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Paralyzed Football Player Signs NFL Contract
Over the weekend, the New Orleans?Saints signed a paralyzed football player from Tulane. Devon Walker?just graduated. He became paralyzed after suffering from a severe spinal injury in 2012.
Walker received his college degree over the weekend and was surprised by Saints head coach Sean Peyton with a contract.
College Football Talk says that Peyton was inspired by Walker and his hard work, despite his injury.
?He is an outstanding young man, who is not only an inspiration to his coaches and teammates at Tulane, but to all of us. Devon?s character, determination, intelligence and work ethic are everything that we look for in a New Orleans Saint when we sign a player. This is the least we can do to recognize Devon and these attributes that we want all of our players to have.?
It's pretty incredible to see the Saints reaching out to this young man who can no longer play the sport he loves.
Remember Eric LeGrand from Rutgers? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed him in 2012 when Greg Schiano was head coach. LeGrand was a special part of the team but he decided to retire soon after, in order to leave a spot on the team for someone who could play.
Now, Walker can be a part of a professional team, just like LeGrand, and inspire more fans than he already has.
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More&More is an art and research project that explores the language and mechanics of global trade, container shipping, and the exchange of goods. It questions a mercantile structure that by necessity disallows the presence of ocean as a real space in order to flatten the world into a Pangaea of capital. The project is presented in two volumes, released in conjunction with an exhibition of Marina Zurkow's work (with collaborators Sarah Rothberg, Surya Mattu, and others) at bitforms gallery in New York City in February 2016. This book, More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System), is an experimental "brick" of a book that intervenes in the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (also known as the HS Code). The HS Code is the internationally accepted standard of product classification, which codifies the way nations conduct import/export. All legal trade products (and illegal ones that find loopholes) are shipped using this system. More&More (A Guide to the Harmonized System) lists the astonishing variety of items that are shipped around the world, and includes instructions for using the code to ship items (both legally and illegally). It also includes poetic, personal, and scholarly annotations by Stacy Alaimo, Heather Davis, Kathleen Forde, Dylan Gauthier, Elena Glasberg, Calliope Mathios, Steve Mentz, Astrida Neimanis, Chris Piuma, Elspeth Probyn, Sarah Rothberg, Phil Steinberg, Rita Wong, and Marina Zurkow.
China Customs Tariff and Tax Schedule (2011 Edition) is a must-have tool for international trade practitioners who export to or import from China. It provides comprehensive information about all tariffs and taxes imposed on imports and exports by Chinese Customs Authority. These tariffs and taxes include: import and export Most Favored Nation (MFN) tariff rates, interim tariff rates, agreement tariff rates, special preferential tariff rates, general tariff rate, value added tax (VAT) rates, consumption tax rates and export tariff rates. China Customs Tariff and Tax Schedule is published in early January each year as soon as the annual tariff and tax adjustments are promulgated by customs authority. Updates are available on our website immediately after any official amendments are made during the year. China Trade Data Services (CTD) is a leading supplier of China's tariff/tax information and import/export trade statistics. Companies, governments, and associations in more than 30 countries are using our databases and publications to develop an enhanced understanding of this huge market and cost-efficient merchandise production base. Also available on our website (chinatradedata.com): electronic version of this book, online tariff/tax database, online trade statistics database and data download services.
China Market Report presents research reports on each of the 100 major industries in Chinese market. For each industry, China Market Report provides concise analysis on market size, industry statistics, import and export, domestic hot regions as well as the market position of foreign companies in the industry. This report also includes two names of the top companies for each of the major industries. Market sectors covered by China Market Report: ·Energy ·Food ·Beverage ·Agriculture ·Automobile ·Chemical ·Clothing ·Construction Material ·Consumer Products ·Environmental Protection ·Furniture ·IT ·Machinery & Equipment ·Metal ·Pharmaceutical Content included by China Market Report for each of the 100 major industries: · Market Size 5 years market size analysis. · Industry Overview Analysis with major industry statistics: Sales revenue, Profit, Loss, Return on Sales, Number of Enterprises, Growth Rate, Return on Assets; 3 years statistics. · Hot Regions in Chinese Market Discovers the major consumption areas for imported products; Indicates the major manufacturing bases in each industry by data map. · Import and Export 3 years import and export values; Top 10 domestic destinations of imported products; Top 10 domestic origins for exported products. · Market Position of Foreign Enterprises in Each Industry in China Comparison on sales revenue, profit, return on sales, return on assets and number of enterprises between enterprises with different types of ownership in China. Discovers the market position of foreign invested enterprises in each industry in China. · The Names of Top 2 Enterprises in Each Industry

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Gutters, in Waterford Works, are the narrow channels, or troughs, forming the component of a roof system aiding in collection and diversion of rainwater shed by the roof. The main purpose of the rain gutters is to protect a building's foundation by channeling water away from its base, reducing erosion, preventing leaks in basements and crawlspaces, protecting painted surfaces by reducing exposure to water, and providing a means to collect rainwater for later use.
Gutters in Waterford Works are generally made of a variety of materials, including cast iron, lead, zinc, galvanised steel, painted steel, copper, painted aluminium, PVC & other plastics, concrete, stone, and wood.
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"Solarize" campaigns are encouraging homes and businesses throughout the state to install solar – State will support another 31 "Solarize" campaigns set to begin this spring (Long Island, NY) Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that 900 solar projects are underway through 26 community "Solarize" campaigns across New York State. A component of the NY-Sun program and the Governor's..


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This is a photo of the lawn at the National Mall in Washington and it's organic. There's no reason why you can't have a great organic lawn, it just means using some different products and cultural practices. The key to a great lawn without chemicals is fertility and pH. You've got to give the grass an environment that will let the plant thrive and choke out the weeds. When grass has everything it needs, it will outgrow anything. The broadleaf herbicide 2,4-D is the most common chemical weed killer used on lawns today and there's lots of research telling us that it can be harmful to us. It's something I always tell gardeners to stay away from.
The first step to converting to a chemical free lawn this time of the year is to...
...do a core aeration on the turf. The aeration machine can be rented, I usually get together with my neighbor to pull cigar shaped plugs out of the lawn. This helps ease compaction and allows water and fertilizer to get to the roots. The next step is to add a good organic fertilizer. They are easy to find at a good nursery and there are four-step organic programs available. Overseeding is another technique that will help the grass overtake the weeds. Spread grass seed over the lawn and rake it in, the new sprouts will grow fast and fill in areas that are bare. Check your soil pH, there are pH meters available at local nurseries and hardware stores. When the pH is off, that's when weeds and moss can thrive, change the pH to neutral and the grass will thrive. There's a great weed control if you're not overseeding called corn gluten meal. It's a byproduct of the corn milling process and the granular product stops weeds from sprouting. That means all seeds, not just weed seeds. It's applied in the fall and spring stopping annual weeds from germinating.
During the growing season, keep the grass high, three and a half inches if possible and then cut it a little shorter as we get to the end of the season. The long grass will shade out the weeds. These are just a few tips, there's lots of information here. Give an organic lawn a try, it's a better way to enjoy soft green grass.


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StueyD (29) Heacham, England | July 17, 2015
Choose to eat here after our first day in Manhattan. A pub like decor and a friendly greeting on entering. We were shown to a booth round the back of the bar. Our server came promptly to take our drinks order which was easy, one of the Seasonal Voyage flights. These were brought to our table when our food order was taken. I can recommend the Reubens sandwich. The flight of 8 5oz samples at $16.95 was reasonable, the oatmeal stout was the stand out beer.
Sokolov (817) Moscow, Russia | March 27, 2015
One out of 7 Heartland brewpubs. Beers are excellent as always. Lots of brews to satisfy any taste.
jtclockwork (465) , New Jersey | September 1, 2014
Brewpub near the Port Authority. Small chain around NYC. Decent pub food. Beer is your standard brewpub beer. Pairs well with the meal, but nothing too crazy.
beerbill (116) Laurel, New York | June 21, 2014
I stopped in during a recent business trip into the city. They are located immediately adjacent to the Port Authority bus terminal on 8th Avenue. Decor is warm and inviting with tin ceilings and reproductions of historical lighting. The selection of their own beers on draught was very good with six regular offerings plus five seasonals. The food was ok but not great. I had the fish and chips which had a bread crumb coating instead of batter. My friend had salmon which was a little overdone. Service was ok but again, not great. There was apparently a shift change while we there and there were long gaps between when we were visited at the table. I can see myself visiting on occasion, but with all of the great places to go in the city, there are other beer establishments I would visit far more regularly if I lived here.
t0rin0 (1529) Do Not Resuscitate, California | June 18, 2014
Visited June 3, 2014.
This is now the fourth Heartland location including the HB Burger on 43rd. This one is right at the Port Authority bus terminal so you can stop here on your way somewhere as its right on top of a subway stop. The front part of the restaurant is the bar and there are lots of tables in there. They had nine taps on during my visit and two of them were ones that I hadnt tried before (the imperial pils and the hoppy doppelbock (called Hoppelbock). The pils was drinkable but I was very much not a fan of the doppelbock.
The service was attentive enough for it being happy hour and on a rainy day where everyone wanted to be inside. Prices were a little high. Overall a decent bar in a good location.
jmulv (24) New York, New York | August 3, 2012
Very fine place to grab a few beers. The service was exceptional when I went. Beer selection is very solid with many different styles represented. Value is decent for Manhattan, about what youd expect. Added bonus - some guy came in and asked, "Can I get a Bud?" and the bartender flatly replied, "No" with no explanation.
j12601 (340) Poughkeepsie, New York | July 15, 2012
Stopped in here en route to Beer Authority, which itself was en route to a two day tasting extravaganza split between Paul and Andys places. Honestly the biggest reason I stopped in here ahead of Beer Authority was the way I walked over, this was the first place I spotted, and I desperately needed to poop. The bathroom here was clean and served my needs adequately. Thats more than I can say for the taplist here. Not that it wasnt clean, but it certainly wasnt anything to write home about. Or to write anyone about. So you probably dont even need to read this. There were eight beers on, six of them were the same six you find at every Heartland location. Tap 7 was the summer Apricot which I had had previously, and tap eight was their new gluten free beer. When I tried to order one of those the bartender tried to talk me out of it, which was a nice thing. He poured me a small sample and I dont blame him for the discouragement. It wasnt really something Id want to consume an entire pint of, so I ordered an oatmeal stout, drank it quickly and then headed to my next stop. Overall the staff seemed friendly and courteous, which is what Ive encountered in all of the Heartland location, but the beer is not really worth stopping in for if youve already tried their main six.
illinismitty (279) Nashville, Tennessee | April 22, 2012
I stopped in for dinner and beer sampler. Typical chain atmosphere. They had dance music blaring, which really did not make any sense. Looking at the patrons, they did not appear to be the Katy Perry type crowd. Management needs to rethink that one. I ordered a Cobb Salad, and it was not too bad. The beer sampler- lets just say 2 out of the six were ok. The rest were not very clean examples of the style. Prices were about middle of the road for NYC. Bartender did not offer me any water to go with my food or cleanse my palate on the sampler. And I had to wave him down to close out. Worth a stop if you are a ticker and or want to eat.
deanso (467) the Hague, Netherlands | December 4, 2011
Nice enough place close to out hotel. Decent enough beers. The IPA was very drinkable as was the stout and old red nose. It gets makred down as the tip of 18% is included in the bill whereas most places it isnt. If you are a foreigner, you might over tip, not noticing that youve already paid it.
BREWMUSKCLES (120) New Jersey | August 4, 2011
clean, nice enough place with a few good beers and full bar. kitchen closes early yet the food is pretty good with daily specials. service is decent and sometimes good especially when my favorite bartender from right across the river in Weehawken is in. if you want a more local experience devoid of the Silly Philly experience of shortys on 9th ave. come here and hang out with US New Yawkers.


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T. R. Francis is the author of the Angelica Button fantasy book series, which is very popular among both children and adults in Springfield.
She appears in a picture on the cover of a book Angelica Button and The Dragon King's Trundle Bed as an old lady with her dog Galahad and makes Homer read another chapter without Lisa.
Lisa first encounters her at the Sitting with Dinosaurs show, where she is in a raptor costume. As soon as she notices her, T.R. Francis runs from her and Lisa has to chase her into her dressing room. After she catches up with her, Lisa tells her how she admires her. However, T.R. Francis destroys Lisa's illusions by telling her that writing tween novels are just for profit, much to Lisa's disgust and chagrin.
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- T. R. Francis is a parody of J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter book series.
- Funnily enough, Rowling herself had appeared in the show, in the episode "The Regina Monologues".
- In the episode "The Haw-Hawed Couple", Francis appears as an old lady in a picture of the book. However, in the episode "The Book Job", she is shown as an young woman. This is a major inconsistency between the two episodes.
- Alternatively, it can also be seen as a sort of publicity stunt by divulging an entirely different image of the author in order to give readers a different first impression.
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" (Imagined)
- Episode – "The Book Job"


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I bought a new condo and needed help moving somethings I went to a day labor place hired two guys to help me when it was time to take them home they said they were homeless, they told me they were brothers 18 an 20 I couldnt just let them sleep on the street so I took them to the place we are moving from my wife was there packing things when I come in an told her she said ok an went back to doing what she was before we got there however my wife was wearing a short sundress light blue with darker color blue panties I could see thru the dress no bra and nipples sticking out, when she come back in the living erea she looked at both guys and ask if they were hungry both said no I got me a beer and ask if they would like a beer both said yes, as I handed them a beer I noticed they were staring at my hot wife, I just thought to myself that I wonder if they ever been with a white women them being black, my wife bending down to get something out of the drawer give both guys a good peek at her french cut panties, I told Carla the were staring and ask if she would give them a little show, Carla is sex crazy and will do anything, Carla started giving them a eyeful when one of them ask if he could play with her I said you have to ask her that. he got up went in the room and then the other one followed when I got in the room Carla had sent them to shower told me that she told them if they suck my cock she would fuck both of them,
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This year's EVO is chock full of the best fighting games to grace the world within the last few years, with the oldest being Mortal Kombat 9 (well if you don't include games that were re-releases, then Street Fighter 4 would be with MK 9 too). However there is an exception this year, Super Smash Bros. Melee. The 12 year old fighting game was added to the main roster of this year's EVO after winning a charity donation drive to get the 8th spot at EVO, a spot ironically it had gotten many years ago in past EVOs. This is unfortunately this is an all too common reality for the Smash Bros. Community: an seemingly endless fight for acceptance in the fighting game community. A fight that is slowly shifting towards in favor of the Smash community but not fast enough.
The debate over Smash Bros as a fighting game has always perplexed me so much. Most of the confusion for me is about the merits against Smash Bros' lack of tradition ascetics as a fighting game. In other words, its usage of percent damage instead of health bars, how to win you need to literally knock out opponents out of the ring, items usage and stage hazards, etc. There are some merits to those arguments, however Smash Bros can exhibit the same competitive edge as seen in many other modern fighters. Hell, Smash Bros has the luxury of having all three of its entries being played competitively. Melee, however, is considered to be the best and most competitively suited. Why do you think Sony used Smash Bros as their template for Playstation All-Stars: Battle Royale? Smash is deceptively simple yet can still have the technical flair that most modern fighting games exhibit. Nearly anyone can pick it up and enjoy it....but it takes real skill and dedication to master it.
It's competitive matches like the one above that make Smash Bros both fun and hyped to watch...as well as ask what else is there to prove that Smash Bros is a fighting game? Melee has been featured at EVO before and so has Brawl. This year the Smash community donated over $90K towards charity to be featured in the EVO line up and has over 700 participants schedule to participate come Friday. This isn't a small group of people. Smash tournaments happen all over country and world. The first small fighting game tournament I went to had one along side MVC 3 (and that actually had more people participating in it than Marvel!). Smash is everywhere and growing especially impart to the development of Smash Bros 4. There really isn't any need to question its credentials as a fighting game...OK, maybe in a few areas.
Probably the one reason that I do agree with that questions Smash Bros' fighting game credentials is its randomness. Sure the randomness of items and stages is mad fun for a casual environment but its chaotic and a pain for hardcore/ tournament players. Thus, in most tournaments, players use stages with flat surfaces or no stage interactiveness and with no items. On one hand this solves Smash's randomness but can lead to some really limited matches. I'm side with no items with competitive matches but I love them when I'm playing casually with friends. Besides, randomness is an esstanlly part of Smash as well as fighting games in general. Its random moments like this that make our genre both equal fun to watch as it is to play.
The other reason against Smash I kind of understand is Super Smash Bros Brawl. Brawl is a very divisive game in the Smash community. As much as it there to like about the game, there are plently reasons to to hate it as well. Those include more randomness in the stages, Final Smashes, serious character imbalances, and worst of all, tripping. Unlike most modern fighting games, Nintendo never fixed via patches or updates. Fans, on the hand, did. Thus, the infamous Brawl hacks were born. Beyond just doing the silly fandom stuff, a competitive set of hacks were made to fix the problems of Brawl. Some hacks were universally praised, like the ones that removed tripping (which I think were all of them), while others were a bit controversial with nerfs, buffs, or the outright removal/replacing of characters. Ignoring the legal implications for a second, this divided the Smash community as a whole and probably confused the casual competitors who might not have known what was going on. Hell, I'm not going to lie and say that I know the full details myself. I used to follow it very closely but after awhile it got too confusing to decipher and I had moved on to a PS3 to really care. I do have commend those Brawl hackers though for helping keep Smash alive. In most modern cases with fighting games, Brawl would largely be considered "dead" and nothing more would be said. The hacks might have divided the community but it most certainty kept in the public eye.
As Melee returns to EVO, the future of the Smash Bros series looks bright with Smash 4 Smash Bros lead producer Masahiro Sakurai, still states that the newest Smash "is designed to be sort of targeted at the centre, intermediate players" according to an Kotaku Australia interview. With that in mind though, Sakurai acknowledges tournament scene and enjoyment that people get from playing Smash Bros at high levels. While Smash 4 is still pretty deep in development, it already seems like it has a focus on pleasing both casual and hardcore alike. Whether that will translate into Smash 4 being apart of the tournament scene though is still unknown.
At end of EVO 2013, how the fighting game community will react to Smash Bros is still one of uncertainty. Despite being 3rd with most participants at this year's EVO, there will always be people who question its merits as a fighting game. Some of those questions have weight to them, some of them don't. Even though I think of Smash Bros as fighting game, I'm not mad at anyone who doesn't and I'm not asking you to change your stance (despite how Pro Smash I sounded in this piece). To everyone I leave you with a real good message from Skull Girls' Community Manager Mike Z after Skull Girls lost the EVO charity drive (but still got into EVO via an official side tournament):
At the end of the day, the Smash Bros community will still be playing and will still be smash. Always have and always will be.
Feel free to leave your thoughts, good or bad, about Smash Bros and their apperance at EVO below. See you tomarrow.


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New Burmese Information Minister Aung Kyi told the chairman of the Myanmar Journalists Association (MJA) on Sunday that the draft media law would be made public and the press will be consulted on its components.
Aung Kyi and MJA Chairman Maung Wuntha discussed press freedom in accordance with international standards, the development of the Burmese media landscape and industry ethics during the meeting.
Maung Wuntha told The Irrawaddy on Monday that, "[Aung Kyi] agreed to my suggestion that the views of journalists should be included in the draft media law before it is enacted.
"He said he will find a way for that to happen and then he accepted journalists' demand to change some rules and regulations on the Myanmar Core Press Council [MCPC], and agreed to implement them as well," he added.
"It is a good sign that the new information minister will let journalists know the draft media law," Zaw Thet Htwe, the spokesperson for the Committee for Freedom of the Press (CFP), told The Irrawaddy on Monday.
The CFP, which was formed in the wake of Snapshot and The Voice Weekly journals being suspended by the government in August, took to the streets late last month to express their concern regarding state censorship.
Journalists asked to see the draft media law in order to provide feedback but their demands were turned down by former Information Minister Kyaw Hsan. "We are ready to cooperate for positive changes as the new minister's stand is moving forward towards such changes," said Zaw Thet Htwe.
"We have been worried about [the media law] as it has been drafted without the consent of journalists," he added. "When we tried to view the draft law through parliamentarians, the attorney general's office did not provide us [with a copy]."
In August, another journalist group—the Myanmar Journalists Network—also expressed concerns regarding the draft media law. They held a workshop on the subject towards the end of the month and presented their suggestions regarding the drafting process.
The CFP also submitted seven points regarding the proposed legislation to Thein Sein and the speakers of Burma's Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament in early August. The parliamentary committee, led by the Upper House Speaker Khin Aung Myint, met with media representatives on Wednesday to hear their concerns—two days after the president reshuffled his cabinet and removed Kyaw Hsan.
Thet Htwe said that they have already gained half of their demands—the suspended journals are now allowed to continue printing, pre-censorship has been abolished and the parliamentary committees met with them in response to their demands.
But the CFP also called for the abolition of both the 1962 Printers and Publishers Registration Act and the 2004 Electronic Act as well as legal action to reprimand journalists to be based on civil rather than criminal law.
"The new minister is expected to be a reformist as he has a sense of the media and journalists' development," said Maung Wuntha, "[Aung Kyi] understands the situation well even though [his position overseeing media and information] is a new environment for him."
Although the issue of journalism ethics was discussed, Maung Wuntha said the press must take responsibility for their own professional conduct.
They also discussed the publishing of daily newspapers and Aung Kyi said that he was willing to implement this development quickly, although no specific date was set.
"Daily newspapers will come after the core press council is fully functional, I think," added Maung Wuntha. The five journalists appointed to the 27-member interim press council have refused to take part until their demands for greater representation are met.
Participatory approach is the main key to unlock the whole potential of Burma to its success in building democratic society. The inputs of media community are a must to formulate press regulation, upon which both government and media itself can hold and know its related boundary. Freedom of press will help the society as a whole in its fight for fairness, good governance, stability and prosperity to which no one is left behind through the same set of rules agreed up on by all related parties.
It is time to abolish all the outdated laws which doesn't produce any contribution to the call of democratization that current administration is striving. Keep up more participatory approach to make better society since more heads are better than one for sure. Freedom has its own price and sharing the cost of the price is always a good practice for better community.
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No law including media law must be drafted by the ministry because all ministries are parts of executive branch and executive branch is just to execute business according to the law drafted by Hlutdaws. As long as every ministry drafts its own law, there will be so many contradictions inside executive branch itself. Committee form by the Hlutdaws for Media Affairs must draft and approved by the Hlutdaws and signed by the President. This law must be the pillar for minister to execute his/her work according to law.


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The Mexican-born Luna scored 38 goals in 27 games, amounting to 48 percent of his team's total goals, during the Academy season. He had a goal and an assist for FCD in the first three games at Finals Week.
"Ruben has become much more responsible and much more fit this year," said FCD Dallas coach Oscar Pareja. "He's getting into good habits, the Academy is teaching him what he needs to do to succeed as he goes on in his career."
Powers, the 2008-09 Gatorade Boys Soccer Player of the Year, has spent time with the U.S. U-18 national team and was part of the squad that won the Australia Youth Olympic Festival in January. He also recently returned from a trip to Egypt with the U.S. U-20s and will attend Notre Dame in the fall.
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"Roosevelt's Beast"
By Louis Bayard
Henry Holt; 320 pages; $27
As even the most casual student of American history knows, Theodore Roosevelt was a larger-than-life figure. Besides being our 26th president, he was an outdoorsman, an explorer, a historian and a war hero.
In "Roosevelt's Beast," novelist Louis Bayard takes on one of his lesser-known exploits -- his 1914 expedition to map a Brazilian rain forest waterway with an appropriately harrowing and mythical name, "the River of Doubt."
Roosevelt had recently lost, badly, in his final political campaign, running as the Progressive Party presidential nominee and finishing a distant second to Woodrow Wilson. Never one to stay inactive, Roosevelt departed for South America on a speaking tour and found himself accepting an invitation from the legendary Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon.
"Roosevelt's Beast" tells this story from the point of view of the former president's son, Kermit, an intelligent and sensitive man who can't escape the shadow of his charismatic father.
"What a strange sight they must have been," Kermit thinks as the expedition proceeds along the River of Doubt. "A small band of bedraggled white men, outnumbered by both their porters and their trunks, hustling northward down a twisting ribbon of black water, with an air of deep intention. Looking for something, but what?"
The answer, Kermit knows, is that "they weren't looking for anything and anyone in particular." They were in fact filling in one of the final black spots on the map of the Western Hemisphere and thus "merely attempting to see where this river would take them."
Bayard has written six previous novels, including the best-selling "The Pale Blue Eye," a historical mystery. His description of this obscure incident of South American history is powerfully evocative in its opening chapters, as he hews closely to the actual events and their real-life particulars.
Kermit wants nothing more than to be reunited with his love (to whom he's proposed by mail), but his famous father's needs stand in the way. The narcissistic former president cannot be without an audience for his exploits. And his family members must always be sitting in the front row.
Bayard's untangling of the Roosevelt family dynamics and of Kermit's personal suffering suggest that Bayard intends to explore deep emotional waters as well as natural ones. But after just four chapters, his serious novel takes a strange, melodramatic turn.
Kermit and T.R. are captured by an Amazonian tribe, the "Cinta Larga," or the "men of the long belts." No such thing happened in real life, and Bayard's decision to invent the kidnapping of a former U.S. president and somewhat implausible events that follow places "Roosevelt's Beast" firmly in the "historical thriller" genre. As Bayard himself puts it in a note at the end, the book is "a psychological fantasy built out of historical events."
To win his freedom, the former president, who famously hunted lots of big game in his lifetime, must now track down a mysterious "beast" that's been haunting the Cinta Larga tribe. The tribe sees the white men in their midst as another kind of beast, Kermit realizes. The Beast, one tribal member tells him, will never harm "one of its own."
More strange and entertaining things happen -- including the appearance of a ghost and rappelling down a cliff with jungle vines -- all of which seem more appropriate to an action-adventure movie.
The real story behind the Rondon-Roosevelt expedition was recounted with great skill by Candice Millard in her 2005 nonfiction "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey," a book Bayard cites in his acknowledgments. Many of the elements that helped make that book a best-seller (the larger-than-life Rondon, for example) are actually played down in "Roosevelt's Beast."
Still, Bayard's linguistic gifts are ample and on display repeatedly in "Roosevelt's Beast." Those readers willing to suspend belief in the name of adventure will likely enjoy the ride on which he takes them.


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1. Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse argue that "representation" may in itself constitute a form of violence, especially when the effect of representation is the "suppression of difference" (8). Our study expands this observation by examining a specific historical manifestation of the violence of political and theological representation. Richard Slotkin has demonstrated that violence lies at the core of the American experience; however, he is more concerned with the hero's regenerative experience of violence than he is with examining how the Puritan state used a rhetoric of violence to legitimate state-controlled and -directed violence. Slotkin locates violence within the individual spirit; we situate violence within the state, imagined as a body politic that enacts and controls violence through the rhetorical tropes we discuss. Rather than being internalized, state-sanctioned violence is externalized and directed at those deemed enemies of the body politic.
2. Kibbey argues that Puritan theological writings employed a concept of figura that "defied the conventional metaphoric opposition between 'figurative' and 'literal.' The configuration or shape was simply there, and its defining property was the dynamic materiality of its form" (3). The Puritans "fetishized" the Pequot body, regarding it as a "source of meaning," which had to be destroyed, because the Pequots were "living images of opposition to the New England Puritan living images of grace" (103, 102). We find that political discourse also conflated the literal and the metaphorical. The question of political identity was, as our analysis will show, much more conflicted during King Philip's War than it was during the Pequot War; consequently, the distinction between literal and metaphorical violence was subject to greater ambiguity.
3. For more on the historical development of the figure of the body politic see Ernst H. Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. Although he acknowledges his debt to F. W. Maitland's studies of the royal corporation (see Selected Essays, Cambridge, 1936), Kantorowicz finds them lacking (vii). Maitland was aware of the theory of the King's two bodies, but he limited himself to exposing its ludicrous implausibilities. Kantorowicz examines the importance of this "heuristic fiction" to the development of medieval political thought (5). He carefully distinguishes between the idea of the body politic as a political reality and the abstract personification of the state as a persona ficta. "To put it succinctly, the regnum or patria was not 'personified'—it was 'bodified'" (270-71, author's emphasis). In Love's Body, Norman O. Brown psychoanalyzes Kantorowicz's model of the body politic. This extrapolation from the individual psyche to the state provides an important frame for the analysis of Puritan violence against Indians, but is limited by its reliance on the Oedipal paradigm. According to Brown, Freud's recognition that the ego is not substance but representation implies that "the primal form of politics [is] not domination (repression), but representation" (110). Brown conflates the individual and the state, asserting that "there is only one psyche, in relation to which all conflict is endopsychic, all war intestine. The external enemy is (part of) ourselves, projected, our own badness, banished" (162). For Brown, war is a process of ego-formation operating simultaneously at the levels of the individual and the state.
4. Johnson's protagonist is the Massachusetts Bay Colony which, Jennings points out, competed with Connecticut as well as with the Pequots and Narrangansetts for control over the Connecticut valley. See Jennings 178-79 and passim.
5. According to Captain John Underhill's firsthand account, "Sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their partners" (qtd. in Slotkin, Regeneration 76).


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Lorianne DiSabato ran across some happy skeletons the other day.
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Lorianne DiSabato ran across some happy skeletons the other day.
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A big frog led a parade around the Frog Pond today during the city's Halloween pumpkin festival, which featured floating pumpkins, giant bubbles, kettle corn and a chance to go down a slide while dressed as a princess.
And Tom Menino was there, making his last Halloween appearance on the Common as mayor. He moved slowly through a dense knot of people as parents brought their kids up to meet him. He greeted and posed with every one of them:
Scott Eisen was on hand today as Bobby the Pig made the rounds of the Public Garden and ran into a guy dressed like his worst nightmare.
Photographer Scott Eisen has been spending some time with Ryan Peterson and his pet, Bobby.
Bobby on Newbury Street.
Earlier this month, Bomba Sankofa put on a "bombazo" flash mob at Mozart Park in Jamaica Plain:
Sankofa uses Bomba -- a genre of Afro-Puerto Rican folk music -- to bridge cultures and create dialogues for multicultural understanding, healing and unity.
NorthEndWaterfront.com sounds the alarm for Cardinals fans.
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David Day photographed the Green Building tonight.
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Look one way this afternoon and you got a brillant sunset, as shown in this photo by the Mayor's Office above and by Rocio Lluch, below:
Look the other way and you got an rainbow, as Rohan Krishna shows:
Or maybe whoever put out this space saver on Cornell Street could care less about Halloween and is just warning you what will happen if you dare to try to park in front of his house, lack of snow be damned.
Just in case there were any doubt, Django Bliss shows us for whom Mrs. Mallard is rooting in the World Series.
Stevil was among the people who watched the Head of the Charles this weekend.
Photographynatalia also took regatta photos. RedSox223 posted photos, too.
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Throughout the day, a steady stream of people pulled into the Hilltop parking lot to pose with the cows. Even motorists on Rte. 1 slowed to take a gander at the cows on the restaurant's last day open.
Brian MacLean watched a guy fishing in Houghton's Pond in Milton the other day.
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Steve Garfield took in the annual lantern parade around Jamaica Pond last night.
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Colin Steele watched the Head of the Charles today from Memorial Driver in Cambridge.
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Liam Sullivan warns arachnophobes to stay away from this house in Davis Square.
And let's not forget the giant spider of Fort Point.
Kim Angelovich watched half-naked Northeastern students on their annual Parents Weekend underwear run through the Fenway and Back Bay tonight.
Roving photographer DGA reports some Fort Point yarnbombers (spiderweb bombers?) have outfitted the rickety and long closed stairs at A Street up to Summer Street for the upcoming holiday. At least, we hope that's what happened; we'd hate to think of the spider that would have made those webs.


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There's no room for weak links in this magic circle firm's sturdy chain of international practices.
All that glitters
Linklaters' golden reputation makes it a top training contract destination in the City. Trainees here get to work at the tippity-top of the international corporate, banking and capital markets scenes, getting to grips with some multi-carat clients and topping it off with watercooler chats with lions like William Hague, who the firm recently hired to head up its shiny new international advisory group. Linklaters is unique among the magic circle for winning top rankings from Chambers UK in five key corporate and finance areas: corporate M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, restructuring and insolvency, and banking litigation. The London-headquartered firm nabs several dozen other rankings besides, quite a few of which are top-tier ones, so we suggest you check out its full Chambers UK listing for a comprehensive view of its might. As one of its 225 trainees told us: "I came here because the firm specialises in both finance and corporate work – I didn't want to rule anything out. Plus, the people here are really impressive. You're learning from the best."
That said, life at the top is no cakewalk. It's worth heeding the following advice from one of our trainee sources before proceeding: "You have to be sure this is what you want to do. It's not a walk in the park – deals are large and difficult, and the hours are tough. But if you have the passion, you'll have a great two years." Something to note is that by 'large', we're talking the biggest out there: matters here regularly stretch into the billions and more often than not involve cross-border elements and globally known names, like Glencore, Vodafone and BP. Dealing with headline-hitting deals – like Dixons' £4 billion merger with Carphone Warehouse – is not uncommon.
Links has 29 offices around the world and no plans to stop there. The firm's been making a big push in Asia in recent years: in 2013 it opened a Seoul branch, and rumours were aflutter in 2014 that it was shopping around for a new alliance in China, where it already has offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. In 2015 Links began offering training contracts to native Mandarin speakers who want to work in China upon qualification; the programme sees them spend two seats in London and two in China. Bar the qualifying into another country part, this isn't a huge leap from the normal training contract, which sees around two-thirds of trainees spend a seat abroad, often in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo have proven particularly popular destinations in recent years).
The aim of Links' expansion efforts is clear: "Linklaters is all about being the leading global law firm. They're always ramming that phrase down our throats to get us on brand." One insider told us: "One of the things I like best about the firm is that it's very young in spirit. It's always looking for ways to outstrip its competitors and to use all the resources in its reach to get to the top." This includes tweaks to the lockstep remuneration system in order to attract and keep hold of high-rolling partners.
That's the way the cookie crumbles
Linklaters offers a formidable array of seat options to trainees. In fact, it has to run "a law fair of sorts" just to broadcast all of them: "They have stalls from various departments, and representatives are on hand to explain what work that team does." Trainees get to submit four options for their first seat, then midway through that seat they submit six preferences for the second and third seat. The fourth seat is left unplanned to allow more flexibility, with trainees often going on secondment or abroad. There are around 40 overseas seats on offer, as well as a handful of corporate in-house gigs.
Most trainees do a stint in Linklaters' substantial corporate team, which is home to a few hundred lawyers and divvies its work between sector-based groups like insurance, financial services and energy. The group is especially big in public and private M&A, and handles a not inconsiderable number of private equity transactions and IPOs too. Big names – including a third of the FTSE 100 – are splashed across the client roster. Lawyers here recently oversaw Balfour Beatty's proposed £3 billion hook-up with fellow construction company Carillion and advised Greene King on its £774 million acquisition of rival pub-owners Spirit. The scale of such deals means "quite a lot of due diligence" for trainees, not that our sources minded: "Working with such big names and brands on super-confidential deals is fun, even if the tasks themselves are boring."
The banking and finance group services financial institutions like J.P. Morgan and Lloyds as well as corporations like Glencore and private equity giants like Carlyle. The team recently represented a group of banks in a multibillion-pound loan to BSkyB, destined to fund its takeover of three European pay TV businesses. Other work highlights of late include acting for Vodafone in a £2.7 billion revolving credit facility, and helping Turkish food manufacturer Yildiz finance its £2.1 billion acquisition of United Biscuits, owner of Jacob's and McVitie's. The scope of the group is such that it covers corporate, trade and asset finance, as well as restructuring, insolvency and regulatory matters. "You can work across the board as a trainee or stick to one group if you prefer." One interviewee with experience on the corporate finance side spoke of "a really high deal turnover, which is great – you get to see a lot of deals from beginning to end." Much like corporate, "there's a lot of admin involved in banking, like running CP checklists or handling due diligence for portfolio sales. Quite often you're looking at documents in the data room and filling in a report on them." It's not all paper-pushing, though: "I got to draft a variety of corporate documents and by the end of my seat was running an entire alliance document," reported one trainee, while others chimed in to report the seat "is a good one for client contact."
Weird and wonderful
The capital markets practice – one of the best in the City for debt, equity, structured finance and securitisation – shares a fair few clients with the banking and finance group, including J.P. Morgan and Barclays, who lawyers recently advised (along with Goldman Sachs and UBS) on a $2.5 billion shares offering by Fiat Chrysler ahead of its plans to spin off Ferrari as a separate business. There are plenty of standalone clients too: the firm was recently called upon to assist the Treasury as the UK became the first country outside the Islamic world to issue a sukuk (a kind of Sharia-compliant bond). Trainees here told of grappling with "a really exciting variety of matters," from loan portfolio sales to note issues and securitisations. "The transactions are complex and can be really difficult to understand, but you get up to speed very quickly," said one. "You have to! Within eight weeks I'd worked on 11 different matters. Luckily, there are a lot of helpful internal resources to guide you through tasks step by step." Our interviewees flagged the seat as a good one for responsibility. "I drafted some form documents on my own," reported one, while another told of "acting as the main point of contact with a client. I was holding weekly conference calls to talk them through the details of the transaction. It was daunting but exciting!"
Among Linklaters' many specialist groups are energy, life sciences and infrastructure. This last team advises on the financing, design, construction and business securitisations aspects of infrastructure projects like the forthcoming Thames Tideway, a major sewer overhaul in London that constitutes the UK's second biggest infrastructure project ever. At the time of our calls, lawyers were busy assisting Thames Water with the details of the project, which will involve digging out 30 kilometres of tunnels under London's streets at the whopping cost of £4.1 billion. Projects aren't just UK-centric, though: "You encounter all sorts of weird and interesting laws when you're working on an international deal. You have to rethink things you thought were standard, which is what Linklaters is all about." We heard that "deals here operated on a longer timeline than in corporate or banking, so there's not the same level of pressure to get through things as quickly."
That said, trainees are still expected to put in some tough hours to keep things running at full speed. "There's no two ways about it: the hours are long, no matter what seat you're in. It takes some getting used to, and you need stamina to get through them." One exhausted interviewee had recently come off the back of "a solid week of staying until 3am and going back in at 7am the next morning. I had to drink a lot of coffee! Luckily, I got three days off in lieu after." Others spoke of "relentless midnight finishes," while others still mentioned "constant ups and downs – one day you're leaving in time to go to the gym; others you find yourself stuck here until 4am." On the whole, sources agreed "it can be hard, but it's not all-consuming" and took solace in the thought that "at least working weekends is pretty unusual." We heard the sleeping pods "are actually quite pleasant. They make it up like a hotel room – Travelodge, mind – with a bathrobe, a toothbrush and an en suite bathroom. It makes a lot of sense to stay there if you live far away."
A proper cup of coffee
Our sources were keen to impress upon us that Linklaters is "very straight-shooting in terms of quality – they don't really beat around the bush if you've done bad work on an exercise." As one explained: "The prestige of the firm is such that you're expected to adhere to a super-high level of excellence. Even the most minor of letters needs to be done to perfection; senior people will catch every misplaced comma." While our interviewees didn't find these expectations particularly distressing – "people are perfectly friendly when they give you corrections" – they did notice a push to make them slightly more palatable. "Partners are being encouraged to be more accommodating when they give us work and to ask what our plans are first." They went on to tell us about a new scheme in some teams that encourages senior members of the firm to work from home one day a week: "Some associates will do so almost religiously. That push for flexibility is something that's been very consciously top-driven." This latter change is part of Linklaters' recent drive to increase diversity. The firm was the first magic circle firm to announce gender diversity targets and is aiming for a 30% female management by 2018. "There are more and more conversations about diversity, both gender and ethnic, and it's starting to bear fruit, on the trainee side at least."
Linklaters' HQ is on Silk Street, surrounded by much maligned Brutalist complex the Barbican. While "the interior could do with sprucing up," it offers all the perks of a big magic circle operation, including a 24-hour canteen, a GP surgery, a gym and "a little shop where you can buy pretty much anything you can think of, from ties to nice Jo Malone stuff to give your Mum if you've forgotten her birthday." Our sources went particularly wild for "the really amazing smoothie blitz bar, which has all the ingredients you read about in magazines – chia seeds, kale." Add the sleeping pods into the mix, "and it's a self-contained universe! You can easily fall into the trap of never leaving." Other, less tangible but still appreciated, benefits include free language lessons, health and wellbeing months, sports teams, and even paid entrance fees for activities like trail runs. Linklaters is alone in offering end-of-seat bonuses to trainees, subject to their meeting an hours target. "It gives us the best compensation of trainees at any City firm," a source said contentedly. Our interviewees had similarly pleased views on the firm's qualification process, telling us "most groups are good at making it known early on if they're interested in having you back well in advance." In 2015 the firm kept on 95 of its 109 qualifiers.
You've got to strive to thrive at Linklaters, but the firm has its fun side, too: drinks trolleys, karaoke nights, and a lavish Christmas party are just a few of the social rewards. "When we started, we were given a presentation about how we'd all become friends during our training contract, and we were like 'Haha, yeah right,' but actually six months down the line I noticed that my class really is close," reported a trainee. "They give us lots of opportunities to form bonds, and as a result I've got people I go to the theatre with, people I go for drinks with. Any day of the week you can walk into the cafeteria and see lots of us hanging out, having lunch together."
Shrinking violets, beware: "People here are high achievers, and they're proactive about their careers. You can't just be a wallflower; you're expected to volunteer for work."
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How to get a Linklaters training contract
Vacation scheme deadline: 9 November 2015 (winter: grads, postgrads and final-year undergrads); 4 January 2016 (summer: penultimate-year undergrads)
Training contract deadline: 4 January 2016 (grads, postgrads and final-year undergrads); 31 July 2016 (penultimate-year law grads, final-year students, postgrads and grads)
Linklaters looks at a wide range of universities, so don't be deterred from applying if you didn't go to one of the more obvious ones. Alongside visits to many UK universities, recruiters are also sent to both India and Australia to interview overseas candidates. A law degree has given candidates a slight up in years past: today the proportion of law to non-law graduates is 60:40.
The application form for a vac scheme is the same as the one for the training contract. Be sure to check your form for any silly errors and don't just regurgitate the firm's own marketing material: "We wrote it, and we will recognise it!" recruitment sources stress. Extracurricular activities, work experience and languages (especially those spoken in the BRIC countries) are all particularly valued in applicants.
If recruiters like the look of your application form, you'll be invited to complete an online Watson Glaser critical thinking test. You'll be doing yourself a favour by having a stab at the practice test, which can be found on Linklaters' grad recruitment website.
Assessments and interviews
Those who ace the online test – training contract and vac scheme applicants alike – attend one of several assessment days held each year. The day involves a written version of the critical thinking test, a work simulation exercise and two interviews. The work simulation exercise sees candidates reply to a series of emails using multiple choice answers, before drafting a written response to one.
The first interview takes place with HR and is designed to test "key competencies like teamwork, leadership, motivation, desire for commercial law and the ability to organise," say recruiters. "We try to gauge applicants' communication skills and their commitment to both commercial law and Linklaters in particular."
Then there's an interview with a partner and managing associate, which is focused on business and the law. It involves a discussion of the written exercise from the work simulation, plus questions testing commercial awareness. "In recent years questions have been on current affairs like the takeover of Cadbury by Kraft, the Eurozone crisis, the phone-hacking scandal and so on," we're told.
During the assessment day, candidates get a chance to tour the building and have lunch with the current trainees – a good chance to ask questions and settle any lingering doubts.
From here the firm makes its offers.
The vacation scheme
Around 70% of Linklaters' vac schemers generally go on to train with the firm. The firm runs two summer schemes – these are open to law and non-law students in their penultimate year of study and last four weeks each, with around 60 spots available in total. As of 2016 there will also be a winter scheme, aimed at final-year students, grads and postgrads.
Vac schemers visit two practice groups during their visit and can state preferences for these beforehand. Each attendee works alongside an associate who acts as a formal mentor and provides both guidance and feedback. A buddy from the trainee group stands in as a more informal point of contact.
Over the course of the vac scheme there are presentations on core practice areas, a talk from the managing partner about the firm's strategy, a video conference with global partners and an advice session on how to conduct yourself at an interview. Vac schemers also participate in a hypothetical client pitch and a negotiation exercise.
Those who complete the scheme are automatically allotted a final interview for the training contract. This takes place with a partner and lasts an hour.
Linklaters in America
We interviewed junior lawyers at Linklaters' New York office for our US sister publication Chambers Associate. Read their thoughts here.
William Hague at Linklaters
After over 25 years as an MP, including a period as Conservative Party leader from 1997 to 2001, William Hague (now elevated to become Lord Hague) recently joined Linklaters as chair of its new 'international advisory committee'. As foreign secretary in the last government, he is pretty well-placed to advise on international matters and his reputation among the firm's high-profile international business clients is also likely to be a big reason for the hire. And along with the expertise comes a welcome dose of publicity for the firm.
Hiring a political hot-shot is not an unprecedented step for a law firm to make. Shadow Lord Chancellor Charlie Falconer is now a partner in the London office of US firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, while former Attorney General Peter Goldsmith is co-managing partner of America's Debevoise & Plimpton's London office. As these examples suggest hiring politically connected individuals into your law firm is something of an American predilection and rather more common across the pond than it is here.
In the US, the so-called 'revolving door' between politics and the legal profession is seen as a point of pride by law firms, who routinely release partners to make their mark on government life in Washington DC. For example Covington & Burling recently rehired Eric Holder after he spent six years as Barack Obama's Attorney General, a position he took up in 2009 after having first worked at... Covington & Burling. In another example of the close ties between law and politics stateside the US arm of global firm Dentons recently hired former Republican Congressman and presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich as a senior advisor. This hire is interesting as it is similar to Linklaters' love-in with Hague – neither Gingrich or Hague are lawyers are their roles are purely advisory ones. Indeed Hague doesn't even appear on the firm's website yet.
So taking on William Hague is a somewhat unusual move for Linklaters and it's not entirely clear what practical role he will play. A firm press release says Hague's appoinment will provide 'an extra gear in making the most of current opportunities' while the group he chairs will be involved in 'governance and strategic direction-setting.' Interestingly the former sounds like an external job – attracting new business through connections to overseas companies and sovereign states – while the latter sounds more internal – advising on sound management and strategy. An article in Legal Business notes that the hire 'borrow[s] from the plc playbook' – the trend for public companies to hire in bigwigs to lend their companies more 'gravitas'. The same article notes as a key reason for Hague's hire 'his ability to position Linklaters in the minds of key influencers'. In other words: a lot of it comes down to prestige. Hiring Hague serves as a marker of Linklaters' international standing and ambitions.
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UC Santa Barbara was chosen to win the Big West men's championship in the 2007 preseason coaches poll. The Gauchos, who won their first NCAA Division I national championship in 2006 and have won four of the last six Big West titles, led the way with six first-place votes and a total of 48 points.
The Gauchos return seven starters and 15 letterwinners from the squad that won 11 of its final 12 matches a year ago. Headlining the returnees is the back-to-back Big West Defensive Player of the Year in senior Andy Iro. Fellow All-American Eric Avila also returns for his junior year with the Gauchos after amassing a team-high eight goals to go with five assists in 2006, while junior Nick Perera returns after a breakout sophomore campaign that culminated in the College Cup Most Outstanding Offensive Player award.
The Gauchos coaching staff has continued to find success in securing top-notch talent. Among the newcomers are University of San Diego transfer Ciaran O'Brien, the most sought after transfer player in the nation, and New Zealand U-20 National Team members Michael Boxall and Sam Jenkins.
Cal State Northridge, the only other school to capture the conference title since 2000, received one first-place vote and 43 points to finish second behind the Gauchos. Cal State Fullerton was picked to finish third after amassing 26 points, while UC Irvine, Cal Poly, first-year member UC Davis and UC Riverside round out the poll.
Leading the returnees for CSUN is two-time first-team All-Big West honoree Sean Franklin and second-team All-Big West selection Sunghyun Kim, the top scorer for the Matadors last season with 14 points. Cal State Northridge also has the services of a top-flight goalkeeper in junior Kevin Guppy (0.90 GAA).
Cal State Fullerton head coach Bob Ammann welcomes back 2006 Big West Freshman of the Year Michael Farfan.


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It exceeded our expectations! We loved it!
The Jewel was wonderful! Everyone was so helpful and very pleasant! We loved the brick oven pizzas! In our hotel room was a plate with two individual chocolate cakes for our Anniversary. It was a surprise and so nice!
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