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The University of Wyoming Cowgirl soccer team battled Northern Colorado Sunday afternoon in Greeley, Colo., and came away with a 1-0 victory over the Bears. The game was televised on Fox Soccer Channel and can be seen tape-delayed on FSC Tuesday, October 6th at 6 p.m. Mountain Time.
The Cowgirls are currently on a three-game winning streak and extend their overall record to 7-4-2 and 1-0 in the Mountain West Conference. With the loss, UNC drops to 4-5-1 on the season.
"It was a special day for Wyoming soccer to be a part of a nationally televised game," said UW head coach Danny Sanchez. "We got a great second half goal from Emily Layton and really withstood great pressure from Northern Colorado for this victory."
Wyoming pulled ahead early in the second half on an unassisted Emily Layton goal at the 47:30 mark. The goal is Layton's third of the season and 13th of her Cowgirl career. Layton took four shots, two on goal.
The defense for the Cowgirls kept the game scoreless as freshman keeper Courtney Merkle made nine total saves in the shutout victory. UW has now won five games this season by shutting out their opponents.
The Cowgirls victory over UNC can be seen tape-delayed on Fox Soccer Channel Tuesday, October 6th at 6 p.m. Mountain Time.
Next week UW will take on two conference opponents. First, Wyoming will travel to Albuquerque, N.M. for a game against the Lobos on Thursday at 7 p.m. On Saturday the Cowgirls will face TCU in Fort Worth, Texas at 7 p.m.


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one of the CIA's most dramatic scoops in many years, and epic disaster for Iran. Our most exclusive Iranian and intelligence sources disclose that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's personal cameraman, Hassan Golkhanban, who defected from his UN entourage in New York on Oct. 1, brought with him an intelligence treasure trove of up-to-date photographs and videos of top Iranian leaders visiting their most sensitive and secret nuclear and missile sites.
The cameraman, who is in his 40s, is staying at an undisclosed address, presumably a CIA safe house under close guard.
He stayed behind when Ahmadinejad, after his UN speech, departed New York with his 140-strong entourage. For some years, Golkhanban worked not just as a news cameraman but personally recorded visits by the Iranian president and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of top-secret nuclear facilities and Revolutionary Guards installations.
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Royal Engineered Composites Delivers On First International Contract
With a new contract by Fokker Aerostructures, the company takes a leap into the international aviation market, starting with manufacturing a business jet platform.
Royal Engineered Composites (Minden, NE) has moved into the international aviation market with deliveries on a new contract by Fokker Aerostructures. Royal is manufacturing the fin top fairing for the vertical tail section on a new business jet platform.
Fokker is responsible for the innovative design and manufacturing of the complete tail section. The empennage will feature advanced lightweight solutions and will be produced in the Dutch Fokker facilities in Papendrecht and Hoogeveen.
Royal is manufacturing the fin top fairing in their facility in Minden. The first parts were shipped to Fokker in March of this year, and production is expected to ramp up in the near future.
Royal Engineered Composites offers complete design, manufacturing and prototyping services, as well as technical support for aerospace and defense companies. Until 2010, Royal was known by its original name "Royal Plastics".
The name change to Royal Engineered Composites reinforces the company as an industry leader in the production of composite parts and more accurately represents the company's technical capabilities and state-of-the-art facilities, equipment and expertise.


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That Moment When You Realize How Little You Actually Know
By Caren Cooper July 15th, 2013 at 12:07 pm | Comment
I like to call it an antipiphany* – that striking realization of the magnitude of what can be known, which reduces what you actually understand to a paltry amount.
I've seen it again and again with graduate students: they enroll feeling like smarty-pants, and within a year they are humbled by an antipiphany. Eventually settling into the comfort of not-knowing-it-all, they are motivated for discoveries, open to an epiphany.
Now a study by Aaron Price and Hee-Sun Lee found that participants in a citizen-science project, Citizen Sky, evaluated their own knowledge about science as lower after 6 months in the project compared to when they started the project.
What was the nature of participants' apparent antipiphany? Through interviews, Price and Lee confirmed that participants developed a greater appreciation for how much they did not know and for how much they could potentially learn.
This appreciation was in conjunction with an increase in positive attitudes towards science. During those same 6 months, participants tended to seek out more science news and even other citizen-science projects. Realizing how little they knew simply drove them to want to know more.
A common message from citizen science projects is an empowering emphasis on the expertise that participants bring to the table. But does that emphasis encourage learning? Price and Lee's study highlights for me a tightrope to be walked in citizen science: along with the empowering 'anyone-can-be-an-expert' message, participants need experiences that lead to an antipiphany, to understand and feel motivated by how much more there is to learn.
Citizen Sky Project
How did Citizen Sky, a project with over 6,000 registrants, walk the tightrope? Price and Lee took an in-depth look at project design. They outlined five design principles for citizen science projects.
"Design Principle 1: Use a context where volunteers' contribution is necessary and meaningful for their scientific inquiry."
In other words, citizen science should involve authentic research only, preferably testing hypotheses that could not otherwise be tested without help from the public. In Citizen Sky, participants were monitoring and trying to understand the 5th brightest star (epsilon) in the constellation Auriga. It is too bright for the highly sensitive detectors on most professional telescopes, and that's why amateur astronomers were needed. Epsilon Aurigae isn't really one star, but two or more: one supergiant and one (or two) almost dead stars, buried in a cloud of dust. The supergiant and the stars in the dust cloud revolve around each other, and one of these predictable eclipses, between 2009 and 2011, was the focus of the Citizen Sky project.
"Design Principle 2: Provide Internet resources to help volunteers interact with peers and scientists."
In Citizen Sky, participants could interact by supplying data (brightness estimates of epsilon Aurigae), using web tools to explore everyone's data, participating in online forums, participating in monthly live chats, and forming collaborative teams focused around mini-research projects.
"Design Principle 3: Actively involve scientists in a role of teaching and communication."
In Citizen Sky, participants had access to professional researchers through an interactive blog, live chat sessions, and regular feedback, advice, and general support via the project website.
"Design Principle 4: Support participants for analyzing and presenting their own data."
Authenticity in collecting and analyzing data is a key part of this principle. In Citizen Sky, participants could view graphs of their data superimposed over the data from everyone else. With the help of tutorials, they could explore what it might mean.
"Design Principle 5: Encourage participants to become an active member of a research community."
Education researchers have long known the value of group work. Citizen Sky had dedicated space where participants could opt to form teams to work on a research project. The project even provided private areas for team members to chat and share documents. Participants formed 23 teams. Each had the intended goal of submitting a paper to a peer-reviewed astronomical journal.
Most citizen-science projects contain one or two of these design features, but Citizen Sky met ALL of these design principles.
Since Citizen Sky offered a veritable tapas menu of a little bit of everything, Price and Lee were able to tease apart which design elements fostered positive changes in participants' attitudes about science. The answer they found is…
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…social activities!
If people spent time in the chat sessions with peers and scientists, then they learned more (including learning how much they did not know). Like the adage, you get out what you put in, participants who put energy towards the project gain the most from the project.
Price and Lee suggest that a sense of ownership in the scientific process and its products as well as a sense of community are two essential features of citizen science. People should not feel like anonymous data collectors or data processors. They must know each other. They must be real, just as the research must be real. Involvement only in the act of collecting data for science may not be enough to cause positive changes in attitudes toward science. Participants need to do more. And they need to do it together.
Just when I thought that I understood citizen science, Price and Lee's results gave me the antipiphany of realizing how much more there is to understand. If we can design our citizen-science projects to bring scientific thinking into everyday conversations, then more people may realize there is so much more to learn. In this way, citizen science can take us one step closer in preparing our society to address complex issues and solve big problems. Just like the humbled graduate students, after antipiphanies in the online world of citizen science, perhaps we'll all gain a collective e-piphany.
*Anyone know if there is already a word for this realization?
This post originally appeared on PLOS CitizenSci .
Price, C. A. and Lee, H.-S. (2013), Changes in participants' scientific attitudes and epistemological beliefs during an astronomical citizen science project. J. Res. Sci. Teach.. doi: 10.1002/tea.21090
Caren Cooper is a scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where she carries out research on birds almost exclusively with data collected by willing and able hobbyists. Caren has contributed guest blogposts about the history of citizen science for Scientific American. Twitter: @CoopSciScoop
Help find ways to prevent the common cold and flu!
By John Ohab September 19th, 2012 at 12:51 pm | Comment
As cold and flu season approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, many people are starting to think about what they can do to avoid getting sick. To help prevent illnesses, public health advice needs to be based on solid scientific evidence.
The Health Tracking Network is a citizen science project designed to fill some of these gaps in knowledge. You can join others from across the world in helping find factors linked to common illnesses such as the common cold, influenza, and stomach flu (gastroenteritis).
Anyone 18 years old or older can participate. When you join the Health Tracking Network, you:
- spend 2-3 minutes per week answering questions about illness symptoms and related topics,
- earn money for charities of your choice, and
- can track your own health, fitness, or anything of interest to you with separate tracking tools.
Participation is completely anonymous.
The project began in April, 2011, and more than 415 people have joined so far. Through their participation, members of the Health Tracking Network have generated more than $2,000 in donations to charities.
The Health Tracking Network needs more participants from all over the world! More participants will allow the project to identify factors related to common illnesses with confidence, which may ultimately lead to good scientific advice about prevention. Join the effort now!
Guest post by Dr. Devon Brewer
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Citizen Science Opportunities with The American Chestnut Foundation
By John Ohab September 1st, 2011 at 10:32 pm | Comment
Sara Fitzsimmons is the Regional Science Coordinator at The American Chestnut Foundation
The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to restoring the American chestnut (Castanea dentate) to its original range. Once estimated to be 25% of the Appalachian forests, the species was all but eliminated from the landscape by an imported fungal disease caused by Cryphonectria parasitica, the chestnut blight fungus.
Since 1983, TACF has been working with volunteers and citizen scientists to breed disease-resistant trees and return them to the landscape. The program involves a minimum of six breeding generations, each of which requires labor-intensive controlled pollination to make the seed, and about 5-10 years to grow the trees and properly select them. To work through the entire breeding pipeline, then, takes a large amount of resources, and about 35 – 60 years!
A program such as this would not be possible without the many hands, minds, and legs of citizen scientists. TACF volunteers come from a wide variety of backgrounds – from salesmen to engineers, farmers to doctors and teachers – all of whom can bring a unique perspective to the program and enhance TACF's work in a multitude of ways.
Over the past 25+ years, 1000s of volunteers have bred various generations of trees and grown tens of thousands of trees on their land. While breeding is the backbone of TACFs work, and there is continued need for more growers, citizen scientists have not only participated in, but also initiated, some unique programs.
Tracking the Wild Horseshoe Crabs of New York
By Lisa Gardiner August 23rd, 2011 at 4:37 pm | Comment
On June 1, 2011 at 11:51 PM, a group of people assembled on the beach in Northpoint, New York. There was no moon shining that night, not even a sliver. The people carried flashlights or wore headlamps. They held clipboards and paper.
Their mission: to report where horseshoe crabs were spotted along the beach.
This was just one of several places along New York's shoreline where people collect data about horseshoe crabs. Volunteers also amassed on dark beaches in Stony Brook, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Westhampton. In all, volunteers monitored the comings and goings of horseshoe crabs at ten New York beaches that night.
They are a part of the New York Horseshoe Crab Monitoring Network, a group of citizen scientists who are documenting where horseshoe crabs emerge from the water to lay eggs along beaches in New York State. On specific dates through the spring and early summer, participants collect data about the number of horseshoe crabs and identify their size and sex. They attach tags to the horseshoe crabs bulky exoskeleton and look for tags from prior years.
Divers Help Quell the Roar of Invasive Lionfish
By Lisa Gardiner August 7th, 2011 at 10:23 pm | Comment
It seems strange to mark the location of a fish, doesn't it? They can swim and move away from the marker, right? I wonder while standing on a dock waiting for the boat that will take about ten of us out to a reef. There, we will scuba dive for fun and also mark the locations of lionfish, an invasive species in the Caribbean.
Volunteer divers on the Dutch island of Bonaire are helping Bonaire National Marine Park eliminate invasive lionfish from its coral reefs by marking the locations where the fish are found. A diver who spots a lionfish is instructed to attach a small flag, provided by the park, to a rock near the fish.
The answers to my questions about marking fish locations become clear once I splash into the water and see the fish and flag markers for myself. Swimming along sections of reef, I saw dozens of flags that had been placed there by divers and each had one or more lionfish hovering nearby. It turns out that lionfish don't stray far from their particular nook of reef. They stay near the markers.
It's illegal to hunt or in any way harm marine life in the waters surrounding Bonaire. Except, that is, for lionfish.


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W Hotels To Open Alpine and Ski Resort
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VERBIER, SWITZERLAND—W Hotels Worldwide will open the brand's first alpine and ski retreat—W Verbier and The Residences at W Verbier located here in December 2013.
Owned by Les Trois Rocs, the W Verbier is situated at the foot of the slopes beside the Médran gondola. The resort features four traditional wooden chalet-style buildings, each connected by a contemporary glass atrium.
Dutch design agency Concrete Architectural Associates conceived W Verbier. The interiors will juxtapose New York's urban aesthetic against traditional Swiss design and the mountainscape, according to the design firm.
"For the first W alpine retreat, we wanted to provide guests with an unforgettable experience using interiors that complement the breathtaking scenery surrounding the hotel," stated Rob Wagemans, founder and creative director, Concrete Architectural Associates. "Our design introduces smooth lines that carve through the spaces with contrasting materials reflecting the simplicity, beauty and energy of Verbier and the contemporary cool of New York."
In the public spaces and guestrooms, seating areas will be carved out of solid wood blocks; climbing ropes will be used to hang lamps; local stone will clad walls and Welcome desks; upholstery and soft furnishings will be covered in leather, nylon, fur and Lycra. Fireplaces will appear throughout the public spaces and will be a key feature in each of the hotel's 123 guestrooms and suites.
"Bringing the W brand to Verbier, one of Europe's most stunning and vibrant alpine resorts, will mark a true milestone in the global expansion of W Hotels into the world's most exciting destinations," stated Paul James, Global Brand Leader, W Hotels Worldwide, St. Regis and The Luxury Collection. "At W Verbier, alpine enthusiasts and global jetsetters will experience the brand's unique lifestyle programming and cutting-edge design amidst a jaw-dropping mountain backdrop."
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Girl Talk: I Had My First Date At Age 23
Tipping the scales at 300 pounds through college made meeting my beloved at a frat party or in the dining hall impossible. It wasn't just the reactions I received from the opposite sex, but since I wasn't comfortable in my own skin, how could I trust anyone else to be comfortable with me? At 23, I found myself with a great job at CBS News, living in the city that never sleeps and 132 pounds lighter – aka suddenly desirable to men. Yet not only had I never been kissed, but I had never been on a date. I had worked hard to lose the pounds, but was not ready for the attention that came with it.
Talking to the male gender outside of friendship brought with it culture shock similar to taking a vacation to Antarctica. There was an entire list of rules and regulations that I'd never learned. One of my friends signed up for online dating with me. She was more determined than I was to jump start my dating career and even wrote my profile for me:
Gentleman, start your engines. I'm a clever, eclectic hybrid of multi-dimensional brains and beauty, who is fully ascribed to the following notions: Chinese food is the ultimate dinner-for-breakfast mainstay, which I believe should be offered on any morning menu, and Sunday morning public affairs programs and newspapers are critical components of a (read: my) balanced diet of information.
I sounded fabulous.
I began to study up on this dating thing. I read everything I could get my hands on. I started buying Cosmo and analyzing every printed word. It was my bible. Being a Type-A overachiever, I figured I could learn everything I needed to learn about dating from these resources. And, I needed to learn it fast.
It was astonishing how quickly someone so inexperienced can score a dates online. For the first time in my life, I was in charge and desirable, and unlike the other guys in my life, the men online had no idea about my weight loss. It was almost too easy to hide my past.
I always requested that we meet for coffee or sushi. Coffee with skim milk and Splenda will not damage your waistline, and sushi, well, I make it a rule to not trust anyone who doesn't like avocado.
My first date ever was at a sushi restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
"Hi, you must be Shoshana," he said shaking my hand. "And you are?"
He was looking at my friend Katie; I'd brought her with me to make sure that this guy was not an axe murderer. I wasn't taking any chances. All the advice I'd read said not to be alone and to always meet in a public place. Granted, bringing a friend along might have been taking it too far. But I was terrified.
"This is my friend Katie," I said.
I didn't want her to leave. If this were a job interview,I would have been more comfortable. Networking I can do blindfolded, but dating, I suspected, was not my forte. I looked at her, my eyes pleading for help. But she must have misread the "do not leave me alone look," for a "it's time for you to go" look.
"I'll leave you two alone. Call me if you need me," she said.
I did need her, or anything that could help guide me through my first date. The restaurant he took me to was a favorite of his and his ex-girlfriend's. My expertise was limited, but I knew this was not a good sign. Things got worse over spicy tuna rolls.
"I really want you to come with me to my hockey game tomorrow. It's in New Rochelle. You can take Metro North up and I'll pick you up at the station," he said.
I remembered some advice from Cosmo that you're supposed to be riveted by a man's interests.
"Oh, what position do you play?" I asked,ignoring the fact that I had barely said anything to him but he was already inviting me to his hockey game.
"I don't play, I'm the EMT. I take care of the players. I like to have my girl there with me," he explained.
"Your girl?" I said,my palms sweating.
This wasn't going well.
"I want to go home now," I told him the second the check came.
"We're not going to the movie?" he asked, disappointed.
We walked outside and he proceeded to kiss me. I didn't see it coming considering I had just canceled the rest of our plans. He ambushed my lips. Missing were the fireworks that Cosmo said I was supposed to experience. It was awkward, uncomfortable, sloppy and not at all what I had envisioned my first kiss to be like on my first date as a skinny girl.
I waited 23 years for this? I thought. I want a redo!
I had always thought that there was a party that only skinny girls were invited to. I assumed that they always found jeans that fit, that they were happy by default, that dream men just found them on the street, that their dates were good, that their kisses were passionate. As this guy slobbered on my face, I realized was mistaken. Being thin made not one bit of difference. Discovering who you are is not just about a dress size and happiness is not determined by a number on the scale.
Four years later, newly engaged and in love with an amazing man I met on at that same site (many first dates later), I couldn't have dreamt it any other way.


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National Drive-In Movie Day
What's the best way to combine being outdoors and watching a movie? A drive-in theater of course! And today is the perfect day to do so, since it is National Drive-In Movie Day.
Drive-in movies are fun for the whole family – grab some snacks and blankets, pile in the back of the car and you're all set! The big screen provides the movie and you can set your car radio to pick up the dialogue and music.
For family fun in Tyler, check out Sky Vue Drive-In Theater on Highway 69 N. Tonight they are showing 'Epic' at 8:20 and 'Fast and Furious 6′ at 9:55. Kids' tickets are $4 and adults' are $6, while children under age 5 are admitted free.


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Combine a nail-biting game with a power outage -- and toss in a hyped halftime performance by Beyonce -- and you're likely to score some big ratings.
The Baltimore Ravens' victory over the San Francisco 49ers, broadcast on CBS, has set a record for highest overnight ratings in Super Bowl history, the Nielsen company reported Monday. Nielsen is expected to have an estimate of how many people watched the game later on Monday.


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The 2015-16 Steckline Gallery shows are a must-see. Many nationally recognized artists, differently skilled in their own medium, will present their work to be displayed openly to the public.
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by Christopher Freeburn | May 13, 2013 12:29 pm
[1]The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Indiana farmer who planted genetically modified soybean seeds in violation of his agreement with the seed's manufacturer[2].
Hugh Bowman purchased Monsanto's (NYSE:MON[3]) Roundup Ready soybeans for his 300 acre farm, agreeing not to collect seeds from the plants for future planting. He then purchased soybean seeds usually used for feed from local grain providers for subsequent plantings, assuming correctly that they would also be Roundup Ready, the Washington Post notes.
Monsanto sued Bowman, alleging that he violated their patent when he used Roundup Ready soybean seeds grown as feed to plant his fields. Bowman countered that the company's right to tell him how to use the seed ended when be purchased it.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in Monsanto's favor and order the farmer to pay $85,000 in damages. Bowman appealed. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed unanimously with the Appeals Court, holding that Bowman's use of the seeds would have effectively destroyed Monsanto's patent.
Last month, two researchers reported that potentially hazardous ingredients in Monsanto's Roundup pesticide could remain on foods, possibly contributing to a range of diseases[4].
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Roasted Garlic, Tomato, and Basil Squares
- 1 package dry yeast (about 2 1/4 teaspoons)
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1 cup warm water (100° to 110°)
- 3 cups all-purpose flour (about 13 1/2 ounces), divided
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Cooking spray
- 1 whole garlic head
- 2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
- 2 cups chopped plum tomato (about 9 ounces)
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
- 1/4 cup (1 ounce) grated fresh Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons light mayonnaise
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Dissolve yeast and sugar in 1 cup warm water in a large bowl; let stand 5 minutes. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Add 2 3/4 cups flour and 1 teaspoon salt to yeast mixture, stirring until well blended. Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead until smooth and elastic (about 5 minutes); add enough of remaining 1/4 cup flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, to prevent dough from sticking to hands.
Place dough in a large bowl coated with cooking spray, turning to coat top. Cover and let rise in a warm place (85°), free from drafts, 1 hour or until doubled in size.
Preheat oven to 400°.
While dough rises, remove white papery skin from garlic head (do not peel or separate the cloves). Wrap head in foil. Bake at 400° for 40 minutes; cool 10 minutes. Separate cloves; squeeze to extract garlic pulp. Discard skins.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper; sprinkle with cornmeal. Place dough on prepared baking sheet. Roll dough into a 15 x 10-inch rectangle. Lightly coat dough with cooking spray. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes or until lightly browned; remove from oven. Combine garlic pulp, tomato, and remaining ingredients in a medium bowl. Spread cheese mixture over crust; bake at 400° for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Let stand for 10 minutes. Cut into 12 squares.
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Paul opened his speech with an attention grabbing line: "From Boston to Zanzibar, there is a worldwide war on Christianity."
For everyone else, the recently unveiled Manta Underwater Room in Zanzibar sounds like a dream come true.
But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
At last he sailed for Zanzibar, and started on a journey which was to try his powers.
My letter from Zanzibar, in which I said I was starting for the world's end.
Then you advise our putting up the helm and running for Zanzibar?
A stranger able to find his way about Zanzibar must have a pretty level head.
Ivory from Zanzibar, salt from Cadiz and wines from Bordeaux.
Zanzibar, albeit not one of the most civilised cities, boasted such an establishment, kept by a personage yclept French Charlie.
Johnson slapped Zanzibar on the shoulder, and the colt moved off in the gloom.


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Many city-parish workers upset over budget
BATON ROUGE (WBRZ) - Some city-parish workers are upset that pay increases for them were left out of Mayor Kip Holden's 2014 budget for Baton Rouge.
The $800 million budget includes money for police vehicles, new police officers and new firefighters, but doesn't address the issue of underpaid city-parish workers.
The 2014 budget only includes 3 percent merit and longevity raises for some city-parish workers. A recent pay study suggests that city-parish workers are vastly underpaid but do receive above average benefits.
District 7 Councilwoman C. Denise Marcelle says it's disheartening that the city-parish workers were left out.
"A lot of them have two jobs and I just don't see that as being realistic fro people to have to work two jobs in order to get one salary," she said.
Marcelle says the Metro Council could still move around money in the budget to give city-parish workers pay raises.
"I feel like we should be able to find a little over a million dollars to give the DPW workers raises. Do I believe everybody in the city-parish deserves raises? Yes. But they are the most underpaid people in the city-parish, and I think we must start to do something about it and we must start now," she said.
Other council members like District 12 Councilman John Delgado feel it's too late to work pay raises into the 2014 budget.
"Well it's a shame that they didn't get the pay raises in this budget, but that's still not the reason to go in at the last minute and inject them into the budget. To do so would be irresponsible," he said. "We can't just move money from one pot in the budget to put to another just to make people happy. We have to do this responsibly, because ultimately it's the taxpayers money."
The Metro Council will vote on the proposed budget in December.
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I HAVE done a survey among my friends and have discovered that Christmas dinners and Christmas Day lunches are, on the whole, very disappointing and not value for money.
To quote but a few – meals were cold, meat was tasteless, service was bad and waiters were rude. Mostly the hotels and restaurants insist on payment in advance, so when you are unhappy with your meal you cannot withhold payment.
It has become obvious to me that Christmas dinners are far better in January when you are not packed in the establishment like sardines and the food is far superior and often the cost is often one third of what you would pay pre-Christmas.
It is no wonder my husband refuses to attend any pre-Christmas dinners as during his working life he was dragged to corporate dinners all over the country which were, in the majority, eminently forgettable.
Jenny Hilton, Holgate Lodge Drive, York.


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The Move Between Towns
Days before the circus arrived in town, fantastic, gaudy posters were plastered on barn doors, billboards and store windows to entice hard-working Americans to join in the coming magic. The circus promised one entire day of incredible excitement!
At dawn, roustabouts and elephants transformed a dusty field near town into a magnificent tent city. At the railroad depot, townspeople watched for hours as the train cars were freed of their load of parade wagons, wild animals and supplies.
The Street Parade
Brassy music blaring from band wagons and bell wagons trumpeted the arrival of majestic elephants shuffling trunk-to-tail through the center of town. Sequined beauties and roaring lions in gilded wagons were pulled by trained horse teams of Clydesdales and Belgians. The highly carved wagons illustrated nursery rhymes, landscapes, and legends, while "sunburst" wagon wheels spun kaleidoscopes of red, orange and yellow. Billygoats lugged clown carts, and bringing up the rear was a fancy steam calliope that led townspeople back to the show grounds like a Pied Piper!
Sadly, by the 1940s, urban sprawl had pushed show lots too far from Main Street to continue the great circus parades.
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"I will be visiting South Carolina this weekend," Jaquay Williams told Scout on Thursday night.
This will be Williams third official visit.
He visited Texas A&M a couple of weeks ago, then Georgia last weekend. This could be his last.
When asked about a possible decision, Williams said "Sunday" could be the day he makes that.
The 6-foot-2, 205 pound wideout from Fork Union Military Academy is on track to enroll at the school of his choice in early January, so he is closing in on a big decision.
He signed with Auburn out of Sandy Creek High School in 2012, but recently decommitted from there with the coaching questions.
Williams was the top wide receiver in Georgia a year ago, he is one of the top Prep School prospects in the country, and he could be ready to give a school some big news in the next 72 hours.


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Sweetness in light
the incurable incandescence of being
The richness of Vodopijas practice appears to be founded in a fascination for new developments in natural science, yet the artist declares, In my artistic research I have been guided by the natures of light itself not so much in its physical sense, but rather in the spiritual value it carries. Whether her works are meditations upon the metaphorical associations of light or the scientific dilemmas of space and time, Vodopija has nevertheless carved out a unique space for herself in the Croatian contemporary art scene, which is otherwise dominated by social concerns and art historical disputes.
Branko Franceschi, an art historian and curator of the Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery in Zagreb, has pointed out Vodopijas distinctive approach: Mirjana Vodopija is a unique personality on the Croatian art scene. She doesnt have any predecessors or obvious models. Her body of work develops with its own interior logic, without clinging to the fashionable. He continues, Her success is not based on provocation or shock, but on the consistent quality and high standards of her beautiful, imaginative and intelligent works.
Vodopijas early works were large-scale drawings executed in mixed media, and, to quote Franceschi again, demonstrated her precise drawing skills, subtle usage of colours, imagination and ability to control complex compositions. An interest in space, which was soon to become one of Vodopijas focal concerns, was already apparent in the complicated spatial structure of these early works.
Following her drawings, Vodopija began constructing sculptures, using a range of light materials such as wire and fibres. The elegant objects were usually based on variations of the spherical form and were often suspended from the ceiling, such as in Satellites (1995). For Franceschi, their elongated, aerodynamic forms, unfolding in the spatial centres of the galleries, suggested interstellar journeys. Such an impression may have been emphasised by Vodopijas use of lighting, which was employed to create dramatic settings for her sculptures.
Light was soon to become Vodopijas predominant interest and, as she began to play with the rhythms of light sources, she introduced time as another feature of her work. Despite such developments in her practice, Vodopija still draws upon the skills that she gained during her training in graphics. An exploration of light would, perhaps, remain incomplete without an investigation of shadows, and it is both real and computer generated shadows that Vodopija casts upon transparent surfaces in works such as Oval (1997).
Light, time and shadow all come into play in the installation Horizon (1995). One enters a completely darkened space. A light projection gradually becomes visible, its intensity increasing slowly and then fading away and appearing once more, forming a pulsing cycle. The horizon is the line of contact between two white images of the shadows of leaves. Rotating at different speeds, the movement of the projections brings to mind the turning of the hands on a clock, while the pulsing light seems to echo the viewers breathing.
In Ambience (2000), Vodopijas artistic vocabulary becomes sparser, the viewers experience increasingly disorientated. Again, one enters a pitch-black space. As ones eyes begin to adjust, a constellation of incandescent filaments becomes visible, soundlessly and hypnotically circling above ones head.
Vodopijas recent photographic works, Night in the City (2001) and Windows (2001) focus on views of the interiors of rooms at night. The former comprises two photographs of interiors lit not from within, but from reflections of the cityscape, while Windows is a series of 32 photographs of either the lamps or chandeliers that light up private interiors.
In one of her latest works, Filaments Drawing (2002), Vodopija returns to drawing but does so through installation. About 80 electric bulbs are placed behind a sheet of red plexiglass, which obscures their basic function by rendering all but the filaments of each bulb invisible. The lines of the filaments the source of light from the centre of each bulb together form a delicate, complex structure that Vodopija refers to as a drawing in space.
Vodopija has won important awards for her works and many of her pieces are in collections, mainly in Croatia. She has had 18 solo shows to date and has participated in over 100 group exhibitions worldwide.
Selected Exhibitions 19952002
2001 Prague, 3rd International Triennial of Graphic Arts, 1st Prize
2000 Zagreb, Annual Croatian Artists Association Award for Young Artist
1999 Zagreb, 2nd Croatian Triennial of Drawings, National University Library Award
1997 Zagreb, 1st Croatian Triennial of Graphic Art, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Graphic Art Department Award
1988 Rijeka, 11th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Promotional Fond for Fine Arts Award
1987 Sombor, 9th Triennial of Contemporary Yugoslav Drawing, Purchase Award
2002 ´Connections´, one-month residency project, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, SAD
1997 ´exchange Zagreb Venissieux´, one month residency project, Ville de Venissieux, France


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Application: NDA 21-399
Drug: ZD1839 (IRESSA)
Team Leader Comments and Regulatory Background for the ODAC
These FDA team leader comments provide a regulatory background for ODAC deliberations on the New Drug Application (NDA) for ZD1839 (IRESSA) for NSCLC. Please refer to Dr Cohen's review for details of FDA's findings and analysis of the data. The NDA efficacy results submitted by the sponsor are based on tumor response data, QOL data, and symptom data in NSCLC patients who have no available therapy. These results are intended to fulfill FDA's requirements for accelerated approval. In the following paragraphs FDA's requirements for accelerated approval and regular approval of new drugs are discussed.
Regular approval versus accelerated approval
Regular marketing approval of oncology drugs requires substantial evidence of efficacy from adequate and well-controlled clinical trials. Guidance promulgated in the 1980's indicated that efficacy should be demonstrated by prolongation of life, a better life, or an established surrogate for at least one of these. In 1992 Subpart H was added to the NDA regulations to allow accelerated approval (AA) for diseases that are serious or life-threatening where the new drug appears to provide benefit over available therapy. AA can be granted on the basis of a surrogate endpoint that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit. After AA, the applicant is required to perform a post-marketing study to demonstrate that treatment with the drug is indeed associated with clinical benefit. If the post-marketing study fails to demonstrate clinical benefit or if the applicant does not show due diligence in conducting the required study, the regulations describe a process for rapidly removing the drug from the market.
Under AA, tumor response has been used a surrogate reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit for nine oncology drug accelerated approvals:
Oncology drug accelerated approvals based on tumor response
Liposomal doxorubicin
Kaposi's sarcoma, second line
Breast cancer, second line
Colon cancer, second line
Breast cancer, refractory
Liposomal cytarabine
Lymphomatis meningitis
Anaplastic astrocytoma, refractory
Liposomal doxorubicin
Ovarian cancer, refractory
Gemtuzumab ozogamicin
AML, second line, elderly
Imatinib mesylate
CML, blast phase, accel. phase & failing interferon
The accelerated approval regulations were first applied to the approval of AIDS drugs. These early AAs used a different model of drug approval than that commonly used in oncology. AA was based on an interim analysis of a surrogate endpoint evaluated in a randomized controlled trial. Subsequent proof of clinical benefit and regular drug approval were usually based on final analyses of the same trial. In contrast, AA in oncology has usually relied on response rate as the surrogate endpoint, usually determined in non-randomized trials with limited patient numbers. Clinical benefit has been demonstrated in randomized trials after drug approval, usually in patients with less refractory tumors.
Although AA has been useful for approving many new anticancer drugs, there are disadvantages to drug development based on non-randomized Phase 2 trials in refractory populations. Once the drug is available, it may be difficult to initiate the required confirmatory RCT in the population for which the drug is approved. The small Phase 2 studies provide only limited safety data, and is often used in a wider population than the one studied.
Evaluation of the ZD1839 data in a regulatory context
As outlined by Dr. Cohen, the applicant's efficacy claim is based on a 10% FDA-verified partial response rate in 139 patients with refractory NSCLC and the applicant's findings of improvements in cancer related symptoms and improvement in quality of life. The ODAC will be asked to advise FDA whether available data are reasonably likely to predict that ZD1839 provides clinical benefit in NSCLC. As discussed below, the ODAC advice to FDA should consider the following points (discussed in the following paragraphs):
1) Is a 10% response rate reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit in refractory NSCLC?
2) What are the meaning of the analyses of tumor symptoms and QOL data in the context of a single arm study?
3) How do we incorporate in our deliberations the reported negative results of two large randomized first-line NSCLC trials of standard chemotherapy plus or minus ZD1839?
Response Rate
Is a 10% response rate in 139 patients sufficient to support AA in refractory NSCLC for a drug that, compared to many cytotoxic anticancer agents, is relatively nontoxic? Low response rates have been predictive of clinical benefit in some settings. Irinotecan received AA in the treatment of refractory colon cancer based on a relatively low response rate and subsequently demonstrated a survival benefit both in the refractory and the first-line settings. Whether a 10% response rate in lung cancer would be reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit, and thus support AA, is a good question for the clinical experts on the ODAC.
Tumor Symptom and QOL data
What are the meaning of the analyses of symptom data and QOL data in the context of a single arm study? The applicant has done a thorough job of evaluating symptomatic changes, but uncertainty regarding the meaning of these data cannot be fully resolved without a concurrent control arm. The applicant claims that clinical benefit is demonstrated in individuals showing a 28-day, 2-point improvement on the 28-point Lung Cancer Subscale (LCS) of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy for Lung Cancer (FACT-L). The 2-point threshold is based on studies showing that a 2-3 point LCS change in study populations is correlated with changes in performance status, weight loss, and TTP. The applicant finds that about 40% of patients in Study 39 derive such benefit, and that the benefit correlates with response and survival. For instance, the rate of a 2-point response on the LCS was 96% for objective tumor responders, 71% for stable disease patients, and 17% for progressors.
There are fundamental problems with the applicant's symptom benefit claims. Without a concurrent control arm, we cannot know whether these symptom findings might not result entirely from placebo effect, from hope associated with starting a promising investigational cancer drug. While a 2-point difference on the LCS determined in study populations may have some meaning in a randomized study, there are no data validating its use as an efficacy endpoint for individuals in a single-arm study. Alternatively, as noted by Dr. Cohen, some symptom improvement could be attributed to concomitant medications given to ameliorate these symptoms. A correlation of positive symptom findings with response rate would not be totally unexpected. One might expect that responders would feel better after being informed of their tumor status. In addition, some analytical bias would be expected, for instance, patients going off study early because of tumor progression might not provide sufficient data for the required 28-day verification of symptom response. Therefore, patients with early objective progression could not have documented symptom responses. Similarly, the 2-point LCS response associations with tumor response and with survival could be from having shared prognostic factors, e.g., prognostic factors (known or unkown) for response, tumor symptom improvement, and survival may be similar. Rather than causing symptom improvement or survival prolongation, tumor response might merely be associated with symptom changes and longer survival through shared baseline prognostic factors.
In the final analysis, it is unclear that the changes observed on the LCS symptom scale represent significant clinical benefit and that the changes observed can be confidently ascribed to ZD1839 treatment. A randomized, blinded trial will be required to make this determination. Although such data might enter into one's judgement whether a 10% response rate is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit in the refractory NSCLC setting, they clearly are not sufficient for a clinical benefit claim for full NDA approval.
Preliminary results from ZD1839 in first-line treatment of NSCLC
Recently the applicant provided FDA with preliminary analyses of two trials evaluating standard chemotherapy plus or minus ZD1839 in first-line treatment of NSCLC. Despite being adequately powered (about 350 patients per arm) and having adequate follow-up (about 240 events per arm) neither study showed a survival benefit for ZD1339.
Study 14 Survival
At Risk Events in Months 1-year
500 mg ZD1839 365 243 9.9 44%
250 mg ZD1839 365 248 9.9 42%
Placebo 363 236 11.1 45%
Study 17 Survival
At Risk Events in Months 1-year
500 mg ZD1839 347 246 8.7 38%
250 mg ZD1839 345 232 9.8 42%
Placebo 345 247 9.9 42%
Similarly there was no improvement in response rate:
Study 14 Study 17
Response Rate Response Rate
500 mg ZD1839 49.7% 32.1%
250 mg ZD1839 50.1% 35.0%
Placebo 44.8% 33.6%
Even though these data were generated in the first-line NSCLC treatment setting, they are important for our determination of ZD1839 efficacy in treating refractory NSCLC. After gaining accelerated approval based on the surrogate endpoint of tumor response in the refractory setting, applicants have often designed clinical trials in first- or second-line treatment settings to demonstrate a survival benefit or some other clinical benefit. The latter evidence has been considered sufficient to convert the drug's status from accelerated to regular approval. The FDA has never received a cancer drug application for accelerated approval when definitive data in another related setting show a lack of efficacy. An important question for the ODAC is how these first-line treatment data affect one's view of whether a 10% response rate in the refractory setting is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit.
If after viewing these data the ODAC does not find that the 10% response rate in Study 039 is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit in NSCLC, then the FDA will consider this a recommendation against accelerated approval of ZD1839. The FDA will then seek advice on the expanded access program for ZD1839. Many thousands of patients have received ZD1839 through expanded access, and the impact of the results from first-line trials in NSLC on the expanded access program needs to be discussed.
We look forward to discussion of these matters before the ODAC.
Grant Williams
Acting Medical Team Leader
Division of Oncology Drug Products


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You can take some simple steps to make sure your lawyer doesn't waste time on your projects. Every lawyer has wasted time on something, and even a great lawyer such as Abraham Lincoln acknowledged that some legal tasks are inherently a waste of time and money. Back in 1850 he wrote, "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser—in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
I polled my closest colleagues and came up with a set of tips for what you can do to keep legal bills down and maximize your lawyer's effectiveness.
A quick discussion when you start planning a new venture can set you on the right path and avoid expensive mistakes. If you don't consult your lawyer until you are ready to seal a deal, you might be surprised by delays for things such as time-consuming registrations or unintended problems. For example, if you are going to hire an independent contractor to write inventory-management software, your lawyer can tell you up front that you need to have a contract saying that you own the software when it's finished. Unless there's a contract transferring ownership, the contractor will own the product. If you wait until you've already paid the contractor, it may be too late to negotiate an agreement that gives you ownership of the software. A lawyer can give you a contract that the developer is likely to sign before the project starts. As another example, if you are selling beauty products over the Internet, you should have a chat with your lawyer before you start planning to expand your brick-and-mortar stores into another state. Otherwise you might be surprised to learn that all of your Internet sales into that state will be subject to sales taxes, and the lease you just negotiated costs you more than you had thought. A lawyer can't give you a quick fix for this issue, but you can have a better idea of what you are getting into in advance.
This early discussion doesn't have to be extensive or expensive. If you brainstorm your plans, your lawyer should be able to point out some pitfalls to avoid. Your lawyer should identify for you any other potential problems that he or she would need to research further and give you a choice of whether you want that research done now or later.
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If you have investors, lenders or partners, your lawyer should give you pointers on what kinds of issues you need to think about before you start working with the other people on your team. Each person should agree on what their responsibilities are, how much time each person will devote to the project and how each person will be paid or repaid for loans. If one person is providing the financing, make sure that person is really on board and you understand what is expected in return. Is the money a loan or an investment in return for a percentage of the business? If you are all already in the beauty store business, can one partner import a competing product without involving the other partners? What happens if one of the partners dies? Can the other partners buy out that share and continue in business, or does the partner's child inherit a share, which may give the child a right to force the business to dissolve? If one person goes to Cosmoprof North America, what expenses will the business cover, and can someone else go the next time? Once you have discussed these issues, make sure everyone really agrees by signing a contract.
It's important to get a list of questions from your lawyer, and then think through and agree on all the answers before you ask your lawyer to draft up a contract. That way you won't waste time and money on drafting a contract that the other people will reject out of hand. It can be very expensive to learn about a disagreement because the other person rejects a draft your lawyer spent a lot of time on.
Term sheets or letters of intent are usually just an extra step that you can safely skip, with some exceptions. Both term sheets and letters of intent are preliminary lists of the important terms of your deal. They can be binding or nonbinding. If they are going to be binding on you, you should really think through and reach agreement on all of the terms. If you don't address an issue and there's a dispute about it later, then a court might be able to impose a term that's standard in the industry, but that you never would have agreed to if you had thought about it. Other times you may lose your bargaining position by agreeing to a concept in the term sheet that becomes unattractive once the other terms are negotiated later. Even something that seems straightforward, such as the percent ownership your investor will have, might turn out to be a problem once the investor tells you that he wants to transfer that ownership to a competitor of yours. So you may as well skip this less formal step because you will be better served by a formal contract with all the concepts fully thought out.
If the term sheet is not going to bind you to a deal, it can be useful to help everyone focus on the details and make sure you are on the same page, but it has to be written carefully and you should get legal advice on drafting it. It should say clearly that it is not binding and that you will have obligations only if both parties sign a formal written contract. Even so, it is often just as easy to go straight to a draft of the formal written contract.
Think about the issues that are important to you, and write out a bullet-point list for your lawyer. Your lawyer can take that list and help craft a plan that helps you achieve those goals.
But don't bother writing out a fully developed contract. Then your lawyer will have to analyze the contract you wrote, distill out the important points, substitute contract provisions that are either generally accepted or have been interpreted by courts and, finally, check to make sure you didn't miss anything. That takes a lot more billable time than starting with a well-thought-out list of important points and building a contract around them. Most lawyers have developed their own contracts that they know will hit all the important points already and will be generally accepted in your field.
You can help streamline your legal tasks by making sure you get a good proposal from contractors. For instance, if you are planning to hire a public relations firm, find out what the going rate is and what kind of services you can expect. Then get a written proposal from the firm you select that spells out all of the services it will provide you, and its fees. With that thorough background work already done, when you ask your lawyer for a contract, all he needs to do is refer to the proposal for the scope of services and then focus on the legal terms, such as procedures for approving travel expenses, confidentiality, copyright ownership, avoiding conflicts of interest and when you can terminate the contract.
If you do the same kind of deal often enough, it will probably be cost-effective to develop a model contract. If you have independent sales representatives, a model contract will cut down your waiting time to get started with a new rep and give you a baseline set of terms that the last few people agreed to. If you develop a lot of products, ask your lawyer for a model nondisclosure agreement that you can take with you to manufacturers to protect your trade secrets. That will always be more economical than reacting to each new potential manufacturer's form nondisclosure agreement. Instead of starting from scratch each time, your lawyer can tell you if the changes the other person proposes are reasonable.
There are two opposite approaches for starting every negotiation. Some lawyers try to get every possible advantage over the other party, while some are more flexible and start with terms that are reasonable compromises for both parties while trying their best for a good deal for you. Sometimes you can get another person to agree to a one-sided contract where everything is stacked in your favor, but most of the time you will get pushback on every issue. While you are haggling for negotiating superiority, your competition will be out making deals and moving forward. As Lincoln pointed out, if you need to win on every point, you could be the real loser because you will spend too much time and money arguing. To make matters worse, everyone will start out suspicious of each other's commitment to the venture.
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When your potential business contacts give you drafts that have security protections so they can't be copied or changed, the only way to comment on them is to print them and handwrite on them. Even worse, when the next version comes back, the lawyer will need to proofread it word for word. That's another waste of billable time. When you get a draft, make sure it isn't password-protected—and if it is, ask for a copy that can be redlined. Then all the people who comment on it can add their comments and compare versions electronically.
Sometimes you need to put a deal aside while you focus on other priorities. There are often very good reasons for ignoring a deal for a while. But if too much time passes, then everyone will have to review the full history and refresh their recollections about the goals of the venture. When time passes, you may be paying your lawyer to review old notes and make sure nothing was forgotten during the interim.
If a deal is important to your business' survival, it merits a contract before you start implementing it. A contract can prevent misunderstandings and makes everyone focus on what they are contributing, what they are obligated to accomplish and what they are getting in return. A good contract may prevent disputes. It's important to sign the contract before either person puts in a lot of effort or pays the other person because going in the parties are more likely to be reasonable. Once someone has already developed that software for you and you have paid 80% of the price, they are less likely to compromise over price or terms. A contract can help prevent misunderstandings and lawsuits that can take years to resolve and divert you away from your business, not to mention the expense for you, your employees' time and your legal fees. Even if you do end up in litigation, a contract will set out the parties' objectives and methods, and give a court a basis to try to discern the parties' intents.
Most lawyers still bill by the hour, so it's important to have an engagement letter with your lawyer that says what you have to pay per hour. Many states require lawyers to have written engagement letters depending on the circumstances of your matter. You should know if you have to pay your lawyer's travel time or time spent waiting in court. Your engagement letter should spell out the rates that you will be billed for your lawyer's young associates if any will work on your matters.
Many lawyers will negotiate alternative billing arrangements, and those may be an opportunity for you to save money. Some will cap the fees for a particular matter or give you reduced hourly rates in return for a guaranteed minimum number of hours of work each month. But, even if you don't pay your lawyer by the hour, don't fool yourself that you can afford to waste time. Your lawyer will build in the charges for anticipated wasted hours during the next project.
And don't spend time worrying about your lawyer as you use him or her more economically. As Lincoln noted, a lawyer who doesn't waste time will have business enough.
Many thanks to New York attorneys Miriam V. Gold and Marilyn A. Druck for sharing insights about how they deliver legal services efficiently.
This copyrighted article is intended to help make you aware of some of the issues that you may face, but it is not exhaustive and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult your lawyer for legal advice about the particular circumstances of your beauty store business.
Jean Warshaw is a lawyer in private practice in New York City. She provides advice on business and environmental law. She can be reached at 212.722.2240.


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Although modern and contemporary in nature, each painting unveils details and interesting designs in small individual items such as shells on the beach. I paint in watercolor and acrylic, using unique color, shapes, and textures. My painting style is to guide each painting by allowing it to evolve slowly on its own and to listen to what the process is telling me to add or subtract. My subjects include landscapes, growing flowers and plants, flowing and moving water, ocean waves, and the various colors of the land and sea.
Originally from Michigan, I have lived and worked as a professional artist in both Florida and Georgia for the past 22 years. The Georgia Watercolor Society (GWS) has awarded me the degree of Signature Membership. My art is internationally collected, received awards in various juried exhibitions, and has been featured in art magazines and books. (See my biography for details.) Please enjoy my art and use my email link if you have any questions, need information about purchasing a painting or print, or if you are interested in commissioning me to paint an original painting for your home or office.
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These little gems just arrived in my newest King Arthur Catalog and I know they'll be a HUGE hit with my family. They are savory little pancakes that look even better with a topping of black bean salad. I change the bean salad based on what I have available adding things like celery, left over corn, and even differant beans if black arn't available.
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Very different but very good. I may add more corn next time but have lots left even though I made half a recipe. Served with Mexican Meatloaf.
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- 118.29 ml sourdough starter
- 295.73 ml unbleached all-purpose flour
- 236.59 ml milk
- 14.79 ml vegetable oil
- 4.92 ml baking soda
- 2.46 ml salt
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- 177.44 ml scallion, chopped
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- 118.29 ml red onion, diced
- 118.29 ml avocado, diced
- 2.46 ml salt
- 4.92 ml wine vinegar
- 14.79 ml vegetable oil
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- sour cream (to garnish)
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Thousands of Australian tourism operators are failing to realise the potential for increased sales through the acceptance of China UnionPay cards, the most common credit card used by Chinese tourists abroad, a Sydney tourism conference heard on Thursday.
After ten years on the market, there are 3.2 billion UnionPay cards in circulation throughout Asia and a majority of Chinese citizens use them.
National Australia Bank's Development Manager David Simms told an Australian Tourism Export Council (ATEC) conference in Sydney that Australian businesses have been too slow to install facilities to allow them to accept the card.
"There are currently about 80 000 Australian merchants capable of accepting this card, but only a few thousand of them realise and use it," Mr Simms said.
At present, NAB is the only Australian bank that takes UnionPay cards, but Mr Simms stressed that all merchants needed to be able to accept the card was one of the bank's terminals.
"They don't need to bank with us – they just need a NAB terminal," he said. "The most exciting development is that from January 2013, we will offer online e-commerce for the UnionPay card."
Research shows the average UnionPay transaction made by Chinese tourists while travelling abroad is $800, which is twice the average transaction recorded by UnionPay card holders in their countries of residence.
While no Australian bank issues UnionPay cards, Mr Simms said it's a case of "watch this space".
Based in China, UnionPay cards are issued throughout Asia, including in South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
ATEC's managing director, Felicia Mariana, told the conference that "Chinese visitors generally don't have access to Visa and Mastercard, which are the most readily used forms of payment in Australia, so being able to spend on their UnionPay card is essential".
Chinese tourists are expected to spend more than $9 billion a year in Australia by 2020. Given the average Chinese traveller spends $7000 per trip, "it's essential our industry is able to provide easy and secure access to their spending money back home," Ms Mariani said.
Several Australian businesses that have installed UnionPay terminals have reported increased sales.
Victoria's Philip Island Nature Park saw sales to Chinese visitors during the first half of this year jump by 180 per cent compared to the same time last year after it introduced the terminals.
In Sydney, managing director of Bridge Climb, Richard Evans, said Chinese tourists account for just 1.5 per cent of the 200 000 people who climb the bridge each year, but they are one of the company's fastest growing customer groups.
"We installed UnionPay facilities some time ago and have had great success. In terms of our Chinese customers who pay at the counter, UnionPay is by far their preferred payment option," he said.
"As far as I'm aware, not all of the [Australian] banks support it. But it's absolutely imperative for all operators who are serious about interacting with the China market to make CUP available as a priority.
"Imagine what it would be like if we went overseas and our major credit cards weren't accepted - that would appear to be inconceivable to us," he added.
"Most Chinese don't have Mastercard or Visa – they only have one card and it would be the CUP card. Over time that will probably change, but at present the CUP card is most prevalent."
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Flywheel Expands Into Los Angeles, Ramps Up Taxi vs. Rideshare Battle
The fight between Los Angeles taxicab drivers and services like Lyft and Uber haas just gotten even more interesting, as mobile app developer Flywheel said it has launched in Los Angeles. Flywheel develops a mobile app which lets users hail local taxi companies, track locations, and pay with their smartphone, and says it has launched its service across Los Angeles. The app developer--which recently raised some funding from local Los Angeles investor Craton Equity Partners--develops software which essentially provides Uber-like smartphone functionality to any taxicab company.
Flywheel said it is looking to provide the tools that taxi companies need to compete with the "often illegal" ride-share companies that have cropped up recently. Los Angeles has become a battleground between an entrenched taxi industry and upstarts Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar, all of whom have been the target of the City of Los Angeles, which ordered those companies to leave in June, despite a state deal with those firms over how they should be regulated. Flywheel said that its service is now available in "hundreds" of Los Angeles taxis this past week, and it is helping to "take back the streets" from ride share services. Flywheel's service is available across LA everywhere except Beverly Hills. The company also said it is offering up a $10 ride credit in Los Angeles for users to try out the service, with promo code FLYLA10.


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The Seahawks didn't win anything. Yeah they gave up 8 sacks, in the first half. Did you watch the 2nd half? The half where up until a bunch of scabs threw it away your Seahawks did absolutely nothing? Did you actually see the replays? The ones that left absolutely 0, none, no-possible-way-in-hell that it could be construed as being a TD? The one that literally one person in the entire world didn't see clearly? Yeah, the refs stole the game and gave it to the losing team.
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