo big-screen TV looked in the dealer's showroom? Or the way the speakers sounded? Think that's the way your new system should look and sound in your home?
Well, you're wrong.
Almost all new television sets come set up by the manufacturers to "pop" on the showroom floor. They crank up the brightness and color levels to look their best in the brightly-lit store—and to look brighter and more colorful than the competitor's sets. (It's a fact that the set with the brightest picture in the showroom sells the best.) Unfortunately, this hyper-accentuated picture is not the right picture for your living room. You want a picture that looks more natural, which will require some readjusting.
It's the same thing with audio. Most dealers pump up the bass and overpower the rear speakers in an attempt to impress you with room-shaking surround sound. Adjust the system the same way in your living room, and you'll find the long-term listening experience quite unpleasant.
Fortunately, there are specific standards designed to help you get the optimal picture quality on your new big-screen TV. There are also similar standards for audio quality from your system's speakers and audio components. Calibrate your system to these standards and you'll have a terrific looking and sounding home theater system.
But what are these standards—and how do you make the appropriate adjustments? Read on to learn more.
Calibration Discs
Proper calibration of your audio and video components is difficult to do by eye or ear alone. Your eyes and your ears can deceive you, especially when you're focusing on one particular element of your system's performance. This is why proper calibration of your system is facilitated by proper use of a calibration disc.
A calibration disc is a DVD that contains dozens—if not hundreds—of test patterns and calibration tests. When you follow the instructions on the DVD, you end up adjusting your TV and audio system to produce the optimal results. The adjustments can be as simple as tweaking the standard brightness, contrast, color, and tint controls, or as complex as making fine adjustments to the set's technical service menu. How detailed you go in calibrating your system is up to you.
My favorite calibration DVD is Ovation Multimedia's AVIA Guide to Home Theater. The AVIA disc includes a 40-minute guide to home theater basics, a variety of video calibration patterns and tests, and an equally large number of audio calibration tests. You also get a box full of colored filters to help you calibrate your display's color and tint levels. The disc retails for $49.99. (An AVIA PRO six-disc test suite is also available that sells for $400; it's for hard-core professionals only.)
What kind of calibrations are we talking about? Here's a top-level overview of what you can calibrate and test with the AVIA disc:
- Grayscale and video levels
- Video geometry and convergence
- Letterbox geometry
- Widescreen enhanced video
- Video resolution
- Color adjustment
- Overscan and pixel cropping
- Main speaker setup
- Subwoofer setup
- Audio verification/evaluation
- Audio reference tones
There are close to 200 separate test patterns and calibration routines on the AVIA disc—more than most users will want to go through, to be honest. Suffice it to say that whatever you want to adjust, you can find that calibration somewhere on the AVIA disc.
Another popular calibration disc is Digital Video Essentials (DVE), from Joe Kane Productions. It features tests and patterns similar to the AVIA disc, although it's a little more technical in nature. The consumer version is a single-disc DVD that comes with a blue filter for color calibration; it sells for $24.99 and is available in both NTSC and PAL versions. The Professional version is a six-disc extravaganza with tons of high-definition patterns and tests; it sells for $295 to professional installers and technicians.
Also good, but not quite as comprehensive, is the Sound & Vision Home Theater Tune-Up DVD, from the folks at Sound & Vision magazine. This is an easier-to-use disc than either AVIA or DVE, although it offers only a subset of the tests that they provide. It's also lower priced, at just $21.95.
If you don't want to spend the bucks on one of these fancy calibration discs, you can always use the rudimentary test patterns present on some commercial DVDs. The best of this lot is the THX Optimizer found on certain Lucasfilm THX-certified DVDs. Although it doesn't have near the calibration functionality as the AVIA or DVE discs, it's better than trying to make adjustments by eyeballing the picture yourself.
Professional technicians, of course, have even more options available to them. Ovation Multimedia, for example, distributes the OpticONE color analyzer, a $2,000 piece of test equipment that can create automated video calibration reports. If you choose to have your system professionally calibrated, this is the sort of equipment the technician will use.

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New Anti-Bullying Caucus Forms in U.S. House
When Congressman Mike Honda was an infant, his family was plucked out of California and placed in the Amache Japanese Interment Camp in Colorado. His family spent four years there before returning to California.
At first, for Honda, the lesson was that the U.S. government and then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt were bullies. Honda's father, who eventually went to work for the military to teach Japanese, set his son straight. The camps were a mistake, a failure of leadership at the time, he told his son, who has served in Congress since 2000, a Democrat representing part of northern California.
On Thursday, just blocks away from the raucous scene outside the U.S. Supreme Court over it's ruling on the Affordable Care Act, Honda launched a new Anti-Bullying Caucus. The effort quickly gained 46 members, including a few Republicans, including Florida's Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Illinois' Robert Dold.
"This is a bipartisan and nonpartisan issue," Honda said during a press conference. That may be, but federal anti-bullying legislation efforts have stalled, in part because of also-stalled efforts to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the current No Child Left Behind law.
Many of the lawmakers who spoke shared their own experiences with bullying. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., told the story of her nephew committing suicide after being hazed while serving in the military in Afghanistan.
"What ends up on the battlegrounds often begins on playgrounds," she said.
Rep. Laura Richardson, also a California Democrat, said as a child attending a predominantly African-American school, her mixed heritage left her the target of bullies, who asked why she had freckles, why her hair was lighter than theirs, and why her veins glowed green through her skin when the weather turned cold.
She referenced the case of Karen Klein, a New York bus assistant taunted by middle school students who captured their nastiness on video.
Those who see bullying and don't do anything about it should be punished along with the bullies, Richardson said.
Honda hopes to make the caucus a bicameral effort, and if necessary, craft new, bipartisan legislation if the Student Non-Discrimination Act and the Safe Schools Improvement Act continue to languish, his spokesman Jack D'Annibale said.


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I recently wrote a basic overview for the Storybook project that I'm taking to Chile, and I've realised having it on here is probably the best place to put it, so here it is.
Project Overview of Interactive Storybook for iPad
from Radical Robot
The Interactive Storybook for iPad project is designed to create an educational storybook for children between the ages of 4 and 7 that will help them learn to read sentences while providing an engaging and entertaining experience. The age range is designed to target children moving from reading single words, to sentences.
Many interactive storybooks are designed to entertain and tell a story, but provide little towards assisting the child to read the story for themselves. In most cases, this assistance is provided by parents or learning professionals, however these people are not always available to assist the child when they want. This project will utilise Speech Recognition technology to listen to the child as they read the story out loud, so as to provide encouragement, feedback, assistance and rewards at the point at which it is needed. Face detection will be used to determine whether or not the child is reading from the app rather than talking to someone off screen and will therefore serve to provide more accuracy to the speech recognition. Speech recognition can be disabled for adult led enjoyment.
As the child reads the story, the app will listen to their progress. When the child reads a word incorrectly, stumbles on pronunciation or takes a long time to read the word (the app only 'listens' when the child is looking at the app). It will then step in and prompt the child with assistance using the Phonics learning system. When the child correctly pronounces the word, then audible ('Well done!') and visual (animations) feedback is used to provide rewards.
The app will monitor the child's progress over time (between readings of the story as well as within a reading session) so that feedback can be adjusted to the child's progress. This means that words that are consistently mispronounced will receive more intervention and greater rewards for success than words that are more often correctly read. The actual form that the feedback/reward system will take is currently in development.
As additional rewards, at the end of every page, the story so far can be animated and interacted with. These animations can be expanded into games that will assist the child with learning the words that they have been struggling with in a fun and interactive way.
The app is designed to be a fun experience whether read together with a parent or alone. When read with a parent then the speech recognition and face detection can be disabled so that mum or dad can provide the learning value and assist their child in playing the games. However, whenever the child wants to play and mum's busy, then the Speech Recognition can be activated to provide the required assistance and encouragement during self directed play.
This app is still in development, with a working prototype expected around March. Development at this time is focused around creating the speech recognition technology for children.


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You've been diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (PH)… now what? Although there is currently no cure for pulmonary hypertension, there are treatment options available and more are on the horizon. Treatments include what health care providers call conventional medical therapies as well as oral, inhaled, subcutaneous (into the skin), and intravenous (into the vein) options. Depending on the severity of PH, heart or lung transplant may also be an option.
Remember that each patient is different. It is essential that you talk to your own doctor about what treatment options are best for you.
Fact Sheets Issued by PHA's Scientific Leadership Council
Conventional Medical Therapies
- Calcium Channel Blockers – Help decrease blood pressure (Only appropriate for a small minority of patients demonstrating a favorable response to vasodilator testing at the time of heart catheterization.)
- Digoxin – Assists the pumping of the heart
- Diuretics – Rids excess fluid that puts pressure on the heart
- Oxygen – Inhaled by patients via a nasal cannula or face mask. Learn more about inhaled oxygen (O2) here.
- Warfarin (e.g. Coumadin®) – "Thins" blood and prevents it from clotting
Oral Treatment Options
Endothelin Receptor Antagonists (ERAs) help prevent blood vessels from narrowing.
- Ambrisentan (Letairis®)
- Bosentan (Tracleer®)
- Bosentan (Tracleer®) for Pediatric Use
- Macitentan (Opsumit®)
Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors (PDE 5 Inhibitors) allow the lungs to produce more of its own natural vasodilators.
Prostacyclin Analogue allows the blood vessels in the lungs relax
Selective IP Receptor Agonist targets and activates a prostacyclin receptor which helps the blood vessels in the lungs relax.
Soluble Guanylate Cyclase (sGC) Stimulators increase the interaction of the sGC enzyme with another chemical (nitric oxide) to help the blood vessels in the lungs relax.
Inhaled Treatment Options
Inhaled Treatment Options, including prostacyclins, relieve shortness of breath.
Subcutaneous Treatment Options
Subcutaneous Treatment Options are delivered through a portable infusion pump to open up the blood vessels and ease the symptoms of PH.
Intravenous Treatment Options
Intravenous Treatment Options open up the blood vessels and help ease symptoms of PH, including chest pain and shortness of breath.
- Intravenous Treprostinil (Remodulin®)
- Epoprostenol (Flolan®)
- Room Temperature Stable Epoprostenol (Veletri®)
Research and Clinical Trials
Read about participating in research and clinical trials
Stem Cell Therapy
Read about stem cell therapy and PH
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It has been called the magic hill and I believe it is. Magic is made, created, imagined, seen, and discovered here. YOU WILL WORK HARDER THAN YOU EVER HAVE AND BE MORE EXHAUSTED THAN YOU'VE EVER BEEN AND, HOPEFULLY, THE MOST FULFILLED YOU HAVE EVER BEEN SO FAR.
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Reasonably-sized school for the amount of students. Music school has strict and pushing education that is still very manageable. You probably won't have much fun unless you can find someone with a car; though there is bus transportation offered in runs on a not-that-excellent schedule.Read More
When I first chose to go to film school, UNCSA was the only school that accepted me for film. So, I became hesitant if it was the right choice for me. Last spring I toured and interviewed here and fell in love. I knew that if I did not follow my dreams of being a filmmaker, I would forever regret my decision. Therefore, I enrolled in UNCSA and started college last fall with the excitement of a college freshman, enrolled in classes that I would only have dreamed about in high school, and my hesitation went away.Read More
UNCSA is more of a conservatory of the arts divided into 5 schools (dance, design & production, film, music and drama. Some of this schools have a requirement of crew hours were you work behind the scenes of a film, art department preparing the stage for an upcoming play and many more. Don't think of it as an easy school because it's an art school, there are some days that we work for 12 hours a day and this includes the weekends, but is all worth it at the end.Read More
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts is more than just a school, it is a community. It's a place where students are passionate about their majors and work hard in and outside of class. The friends you make here become the connections you keep forever.Read More
Wonderful Faculty and Student Body. Students all share a common passion and drive for their art. Wonderful relationship between the major schools such as between the school of film making and school of drama.Read More
UNCSA is a tight-knit community of truly talented and ambitious artists. The rigorous courses prepare students to be truly immersed into their desired careers. This school may not have as much of a typical college experience, but it definitely is a refreshing approach to education.Read More
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Overall, a quirky campus with a great, fun atmosphere. They take the arts VERY seriously though, it's not all fun and games. Has a fantastic mascot: The Fighting Pickle.Read More
The teaching at UNCSA is really the strong point of the school, as the professors all come from storied backgrounds and have plenty of experience. The food is decent but the dorms are cramped, and the maintenance services are slow. The school also provides you plenty of equipment for your major, so your possibilities are what you make of them!Read More
One of the greatest experiences I've ever had. Faculty is always there for you. The school is small, but enables you to get to know everyone.Read More


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MeeBee is an award winning internet startup that develops web & mobile applications for the hot social media & geolocation space.
We were recognised by Techcrunch as a top 100 global startup, and Winner of the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Europe award.
Our new mobile app: Who's Free is a cool little app that shows you who's free to hangout!
So you can see your Facebook friends that are NEAR you & FREE to socialize. No other app does that!
Just because you've "checked-in" somewhere, doesn't mean you're "free" to hangout.
Suddenly got 30min for a coffee in b/n meetings?
Want to invite more friends nearby for drinks now?
Playing street-ball & need another player near you?
Who's Free is perfect for this!
meebee, the web app, solves the problem of endless phone calls and emails to find agreeable times for a meeting between people. It's great for scheduling catch ups with mates, or hot sexy dates.
meebee contains a state-of-the-art meeting/events organizational interface which is time-efficient, personalized and secure. meebee gives the user control over their social/business/dating or family lifeby allowing multiple profiles. meebee is actual syncing of data coupled with privacy controls and notification.
Its Fun, Fast, and Friendly!
We all have gaps of time when we're Free & want to maximise this time by joining our friends nearby to do something interesting and fun. Traditional calling & texting wastes time and is a hassle, and we dont know who's nearby or free to meetup. Current geolocation apps are based around a location & not the relationship with your friends to a location. For them, location is used with gaming gimmicks and not as an enhancement with real value in our daily lives, hence checkin fatigue.
Who's Free provides real value in our daily life. It goes beyond location checkins by providing context, so you know who is really free to catchup, something you don't know just by regular "checkins" via apps like Facebook, Foursquare, & Gowalla. Who's Free focuses on enhancing the relationship between you and your friends and the places around you.
meebee represents a fundamentally new way to connect people and utilizes a state of the art meeting/events organizational interface; mastering time efficiency, need for personalization and security of information. It combines technology in blogging sites, invitation/events planning sites, calendar scheduling and dating sites into one complete product that will add value to people lives. It uses apps, such as iCal, to communicate between parties whilst bringing the process into one easy-to-use place.


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Coetzee, a Liverpool FC fan, turned 28 on Friday and gave himself the best possible present with a round which catapulted him up the leaderboard to sit just one stroke behind overnight leader Rory McIlroy.
With the breeze continuing to blow Coetzee put himself in a good position as few players in the morning groups were able to make an impression.
He began the day at two under and went to the turn in level par 35 but had five birdies coming home - including three in succession from the 12th - to ensure a bogey at 17 did not put a dampener on his day.
"This is probably, definitely my favourite major. It's always going to be my birthday week," he said.
"It's nice to play well, obviously, in a very prestigious event and to have my birthday coincide with it is also nice.
"It was quite a good feeling to look at my name and be at the top of the leaderboard."
"Obviously six under was a hell of a score yesterday (by McIlroy) and I didn't think it was doable today to get to that number.
"But when I made birdie on the 13th I was like, 'Well, all right, now I'm pretty close.'"
Sweden's Robert Karlsson and American Brooks Koepka grabbed early birdies to move to four under but some of the bigger names struggled to get going.
Defending champion Phil Mickelson was one over through 14 holes having had an eagle, a birdie and two bogeys.
World number one Adam Scott, probably McIlroy's main challenger on the first page of the leaderboard, dropped back to two under after a couple of early errors while playing partner Justin Rose finally got his round going around the turn.
The Englishman, targeting victory in a third successive tournament, holed from short of the ninth green for birdie and then chipped in at the 10th for an eagle to move up to two under.
McIlroy, not due to tee off until 2.27pm, is bidding to become only the third player to win three majors by the age of 25 to follow in the footsteps of Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, who goes out 22 minutes ahead of the Northern Irishman.


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More on AEP v. Connecticut: Sue the Butterflies or Regulate Them?
During Tuesday's oral arguments in American Electric Power v. Connecticut—the global warming lawsuit that Walter Olson recently discussed here and Ilya Shapiro here, and in which Cato filed amicus briefs at both the certiorari stage and the merits stage—the justices concentrated their inquiries on a few technical legal doctrines in order to answer one question: should states even be allowed to sue power companies for the damage that global warming has allegedly done to their lands and citizens?
There are multiple ways this question could be answered, and how it is answered in the final opinion could have important ramifications for future environmental litigation.
Connecticut and five other states, plus New York City and three land trusts, brought the suit against five power companies. Their claim is based on the age‐old tort of nuisance, the same ground that lets you sue your neighbor if his contaminated water seeps onto your land. Essentially, the states argued that if courts can solve that kind of dispute, then a dispute over global warming is only slightly different—bigger in scope, certainly, but not different in kind.
But at oral argument, the justices did not seem persuaded. Arguing against the states, Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal opened by pointing out that "[i]n the 222 years that this Court has been sitting, it has never heard a case with so many potential perpetrators and so many potential victims…[T]he very name of the alleged nuisance, 'global warming,' itself tells you much of what you need to know." Chief Justice John Roberts later asked the states' attorney, New York solicitor general Barbara Underwood, if she had any rebuttal to Katyal's claim—if there was "any case where it has been as broad as it is here?" Her answer? "Well, of course it depends on what you call broad."
But how much broader could it be? Taking the scientists at their word, we'd have to include at least every car owner, every coal power plant, every natural gas power plant, every cement producer, every forester, and the fabled effects of bovine flatulence. And not just every one of these in America, but every one in the world. The scope of this case and the numerous trade‐offs involved make it utterly inappropriate for judicial resolution.
The supposed link between the power companies' emissions and the alleged global warming harms resembles a Rube Goldberg device of conjectures that stretches back millions of years. In our brief we analogized this to the famous "butterfly effect": a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and causes a tornado in Texas.
A few theories were offered as to why the case should not go any further. The most far reaching of these theories, the political question doctrine, is one we advanced in our amicus briefs. The political question doctrine directs courts to stay out of disputes that are better left to the other branches of government. A decision along those lines would go far in the future toward keeping such suits out of courts.
But many environmental lawyers are hoping, and predicting, that the states will "lose well"—that is, the suit will be dismissed because it has been "displaced" by the "regulatory cascade" underway at the EPA, not because it is a fundamentally impossible and illegitimate lawsuit. Dismissing the suit on these grounds would leave the door open for large‐scale suits to be brought whenever an agency is thought to be shirking its regulatory duties. Such suits are already a problem for administrative agencies, particularly those brought by environmental advocacy groups trying to force agencies to live up to the groups' idea of sound environmental policy. The NY Times, for example, reported recently on the "barrage [that] has paralyzed the listing process" for the Endangered Species Act.
Not wanting to totally foreclose the possibility of large‐scale suits being brought in the future, at least three justices, Kagan, Breyer, and Ginsburg, seemed partial to the displacement theory. One hopes that the other five justices will rule, on either prudential standing or political question grounds, that no amount of regulatory action or inaction can make these suits justiciable. If regulation is called for here — a dubious proposition — it should be undertaken by the political branches, not the courts.


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Qualifying for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi has begun, and we couldn't be more excited for the Opening Ceremonies on Feb. 7. To get you ready for the games, we'll be showing you awesome fitness moves from some our favorite U.S. team all-stars. Get ready to get fit, Olympian-style!
When it comes to understanding the challenges of her sport, bobsledder and Olympic hopeful Jazmine Fenlator sums it up best: "You have to be as fast as a 100-meter sprinter but as strong as an offensive lineman."
And it's not like bobsledders have a pit crew to swoop in for touch-ups. "We do all the maintenance ourselves. We are the engine," she says.
As the pilot and the eyes of her two-person team, Fenlator, who will be competing in the Winterberg World Cup this weekend, must deftly navigate around 15 to 20 corners in one race course, ranging in heights and G-forces and declines.
Believe it or not, if Fenlator's hitting 80 mph, that's a "slow day." And the whole race usually goes down in 50 seconds or fewer, to boot.
"Bobsled is a total-body sport," says Fenlator, who starts every race by pushing off a 400-pound bobsled with her partner. "A lot of exercises we do build strength and speed."
One at-home exercise she loves is the walking lunge, which helps build up glutes, back and core muscles and also hones balance.
In need of inspiration? Watch Fenlator at the Winterberg World Cup and check out her laser focus and killer speeds.
Start with a neutral standing position. Beginning with your right leg, take a step, lifting the leg up at a 90-degree angle. Place it down, bringing hips down so that the right leg is still in a 90-degree angle and your left leg is stretched behind you. Make sure that your back knee does not touch the ground. Step your left leg forward so that you return to standing position. Then step with your left leg, ultimately alternating legs. Each step should be deliberate and balanced with hips directly under your shoulders. If you're a little on the wobbly side, start with a hand near the wall for security. Need a challenge? Pile on weights with your arms at your side, but remember to keep your body centered, not leaning forward over your front leg. Start with 3 sets of 10 steps, then increase repetition or weight.
- Tone Your Booty Like Hockey Player Julie Chu
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- Steal Olympic Snowboarder Kelly Clark's Ab Move
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Recipe from Colleen Smith of Boston, Mass.
1 c olive oil
2 onions, diced
6 cloves garlic, minced
1 c stewed tomatoes, roughly chopped
3 potatoes, diced
1 cup cooked kidney beans
2 heads rinsed kale, roughly chopped
2 lb Linguica sausage, chopped
1 gal chicken stock
Paprika, to taste
Salt, to taste
2 Tbsp mild chili powder
2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 bunch Italian parsley chopped
1. Heat olive oil in a large heavy bottom pot. Add the onions, garlic, linguica, tomatoes and kale.
2. Stir over medium high heat for 5 minutes. Add the red pepper flakes and chicken stock and bring to a simmer.
3. Add the kidney beans and potatoes and simmer until the potatoes are fully cooked. Season with salt and paprika to desired flavor. Remove from heat and stir in the Italian parsley for garnish.
Yield: 8 Servings
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Weaponising allegations of sexual abuse. And another reason not to assume an allegation is fact:
A MOTHER has lost custody of her daughter for "demonising'' the girl's father as a sexually abusive "monster".
The Federal Circuit Court has declared the woman to be a vexatious litigant after she repeatedly breached court orders and sought to take the girl to China…
Judge Norah Hartnett ruled that the girl had not been sexually abused by her father, as the mother was "not a credible witness''.
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Sprint Chases Clearwire Buyout Deal
Dec 13, 2012 4:30 PM PT
Sprint Nextel has made a US$2.1 billion offer for the shares of Clearwire that it doesn't already own, according to a regulatory filing. The news comes after rumors surfaced earlier this week that the company was in talks with Intel and Comcast to buy out their stakes.
The offer, which works out to $2.90 per share, also comes with interim financing of $800 million for Clearwire, if it agrees to the deal. Clearwire has said it is under review.
Clearwire may well hold out for a better offer from Sprint, which has to get Softbank to sign off on any agreement. Earlier this year, the two companies inked a deal that will give Softbank a 75 percent stake in Sprint.
There are numerous reasons for Sprint's eagerness to acquire Clearwire -- and it may thus be amenable to some back-and-forth negotiations.
Catching Up With LTE
For starters, Sprint is behind on developing its own LTE infrastructure, noted Andreas Scherer, managing partner of Salto Partners. It offers LTE in more than 30 cities -- but that is a low number compared to Verizon, which is able to offer LTE in more than 400 cities, as well as AT&T, which is expected to reach 100 cities by the end of 2012.
Acquiring Clearwire wouldn't make Sprint the lead provider -- Clearwire provides 4G mobile broadband service in approximately 80 cities across the U.S., according to its site -- but it would give Sprint an important nudge, Scherer said.
There is also Clearwire's intrinsic value -- it has a market capitalization currently around $1.92 billion.
"The company has about 160 MHz of spectrum in the majority of its current markets," noted Scherer. "That is more than it will need anytime soon to do business. The unused spectrum could bring in between $6 billion and $9 billion."
This deal is all about spectrum and staying competitive, Andy Abramson, CEO of Comunicano, told the E-Commerce Times.
"Now, with T-Mobile acquiring MetroPCS, they will fall farther behind -- so they either have to buy Cricket or Clearwire," he said.
"Since they already own a large percentage of Clearwire and have customers today using the Clearwire mobile WiMax service when roaming with similar technology, the purchase would give them broader reach [and] allow them to keep all the revenue while refarming the spectrum over to LTE," Abramson explained.
A Competitive Boost
Acquiring Clearwire would also give Verizon and AT&T a heads up that Sprint -- with its forthcoming stake from Softbank -- is serious about becoming a major player, said Bruce White, professor of computer information systems at Quinnipiac University.
As the majority owner of Clearwire, Sprint will be able to clear out the deadwood there and put its own aggressive strategy in motion, he told the E-Commerce Times.
"This move will put Verizon and AT&T on notice that the competitive landscape is changing," he said, "and that an assertive and risk-taking new company is moving into the neighborhood."


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Welcome to this week's edition of TIME's LightBox Follow Friday, a series where we feature the work of photographers who are using Instagram in new and engaging ways. Each week we will introduce you to the person behind the feed through his or her pictures and an interview with the photographer.
This week, TIME speaks with Matt Black (@mattblack_blackmatt), who charts the physical terrain of economic inequality in his Geography of Poverty project. He says Instagram has allowed him to explore the connection between cartography and photography as he builds a map of modern poverty in pictures.
LightBox: How are you using Instagram now, and how has it become a part of your professional practice?
MB: I'm working on a project where I'm going to poor communities, taking a photo, posting it, and putting it on a map. The photography itself is not that different from my other work, but the idea is very documentary, in the older sense of the word: single photos that record certain conditions. The project also ties in with the idea of building maps from the bottom up -- critical cartography, it's called. All of my work is about similar themes, but this time I'm being more explicit about injustice and inequity. Poverty and place are so closely related that it's taken for granted, and it's a mindset that enables the kind of shoddy treatment that poor communities receive: bad roads, dirty water, crummy schools, polluted air. All these things are a reflection of power and acquiescence. Both photography and maps can play a role in highlighting that, and I think social media can, too. There does seem to be room on sites like Instagram to deal with serious issues, and so far the reaction to this project has been good. I started posting last December. Right now, I'm concentrating on rural California, but I plan to expand to other areas, and eventually I'd like to have other photographers contribute, too
Orange Grove. Easton, California. Apr. 8, 2014
LightBox: What is the purpose of your feed? What does Instagram provide for you that other platforms don't.
MB: I'd been developing the idea of the project for about a year and when I went looking at platforms and how best to execute it, Instagram already had everything that I needed -- namely, the ability to put photos on a map and then distribute them. I experimented a bit with custom maps, but why reinvent the wheel? I've also linked the feed back to a Tumblr blog, where I can give things a bit more context, put the photos on a bigger map, etc., but Instagram is the baseline for the project. That's where it's being made. As far as the photos themselves, now I'm using a little Sony, an RX 100 II, which is a great camera, but earlier I used an iphone and a dslr, and there are even some film shots in there, too - whatever I was working with at the time. All the photos are downloaded to the phone through Dropbox, but the Sony I'm using now can connect directly, I'm told.
LightBox: Why did you start using Instagram, and how has your use of it changed since your first post?
It has a real sense of intimacy that's hard to gauge at first, but you begin to feel a strong connection to the person behind the feed. I suppose it's because there's a progression, and you are building some trust and a certain dialogue along the way.
LightBox: When did you hit your stride with Instagram? Was there a moment where you crossed a threshold and your perspective on the platform changed?
MB: At first, it's hard to adjust to the small size. I'm used to using negative space and taking photos with lots of elements, but that doesn't work so well on a tiny screen. You can't do an epic poem in a couple of square inches, but it's perfectly suited to polished little haikus. I've enjoyed the challenge of that.
Memorial. Lost Hills, California. Feb. 4, 2014
LightBox: Which post inspired the most audience feedback and engagement? Why do you think that photo got people's attention?
MB: The most recent posts have gotten more reaction, but that's just because the audience has been growing. I'm trying not to pay too much attention to all that, and I'd still be doing the project regardless, because I'm doing something I want to do. You know before you post which pictures are likely to touch a nerve, but some of my favorites are actually the more quiet ones. You shouldn't play to the choir; that's the big danger with this.
LightBox: Do you envision Instagram ever loosing its appeal, and if so, how would you replace it?
MB: I'm sure things will change, but I like that it is not all walled off or too sanitized and I hope it stays that way for a while. There's fair amount of shouting and general noise that you have to put up with, but if you are trying to reach people directly, I think that's an okay price to pay.
Matt Black is a photographer whose work has been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International and the Alexia Foundation.
Krystal Grow is a writer for TIME LightBox
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The following was issued by WWE.
July 13, 2011
For the third consecutive year, NBC and WWE® will bring the world's biggest pop-culture extravaganza to network television when WrestleMania: The World Premiere airs Saturday, August 13 at 9 pm ET / 8 pm CT. For one night only, NBC will be the place viewers can witness their favorite WWE Superstars such as Dwayne "The Rock®" Johnson, John Cena®, Triple H®, Undertaker®, The Miz® and Randy Orton® entertain a record-breaking sold-out crowd of 71,617 fans at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
The hour-long special will feature highlights from WrestleMania XXVII, including: the return of the The People's Champion Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who served as The World's Most Electrifying Host of WrestleMania; the Jersey Shore's beloved Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi proving to the world how tough she really is in a six-person tag team match with Dolph Ziggler®, WWE Divas LayCool™ (Michelle McCool® and Layla®), Vickie Guerrero®, John Morrison® and USA Network's Tough Enough® trainer Trish Stratus®; a historic match between two of the greatest WWE Superstars of all time, Undertaker and Triple H, that had more than 71,000 fans on their feet in awe of this classic match-up; plus, the highly anticipated main-event between bitter rivals John Cena and The Miz for the WWE Championship, all set to music from today's hottest acts.
WWE again made history as WrestleMania became the highest grossing entertainment event in its host city, for the third year in a row. A total of 71,617 fans from all 50 states and 30 countries attended the event on April 3, 2011 at the Georgia Dome, surpassing the previous attendance record set by the Backstreet Boys (65,658) on February 19, 2000.
About WWE
WWE, a publicly traded company (NYSE: WWE), is an integrated media organization and recognized leader in global entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family friendly entertainment on its television programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing platforms. WWE programming is broadcast in more than 145 countries and 30 languages and reaches more than 500 million homes worldwide. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.
Additional information on WWE (NYSE: WWE) can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com. For information on our global activities, go to http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/.


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You can put your rain sticks away. Scientists have developed a way to summon water droplets out of thin air through the use of lasers. And while the droplets generated so far aren't quite raindrop caliber, the researchers' findings represent a large step towards us being able to control where and when rain falls.
Remember in 2009, when scientists from the Beijing Meteoroligical Bureau used 18 jets and 432 chemical explosives to induce cloud formation? The explosives were typically packed with dry ice or silver iodide, and worked by providing a surface for water vapor to at first condense, and then collect on (a process known as seeding) to give rise to clouds and, supposedly, rain fall.
Well according to Jérôme Kasparian, a physicist at the University of Geneva, the same thing can be done with lasers. Oh yeah, and without dispersing silver iodide throughout the atmosphere.
Kasparian is one of the authors of an article published in the latest issue of Nature Communications that describes the new laser method of controlling precipitation in outdoor environments.
The technique, which the researchers refer to as "laser-assisted water condensation," works by creating nitric acid particles in the air that can bind water molecules and prevent them from evaporating. These initial water particles form what is known as "condensation nuclei" on which more water droplets can attach and collect, eventually growing into tiny drops just a few thousandths of a millimeter in diameter. Their latest tests are based on findings originally published in Nature last year, wherein the team showed how their high-power, ultrashort laser could trigger the condensation of water droplets in a simulation chamber (pictured up top).
"We have not yet generated raindrops – they are too small and too light to fall as rain. To get rain, we will need particles a hundred times the size, so they are heavy enough to fall," Kasparian told The Guardian.
But their inability to produce raindrop-sized water droplets doesn't have the researchers discouraged. In fact, they think that in the future lasers like theirs could be used to trigger rainfall in sufficiently humid atmospheres, or even prevent rainfall from occurring by generating so many tiny droplets that none of them grow heavy enough to descend to earth. "Maybe one day this could be a way to attenuate the monsoon or reduce flooding in certain areas," Kasparian said.
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You can also turn the laser on and off at will, which makes it easier to assess whether it has any effect. When the Chinese launch silver iodide into the sky, it is very hard to know whether it would have rained anyway.


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The League of Women Voters will sponsor a public forum for candidates running for N.C. Senate and House of Representatives in the 2010 elections at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 12.
Incumbent Senator John Snow (Dem.) will be challenged by Dr. James Davis (Rep.). Incumbent Representative for NC House District 119, Phil Haire (Dem), will face Dodie Allen (Rep.). And incumbent Representative for NC House District 120, Roger West (Rep.) will face Roger Hogsed (Dem.).


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5 Top Travel Apps for New York Urban Adventure
By Daniel Rasmus
A visit to Manhattan isn't something you should take lightly. Some people may want to just thrust themselves into the city lights and let the push and bustle of the crowd take them where it may. My adventure was a more planned affair, with lists of sights to see, places to eat, and department stores to shop.