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A service of the ABA General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division
Practice Area Newsletter
Fall 2008
Vol. 5, No.1
By Youshea A. Berry
Solo practice is not for the faint at heart. Any solo will tell you that a successful practice takes one-third legal expertise, one-third good business sense, and one-third unremitting gumption. A healthy dose of lunacy always helps.
I have learned more in my solo practice than I learned in three very expensive years of law school. Here are some tips and advice that will (hopefully) be helpful to those of you who want to blaze a trail:
Before I started my law practice, I sought the counsel of women in Maryland that I know to be Super Women in legal practice. They met with me over lunch, shared encouraging words, taught me the secrets of solo practice in the wee hours of the summer solstice, and probably even prayed for me—more than once. These are genuinely good women who freely and candidly talk about their experience in solo practice and the challenges of the family-work-life balance. These attorneys showed me that solo practice is a feasible career goal, that you can be a good person, yet fierce in the courtroom, and have a profitable law practice. They taught me to enjoy the benefits of working for myself. They taught me to develop and maintain a strong network and support system that would bolster me during the tough days of solo practice. They are mentors and friends to whom I owe a significant debt; without them, the formative weeks and months of my practice would have been significantly more difficult.
Your mentors have traveled this road before. That computer/scanner/fax issue that seems brand new to you is old hat to them. The office space debacle that you face is an issue on which they can calmly advise you. During those days when you have few clients, they will offer encouragement and try their best to send work your way. They will never judge you or harangue you about your decision, because they are business owners themselves. They understand the entrepreneurial ambition that drives you, and they want to help you succeed. Understand that you need them, and you will be well on your way to success.
A great place to find mentors (and get possible experience in the fields where you want to practice) is in national, state, and local and specialty bar associations. Getting involved with bar organizations gives you a chance to meet some dynamic movers and shakers.
Become a mentor to those who need mentoring. Each of us has something to share with the world. Give time to a local organization to mentor a high school student or get involved with your law school alma mater. Third-year law students are happy to get advice from practicing attorneys; there is a bit of hero worship for those of us who have passed a bar exam.
Solos have more than their fair share of work to do. Time spent reinventing the wheel is valuable time that is totally wasted. Solo practice is more of an art than a science. The same people who shared their "master" torts outline with you in law school are still willing to share with you post-JD. I've learned that being a solo is a misnomer—we feel a deep sense of camaraderie, and good karma returns twice as quickly among solos. There are attorneys who have a generous spirit who won't think twice about sharing form contracts, pleading forms, and advice with other solos. I find these people populate the solo and small list serve with a helping hand and a listening ear.
I partner with large law firms on cases. I refer a significant number of cases to other attorneys and get referrals back from them. I have developed of counsel relationships with attorneys who have experience in other legal areas that I am still learning. I continuously try to find ways to be a better staff manager, colleague, attorney, and team player. I have law clerks, legal interns, and a wonderful spouse—all of whom "rock" in my opinion.
Partner with your family too! Take inventory of their talents and use those talents to the good of the firm. For instance, my husband has created a database for my clients and a software program for billing and time management. He set up my server and DSL hub. He's also done a whole slew of high tech things for my office that keeps the spam filters working, the website running, and the viruses at bay. My husband is my software engineer, IT manager, U-Haul office mover, and at times my career counselor. He has been there to lend a helping hand and is the most integral part of my support system. My grandmother is religious. She knows every prayer and clergyman this side of Lourdes. She has prayed to the patron saints of lost cases, lost briefs, and lost souls. I witnessed more than one miracle in my legal career. My mother is a budding interior decorator who has organized and decorated and office on a shoestring budget.
Solo does not mean alone. Indeed, those who find themselves alone might find themselves completely isolated from colleagues, friends, spouses, and even clients during the formative months and years of their practice. This is not a road to happiness or success; you can blaze a trail for your practice while maintaining positive and healthy relationships with those around you. It is those relationships that will sustain you on the days that you question your sanity for having started a practice in the first place.
I didn't know exactly what I was getting into when I got appointed to serve as the Deputy Chair of the Real Estate Committee of the American Bar Association's General Practice and Solo Small Firm Division. There are 183 members of the Committee—attorneys who practice throughout the United States, many of them who started practicing long before I was born. At one ABA Midyear Meeting, I found myself on a panel of commercial real estate attorneys who have probably closed higher dollar deals than I could ever imagine. I was sitting in front of an audience of solo practitioners who could have eaten me alive. I was the only young lawyer and was quite nervous. Needless to say, I made it through. Whether I was memorable or witty, I'll never know. I could not tell whether they were laughing with me or at me, but I was satisfied to know that not a single person threw a tomato from the audience. That experience allowed me to develop the courage to perhaps do it again.
I work long hours and often think about my work when I am not actually at work.
Admittedly, I am still working on the "play hard" part of that phrase. When I do have time to play, I indulge myself with facials, manicures, pedicures, massages, and yoga. I also travel (though, admittedly, most of my travel has centered around bar association events). I have even been known to take up a foreign language here and there. These activities not only rejuvenate my awesomely tired mind, but they also give me the incentive to do the administrative and financial management tasks at my office when I'd much rather be writing a 600-page treatise on the Rule of Perpetuities.
Tidbit: You will work hard when you work for yourself. Expect it, but know that that is the trade-off for having your own business. When you work for yourself, you work for a tyrant, which is evident in the fact that it's two a.m. and I'm writing this article.
Karma is like a boomerang. Either it will come back to you and land safely in your hand, or it will come back and smack you in the forehead when you least expect it. One thing holds true: it always comes back to you. Extend professional courtesies when you don't have to, and realize that good deeds generate good karma. After all, you never know when you will need that extension or when you might need to cut in front of someone to make a postmark deadline.
Good deeds also build relationships. And in the legal business, relationships go a long way. That lawyer who seems like such an adversarial nut could be the one who sends along a much-needed client at a much-needed time because that lawyer remembered your tact in dealing with a difficult situation. That mother at the grocery store with the twins who have thrown themselves on the floor in a screaming fit at 6:30 in the evening over some Twizzlers could be the CEO of a company who needs your services. Let her cut in front of you. The service clerk at the post office that postmarks my clients' letters, the dentist who appeared at career day, my husband's coworkers, the mobile notary I used for a closing, the motivational speaker at our a nonprofit Board of Directors' retreat, and on and on . . .
The golden rule cannot be more important than in the legal field.
When I need to get focused, centered, or motivated, I have what I call theme music. It's the music I play when a pleading needs to get completed, my nerves are shot, and the phone is ringing off the hook. It puts me in the zone. Besides, all good guys have theme music in the movies.
Laughing is key. I still make prank phone calls—on my friends and staff. My nephew and I invent our own knock-knock jokes. I make fun of myself; unfortunately, other people don't hesitate to make fun of me as well. When something funny happens, I laugh hard and loud. It really is a sin to take yourself too seriously.
I had a huge setback at the beginning of the year when a merger my business partner and I had been planning for a year and a half did not happen. When I was nine, I wanted to be a lady of G.L.O.W. (the female version of the WWF). After law school, I tried out for a women's professional football team.
Well, the G.L.O.W. career never took off, and the football team disbanded before the season started. None of those ventures worked out for me. My mom always says have a Plan B. Thomas Edison said that he would rather fail at something he loved, than succeed at something that he hated. While I don't anticipate failure as a solo, I do have a Plan B—early retirement.
Be generous with praise and gratitude. Although I grew up in California, I went to school in the South. I found that people were liberal with greetings and kind words and unexpected good deeds. I believe I practice in one of the most challenging cities in the country. Not because D.C. has the highest number of lawyers per capita but because people are overcommitted and barely have time for themselves. Anytime someone takes a second to help me or encourage or motivate me, I try my best to let them know that it's appreciated.
Even a small star shines in the darkness (Danish proverb).
Youshea Berry is the principal of the Law Office of Youshea A. Berry in Washington, D.C. She has been an American Bar Association Diversity Fellow, assistant editor of the Young Lawyer newsletter of the ABA GPSolo Division, and vice chair of the ABA Young Lawyers Division's Law Practice Management Section.
Originally published in The 101 Practice Series: Breaking Down the Basics by the ABA Young Lawyers Division. Copyright © 2008 by the American Bar Association. Reprinted with permission.
© Copyright 2008, American Bar Association.


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Ros Morris's son Zach was a bright young musician who seemed on the brink of success when his behaviour suddenly spiralled out of control. He began using more powerful and dangerous illegal drugs and stayed up all night writing strange mathematical equations on his bedroom walls and drawing diagrams of spacecraft and pyramids. His once intelligent conversation deteriorated into mindless babble and at one point he thought he was God.
Over the next eight years, after he was diagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder, Zach was sectioned under the Mental Health Act on numerous occasions and his family had to repatriate him from three different continents when his psychosis re-emerged while he was travelling.
Don't Wait for Me is a mother's harrowing account of her son's descent into the hell of drug abuse and mental illness. It vividly describes the nightmare her family went through and highlights the despair, guilt, helplessness and anger experienced by all those involved.
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Sports tickets have been going up and up in price for a long period of time. Recently, we have seen the price of sports tickets level off an even decline in some areas. This is a strange shift with the worst of the economic recession seeming to be behind us. What is causing the shift in sports tickets is high definition large screen televisions.
It used to be the largest screen a middle class family could afford was a 27″ tube that was super heavy and I have yet to meet a woman who liked the look of them. You would go to a live game not only to get the excitement of the live experience but because you can see more and with limited programming back in the day you may not get to see your game at all on tv. This is what drove up sports tickets to begin with.
When high definition plasma and lcd televisions took over they allowed the average family to purchase larger and larger televisions with better and better pictures. Over time the cable and satellite companies have caught up with more and more programming and even packages that will allow you to see every game in the comfort of your own home. So now they have taken out the poor picture and the lack of programming as an obstacle to your decision to watching at home versus paying for sports tickets.
It has gotten so bad that when I last discussed with my father about going to watch Florida play for the SEC championship he declined and said he got a better experience from watching at home. Plus, with dvr now prevalent in home theater systems you can pause the game and do your own instant replay instead of relying on the broadcaster to maybe give you what you want to see.
There is already a huge secondary market for sports tickets springing up to offer them at greatly discounted prices. Sites like stubdog.com, ticketliquidator, and scorebig.com, all offer tickets at 10% to 70% off. This is a big shift from the old model of centrally controlled prices that you could almost never get a deal.
While not all of the stadiums have figured out that this new dynamic has arisen we should see the prices of sports tickets continue to decline except for maybe the premium events like playoff and championship games. If for no other reason that it looks bad for the stands to be empty on television.


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In an extraordinarily rare move, Senate Republicans said that Sen. Elizabeth Warren had breached Senate rules by reading past statements opposing Jeff Sessions from figures such as the late senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and the late Coretta Scott King. Feb. 7, 2017. (C-SPAN)
In an extraordinarily rare move, Senate Republicans said that Sen. Elizabeth Warren had breached Senate rules by reading past statements opposing Jeff Sessions from figures such as the late senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and the late Coretta Scott King. Feb. 7, 2017. (C-SPAN)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , bless his heart, has coined a new feminist rally cry.
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"He is, I believe, a disgrace to the Justice Department and he should withdraw his nomination and resign his position," Warren read, quoting remarks Kennedy made in 1986 when Sessions was nominated to be a federal judge.
McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, called foul, saying, "The senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama." And that set up a vote on her conduct. Warren's fellow senators backed McConnell's rebuke by a vote of 49 to 43, which means Warren isn't allowed to speak during the rest of the debate over Sessions.
"Sen. Warren was giving a lengthy speech," McConnell explained. "She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."
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This publication presents articles on Aging-in-Place, Assistive Technology, Monitoring and Telehealth, Transportation and Mobility, and Design. The section on assistive technology (AT) represents arguably the most mature and generic aspect of technology and aging; except that AT can hardly be regarded really as a specific discipline any longer. Assistive devices and systems command an expansive gamut of technological and engineering specialties, drawing upon mechanical engineering and industrial design at one end of the field and cybernetic systems engineering and brain-computer user interfaces at the other. The largest section in the book, on monitoring and telehealth, reveals novel applications of advanced pattern recognition techniques, some of which have, up to now, found roles primarily in the military, process engineering, and financial sectors. Transportation and mobility still represents by far the largest and most commercially lucrative market segment of technology for seniors. There is however a clear trend towards synthesis of information and communication technologies (ICT) and mobility technologies, which is embodied in the latest developments of automatic collision avoidance and full or semi-autonomous navigation functions in powered mobility devices. The last section is dedicated to design issues. It is proposed that designing for the special needs market before making a design as inclusive as possible to the mainstream market is a viable alternative to the currently accepted notion of inclusive design, provided that aesthetics are appropriately addressed. To conclude, we see a social shift from institutional to home-based care, in which information communication technology based solutions now afford the possibility of aging-in-place for the many thousands of people having mild to moderate cognitive impairment.Because she did not have a pocket organizer, she put it in her purse and resolved to write it on her calendar when she returned home. When she finally ... As one woman noted about her new paper organizer, aI have no need to look at myanbsp;...
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There is this urge to just sign out from here and forget keeping a blog and a blog about my crochet. I also ask myself why suddenly now when I have lesson plans to prepare,dinner to make and ironing.....grrr...not going there except that I hate ironing!!! I think perhaps its those other splendid crochet blogs I have been browsing through these last few weeks who are the culprits...who have provoked this niggling itch to set up my own blog. However I wonder am I being quite sincere about this .....couldn't it be I am just keen to show off my crochet bits and pieces or perhaps I just want some critique because when I show hubby its ....mmmm yes..nice...what's it for?. pah! let me move on!!! that's drivel!!! You'll see on my profile I live in Spain well a crochet fan like me couldn't have chosen the best place to live because they do the most incredible crochet here-fine very fine stuff mostly in fine cotton somewhat similar to Irish crochet. I am hoping I'll be able to post some images here soon to show you what I mean.
That's it for the moment the ironing is beckoning me and my old aunt down in Wiviliscome Somerset always used to say to me "Come on my lover be best to get done what you dunna like first and get he out of the way"...I think I was about 12 when she told me that and I've stuck by it. :-)
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I'm here to enjoy meeting other crafters and to share my ideas and projects. I love to crochet,cross stitch and embroidery but I'm keen to try new crafts too. I love music and I love to sing! Singing makes me happy. I collect jugs....its their shape I think! I am addicted to yarn and buttons. I get lost in book shops and can spend all morning there and I absolutely adore rummaging in flea markets. I love to read sci´fi/fantasy,buried treasure, and off world adventures. I have a passion for history! I would be the first passenger on the first time machine ! I BELIEVE IN MAGIC!
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
List entry Number: 1139497
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Cheshire East
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Gawsworth
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 14-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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5/7 Church of St James
Church. C15 and C16. Yellow and red sandstone ashlar with lead roof Western tower, nave and chancel. Perpendicular. Tower: of red sandstone and c.1497 - 1536. West Face: moulded plinth with diagonal buttresses. Central western doorway with 4-centred arch with quatrefoils and daggers to spandrels. Row of square panels above containing pointed quatrefoils. Cyma-moulded string course above. Three-light window above with hood mould and figurehead stops. Canopied niche above supported by angel bearing a shield. Crocket to canopy. At this same level are similar, smaller canopied niches to the outer faces of the diagonal buttresses, crockets to canopies. Three shields in relief above central niche with circular clock face above them. String course below belfry stage which has 2-light louvred openings with hood moulds and figure head label-stops. Further row of square decorated panels below battlemented parapet which has gargoyles to centres and angles, above which rise panelled piers with crocketed pinnacles. South and North faces have shields and similar belfry stage and above. Nave: of yellow sandstone indicating earlier date than tower and chancel. Moulded plinth common to rest of nave and chancel. Three bays with windows of three lights gradually widening towards east, each having hood mould with label stops of human and animal form. Buttresses between bays terminating in square panelled piers and crocketed pinnacles. Diagonal buttresses at right and left indicating original termination points before tower and chancel were added. Later Perpendicular porch of red sandstone imposed between first and second bays from left with diagonal buttresses. Door with four-centred arch and circular panels to spandrels with canopied niche over. Large gargoyles to sides supporting octagonal panelled and crocketed pinnacles. Plaid parapet between these with chamfered coping. Porch reveals have 2-light windows, that at left having label stops of paired heads. North face similar save for absence of porch. Door at first bay to right. Chancel: Yellow sandstone, lower courses re-used from western end of nave when tower arch was introduced. Upper courses of red sandstone. South face: two bays. Windows, wider than those to nave, of three lights with buttress between and angle buttress at right. Priest's door to right of left hand bay. North side is similar. Eastern end: 5-light central window with figurehead label stops to hood-mould. Sanctus bellcote to gable apex with panelled sides and cross to summit. Interior: Panelled ceiling to nave with moulded principals supported on wall posts and arched braces rising from figurehead corbels. Chancel ceiling of square panels. Remnants of sides of original Eastern window evident in nave. Chancel screen of 1894 by J Oldrid Scott, based upon that at Elvaston, Derbyshire. Octagonal C16 panelled ashlar font on C19 stem with wooden cover, probably by J Oldrid Scott. Monuments to Francis Fitton of 1608, a table tomb with effigy above and skeleton below. Sir Edward Fitton and wife of 1619: two recumbent effigies with children kneeling along the tomb-chest and with a wall-plate behind to east wall. Dame Alice Fitton of 1627 seated figure in widow's garb. Children kneeling in front of and behind her. Sir Edward Fitton of 1643 and wife. Tomb-chest with recumbent effigies and figure of girl. Wall plate to eastern wall and trophy to south wall. Originally having a canopy over.
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The rise of iNaturalist has been a wonder to behold these last few years. The smartphone app allows users to catalogue flora and fauna with ease, while at the same time making all photographic and locational data available to the scientific community abroad.
Perhaps you'll document a strange beetle in your backyard and have it identified by some Vermont entomologist on her lunch break. Or photograph what you're sure is an endangered Canadian lynx, only to be disappointed by a wildlife aficionado declaring it a simple bobcat.
Several of the experts I consult regularly swear by this app, allowing for genuine, productive citizen science as they say, harnessing the countless hours we laymen spend outdoors for the benefit of research. With fully charged phones and an afternoon to kill, dozens of volunteers can catalogue a slice of wilderness without the expense of grant money or professional time, all the while encouraging public appreciation for the organisms they encounter. Group events like these, known commonly as "bioblitzes," were once a pen-and-paper affair for people who already knew what they were looking for, but now it's free for anyone with cell service.
This app and its bioblitzes have already been leveraged for considerable good, most recently in a joint effort by our federal government and the Canadian Wildlife Service called BioBlitz 150. From coast to coast, a series of these blitzes have been organized to celebrate our natural as well as our cultural heritage on this most auspicious annum. In this way we are taking a national snapshot, to be built upon and compared to as time passes us by. And of course, Nova Scotia was in frame.
Through the week of Sept. 11, Halifax's own Ecology Action Centre organized several such bioblitzes in wilderness across the municipality, their flagship locales being Point Pleasant Park and Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area.
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Jeana MacLeod, wilderness outreach officer with the Ecology Action Centre, takes a photo of some berries at Point Pleasant Park on Friday morning. MacLeod is one of the organizers for Bioblitz Canada. (RYAN TAPLIN / The Chronicle Herald)
An Old Promise
I met MacLeod on Sunday, Sept. 17, during their final day of blitzing; participants were streaming by so steadily she was hard-pressed to pay this journalist much mind. I'm glad she finally found the time, because their decision to blitz the Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area had a second, much more interesting reason than the one given above.
As she explained it, a little over a decade back the City of Halifax committed to protecting a sizeable stretch of land (much of which is private) west of Highway 102 as a municipal park, the very land she and I were then standing on. Otherwise, it was feared, development would encroach on this area and compromise habitat for several of our rarer species — she gave the mountain sandwort and common nighthawk as examples. Development would also prevent the area's recreational use.
In support of this plan, she said, our provincial government designated the Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area; the city's promised park would then serve as a buffer between true wilderness and urban sprawl.
"The dream here is that we'd have a miniature Keji in Halifax with a backcountry (the wilderness area) and a front-country (the park) that gets more engagement and foot traffic."
The park never came, sadly, but while plans may have stagnated, Jeana said there are encouraging signs from the city, namely their ongoing protection of the Purcell's Cove backlands. Perhaps this is a sign of Halifax's renewed interest in urban wilderness, she suggested. The EAC's bioblitz at Blue Mountain Birch Cove was intended, in part, to bring attention to this unfulfilled promise and the value of the wilderness area itself, for recreation and conservation alike.
"It's been a long process," she said, "and the longer we continue to wait, the more expensive the land becomes. The faster we can get moving on this, the better."
Blitzes Path and Present
I made the rounds in Blue Mountain Birch Cove following our talk, winding my way through the crowds of amateur naturalists taking stock of those marvellous woods. Some of it seemed fairly young, as forests go, but I was greeted farther in by the occasional stretch of welcome maturity.
MacLeod said the last bioblitz this forest hosted was in 2009, shortly after the wilderness area was designated, and even with the efforts of Sept. 17, very little is known about its true composition. I can confirm her frustration with the lack of maintained trails. They exist, certainly, offering a rough hike, but they're wholly inaccessible for jogging or biking and at times can be difficult to navigate. The gentle maintenance of our municipal government wouldn't go amiss.
I myself have downloaded iNaturalist, waiting faithfully on my phone should I ever encounter an ecological oddity. My hike long over, I now have the pleasure of opening this app and seeing, plain as day, the many dozens of entries made by participants of Sept. 17's bioblitz. A click on any of these contributions gives rise to a photograph and small observational profile, some of them already identified confidently by experts near and far, while others wait patiently for the righteous word of scientific authority.
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Just wanted to ask this relatively simple question:
I have a client in a city that I am not located in, and I want to check the rankings. I have noticed that when I use the moz toolbar and have it emulate a GEO location, the results are different than if I put in that location into my query.
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TONS more search for KW only than KW City or City KW.
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This is what it's like to be a Scotland fan. In the space of four days we've seen our national team drop from top of Group F to a much less impressive fourth position.
Often it seems that East European countries cost us points. This held true against Lithuania and Slovakia. My hope, and expectation, was a Scotland victory at Hampden followed by at least a point brought back from Slovakia. Lithuania didn't have a great history at Hampden, so a victory was expected. And with England having won in Slovakia it felt important that we do well there. No such luck. If not for James McArthur, it could have been the worst of all possible outcomes. I'm just glad I watched the games in the pub, with alcohol to console me.
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Construction in Belgium – Key Trends and Opportunities to 2018
The Belgian construction industry recorded a review-period (2009?2013) compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.97%. As a result of the eurozone crisis, the industry declined by 0.3% in 2009, and by 0.1% in 2013. This, along with falling employment and low wage growth, led to steady falls in domestic economic activity and demand for new construction projects. Construction industry growth is expected to recover over the forecast period (2013-2018), driven by government initiatives to improve public infrastructure, moderate household debt, and rising interest of domestic and foreign developers in constructing residential units to meet housing demand. Consequently, the industry is expected to grow at a moderate forecast-period CAGR of 2.0%.
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- The Belgian construction industry is undergoing a testing period as a result of subdued economic activity. The industry recorded negative growth of 0.1% (nominal terms) in 2013, the first time since 2009. The construction production index fell by 0.3% during the first quarter of 2013, although there was marginal growth in the second and third quarters, with the production index growing by 0.1% and 0.6% respectively. The industry is set to grow further, both in 2014 and over the forecast period, due to improved economic conditions, low interest rates and increased investment.
- In nominal terms, the total construction value add in Belgium was EUR19.4 billion (US$25.8 billion) in 2013, after registering a nominal CAGR of 2.35% during the review period. The value add is anticipated to reach EUR21.9 billion (US$30.9 billion) in 2018, and record a nominal forecast-period CAGR of 1.50% over, driven by increases in residential and infrastructure construction activity and government measures to enhance the country's real estate and transport networks.
- The European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU's non-profit long-term lending institution, has announced plans to invest in projects to create both job opportunities and financing solutions, as well as to increase partnerships among public and private firms. In 2013, the EIB allocated EUR1.5 billion (US$2.6 billion), of which 19.0% was for the energy sector, 8.0% for the transport sector, 24.0% for water and sewage, 11.0% for the industrial and agricultural sectors, 15.0% for the education and healthcare sectors, and 23.0% for other small- and medium-scale projects. This is thus likely to support construction activity growth in these areas.
- A growing number of small- and medium-sized Belgian businesses are filing for bankruptcy as a result of rising staff costs and excessive taxation. According to Statistics Belgium, the number of bankrupt businesses in the country in the second half of 2013 rose to 6,006, a 4.5% rise compared to the second half of 2012. On account of the huge costs involved, only large-scale businesses were able to survive, while small companies and independent traders were affected the most in this difficult situation. During the same period, the number of failed businesses rose by 10.3% in the construction industry, by 2.3% in the commerce industry, by 9.5% in the hotel and catering industry, by 5.0% in the transportation industry, and by 3.7% in the industrial sector. This situation was worst in the Brussels region, where the number of bankruptcies rose by 33.0% in 2013.
- According to the Global Property Guide Belgium, residential property prices in the country rose by 0.3% in 2013, after increases of 1.1% in 2012 and 3.5% in 2011. There have been varying trends in property prices in different categories, however with the largest increase in prices recorded in the multi-family housing category, as apartment prices in the country increased by 0.9%. At the same time, the single-family housing category posted a decline in prices, as prices of bungalows and villas decreased by 0.9%. Furthermore, there has been variation in the property prices in regions, if adjusted for inflation; house prices rose in the Flemish region by 3.4% and in the Walloon region by 1.9%, although in Brussels, prices dropped by 1.2%.
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Construction in Chile – Key Trends and Opportunities to 2018
The Chilean construction industry recorded a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.79% during the review period (2009?2013). During the review period, and following the 2010 earthquake, growth was supported by a rapid inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI), low unemployment, reconstruction and modernization work. The growth of the construction industry is expected to remain strong over the forecast period (2014?2018), as the government is increasing its efforts to improve the country's infrastructure, meet the rising demand for residential units and increase investment in the mining and retail industries. The construction industry's output is expected to record a CAGR of 8.90% over the forecast period.
Complete report Available @ http://www.rnrmarketresearch.com/construction-in-chile-key-trends-and-opportunities-to-2018-market-report.html .
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- The construction industry is likely to expand over the forecast period, as a result of healthy inflows of FDI. According to the Foreign Investment Committee, the country attracted a total of CLP11.1 trillion (US$28.2 billion) in FDI in 2012; an increase of 63.0% over 2011. The Pacific Alliance, a Latin American trade bloc comprising Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, received CLP1.0 quadrillion (US$2.1 trillion) as total planned investment for the period 2013-2016. Of this total investment, Chile is likely to receive CLP50.2 trillion (US$102.0 billion) FDI over 2013-2016. Continuous investments in the mining industry and infrastructure will also aid growth of the construction industry over the forecast period.
- During the review period, the Chilean construction industry registered a value add CAGR of 11.07% in nominal terms, reaching a value of CLP10.9 trillion (US$22.9 billion) in 2013. Over the forecast period, the construction value added is expected to register a CAGR of 8.49%, to value CLP16.5 trillion (US$34.4 billion) in 2018. Forecast-period growth will depend upon healthy economic growth, increased investments and favorable business conditions.
- Due to the increasing number of people living in residential areas ? longer distances from prime locations ? retailers are focusing on establishing the mini-malls segment. Due to the healthier economic environment, improving consumer confidence has helped to increase the number of investments in the retail sector. According to a Chilean business newspaper, Pulso is planning to invest CLP3.5 trillion (US$7.1 billion) by 2017. Falabella, a Chilean department store retailer, will make the largest investment of CLP2.0 trillion (US$4.0 billion), which will add 527 stores and 51 malls to its retail portfolio. Other retailers such as Cencosud and Parque Arauco will invest CLP590.3 billion (US$1.2 billion) and CLP221.4 billion (US$450.0 million) respectively. Such developments in the retail sector will support the retail buildings category over the forecast period.
- The residential construction market will be fueled further by projects such as: the Vitacura Cumbres del Condor Residential Complex, valued at CLP17.9 billion (US$37.0 million); the Rancagua Portal Machali Housing Complex, worth CLP18.9 billion (US$39.0 million); and the Papudo Residential Units Development project, worth CLP48.6 billion (US$100.0 million). All of these are expected to be completed over the forecast period.
- In 2012, the government passed a new research and development (R&D) law to stimulate R&D investments and establish Chile as a primary innovation hub in Latin America. Under the law, the corporate taxpayer can claim a tax credit of 35.0% on all R&D projects, with the remaining 65% being tax-deductible in any sector. The law also tripled the maximum amount of tax credit that companies can claim to CLP583.8 billion (US$1.2 million) per year. Over the forecast period, growth in the research facilities category will be supported by the government's efforts to promote R&D activities.
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John Salvati wrote the screenplay.
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McTeigue is currently directing Warner Bros.' Ninja Assassin, which is being produced by the Wachowski Brothers.


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WOOLWORTHS customers will be able to convert "Woolworths Dollars" into Qantas Frequent Flyer points under a new deal announced on Tuesday, but they may be waiting for some time.
As reported yesterday, the three-year deal will allow Woolworths Rewards customers to convert 10 Woolworths Dollars, earned on orange-ticketed items, into 870 Qantas Points.
But Woolworths and Qantas have not given an exact launch date of the new arrangement, which requires "IT and systems changes" to implement, saying only it is "expected in the first half of 2016".
Between 1 January 2016, when the current automatic Frequent Flyer points accumulation ceases, and the launch of the new option, Woolworths says customers will receive "regular bonus Qantas Points offers, ensuring shopping at Woolworths remains the best option for Qantas Frequent Flyers during the implementation period".
"Our revamped Woolworths Rewards program is delivering for our customers. We are seeing encouraging results, with strong member growth and increased scan rates at the check-out," Woolworths' Food Group managing director Brad Banducci said in a statement.
"This new agreement means our customers can choose from two great options. Those who prefer cash back can continue to use Woolworths Dollars to get money off their shopping, while avid points collectors will have the option to convert their Woolworths Dollars into Qantas Points at a very attractive rate and with no minimum spend.
"This fantastic outcome means Woolworths Rewards is 100 per cent relevant to all Woolworths customers, while also offering the best frequent flyer partnership in Australian supermarkets.
Qantas Loyalty chief executive Lesley Grant said Qantas was "very pleased to be continuing its long association with Woolworths and we believe our Frequent Flyer members will feel the same way".
"We know Qantas Points are a very popular choice for a lot of people, particularly those who are earning them in several ways. Those customers tend to preference brands that offer Qantas Points because it helps them reach their goals faster, which can mean upgrades on flights or taking the family on an overseas holiday each year," said Ms Grant.
According to Qantas, around 9.4 million flights were redeemed using points earned at Woolworths in the first six years of the relationship. Around half of all Everyday Rewards members were linked to the Frequent Flyer program, and of those 32 per cent had not redeemed points for flights or other goods.
WOOLWORTHS customers will once again be able to earn Qantas Frequent Flyer points through its new rewards card under a deal with the airline to be announced tomorrow.
The dropping of the Frequent Flyer partnership in favour of "Woolworths Dollars", earned on purchases of orange-ticketed items, caused a major backlash against the retailer.
The automatic accumulation of Frequent Flyer points on purchases over $30 will cease after December 31, but the new arrangement will allow customers to redeem 10 Woolworths Dollars for 870 Qantas points.
Woolworths had earlier said only that it was still in talks with the airline. News.com.au can confirm the deal, which was first reported by the Australian Business Traveller website.
"Woolworths' about-face shows how badly the company underestimated Australians' passion for their frequent flyer points," ABT editor David Flynn said.
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Flynn said it also brought into question Woolworths' claim that shoppers were suffering from "points fatigue" and that only 9 per cent of its customers wanted to earn Frequent Flyer points.
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1. North Manchester Recycling is an intermediate
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people from the Moston area of the city as they undertake door-to-door
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A recent roundtable discussion between local and Israeli educators has kindled a desire on both sides to collaborate in an effort to tackle issues of universal significance.
"We learned that Israel is struggling with some of the same sorts of challenges we are here in the United States, and they're looking at ways to assess their students … " said Ben Allen, former president of the Santa Monica-Malibu Board of Education and candidate for California State senate.
"They're looking at how and when they examine kids. They're looking at questions of violence in schools and disparity in schools. The more we can learn from each other, the better."
The March 3 event at The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles included an Israeli delegation of 10 with representatives from the government, foundations and non-governmental organizations. Approximately 20 Los Angeles educators from public schools, Jewish day schools, educational organizations and The Federation participated.
Immediately following the discussions, several delegates declared their wish to continue a partnership, particularly on issues such as providing meaningful learning experiences to students and confronting educational inequality stemming from students' different backgrounds and economic statuses.
Jewish investor and philanthropist Gary Jacobs arranged for the Israeli educators to come to Southern California with the purpose of pointing out how they can incorporate cutting-edge pedagogies into their own education reforms. Jacobs' Israeli representative, Tamar Kedar Harris, accompanied the Israeli delegation on its seven-day tour to the Federation's Goldsmith Center, High Tech High in San Diego (which Jacobs helped found in 2000), the Da Vinci Schools in Hawthorne and New Village Charter High School in Los Angeles.
Harris said cooperation is particularly valuable for Israel because the country is examining how it should restructure its education system over the next decade to provide more meaningful and in-depth learning opportunities for students.
Harris said her and Jacobs' intention was to start a dialogue between Israel and Southern California about education so they can learn from each other by comparing their cultures. Even she was surprised, though, at how illuminating the discussions were at the Federation roundtables.
"Listening to the locals, The Federation and the people here [is] like receiving a mirror in your face in terms of what [Israel is] doing and what [Israel] is trying to do. You realize a lot of the challenges are international," she said.
Daniel Gold, who directs Federation's education and Israel advocacy campaigns, helped Harris organize the discussion panel and roundtable. Later, he wrote to the Journal that, while nothing is scheduled yet to reconnect these Israelis and Angelenos, his objective was to simply start a relationship of "commonalities" between them.
At the roundtables, the Angelenos split up and rotated among the three groups of representatives from Israel. This followed presentations by Judith Kadesh, director of the Israeli ministry of education's elementary school division, and Eyal Ram of the Institute for Democratic Education, about Israel's upcoming education reforms that will require fewer matriculation exams to complete high school and more service learning.
A discussion with managers of Israeli foundations brought to light how educational problems in both nations are entwined in socioeconomic disparity. When Allen explained that an American student's success is often determined by his affluence or poverty, Harris replied that Israel also struggles with this conundrum. But the Angelenos said the United States is already several generations ahead of Israel in the widening gap between wealthier and poorer students; Israel can use its example so as not to make the same mistakes.
The Los Angeles group also referred directors of Israel's education system to the Common Core State Standards in the United States because, they reasoned, it paralleled Israel's objective to reform its education system. The Common Core is a national education initiative that sets a curriculum for what a student should know in various disciplines.
Kadesh praised the roundtables for delving into the "core" of education.


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