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|Draft Animal Cloning Risk Assessment
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|Mr. Joe Kacey
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|01/04/2007 12:01:39
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|Mr. Joe Kacey
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|Individual Consumer
|Issue Areas/Comments
| I believe this to be the stupidest move right along with GM foods. I would rather starve then eat any of it. I also believe if you are going to ignore the many against it and place it on our shelves anyways, we should have the right to make that decision of purchase and all packages should be plainly and clearly marked as such.
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Holiday Garden Gift Suggestions - Part One
'Water Away' Deer, Cats, Groundhogs, Nosy Neighbors and Other Warm-Blooded Garden Pests!
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Or Whack Weeds With That Water!
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Or Wipe Those Weeds Out With Flame!
Flame weeders are great--especially the small, hand-held models. You just attach a disposable 'camp stove' size propane bottle to the long metal wand, click it on, wave the fiery tip over the tops of plants you dislike and they will dehydrate and die. Perennial weeds, like dandelions, may require a second treatment--or you can just linger there a while and toast the suckers.
A number of variations on this essential tool are available. The original is BernzOmatic's "Outdoor Torch" (they changed the name recently; it used to be called the "Yard & Garden Torch"); you'll find it at hardware and garden stores, or buy one direct from BernzOmatic; call them toll-free at 1-800-654-9011 and ask for Model JT 850 (it has a push button ignition, so you don't have to struggle with matches and lighters--and it only costs a couple bucks more than the basic model to get this great feature). (Note: They do NOT sell via the web; sorry...)
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"I am Incarceron, old man. You should know. It was the Sapienti who created me. Your great, towering, overreaching endless failure. Your nemesis." It zigzagged closer, its mouth wide so that they could see the rags of cloth that hung there, smell the oily, oddly sweet stench of it. "Ah, the pride of the Wise. And now you dare to seek a way free of your own folly."-- Incarceron by Catherine Fisher; Chapter 20, Page 260.
GAH! I'm in reader's heaven right now. This book is ridiculous. I'm going to try to finish it before tomorrow - that's my goal!
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News Release
Additional November Guided Hike in Larimer County's Open Spaces
Department: Natural Resources
Release Date: Oct 23, 2013
Heather Young, Education Program Coordinator, (970) 619-4489, firstname.lastname@example.com
Saturday, November 30, 2013, at 9:00 a.m."Thanksgiving Tooth Climb" Shake off the post-holiday blues with a hike to Horsetooth Falls after Turkey Day with Volunteer Naturalist Janet. Plan on the hike and have an extra piece of pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving! Recover from the craziness of holiday shopping with a beautiful day in the foothills. Hike rating: moderate. Program is free, but a $6/vehicle entrance permit is required. Registration is required. Please go to larimer.org/NRregistration to sign up. Approximately 3-hour program. Please dress appropriately for the weather, and bring along plenty of water and leftovers for the trail. Please direct questions to Heather at (970) 619-4489.


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FLORENCE, S.C. – Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology, inducted 10 new members into its chapter at Francis Marion University on Oct 24.
Students inducted are Rhiannon Brown, Sandra Evans, Carmen Fleming, Lindsey Harte, Kelly Jackson, and Courtney Merritt of Florence; Michael Jernigan of Green Sea; Nicole Sanchious of Columbia; Margaret Walker of Galivants Ferry; and Amber Gaines of Garden Grove, Calif.
Psi Chi was founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is awarded to graduate and undergraduate students who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests and who meet the qualifications.
Psi Chi is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies and is an affiliate of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Psi Chi has grown into one of the largest and most successful honor societies in the world, with more than 975 chapters located at college and university campuses throughout the United States.
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|From: Jon Rafkind (workmin at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 1 19:03:53 EDT 2006
You mean the one in frtime/demos/spreadsheet? I tested it and it seemed fine for the most part. The GUI took quite a while to update when I adjusted the window size or scrolled the cells. Gregory Cooper wrote: > The spreadsheet has been suffering off and on from a few performance > and stability issues, so we decided to take it out of the > distribution. Dan might have some time to look into reviving it. > Otherwise, I should be able to do so, but probably not for a week or > so. > > On 10/1/06, Prabhakar Ragde <plragde at uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >> > Im reading "Crossing State Lines: Adapting Object-Oriented >> Frameworks to >> > Functional Reactive Languages" by Ignatoff, Cooper, and Krishnamurthi >> > and would like to try out the first example but can't get it >> working in >> > drscheme 352. >> >> Interesting paper. Is code for the spreadsheet application available >> somewhere? I think I could learn a lot from looking at it. Thanks. --PR >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme >> > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme > >
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Solutions for Change is exactly what it's name says; I have been a supporter of this organization for years and firmly believe their model for helping families is the best solution for positive change; for the families and for our community.
Solutions for Change is a program that equips families with the skills, knowledge and resources to permanently solves family homelessness. They also own their own housing enabling the residents to have the time to get financially self-sufficient. So many children will never be homeless again, thanks to Solutions for Change!
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Solutions for Change provides the knowledge, skills AND resources to solve families homelessness.
Always putting the success of their residents FIRST! I'm prid to have this program in our town helping change families!!!!!
As Chairman of the Board and Head of the Leadership team consisting of influential community leaders, I am proud to allocate my time and energies to an impactful cause. You have the opportunity of making a difference, especially in the life of a child or parents that wish to actively transform their lives or their families future, for the better. Why wouldn't you support such activity and motivation to improve their situation? I feel incredibly grateful for the life and opportunities I have been afforded and feel proud of the many success stories from graduates of the Solutions program and what they have accomplished. I can't imagine their plight in life but they have worked hard to refocus their lives and have become ambassadors for success. Our program at Solutions works and with your support, we can achieve greater! Contact me to learn more (firstname.lastname@example.com).
I have been following Solutions for Change since they started their non-profit. I know of many of Moms and Dads who were hopeless/addicted and this program help rebuild their lives on day at a time. Their no other rehabilitation center that focuses on the who families to get them out and become productive citizens the way this program has done. Rebuilding the their hope, esteem, integrity and just living life clean and sober. This non-profit should be recognize for their solutions for change in the community.
I have watched this team for years, seen their passion and dedication to the homeless families they serve, heard the client stories, and get how their model works. I decided to help how I could and joined the board. I have been involved with and led many non profits and Solutions for Change is at the top.
Solutions for Change is leading the way with a permanent solution to solving family homelessness. Not only is the track record proven the organization stands on its integrity. This organization does not conform or chase the money. They understand that addressing the causative factors of family homelessness take time. They view these families as assets not liabilities. This allows them to take once homeless families back into permanent homes but more importantly back into the community.
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This organization makes a house into a home, allows dreams to become reality and rebuilds lives that were once broken into thriving families.
This IS the best program to get homeless families off the street to becoming productive citizens of the community. Solutions for Change's residents earn pride and self-esteem because they do it for themselves. Parents and children are given the tools (physical, pycho, social, bio, and spiritually), to be successful as they navigate the path to self-sufficiency. Program residents are given guidance and a hand up through education, modeling, and work!
Many other programs are just a "hand out" programs...leaving its recipients never satisfied because they never get out of their situational "pit." Solutions for Change gives people hope, vision, and self-worth through a model that has been proven to work - not just for their residents but also the community!
Solutions for Change is a program seen to work over and over again. How many homeless programs actually give back to the community - or better yet, make the community BETTER? Solutions gets everyone involved - from ordinary citizens as well as the community and social/political/governmental minded groups because they see the positive results.
Vista and the surrounding communities have gotten behind this program because it helps everyone! It gets families off the street...gets parents working and providing for their families...kids are off the street and in school...and they educate them in "life skills." It even gives the community a sense of ownership in their success - the ability to help those less fortunate. Our schools get something too (besides successful students) - fresh food to serve and eat.
What other programs or models boasts of all that?
I'll tell you - none!
I am behind this program 110% because it works! The evidence is clear and visible to me, the residents, and the community at large!
Check it out - you'll see the difference!
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SFC isn't like anyone/anything else. They are unique...because it works! Through tough love, life education lessons, a lot of elbow grease, and God's grace all those who work at SFC, those going through the program, those that have graduated from the program, and all those (like me) who have had the privilege to be a part of this process have proven that it can be done! Chris and his wife's life passion is infectious and the whole community has joined in on their vision--to solve family homelessness, permanently!
Soulutions for Change greatly impacts families in a positive way. Through volunteering I am able to see how these families are able to accomplish there goals and become productive members of society.
I have seen first hand tbe awesome work this agency is accomplishing. Yes they provide beds but even more they change lives. People come out of desperation and, after completing the program, they are functioning, contributing to society, not taking. And their families are whole again!


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I am 42 and had a lift and implant three weeks ago, I feel very well and my scars are healing nicely. I am going to the lake district for a few days next week and would really like to do a bit of mountain biking... I was hoping with a good sports bra and the surgical band that I am still wearing as my breasts are still quite high I could do a couple of easy trails. What do you think? I am quite active and have been walking everyday to keep my fitness.
Mountain Biking After Breast Lift and Implant?
Doctor Answers 7
Three Weeks After Breast Augmentation For Bike Riding
Learn more: https://www.edelsteincosmetic.com/learning-centre/breast-augmentation/breast-enhancement-recovery-timeline.php
Exercise and Breast Lift
In most cases, I allow my patients to resume exercise within 3 to 4 weeks after surgery. I would wear support, such as your sports bra for strenuous activity. Folow the guidelines recommended by your Plastic Surgeon.
Strenuous Activity After Breast Surgery
Dear NN,
I would highly recommend that you NOT mountain bike at 3 weeks after surgery. I am a mountain biker as well and know that even an "easy" ride can have risks of falling. I usually allow my patients to begin light aerobic activity at 2-3 weeks and allow them to do more strenuous activity at 4-6 weeks and depending on the activity even ask them to wait 6-8 weeks. The person you should ask is your plastic surgeon. Good luck and congrats for being in such good shape. Dr. G.
Learn more: http://www.mpsmn.com/dr-gervais
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Exercise and a breast lift
I usually allow my patients to go back to light aerobics by about 3-4 weeks and vigorous activities within 6-8 weeks. You should ask your doctor specifically what he recommends.
Mountain biking
I would advise my patients to absolutely refrain from this type of activity. The reality is you are asking the wrong person. Call your PS!
Mountain Biking In The Early Post Operative Period
It is highly commendable that you are so motivated. If you were my patient however I would try to discourage you from this activity so early on. Being a mountain biker myself, the worry is not so much your riding but your chances of falling. I realize on easy trails not highly likely, but there are stationary bikes that you can ride for now. I know it's not the same, but it is safer. Would highly encourage you to visit with your plastic surgeon and discuss it with him first. Good luck.
Mountain Biking After Breast Lift and Implant?
My official answer might be that it is early, but I know full well that some of my patients are running several miles a day after two weeks.
Your precautions seem reasonalble. You might try some flat road biking first. My usual warning--if it hurts, don't do it.
Best person to get advice from, however,is your own surgeon.
Thanks for your question, best wishes.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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WillaKenzie Estate Pinot Gris 2009
Pinot Gris/Grigio from Willamette Valley, Oregon
Winemaker's Notes
Exciting aromatics include tropical fruits of ripe melon, lychee, passion fruit, papaya, mango and pineapple, with a hint of spice. The wine has a creamy texture with rich flavors of honey, juicy Asian pears, lemon meringue and fresh pineapple. There's a smooth transition mid-palate heading toward bright acids, which imparts a perfect balance of sweetness and acidity. This wine is an excellent companion for a wide variety of foods including Indian and Asian dishes, Ahi tuna, tempura and lighter fish. Enjoy now or cellar for two to three years. Serve moderately chilled.
Critical Acclaim
Wine & Spirits - "This rich white leads with broad apple scents and a hint of nutmeg spice. The quince flavors are equally rich and ripe, the texture broad and succulent, bearing the weight for veal with spaetzle."
WillaKenzie Estate Winery
WillaKenzie Estate is located in Oregon's Willamette Valley on rolling hillsides in the Chehalem Mountains. The winery was named after the Willakenzie soil on which the vineyards are planted to convey the influence that the soil imparts on the wine's flavors and aromas. The vineyards are planted with grapes of the Pinot family, mostly new Dijon clones of Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris from Alsace. Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris are cool climate grapes, which are particularly well adapted to Oregon. View all WillaKenzie Estate Wines
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Named for the river that runs through the valley from Portland to Eugene, Willamette Valley is home to some of the best Pinot Noir vineyards in the Northwest. While along the same north/south line as Seattle, the Willamette Valley is protected from Pacific rains by the Coast Range on the western border and the Cascade Ranges to the east. Though sunshine is typically plentiful, rainfall can occasionally be tricky, and the wines here vary vintage to vintage. Within the Willamette Valley is a number of sub-regions, including McMinnville, Dundee and Yamhill.
Notable FactsThe valley is known for its Pinots – Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris. With a climate similar to Burgundy – in rainfall, sunlight hours and other climate factors – Pinot Noir has flourished here. Pinot Noir in Oregon produces wines that are fruit forward, yet complex, some with good agebility.
Other than Pinot Noir, many wineries grow Pinot Gris and Chardonnay. Pinot Gris from Oregon is delightful in its texture and food friendliness. Chardonnay in the valley adapts well to the cool climate and produces lean, elegant wines.
About OregonOregon has long been an agricultural state, producing everything from hazelnuts to cattle. The Willamette Valley in particular is a fertile basin for all sorts of produce. Not quite pegged as a wine state, in 1965, a UC Davis graduate named David Lett decided that the Willamette's climate mirrored that of Burgundy in France. With that in mind, he decided to plant some Pinot Noir clones to see how they did. And a good gamble it was. The Willamette is now one of the only regions in the world to focus solely on Pinot Noir as its red variety. Also known for Chardonnay and Pinot Gris. The southern part of Oregon has been slower in delving into the world wine market, but has been making excellent strides with their Rhone style varietals, like Syrah and Grenache. There are also coastal regions producing promising wines.
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Man killed in crash with 18-wheeler ID'd
Published 2:56 pm, Friday, May 9, 2014
SAN ANTONIO — A man killed early Thursday when he crashed into an 18-wheeler has been identified as Warren Kadrmas, 44.
Kadrmas was driving south on Interstate 35 between Walzem and Eisenhauer roads around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, police said. An 18-wheeler in front of Kadrmas slowed down because of traffic and highway construction, but Kadrmas did not brake and crashed into the truck.
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Are you making sure your rules are in the proper order? If you have an
Allow ALL to ALL rule first then it'll ignore everything else.
From: Jim Naslund [mailto:jnaslund at gmail dot com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:37 PM
To: Seth Martin
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Blocking Outgoing VPN Access
I actually tried to do that by adding a rule that blocked anything with
the destination ip address of the vpn server on the LAN interface
and for some reason it still go through. Is that the right way to block
a specific ip address?
On 10/11/05, Seth Martin <SethM at turbinegenerator dot com> wrote:
Well if it's the same VPN server you could just block all traffic to the
specific IP.
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Be sure to take a look at this article by Sue Rardin about research regarding brand recognition/retention resulting from fast forwarding enabled by TiVo and DVR's through television commercials:The Eyes Have It: The Truth about Fast-ForwardingHere is an excerpt from the article assessing the research of S. James Brasel and James Gips:..."Equally significant for advertisers, the research showed that all who witnessed fast-forwarding—whether they controlled it or not—focused almost exclus … [Read more...]
Archives for April 1, 2009
The Eyes Have It: The Truth about Fast Forwarding in Boston College Magazine
Teaching Media Literacy Education via SKYPE!
I had the honor of being a "Virtual Guest Lecturer (via Skype) for Dr. Stephanie Flores-Khoulish's class RE 601 Media Literacy Education" at Loyola College in Baltimore this past Saturday morning. This is the third time I have done this kind of distance teaching/learning and I recommend it! Thanks, Steph, to you and your students, for this opportunity. … [Read more...]
Catholics in Media Awards held March 29 at Beverly Hills Hotel
About 350 people atteneded CIMA's 16th annual awards event at the Beverly Hills Hotel last Sunday.Winners:Without a Trace - Television (Greg Walker and Jan Nash accepting)Doubt - Film (Sister Peggy McEntee, SC accepting)Lifetime Achievement - Louis Gossett, Jr.I will post the link to the article that will appear in The Tidings next week. Meanwhile, if you scroll down on this blog you can check out the interviews I did with the winners and Mark Derwin, our very funny Master of … [Read more...]


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Mortal Kombat 2011 | PS3, XBOX - My review, plus tips and links to cheats and unclockables. If you loved the original Mortal Kombat (arcade, Genesis, Super NES) -- I think you'll love this new version.
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My Ride: 95 m3
1995 bmw m3 5spd coupe
Putting my 1995 Hellrot 5 spd. coupe up for sale
Located in Charlotte, NC
clean title in hand vin#wbsbf9326seh01748
car has clean carfax and autocheck and I have found no signs of any accident damage on the car
07/94 build date
less than 78k miles
purchased for 8900 16 months ago from previous owner in California after a good 6 months of searching, wanted a rust free platform I could build into a nice weekend car
spent well over 4000 in the past 16 months in maintenance and aftermarket goodies
about the car
-40% tint all around
-borla exhaust
-ecis intake
-black kidney grills
-pioneer cd receiver
-hardwired for escort radar detector
-beartracker in the glovebox
-18x 8.5 adr wheels painted black (could use repaint)
-2500 mile old general altimax hp tires
-uuc clutch stop
-recently replaced the idler pullies and belts
-new water pump, thermostat and thermostat housing about a year ago
-door panels were falling apart so had them repaired
-new battery 16 months ago
-black m3 emblem on rear of car
-has spare ds2 in trunk and tool kit is complete
-interior is in good shape, no tears in the leather, looks like rear seats were never used
-motion motorsport underpanel
the bad
-car has hail damage that i have not yet got around to having fixed
-has been previously repainted on the hood, trunk and doors but definitely needs another repaint as there are spots where it appears the P.O. attempted to use touch up paint and wet sand those spots
-head liner is sagging from around the back of the sunroof
-car has the dreaded cel light knock sensor code every now and then around 3k rpms (common with 95's)
-brakes and rotors will need to be replaced, have about 20% life left
-there is a small leak from the power steering reservoir common with m3's, many have fixed with simply changing the clamp type
-driver side tweeter trim ring is missing 1/2
-front right side of the lip is loose and has been torn from mounting clips in 3 spots
-headlights have what looks like adhesive on them that i have not been able to remove
-mechanic recommended the fuel filter and suspension bushings be replaced as the car is over 15 years old
I will include a stock dinan tune(chip) and led tails with the sale of the car.
Also will include folder containing all of my reciepts as well as those given to my by PO.
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When your kids think you're a square
It might seem as though being uncool is a curse every parent of teens must face. Not so, says Pip Lincolne, who thinks it's actually OK to embrace your inner square.
Have you ever tried to talk to teenage kids about important stuff? Have you ever broached big life issues from your huge back catalogue of experience, only to be met with giggles and eye-rolls? Perhaps your kids have hit 13 or more and they've rapidly switched from listening enthusiastically to your advice to gazing over your shoulder as they try not to nod off? Join the club!
Thanks a lot, World Wide Web!
Our kids are so visually, socially and technologically experienced, it's probably understandable that they think they know it all. Despite the fact that they may just be on their 'L' plates when it comes to life's big issues, they've got broader awareness than we ever had. Thanks, internet!
Not only do our kids know it all, they've gone beyond thinking we're square. As we try to keep up digitally and otherwise, they're convinced we are so clueless, we're more like dodecahedrons: Despite our many sides, we're just not that relevant. Sob!
Gasp! I'm not a dodecahedron, I'll have you know. I'm way cooler than that. I've LIVED! Let me tell you, kid!
In the eighties, I thought I was Madonna. I had the hair and the outfits. I tried to do the dance, grapevine-ing my way across the living room in front of Countdown. I had bracelets snaking from wrist to elbow. My hair stayed in place with the help of some trusty lemonade (I had read somewhere that Dead or Alive or Duran Duran used the lemonade before lacquer trick) and half a can of hairspray. I was, from all appearances, extremely un-square and fashionable. Truth be told, I was working in a supermarket after school, living in a very quiet Canberra suburb and wandering around the local shopping mall for kicks. #suchasquare
So much cooler, but still a square
It was at this time that I visited a friend in Melbourne for the week, taking the bus by myself through the night to reach my destination. 12 hours and four toasted cheese sandwiches later, I rolled into the bus depot and met my girlfriend and her Mum for some fun Melbourne times. We headed off later the next day to drink pink champagne in the park. Me with my crazy hair, off the shoulder sweat, and strands of pearls. Acting all fancy with our bubbles and bubble skirts. Later, I passed out due to lack of food and bubble inexperience. I was not much of a drinker and was probably wishing I was having Fanta and watching The Brady Bunch. #sosquare
Later again, I was working in a nightclub running up and down stairs with drinks, making hotdogs for drunken revellers in the upstairs snack bar with my crop-top and my fake ponytail and my Boy London cap … oh my! People were dancing to New Order and dressed like the cast from Beverly Hills 90210. When Kylie Minogue appeared in my area holding hands with Jason Donovan I NEARLY DIED, but I kept my cool. Trés aloof. I then hurried home to watch Neighbours and practice The Locomotion. #stillsuchasquare
Embrace your inner dork
I could go on. Yes, I could regale my kids with stories of how I've lived through cool stuff that was important/exciting to me at the time. But they're right. I probably am a bit of a square. I was trying to do interesting stuff, but at the heart of things, I was just a dork trying to grow up.
The truth is, we are all dorky squares, taking stabs at interestingness as we navigate life. This is good news for parents because it means your kids are little squares, too. They're only rolling their eyes at you and your 'helpful advice' because they don't want to be a chip off the old block. They want to bust out on their own, feel unique, be trusted and have a crack at independence. One day they'll look back (like me/us) and realise they were squares the whole time. #squareacceptance
Until then, my feeling is that you should be up front about your squareness when you're trying to get through to your kids. Stop trying to tell them you've been there before, you've lived, you know. They don't want to hear that, that's where the eye-rolling starts.
If you talk to them as a square, not only will your frankness disable their eye-roll thing, you can actually talk calmly in practical terms about good strategies for safety, health and happiness. You'll not only seem less like you're trying to make it all about you, you'll have more impact because you're recognising your kid's need for individuality and trust.
Be proud to be a square. Don't deflate or diminish your child with 'chip off the old block' or 'been there done that' advice. Honour their uniqueness as they navigate uncharted territory. Listen to them carefully and chat together respectfully for best results.
When your kids think you're a square … they're probably right! #squaresrule
x Pip
NB: Don't tell your child they are a little square. It won't go down well and the fact is they'll find out one day … which is when you can tell them you knew it all along.
Have you embraced your inner square or are you still hanging onto coolness?
More from Kidspot:
- Daggy dads and super mums: it's time for equal opportunity embarrassment
- Proving I'm grown up … with alcohol?
- An open letter to my teenaged sons
More on being uncool parents:
- Top five reasons I don't care if my kids think I'm uncool from 2 Unpublished Girls
- Uncool: a realisation from Life and Other Crises
- The top 30 things that make parents uncool from PowerFM


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Rush Limbaugh is taking heat for his comments about first lady Michelle Obama's weight, but the conservative radio host is hardly repentant.
"There were highly civil comments, for crying out loud," Limbaugh said on his show yesterday.
A day before, Limbaugh mocked the first lady for promoting an anti-obesity program while eating ribs over the weekend in Vail, Colo.: "The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat per serving."
He added: "I'm trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you."
Dana Milbank of The Washington Post wrote that "food criticism is an extension of politics:"
In Limbaugh's case, politics is like a fad diet: He crows when the facts are supporting his beliefs (or when he's losing weight), and, when the facts are discrediting his ideology (or when he's yo-yoing back to obesity), he talks about something else. In politics, as in weight loss, fad dieting rarely works.
Meanwhile, the owner of the restaurant where Mrs. Obama dined said Limbaugh's dietary analysis is off -- the 5-ounce braised short rib is about 600 calories, with most of the fat cooked off.
"A proper 5-ounce portion of protein is what nutritionists say we should have," restaurateur Kelly Liken told the Vail Daily newspaper.
Liken noted that Mrs. Obama had been skiing that day and that skiers can often burn off 6,000 calories.
"It's a hearty meal for sure, a great meal after a day of skiing, well-balanced and nutritious," Liken said.
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Code of Conduct
Each area begins with an Ethical Principle that sets forth the goals and ideals of the profession. The Ethical Principle is followed by the applicable sections of the AFDA Code of Professional Conduct which lists specific types of conduct that is either required or prohibited.
Ethical Principles are goals that every funeral professional should strive to achieve. They serve as the justification for the specific requirements of the Code of Professional
Conduct. Both the Ethical Principles & the Code of Professional Conduct is binding upon every AFDA Funeral Director and violations may subject the Funeral Director to disciplinary action in accordance with individual State Regulations.
It is the duty of every AFDA Funeral Director to know and strictly adhere to the requirements of the AFDA Code of Professional Conduct for the protection of the families served, the deceased that are cared for, the profession that Funeral Directors dedicate themselves to, the communities in which they live & the importance of their membership of the AFDA and adherence to its Code of Professional Conduct.
Ethical Principle:
Funeral Directors have an ethical obligation to serve each family in a professional and caring manner, being respectful of their wishes and confidences, being honest and fair in all dealings with them and willingly provide professional and quality service to every person's stature within our community and to families of all socio-economic means.
1a) Funeral Directors shall provide funeral services to families without regard to religion, race, colour, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, disability or cause of death.
1b) Funeral Directors shall comply with all applicable Federal or State Laws or regulations relating to the prearrangement and prepayment of funeral services or merchandise.
1c) Funeral Directors shall understand and comply with all applicable Federal and/or State legislation regarding the legal right to enact funerals and the release of deceased.
1d) Funeral Directors shall not use any funeral merchandise that has been previously used.
1e) Funeral Directors shall protect confidential information pertaining to the deceased or the family of the deceased from disclosure.
1f) Funeral Directors shall carry out all aspects of the funeral service in a competent and respectful manner.
1g) Funeral Directors shall properly account for and remit any monies, documents, or personal property that belongs to others that comes into the Funeral Directors possession.
1h) Funeral Directors shall not engage in any unprofessional conduct of a character likely to deceive, defraud or harm the families they serve in the course of providing professional services.
Ethical Principle:
Funeral Directors have an ethical obligation to care for each deceased person with the highest respect and dignity, and to transport, prepare and shelter the remains in a professional, caring and secure manner.
2a)All deceased persons shall be treated with proper care and dignity during transfer from the place of death, while in the care of the funeral director and during subsequent transportation of the remains.
2b) Only authorised personnel of the funeral home or those persons authorised by the family shall be in attendance during the preparation of the remains.
2c) All deceased persons in the preparation room shall be treated with proper care and dignity and shall be respectfully covered at all times.
2d) Funeral Directors shall not transport, hold or carry out the disposition of human remains without all permits and authorisations required by law.
2e) Funeral Directors shall not violate any statute, ordinance, or regulation affecting the handling, custody, care or transportation of human remains.
2f) Funeral Directors shall not knowingly dispose of parts of human remains that are received with the body by the funeral home in a manner different from that used for the final disposition of the body, unless the person authorising the method of final disposition gives permission that the body part may be disposed of in a manner different from the disposition of the body.
2g) Only personal items relating to the deceased, or as directed by the family, will be placed inside the coffin.
Ethical Principle:
Funeral Directors have an ethical obligation to the public to offer their services and to operate their businesses in accordance with the highest principles of honesty, fair dealing and professionalism.
3a) Funeral Directors shall not engage in any unprofessional conduct which is likely to defraud or deceive the public.
3b) Funeral Directors shall not engage in false or misleading advertising.
3c) Funeral Directors shall not personally or through an agent or employee solicit deceased human remains, whether the solicitation occurs after death or while death is imminent; provided, however, that general advertising directed to the public at large would not constitute a violation of this section.
3d) Funeral Directors shall not pay or offer to pay a commission or anything of value to third parties, such as medical personnel, nursing home and hospice organisations or employees, clergy, government officials or others, to secure deceased human remains for funeral or disposition services.
3e) Funeral Directors shall not use alcohol or drugs to the extent that such use adversely impacts the funeral directors ability to carry out his or her obligation as a funeral professional.
Ethical Principle:
Funeral Directors have an ethical obligation to maintain strict compliance with the letter and spirit of all governmental laws and regulations that impact the funeral consumer, the funeral profession, and the public health.
4a) Funeral Directors shall not knowingly make or file false records or reports in the practice of funeral service.
4b) Funeral Directors shall comply with all Federal, State or local laws, rules or regulations governing or impacting the practice of funeral service.
4c) Funeral Directors shall comply with all Federal, State or local laws, rules or regulations that were enacted to protect consumers.
4d) Funeral Directors shall comply with all Federal, State or local laws, rules or regulations that were enacted to protect the environment.


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Using "ebru techniques", artist Garip Ay recreated Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece "Starry Night", as well as a Van Gogh self-portrait, in a bowl of water.
Ebru is described as an ancient decorative paper art that involves manipulating chemical-enhanced water and an oiled surface into images that are then transferred to paper.
Ay is classically trained and his work has been exhibited around the world – which explains why he makes the process look so effortless.
Check out the mesmerizing creative process in the video below.
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MELBOURNE'S elite men-only clubs have been given the green light to keep women out.
The so-called gentlemen's retreats, including the Melbourne and Athenaeum clubs on Collins Street and the Savage Club in Bank Place, have scored a big win over state Attorney-General Rob Hulls, with a Labor-dominated parliamentary committee saying they have the right to continue as single-sex institutions.
The committee, headed by Government MP Carlo Carli, has rebuffed Mr Hulls' aggressive campaign to end the protections that allow private clubs - including the elite women-only clubs the Lyceum and Alexandra - to be excluded from Victoria's anti-discrimination laws.
In its report, tabled yesterday, the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee said freedom of association was a ''fundamental human right'' that was protected under Victorian law, and it needed to be balanced against the right to non-discrimination.
''The committee does not recommend a change that would prevent single-sex clubs from continuing their operations or require them to seek an exemption [to anti-discrimination laws] in order to continue their operations,'' it says.
Opposition members of the committee gleefully pointed out that the Labor members had isolated Mr Hulls on the issue.
Mr Hulls last night took a swipe at the committee, saying its recommendations ''appear unclear and somewhat confusing''. He signalled his fight against the private clubs may not be over, saying only that the Government would ''consider'' the committee's recommendations.
Earlier this year, Mr Hulls said the men-only clubs were ''fast becoming an amusing relic''.
They were dominated by ''crusty old fogeys and young fuddy-duddies'' with fossil-like, 19th-century views.
''I can't understand why they don't want outstanding leaders like [former police commissioner] Christine Nixon and [Deputy Prime Minister] Julia Gillard and the thousands of other brilliant, innovative women around the state to join their ranks,'' he told The Age in January.
The clubs hit back, telling the committee the idea that they were secretive bastions of power, influence and decision-making was a myth.
''The purpose of the [Lyceum] club, as with the purpose of the men's club, is not for power and influence,'' Lyceum president Annie James told the committee.
''No business can be discussed, no business cards exchanged, no deals done in any of these clubs. It is against the charter of all the clubs.''
The Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry also told Mr Hulls to butt out of the private clubs' business.
Accusing the Attorney-General of ''political correctness'', chamber chief executive Wayne Kayler-Thomson said: ''We do not support the notion of a government that tries to remake society in its own image. In our view, market forces should and will determine the fate of private clubs, not government fiat.''
Governor-General Quentin Bryce, a sex discrimination commissioner, also disagrees with Mr Hulls.


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Easy Microwave Creamy Alfredo Sauce
Recipe by Eldeevee
This is a rich sauce made very simply in the microwave. Dinner can be on the table in just a few minutes if using fresh pasta. I acquired this recipe many years ago from our local newspaper.
Top Review by VickyJ
Hi there! I made this sauce tonight to use for supper. It was just the two of us, so the ingredient amounts might not have been exact. The past was penne. My dinner was tossed with sauce peas, broccoli and topped with grated cheese and green onion. The only parsley I had was dried, and I wanted something fresh. My SO had chicken and peas with his alfredo pasta. Thank you for the wonderful dinner. This was made for PAC Spring 2010. :)
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3⁄4 cup whipping cream, 35%
- 1⁄4 cup butter (no substitutes)
- 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
- fresh ground pepper, to taste
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- In a 1 quart dish, micro-cook cream and butter at high for 2-3 minutes or until very hot. Stir in parmesan cheese and pepper and toss with hot cooked pasta.
- I usually top with fresh parsley to dress it up.
- Variations: Mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli, shrimp and/or chicken can all be added but must be cooked before hand.


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I recently came across an email thread where people were trying to understand why they couldn't see Indian content on their mobile phones. Here are some notes that may help to clarify the situation. They are not fully developed! Just rough jottings, but they may be of use.
Let's assume, for the sake of an example, that the goal is to display a page in Hindi, which is written using the devanagari script. These principles, however, apply to one degree or another to all languages that use characters outside the ASCII range.
Let's start by reviewing some fundamental concepts: character encodings and fonts. If you are familiar with these concepts, skip to the next heading.
Character encodings and fonts
Content is composed of a sequence of characters. Characters represent letters of the alphabet, punctuation, etc. But content is stored in a computer as a sequence of bytes, which are numeric values. Sometimes more than one byte is used to represent a single character. Like codes used in espionage, the way that the sequence of bytes is converted to characters depends on what key was used to encode the text. In this context, that key is called a character encoding.
There are many character encodings to choose from.
The person who created the content of the page you want to read should have used a character encoding that supports devanagari characters, but it should also be a character encoding that is widely recognised by browsers and available in editors. By far the best character encoding to use (for any language in the world) is called UTF-8.
UTF-8 is strongly recommended by the HTML5 draft specification.
There should be a character encoding declaration associated with the HTML code of your page to say what encoding was used. Otherwise the browser may not interpret the bytes correctly. It is also crucial that the text is actually stored in that encoding too. That means that the person creating the content must choose that encoding when they save the page from their editor. It's not possible to change the encoding of text simply by changing the character encoding declaration in the HTML code, because the declaration is there just to indicate to the browser what key to use to get at the already encoded text.
It's one thing for the browser to know how to interpret the bytes to represent your text, but the browser must also have a way to make those characters stored in memory appear on the screen.
A font is essential here. Fonts contain instructions for displaying a character or a sequence of characters so that you can read them. The visual representation of a character is called a glyph. The font converts characters to glyphs.
The font has tables to map the bytes in memory to text. To do this, the font needs to recognise the character encoding your page uses, and have the necessary tables to convert the characters to glyphs. It is important that the font used can work with the character encoding used in the page you want to view. Most fonts these days support UTF-8 encoded text.
Very simple fonts contain one glyph for each letter of the alphabet. This may work for English, but it wouldn't work for a complex script such as devanagari. In these scripts the positioning and interaction of characters has to be modified according to the context in which they are displayed. This means that the font needs additional information about how to choose and postion glyphs depending on the context. That information may be built into the font itself, or the font may rely on information on your system.
Character encoding support
The browser needs to be able to recognise the character encoding used in order to correctly interpret the mapping between bytes and characters.
If the character encoding of the page is incorrectly declared, or not declared at all, there will be problems viewing the content. Typically, a browser allows the user to manually apply a particular encoding by selecting the encoding from the menu bar.
All browsers should support the UTF-8 character encoding.
Sometimes people use an encoding that is not designed for devanagari support with a font that produces the right glyphs nevertheless. Such approaches are fraught with issues and present poor interoperability on several levels. For example, the content can only be interpreted correctly by applying the specifically designed font; no other font will do if that font is not available. Also, the meaning of the text cannot be derived by machine processing, for web searches, etc., and the data cannot be easily copied or merged with other text (eg. to quote a sentence in another article that doesn't use the same encoding). This practise seriously damages the openness of the Web and should be avoided at all costs.
System font support
Usually, a web page will rely on the operating system to provide a devanagari font. If there isn't one, users won't be able to see the Hindi text. The browser doesn't supply the font, it picks it up from whatever platform the browser is running on.
If browser is running on a desktop computer, there may be a font already installed. If not, it should be possible to download free or commercial fonts and install them. If the user is viewing the page on a mobile device, it may currently be difficult to download and install one.
If there are several devanagari fonts on a system, the browser will usually pick one by default. However, if the web page uses CSS to apply styling to the page, the CSS code may specify one or more particular fonts to use for a given piece of content. If none of these are available on the system, most browsers will fall back to the default, however Internet Explorer will show square boxes instead.
Another way of getting a font onto the user's system is to download it with the page, just like images are downloaded with the page. This is done using CSS code. The CSS code to do this has been defined for some years, but unfortunately most browsers implementation of this feature is still problematic.
Recently a number of major browsers have begun to support download of raw truetype or opentype fonts. Internet Explorer is not one of those. This involves simply loading the ordinary font onto a server and downloading to the browser when the page is displayed. Although the font may be cached as the user moves from page to page, there may still be some significant issues when dealing with complex scripts or Far Eastern languages (such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean) due to the size of the fonts used. The size of these fonts can often be counted in megabytes rather than kilobytes.
It is important to observe licencing restrictions when making fonts available for download in this way. The CSS mechanism doesn't contain any restrictions related to font licences, but there are ways of preparing fonts for download that take into consideration some aspects of this issue – though not enough to provide a watertight restriction on font usage.
Microsoft makes available a program to create .eot fonts from ordinary true/opentype fonts. Eot font files can apply some usage restrictions and also subset the font to include only the characters used on the page. The subsetting feature is useful when only a small amount of text appears in a given font, but for a whole page in, say, devanagari script it is of little use – particularly if the user is to input text in forms. The biggest problem with .eot files, however, is that they are only supported by Internet Explorer, and there are no plans to support .eot format on other browsers.
The W3C is currently working on the WOFF format. Fonts converted to WOFF format can have some gentle protection with regard to use, and also apply significant compression to the font being downloaded. WOFF is currently only supported by Firefox, but all other major browsers are expected to provide support for the new format.
For this to work well, all browsers must support the same type of font download.
Beyond fonts
Complex scripts, such as those used for Indic and South East Asian languages, need to choose glyph shapes and positions and substitute ligatures, etc. according to the context in which characters are used. These adjustments can be acoomplished using the features of OpenType fonts. The browser must be able to implement those opentype features.
Often a font will also rely on operating system support for some subset of the complex script rendering. For example, a devanagari font may rely on the Windows uniscribe dll for things like positioning of left-appended vowel signs, rather than encoding that behaviour into the font itself. This reduces the size and complexity of the font, but exposes a problem when using that font on a variety of platforms. Unless the operating system can provide the same rendering support, the text will look only partially correct. Mobile devices must either provide something similar to uniscribe, or fonts used on the mobile device must include all needed rendering features.
Browsers that do font linking must also support the necessary opentype features and obtain functionality from the OS rendering support where needed.
If tools are developed to subset webfonts, the subsetting must not remove the rendering logic needed for correct display of the text.
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4 Responses to "What does it take to display non-Latin HTML pages?"
Gunnar Bittersmann Says:
August 5th, 2010 at 9:42 am
"By far the best character encoding to use (for any language in the world) is called UTF-8."
This is surely true for scripts using characters with codepoints below U+0800. However, a CJK character takes 3 bytes in UTF-8, but only 2 bytes in UTF-16, so UTF-8 might not always be the best option for _any_ language.
Of course, the context here is Web pages, where the markup syntax adds Basic Latin characters (1 byte in UTF-8, 2 bytes in UTF-16). This shifts the balance even for pages in Far Eastern languages towards UTF-8.
BTW, there's a typo: acoomplished
Steve Bratt Says:
August 5th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Richard …
A very helpful summary of the complex language support ecosystem. The Web Foundation is interested in raising awareness of these challenges, and doing what we can to make it easier for more people to author and read in more languages.
Have you found any good references that summarize the challenges faced by, say, the worlds 500 (or whatever) most spoken or most read languages?
I look forward to working with you on these issues.
r12a Says:
August 5th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
@Steve, I don't know of a single, comprehensive source that describes the technical issues on the ground, such as what is/isn't supported by what platform, though it would certainly be interesting to work on such a thing.
Some information can be gleaned from Don Osborne's new book "African Languages in a Digital Age" and the reports by the PAN Localization project in Asia.
However, for a pretty good overview of the basic features of the main scripts in use around the world (which is a good starting point), come and see my tutorial at the Unicode Conference in October, or read the online text at http://rishida.net/docs/unicode-tutorial/
r12a Says:
March 7th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Along those lines, people may be interested in my quick and dirty, rule-of-thumb guide to Script Features by Language at http://rishida.net/scripts/featurelist/


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AP: Ohio's Turndown of Union Limits a National Story, But Not Rejection of ObamaCare
Perhaps partially explaining the treatment of Ohio's ballot issues on shows like MSNBC's "Morning Joe" as noted by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters earlier today, I have found that the Associated Press predictably trumpeted the 61%-39% rejection of Issue 2, which would have required cost-sharing for public-sector employee health and pension benefits while curbing the scope of collective bargaining, as a big national story. Meanwhile, as far as I can tell, the AP only devoted six snarky paragraphs in a regionally carried story to Issue 3, which won by a 66%-34% margin and passed by comfortable majorities in all 88 Buckeye State counties. Also known as the Ohio Healthcare Freedom Amendment, Issue 3 put prohibitions of Obamacare's mandates to buy health insurance and participate in a health care plan into Ohio's constitution.
First, excerpts from the Issue 2 story by the wire service's Sam Hananel out of, ahem, Washington:
Ohio vote shows unions still a political force
Labor unions are celebrating one of their biggest victories in decades after turning back an Ohio law that curbed collective bargaining rights for the state's public workers. The vote showed unions are still a potent political force that can't be ignored.
The question for many is whether to interpret Tuesday's Ohio referendum as simply a rejection of Republican overreach in a heavily unionized state or more broadly as a barometer of a battleground state that could resonate with voters nationwide.
Union leaders say they hope it brings about a resurgence for a labor movement long in decline and sends a strong message to other states where lawmakers are thinking about restricting union rights. But they also want to use the outcome as a spark to help re-elect President Barack Obama and put more Democrats in office next year.
"I think the outcome is an absolute momentum-shifting victory for the labor movement," said Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Firefighters.
... By a nearly 2-1 margin, Ohio voters repealed a new law that would have severely limited the bargaining rights of more than 350,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and other state employees.
Sorry, Sam, 61.33% to 38.67% is not "nearly 2-1." Actually, it's 1.59-to-1, which is much closer to "3-2."
What is really close to 2-to-1 is Issue 3's victory margin of 65.63% to 34.37%, which works out to 1.91-to-1. AP could only spare six snide paragraphs which as far as I can tell it did not put over its national wire about its victory:
Voters in Ohio have approved a ballot measure intended to keep government from requiring Ohioans to participate in any health care system.
The constitutional amendment passed is largely symbolic, coming in response to the 2009 federal health care overhaul, a provision of which mandates that most Americans purchase health care.
... Opponents argued state law can't trump federal law and that the amendment's wording could unintentionally jeopardize state health programs.
As to the Issue 3 victory being "symbolic" -- someone's going to have to take what was called the Ohio Healthcare Freedom Amendment out of Ohio's constitution if they don't like it. Symbolic, schmymbolic.
No pre-election poll predicted that Issue 3 would come anywhere near winning by more than Issue 2 lost. But it did. It would also seem to be a lot more important to those who follow the news that President Obama's signature initiative was resoundingly rejected and put into a state's constitution than the fact -- even considering parallel issues in Wisconsin -- that a statewide attempt at cost control and collective-bargaining reform went down.
But then again, my take on things, and for that matter the take of most people, is not exactly the same as that of the AP -- The Administration's Press.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.


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Michael Shemtov and Stuart Tracy prepare this messy, incredibly tasty vegetarian sandwich, called a sabich, with vegetables, hummus, house-baked pita and herbs from a garden right behind the restaurant. "The sabich is Iraqi-Israeli, just like me," Shemtov says. "It's a personal dish."


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There are over 70 CVs piled up in Mayer Brown's London office. Chairman Paul Theiss explains why the City is en vogue.
"I have a question," starts Mayer Brown chairman Paul Theiss when asked why there's been so much movement in London. "Why does The Lawyer have to focus so much on who has left and who has joined?"
I explain that an unusual number of leavers or joiners indicates something is going on at the firm – such as conflicts over money, or a lack of work. Theiss seems satisfied with that answer and moves the conversation along. After all, he says, the journalist is supposed to be asking the questions.
Like many partners at Mayer Brown, Theiss is charming and unstuffy. He asks the question in a light-hearted way, despite the office making no secret of finding the coverage of its 2012 London departures frustrating. The firm was plagued by a string of exits and redundancies in the UK last year, but London senior partner Sean Connolly has since made good on his promise to drive change.
"We sat down with journalists and search executives 18 months ago and said to them, you are going to see change," points out Connolly.
"We are managing change, and that will mean there is partner movement over time both into and out of the firm," adds global head of real estate Jeremy Clay.
This desire to grow has arrived bang on cue. Not long after Connolly swore there would be change, the office attracted a number of lateral partners – four have joined in the last two weeks, with sources telling us to expect at least two more in the firm's finance group. This compares to five laterals in London across the whole year in 2012 and 30 globally.
Has the firm's London base stumbled upon a bag of gold? "We are an international firm and clearly market conditions in different regions, as well as our long term strategy, influence our hiring, and the timing of that hiring," explains Clay. In other words, the London market was flat last year, and London can't always be the apple of an international firm's eye.
So what exactly has changed? There's got to be more to this than London simply getting more work than the year before. When the firm's global management committee met up in June this year, they drew up a new strategy document which had the City at its heart. For the next three years, growth in the major financial centres of London, New York and Hong Kong will be the strategic focus.
"In the last 12 years we've essentially changed who we are," outlines Theiss. "Today half our lawyers are based outside the US. This year we tried out the idea of regional retreats which included two-day get togethers in Frankfurt, Los Angeles and one in Hong Kong at the end of this month."
It's all very nice that London has been pinpointed as a focus for the next few years, but it still doesn't explain why so many quit Mayer Brown in 2012. Some sources say exits have been down to income partners pushing for equity, not getting it and moving on for higher salaries. There's also the fact that the first six months of the 2012 financial year were unusually quiet, causing global revenue to fall from $1.13bn (£751m) in 2011 to $1.09bn in 2012.
Now work is picking up again, would the firm change its remuneration model to compete with US rivals?
"The income partner to equity partner progression model works best in an expanding market," explains Connolly. "The challenge for firms is to adapt that model to the changed environment."
Meanwhile firms looking to merge continue to prod Mayer Brown for interest. Could they be tempted?
"A merger isn't currently part of our strategy," closes Theiss with a cheeky grin.
Comings and goings at Mayer Brown
London leavers 2012: Inclues reinsurance litigator Ian McKenna to Locke Lord (29 October 2012), structured finance partner Stephen Day to Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft (24 August 2012), corporate partner William Charnley to King & Spalding (5 July 2012), leveraged finance partner Neil Caddy to Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy (August 2012) and finance partner Nicola Marley to Minter Ellison (2 May 2012).
The firm also launched a redundancy consultation among support staff (21 September 2012) after announcing plans to cut some 20 lawyers and staff from its London office in May (4 May 2012), a process that ultimately saw the departure of 16 people.
London joiners 2012: The London office took on longstanding Ashurst partner Martin Wright to fill the new position of European real estate head in November (15 November 2012), months after picking up CMS Cameron McKenna real estate finance partner Chris Harvey (19 March 2012). The firm says it made five lateral partner hires in London during 2012.
London leavers 2013: US firm King & Spalding established a financial services regulatory practice in London with the addition of Mayer Brown partner Angela Hayes (3 September 2013). Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft hired finance and banking practice partners Bruce Bloomingdale and Jeremiah Wagner (18 September 2013).
London joiners 2013: Partner hires in recent weeks include Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) banking and finance partner Richard Todd (7 October 2013), Allen & Overy (A&O) senior associate David O'Connor, White & Case's international corporate finance partner Greg Stonefield and SJ Berwin real estate partner Patricia Jones. Two more partners are expected to join the firm's finance department in the coming weeks.


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World Wide Web Foundation Launches Global Operations
Steve Bratt · November 15, 2009
Press Release: Inspiring Projects Announced at the 2009 Internet Governance Forum
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GENEVA and BOSTON, MA – November 16, 2009 – World Wide Web Foundation (Web Foundation), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the Web to empower people, announced yesterday the launch of global operations including the existence of its first projects. Speaking at the 2009 Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a Web Foundation board member, unveiled the organization's new partnerships with VU University Amsterdam (VU) in the Netherlands and CDI (Center for Digital Inclusion) based in Brazil.
Web Foundation is delighted to announce a partnership with the VU to expedite "re-greening" initiatives throughout the African continent. This new program, Web Alliance for Re-greening in Africa (W4RA), will train and assist local developers to implement and deploy mobile Web- and voice-based platforms to improve communication between agricultural specialists and farmers in Burkina Faso, Mali and other countries.
"The W4RA facilitates the sharing of successful agricultural techniques developed by farmers for others to raise crops in the arid conditions of the Sahel, where climate change and drought threaten the livelihood of entire communities," explained Steve Bratt, Chief Executive Officer of Web Foundation. "This project meets one of Web Foundation's main objectives: to assist people to leverage the Web as a medium for sharing life-critical content and dialog, and thus using the Web as an agent of social and economic progress."
In addition, Web Foundation proudly announces a project with CDI, an international, social enterprise dedicated to teaching disadvantaged youth how to use information technologies.
While roughly 25 percent of the world population uses the Web today, more than 70 percent of people have access to mobile or fixed communication devices capable of displaying Web content. The gap in Web usage is partly attributable to the lack of accessible or relatable content, and the lack of available training on how to use the Web to its full potential. Web Foundation and CDI will develop training programs that empower young people to create Web sites and applications. In an effort to improve the accessibility of this content, the system will be mobile ready and integrate the use of voice as an interface. Five pilot training programs will be established in inner-city community centers in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
"We are enthusiastic about this partnership because we believe the combined expertise of CDI and Web Foundation has the potential to create powerful innovation in the use of mobile, voice and graphical technologies," said Rodrigo Baggio, Founder and Executive Director, CDI. "By empowering impoverished communities to create and share relevant content through mobile phones and other devices, we will expand our work of transforming lives and communities."
The projects with VU and CDI constitute the launch of global operations for the Web Foundation. The organization's unique mission is to advance the Web as a medium for empowering people seeking to effect positive change in their lives and communities. Through its collaboration with the Web Science Trust and the World Wide Web Consortium, Web Foundation's programs will also seek to understand the Web's complexities, explore new Web technologies and ensure that the Web works to serve all people around the world.
Web Foundation is an international not-for-profit organization. In the United States it is a recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit. Please visit www.webfoundation.org/programs for more information about Web Foundation and its new programs.
About World Wide Web Foundation
World Wide Web Foundation develops transformative programs to advance the Web as a medium that empowers people to bring about positive change. Web Foundation brings together business leaders, technology innovators, academia, government, NGOs, experts, developers and end users to tackle challenges that, like the Web, are global in scale. By funding education, outreach, research and the next generation of Web technologies, Web Foundation strives to enable all people to share knowledge, access services, conduct commerce, participate in good governance and communicate in creative ways. For more information, please visit www.webfoundation.org.
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Hello friends,My suggestion is to make a documentary film in order to introduce the web foundation and also we can say something about the web condition in different countries, it's history and it's sight seeing in future we can also show the intensity need of world community in the web.May be the social position and potential of Europe and America and East Asia will be better and however there are a lot of areas that don't have enough position than Iran and haven't hear Internet's name and never think that there is our organization with the humanitarian goals. This film can go to the narrow corner of distant homes in this world and hope them to life and humanity, with the depth thought and felling to form the universal move at the future …Best regards,RoaufYour comment has been sent successfully.


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Web 1.0 – That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz.
Web 2.0 – This is about user-generated content and the read-write web. People are consuming as well as contributing information through blogs or sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg, etc. The line dividing a consumer and content publisher is increasingly getting blurred in the Web 2.0 era.
Web 3.0 – This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.
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SELECT tablespace_name, segment_name AS TABLENAME, trunc((sum(BYTES) / 1024 / 1024), 2) MB, trunc((sum(BYTES) / 1024 / 1024 / 1024), 2) GB FROM user_segments GROUP BY tablespace_name, segment_name
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Missoula City Councilman Bob Jaffe couldn't believe it when he witnessed a Montana Rail Link (MRL) employee spraying railroad tracks with herbicide last spring. He described seeing "large clouds of poison" rise up from a large truck spraying the chemical along the Bitterroot Spur track.
"People walking their dogs two minutes after the truck went by would not know that the ground was soaked in poison," Jaffe wrote in a memo presented to Missoula's Public Safety and Health Committee in May.
Jaffe recently broached the issue again on his listserv—an online bulletin aimed at informing constituents of what's going on with city government—in advance of the committee taking up the issue this week. The mention elicited a number of suggestions from concerned readers wanting MRL to consider alternatives to herbicide, such as planting hemp or sending "well-wrangled" goats to clear the track. Jaffe suggested MRL at least post signs when it sprays so pedestrians have a heads up to steer clear of the area.
MRL Environmental Projects Manager Rick Shelley says the situation puts the company in a tough spot. Montana law requires MRL to keep weeds at bay. He says the company sprays weed killer once in the spring and, depending on location, sometimes in the summer. Posting signs would be too time consuming.
"I just don't know how you'd do it," he says.
Meanwhile, MRL Public Information Officer Lynda Frost is quick to remind city officials that the Bitterroot Spur Trail is MRL property. The company allows public access, she says, only because it was deemed the neighborly thing to do.
"In the spirit of goodwill, MRL granted a permit to the city of Missoula for the Bitterroot Trail," Frost says. "When that spirit is dampened by complaints, one must wonder if decisions such as these are wise."
The city planned to further discuss the issue during a Public Health and Safety Committee meeting Dec. 2, before the Independent went to press.


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Council notes increase to $45 per animal
By Pearl Cantrell
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MABANK–The Mabank City Council agreed to contract animal shelter services according to the terms offered by the Humane Society of Cedar Creek Lake.
The shelter's board cancelled all current contracts with cities and counties from a flat annual rate to a per animal rate more in keeping with the actual costs of operating the shelter.
The move came on the heels of a financial emergency the shelter faced down in the beginning of the last quarter of the year.
The new contract stipulates a per animal fee of $45 and an additional fee schedule for animals dropped off after 3:30 p.m., those held in quarantine or for court purposes. Previously, the city was accustomed to paying $17.50 per animal.
Additionally, the shelter reserves the right to put down any animal it deems is suffering, injured or has a communicable disease, or is deemed vicious and dangerous as certified by the animal control agent,or by the written approval of two or more members of the Society board or shelter technician.
Otherwise the shelter will hold animals for up to 72 hours, so the owner may reclaim the animal and surrender a fee from between $30 and $100.
The contract says tht the shelter will abide by its principles to return an animal to its owner, find a new home for it, or if impossible, ultimately humanely dispose of the animal in accordance with state law.
In other business, council members:
• rejected an offer of $322 for a lot and a half in Northpark Center, for which documented taxes and fees total $7,146.13. "It would be better if we own the property than sell it for so little," Councilman Larry Teague said. "We mow it and keep it cleaned up now," code enforcement officer T. Jenkins commented.
• directed police chief Kyle McAfee to attempt a trade-in with Tri-County Ford on the purchase of a new Ford SUV Interceptor to save the cost of insuring both vehicles while atempting to procure a buyer for two 2010 Ford Crown Victorias and a 2008 Chevy Impala.
• awarded an engineering contract for the 2013-14 Texas Community Block Grant to KSA Engineering.
• heard the city has changed uniform venders at a savings of $14,000. It was noted the savings will be used up on taking stray animals to the animal shelter.


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