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Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) will close its sawmill in Arcata, CA, company announced. "This is a particularly sad day for Sierra Pacific and for my family" said A.A. "Red" Emmerson, Chairman and President Emeritus of SPI. "Our company started in the Arcata area when my father and I leased our first mill there in 1949 near Jacoby Creek." "We went on to build the Arcata mill on the Samoa Peninsula, which we've run steady since 1951" he noted.
According to SPI, reduced harvests of suitable timber and regulatory burdens are the primary reason for the closure. That, combined with a difficult lumber market have profoundly impacted operations in Arcata. About 123 jobs will be affected by the closure.
"A fall-off in the amount of suitable timber for sale in this area, coupled with flat home construction in the U.S., and increased lumber imports from Canada have all played a role in our decision to close the mill" said SPI spokesman Mark Pawlicki. "But, make no mistake, the largest factor was that the type and size of logs that this mill cuts are simply not available in ample supply to continue to run the mill" he added. "When combined, these factors leave us no choice but to close the plant" said Pawlicki.
In an effort to keep the Arcata mill running, SPI has been transporting logs from the interior of California, and has barged logs from British Columbia and Washington. However, those efforts proved to be uneconomical.
Sierra Pacific is a strong, growing company and has job openings at other locations. Crew members are being encouraged to consider opportunities at these locations, and relocation assistance will be offered for each person who is approved to transfer.
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THERE will be no Wingham campdraft next month, after substantial changes to beef management at Cooplacurripa Station has resulted in the unavailability of cattle for the iconic event.
The great drove of 1000 head from the upper Nowendoc Valley to Wingham, a distance of 80km, for the early November campdraft has been a feature on the Manning Valley calendar for the past quarter century.
The local show society has come to rely on the generosity of the station owners in providing not only the campdraft cattle but a spectacle unlike any other in their downriver delivery, on foot, with the help of horse and dog, over the course of a week.
Wingham show society president Elaine Turner said there had been offers by other producers of smaller cattle numbers but that just wasn't enough for the three day event as planned.
"With the price of cattle the way it is there is a real shortage," she said,
New owners of Cooplacurripa Station, Rifa Salutary, are changing the way they raise beef and CEO David Goodfellow says heifers normally made available for the great drove will now be put to bulls 12 months earlier than before.
Rifa Salutary, part of Zhejiang Rifa Holding Group, purchased the 22,548ha Cooplacurripa last December for $29m with 8000 head of mixed breed cattle.
Rifa Salutory has since purchased nearby properties, just downriver from Cooplacurripa: "Kerriki" and "Number One" for $3.5 million with the deal closing last March.
These properties come with irrigation licences and the opportunity to improve local pasture.
As a result Cooplacurripa's strategy has now changed, with the main station being retained as a breeding operation only with steers sent to Rifa Salutary's fattening property at Warialda, where fodder crops will provide the bulk of feed. Heifers will go to "Kerriki" and "Number One" where they will build frame and condition ahead of joining.
With calves weaned in June and July, cows will stay at Cooplacurripa to rest and regain strength in a bid to improve production and fertility.
At the same time the herd is changing from predominantly mixed breed to Angus – all new bulls are now black – and Mr Goodfellow says it is Rifa Salutary's intention to create an all-black herd in the near future.
"We were a big supporter of last year's campdraft and we are very keen to keep strong community ties, but since we have acquired additional land near Cooplacurripa we have simply changed our management focus," said Mr Goodfellow.
"We are now getting higher productivity out of our young heifers. They will now be joined in November whereas in the past they would have been joined the following year."
Mr Goodfellow noted the Nowendoc Valley, like much of the North Coast, had struggled through a dry year and was looking for spring storm rain at the moment, yet Rifa Salutary was pushing ahead with new pasture development and fertiliser programs on paddocks that had irrigation.
"Cooplacurripa will focus on a cow and calf operation and we will grow out our cattle on other properties," he said.
The shift in management is expected to lift the carrying capacity of cows on Cooplacurripa to over 5,000 breeders.
"We have retained most of our heifers from last year and plan to breed through to create a larger herd, Mr Goodfellow said.
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Spoken Fur a triple threat
ELMONT, N.Y. - The day before trainer Bobby Frankel won the third leg of Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown with Empire Maker, a good-looking 3-year-old filly arrived in his barn from Kentucky.
Little did Frankel know then that Spoken Fur would give him an opportunity to still win a triple crown in 2003.
In a virtual repeat of her performance in last month's Mother Goose, Spoken Fur took command at the quarter pole and drew off to a 3 1/2-length victory in Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks before 8,867 at Belmont Park.
Fircroft rallied from last to be second, 2 1/2 lengths ahead of Savedbythelight in the 1 1/2-mile race. Yell finished fourth, 29 1/4 lengths ahead of Little Bonnet. Shapes and Shadows and Skipamiss were eased.
If Spoken Fur can add the Grade 1 Alabama - run at Saratoga on Aug. 16 - to her victories in the Mother Goose and Coaching Club, she would sweep New York's filly triple crown and earn her owners, John and Jerry Amerman, a $2 million bonus. The New York Racing Association this year changed the three-race series from the Acorn, Mother Goose, and Coaching Club to the Mother Goose, Coaching Club, and Alabama.
Spoken Fur figures to face stronger foes in the Alabama than she has met thus far, as Bird Town and Santa Catarina, the Kentucky Oaks one-two finishers, are scheduled to run.
Saturday, Spoken Fur, under Jerry Bailey, was fourth early behind a sharp half-mile of 46.59 seconds run by Shapes and Shadows. Yell, the Mother Goose runner-up, took the lead with a half-mile remaining, but offered little resistance when Bailey asked Spoken Fur leaving the three-furlong marker.
Spoken Fur, a daughter of Notebook, was timed in 2:31.02 over a fast track and returned $3.80 as the 4-5 favorite.
"I was very confident down the backstretch with the fast pace," said Bailey, who won his 42nd stakes and 13th Grade 1 of the year. "You don't see too many horses accelerate like she did in a mile and a half race. She put the race away at the quarter pole."
Frankel said he purchased Spoken Fur because his barn was lacking a quality 3-year-old filly.
"She's really been improving," Frankel said. "Her demeanor is really good now. She was much easier to saddle today than she was the last time. You always have a question about the mile and a half, but the question was for all of them."
The victory was the sixth Grade 1 win of this meet for Frankel and seventh in New York this year. Overall, Frankel has won 33 graded stakes - 13 Grade 1's - in 2003. Frankel's Grade 1 wins at Belmont include the Belmont Stakes, Metropolitan Handicap, Manhattan, Ogden Phipps, Mother Goose, and Coaching Club.


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Arizona State University quarterback Brock Osweiler was only eight years old the last time the Sun Devils beat University of Southern California on the gridiron. In the intervening 12 years, the Trojans have won five conference titles (seven if you count the two USC won while violating of NCAA rules) and made seven high-profile Bowl Championship Series appearances. Conversely, ASUs best season during that same time span culminated in a lopsided loss at the Holiday Bowl.
The Devils have a chance to make up for lost time on Saturday, September 24, when they host the Trojans at Sun Devil Stadium, 500 East Veterans Way, Tempe. And theyd better be feeling their Wheaties if they hope to conquer the titanic Trojans, who are as fierce as ever. Keyed by Osweilers play, the Devils are off to a strong start this season, making good on preseason predictions that theyll be contenders in the ultra-competitive Pac-12 South. Even so, theyll need all the talent they can muster to end their losing streak against USC, a team absolutely loaded with top-shelf talent this season.
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All incoming ninth graders are academically eligible to play a sport for the first quarter of their freshman year.
The school-based Health Center, located on the first floor, provides physical exams and sports physicals.
All athletes must maintain a 2.0 point grade average or better for the academic quarter prior to the season. Athletes must also maintain a 2.0 grade point average throughout the playing season. A 1.5 grade point average is subject to appeal by the principal. Students are entitled to one appeal per school year.
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If a student plans to enroll in college as a freshman and you wish to participate in Division I or II intercollegiate athletics, your initial-eligibility status must be determined by the NCAA Initial-Eligibility Clearinghouse. Students should apply for certification after their junior year and only after an informed judgment has been made as to the prospect's potential at the Division I or II level.
At the end of senior year, all players must release their final grades with their guidance counselors. Their final grade will then be sent to the Clearinghouse. Failure to do so will result in ineligibility to play a sport freshman year at college.
Francene Moavero, Guidance Counselor, is SHS's contact for the NCAA Clearinghouse. Any questions should be directed to her or call 977-4279. Student-athletes can now register online at www.ncaaclearinghouse. net. Click on Prospective Student-Athlete, then Domestic Student Release form and follow the directions given.
Preliminary requirements to be certified by the Clearinghouse, are as follows. A student must meet the following:
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Communication that you should expect from your child's coach includes:
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As children become involved in the programs at Stamford High School, they will experience some of the most rewarding moments of their lives. It is important that they understand that there may also be times when things do not go the way they wish. Parents are invited to talk with the coaches about:
It is difficult to accept the fact that your child may not play as much or in the position you may like. Coaches are professional. They make decisions and judgments based on what is best for the whole team.
As mentioned above, there are certain things that should be discussed; other things, however, should be left to the discretion of the coach.
There are situations that may require a conference between the coach and parent. It is important that both parties involved have a clear understanding of the other's position. The following procedure should be followed:
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Yeah. I'm back. Sorta. We're gonna have a different kind of voting this week.
Vimes opened his eyes. And even before he did so, the moment that he awoke from his slumber, he could feel it.
…Something wasn't right.
But he couldn't quite put his finger exactly on what it was.
Slowly and cautiously, with the manner of one who knows that anything could be about to happen, he sat up. Automatically, his brain started to analyse the situation in order to find the incongruence.
Location- bed, bedroom, older sibling house
Status- alive (that was good to know), mildly hungry, in need of coffee
Time- …day forty, right?
He pinched the bridge of his nose. It was day forty. Of course it was day forty. How could it not be.
But if it was then why did it feel so very much like it wasn't?
Trying to shake of the feeling, he got dressed. He did so on the bed and under the covers, naturally, like a shy girl on a slumber party at her friend's house. The first time he had done so he had felt foolish for having to dress in such a peculiar manner every morning, but he had gradually become used to it far more than he had become used to the idea of perhaps pulling his pants up in front of millions of viewers. The only other option would be to wear the same underwear for several weeks, and if he did that Sybil would probably never let him in the same bed as her again.
That feeling was still there…
Irritated at himself for not being able to work out what it was and angry for doing what he was about to, Vimes went in search of his Guru.
He found him immediately, sat at the kitchen table as he always did, and thankfully, alone. Vimes sat down next to him without a word. Neither of them looked at each other.
"I must say I am honoured, your Grace," Vetinari said eventually. "It is a rare occasion that you come and talk to me of your own accord, so I must assume that the only reason you are doing so is because you want something. Either that or your heart cannot bear to be away from my side for such a long stretch of time."
After a moment of being glared at Vetinari said: "A joke, commander. A joke. I know that you think I am incapable of humour, but in light of your present reaction I feel that you should consider yourself equally so."
"We're not talking about things like that," Vimes muttered, darkly. "We both know that all that crap isn't true."
"Perhaps. But your constant paranoia, I'm afraid, does not make it easy to believe that you are innocent of the accusations. What is it that you want, Vimes?" he said abruptly, just as Vimes had been about to say something whilst wearing his angry face. "I am a very busy man, after all."
Vimes shut his mouth, and paused. "I've been having strange feelings," he quietly said after a while.
"Really? How pleasant. After all that has happened it must be nice to finally come to terms with one's true emotions-"
"Not those kind of feelings! Not those kind of feelings!" Vimes shouted hurriedly. "Please! Don't talk about anything like that any more! It's stupid! It's gone on long enough! It's over! No more rumours!"
Vetinari then smiled, which scared him even more.
Vimes' scratched the back of his head. Bah. Not acting like an innocent man, he said? Maybe Vetinari was right about that, but he couldn't help it. Anyway, surely the natural reaction for anyone being accused of fancying Vetinari was screaming every now and then. "No, I mean different feelings. Feelings that thing's… aren't quite right." At this point Vetinari seemed more interested. "Something seems funny… Something to do with time, I think..."
An eyebrow raised. "Are you suggesting that Mr Dibbler has changed time? Perhaps sent us into a realm in the past? As dedicated as he is with his work, I do not think that even Mr Dibbler would go that far."
"No, I'm not suggesting that," Vimes conceded, Although I can't doubt that he will have started to think about it now that the idea's been planted, "I'm suggesting… I don't know what I'm suggesting. It's just that… It feels like… like I went to sleep yesterday, and then when I woke up today, it felt like I hadn't just been asleep for a night. Like, in the passing of a few hours…"
"A whole year has gone past?" helped Vetinari.
"Yes! Yes! Exactly like that!" said Vimes. "Have you felt it too?"
"No. Of course not. Such things are impossible," Vetinari replied, promptly.
Vimes' looked as though the Patrician's sharp statement had suddenly deflated his confidence. For a moment there he had been so sure. Really? But it really did feel as though something was odd…
But if he said so…
"Oh. Oh… right then."
"It is likely to be a mere side affect from having stayed in the House for such a length of time, and you should ignore any other feelings that you have of the like. Perhaps you should go to the diary room and request to see a psychologist."
"Yeah," said Vimes, rubbing his hand back through his hair. "Maybe I will." Was it just cabin fever? Was that really all that it was? The terrier wasn't about to stop digging that quickly. "…Are you sure that it isn't anything real?"
"I am most certain, Your Grace. Please pay no heed to it."
"Do not worry about it, Vimes."
Defeated, Vimes left the room, leaving Vetinari sat alone behind him as he had been moments before. Maybe he should have gone to Angua first. She might not have been able to give him any answers, but she sure as hell might have at least made him feel a little better.
The Patrician stared after him as he exited.
Once he was gone, Vetinari then took a drink of the cup of tea that was by his side. His lips thinned in contempt. It really was no substitute; they were going to have to get some coffee soon.
But the taste in his mouth was not as bad as the feeling he had inside of him at that moment.
It did not feel pleasant, having to say such things to Vimes. Over their time together he had found pleasure in leading the man gently along, never telling him the whole truth, but always at least leaving him a little clue or idea of what was happening in the world around him, if only to keep him going. Men like Vimes needed a little help sometimes when it came to trying to look at the bigger picture of that was happening, but not to be told completely, for it was the trying to work it out which kept them alive. But in this case Vetinari had just had to quell Vimes' intuitive flame completely by telling a downright lie to him, and it did not make him feel at all pleasant.
As impressed as he was that Vimes' had even been able to notice the passing of time in a world that wasn't his own, he couldn't tell him the truth this time.
"It's for his own good," he told himself, taking another sip of the vile tea. "In this case, the bigger picture would probably scare him."
Okay, I should probably explain, and try not to sound too melodramatic while I'm at it.
I haven't written anything in a long, long time. The last thing I wrote was the last chapter of this and that was… pfft. Ages ago. And I haven't read anything discworld for at least a year. I've moved away from writing- I do webcomics now.
I do want to continue, and even finish what I have started with Discworld Big Brother, but… it's a real shame to admit it to myself, but after such a long time… I'm not sure if I'm very good anymore. Them's the brakes.
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Coming from a distant land, Tomah was once his people's greatest warrior. As per tradition of his people, if a warrior is beaten in combat, you must break your tusks to forever show that someone bested you. Tomah's trunks remained, after almost a century of war. The leader of his people was a cruel being, that had ruled over them for thousands of years, and called himself Their God. He was the wielder of strange energies, with the power to alter matter and summon beings from this air. Tomah and the rest of his race were utterly unable to use this magic, so when their "God" hade come eons ago, they did not question his devinity. He ruled over them with an iron fist, and used their battle prowes to conquer and spread death. Once a peaceful race, they were now governed by war.
Almost a century ago the god had a vision. A vision of his own demise at the hands of a single Olyphant. An Olyphant with black tusks. He knew exactly who it was. He wasted no time. He summoned the best of his loyal guards and sent them down to the smithy where Tomah's family recided, where they had forged weapons for their God for generations. When Tomah returned from yet another conquest he wasn't greeted with the loving cries of his family, but with the smell of burnt flesh. He rushed into the broken building and found his family thrown atop the blacksmiths pyre. Filled with an unprecedented rage, he massacared the remaining guards that had not yet left the scene, before he turned to the body of his beloved brother. His brother had always been shunned from society and branded an outcast due to a birth defect that rendered his tusks completely black. Now those tusks lay broken off beside him. Unable to control the rage that coursed through his veins, a rage that was felt by every member of his race, by everyone who had been wronged by their so-called "God", he gripped his own tusks, and ripped them clean of his face. Pain soared through him, but he ignored it. He took his brothers black ivory, and with the skills of his family he fastened them on his own stumps, with iron and heat. He took his signature Three Tones Hammer, and set off for the God Castle. Totally annihilating any and all resistance that came to stop him, he broke through the outer wall of the building, and continued onward. A crowd of civilians had gathered on the plaza in front of the Castle, and after several hours, the doors of the great balcony opened. There, on the very balcony where their God had so many times announced war and horrible new laws - There, on the balcony that was as synonym to the Dread Reign as the God himself, emerged Tomah, with a dead "God" in hand. Blood gushing from several deep wounds, the entire left ear ripped of, he emerged victorious with tusks black as night. Deafening cheers of joy and awe erupted from the people bellow as raised the body of the supposedly immortal deity, and they all started chanting "Godbreaker! Godbreaker!"
The following years were the first of peace that his people had ever seen. But Tomah was a warrior, and did not do well in peacetime. Even though he was revered as his people's greatest warrior, their leader, and to some even their new god, he started to feel secluded from them. He didn't feel like this was his role. He had only known war his entire life, and that is where he belonged. One night, after almost a century of governing his people, he simply left. Taking nothing but his hammer and the armor on his body, he set out to yet again find a cause worth fighting for. After a long and exhausting journey, he chanced upon a young man who reminded him of the god he killed years ago. A man who had no eyes, but still somehow saw Tomah as clearly as the Olyphant saw him. This man told him about the fabrics of magic, and the state the world was in. He told him about the League Of Legends, where war was fought for the sake of peace. Tomah felt his heart swell for the first time in a long time. He asked the blind man to take him to this place, and he thought to himself that he had finally found a fight worth fighting, a fight worthy of his time.


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Despite surging numbers of female lawyers, bias against women remains entrenched in the legal profession and results in steep inequities of pay, promotion and opportunity, according to an American Bar Association panel's report, the first of its kind in eight years.
"We expected that our evaluation would yield evidence of steady progress," said Laurel G. Bellows, a Chicago lawyer and chairwoman of the Commission on Women in the Profession, which produced the report. "Our predictions were, unfortunately, too optimistic. Now, we must say that the passage of time and number of women is not going to cure this problem."
Though women now sit on the Supreme Court, head the Justice Department and preside over the bar association itself, the stubborn barriers faced by rank and file female lawyers are reflected in pay disparities at every level of experience and in all types of legal practice, the report found. And in the profession's highest echelons, in law firm partnerships, law school faculties and on the bench, the percentage of women, while increasing, remains inexcusably low, the report says, when measured against huge increases in the numbers of qualified women.
In many respects, commission members noted, the findings fly in the face of a perception among male lawyers that the professional playing field has not merely been leveled, but has tilted in favor of women, who now comprise about 23 percent of all the nation's lawyers and nearly half of all law students.
This perception was voiced repeatedly in a male focus group at the A.B.A.'s midyear meeting in Miami, said the organization's former president William W. Falsgraf, a Cleveland lawyer who was vice chairman of the first A.B.A. Commission on Women in the Profession.Continue reading the main story
He said of the men: "Particularly the younger ones were saying, 'This has gone far enough,' and, 'We're having a heck of a time finding jobs in the law, and if we even find them they're not very good, and it's time to stop giving one group of people special consideration because we're all in trouble.' "
But studies cited by the commission suggest that in fact, women have been disproportionately hurt by the recent shrinking of law firms after a rapid expansion in the 1980's. A 1995 study of eight large New York City firms, for example, found that promotion rates for women, which were already lower than the rates for men, dropped to 5 percent from 15 percent among those who were hired after 1981 and were considered for partnership in the recessionary 1990's. Promotion rates for their male counterparts declined less, to 17 percent, from 21 percent.
Especially troubling to the commission are signs that while job opportunities are shrinking, even the slow and uncertain progress that has been made is being eroded in some areas by a resentful backlash or persistent stereotypes. From law schools come reports of women whose performance has suffered because of a resurgence of overt male hostility that recalls the early 1970's, when only 3 percent of law students were female. Income comparisons, notably a 1993 analysis by local bar associations in Colorado, suggest that though male and female lawyers now start out with equal pay, an earnings gap opens in the first year of practice and widens rapidly.
Among Colorado lawyers with only one to three years of experience, for example, the average annual income was $30,806 for women but $37,500 for men. For those with 10 to 20 years of experience, women averaged 76 percent as much as men, or $68,466 to the men's $90,574. And even as women increasingly replace men as chief legal officers of Fortune 500 companies, national surveys show female corporate counsels earning less than their male counterparts at every level of seniority, with pay gaps that range as high as 35 percent.
"What it suggests is not a glass ceiling at the end, but a process that begins right off the bat, and we're not facing that as a profession yet," said Cathlin Donnell, a veteran Denver lawyer who analyzed the Colorado data.
There are bright spots in the report. To date, a record 31.5 percent of President Clinton's appointments to the Federal bench were women, and over all his nominees received higher ratings for their qualifications than those of previous administrations. The Department of Justice is cited as a leader in creating a hospitable workplace for women, offering part-time work, job-sharing, flexible schedules and on-site child care.
"Equal opportunity for women in the law is important to all of society," Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was chairwoman of the A.B.A.'s first commission on women in 1987, said after being given an advance copy of the report on Friday. "Hopefully, the Administration is leading by example."
Jamie S. Gorelick, President Clinton's appointee as Deputy Attorney General, who spent 18 years in private practice, is not surprised that so many women are drawn to Government service. Currently, they comprise 35 percent of the executive branch's 25,000 lawyers.
"In Government we don't have any minds and talents to waste, unlike the private sector," she said. "There's an opportunity for women to show their stuff and I think that alone will have an enormous effect on the private marketplace."
But the commission report is less optimistic. In the private sector, it notes, very few lawyers -- 1 to 4 percent -- dare to take advantage of the "family friendly" policies adopted by most law firms in the last decade. Those who do often are tarred as not seriously committed to the law.
Even women who have demonstrated their commitment for a decade or more often face a combination of crude and subtle barriers to advancement, like the partner at a large national law firm whose commercial real estate client celebrated the success of a two-year leasing project she had directed by taking her male colleagues to a topless bar. Exclusion from male networks reinforces the belief that women are less effective as "rain makers," lawyers who can bring in business -- a belief used in turn to skew promotion evaluations against them, the commission found.
The gulf between visible progress and persistent bias is captured in studies of law schools in Chicago and Philadelphia that found classes in which women are effectively silenced by male students who heckle them as "femi-Nazis" and overwhelmingly male faculty who ignore them. One male professor in Chicago told students in a discussion of a Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that it was written by a woman and "women always change their minds."
Estelle D. Rodgers, a commission member, said, "The status of women in the profession has changed surprisingly little in very important ways that affect people's real lives."
She recalled the testimony of a woman at the first commission hearings in 1988 who described going into labor at her top flight law firm in the middle of an important meeting with Japanese clients and making her presentation between contractions for fear of losing her credibility. Ms. Rodgers, now a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, graduated from law school in 1973 and left a large private firm for public interest work after the birth of her first child in 1978.
Today's young female lawyers say that they are less willing to make extreme personal sacrifices to adapt to a work culture defined by and for white men, and that they expect employers to accommodate their life needs, the report says. But many are coming to a rude awakening.
In the commission's hearings last year a lawyer who was recently the first to give birth in a firm of 100 lawyers described how on her return from a brief, hard-won maternity leave she asked for more regular hours and instead was assigned to write all the litigation team's overnight and weekend motions.
"Once she said she needed more regular hours, a kind of baiting went on," recalled Mary Cranston, the commission's liaison representing large law firms, and herself a partner in San Francisco's Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, long a leader in hiring and promoting women.
The good news, the report says, is that women are not giving up. Many who left law firms have formed their own, or gone to corporate law departments where they are gaining the authority to choose which outside lawyers will get company business.
"There's an old girls' network that's starting to develop," Miss Cranston said in a comment echoed across the country.
It is only by taking advantage of the power of their numbers in such ways, the report says, that women lawyers can permanently change the structure of the profession.Continue reading the main story


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Aaron, > Um, I thought he had said he planned to revise his patches again > (after the last round of mailing list discussion) and I was kind of > waiting on that. Maybe I was just confused. Oh. OK. Gianny, is this what you are doing? Where are we up to on this? > In any case, I'll be able to put in some solid time on this at > ApacheCon, starting tomorrow, so we should definitely have it going soon. > Are you or Gianny going to be there by chance? I won't be attending ApacheCon - it's a long way and mucho $$ from Australia across to the States for a 3 day event, and in any case I've got committments with my 'day job'. It would have been good, though, to have the opportunity to meet other Geronimo contributors. Maybe next year. cheers, Jan > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Jan Bartel wrote: > >>Aaron, >> >>I think you were going to provide some code in response to Gianny's >>patch for implementing J2ee module deployments? Any progress on that? >> >>best, >>Jan >>
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Yeh Vaada Raha 31st March 2016 Written Episode Update
Survi wakes Kartik up in the morning, he says he has to do a lot today. She sends him to get fresh and heads to make breakfast. Mehr knocks the door and takes Survi's permission to come in. She asks about her Kartik, Survi says he is getting ready. She asks if he got late on the first day. Survi says she knows Mehr is a good girl, but calling him hers… Mehr says Kartik is her love, she has come here to take her love to office. Survi says Kartik is her husband, it began with her lie and Mehr took it wrong because of her, she had a misunderstanding but she must try and understand. What she wants isn't possible. Mehr jerks her away and asks how she can be so sure. Survi says she and Kartik love each other, their relation is deep and old. She says now Mehr knows the truth, she has the whole life in front of her. Mehr says she doesn't need to worry for her, she knows what she is doing and what she wants to. She asks Survi whatever she wants to, what she has ever dreamt of? Survi says she don't understand how to explain her. Mehr says she has thought a lot about it, they are two and Kartik is only one. The problem is that neither Survi wants to leave Kartik, nor she does. She is ready to divide her Kartik, so they will share Kartik. She says on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Kartik will be Survi's. Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be Mehr's, on Sunday Kartik will spend with her mother and sister. Kartik comes out then asking Survi for his tie. He was shocked to see Mehr, Mehr tells him that the problem between her and Survi has sorted. She tells him about the schedule. Kartik asks Mehr if she has losted, how many times he has to explain there is nothing possible between them. Survi stops Kartik, Kartik says today he won't listen to her. He drags Mehr to the door, asks how dare she entered his home; she might be a princess in her home but the world doesn't work according to her. He warns her that if she comes to his house again, it will be worst for her. She has no idea what he can do and what not. He warns her not to come between him and Survi. He shuts her outside. Survi comes to Kartik, he asks Survi how she allowed her inside. Survi asks if he noticed how she talked, and he was behaving so rudely to her. Survi says Mehr isn't normal, she is weak mentally. She needs help. The way he shut her out, she might do anything. Kartik says whatever she wants to do, he apologized to her but she is still after him. He wasn't ready to listen to Survi about that girl. He says there are already so many problems in their life, Survi asks him to think clearly about it. Kartik opens the door to leave. Mehr stood outside, she says she has another idea for him. He and Survi know each other for long, so why not he become friend with Mehr. He will come to know she isn't evil, she forwards her hand to be friend with him. Kartik stares at her. Survi comes to hold his shoulder and grasp it. Mehr watches her hand, and says please… please… please. Kartik asks her to leave. Mehr says she won't go away, until he says yes. She holds his arm, asks him not to be angry as he says every problem has a solution. She says sometime if not now, he must come to her home; they will find a solution. Lata and Shanti come home, Survi sends Kartik inside. Mehr asks Survi to go away, she will send Kartik to her in an hour. Mehr becomes happy, she touches Lata's feet who blesses her, caresses Shanti and wishes her luck for her exams. She tells Survi she will be waiting.
In the room, Survi comes to Kartik. Kartik says no matter she is crazy or not, he isn't going to meet her. Survi says she had no other way to silent her in front of Lata and Shanti. She will again come home if he doesn't reach her in an hour. Survi says that in the next one hour, not him but she will go to Mehr's house. Kartik asks why she doesn't get her craziness, she only see one hurdle that is Survi. She will take her life today. If she really wants to do suicide, she must go there. Survi says right now, they must talk to her calmly. She asks him to trust her, this story must end here in their lives. She will end this story as her lie had started it.
Mehr happily prepares the juice and fruits on table. There is a knock at the door, she watches Survi standing outside and asks about Kartik. She says alright, he must be parking the car. Survi says she came alone. Mehr's expressions change, she holds Survi's hands and says she lied again. Survi says she has brought Kartik's reply. Mehr shouts what is it? Survi says she can't get what she wants to, they must end it here. Mehr asks why? Survi says she has no other option. She asks Mehr to calm her mind down, her insistence can ruin a house, it must be difficult for her but she has to. She and Kartik will always stand with her, but she must consult a good doctor. Mehr jerks her away, laughs hysterically and says she is mad. She throws things away when she is angry. She breaks the vase hitting over the wall. Survi clutches her arm and says this is it. When someone tries to snatch a sindoor, a woman is even ready to fight Yamraj. She warns Mehr that she won't have another way left if she even wanders around her husband again. She was leaving the room when she turns to see Mehr hysterically throwing everything away. She goes to pick up her phone and speak to her mother. She complains to her mother about Survi. Survi watches the phone was disconnected, her mother's photo hung on the wall with flowers garland. She thinks that Mehr really needs medicine.
PRECAP: An old lady asks Mehr if she ever thinks once before ruining someone's life. Shanti had a proposal, but the guests accuses Srikanth for trying to marry a mentally ill girl to her son. Mehr smiles behind.
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Tennessee man plans to let his huskies pull him 2,200 miles on a makeshift dog sled
A homeless Knoxville man plans to hitch his two huskies to a homemade dog sled made out of a lawn chair and a skateboard and travel 2,200 miles across the country to Venice Beach, California.
Georgie Cutright says the purpose of his journey is to see the country, spread some joy and, for once in his life, finish something.
"I've never actually finished anything in my life, you know?" Cutright, 41, told the Knoxville News Sentinel. "This is something that's going to be really incredible to do, and it's something that I'm really, really adamant about finishing."
How adamant the dogs who will power his "urban dog sled" — Sarah and Lobos — are is another question.
He could face some questions as well from local authorities as he makes his journey, and possibly animal welfare advocates, given the dogs will be running the distance of two Iditarods, on pavement no less.
Cutright says he plans to outfit the dogs in booties and take multiple breaks, though, and that — given the trip is partly about sharing his love for his rescued dogs — they will be treated well.
Currently living out of his van, Cutright has been training his two dogs on the streets of Knoxville, and drawing crowds when he does so. He plans to sell the van to finance the trip, which he hopes to start soon.
He has been using them for a while now as a mode of transportation.
"I was sitting on a skateboard and holding Sarah's leash one day when she took off," he told the Journal Gazette & Times-Courier.
He held on to the leash and rolled along behind them. After that, he says, he learned to balance on a chair atop the long skateboard as the dogs pulled him.
He uses his shoes as brakes and has taught the dogs commands: "Yah" to get them to speed up, "Whoa" to slow down," and "hard right" or "hard left" for turning.
Cutright says he will take country roads that parallel Interstate 40, camping in a tent at night.
Originally from Mattoon, Illinois, Cutright said he became homeless two years ago after he lost his job as a carpenter. He said he's been unable to secure another steady job because of a felony conviction for an armed robbery when he was 18.
A friend will be making the trip with him.
Cutright has already secured his first sponsor: HeadQuarters skateboard shop, which donated multiple sets of wheels and bearings for the journey.
He said he will stay in motels when he can, and in people's homes when they offer to put him up.
Cutright said he got Sarah off Craigslist from a woman who was moving, and acquired Lobos from the police department in Venice Beach when the dog's homeless owner was arrested.
He will share details of the trip on his Facebook page. He has also established a GoFundMe page that seeks to raise $20,000 for the trip.
"I just want people to know that if you put your mind to something, you can do it. Anybody can, even a homeless guy."
(Photos: Kevin Kilhoffer / Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
Posted by John Woestendiek February 20th, 2017 under Muttsblog.
Tags: 2, 200 miles, animals, cross country, dog, dog sled, dogs, george cutright, georgie cutright, homeless, homemade, huskies, knoxville, lawn chair, makeshift, pets, pulling, skateboard, sled, tennessee, trip, urban dog sled
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Deputy shoots herself while killing dog
This confrontation between a dog and a sheriff's deputy didn't come out well for anybody.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office said that the deputy, who was not identified by name, was attempting to contact the dog's owner following the mauling of a homeless man when she was attacked.
The incident took place over the weekend at a homeless encampment in Hudson, Fla.
Deputies had received a report about a pit bull at the encampment attacking a homeless man and responded to interview the owner, according to Fox13.
As the deputy approached, the dog broke its leash and went after her, grabbing her pant leg and causing her to trip.
The deputy fired several shots at the dog, killing it, but one of the shots grazed her own hand, injuring a finger.
"I shot my finger off," she can be heard saying in the body cam video the sheriff's office released.
Her injury was treated a local hospital.
The sheriff's office says the deputy has three pit bulls herself and she is familiar with the breed.
No charges have been filed yet.
Posted by John Woestendiek November 30th, 2016 under videos.
Tags: animals, attacked, body cam, deputy, dog, dogs, encampment, florida, homeless, hudson, injured, killed, law enforcement, officer, pasco county, pets, pit bull, police and dogs, released, sheriff, sheriff's office, shoots, shoots self, video
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Gladys, of Salisbury, passes away
(In memory of Gladys, who passed away Friday, we're reprinting this story from two years ago about the fluffy white dog, the homeless man that took her in and the Maryland town that showed them both some love.)
For more than a decade, they were a familiar sight around downtown Salisbury, Maryland — the homeless man and his silky white dog.
You could often find them stationed outside Benedict the Florist, or located in what was an even shrewder spot to panhandle — behind the Dunkin Donuts, where cars lined up at the drive-through.
Elwood, the homeless man, and Gladys, his dog, weren't shooed away too often in Salisbury. That, likely, was in part because of Elwood's friendly demeanor, maybe in larger part because of his highly sociable dog, who he found as a pup in a box by a Dumpster, or in a bag in the middle of Highway 13, depending on who's telling the story
In any event, the troubled man and the Wheaton mix became partners in homelessness, and for more than a decade survived off the kindness of friends and strangers in Salisbury.
Then, in 2012, they both seemed to disappear.
No one saw Elwood, though some people were pretty sure they had spotted the dog at various locations around town.
Edna Walls had that feeling when she saw a silky white, mid-sized dog at a groomers recently, asked about it and learned it was — sure enough — Gladys.
Elwood Towers had died in May, 2013 of cancer, the groomer explained to her, and since then his dog has been living with the owner of the flower shop outside of which Elwood and Gladys once panhandled. She recounted the encounter in a reader-submitted column published on Delmarva Now.
The Lucky Dog Pet Salon never charged Elwood for grooming Gladys, Walls reported, just like some local veterinarians cut him a break when Gladys needed shots or medical treatment.
An obituary for Elwood on Legacy.com makes note of the kindness the two received. Submitted by his "adoptive family," it thanks "the business and professional community and the thousands of people that took the time to help him, say a kind word, or give Gladys a pet. Those things are what made his life meaningful."
The obituary continues, "He leaves behind his dearest and closest companion, Gladys. The 'homeless man and his white dog' were well recognized from their travels throughout the Salisbury area in the last 15 years. Elwood loved the outdoors and his 'WORK;' the proceeds of which were often shared with others in need."
George Benedict, who took in Gladys after Elwood's death, agrees that Elwood was known for being poor, but also for being a giving sort. Once, he got kicked out of an apartment for refusing to get rid of a stray bird he was nursing back to health.
"He was a generous man," Benedict told ohmidog! "If he took in $100, he'd give half of it away or buy groceries for friends in need."
Elwood, before he died, took steps to make sure Gladys would be cared for. He asked George Benedict to take ownership of Gladys.
In years of writing about homeless people, and homeless dogs, and homeless people with homeless dogs, it's something I've noticed. A homeless person may not know where their next meal is coming from, but they know where their dog's is. A homeless person may have no roof over his head, and no plan for tomorrow, but likely they've made contingency plans for what will happen to their dog when they're gone.
Benedict, who had always been fond of Gladys — who'd never suggested the pair move on when they lingered outside his shop — agreed. He's retired now, and the floral shop — a local institution for 130 years — closed in 2011. Benedict still works with homeless people, though, through an organization called Hope, Inc.
He knew Elwood for almost 15 years, and remembers when Elwood found Gladys — in a box by a Dumpster, he says — and decided to keep the pup. Some people told Elwood that was a mistake, Benedict recalls, pointing out to Elwood that he could barely take care of himself.
Elwood had spent much of his life in prison, including his teens. He looked down on drug use, and while he enjoyed a beer or two, he wasn't a heavy drinker, Benedict said.
Still, after taking in Gladys, Elwood never had another drink, Benedict said. "She was pretty much his whole life."
For a while, Benedict said, Elwood lived in an unheated garage, paying $300 a month for it. About the time city inspectors asked him to leave, Gladys had a litter of pups. Elwood gave them away, including one to Benedict.
Benedict said that dog died at age 6, from lymphoma.
"I never imagined I would actually wind up with Gladys," Benedict said.
In his final years, Elwood was fighting cancer, too. His lower jaw had to rebuilt after one surgery. He called off the fight in 2012, deciding not to seek further treatment.
In Elwood's final months, Benedict spent a lot of time with him. He died May 17, 2013, at age 75 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake.
Benedict took Gladys to the groomer just before Elwood's funeral, and she attended the service, along with about 35 humans.
"They were sort of unique in Salisbury," Benedict said. "I guess it was the combination of him and Gladys. People gave him a lot more tolerance than they might some other folks."
Gladys is 14 now.
"She's an amazing dog," Benedict says. She just instinctively likes to be with people … My wife and I are convinced she has some sort of aura about her. She goes with me wherever I go, and all the stores let her in. Wherever I go, people get out of their car and say 'what kind of dog is that?' I tell them she's a Wheaton mix.
"Some of them say 'I used to give food to a man who had a dog like that.'"
Donations in memory of Elwood and Gladys can be made to the organization specified in his obituary: The Humane Society of Wicomico County, 5130 Citation Drive, Salisbury, MD 21804.
Posted by John Woestendiek November 28th, 2016 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, benedict the florist, compassion, dead, death, dog, dogs, elwood, elwood towers, george benedict, gladys, gladys and elwood, homeless, homelessness, maryland, pets, salisbury
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Actress Anna Faris hit with "fine" after her Chihuahua is found starving on the street
A Los Angeles animal shelter has slapped actress Anna Faris with a $5,000 penalty fee for breaking the terms of an animal adoption contract she signed four years ago.
Laurel Kinder, the head of Kinder4Rescue, says the emaciated Chihuahua was found Friday wandering the streets of North Hollywood.
When a vet checked the dog for a microchip, Faris' name came up as the owner, as well as information about where Pete had been adopted from.
The rescue organization was contacted, took custody of the dog, and will seek to find him a new home.
Kinder told TMZ that in signing the contract for the adoption of Pete Faris agreed to pay the fine if she ever parted with the dog without informing them.
Faris, in a statement to People magazine, said she gave the dog to another family when her son was born.
"Five years ago I adopted an adorable Chihuahua named Pete, from the Kinder4Rescue Animal Rescue. Unfortunately when our son was born, we discovered that he was allergic to Pete, so I found what I thought was a loving and responsible family to care for him.
"My agreement with the animal rescue required me to contact them first before allowing another family to take Pete in. I failed to do this, and for that I am deeply sorry. I now understand the dangers of giving animals away for free."
"I can't tell you how thrilled I am that Pete has been found and is back in the hands of Kinder4Rescue. I feared that he had been lost forever and, although he is malnourished and in need of care, it seems he is going to make a full recovery. For this, I am so deeply thankful…"
Faris is the Baltimore-born star of the CBS series "Mom," whose numerous film credits include "Scary Movie" and its sequels, "House Bunny," and "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs."
The North Hollywood shelter said it had been unable to reach Faris and her husband, actor Chris Pratt, since the dog was found Friday.
Five years ago, Pratt was widely criticized on social media for getting rid of the couple's cat.
Before putting the cat up for adoption, he announced on Twitter that he and his wife wanted to "start a family" and "absolutely cannot have an animal that shits all over the house."
(Photos: TMZ)
Posted by John Woestendiek November 23rd, 2016 under Muttsblog.
Tags: actor, actress, adoption, animals, anna faris, chihuahua, chris pratt, contract, dog, dogs, emaciated, fine, fined, five thousand dollars, found, homeless, kinder4rescue, los angeles, microchip, penalty, pets, rescue, shelter, starving, stray
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When one lost soul bumps into another
Two lost souls coming together isn't exactly a new movie theme, but it still works, especially when it has a twist like this one.
"A Stray" is about a young man whose refugee family fled Somalia and relocated in Minneapolis. He becomes sort of a double stray when his family kicks him out after he gets in some trouble.
At a mosque, Adan finds shelter. He gets a job, delivering food, and seems to be pulling his life together when his delivery vehicle strikes a dog.
Adan, at the urging of a bystander, hesitantly loads the small white mutt in the car and takes him to a vet, who pronounces the dog OK. It is then that Adan learns he must take the dog with him.
That's a problem because, on top of being homeless, Adan is Muslim. Under Muslim law, dogs are considered dirty. Many practicing Muslims, like Adan's family, forbid them in the home. When he arrives back at the mosque with the dog, he's told to leave.
What happens next — when a man raised to have nothing to do with dogs ends up with a stray, when his God and his Dog are seemingly irreconcilable forces — makes for a thought-provoking and magical movie.
It premiered earlier this year at the South By Southwest (SXWS) Film Festival, and had several screenings last weekend, introduced by writer-director Musa Syeed, at the Film Society of Minneapolis and St Paul.
The human star of the movie is actor Barkhad Abdirahman, a Somali refugee who lives in Minneapolis.
Director Syeed, in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio, said he was intrigued by the idea of combining the archetypal American/Western man-and-dog story with Muslim sensitivities towards dogs.
"What was interesting to me about a Muslim kid and a dog was that these are two entities that seemingly are not able to reconcile, or that are so different," he said. "And I think that's the way that maybe a lot of people see, you know, Muslims in America … there is some inherent tension or something like that."
He said he hopes that the story of a man and his forbidden dog shows that there is room for compassion, understanding and a connection.
Posted by John Woestendiek October 21st, 2016 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: a stray, america, animals, barkhad abdirahman, bonding, clashing, cultures, dirty, dog, dogs, forbidden, god, homeless, islam, lost souls, minneapolis, mosque, movie, musa syeed, muslims, pets, refugee, religion, somali, somalia, stray dogs, strays
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Woof or roof: A dilemma for the homeless
When you're homeless, you can run into a lot of Catch 22's — those can't-win situations that, even when you're taking steps to improve your life, tend to make things appear even more hopeless.
Having a dog is a perfect example.
To a homeless person, having a dog (or, in the case of our Monday post, a cat) can have numerous benefits: Protection, for one. It can instill a greater will to survive and succeed. It can provide some self-esteem, emotional security, and companionship for sure — the kind that comes without judgment.
While some segments of society may be repulsed by the sight of you, your dog will always be thrilled.
But having a dog when you're homeless can also be a tremendous obstacle — keeping you from being admitted to homeless shelters, finding the money to feed it, and making already problematic chores, like going to the bathroom, even more problematic.
Still, it's not unusual that, when given a choice between shelter and their dog, the dog often comes first — as has been the case so far with a recently homeless woman and her boxer mix, named Cow, featured in a two-part series in the Toledo Blade this week.
"She is my whole world, my rock. I don't know what I'd do without her." 51-year-old Diann Wears said of her dog.
Wears, who in earlier stages of her troubled life worked as a prostitute and was addicted to crack, said it is her first time living on the streets.
She says she left an abusive five-year relationship in July, and now she sleeps, with Cow, behind the Greyhound Bus station in downtown Toledo.
"It's totally new to me and totally scary, I'm not gonna lie," she said. "But Cow and I, we have each other, and she gives me a lot of love and support."
She says she tried to find an apartment that her Social Security and Supplemental Security Income would cover, but "they either turned me down because of Cow, or because I don't make enough money."
She has no intention of parting with Cow, she said.
Toledo's homeless shelters — like most across the country — do not allow pets, and she was rejected, she said, by a YWCA shelter that provides haven for women fleeing domestic violence and their pets.
"They don't think I'm in danger from my ex," Wears said.
So Wears and Cow remain without shelter — unless you count the overhang of the bus station's roof.
Having a dog, Wears noted, makes simple tasks, like attending a free meal, more difficult. She either has to leave Cow outside, leashed to her shopping cart, or find a friend she trusts enough to watch him.
Sometimes, she says, it's hard to simply find a place in the shade to rest — without being told to leave, either because of the dog or because she is loitering.
She often sits on the grass at St. Paul United Methodist Church, where the pastor allows her to stay as long as neither she nor Cow causes any trouble, the Blade reported. (You can find part two of the series here.)
"We don't bother anybody, but people judge us anyway because we're homeless," Diann said. "Or they're afraid of Cow, even when she's just lying there."
Wears said Cow provides her some protection during the night.
Unsure as she is of the future, she is committed to two things — keeping Cow by her side and not going back to her abusive boyfriend.
"It's hard out here, but I'm away from that at least I'll take my chances out here. I have my dog and we'll survive one way or the other, some kind of way."
(Photo: The Toledo Blade)
Posted by John Woestendiek September 21st, 2016 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: abuse, animals, benefits, boxer, catch 22, choice, cow, diann wears, dilemma, dogs, homeless, homeless shelters, mix, obstacles, ohio, paradox, pets, shelters, toledo, toledo blade
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Coming soon: A Street Cat Named Bob
The true story of how a street cat named Bob changed the life of an alcoholic street musician in London came out in book form three years ago .
Now the movie version is coming — in which Bob is played (mostly) by Bob.
James Bowen's autobiographical book telling the story of his struggle with addiction and of his life on the streets, in homeless shelters and in supported housing sold millions of copies.
Its focus was on the bond he formed with Bob after the cat found his way into Bowen's room in a subsidized housing complex.
The pair went on become inseparable, winning fans across London.
Luke Treadaway stars as Bowen, a street musician overcoming a troubled childhood.
But in most of the scenes featuring Bob, that's the real Bob you'll be seeing.
The film is scheduled for release in early November.
Posted by John Woestendiek September 19th, 2016 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: a street cat named bob, addiction, alcoholism, animals, bob, book, busker, cat, cats, changed, homeless, james bowen, life, luke treadaway, movie, musician, pets
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And The Obama Copycats Begin…
Michelle Obama's two Inauguration Day outfits are already getting copied. Faviana, known for "reinterpreting" gowns worn by celebrities, drew up sketches immediately after Obama appeared on Tuesday. The knock-off of Isabel Toledo's lemongrass dress and jacket will retail for $450 and the copy of Jason Wu's white gown will cost $400, and they, along with other Mrs. O-inspired looks, will be in stores in four to six weeks. This of course might negate the positive effect Obama has been having on independent designers. Also, don't people realize that they're not going to look anything like the first lady, even if they wear replicas of her clothes? [NY Daily News]


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Applying for a place at Saint Aidan's
Saint Aidan's is a mixed comprehensive school with an inclusive admissions policy. Each year we welcome children from a very wide area and a huge range of backgrounds.
Is Saint Aidan's the right school for my child?
We believe – and Ofsted agree – that we provide a high quality of education to all of our students, and that they can grow and learn in an environment where they will be helped and challenged to succeed in a caring and safe environment. However, you will want to know that Saint Aidan's is the right school for your child. There are lots of ways to find out more about the school:
- Browse our website, our Ofsted and Church School inspection reports, and our Prospectus.
- Visit the school at our annual Open Evening in early September.
- Request a tour of the school during the school day. This is the best way to find out what the school is really like – you will meet our students and sample the special atmosphere of Saint Aidan's .
- Contact the school with any questions using the "Contact Us" page on our website.
- Talk to the many parents and carers throughout the area who have chosen to send their sons and daughters to Saint Aidan's.
How do I apply for a place?
The applications system for secondary schools is administered by Lancashire Local Authority. If you wish to apply for a place at Saint Aidan's you will need to complete an application form provided by Lancashire (or by Blackpool if you live in the Blackpool Local Authority area). Most people complete an online form.
If you live in Lancashire you can find more details at
If you live in Blackpool you can find more details at http://www.blackpool.gov.uk/Residents/Education-and-schools/School-admissions/Apply-for-a-secondary-school-place.aspx
Applications must be made by 31st October of the year before your child is due to start secondary school.
You may also choose to complete a Supplementary Form which is returned direct to Saint Aidan's, but this is not compulsory.
What is the Supplementary Form?
Saint Aidan's is a Church of England school, and faith-based criteria are included in our Admissions Policy. In addition, subsidised transport is available from Lancashire Local Authority in some circumstances to those who wish their child to go to Saint Aidan's specifically because it is a church school. If you attend a church or other place of worship you should complete a Supplementary Form and submit it directly to the school. You do not need to complete a Supplementary Form, but it is important that you do complete one if you can. The form is included in our Admissions Policy which is available to download from this page or from the school on request.
Will my child get a place?
The school has places for 168 Year 7 students every year. If we have more than 168 students wanting to join Year 7 we have a set of "oversubscription criteria" which are used when places are offered. Priority is given to groups including those who live in Over Wyre, those whose parents attend church and those who have siblings at the school (see the Admissions Policy for details). However, even after all these students have been admitted there are always a good number of places available to other students. It is certainly not true that you have to live near the school or attend church to be able to get a place at Saint Aidan's. A copy of our Admissions Policy can be downloaded from the link at the foot of this page.
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