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PLAYERS: Andrea Bargnani, Carlos Boozer, Tom Thibodeau
TEAMS: Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls
TEAMS: Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls
Andrea Bargnani just got himself healthy and back onto the court, and the Toronto Raptors are already discussing traded. They have long-wanted to move Bargnani, but he hurt himself and the team had to wait for him to recover. Now, with Bargnani healthy again, they can start up trade talks. And they have.According to Aggrey Sam of CSN Chicago, the Raptors have talked to the Chicago Bulls about a trade that would send Bargnani to Chicago in exchange for Carlos Boozer. There is reportedly no traction in those talks just yet, but considering they've only been going on for a day, it's possible that the discussion could pick up steam.Bargnani is a productive big man, but he may clash with the coaching style of Tom Thibodeau. Coach Thibodeau is a no-nonsense coach who expects his players to play by his rules. Bargnani may not be willing to do so. But he can certainly be productive. He has averaged 15.9 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.If the Bulls were to move Boozer, it would be almost entirely for financial reasons. The club would save money on Boozer's contract compared with Bargnani's. Boozer is a veteran who has performed better than Bargnani this season. He has averaged 15.7 points and 9.4 rebounds per game.Follow @hoopsinjurynews!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="http://www.nbainjurynews.com//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-34100676-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();
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GRAMBLING, LA – After interviewing seven finalists recommended by a search committee, President Frank G. Pogue announced this week that Dr. Percy "Chico" Caldwell will assume the position of Athletic Director at Grambling State University, pending approval by the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors. More than 50 applications were received. Search Committee members were: Ms. Lynsey Carrier, Coach James Cooper, Dr. Birdex Copeland, Dr. Willie Daniel, Coach Bertram Lovell, Coach Donnita Rogers, Dr. Joyce Montgomery Scott and Coach Doug Williams.
"One of the difficult decisions was narrowing this extensive highly qualified pool of candidates to one individual," says Dr. Pogue. "Dr. Caldwell's experience and professional preparation will empower Grambling athletics to rise to the next level of excellence and bridge the gap between Grambling's historic achievements and success in athletics and the academic mission of the University. He will bring significant strength to the athletic administration including planning, research, marketing and financial management."
Dr. Caldwell, a former student athlete, received his doctorate from Iowa State University and earned certification as an Administrator Evaluator. He received a master's degree in Health, Fitness and Recreation from the University of Alabama and a bachelor's degree in Sociology/Psychology from Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dr. Caldwell has held several athletic positions over the course of his career. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1989, named Coach of the Year in 1990 and Athletic Director of the Year in 1991 for the West Virginia Conference. He also served in the United States Army, Military Police Corps.
"To be afforded the employment opportunity at Grambling State University, a great academic institution with its rich athletic history drawing national attention, is special and very exciting. The rich athletic history separates Grambling State University from any other university. The stage is already set. My job will be to start from here assisting Dr. Pogue and his administration to continue to operationalize the mission and vision at GSU," says Dr. Caldwell. "To be working with Dr. Frank Pogue and the GSU athletics staff will be an amazing opportunity. I am excited to get started," he said.
Arrangements are underway for a press conference on Wednesday morning, February 15, at 10:00 in the Black and Gold Room of Favrot Student Union to formally introduce Dr. Caldwell to the Grambling Tiger world.
Grambling State University has 15 sports program: men's football, basketball, baseball, cross country, track and field/outdoor; women's basketball, bowling, track and field indoor/outdoor, cross country, tennis, soccer, softball and volleyball.
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Business Ideas in the News / October 7, 2010
An Australian inventor has created a bazooka that shoots life preservers rather than rockets. News.com.au has more:
Sam Adeloju last night won the £20,000 ($32,000) James Dyson Award, named after and patronised by the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner which carries the Dyson name.
His entry, the Longreach, is a modified bazooka which fires an expanding lifebuoy 150m out to persons in distress.
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Like most gamers, the folks at Kalisto Entertainment enjoy challenging their friends to a little competitive gameplay. This is how it all began for Ultim@te Race Pro, Kalisto's upcoming foray into the racing genre. As Dan Kaufman, head of business operations at Kalisto and self-proclaimed scrub racer described it, "There's an arcade down the street from our offices in Bordeaux, France, and the design team would go down there to play Daytona against each other a lot. We always wanted to do the long race in the arcade, but it was too expensive. So we decided to make a game where you could race head-to-head for as long as you wanted without having to keep pumping quarters into a machine."
Developed by Kalisto Entertainment and distributed under the MicroProse moniker, Ultim@te Race Pro will let you sprint around four different tracks in one of 16 engine-stoked street racers. The four courses that will be included in the final version detail scenery from three distinct regions of the United States (the West Coast, the Midwest, and the Southwest) and one in Europe (Dordogne, France). The different landscapes are incredibly detailed and beautiful, and they smoothly materialize out of the fog as you scream around corners and down straightaways. Although four tracks may seem limited as compared with other racing games, Kalisto has included options for customizing each track so you can reverse the race direction, race on a mirror image of each track, or alter the time of day and weather conditions, essentially giving race fans 16 track configurations. "We thought it would be more exciting if it got dark, storms rolled in, and the weather changed... just like in real life," Dan explained. The courses themselves are not simple oval tracks as in Nascar or IndyCar Racing, but rather picturesque paths that wind through canyons, over bridges, and by ancient stone castles. "We thought people were tired of realistic sims," Dan contended. "With Ultim@te Race Pro, we were looking to make an action-oriented racing game that looked as good as arcade racers." Believe me, Kalisto has achieved this and more. The amount of terrain detail in Ultim@te Race Pro is truly incredible, and the settings are visually spectacular and extremely realistic looking.
As the name suggests, Ultim@te Race Pro will be aimed at the multiplayer racing market. Dan says that Kalisto "built Ultim@te Race Pro as a multiplayer game from day one instead of adding multiplayer options after the game engine had been built. It's really difficult to create a game and then add multiplayer options later, so we designed this as a multiplayer game from the beginning." Even in its pre-beta form, Ultim@te Race Pro is loaded with multiplayer options and, in the final version, up to 16 players will be able to participate in a road duel via LAN, modem, serial connection, or the Internet. Perhaps the coolest feature of Ultim@te Race Pro will be the multiplayer destruction derby arena, the first of its kind, which promises to provide Internet racers with a little auto devastation without increasing their insurance premiums. Dan put it best when he said, "We had a bunch of gamers come in and tell us that racing games were really fun, but we want to smash some crap in the process." Although the multiplayer options are going to be the focus of Ultim@te Race Pro, Kalisto promises to entertain even if you are a solo racer, allowing you to either race against the clock or against a slew of computer opponents.
Unlike many of the PC racing games on the market, Ultim@te Race Pro will stress action, entertainment, and beauty rather than realistic simulation. The graphics in Ultim@te Race Pro rival such arcade racers as Virtua Racing, Super GT, and Daytona USA. Those of you with a 3D accelerator card should prepare to be dazzled as Ultim@te Race Pro promises to support 3Dfx, Power VR, and Direct 3D. The design team at Kalisto boosted the visual realism by adding special graphical effects such as smoke, fog, sparks, realistic shading, lens flare, and awesome shadow details. The 3D-rendered landscapes are breathtaking and Kalisto is able to achieve very high frame rates even in the pre-beta copy. The final version of Ultim@te Race Pro promises to support up to 1024x768 resolution and 16-bit color display. For those of you who still haven't invested in a 3D accelerator card (and may I ask why not?), don't fret. Ultim@te Race Pro will also be playable without a 3D accelerator at the expense of frame rate and detail level.
Of course, all this graphical power will require a solid system to run properly. The minimum system requirements of a P133 with 16MB of RAM are quite hefty, and MicroProse even recommends a 32MB P166 with a fast 3D graphics accelerator card to achieve optimal performance. However, if you are an action racing fan, Ultim@te Race Pro may turn out to be the game that warrants a system upgrade. Expect to see Ultim@te Race Pro on the shelves worldwide by late February.


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There are a lot of gardens in Seattle, Washington that can provide a tranquil and comforting environment. Filled with flowers and plants from all around the world, right here are three gardens in Seattle that can give a good outing for the day.
Washington Park Arboretum
Situated on the shores of Lake Washington, the Washington Park Arboretum is a element of the University of Washington's Botanical Gardens. The Arboretum extends more than 230 acres and gives plant exhibits from the Pacific Area, a Woodland Backyard, Japanese Garden and the Joseph A. Witt Winter Garden.
The Arboretum also incorporates nature trails throughout the gardens to
provide a peaceful and serene expertise although exploring the gardens. The gardens also function kayaking and canoeing on Ducks Bay and close to Foster Island on the east side of the Arboretum.
The Washington Park Arboretum delivers classes to master far more about the Seattle gardens exhibits as nicely as a lot more about the care and conservation of the native plants.
Kubota Garden
The Kubota Gardens are portion of the Seattle public parks method and supply a amount of exhibits in Japanese culture and gardening. The Kubota Garden was developed in 1927 by Fujitaro Kubota and has grown to a 20 acre show of exotic japanese plants among waterfalls and ponds.
As a self-taught landscaper, Kubota's dream was to provide a spot to show the native Northwest flora in a Japanese setting. The Kubota backyard has grown from it's beginnings on five acres to a thriving and peaceful setting for locals and guests of the Seattle public parks.
The Kubota Garden incorporates nature trails for self-guided tours by the park and guides are supplied for group tours. The Kubota Garden is also a good location to hold weddings or distinctive occasions.
Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden
As one of the preeminent Seattle Gardens, the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Backyard presents exhibits of community horticulture 12 months-round. Guided tours are offered by the backyard and lessons are also supplied to educate the public on the care and cultivation of the plants and flowers.
The Miller Garden Believe in also presents courses on horticulture from all around the world. The Miller Memorial Lectures are offered yearly at the University of Washington's Meany Hall for the Executing Arts.
The Miller Botanical Gardens incorporate a lot of varieties of Alpines, Ferns, Woodland Plants, Ground covers and far more. A renown horticulturist, Elisabeth C. Miller attended the University of Washington and lived in the Seattle region for most of her lifestyle. She was accountable for the creation of the Center for Urban Horticulture as very well as the University of Washington's Elisabeth C. Miller Library.
These and several other Seattle Gardens make the city a excellent spot for these who get pleasure from the peace and comfort of gorgeous backyard environments.
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Hawaii's Vertically Integrated Small Businesses
Here are three Hawaii small businesses that do it all
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Cacao pods grow on trees (above) and when split
"Passion for what we do"
Original Hawaiian Chocolate
Local companies have been selling chocolate for many years, using imported chocolate to make their products. But just a few small companies use only Hawaiian-grown chocolate to make their products.
Bob and Pam Cooper, owners of Original Hawaiian Chocolate, grow their own cacao trees in Kona on the slope of Hualalai. They add in cacao beans from other local farmers, then process it to make truly local chocolate.
They bought the land in 1997 and made their first chocolate bar in 2000. Since then, they have been gradually increasing production and sales.
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"There were cacao trees everywhere in Kona in the early 1900s, but no one before us ever decided to take the bean to the finished product," says Bob Cooper.
Cacao pods grow on the branches and trunks of the trees and ripen after five months. The pods turn from green to yellow to maroon and red, signifying that they are ready to be cut.
The Coopers say they grow only forastero trees, which produce 80 to 85 percent of the world's chocolate. Less hardy and therefore more rare are criollo trees, and the Coopers buy raw criollo beans from other local farmers. They are also collecting beans from the third tree in the cacao family, trinitario, a cross-pollination of forastero and criollo trees, but they don't yet have enough of those beans for production.
Every two weeks, Cooper and an employee cut pods from the trees and pull out by hand the 30 to 40 cocoa beans in each pod. At this stage, the beans are still covered in white mucilage, so that is sweated off the beans, which takes six to eight days for forastero beans, and four days for criollo.
The beans are then placed in slatted boxes of untreated wood to ferment and dry in the Hawaiian sun for 22 to 28 days. Using a moisture analyzer, they ensure they get the beans' 50-percent moisture down to 7 percent. Once dried, the beans can be stored for years, but most are immediately cleaned, roasted, winnowed, conched and transformed into chocolate.
Beans are dried in the sun on racks before.
For roasting, some big operations use a $3 million roaster, but the humble Coopers use a coffee roaster that they say works just as well. To turn the cleaned and roasted beans into smooth chocolate, the Coopers use a conching and refining machine equipped with 36 carbon steel blades. That process takes 18 hours to turn the chocolate into a liquid, and another 16 hours to mix in other ingredients. Then the bars are cooled and hardened for two-and-a-half hours. All in all, from the ground to the bar, it takes six months to make chocolate.
Pam Cooper does the bookkeeping and a couple of employees help package and sell the chocolate in their store and on the web. "We multitask here all the time," Bob Cooper says. "It's kind of a hectic thing to have to do, but that's what makes us very different. We have a passion for what we do and we believe in what we do."
The Coopers have been patient farmers and entrepreneurs. They made their first chocolate bar in 2000, but didn't turn a dime in profit until seven years later. Last year, they made 10,000 pounds of chocolate and $250,000 in profit.
Eventually, as the company continues to grow, the Coopers plan to give 10 percent of their net income to Hawaii cacao farmers. "We haven't reached that point yet but we hope sometime in the future to do that," Bob Cooper says.
The chocolate is liquified so other
The Coopers are committed to their philosophy of buying beans only grown in Hawaiian soil. "If there are no Hawaiian beans to make chocolate, we don't make chocolate. And it may be self-restraining, but it's our choice to do that," Cooper says.
"Our mission in life is to keep it Hawaiian."
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Film stills from the short i made in my 3rd year at NUA.
Film stills from the short i made in my 3rd year at NUA.
one of the best sites i have came across for a long time……..AWESOME
Vimeo is the home for high-quality videos and the people who love them.
Saw 2
2.30 in. flashback style effect, SOUND useful!
Another sound that caught my attention…….
Literally the fist thing you hear in this Incubus song….I think something similar to its almost muffled tubular sound could help with the weird shit that goes down my film…..
More quality body horror!
interesting sounds that are worth a look also!
Very much engineering style sounds, metallic. AS you'd expect.
I like the noisy sounds nearer the end too and the almost throbbing wet sound that creeps in. the throbbing sounds are something that i am aiming for in my film as i think it helps add tension, that and heartbeats always do the trick ;)
A film i'm still yet to see but one i definitely will watch before i finish my full edit.
For sound research this trailer didn't offer too much, a few odd warp/whoosh sounds that i could possibly integrate into my edit though.
Too electric guitar for my film but elements of of the track would work, the high frequency section would work along with some of the bassy tones
And one more :P
(last Tens sec's are close to what i am thinking for this filum!)
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More Grad film inspiration for sounds.Gotta love it!
Some music reference/inspiration for my grad film.
Like always there's some particular sound i forget to obtain on recording days……..this site may become very handy.
forum that answered that shit question i had half way into my final year film…..balls!…..expensive balls!


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Well said!
I have done work experience at 7 law firms, niche, regional & in- house. I have done pro- bono, I have written for several websites, I have a stong 2:1, my place confirmed for the LPC yet still no training contract......the reasons stated by the rejections are 'i am sorry but we have taken the decision not to recruit this year'.
For others, like me, who have undertaken unpaid work experience, got into serious debt to pursue a dream career as a lawyer are being replaced by the (I would argue....upper class) who just happen to 'fall into' the profession through family, friends and contacts.
This blogger's attitude towards the profession is frankly pitiful.
If I may hazard a guess at why she wrote her own epitaph:
For one, in the hope that one of the firms to whom she has applied will read this and think: "Here is someone we must save from the recession". She is deluded as is demonstrated by this:
"Why, then did I continue on a crumbling path? Because I thought that only the strongest would realise that crumbling blocks can still be stacked to make a rather rocky yet workable road".
Any reputable firm's graduate recruitment department reading this will settle on the opinion that she doesn't want the job enough. No-one likes a whinger. In any case, failing to display the tenacity and persistence that is required of a working solicitor is reason enough to not invite someone for interview. I know the marketplace is tough right now, but you must see this as an opportunity to be stronger and wiser than your peers. This blog has not in any way demonstrated that.
Alternatively, she has failed to realise that perhaps the reason why she is not successful in securing a training contract is her own problem, and not brought on by the recession or increased competition form would-be bankers. The increased competition for TC's is from better qualified candidates who have more experience in business than this blogger may have. Anyone worth a damn in this profession knows that the top firms are looking for candidates who have displayed business acumen, not an ability to get a 2:1 and pass the un-failable LPC. Law firms are client-focused businesses. A failure to realise that the profession is becoming more and more about business and the client and less about the black-letter law is the quickest route to rejection.
My advice: Stop whining, get some non-legal experience if you really want something and you work hard enough at it, you will eventually succeed.
And shame on you for describing working as a secretary, retail assistant or call centre worker as "humiliating". No person has the right to make such a disgraceful and patronising comment.
While I do sympathise with you, I do think you need to change your attitude.
Your thinking that working as secretaries, retail assistants and call-centre workers is humiliating is awful. Remove that huge chip on your shoulder.
Competition for TCs has always been tough. No-one owes you anything. Just because you have a law degree and have legal experience does not automatically give you the right to have a TC. You got to fight hard for it.
At a guess your applications probably come across as bitter and trying too hard to impress. Do you have the qualities to be a trainee? You probably do. Are you getting that across in these applications? Probably not.
One solution: abolish the GDL! lol
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'here is someone we must save from the recession'............I highly doubt that the blogger is launching a campaign of this nature- she is simply illustrating her frustration at the current trainee climate
'she doesnt want the job enough'........as the comment by 'anon' demonstrated......what more can some people do? Even with a wealth of experience candidates are still unable to gain t.contracts
'better qualified, more experience'.......I am sure that some t.contracts are going to the more qualified candidates.....however...I wonder what percentage are going to those from a private education, well spoken with mummy and daddy's money to fund their mind blowing CV's? I know of many that did one or two vacation schemes and got the t.contract!
'humiliating/patronising'......I hardly think the blogger intended for this portrayal.....rather she is simply stating that having completed a law degree and passed the LPC....she expects a wider range of opportunity than work as a secretary or in retail....not that there is anything wrong about these jobs at all......but on a parallel, you wouldnt spend the time and effort and money doing two degrees to then work stacking shelves.....this is in no way patronising!
Abolish the GDL? Err, nice one. It's there for a reason - because legal recruiters want well rounded candidates and not just an intake of one dimensional law students with zero experience in any other commercial area that can be utilised and used to the firm's advantage.
I do sympathise with students who have just completed undergraduate degrees in law and who are finding it difficult, but to blame those who have turned to the profession late and converted is an incredibly flawed argument since training contracts (on the whole) are awarded on merit and to those who demonstrate that they will make great trainees and show signs of becoming excellent commercial lawyers. Jobs in any field have never gone to the person who has 'dreamt and wanted it for the longest' - that would just be silly. Likewise with banking, the graduate jobs at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan did not go to those who had taken more 'right steps' towards that career – they went to the best candidates.
I graduated with an Economics degree from a top university in 2007. I then started on a graduate scheme at an Investment Bank which taught me a tremendous amount about the city and in particular about corporate finance and the markets. After spending just over a year there I grew tired of getting into the office each day for 6:30 and doing 15/16 hour days regularly. So I jumped ship and signed up to the GDL having heard good things about it from my peers. I thought law would be an interesting career that would offer me flexibility and security as well as prestige. During my GDL I applied for training contracts, naturally targeting my applications to the city firms who would be attracted to my experience. Fortunately I secured a number of assessment centres and interviews which I performed well in. Why did I do so well? Because I had solid commercial experience and knowledge which as a result meant that I was an excellent candidate for a commercial training contract and in my opinion would make a far more suitable trainee than someone who has only studied law. I accepted a training contract at a magic circle firm which I am due to start at next year.
I have never worked in a law firm however I have many, many friends who do and there overall impression is that there is actually comparatively little 'law' required in their day to day jobs – it is far more about commercial knowledge, skills and precedents which is why law firms and their clients prefer trainees / lawyers with business acumen and an awareness of the competitive marketplace in which they operate in. Quite frankly, those "who did not make a pit stop at investment banking" I would argue are weaker candidates when competing with former financiers to get corporate training contracts at the top firms. I am fed up of so many comments and articles on numerous boards bleating on about how I somehow will not make as good a lawyer as them because I didn't study law at undergraduate level. Utter rubbish – I am a better candidate, which is why I got the job.
My advice to law students who are struggling to get training contracts is not to moan about it but actually ask yourselves why you are not getting them and examine why other people (i.e. newbies to law who would normally consider banking as a career) are getting them. The answer nine times out of ten is their commercial experience and business outlook. The training market is extremely tough at the moment and so if you do not get one this time round, try and get some solid commercial experience so that you can come back raring to go this time next year and can actually offer something useful to firms rather than a dry knowledge of law, all of the important parts which can be taught to converters quickly. It would be a far advantageous to you than moaning.
So it appears that all the bankers, having ruined the financial industry and the economy are now moving over to dominate the legal profession!!!
RE: Anon @ 10.17pm yesterday:
First and foremost, your post reads like it was written by the blogger herself, who should know better than to veil herself in anonymity. I will accordingly address this post to the blogger.
Stop "illustrating your frustration at the current trainee climate" and take a look in the mirror. Is it not in any way possible that your bitterness and contempt for the profession has seeped into your applications and interviews? Of course it is. Sort your head out and vent your feelings towards the profession privately, not on highly popular legal news outlets, and certainly not in interviews.
"I wonder what percentage are going to those from a private education, well spoken with mummy and daddy's money to fund their mind blowing CV's? I know of many that did one or two vacation schemes and got the t.contract!" - I know of people that did not even one vacation scheme and got a TC. Those are rare cases of exceptional candidates who are snapped up by a firm that does not want to miss out. Once again, your bitterness towards others who may have had a little help from parents is disgraceful. I can't think of a single law firm who would employ someone in any capacity who had your jealous streak. There are examples throughout the world of people from less privileged backgrounds getting to the top – one of them has a name that rhymes with "Osama". I suggest you take a look at his book.
As for the rebuttal of "humiliating/patronising" – I am not the only person on this forum to read the blogger's comment in this fashion. She has failed to master the most important of legal skills – CLARITY! In any case, beggars can't be choosers, and as it stands right now, this blogger is most certainly classified as a training contract beggar.
Veiling myself in anonymity.....sorry correct me if im mistaken but I highly doubt Inglourious bar steward is your actual name!!!
Your example of people rising to the top, 'Osama'....it shouldnt be the case that people from less privileged backgrounds who rise to the top are seen special examples or illustrations....it should be the norm! It is because of the class dominance that anyone from a particularly tough background is celebrated just for doing what should be readily achievable!
I think it is apparent by the wealth of acrimonious comments here that the recession is biting hard, and is affecting everyone. I do have to agree with 'posh chap' regarding his statement regarding the relevance of commercial experience, but I strongly believe people shouldn't move to law because they fancy a change. I believe committed law graduates deserve a TC far more than someone who has just done it off the cuff because they 'got tired' of their previous job in investment banking.
Although I do share some sympathy for this columnist, finding herself saddled with debt having achieved what is ultimately a pretty useless degree unless continues with a position in the legal market, I think it's a bit rich to say that the Law Society only stood up this year to warn students about following the path.
When I signed up to the LPC I, too, had no training contract and had to take out a massive loan to cover it. The literature I received from the Law Society made it very clear, even then, that the Law Society strongly recommended students against taking the LPC without a training contract. Thankfully, I did get a training contract within a period of a few weeks ... but I find it difficult to believe that any LPC student would think a training contract was ever guaranteed!
we won't discuss the pupillage scene, it will only depress everyone further...
as for the blogger, in the legal profession the best possible advice i received was 'hope for the best, expect the worst and whatever happens, chin up'.
"A failure to realise that the profession is becoming more and more about business and the client and less about the black-letter law is the quickest route to rejection."
The nail has been firmly struck with this comment.
Clients view the law and legal services as nothing more than a resource to achieve commercial objectives i.e. Become more efficient in making money.
Other than being organised and resourcesful a successful solicitor requires a seasonsed understanding of the environment in which Clients operate and how the law can be utilised to acheive commercial objectives.
There's far too much emphasis on the semantics of legal principles instead of the requirement to be able to apply them in a practical commercial sense. If you want to debate by all means become a barrister.
As for "working as secretaries, retail assistants and call-centre workers" surely time spent in these occupations could be utilised and translated onto a CV and cover letter as providing you with some solid experience of how the law helps a business operate.
Good luck and all the best for your career.
Why the bitterness? Regardless of who has entered the competition to become a lawyer it still stands as you so eloquently put it... "only the strongest would realise that crumbling blocks can still be stacked to make a rather rocky yet workable road". Clearly you didn't actually believe in those words and now you seem to have lost faith in the profession. Sorry to bring home the truth but those bankers who are taking up the training contracts are doing so on merit, if you're not getting any offers it's simply because you're not quite up to scratch.
"Only after the majority of law firms have deferred their graduate recruitment to next year "
Has nobody else noticed this comment? Most firms haven't deferred their intakes, some firms have and this has been blown out of all proportion by the likes of The Lawyer and other legal publications. As America shows, fear sells.
It is easy to insult her for expressing her feelings openly. It is also easy to say, compete, compete.
The question is, is there a way the unemployed law graduates can form a group and organise how to escape this mess?
For instance, can the unemployed law graduates in the UK find a way of getting admission in developing nations and then offer their legal services there? Or, once they qualify, can they snatch work from lawyers in the UK?
I really don't want to comment on everything in the article plus people's opinions, but I must point one thing out. I do not think that the blogger is suggesting that working as a call centre worker is humiliating. She is suggesting, and I agree with her, that committing 30,000 pounds to a course to be a solicitor, and then ending up working in a call centre, is humiliating. Can anyone here really dispute that?
I fully agree with the blogger, committing £30,000 to training/education and being left handed is indeed unfortunate. However, I for one am becoming tired of hearing students lament about the lack of prospects or that so and so has a training contract due to family/contacts.
I went to a state school and did not have financial support from my parents but still managed to get into a top university and achieve a first and a training contract. I'm tired of people making excuses: the simply and hard truth to swallow is that law is a competitive industry and those left empty-handed were simply not good enough. To the original poster who had undertaken vacation schemes at 7 firms, I would question just what you did that made 7 firms not take you on despite having you on a vacation scheme?
I am amused by the poster who believes that the U.S.-style of qualification would result in less of a glut of lawyers in the U.K. We have our own glut of lawyers in the U.S. Many "Big Law" firms are laying off 2nd to 4th year associates. Others are deferring the start dates for incoming associates. Thousands of recent graduates have no jobs irrespective of the size of the firms to which they may apply, and no reasonable expectation of a legal job of any kind in the near future.
One essential difference, however -- these newly-minted lawyers have financed their law school education (which, in the U.S., is always a doctoral degree program containing 3 years of full time post-baccalaureate study), and emerge from law school with as much as U.S.$150,000 in student debt, with no certainty that they will pass the bar examination and be allowed to practice law in their state.
Be careful of what you wish for....
'...suffer the humiliation of working as secretaries, retail assistants and call-centre workers...'
Who the hell do you think you are? If you ever make it to fee-earner, I pity your secretary.
No-one *wants* to be left high-and dry. There are plenty of people in a similar position to you, who are dealing with it with substantially more dignity. A job, any job is a blessing in the current climate, especially if you're carrying debt. If you think you've got it tough, try being a trainee approaching qualification without a permanent seat to go to. That's a particularly soul-destroying position to be in.
Rather than it being everyone's fault, have you paused to wonder why you don't sufficiently stand out from the crowd? Perhaps one of these 'humiliating' jobs may give you a bit of experience and teach you a few things that law school didn't.
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What is the difference between leisure and recreation?
leisure and recreation are crucial for the well being of a person. There are various debates about leisure and recreation, what i understand no one so far was able to give a clear cut definition between the two.
some considered leisure as 'free time' and leisure recreation is what you do during free time.
others considered leisure as an activity (even inactivity) that one engage during free time, they also viewed leisure as opposite of work.
finally, i have come across those who said, leisure as a state of mind and recreation as any activity that one is doing in order to rejuvenate oneself physically and mentally.
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May 17 2013: I agree, Edward. To me, 'recreation' implies activity, and 'leisure' implies inactivity. One does not 'recreate' in a hammock, for example. Just as one does not 'leisurely' play a game of racket-ball.
Both, however, are vital to regenerating, I think! Doing 'nothing' is as important as doing 'something'.
Recreation requires, I think, a certain amount of multi-tasking. Would 'spacing out' be considered a form of leisure?
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The head of a Russian neo-Nazi group that's accused of torturing LGBT youth, fled to Cuba last month but was arrested in the Caribbean country on Sunday.
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