Pedagogically and professionally, it makes sense for law schools to teach practical skills along with theory and doctrine. New lawyers should know how to interview clients, file simple legal documents, and analyze real-world problems, just as new doctors should know how to interview patients, use a stethoscope, and offer a diagnosis. Hands-on work can also deepen knowledge received in the classroom. Law students who apply classroom theories to real or simulated clients develop stronger intellectual skills, as well as new practical ones.
Employers say they are eager to hire these better-trained, more rounded, more "practice ready" lawyers–and they should be. That's why the employment results for Washington & Lee's School of Law are so troubling. Washington & Lee pioneered an experiential third-year program that has won accolades from many observers. Bill Henderson called Washington & Lee's program the "biggest legal education story of 2013." The National Jurist named the school's faculty as among the twenty-five most influential people in legal education. Surely graduates of this widely praised program are reaping success in the job market?
Sadly, the statistics say otherwise. Washington & Lee's recent employment outcomes are worse than those of similarly ranked schools. The results are troubling for advocates of experiential learning. They should also force employers to reflect on their own behavior: Does the rhetoric of "practice ready" graduates align with the reality of legal hiring? Let's look at what's happening with Washington & Lee graduates.
(a) The number of full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar admission, minus (i) any of those jobs funded by the law school and (ii) any solo positions; all divided by the total number of graduates.
(b) The number of full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar admission or for which the JD provided an advantage, minus (i) any of those jobs funded by the law school and (ii) any solo positions; all divided by the total number of graduates.
Using those two measures, Washington and Lee's employment outcomes for 2011 were noticeably mediocre. By nine months after graduation, only 55.0% of the school's graduates had obtained full-time, long-term jobs that required bar admission. That percentage placed Washington & Lee 76th among ABA-accredited schools for job outcomes. Using the second, broader metric, 64.3% of Washington & Lee's class secured full-time, long-term positions. But that only nudged the school up a few spots compared to other schools–to 73rd place.
The University of Iowa, for example, holds the same US News rank as Washington & Lee and suffers from a similarly rural location. Yet Iowa placed 70.8% of its 2012 graduates in full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar admission–more than twenty percentage points better than Washington & Lee. The College of William & Mary ranks a bit below Washington & Lee in US News (at 33rd) and operates in the same state. After excluding solos and school-funded positions (as my formula requires), William & Mary placed 55.9% of its 2012 graduates in full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar admission–significantly better than Washington & Lee's results.
Law school employment outcomes vary substantially. Geography, school size, and local competition all seem to play a role. But Washington & Lee's outcomes are puzzling given both the prominence of its third-year program and the stridency of practitioner calls for more practical training. Just last week, California's Task Force on Admissions Regulation Reform suggested: "If, in the future, new lawyers come into the profession more practice-ready than they are today, more jobs will be available and new lawyers will be better equipped to compete for those jobs." (p. 14) If that's true, why isn't the formula working for Washington & Lee?
I think we need to explore at least four possibilities. First and most important, the connection between practical training and jobs is much smaller than practitioners and bar associations assert. Employers like practice-ready graduates because those new lawyers are cheaper to train; an employer thus might be more likely to hire a practice-ready graduate than a clueless one. Most of those hiring decisions, however, involve choosing among applicants, not creating new positions. A few employers might hire a practice-ready graduate when they wouldn't have otherwise hired any lawyer, but those job-market gains are likely to be small.
Practice-readiness can even reduce the number of available jobs. If a practice-ready lawyer handles more work than a less-experienced one, her employer may need fewer entry-level lawyers. Even the best-trained new lawyer is unlikely to grow the client base immediately. The number of legal jobs depends much more on client demand and employer entrepreneurship than on the experience that new graduates possess. Maybe the employers recruiting at Washington & Lee have recognized that truth.
Second, even when allocating existing jobs, employers may care less about practical training than they claim. Law school clinicians have noted for years that legal employers rarely demand "clinical experience" as a prerequisite for on-campus interviews. Instead, their campus interviewing forms are more likely to list "top ten percent" or "law review." Old habits die hard. Employers have maintained for the last few years that "this time we really mean it when we ask for practical skills," but maybe they don't.
Third, employers may care about experience, but want to see that experience in the area for which they're hiring. This possibility is particularly troubling for law schools that are trying to expand clinical and other client-centered offerings. As a professor who teaches both a criminal defense clinic and a prosecution one, I can see the ways in which these experiences apply to other practice areas. A student who learns to discern the client's individual needs, as our defense lawyers do, can transport that lesson to any practice area. A student who weighs competing interests in deciding whether to prosecute can apply similar skills for any employer.
Unfortunately, however, I don't think employers always share my impression. Over the years, I've had the sense that students from the criminal defense clinic are stereotyped as public defenders, do-gooders, or (worse) anti-establishment radicals–even if they took the clinic for the client counseling, negotiation, and representation experience. Prosecution students don't encounter the same negative images, but they sometimes have trouble persuading law firms and corporations that they're serious about practicing corporate law.
No matter how many clinics and simulations a law school offers–and Washington & Lee provides a lot–each student can only schedule a few of these experiences. If a student chooses experiential work in entertainment law and intellectual property, does the student diminish her prospects of finding work in banking or family law? Does working in the Black Lung Legal Clinic create a black mark against a student applying to work later for corporate clients?
I wonder, in other words, if the menu of clinical choices we offer students actually operates against them. Would it be better to cycle all students through a series of required clinical experiences? That's the way that medical school rotations work. Under that system, would employers better understand that all clinical experience has value for a new lawyer? Would they be less likely to lock graduates into particular career paths based on the clinical experiences they chose? These are questions we need to pursue as we expand experiential education in law schools.
A fourth possible explanation for Washington & Lee's disappointing employment outcomes is that the students themselves may have developed higher or more specialized career ambitions than their peers at other schools. Some students may have been so excited by their clinical work that they were unwilling to accept jobs in other areas. Others, buoyed by employers' enthusiasm for practice-ready graduates, may have held out for the most attractive positions on the market. If this explanation has power, then Washington & Lee's graduates may fare better as more months pass. Maybe practice-ready graduates get better jobs, and perform better for their employers, but the matches take longer to make.
What lessons should we take from Washington & Lee's 2011 and 2012 employment outcomes? First, the school still deserves substantial credit for its willingness to innovate–as well as for the particular program it chose. If law school remains a three-year, graduate program, then experiential work should occupy a larger segment of the curriculum than it has at most schools in the past. That makes pedagogic sense and, even if experiential learning doesn't expand the job market, it should produce more thoughtful, well rounded attorneys.
Second, legal employers should take a hard look at the factors they actually value in hiring. What role does clinical experience really play? Do grades and law review membership still count more? Are employers discounting clinical work done outside their practice area? Are they even holding that work against a candidate? Law schools are engaging in significant introspection about the education they provide; it is time for employers to critically examine their own actions and hiring assumptions.
Third, law schools and employers should work together to design the best type of experiential education–one that prepares graduates for immediate employment as well as long-term success. If employers value a 4-credit externship with their own organization more than 12 credits of clinical work in a different area, we need to grapple with that fact. Schools might decide not to accommodate that desire; we might worry that externships are too narrow (or too exploitative of students) and encourage employers to value other clinical training more highly. On the other hand, we might agree that the best experiential education relates directly to a student's post-graduate job. Unless we work together, we won't figure out either the hurdles or the solutions.
Even if the rewards for law graduates have divided into two distinct modes, the full-time-and-bar-required employment rates among our 220+ law schools still follow a bell-shaped curve. At one end, you have about 20 schools which still managed to place 65% or more of their graduates in such jobs even through the trough of demand in 2010 and 2011. At the other, you have about 30-40 schools which placed a third or less of their graduates in such positions. In the middle, you have about 170 law schools of varying U.S. News esteem that all placed within a statistically insignificant margin of the 54% full-time/bar-required average nationwide.
This figure doesn't tell the whole story, because the mix of jobs is as important as the rate of placement in telling you the quality of a school from that perspective. However, it sums up what the marketplace thinks about law schools: you would be a fool not to hire a graduate from one of the uppermost twenty schools, and equally a fool to hire a graduate from one of the lowest thirty or forty. What about the schools in the middle? Whatever; it's not like any of them send us a graduate that we won't have to expend significant effort in training.
W&L's program may or may not make a better lawyer, but if it does, it will take time for the employer and prospective student market to know it. In the meanwhile, those 45% of graduates who can't find someone to pay them while they learn to be lawyers would really have appreciated a program that spent less time dazzling them with their inadequacy and more time preparing them to render a service for a client. The best law schools in this middle category over the next twenty-five years will be the ones whose newly graduated sole practitioners come out feeling good about what they know and can do for a client without an experienced someone holding their hands.
Northeastern School of Law has also been hovering around/below the 50% FT, LT, JD-required mark since the new reporting regime came out, despite their supposedly-phenomenal* and mandatory co-op system, under which everyone takes four 11-week co-ops. Like W&L, Northeastern also stickers well north of $200,000, and its financial aid is tiny (the average and median grant are both about $8k/year). What's more, since the recession became the new normal, mumblings abound that small law firms are increasingly using the co-op system for free labor in lieu of hiring actual associates or, as the case may be, legal secretaries. What's more, the law school insists that 40% of each graduating class lands a FT, LT, JD-required job from one of their co-ops. As far as I can tell, they have been claiming this stat for at least a decade without one scrap of corroborating data. Of course, since if 40% of the class gets a *real* job from a co-op, but only 50% of the class gets a *real* job period, it would suggest that outside of the co-op system, Northeastern students have a 10% success rate in entering the profession in any meaningful way. Things I wish I knew years ago.
*In my case, it amounted to a lot of secretarial tasks and grunt work, and extremely little hands-on legal work or training. Were I to go solo, I would not be any less of a walking-talking-malpractice case than a graduate of any other law school.
The conflict that leaps out to me is that both the law schools and the law firms want the law school to be a sorting experience but the way the law school wants to sort students and the way that practitioners do are not consonant. You suggest adopting the rotation that medical doctors go through but it strikes me as an exceptionally poor fit. The major reason medical schools have stable rotations is because doctors needs to know what their fellow practitioners in other parts of the medical field are doing. The GP has to know what specialist to refer the patient to, what treatment he is likely to receive there, and how to deal with the patient when he comes back from the specialist. The law doesn't work that way, for the most part. The public defender doesn't need to know the details of corporate law, for example, because it would be the expectational situation where he would have a client to who he needed to refer to that specialist. Medicine as a field of practice is simply more integrated than the law. This is why proposals to make the legal equivalent of a medical "teaching hospital" make no sense.
It has struck me more than once that much of the reform in legal education today is designed to respond to problems that do not exist because it is too discomforting to respond to the ones that do. Far from becoming more like medicine, the law profession is heading in the opposite direction with fields of specializations a world onto themselves. The troubling question is whether the "general purpose" law school can survive into the coming decades or whether it better to allow students to sort themselves up front by developing schools that cater to only public defenders (as an example). The irony is that is that in the not too distant future the law profession might wind up right back where it was in the 18th century with most students "reading the law" under the guidance of a practicing lawyer rather than going to a law school.
They had 130 graduates in 2012. Prior years: 2009 (138), 2010 (123), 2011 (129).
Lateral hiring, i.e., hiring three-to-five or more years out of law school, tells the story. As I found out myself in the market some years ago, employers hire people who are doing today in one office, what they will want them to be doing tomorrow in their office.That explains why in house hires look to hire people working, not only in the same specialty, but in the same industry.
e.g., Law Apprenticeships, 5 ALB. L.J. 97 (1872) ("Mock courts exist, indeed, but they are no more like real courts than a manikin is like a living man. We would laugh at a medical professor who should introduce at a clinic a patient that pretended he was sick or wounded, and ask the students to doctor or carve such patient for practice.").
providing professional education, just as they do in nearly all other major countries (e.g., English-speaking "articling," German-speaking "Referendar", etc.) and in other U.S. professions (e.g., medical residents, theology vicars, etc.).
curricular reform. It is simply too early, . . . much too early.
employing-branch of the legal profession.
The education a W&L student receives today is more rigorous than was the education received by their predecessors. The first year, with added requirements of administrative law and transnational law and professional responsibility, continues to be taught with the techniques and materials that have made the first year a legal education success story. The second year, too, is largely unchanged in its methodology. But in the reformed third year, students are challenged in ways they are not challenged in the traditional third year. Students must study and adopt the analytical practices of sophisticated lawyers. They must write more than their predecessors in the traditional third year. They must problem solve more. They must work as teams. They must progress in the mastery of the complex mental processes of sophisticated lawyers. The data gathered by the Law Student Survey of Student Engagement shows that our third year students are more actively involved in their education than both their W&L predecessors and current students at our peer schools.
I fully agree that it is incumbent on employers to "buy" what they have implored law schools to do to prepare students for the rigors of sophisticated practice. Time will tell. Employers' behavior is long- entrenched and employers are being especially cautious due to the financial crisis, but eventually we remain confident that these reforms, adopted in the midst of the most turbulent market in legal services in modern history, will bear fruit for all constituencies. The employment success of the very first class through a curriculum reform comes far too early to launch speculation about its connections with the reform.


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There were some interesting games.
Things did not look good for MTK this round.
I had built up a promising position with the bishop pair and central pawn majority. However, in the tense game I could not find the best plan and kept missing details and then came up with a game losing blunder.
I continued with the mundane plan of 23.Rc3 to invade on the c-file but better was 23.a4! to open up the queenside and create a second weakness.
I lost in horrible fashion. Feeling rather disgusted.
There is another game in the Monday team league this evening.
I tried something new and was too clever for my own good in the opening.
I played this dud of a move as part of an optimistic effort to undermine the d4 pawn.
My opponent found all the necessary tactical shots starting with 14.Nxd7! to explode my position.
I played on for a miracle but there is no Santa, no Superman and nobody can beat the Warriors.
Hopefully I don't get stuck into a box and shipped back to Canada for this game.
I played rather horribly and contributed a draw when I should have won handily.
MTK played a man short.
The game was a sloppy affair. I won a pawn early and then completely misplayed the game in horribly passive fashion.
I missed the winning shot 28..Bxh3 and played 28..Qg3 instead and shortly later agreed to a draw in a clearly better position when I missed a strong move in the line I was contemplating.
Not a great day for me.
The field is getting stronger!
Both MTK teams were successful today but I did not contribute much for the cause.
Contributed a draw when I wandered into a bad position on the Black side of a Nimzo-Indian. Myopponent offered me a quick draw so after some thought I accepted rather than risk getting steamrollered off the board.
IM Gledura made a big splash but for everyone else, the tournament was nothing special.


The UK trailer for Diana has been released, according to NBC News.
It's a story of man meets woman – only she was the most famous woman in the world.
In the first full-length trailer for the upcoming biopic Diana, Naomi Watts takes audiences into the private life of publicly-admired Diana, the Princess of Wales, as she fell in love with a heart surgeon, Dr. Hasnat Kahn (Naveen Andrews), in her final two years.
But Diana's passionate love affair with the Pakistani doctor – which followed her exit from the royal family, when she divorced from Prince Charles – was doomed, crippling under public scrutiny and pressure from his conservative Muslim family. The romance ended just before Diana's death in a paparazzi-chased Paris car crash in 1997.
Diana is scheduled to open Sept. 20 in the U.K., but there is still no official U.S. release date.
Subsequent tweets have sounded a bit more 1984-ish; "Think I was slightly early," he wrote Wednesday, before responding to someone else with, "yeah mate let the cat out of the bag abit [sic] early on that one, and the media have picked up on it." So who knows if this is really true or not?
Either way, Sophia's BFF Rosie is totally standing emotionless in a corner somewhere, clutching a teddy bear while "No One Is Alone" plays in the background.
Into the Woods, starring Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Emily Blunt and a slew of others, opens Christmas 2014.
The decision to cast Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan was a controversial one. Reagan is a conservative hero while good ole Hanoi Jane is, well, not. However, you can't deny the resemblance and in this clip from Lee Daniels' The Butler, Fonda says, "I happen to know that she's not unhappy that I'm playing her." In the short clip from the movie, we see Fonda as Reagan inviting the film's titular butler (played by Forest Whitaker) to a state dinner.


Filipa Larangeira has a Master in Law and in Business Management. She is VP of People at Uniplaces, the 3rd tech startup she has worked for (previously Head of HR at Miniclip and Vision-box ). She has a passion for tech, fast-paced and multicultural environments as they allow her to create unique, rich and tailored made people management solutions. Filipa's main focuses are culture, talent and organisational development as key pillars of any company.
Uniplaces was started in 2011 by three former international students who met whilst studying at university. Their idea was to help other students going abroad to find trusted accommodation, avoiding the issues they faced themselves. This was how Ben Grech (UK), Miguel Amaro (Portugal) and Mariano Kostelec (Argentina) created Uniplaces, at age 23.
The company grew and went through three investments. The latest one, in October 2015, was of 22M Euros (Series A) – this was an important milestone in the company's history.
But big investments also mean setting the bar higher and scaling the teams to cope with new targets, and between September 2014 and March 2016, Uniplaces went from 40 to 140 employees.
When I joined Uniplaces in October 2015, business strategy had been completely redefined. Critical organisational adjustment needed to be assessed. From a people management point of view, recruitment and company culture became clear strategic focuses whilst growing at the speed of light.
Company culture is a set of common traits that unite a group, standards that inspire their individual behaviours, towards each other and customers as well.
As startups grow so fast, it's normal for culture to change or mutate quite often, some of which happens organically and some based on actual conscious decisions. It's just like a human being going through childhood, adolescence and adulthood. As the business grows and its challenges evolve, you have to keep upgrading the pillars that support that culture.
Overall, after joining, it was crucial for me to understand what I call the "company's DNA", the startup's blueprint, created by the input of employees, leaders and the founders' vision. A company's DNA simultaneously results from and impacts recruitment, engagement and the company's performance. From a people management perspective, it is important to make sure people don't feel betrayed by the new culture developing whilst growing fast, always keeping in mind the uniqueness of the company and its original culture.
At Uniplaces, this sensitive but critical process of aligning the company culture with the business goals is mostly done through a soft skills and performance-based recruitment process, and by keeping a close and open communication at all levels of the organisation. In that sense, we became almost obsessed about the company's structure and core values that shape our evolution.
Although we don't like labels as they tend to be too limitative, there are a few modern jargons that could describe the way we manage our culture, employees and recruitment processes. We rely on values close to a holacracy model and a flat, decentralized internal network (similar to the "starfish model"), by which everyone is responsible for keeping themselves and everyone else on track, and where upper management leads by example and not by coercion. This means that anyone can do anything, because knowledge and power are distributed and spread throughout the company.
This considerable degree of autonomy and empowerment enables every employee to unlock their full potential and explore new fields that go beyond their normal job scopes. Furthermore, this type of structure allows us to be highly flexible and to evolve according to our business needs.
A recent example is the Uniplaces Trainees Academy program that is being developed by a group of people from different teams (including BizOps, Sales and HR) with the project owner being somebody outside of the HR team.
Holacracy has been quite a trendy topic within the HR industry in the last few years probably because of this new generation of employees – Millennials or Generation Y – who are pushing for a change of former business management paradigms, mostly directive and pyramidal. Millennials challenge deeply established models and their motivations are mostly connected to purpose and how they can directly contribute to business. This is what we've been experiencing at Uniplaces and we channel it as a source of inspiration to design and implement groundbreaking organisational solutions.
A fast growing startup is not only looking for talented people, but also for proactive, highly adaptable people who can fit such an holacratic culture. They need to be self-motivated and always looking for the bright side of life. In a company like Uniplaces, challenges can arise from the fact that, for example, our employees are quite young, which is crucial to understand our target audience: students.
A lot of Uniplacers are in their early to mid-twenties, and in their first jobs. They don't always realise how open and rich the company culture is because they do not have anything to compare it with.
That's why our main concern is to reach a fine balance between experienced and junior people that can bring us a rich and diverse assortment of perspectives.
Furthermore, there are also other relevant aspects to address when recruiting from such different cultural backgrounds – we can find people from 19 nationalities working together – and gender parity. In a multinational productdriven company where women represent 60% of our users and having customers spread all over the globe, diversity is key for our business' success.
That's the reason why our recruitment processes are collective and the decision to hire relies on the agreement between a group of people that are usually around five from different teams/ backgrounds.
To support this holacratic, diverse and open communication culture, we also constantly encourage work-life balance as we fully know that fast growing startups demand a lot of effort and energy from all employees.
We have office perks and company events that are designed to boost the general mood such as an in-house gym with regular sports classes, weekly massages, table tennis tournaments, Speakers Series (sessions where we have inspiring guests telling our employees about their inspiring business experiences), the Company Retreat once a year (an off-site weekend with all employees), free health check-ups, pizza lunches and quarterly surprise events.
I believe that these cultural foundations explain our low turnover rates and the incredible working environment that is perceivable to everyone that visits our office.


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Are Low-Carb Diets Safe for Kids?
If you haven't already tried some sort of modified-carb diet, you're probably thinking about it. And if you have reduced carbs and found it effective, you may be tempted to put your spouse on a similar program—or maybe even your kids.
Whether it's because your children could stand to lose a couple of pounds, or you simply don't want to cook different meals for each family member, getting the whole group on a low-carb diet may sound inviting. Considering that restaurant menus, fast-food chains and grocery-store shelves are now overflowing with reduced-carbohydrate options, carb-cutting appears to be an all-ages show.
Appearances, though, can be deceiving. While most kids (like most adults) could stand to lighten up on unhealthy, carb-heavy processed goods like soda, white bread and candy, restricting a growing child's intake of healthy carbohydrates can result in problems down the road, even if he or she is currently overweight.
Despite the low-carb craze, carbohydrates aren't nutritional villains, nor are they all created equal. Whole-food carbs, including fruits, vegetables, legumes and unrefined grains, are a critical source of nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytochemicals. Carbohydrates are also the main dietary source of energy, and their ingestion affects many aspects of brain and bodily function.
Carbohydrates are divided into two groups: complex carbs and simple carbs. Complex carbohydrates take longer to digest and are usually packed with fiber, vitamins and minerals. Examples include whole-grain varieties of bread, rice and pasta; vegetables such as beets, broccoli and carrots; and legumes, such as lentils, peas and beans.
Simple carbohydrates, also called simple sugars, are digested quickly and can contain refined sugar, fructose (fruit sugar) or lactose (milk sugar). Candy, cakes, sodas and syrups are all good examples of simple carbs. High-sugar fruits, such as bananas and oranges, also are rich sources of simple carbs.
Then there are refined carbs, which are considered a subcategory of carbohydrates because they are not "natural" carbs. These are similar to simple carbs in that they have the same effect in the body as sugars. They are primarily starches that have had the bran, hull, fiber and some nutrients removed from the grain during processing. Examples include processed white-flour products—bread, bagels and many crackers and cereals. Essentially, refined carbs can refer to just about any carb-based foods broken down from their natural state—arguably, that might even include making apples into apple juice.
Keeping a good balance of carbohydrates in the diet is essential for grownups but even more important for kids. Children are generally more active and have higher metabolisms than adults, which means they require a greater supply of the easily accessible fuel that carbohydrates provide. Not to mention that their bodies are growing—a process that requires a constant supply of nutrients.
Restricting an entire category of foods like carbohydrates can greatly compromise a child's energy level and even mental acuity. When you consider that the brain needs glucose to function properly, it makes sense that without a ready supply, kids will have a harder time staying alert.
In order to grow, play and learn, your kids' bodies need healthy carbohydrates. Teaching your children how to make wise dietary choices rather than to fear certain foods will leave them healthy, energetic and empowered. So, when they become adults, they may not need diets at all.


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If you're in the market for a Google Pixel 2 when it comes out on October 31, you're probably in the market for a case too. The pair go together like hand in glove and, just like gloves, there are plenty of options to wrap around your phone to keep it safe. Here are a few of the cases coming out soon for the Pixel 2.
Tech21's Evo Check recently survived a 150m helicopter drop. So it definitely passes the durability test, although it is only guaranteed to survive drops from the lofty height of three metres. As Cam mentioned in our iPhone 8 case round-up, 3 metres of drop resistance is enough. Supplied image is the Samsung Galaxy Note8 version of this case, but we think you know what a Pixel looks like, right?
Bellroy "the only leather case" for Pixel 2. Simple. Slim. This is the case for people like me who want a case that does just enough to keep your phone safe. There's flex polymer wrapped around the edges for protection and a premium leather backing for bonus style points. Bellroy's case is one of the few on the market that doesn't boast military-grade protection but that's the price you pay for taking the sleek option. Speaking of price, this case will set you back US$45 (AU$60).
Incipio offer two cases for the Google Pixel. There's the flexible, soft-shell NGP Pure ($24.95) for the cheap and easy solution and the DualPro ($39.95) a dual-layered case with military-grade protection in a premium, soft-touch finish. Both will be available from JB Hifi closer to the release of the Pixel 2 or you can order them from the US based Incipio Store.
Urban Armor sports a rugged armour shell and oversized tactile buttons on their Plasma series of cases. Perfect for outdoor activities like invading New Zealand over the weekend. Compatible with Android Pay and fingerprint reader, which we hope all of these cases are but Under Armor are one of the few brands to bring it up — so worth keeping in mind if it's something you're especially worried about.
Moshi is an international design house that makes, among other things, shiny cases to protect your phone. There are two offerings from Moshi for the Google Pixel; Tycho and Vitros. Tycho is a snap on, shatter-proof case that maintains the Pixel 2's form. Vitros is a slim, clear polymer case with a coloured, metallic frame. Both have raised bezel to protect the screen when the phone is laid flat and the military-grade drop protection that many cases offer.


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Gardner Earns More Postseason Accolades
TAMPA BAY – The awards continue to come in for Kansas senior forward Chelsea Gardner, who was named a 2015 Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-America Honorable Mention selection on Saturday afternoon, as announced by the WBCA at the Women's Final Four.
Gardner's WBCA accolade marks the second All-America honorable mention honor after also being named an Associated Press All-America Honorable mention honoree. Prior to collecting All-America honorable mention distinction from the WBCA, Gardner was named to the WBCA All-Region team and an All-Big 12 First Team honoree.
The De Soto, Texas native concluded her collegiate career in the Crimson and Blue as the 27th Jayhawk to score over 1,000 career points. She amassed 1,516 points in her four-year career, which is 12th all-time in Kansas women's basketball history.
During the 2014-15 campaign, Gardner registered a team-best 16.8 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game. She netted double figures in 16 of her last 17 games at Kansas and totaled double-digit scoring efforts in all but four contests.

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Lord Smith
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Lord Smith's six predictions for the ad industry
Advertising is one of the motors of our economy; and I hope everyone in government and elsewhere will realise this.
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Stepping down as chairman of the ASA after 10 years at the helm, I have to observe how huge the changes have been over that period. When I started, the ASA had only recently taken over responsibility for TV and radio advertising regulation. Digital marketing was only just beginning to take off, and the ASA's remit didn't cover most of it. Online behavioural targeting was a thing of the future. The economy was in a parlous state following the global crash, and advertising budgets were feeling the strain more than most. And Mad Men was the must-see show on TV.
You don't have to be Don Draper to chart what has happened since: at least half of advertising taking place online (and the ASA's caseload reflecting precisely that); customer information becoming a seriously deployed marketing tool; blogging, vlogging and social media taking off, and becoming trusted more than many other sources of information. But at the same time there has been a realisation that traditional, old-style TV advertising is the very best way to reach a mass audience. TV resilience is one of the major stories of the current marketing landscape.
But what's going to happen over the next few years? The reality is, of course, that none of us knows. But we can make a few guesses; and here, for what they are worth, are mine.
First up: Brexit – and the economic uncertainty it will bring won't be good for overall investment in advertising. Marketing budgets are always the first to be cut back when times are hard (and especially when they are uncertain). I suspect we'll be seeing quite a bit of this cutting-back over the next few years. It's frequently a false economy, but nonetheless it's what many companies tend to do.
Second, there will, I suspect, be further agglomeration of agencies, even within the overall WPP umbrella. The search for cost-cutting will be forever with us. But we may gradually come to realise that bigger doesn't always mean better, and that the most creative work will come from small, fleet-of-foot innovative agencies that aren't dependent on a larger entity. We may even get to a stage where these provocative battlers are increasingly the ones where some of the big corporate money goes. Let's hope so.
Third, I do hope that we retain and develop the creativity and swagger of advertising content. Ads at their best are fun. They have wit, humour and sometimes a bit of nostalgia. And they make an impact because they bring something a little different to our everyday lives. I've seen too many ads over the past 10 years that don't do any of this. Some are plain boring. Some are so terrible they make you wince. Let's have more creativity, please.
Fourth, we are beginning to realise that the internet isn't everything. It will, of course, continue to be a crucially important medium for marketers, especially where you're seeking to target individual groups of potential customers, and among a younger age range. For many small businesses it will be the only affordable route to reach consumers. But broad-spectrum, mass marketing, whether via TV, billboards or elsewhere, will still be the big-ticket way of bringing a message to millions of people. Its importance will be sustained.
And fifth, it will remain a fundamental truth that advertising, to be effective, depends on trust. People are becoming generally more sceptical – of everything, including advertising claims – and they know that marketers exaggerate, but there is still a broad assumption that there's a substance to most of the claims made. And I like to think that the ASA and the self-regulatory system that has remained strong for 55 years have played a vital part in ensuring that this assumption remains true. Knowing there's a body there that checks and restrains ads and champions truth gives consumers a confidence that they wouldn't otherwise have.
There's one other fundamental truth that needs to be recognised, and over the coming years we'll have to work hard to get it generally accepted. Ads are part of the oil that makes the economy work. Without ads, we'd all be infinitely poorer. Literally. Advertising is one of the motors of our economy; and I hope that everyone in government and elsewhere will come to realise this, and give us all the space we need to make it the very best we can.
Lord (Chris) Smith of Finsbury was the chairman of the ASA from 1 July 2007 to 30 September 2017. He was Labour's secretary of state for culture, media and sport between 1997-2001
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Loveable stray Garfield was a welcome sight around his local neighbourhood, where he'd regularly visit different houses looking for food and chin rubs. However, residents soon began to worry when the greedy cats' appearance started to deteriorate.
8 year-old Garfield began to lose weight rapidly, despite eating the same amount of food as normal. His fur went from being fluffy and clean to being dull, muddy and riddled with fleas. Garfield also had thick cheeks, a sign of swollen lymph nodes, and various scratches and sores on his face and body.
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Garfield's test results indicated that he was suffering from an ear infection, possibly the result of a parasite. We also discovered that he was FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) positive, which means he has a lower functioning immune system and is therefore more susceptible to illnesses and infections than other cats.
Our Vets prescribed Garfield a short course of antibiotics, and settled him with a foster carer so he could receive lots of love, care and attention as he recovered.
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The worried foster carer rushed Garfield to the out of hours veterinary clinic at RSPCA Putney, who were eager to rule out any kind of tumour. To everyone's relief, they found that Garfield was now suffering from a treatable secondary vestibular disease caused by the ear infection – affecting his balance, coordination and eye function.
RSPCA vets cleaned Garfield's inflamed ear canals and prescribed him a longer course of antibiotics and pain relief, before discharging him back into our care to recover in our hospital ward.
Happily, Garfield seemed to improve over the next couple of days, and his head tilt slowly became less pronounced. Once he was well enough, we were able to reunite him with his very worried foster carer, who took Garfield home to continue his recovery. She reported that after a few weeks on the antibiotics, Garfield became much more playful and active, and was able to balance on his hind legs and jump onto and off from furniture once more.
As he began to feel better, Garfield also started to look better – his coat became shiny once again, his cuts and scratches healed, and he started to put on weight.
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bachelor pad: would you like to ruin anything else I love?
IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE FOUR COUPLES LEFT.
And they were stupid.
Nick's tattoo is that one Bible verse, "I can do all things through Christ," etc. The tattoo on his other bicep says, "Notorious." I don't think I need to make a joke about this right now.
There was a competition that was too stupid to discuss. Long story short, Chris and Sarah won again.
Dry-hump celebration, woo!
Jorts FTW!
They got to kick off one couple. Chris' hatred of Blakeley won out over his friendship with Tony, so he eliminated Tony and Blakeley.
I hope I never see her on TV again. Anyway, in case you're wondering, the internet says they are still together and she is moving to Portland to be with him.
Now comes the *fun* part.
By fun, I mean that Bachelor Pad took an excellent song and crapped all over it. I wonder if they would like to send their contestants to my favorite breakfast diner to shit all over the plates, too. Damned ruiners.
Night Ranger, why hast thou sold thy soul to the devil?
For the next competition, the three remaining pairs have to sing duets of "Sister Christian." Which means we have to listen to varying crappified version of "Sister Christian" for an hour. I never want to hear it again.
Nick and his other bicep.
If the competition had been for "best simulated on-stage sex," Ed and Jaclyn would have won.
If the competition had been "most on-stage epileptic seizures," Chris and Sarah would have won.
But Rachel and Nick won.
Honestly, I fast forwarded a lot through the last half of this bull shit.
Since they won, Nick and Rachel get to decide who to go to the finale with. Rachel wants to bring Ed and Jaclyn, because she and Jaclyn are best friends. Nick wants to bring Chris and Sarah because they're completely unlikable and will never get enough votes from former contestants to win.
So they pick Chris and Sarah.
Chris is so entitled. Sarah is like: Wow you guys are stupid.
GOODBYE ED. GO AWAY NOW.
Jaclyn is PISSED
She's saying "It's fine," which as women know is code for "there are not enough curse words in the English language for how I feel right now."
Jaclyn says the friendship is off. I don't care. Goodbye.
Next week is the finale, FINALLY. There are some clips of Rachel yelling at someone and looking rather upset. There's a clip of Michael saying he didn't come on the show looking for a wife, so presumably he and Rachel are no longer dating. Chris Harrison calls it the "most shocking and most disturbing" Bachelor Pad finale ever, which isn't hard to do since it's only the third one ever.
You know what's shocking and disturbing?
Jamie.
Pick the giant earrings or the horrible headdress or the face jewels but not all of them.
Or is the gypsy look in now?
I could be wrong.
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Labels: Bachelor Pad, blakeley, Chris, Ed, jaclyn, Jamie, Nick, Night Ranger, rachel, sarah, Sister Christian, tony
so much to comment on, but im still laughing at the shocking and disturbing picture of jamie!!!! oh lord.
and im actually pretty surprised tony and blakely are still together, i thought for sure she wasnt really into it.
also, i had sister christian stuck in my head all night like a damn fool.
Erin September 5, 2012 at 11:18 AM
I am really surprised Blakeley and Tony are still together, too! But they are pretty much perfect for each other.
TILTE September 4, 2012 at 2:33 PM
I'm going to feel like our friendship is over once this series ends because you and I have had so much ridiculousness in common this season.
1. I hate the song Sister Christian and I'm surprised any of these underage fools even knew it. I bet Bachelor Pad was pumping it into the house 24/7 all week to get them primed.
2. Nick has REALLY grown on me over this last episode. He's my favorite person, by far (not counting that slimy nerdbabe, Reid and the real life American Psycho, Kalon). He's really come out of his funny-shell. I want him and Rachel to win.
3. At first I thought Sarah was pretty. But now I think she looks like a stroked out Mr. Potato Head. That's mean, I know. Also, she was dancing around on stage like Boyfriend's daughter, Pearl. Pearl is six, btw.
4. Thank GOD Jaclyn is off the show. Now I don't have to cringe in extreme embarrassment every time she throws herself at Ed and he completely ignores the fact that she's even alive. Bless. She can do better. Btw- when she squeaked out her first line of the song and asked to start over, I roared with humiliated laughter. Then I rewound and played again. Like 5 times.
5. As for the next episode, I'm calling bluff on BP's setup of Michael sounding like he's shitting all over Rachel. I bet it's going to be one of those "I don't come on here looking for a wife... but I did find a beautiful girl that I totally connected to." Reality shows love doing that kind of hoaky cliffhanger shit.
So I am just wondering if Nick and/or Rachel are going to try to screw each other over when they get the option to choose to share the money or bogart it. Perhaps that's what all this "most disturbing" nonsense is all about? You're probably right about Michael and Rachel. I should have see that one. :)
Jackln is so nasty!!
ettible September 5, 2012 at 2:14 PM
I tried to actually watch this the other night despite your warnings! My boyfriend turned it off after approximately .02 seconds.
Erin September 5, 2012 at 3:06 PM
Wise decision on his part. When I saw the recording in my queue and realized I'd have to watch & review it, I had a few choice words to say.


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Com. minister stresses on introduction of mechanised production in handloom and handicraft sector
IMPHAL, June 4: The commerce and industry minister, Y. Irabot Singh stated that the department of handloom and handicraft is likely to introduce modern mechanized system of production in order to meet the growing demand of handloom and handicraft products of the state all over the world.The minister who was attending an award distribution function of outstanding craftpersons and subsidies under the schemes of modernization of handicrafts and assistance to individual artisans held today at the Iboyaima Shumang Leela Shanglen also stated that despite huge demands of quality products of handloom and handicrafts products of the state, the massive global demand could not be met owing to the slow hand woven process.But the department is likely to introduce modern mechanized forms of production to assist the present demand for surplus production, said the minister adding the handloom and handicraft products of the state are in high demand all over the world and that handllom products of the state are regarded as No.1 in the country.Further speaking as the chief guest of the function, he also stated that lack of raw material in abundance is another factor which has is a hindrance to massive production of the handicrafts and handloom products, for which the minister has observed the need of coordination among the different related departments to overcome the bottleneck of getting raw materials, which could be beneficial to the state economy too, the minister added.Further touching upon the silk found in the state, the minister maintained that the state sericulture department, in collaboration with a Japanese firm had implemented various projects in the state to develop the silk production in the state, however due to the law and order situation in the state, the Japanese firm had to leave the project mid-way.He further added that recognizing the importance and quality of the Manipuri silk, the government of India under the Special Plan Assistant (SPA) fund has earmarked a sum of Rs. 61.11 crores to develop the sericulture project including the new variety of silk.He also added that the kind of silk which is golden in colour and which is in high demand around the world is found in the state. However he also added that both the golden colour silk and the local simple silk are both in high demand globally. The minister further added that the government is planning to established a silkyard at Loitang khunou.Sukumar Haobam a senior design consultant, while speaking as guest of honour stressed the need to encourage self employment programme among unemployed youths in the absence of employment opportunities.Further S Birendra Singh, functional manager, Handicrafs, commerce and Industry deft, stated that once a craftsman wins state award, he/she is eligible to implement the scheme of Guru Sishya parampara under office of the dv. Com (H) govt of India.He also stated that As many as 188 numbers of outstanding Crafts persons have won the state Awards in the state while 17 crafts-persons could get the National Awards and 13 Crafts-persons got National Merit Awards till date.The state awards have been implemented in the state since 1979-80, in order to promote and push the morals of the Craftspersons.During the function 10 artisans were awarded as outstanding artisans of 2009-10 while another 10 artisans were awarded as outstanding artisans of 2010-11. the award for the 2009-10 carried a citation and Rs 10,000 each while that of the 2010-11 carried as citation and a sum of Rs. 15, 000 each.
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There are however, still some non-public schools (predominantly larger high schools including Chaminade and Kellenberg) in Nassau County that continue to resist participation in the cooperative centralized system–citing the burdens of storage and inventory responsibilities as primary reasons. Most have well-established ordering systems that pass textbook responsibilities on to students and their parents.
For most districts, a significant part of the burden of providing these books is establishing efficient systems for ordering small quantities of individual titles from a large variety of publishers and suppliers. To address this problem, Textbook Central established the Purchase Order Management System (MPO) as an alternate option for all Nassau school districts: we purchase textbooks for a school district's non-public school students who attend schools that are NOT participating in the loan program.
Here's how the Purchase Order Management System works:
The district receives book requests from its students attending its non-participating schools or from the school itself.
After checking its own inventory, the district develops a consolidated list of books that need to be ordered, and submits the order to us (often these fill-in orders are the most troublesome–long in number of titles and publishers, and low in quantities needed). To maintain the lowest shipping costs, we suggest that districts accumulate the list of their needs, and submit orders to us periodically as needed during the non-public school textbook procurement season.
Using the sources and contacts we have developed over the past eleven years, Textbook Central will request and evaluate multiple bids for the needed textbooks. Our choice of the specific book supplier is based on both best price and availability.
We generate and process all purchase orders, and handle invoice reconciliation and settlement of all accounts payable. When needed, we handle the tracking of shipments.
In most cases, the textbooks are shipped to the school district for distribution, although some non-public schools have allowed direct shipment of a particular district's books to the school.
Districts are billed for the textbooks purchased as a separate line item on the bill you are already receiving for your participation in the Textbook Central Centralized Program. Three (3) progressive invoices are produced per textbook ordering season (70%, 20% & final 10%).
The total management of the purchase order, vendor tracking and invoice processing directly assisted 39 of the 53 Nassau districts for 2019-2020. It is likely that our services were utilized to satisfy more than 6,000 additional non-public school students. The fee for this service is 16% of the total textbook procurement cost.
For this fee, we are locating the textbooks for the best available price. Most importantly, however, the Business Office is relieved of the multiple aspects of the ordering process repeated over and over during the textbook procurement season: purchase orders, individual vendor orders, tracking and invoice processing. For many districts, non-public school textbook needs result in hundreds of purchase orders alone for each school year. For each of the past years, the savings we've been able to garner through our ordering system has offset our service fee.
In addition to buying textbooks for non-public school students, for several districts we have purchased textbooks for the district's own needs.
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The truth is out there, but it's also down here.
Arrival, an aliens-come-to-Earth drama from Denis Villeneuve, is the heady, philosophical counterpart to the likes of Independence Day and District 9: an exploration not of outer space but of one earthling's inner life. It looks forward and backward, up and down, and finds a kind of cosmic truth that's achingly beautiful in how personal it is.
The question in Arrival isn't whether or not aliens exist; it's why they're here. The otherworldly beings have landed at 12 ostensibly random spots across the globe in monolithic spacecraft, opening their doors to their respective emissaries once every 18 hours.
That their outposts are in such far-flung locations as Russia, China, the Sudan, and America almost reads as a challenge: cooperate among yourselves, they seem to be telling us, or risk never knowing what we're doing here — and whether we come in peace.
Enter Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams), an esteemed linguist who's tasked with trekking to Montana and translating the extraterrestrials' language. She's joined in that effort by scientist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), whose view on life and work makes for a clear contrast to her own. After briefly setting their philosophies in opposition to one another, Villeneuve puts them to work.
What follows is almost daring in how unsexy and process-heavy it is. Louise puts in the long hours and hard work required to establish communication with these creatures. When saying simple words aloud yields no obvious results, she writes the word "human" on a whiteboard and points at herself. Big things start small.
Villeneuve was working in French Canada for more than a decade when his Incendies landed an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign-Language Film and caught the attention of Hollywood; since then, he's become as sought after as he is prolific: 2013's Prisoners, his English-language debut, has been followed in short order by Enemy, Sicario, and now this. He'll next helm the long-awaited Blade Runner sequel, and hopefully bring to it the same verve and nuance that make Arrival so compelling.
To reach the room where the dialogues take place, Louise and her team — which includes a bird in a cage, their canary in the coal mine — pass through a kind of antigravity chamber. Arrival chooses its visual spots carefully, grounding the fantastical in the scientific so as to make each small, physics-defying moment stand out all the more.
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Like most movie heroes, Louise brings emotional baggage to this endeavor: Impressionistic glimpses of her life show a young daughter who succumbs to an unspecified terminal illness as Louise looks on helplessly. And so, after a while, that central question expands into something more like "Why are any of us here?" Villeneuve and screenwriter Eric Heisserer, without making it overt or grandiose, tap into a fear that, as they envision it, is quite literally universal.
For all that, most everyone outside of Louise's immediate orbit isn't as fully drawn as she is; Louise is a flesh-and-blood being among two-dimensional characters who sometimes serve as little more than talking plot devices. Neither Renner nor Whitaker is called upon to shoulder as much of the burden as they're clearly capable of doing, though both perform admirably in their limited roles — Whitaker especially has a presence that's unique to him, at once imposing and deeply sympathetic.
Villeneuve and Heisserer also make brilliant use of a structural conceit that can't be mentioned in depth without revealing a key plot detail, so know this: Arrival moves through space-time with a nimbleness so rare it feels like a visit from another place, the kind you'll want to have your whiteboard ready for.


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This webinar will discuss the management of renal insufficiency in patients with cirrhosis, in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Topics to be discussed include workup of the patient with acute kidney injury in the outpatient setting, management of diuretics and evaluation using novel biomarkers. The audience member will be able to understand how to balance diuretics usage to account for symptom control versus patient safety, recognize the spectrum of etiologies of kidney dysfunction in the patient with cirrhosis and how to evaluate for them, and treatment of renal failure in the inpatient setting. We will utilize a live webinar format that will be recorded for on-demand viewing on LiverLearning®.
Josh Levitsky
Josh Levitsky, MD, MS is currently a Professor of Medicine and Surgery in the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Levitsky received his B.S. from the University of Michigan and M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then completed an Internal Medicine residency and Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Chicago Hospitals and a Transplant Hepatology fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, receiving an AASLD Fellowship Award. He is currently certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology. At Northwestern, he completed a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation, is the Director of Liver Research, and is the program director for both Gastroenterology and Transplant Hepatology Fellowships. He has been elected to the Northwestern Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators and has received several teaching awards.
Dr. Levitsky is an active member of several professional societies, including the American Society of Transplantation and International Liver Transplantation Society where he served on the executive boards, as well as the AASLD where he has served on several committees. He is a Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Transplantation and on the Editorial Board for HEPATOLOGY. Dr. Levitsky's academic interests are clinical and translational in nature, with a focus on liver transplant immunosuppression, tolerance and biomarkers. He previously received an AASLD Career Development Award in Liver Transplantation and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts, book chapters and reviews on topics relevant to liver disease and transplantation. He is the principal and co-investigator for a number of NIH, pharmaceutical and investigator-initiated trials. His goal is to advance clinical/translational research in immune-mediated liver diseases and liver transplantation, identifying biomarkers and novel strategies to optimize outcomes.
Vinay Sundaram (Moderator)
Dr. Vinay Sundaram is a transplant hepatologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he serves as assistant medical director of liver transplantation and director of hepatology outcomes research. He has been a member of the AASLD since 2009. He is actively involved with numerous committees including the AASLD membership and mentorship committee, chair of the education subcommittee for the clinical practice special interest group. In addition, he is on the membership and professional standards committee for UNOS. His research interests include end-stage liver disease, acute on chronic liver failure and post-transplant outcomes. He has over 100 published manuscripts and abstracts and is on the editorial board for Hepatology Communications.
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Lightning Speed
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About Lightning Speed Game
Have you ever dreamt of being on a race track and feel everything that a racecar feels on the road? Now it is possible. In the fantastic Lightning Speed game, you have the chance to race with other cars and even with Lightning McQueen. To do that, you need to pick a nickname out of three letters for your vehicle. After that, you can design it in the way you want. Make it look as beautiful as you wish and let everyone see that your car is the best.
How to play the game
At first, you will watch a short movie trailer about how to play the game, and then you will start racing. Using your left and right arrow keys move the car on the road and try to collect all the different things that might pop up in your way. For instance, if you manage to collect lightings, you will be able to make use of a boosted acceleration, which can come in handy at hard times.
Also, there are different other goods along your way which may be collected and exchanged for points at the end of each race. The points are critical because you can use them to upgrade different parts of the cars, starting with technical aspects such as the engine acceleration and speed, the tires kit depending on the race type you`re going to attend, and ending with visual elements like decals, car paint and so on.
When you are ready, choose one country where you want to race and complete all four courses trying to finish in first place. Collecting coins, you can exchange them for benefits for your car. Complete all the routes from different countries to become the best racer in town.
With this game, your dream can come true, and you will feel it on your skin. So what are you waiting for? Get in your car, transform it the way you like and start racing with others. We can bet that you will love it and it will be hard for you to give up on that. Good luck and have fun!
Lightning Speed is an excellent Disney Cars game that you can play on Disney--Games.com for free. It has been added to our website on Thursday, June 07, 2018. The game has been played 2787 times so far and has received a rating of 91 / 100 from a total of 34 user votes, 31 likes and 3 dislikes. Lightning Speed is loaded in an iframe, so it would adequately render in all browsers, including the mobile devices. The game window resolution has been optimized for best visual performance, having the width of 950px and the height of 600px. If you enjoy playing Lightning Speed, you might be excited finding out that there are 28 more Disney Cars games you can try! The most popular is Lightning McQueen's Desert Dash and the most recently added is Disney Cars Jigsaw
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Petraeus: 'We can win this war'
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Gen. David Petraeus (AP)
Gen. David Petraeus formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan on Sunday, declaring "we are in this to win" despite rising casualties and growing skepticism about the nearly 9-year-old war.
During a ceremony at NATO headquarters, Petraeus received two flags — one for the U.S. and the other for NATO — marking his formal assumption of command.
He said it was important to demonstrate to the Afghan people and world that al-Qaida and its extremist allies will not be allowed to once again establish sanctuaries in Afghanistan from which to launch attacks on the United States and other countries.
"We are in this to win," Petraeus told a crowd of several hundred NATO and Afghan officials at the ceremony held on a grassy area just outside coalition headquarters. "We have arrived at a critical moment."
Petraeus succeeded Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired last month for intemperate remarks he and his aides made to Rolling Stone magazine about Obama administration officials who were mostly on the civilian side.
"Upfront I also want to recognize the enormous contributions of my predecessor, Gen. Stanley McChrystal," Petraeus said. He said the progress made reflects McChrystal's "vision, energy and leadership."
Petraeus said the change in command did not signal a radical shift in McChrystal's strategy of making the protection of the Afghan people the focus of the military mission.
"Recent months in Afghanistan have seen hard fighting," he said. "As we press on in our vital mission, we must continue our efforts to reduce the loss of innocent civilians to an absolute minimum."
But Petraeus said he would examine the policies "to determine where refinements might be needed."
In a message to his troops, Petraeus said he would "not hesitate to bring all assets to bear to protect you and the Afghan forces with which you are fighting shoulder to shoulder."
That suggested he would review the rules under which NATO soldiers fight, including McChrystal's curbs on the use of airpower and heavy weapons if civilians are at risk. Troops have complained such restraint puts their own lives at risk and hands the battlefield advantage to the Taliban and their allies.
Speaking before Petraeus, German Army Gen. Egon Ramms, commander for the Allied Joint Force Command, also praised the work of McChrystal, saying he took the coalition "forward at a very difficult time."
"We wish Stanley McChrystal well," Ramms said.
Ramms lamented the deaths of civilians due to military operations by coalition forces, but said people should not forget the Afghan citizens who died at the hands of insurgents whose actions are "unlawful."
In southern Afghanistan, four civilians were killed and five others were wounded Sunday by a remote-controlled bomb set up on a motorcycle in a bazaar in Musa Qala, said Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for Helmand province. At the time of the blast, police were busy defusing another bomb planted on a donkey, Ahmadi said.
On Saturday, a civilian was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Tagab district of Kapisa province and another civilian driving a car was killed when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Khash Rod district of Nimroz province, the Ministry of Interior said Sunday.
June was the deadliest month for the allied force since the war began in October 2001 with 102 deaths, more than half of them Americans. Britain's Ministry of Defense reported that a Royal Marine was killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan — the fifth international service member killed this month.
Since arriving here Friday evening, Petraeus has sought to make cooperation between the civilian and military parts of the international mission a top priority.
Petraeus, widely credited with turning around the U.S. war effort in Iraq, faces rising violence and growing doubts in Washington and other allied capitals about the effectiveness of the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, which the general himself pioneered.
Later Saturday, Petraeus met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Corruption was one of the issues the two discussed, according to a statement issued by the presidential palace. Karzai used the meeting to complain about what he said were "baseless" allegations made by U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a Democrat from New York, who suggested Afghan government officials had misused or pocketed donor funds, Karzai's office said.
Karzai asked Petraeus to review international contracts for private security companies to help keep money from flowing out of the country. According to the statement, Petraeus told the president he would begin his job by emphasizing "unity, accountability and transparency."
6 thoughts on "Petraeus: 'We can win this war'"
Klaus Hergeschimmer
The Mass media as does Petraeus cram down our throat that the reason we invaded Pipe-O-Stan in the first place was deprive Al Qaeda of a sanctuary for training Dirt Camps for Terrorist Attacks against the U.S.
The real reason of course is to protect Pipe-O-Stan's pipeline which is covered by a string of U.S. Military bases.
Well, just how threatening is a Dirt Camp in the most primative, backwards country in the world. Just how dangerous could it be.
I just imagine this scene in Afghanistan in some remote mountain Dirt Camp where Akmed is training some Al Qaeda-Nauts: "My brothers, see this Stick, this is one of the Wests big metal birds they call a 747, now see those two Bottles over there, they are the World Trade Towers"…"You will learn how to fly these big metal birds right into the World Trade Towers" (he throws the stick at the two bottles).
Remember an incident when a private lear jets oxygen system malfunctioned quite a few years ago (before 9/11), the pilot and executives on the plane died of poxia; however, the plane was on autopilot and flying in a stable pattern. It was only a matter of a few minutes until an F-15 was up there checking out the situation.
When the Terrorists hijacked their planes there was a major gaff because they were in the air for well over 45 minutes, way out of its flight plans, without any interception at all.
The point I'm making is spending money on our territorial integrity is far more important then spending profligate amounts of money on destroying Dirt Camps in a country that is practically in the stone age with Fred Flintstone technology.
Whether the Dirt Camp is in Afghanistan or Pakistan is beside the point.
I doubt that the U.S would risk invading Pakistan over Terrorist Dirt Camps or even if they were inside a McDonalds restaurant (although PNAC seems to know no bounds of restraint).
I Know, I know, I'm ranting…it is just utterly amazing that we spend billiions of dollars to destroy Akmeds dirt camp which cost $20.00 to to throw together.
Bogofree
I guess he sees "The light at the end of the tunnel."
AustinRanter - AKA Gregg
Huh, what did he say the definition of "WINNING" is?
Like Vietnam, the way to victory is to leave. Let them alone to kill each other until one of them wins, and then we can deal with that diplomatically.
Use the soldiers as border guards. That would do a few things: Monies spent funding this huge armed force would all be spent locally, boosting our economy; our borders would be more secure; we would not be killing as many of our soldiers; victory could be declared daily since there would be no battles; rotation of the soldiers would be easier, safer, and less expensive.
Bring em home sez I. Let the ragheads kill each other.
Rumor has it the Mexican military is firing on people across the border, and drug gangs control a large portion of the Arizona border. Might be just as dangerous!
Looks like the General has been getting into the poppy shipments again. He's smoking something to believe in the fantasy of "winning" in Afghanistan.


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Fluers Avenue, Dumbreck is 174 meters away, 3 min walk.
Melfort Avenue, Dumbreck is 241 meters away, 4 min walk.
Maxwell Drive, Dumbreck is 243 meters away, 4 min walk.
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How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Deliver Your Message Effectively
Today, social media has become increasingly popular with all sorts of people from students, policymaker to politicians and the public expressing themselves on several issues or even get things done. However, many users struggle to understand what social media is and how they could use it. Moneylife Foundation had invited Keya Madhvani Singh, head for entertainment partnerships at Twitter India to explain how the power of twitter can be understood and harnessed to deliver a message effectively.
Keya started the presentation by giving a brief overview of social media platforms. "Twitter is what's happening in the world and what people are talking about"…
She explained how people usually come to Twitter in a discovery mind set, looking for what is new and for great content or stories.
She then proceeded to explain the step-by-step process of using Twitter. Simplifying the process of filling out the profile page, she shared three easy steps, "describe what you do and your values; tell your followers what to expect from following you and explain your product or service with a link to your company profile".
After briefly explaining the basics of Twitter and explaining the differences in reply, retweet and like, she took the attendees through a simple process of composing a tweet.
She said, "Basically, a tweet should have an active statement – one that lets people know what you think, it should have a link or a hashtag – to explain what you want the users to do and finally an image or video to convey how you want people to feel."
"Even with the increased word count of 280 characters a tweet should always be brief and should convey your message effectively. An image in support of your tweet can often help in keeping a tweet brief. Finally, Twitter is about having a conversation and new users should follow trends on the platform to 'plug into' an on-going conversation," Keya added.
During her presentation, Keya also shared few examples of ideal Twitter users that make the most out of the social media platform.
Responding to a question on misuse of Twitter platform, Keya says,"We have certain tools to curb abuse on Twitter. Unlike WhatsApp, here on Twitter, a user can report a tweet, block or mute those handles that may be spreading wrong information or fake news. Once a user report about a handle or tweet, our teams review it and take necessary action."
She also clarified that Twitter has stopped verified accounts for individuals. "However, we have not appointed or authorised any agency to verify accounts. If you come across such agency or person, then we request you to share it with us," Keya said.
According to the Twitter India's Head for Entertainment Partnership, Twitter is platform for communication but it is not replacement for police, fire or civic authorities. However, she says, more and more authorities are coming on the platform and using it effectively for better communication with general public. She shared how Mumbai Police are using Twitter effectively to help citizens after receiving information and complaints.