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Sometimes it can be difficult to get motivated to work out. If so, dig deep and persevere because being regularly active can pack a punch in terms of health benefits. The scientific evidence is compelling AND growing. In the words of Dr Nick Cavill, "If exercise were a pill, it would be one of the most cost-effective drugs ever invented."
Our Movement is Medicine campaign puts the spotlight on the importance of being physically active. Why? Because movement is the miracle cure we've all been waiting for. This may sound dramatic but I encourage you to think about it, a regular dose of movement (as per the evidence) can help to; boost your cognitive function and brain plasticity; improve your sleep; reduce stress; support social connectedness; help with anxiety and depression; lower your risk of many chronic diseases including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers. If there was pill for all of the above I know I'd want to take it.
Some of the research is fascinating. Let's take bowel cancer for example. Many studies from around the world have investigated the link between physical activity and bowel cancer. Overall, the evidence shows that people who do the most physical activity can cut their risk of developing cancer of the large bowel (colon) by about a quarter. Being active seems to cut the risk of cancer developing in any part of the colon which accounts for around two thirds of all bowel cancers. If you consider approximately 17,000 Australians are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year then a more physically active population would certainly help to reduce this figure.
You may have noticed I am just a tad passionate about this subject! It may be my sports science background coming out or just my own experience of staying active, especially for my mental health. So here are some of my movement tips I'd love to share with you:
- any movement is better than nothing
- incidental movement counts
- change it up as much as you can
- find the sports/activities you love
- join a group, PT or encourage a friend to join you.
In summary, whatever your age, there's strong scientific evidence that being physically active can help you lead a healthier and even happier life. If you haven't already, it's time to change into your tights and unleash your fitness.
Article by Brigid Walsh, General Manager, Golden Door Health Retreat and Spa Elysia.
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No one wants to live near a runway, but you definitely don't want to live by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It's the fourth-busiest airport in Europe, and it's located in what might be the least soundproof place on Earth: a cold, wide-open flatland where noise can travel unobstructed for miles. Which is why these mysterious-looking formations showed up in the area last year. After researchers discovered that things got quieter whenever nearby farmers plowed their fields, they hired landscape artist Paul de Kort to design a peculiar kind of park. Its pattern of noise-deflecting ridges—built with GPS-guided robot excavators—intercepts the sound waves generated by arriving and departing aircraft and bounces them skyward. The airport has agreed to reduce noise levels tenfold (so, by 10 decibels); this park gets almost halfway there, and there's a plan in the works to nearly double the size of the grooved landscape.

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M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m) Tier 1
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's M&A team advises high-profile public and private companies, private equity firms, and investment banks; it also has significant experience acting for boards of directors and independent board committees in changes of control and going-private transactions, shareholder disputes and internal corporate investigations. The team is particularly recognized for its strength in technology, energy, financial services, communications and healthcare transactions; active clients are AT&T, Holtec International, JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy and Synnex. Justin Hovey in San Francisco and New York's Jonathan Russo are the co-M&A leaders, and Chris Patay leads the corporate group in Los Angeles. Alongside the firm's Tokyo office, Russo advised Japanese med-tech company Hoya, as a consortium member, on Bain Capital's acquisition of Toshiba's flash memory chip business; Silicon Valley-based Allison Leopold Tilley and Christina Pearson acted for Synnex, an IT supply chain services company, in its cash-and-stock deal to acquire Convergys, which sells customer management and information management products; and James Masetti, who heads up the Northern California emerging growth and venture capital team, led advice to Sigma Designs, which builds system-on-a-chip semiconductor technologies, on the sale of its Z-Wave Business to Silicon Laboratories. Elsewhere, Washington DC-based global corporate practice section leader Robert Robbins and Northern Virginia's Steven Kaplan advised Grammer, a global supplier of auto parts, on its acquisition of Toledo Molding & Die, which produces innovative thermoplastic components. Also highly rated are Don Kilpatrick in New York, San Francisco's Nathaniel Cartmell, Jeffrey Grill in Washington DC, Silicon Valley's Jorge del Calvo and San Diego North County-based Mike Hird. Growth in the New York office saw the recruitment of Stephen Amdur as private equity head and Michael Flynn, whose practice focuses on corporate law, venture capital, private equity and M&A, from Latham & Watkins LLP and Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, respectively.
Outsourcing Tier 1
'A flexible team with great industry knowledge and a very commercial approach', Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has particular expertise in the healthcare, software, financial services and insurance sectors. Washington DC-based practice head Aaron M. Oser is advising the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority on the outsourcing to Transdev of its operations at the Cinder Bed Road bus maintenance facility. Washington DC-based Mario F. Dottori and Vipul N. Nishawala, who is based in New York, advised NTT DATA on the sourcing aspects of the $3bn acquisition of Dell's IT outsourcing business. Other names to note include San Francisco-based Patrick J. Devine, and Washington DC-based James L. Alberg, 'knowledgeable' counsel James W. McPhillips and counsel Meighan E. O'Reardon. New York-based William Bandon left the practice in January 2019 to join a management consulting company.
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Construction (including construction litigation) Tier 2
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's construction practice is chaired by arbitration specialist Clark Thiel. He has been involved in litigation for major high-profile projects including the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. Supported by John Heisse and Washington DC-based duo Michael Jaffe and Melissa Lesmes, Thiel represented a joint venture comprised of Clark Construction and Hathaway Dinwiddie in construction and insurance disputes, and defended claims alleged by the owners and developers against the client. Heisse, alongside Robert James, also provided legal counsel to the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District on public procurement and the contractual aspects of major expansion proposals, in addition to a multibillion-dollar railcar procurement. James also worked alongside Thiel in representing Stanford University and Hospitals on projects totaling over $5bn. These include the New Stanford Hospital and the expansion of the children's hospital. The firm has a strong track record acting for educational facilities, and Washington DC-based Jeffrey Gans represented New York University in a $1.4bn litigation filed against Turner Construction for alleged breach of contract and negligence. Michael McNamara in Washington DC, Robert Thum in Los Angeles and William Hale are other names to note. Named individuals are based in San Francisco unless stated otherwise.
Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection) Tier 2
Brian Finch and Deborah Thoren-Peden head Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's practice from Washington DC and Los Angeles respectively. Finch specializes in cybersecurity, national defense and intelligence policies, while Thoren-Pedersen has advised US-based fintech and bank holding company Green Dot on regulatory and privacy aspects of its acquisition of online distribution channel AccountNow. Mercedes Tunstall, who is also based in Washington DC, assists clients from a wide range of industries with mobile and other e-commerce initiatives, as well as with the use of social networking sites for marketing, customer service and crowdsourcing purposes. Los Angeles-based senior counsel Catherine Meyer, who works with financial institutions, is another name to note.
Insurance: advice to policyholders Tier 2
The insurance department at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP impresses with its 'depth of knowledge and expertise, responsiveness to client enquiries, strong analytical abilities, as well as good legal research and writing'. Traditionally, it is best known for advising on coverage relating to natural disasters and other environmental issues, but also engages in proceedings arising from cyber attacks, construction mishaps and corporate liability controversy. In Los Angeles, Robert Wallan represented Fluidmaster in its coverage and bad faith claim against numerous insurers in connection with multiple product liability actions. Washington DC-based Peter Gillon and the 'knowledgeable, thoughtful and strategic' Alex Hardiman, who 'remains calm during intense negotiations', assisted Solera Holdings in the first ever claim to seek coverage under Delaware's statute, by which shareholders can challenge the price paid for their shares in a transaction and obtain an appraisal of their fair value, against its D&O insurer. Another highlight was the firm's role on litigation between San Francisco-based Colin Kemp's and New York partner Joe Jean's client Victaulic and three AIG entities regarding equitable issues, bad faith and punitive damages.
Transport: aviation and air travel - regulation Tier 2
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has experience of regulatory mandates including administrative adjudications, air service negotiations, antitrust, export licensing, customs and tax matters, airline safety, aircraft certification, and accident investigations. Head of travel, leisure and hospitality Josh Romanow represented Norwegian Air International and Norwegian Air UK before the Department of Transportation, FAA and US Court of Appeals in its efforts to begin scheduled operations to the US. Charles Donley, who heads the aviation, aerospace and UAS practice, advised a major Chinese air carrier in an ongoing Department of Transportation investigation pertaining to advertising, marketing policies and website compliance. Senior counsel Edward Sauer, Los Angeles-based employment partner Thomas Liu, senior counsel James Dick, and special counsel Laura Jennings are also key contacts. Named individuals are based in Washington DC unless otherwise noted.
Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design Tier 3
Notable recent mandates for the team at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP include drafting defined benefit and 401(k) plan amendments for Estée Lauder and preparing amendments to long-standing client Incyte's employee stock incentive plan and executive compensation agreements; New York-based Peter Hunt led on both matters. Having joined the San Francisco office from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in 2018, Jonathan Ocker regularly advises public companies, boards of directors and high-profile executives on compensation and corporate governance issues. In one matter, Ocker advised VICE Media on a newly instated CEO's preparation agreement. The team also provides ongoing employee benefit and executive compensation advice to Clearwater Paper, Bank of the West and Hewlett Packard. San Francisco-based Christine Richardson is another key contact, and Cindy Schlaefer was made practice head in 2018 following Susan Serota's retirement.
Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional Tier 3
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP saw a number of additions to the team in 2018 including Jonathan Ocker from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and counsel Jeremy Erickson, who had previously been an in-house attorney at Apple. In a standout matter, New York-based Peter Hunt advised Headwaters Inc on the 280G consequences of its $2.6bn merger into Boral. Hunt also assisted Holtec International with the employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of its acquisition of the Oyseter Creek nuclear facility from Exelon Generation Company. AT&T, BNP Paribas, Hewlett Packard and Chevron are also among the team's clients. Other names to note include Christine Richardson and Cindy Schlaefer, the latter of whom became practice head following Susan Serota's retirement in 2018. Named attorneys are based in San Francisco unless stated otherwise.
Energy: renewable/alternative power Tier 3
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP has expertise in nuclear energy and energy storage, and also has experience of a variety of other renewable power projects. Jointly headed by San Francisco-based Robert James and New York-based Michael Reese, the energy, infrastructure and projects team is instructed by energy companies such as NextEra Energy Resources and Duke Energy Corporation, and multinational lenders including Deutsche Bank. Another contact in the New York office is Catherine Hood, who advised an underwriting syndicate, including Barclays Capital and BNP Paribas Securities, on a $525m green bond offering by DTE Electric Company, which was among the first wave of offerings in the US by an investor-owned utility to specifically support green investments. Robert Spjut, Michael Hindus and George Haley retired, and New York-based Nicolai Sarad and Fernando Marin left for Bracewell LLP.
Environment: litigation Tier 3
Already reputed in air and water pollution control, solid and hazardous waste management, response to accidental releases, Superfund, toxic torts, wetlands regulation, endangered species and environmental impact analysis, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has been growing its practice in air quality regulatory advocacy and enforcement defense, climate change and alternative energy development, regulation of greenhouse gases, hydraulic fracturing, and underground injection control. The 'strength and uniqueness' of the practice is born out of the 'level and breadth of experience of the lawyers'. For example, in Washington DC, Matthew Morrison's 'lengthy experience with EPA and DOJ gives him unmatched insight, experience and skill in representing clients in civil and administrative environmental enforcement actions', and, in Houston, Thomas Campbell, former general counsel at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is a 'nationally recognized expert on natural resource damage assessments'. In Austin, Christopher McNevin leads the firm's environmental litigation team; in Los Angeles, Mark Elliott heads the environmental practice firm wide. Other names to note are LA-based Michael McDonough; Norman Carlin and Margaret Rosegay in San Francisco; Anthony Cavender and Amanda Halter in Houston; and Jeffrey Knight in Washington DC. Clients include Western States Petroleum Association, Costco, Chevron, and Valero Energy Corporation.
Government contracts Tier 3
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's bi-coastal government practice, with offices in Washington DC, Northern Virginia and Los Angeles, handles the full range of government contract matters, from contentious issues such as debarment and suspension, bid protests, False Claims Act cases, claims and terminations under the Contract Disputes Act, to non-contentious work such as regulatory and strategic counseling. The Northern Virginia office is known for its busy M&A practice, which handled several transactions; representative examples include the team acting for Parsons in its acquisition of Polaris Alpha and assisting STG, a provider of technology, cyber and data solutions to the US Defense, diplomatic and intelligence communities, with its sale to SOS International. Located in Los Angeles, Alex Tomaszczuk represented Entergy in two contract disputes against the Department of Energy for its failure to pick up spent nuclear fuel from two nuclear power plants owned and operated by Entergy. John Jensen and Michael Rizzo lead the team. Todd Canni, who splits his time between LA and DC, and Los Angeles-based Kevin Slattum are also key team members. Canni is recognized for his suspension and debarment practice. David Dixon made partner in the Northern Virginia in January 2018.
International trade Tier 3
Jointly headed out of Washington DC by Nancy Fischer and Stephan Becker, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's four-partner team provides 'user-friendly, concise but thorough' advice to an impressive roster of global corporates (including Rolls-Royce, Facebook and Panasonic) across a wide range of international trade matters. Appreciated for his 'experience in addressing dispute settlement issues from both government policy and private sector commercial perspectives and his experience in drafting provisions in international trade and investment agreements', Becker's diverse contentious and non-contentious expertise includes his ongoing representation of the Mexican government in NAFTA and WTO matters. Fischer handles contentious and non-contentious work for both corporates and industry coalitions, including a large group of US nuclear utilities in ongoing trade remedy matters before the DOC related to the Russian Suspension Agreement. The 'incredibly responsive' Christopher Wall is vastly experienced in the field and provides 'highly commercial advice' to clients across policy and compliance-related matters. Wall's recent work has included advising Sony Pictures Entertainment on sanctions matters, and helping Chevron secure Section 232 exclusions. Counsel Aaron Hutman is a 'star individual', particularly as it relates to work at the intersection of international law, business and US policy. Senior associates Matthew Rabinowitz and Benjamin Cote are appreciated by clients for their 'sincere objectivity and integrity'.
Land use/zoning Tier 3
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP covers the full range of land use and zoning matters for office, mixed-use, retail, hospitality, residential, industrial, institutional, sports, military and health-sector developments. A busy year for the team, highlight work included acting for Holy Names University in its collaboration with Samuel Merritt University, where it advised on the land use aspects of campus improvements. The team also acted for the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board and Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission in several agreements, including the stadium and concession agreements for the new Rams Stadium in Inglewood, and also advised Poly Real Estate Group on its acquisition of a 40% equity interest in the $6bn Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island redevelopment project, situated along the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. San Francisco-based Rachel Horsch leads the real estate practice.
Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory Tier 3
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is noted for its track record in signal carriage and program licensing work, as well as its work with clients offering over-the-top content delivery services. Practice co-head Scott Flick recently represented Shield Media in a dispute with Dish Networks regarding the payment of retransmission fees, assisted on the creation of private equity-backed broadcast company Standard Media, and serves as outside counsel to the National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations. Fellow co-head Glenn Richards is noted for his long-term experience with VoIP clients, as well as his work for wireless resellers and financial investors entering the sector. Richards recently acted as regulatory counsel to GCTR in its sale of connected health company GreatCall to Best Buy. Sinclair Broadcasting is a marquee client for the firm, and is served by broadcast specialist Miles Mason in both general and transaction-specific regulatory capacities. Most notably, Mason handled the regulatory aspects of Sinclair's now-terminated acquisition of Tribune Media. Of counsel David Burns advised Cumulus Media on the FCC regulations concerning its Chapter 11 restructuring, and led the firm's advice to Entercom on the regulatory aspects of its acquisition of CBS Radio. Of counsel Lee Petro, a broadcast, wireless and telephone specialist, joined the firm from Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in July 2018.
Transport: aviation and air travel - finance Tier 3
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP's 'pragmatic' team stands out for its experience of aviation finance and operating leases, and is praised for its 'excellent industry knowledge'. Global finance head Mark Lessard, who is 'extremely smart and thoughtful, and aims to provide excellent service 100% of the time', advised Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, MUFG Securities Americas and Wells Fargo Securities, as underwriters, and Bank of America, as initial liquidity facility provider, on the $373.4m Willis Engine Structured Trust IV (WEST IV), which will be secured by, among other things, WEST IV's direct and indirect interests in a portfolio of 55 aircraft engines and one airframe. Elsewhere, Charlotta Otterbeck advised Ethiopian Airlines Group on its first aircraft finance insurance consortium (AFIC) supported financing, involving both a senior and a junior loan facility for five Boeing 737-800 aircraft; she also advised Turkish Airlines on its first AFIC supported aircraft financing transaction. Recently promoted partner Melissa Jones-Prus is also recommended, as are counsel Richard Evans and special counsel Jason Greenberg, both of whom are based in Los Angeles. Named individuals are based in New York unless otherwise stated. Jonathan Goldstein joined Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in January 2019.
Cartel Tier 4
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP works with a stellar client base that includes the likes of Home Depot, Norwegian Air and Ralphs. The team is jointly led by San Francisco managing partner Roxanne Polidora and litigation expert Jacob Sorensen. In a recent highlight, the team is advising a major retailer in a state-level investigation implicating the client's distribution network. Christine Scheuneman retired from the practice.
Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense Tier 4
The team at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is noted for providing 'excellent advice on US enforcement proceedings', with a strength representing financial institutions and their senior executives. The team is chaired by Mark Hellerer, Maria Galeno and William Sullivan, all of whom are based in New York. Other key individuals include Carolina Fornos and the 'highly knowledgeable' Anne Lefever in New York, Thomas Hill in Washington DC and Markenzy Lapointe in Miami.
Environment: regulatory Tier 4
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP fields 'very experienced environmental lawyers with an encyclopedic knowledge of environmental matters'. The practice group handles enforcement; regulatory compliance; legislative and regulatory monitoring and advocacy; project siting, development and finance; facility decommissioning; environmental impact analysis; site investigation and remediation; human health and ecological risk assessment; and environmental management strategy. For a long time the group has been retained by the Western States Petroleum Association, which it advises on a broad range of matters, including state legislation and state and local regulatory developments across a wide array of issues affecting the petroleum industry. Based across Houston and Washington DC, Matthew Morrison's 'lengthy experience with EPA and DOJ gives him invaluable insight'. Other key practitioners include Norman Carlin and Margaret Rosegay in San Francisco; firm-wide environmental practice head Mark Elliott and Michael McDonough in Los Angeles; Wayne Whitlock in Silicon Valley; and Jeff Knight and Sheila Harvey in Washington DC.
Government relations Tier 4
Led by Elizabeth Moeller, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's public policy team has 'a high degree of knowledge in their areas of specialization'. Moeller represented disability advocacy business Binder & Binder when it became the subject of an investigation by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. In another matter, working with the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project, the group provides legal representation, advocacy and counseling to domestic violence victims. As part of that engagement, the team drafted a congressional concurrent resolution seeking to compel family courts to assess child safety considerations before making any custody or visitation decisions. Brian Finch is the name to note for global security and cybersecurity matters. Finch frequently helps clients to obtain SAFETY Act liability protection certifications. Craig Saperstein, who became partner in January 2019, is another key team member.
Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings) Tier 4
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP acts for domestic and international clients alike, with a strong focus on patents regarding electrical engineering and chemical innovations. A recent technology highlight was advising ALTR Solutions on the development of its patent portfolio, securing several blockchain-related patents for the client. Before the PTAB, the group represented petitioner Anheuser-Busch in a derivation proceeding regarding aluminium bottle manufacturing. Practice head Jack Barufka is based in Washington DC, while Patrick Doody heads the PTAB practice from the Northern Virginia office. Austin's Michael Chibib and Josh Tucker, who splits his time between the Austin and Silicon Valley offices, are also recommended. Raj Davé left to found Davé Law Group.
Venture capital and emerging companies Tier 4
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP's practice has particular strength on the West Coast, with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego, and maintains a presence on the East Coast via its teams in New York and Northern Virginia. The group is very well known for assisting clients from the semiconductors sector, along with fintech, security, Internet of things, big data and e-commerce industries. Clients include Barefoot Networks, Shield AI, MycoTechnology and ACCO Semiconductor. Silicon Valley partner Jorge del Calvo and Christian Salaman in San Diego (noted for his 'exceptional level of confidence and sophistication') are key contacts.
Civil litigation/class actions: defense Tier 5
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's antitrust team recently defended Safeway in a series of claims brought by fuel retailers alleging the client's loyalty program violated various antitrust laws. Roxane Polidora and Jacob Sorensen jointly lead the group and are currently acting for KEMET in class action and direct purchaser claims filed in federal court on the grounds of alleged price-fixing practices in the aluminum, film and tantalum capacitors market. In the healthcare space, Thomas Loran III is part of the team advising four major hospital groups on a class action brought by a healthcare employee beneficiary trust claiming the clients' written and verbal agreements with network providers prevent the plaintiff from competing in the market. Other notable clients include Sharp, Ralphs Grocery Store and Norwegian Air, while other key contacts include senior partner John Grenfell, Andrew Lanphere, counsel Laura Hurtado and associate William Palmer. All named attorneys are based in San Francisco.
Energy transactions: conventional power Tier 5
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP acts for energy companies and multinational financial institutions in financing and capital markets transactions ranging from IPOs and secondary common stock offerings to convertible and unsecured debt offerings. Key contacts in the New York capital markets group include David Baxter and Todd Eckland, the latter of whom advised a group of underwriters led by Goldman Sachs on the offering and sale of $1.6bn of common stock and $863m of depository shares by Great Plains Energy Incorporated in an SEC-registered underwritten offering to fund a portion of its pending acquisition of Westar Energy. Washington DC-based Robert Robbins and Silicon Valley-based Stan Pierson are also names to note.
Securities litigation: defense Tier 5
The practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is led from San Francisco by Sarah Good and Bruce Ericson, and it acts for a broad range of corporate clients including Fortune 100 businesses and small technology companies. It also handles securities cases for underwriters and auditors. Ericson secured a dismissal with prejudice in In re InvenSense, Inc Securities Litigation, in which plaintiffs alleged InvenSense made materially false and misleading statements regarding its business results. He also acted for venture capital investors in Fitbit, Inc in 1933 Act claims alleging that registration statements and prospectuses for Fitbit's IPO were false and misleading.
US taxes: contentious Tier 5
The practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP provides expertise in state and local tax controversy matters. The team has experience representing Fortune 50 companies in income and franchise tax and sales and use tax matters, among other things. Key figures in the team include New York-based practice head James Chudy, Michael Kosnitzky, who has expertise in tax planning and transactional matters, and Miami's Keith Blum, who specializes in tax transactions for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. The practice group was further strengthened by the arrival of a 13-lawyer SALT group from Eversheds Sutherland, including Marc Simonetti in New York and Carley Roberts in Sacramento.
US taxes: non-contentious Tier 6
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP advises its blue-chip client base on SALT matters, and also has experience with cross-border M&A, financing and securitization transactions, employee benefits and estate planning. Further, the practice group strengthened its SALT capabilities in 2019 with the additions of Carley Roberts in Sacramento and Marc Simonetti in New York, who joined the firm along with 11 other lawyers from Eversheds Sutherland. Standout highlights include acting as outside tax counsel to Amazon in relation to the $970m acquisition of Twitch, and advising the San Francisco Ballet on the restructuring of its tax-exempt financing. Practice head James Chudy in New York advises on the federal income tax aspects of M&A, spin-offs, corporate reorganizations and restructurings; he recently acted for Areva NP in its internal restructuring and the related acquisition by EDF of a €2.5bn majority stake in Areva's nuclear reactor business. Also recommended are Nora Burke and Ivan Mitev in the New York office, Julie Divola in San Francisco and Miami-based Michael Kosnitzky. Wynn Resorts and Global Cash Access Holdings are also key clients.
Project finance
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP regularly handles project finance mandates for international and domestic energy projects; P3 infrastructure projects are also a key area of expertise. New York-based Michael Reese acted for CSOLAR IV West and other Tenaska affiliates in connection with the permanent refinancing of the construction debt to build a 150MW solar farm in southern California; Catherine Hood in New York advised the underwriters on DTE Electric Company's $525m green bond offering to support the development and construction of low-carbon, clean energy projects; and Thomas Gump in San Francisco advised Duke Energy Corporation on the issuance of $234m in senior secured notes and a $45m letter of credit facility provided for a 16MW portfolio of eight solar facilities located in California, Colorado and New Mexico. New York and Miami-based Peter Baumgaertner and recently promoted partner Alicia McKnight, who operates across the San Francisco and New York offices, are also recommended. Robert James, who is based across the San Francisco and Houston offices, co-heads the project finance team with Reese, while Gump heads the P3 projects team with Jeffrey Gans in Washington DC.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP > Firm Profile
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international law firm with offices around the world, and a particular focus on the technology, energy and natural resources, financial services, real estate and construction, and travel and hospitality sectors. Recognized by Financial Times as one of the country's most innovative law firms, Pillsbury and its lawyers are highly regarded for their forward-thinking approach, their enthusiasm for collaborating across disciplines and their unsurpassed commercial awareness. For more information, visit www.pillsburylaw.com.
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Energy and natural resources: Pillsbury has advised on precedent-setting energy industry deals and projects in 75 countries worldwide, offering clients a combination of geographic reach, legal and regulatory depth, and energy sector-specific experience that is unmatched among the world's leading law firms. A leading practice in nuclear law, oil and gas, and renewable and alternative energy, Pillsbury has received more than a dozen Deal of the Year awards from leading publications for projects in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In the field of natural resources and the environment, Pillsbury was named the Environmental Law Firm of the year in 2014 by U.S. News and Best Lawyers. With a team of 40 lawyers working full-time on environmental matters, Pillsbury is home to one of the largest dedicated environmental practices in the United States.
Real estate and construction: Pillsbury has a unique history of deal-making throughout the United States, with leading real estate practices for more than 50 years on the east and west coasts. Because of its size and geographic reach, its real estate practice group is one of the few national practices capable of handling the full range of assignments, from multi-jurisdictional portfolio transactions to single-asset deals in local markets. Lawyers on its construction counseling and dispute resolution team have been hailed by Chambers as part of the 'preeminent practice of its kind in the United States'. They've earned this distinction by working on some of the world's most complex construction projects: the Panama Canal extension, major infrastructure cases around the globe and two of the largest hospital disputes in history, as well as commercial, industrial and residential projects worldwide.
Technology: Pillsbury established its technology industry legal practice in 1968, when it incorporated Intel. Today, its technology industry practice is one of the world's largest, comprising more than 250 lawyers based in the United States, Europe and Asia. From incubator to IPO, from M&A to international expansion, Pillsbury lawyers guide technology companies of all sizes and at all stages of development. In the last 30 years, they have filed more than 52,000 patents and over 19,000 trademarks, including foreign marks in around 145 different countries. Pillsbury protects the intellectual property of its clients through the efforts of its high-stakes IP litigation practice, which ranks among the top ten in the nation in patent, trademark and copyright litigation. Technology clients also benefit from its top-ranked global sourcing practice. Among the most experienced advisory teams in the word, its global sourcing lawyers have led more than 750 transactions worth more than half a trillion dollars in contract value, and represented 30% of the Fortune 100.
Financial services: Pillsbury's finance lawyers advise more than 200 banking and investment institutions, including some of the world's largest. Its domestic and international clients rely on the firm for regulatory advice and guidance on a wide range of financial transactions, including commercial lending, derivatives, equipment finance, leveraged finance, project finance, trade finance, structured finance, debt restructuring, tax-exempt financing, and distressed investing and debt trading. Pillsbury also offers a broad spectrum of corporate trust and agency services, from initial issuance to defaulted obligations. Its clients are typically foreign and domestic banks, insurance companies, funds and other financial institutions. It also serves the company side of financial transactions for the firm's corporate clients.
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- Construction (including construction litigation)
- Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Transport: aviation and air travel - regulation
- Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Environment: litigation
- Government contracts
- International trade
- Land use/zoning
- Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Transport: aviation and air travel - finance
- Cartel
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment: regulatory
- Government relations
- Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Venture capital and emerging companies
- Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy transactions: conventional power
- Securities litigation: defense
- US taxes: contentious
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text: Books 12 September 2013 Books in Brief: Andrew Lycett, Robert Calderisi and Tom Cheshire Three new books you may have missed. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up Auguste and Jean Piccard, along with Auguste's wife Jeannette, on another expedition in May 1934. Image: Getty Wilkie Collins: a Life of Sensation Andrew Lycett Andrew Lycett, a biographer of Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle, has done some investigating into the father of the detective novel and in this biography reconstructs Wilkie Collins's tangled domestic life, which revolved around two mistresses. The writer who specialised in family secrets had secrets of his own. He also had a limitless capacity for drugs and a place at the centre of Victorian cultural life – he was a friend of Charles Dickens and the painter John Everett Millais. Here is the author of The Moonstone as a character from one of his "sensation" novels . . . except that this is all true. Hutchinson, 544pp, £20 Earthly Mission: the Catholic Church and World Development Robert Calderisi The former director of the World Bank takes a balanced look at the contradictory and controversial stances of the Catholic Church, which has been criticised for its position on birth control, abortion, child abuse and priestly celibacy. Here, Robert Calderisi points out that 65 per cent of Catholic schools are in developing countries and that in some parts of Africa it provides up to 50 per cent of health and education services. It is also a provider of antiretroviral drugs to combat Aids and has established credit unions to promote economic self-sufficiency. There are two sides to the Catholic coin. Yale University Press, 304pp, £20 The Explorer Gene Tom Cheshire The Swiss family Piccard has a habit of going higher, deeper and further than anyone else. In 1931 Auguste Piccard reached a height of 51,775 feet in a balloon, higher than any man before him. His twin, Jean Felix, then promptly went higher. Auguste's son Jacques went to the deepest place on earth, the Mariana Trench, in a family-designed submarine, and his grandson Bertrand was the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon. Tom Cheshire tells the story of these high – and low – achievers and examines what pushed them ever onwards. Short Books, 301pp, £20 › Business quote of the day: pensions Michael Prodger is associate editor at the New Statesman. He is an art historian, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham, and a former literary editor. Subscribe £1 per month This article appears in the 09 September 2013 issue of the New Statesman, Britain alone


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Why can't Narrator find the buttons in my HTML Windows Store app?
I had a reminder the other day about how important it is to keep both the visual and programmatic interfaces in mind, when building our apps' UI. This time the UI related to an HTML Windows Store app, not a XAML app.
At the top of Ten questions on programmatic accessibility, I asked "The Narrator screen reader doesn't notice something in my app's UI. Where do I start the investigation?" And I mentioned how we can use the Inspect SDK tool to check whether our UI is being exposed through either the Control view or Raw view of the UIA tree. If the UI isn't being exposed through the Raw view, then it's not being exposed through UIA at all, and Assistive Technology tools like Narrator won't be able to access the UI. (More discussion on the views of the UIA tree is at I'll say this only once - Your customers need an efficient experience.)
So when I got asked last week why Narrator couldn't find some cool-looking buttons in an HTML app's UI, my first response was, "Well, what does Inspect tell us about the UI?" Sure enough, the UI wasn't being exposed through the Raw view of the UIA tree. And the next question was pretty predictable, "So why isn't it being exposed?"
Many HTML devs already know a likely reason for this, and it's due to the use of div markup in HTML.
It's easy for a dev to add a div, then add a pointerdown event handler, and to think they're done building the UI. After all, we often tend to build UI which is useable by customers who interact with their devices in the same way that we interact with ours. That is, if I can see the cool visuals, then my customers must be able to see them too. And if I can click the visuals with a mouse or prod them with a finger, then my customers must be able to do that too. If I can use my UI, then all is well.
But given that you're reading this, you're probably a dev who knows that that's not the case at all. You want to build UI which can be leveraged by all your customers, regardless of how they interact with their devices. You take pride in building UI that allows everyone to benefit from your app's cool functionality.
So you now look around the web and find lots of discussion on the inaccessibility of divs, and want to fix your UI. MSDN has a helpful section at Guidelines for designing accessible apps called "Make your HTML custom controls accessible". So I'll see what happens when I do what that page suggests.
Say I want to add a "Next" button to my app. For this test, I'll just show the "->" string by adding the HTML below, and add the pointerdown event handler.

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buttonNext.addEventListener("pointerdown", onpointerdownNext, false);
When I run this, I see the "->" on the screen, and I can click it with the mouse or touch. But let's consider two of the most fundamental aspects of accessibility – keyboard accessibility and programmatic accessibility. (By the way, I talk about how I group accessibility topics to help me remember them, at the series of posts starting at Building accessible Windows Universal apps: Introduction.)
When I now run my app, I can't use the keyboard to tab to the element, and so can't invoke it through the keyboard. So my customers who only use the keyboard can't do "Next", and that sounds like the sort of thing that renders my app potentially useless to them.
If I point the Inspect SDK tool to the UI, and set the options to show me what's being exposed through the Raw view of the UIA tree, I don't see the element being exposed at all. The screenshot below shows that a Pane element is exposed, but no content beneath it.
Figure 1: Inspect shows that a div is not being exposed programmatically though UIA.
So, it would be interesting to run through the steps listed at Guidelines for designing accessible apps, and to use Inspect to learn how the accessibility of the element changes as a result.
But before I do that, I should point out a couple of things I noticed while experimenting so far. The first relates to how Inspect reports a ProviderDescription for any UI it's looking at. The ProviderDescription is a long string, and I usually only pay attention to a bit near the end of it. In my test app, the bit I'm interested in is "edgehtml.dll". This tells me that a Microsoft Edge component is the provider for my UI. I'm running the app on a Windows 10 device. If I was running my test app on a Windows 8.1 device, I expect I'd see something like "MSAA Proxy" in the ProviderDescription. And if I was running a XAML app, I'd probably see "Windows.UI.Xaml.dll". I've found this really helpful at times when I don't know whether the Windows Store app that I'm pointing Inspect to is a XAML app or an HTML app. In that case I can just take a look at the ProviderDescription and know the answer.
(Actually, if I really only want to know whether the app I'm looking at is an HTML app or XAML app, I could look at the FrameworkId property, which would show "InternetExplorer" or "XAML" respectively. But it looks like the FrameworkId doesn't differentiate between a Win8.1 and Win10 HTML app provider like the ProviderDescription does.)
The second interesting thing I noticed while experimenting, is the result of using a click event handler with my div, rather than a pointerdown event handler. By using a click event handler, the UI framework might take action to make the UI programmatically invokable through UIA. So say I change my HTML and JS to be:

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buttonNext.addEventListener("click", onclickNext, false);
Now when I point Inspect to the UI, I find an element of type "group" being exposed through the Control view of the UIA tree, and Inspect tells me that it supports the UIA Invoke pattern. So the UI claims it can be programmatically invoked.
Figure 2: Inspect showing the div is now being exposed as a "group" in the Control view of the UIA tree.
What's more, I can use Inspect to programmatically invoke the element, and I find my click event handler does get called in response. The XAML UI framework also sometimes adds support for the UIA Invoke pattern to elements when a click handler is added. I always use click event handlers instead of pointer event handlers because of this. And for this test, I'll leave the click event handler in place. (Support for the Invoke pattern is essential if a customer using Narrator is to be able to invoke the element through touch input.)
Now, even though the div is represented in the UIA tree, the UI is still far from accessible. For example, even if I could get Narrator to pay attention to the element now, when the string "->" is passed to the text-to-speech (TTS) engine on my machine, the TTS engine won't say anything. So let's get back to the steps listed at MSDN on how to make a div accessible.
From MSDN:
• Set an accessible name for the div element.
• Set the role attribute to the corresponding interactive ARIA role, such as "button".
• Set the tabindex attribute to include the element in the tab order.
• Add keyboard event handlers to support keyboard activation; that is, the keyboard equivalent of an onclick event handler.
Based on the above points, my updated HTML and JS becomes:
<div id="buttonNext"
aria-label="Next (localize this name!)"
buttonNext.addEventListener("click", onclickNext, false);
buttonNext.addEventListener("keydown", onkeydownNext, false);
And now when I run the app, I can use the Tab key to move keyboard focus to the button, and use the keyboard to invoke it. So thanks to the use of the tabindex markup, the element seems to be keyboard accessible now.
I can use Inspect to learn the full set of useful properties that the element is now exposing, such as:
- Name: "Next (localize this name!)"
- Control type: UIA_ButtonControlTypeId
- IsKeyboardFocusable: true
- AutomationId: buttonNext
- IsInvokePatternAvailable: true
Figure 3: Inspect showing many useful UIA properties being exposed by the UI.
I just put all this to the test, by starting Narrator on the Surface Pro 2 I'm using to write this post. I could tab to the element, and when keyboard focus moved to the element I heard Narrator announce "Next, localize this name, button". What's more, I could use swipe gestures to move Narrator to the element, or just explore the screen through touch if I wanted to, and Narrator said "Next, localize this name, button, double tap to activate". And indeed if I then do a double tap on the screen, my click event handler gets called. This is excellent news, as it means my element can now be invoked through keyboard, mouse, touch and also programmatically.
While the above talks about how to make an existing div accessible, this isn't exactly the HTML I'd prefer to ship. Rather, if I have UI whose purpose in life is to be a button, I'd declare it to be a button. By doing this, I'm already conveying some meaning about the UI, and I'm not having to make some UI that's really not a button appear to be a button.
So if I use the "button" HTML below, I'm implicitly saying that I want the element to be keyboard accessible and its control type is to be exposed a button. I still have to assign my helpful, concise and localized name to the button, which seems fair enough given that the framework can't know how I want my button which shows "->" visually to be announced.
<button id="buttonNext" aria-label="Next (localize this name!)">-></button>
The screenshot below shows that by using the button markup, I get multiple button-appropriate UIA properties for free. These include the control type and keyboard-related properties. (While the use of "button" brings in some default styling for a button, I could override that with my own styling if I wanted to.)
Figure 4: Inspect showing my button has button-appropriate properties.
Please do consider how your use of divs might be impacting the accessibility of your HTML app's UI. It's possible that potential customers who interact with their devices in some way that's different from how you work at your device, are blocked from leveraging all your app's cool features. The Inspect SDK tool can really help you learn how your UI is being exposed programmatically.
By default, I'd use HTML controls, like a "<button>", to convey as much meaning as possible about my UI. By doing that, the UI will be accessible by default in some very important ways. This reduces the work on my plate to polish up the accessible experience, so that all my customers can access my features in as efficient a way as possible.
If for some reason I have existing inaccessible div UI, and it's not practical for me to replace this with more accessible HTML controls, I can add markup to address certain accessibility issues, (as described at Guidelines for designing accessible apps).
And here's something for you to ponder: if you were asked by someone whose only form of input at their device is a foot switch, "Can I use your app?"...
What would you tell them?


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Known Problems with C13
This page lists the known problems with this version of Cloudy. A known problem means that we know about the problem but the fix is too difficult to implement in the current version.
Format for known problems: We should include a simple description of the problem itself, avoiding computer or physics jargon, an estimate of when and how the problem will be fixed, an acknowledgment to the person who pointed out the problem if appropriate, and the date when the problem was entered on this page.
We have changed our definition of the xi ionization parameter
The change is to be consistent with XSTAR. Through versions C13.03 we defined xi as the total luminosity in ionizing photons, the original Tarter definition. The X-ray community uses the Kallman & Bautista (2001) definition, which integrates the SED between 1 and 1000 Rydbergs. The 1 - 1000 Ryd definition is part of C13.04 and later versions of the code. This only makes a difference for very hard SEDs. A small change in the code to do this is posted on the hotfixes page.
We thank Ildar Khabibullin for drawing our attention to this.
optimize lines did not recognize the emergent keyword
The optimize lines command specifies the intensities of a series of lines. The optimizer will vary parameters to try to reproduce this spectrum. Either intrinsic or emergent intensities can be chosen with the first used by default. The emergent keyword was not recognized properly. This is corrected in C13.04.
He I Case B predictions are incorrect
The main output includes interpolated He I Case B predictions. They are incorrect and should not be used. This problem is fixed in C13.01.
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It's an issue that Metro and the Texas Medical Center have been going back and forth over. Both have done studies looking at how much electrical current is leaking from the light rail line. Metro maintains that it does no damage. Spokesperson Raequel Roberts discusses the issue.
"All the studies that have been done and even an independent study done the TMC has done show there's been no damage caused by light rail stray currents."
But the TMC says otherwise. Spokesperson Harry Holmes says the concern is damage over time to pipelines running under the light rail track.
"These lines are full of high pressue steam and the chill water that supplies the air conditioning for the hospitals and that's where the patients are. It could, over time, that could be a real problems."
Holmes says the suit does not seek damages, but rather wants Metro to monitor the leakage in the TMC and establish a plan to remedy the situation.
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LABOUR yesterday insisted it was committed to reforming the way Wales is funded as it emerged it was never even discussed during last year's coalition negotiations with the Liberal Democrats.
Since its general election defeat Labour has been vocal in urging a change to the Barnett Formula, the population-based equation which decides how much money Wales receives from Whitehall, reversing its previous policy in government.
But a detailed breakdown of policies agreed by both Labour and the Conservatives with the Liberal Democrats last year, published for the first time, shows that Labour made no demands on funding reform for Wales.
The only Wales-specific policy in the document was to deliver a referendum on primary law- making powers for the National Assembly.
The policy agreements have come to light courtesy of David Laws, the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and a key member of the Lib Dems' negotiating team, who has written a book on the days leading up to the formation of the coalition government.
Labour's negotiating team – Douglas Alexander, Ed Balls, Harriet Harman, Lord Adonis and Lord Mandelson – held several meetings with their Lib Dem counterparts before talks collapsed.
Welsh Liberal Democrat finance spokesman Peter Black said: "Labour, right through the whole of their 13 years in government, never once showed the inclination to reform the Barnett Formula. Even when the Holtham Commission reported that Wales was losing £300m a year they still did absolutely nothing.
"When it came down to negotiating with us they made exactly the same offer as the Conservatives – ie nothing at all.
"There has been a huge amount of hypocrisy on the part of Labour politicians in claiming they would have put Wales first when quite clearly the evidence shows they wouldn't have done anything."
Shadow Welsh Secretary Peter Hain said last night: "If Labour was still in government, there is no question we would have delivered on our manifesto commitment to ensure the future fair funding of Wales.
"The Tories and the Lib Dems announced a week after forming a new government that they were breaking their promises on Barnett reform. However, at the time of the coalition discussions there was cross-party general agreement after the Holtham Commission report, as all three party's manifestos made clear, so there was no need for negotiations on the issue. In any case, we never got into detailed policy-by-policy negotiations with the Liberal Democrats because it soon became clear they weren't serious about forming a coalition with Labour, they were just trying to use it as mechanism to leverage concessions out of the Tories."
Defending Labour's record on funding Wales, Mr Hain said: "In government we always acted responsibly and in the interests of Wales and we remain the only political party with a deliverable commitment on fair funding.
"The Institute of Fiscal Studies' Green Budget entirely vindicates Labour's approach. By acknowledging that the Barnett Formula is only now beginning to disadvantage Wales for the first time, it shows we were right to stick with it up until last year. The under-funding we are now seeing is due to the broken promises and inaction of the Tory-led Government.
"The Barnett Formula served Wales well. Had we ripped it up several decades ago as Plaid Cymru were advocating, Wales would have been massively disadvantaged. By refusing to address the problem that has now emerged, as the Tories and Lib Dems are doing, Wales is being disadvantaged."


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A while back, I was talking with fellow designers from my college while working on a freelance project.
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I wanted to freelance, but I had no prior experience in the design business, which made me scared of freelancing. What if I would be making little to no money? What if I am hired by a bad client? What if I'm ripped off? Those "what ifs" popped in my mind every time I thought about freelancing.
Remembering all those feelings of fear, I knew exactly how to answer my designer friends. I drew all of the knowledge I learned from more successful designers, and answered their questions. Today, I want to help you ease your freelancing fears with advice from successful, established designers.
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"Know your value. Too often people start off under pricing everything because they feel they have to do so because they don't have the experience or it is the only way to get clients. If you aren't uncomfortable with the price you are asking for then you are underbidding yourself. Don't be afraid to lose some business because someone wasn't willing to pay what you want. Being a design means having some sort of freedom, but it is up to you to make it happen."
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This is very important, if not maybe the most important question at all. A doubtful answer is not allowed here, you would make the wrong decision already."
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"To any freelance newcomer I would say first and foremost you need to think realistically about costs, such as equipment, software, insurance, premises, tax, the list goes on. You also need to think about your potential earnings and ask yourself 'what do I need to survive on?' Being honest and realistic about your financial requirements is important.
I've found that financial planning is key, as you need to have the budgeting skills to set aside enough money to pay taxes (and other expenses) each year and live comfortably as well. Find a great accountant as they are worth their weight in gold and their advice is invaluable!
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"Always work on projects that you're really interested in, even if they are just personal projects. My work didn't start to get notice outside of my circle of friends until I started to follow my interests. I've always wanted to draw comics so I just started drawing them one day, mostly to make my friends laugh. I only continued to do it because I found that I really looked forward to writing and drawing the things.
It turned out that the comics brought in a lot of visitors and in return more projects. With more projects I could be pickier and take on work that had the time and budget to do higher quality work. None of that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't working on things I loved, and that came from doing what I was most interested in."
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- Don't be afraid of raising your hourly rate.
This was a revelation for me when I began doing it. I was charging clients a measly rate because I was afraid I wasn't worth anything more. Raising my rate improved my business on all fronts – I was getting more time to focus on just a few projects instead of several at a time, my clients were better and appreciated the value we provide as professionals, and I was getting work I actually wanted to do. A good rule I use is to raise your rate after each project until people start telling you "no."
- Karma is everything.
Try your best to be nice and professional to everyone as often as you can. Now, you don't need to go and kiss arse but you should keep in mind that what goes around, comes around. That kid who emailed you looking for a few tips on design might be the next huge thing in our industry – be careful you don't dismiss anyone.
- No clients? Create passive income for yourself.
If work in coming in slow, don't spend all your time seeking new clients. The best thing to do in slow times is create sources of passive income for yourself – income you don't have to manage much beyond the initial investment of time/money. Whether that means creating Tumblr/Wordpress themes, or creating a design print – be creative, and hustle."
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Bonnie Blair Brown (b. 1947) is an American actress. She guest starred on Sesame Street in Episode 2876, where she played Gina's friend, Jane, a ranger at Massapequa Wildlife Preserve.
In film, Brown appeared in Continental Divide (with John Belushi) for which she received her first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical as Dr. Nell Porter.
In TV, Brown played the title role on the Emmy Award-nominated comedy-drama series, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. She also had a recurring role as Nina Sharp in the television series Fringe, and began playing Judy King in Orange is the New Black during its 3rd season. Her other credits include ER, Frasier, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Smallville.


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Computational Study Of Molecular Hydrogen In Zeolite Na-A. II. Density Of Rotational States And Inelastic Neutron Scattering Spectra
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Part I of this series [J. Chem. Phys. 111, 7599 (1999)] describes a simulation of H(2) adsorbed within zeolite Na-A in which a block Lanczos procedure is used to generate the first several (9) rotational eigenstates of H(2), modeled as a rigid rotor, and equilibrated at a given temperature via Monte Carlo sampling. Here, we show that rotational states are strongly perturbed by the electrostatic fields in the solid. Wave functions and densities of rotational energy states are presented. Simulated neutron spectra are compared with inelastic neutron scattering data. Comparisons are made with IR spectra in which rotational levels may appear due to rovibrational coupling. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
This work is freely available courtesy of the American Institute of Physics.
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Jennifer A. MacKinnon , '95; J. Eckert; D. F. Coker; and Amy Lisa Graves.
"Computational Study Of Molecular Hydrogen In Zeolite Na-A. II. Density Of Rotational States And Inelastic Neutron Scattering Spectra".
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I've realized that I tend to read in my genre like someone studying for a degree – I will read throughout all of the other genres of writing in a very broad spectrum; don't get me wrong, I love reading anything and everything. I've realized, however, that when it's all said and done I end up crawling back to a certain type of books.
For me, it's young adult/adult novels that are centric around paranormal/supernatural romance or young adult/adult fantasy romance. I've realize that's kind of the world that I sink into the most when I write – it's my genre, and it tends to be the thing that I will really read the most. I don't think this is a bad thing, however. As writers, we are always looking to broaden our horizons, to expand in our knowledge. We really do need to familiarize ourselves with the market that we intended to strut forth into if we plan on making it.
I think my Amazon Wish List kind of tells the tale. It's like… yeah, there's other things on there… and then there's that vampire romance series… I'm working on getting books that I've never read before, working on broadening my reading scope, but I do realize that I'm always going to have that special, go to play in my heart for my own writing genre. What about you?


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Ruumbo Demands Justice
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DescriptionYou! Wanderer! Bow before the might of Ruumbo, great god of the Timbermaw tribe!
Hear my will! The evil Deadwood tribe lives in the village behind me! They are big jerks!
I mean, they... they sully my name with their wicked misdeeds! They persecute my cherished Timbermaw tribe and hurt them!
I demand you inflict my justice! Defeat the Deadwood and I will give you my... my favor! Yes! The favor of RUUMBO!
It worked!
I mean, uh, YES, the will of Ruumbo has been carried out! You have done well, creature! You may have these shiny coins!
I mean, uh, YES, the will of Ruumbo has been carried out! You have done well, creature! You may have these shiny coins!
RewardsYou will receive:
GainsUpon completion of this quest you will gain:
- 250 reputation with Timbermaw Hold
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Manager relieved of duties after Boxing Day defeat
Millwall have announced that manager Steve Lomas has been relieved of his duties following the 4-0 Boxing Day defeat at Watford which saw The Lions slip to 20th in the Championship table.
Coach Neil Harris and Academy Director Scott Fitzgerald, both former players at The Den, will take temporary charge of the team for the trip to Doncaster on Sunday, and until a new permanent manager is appointed.
Lions CEO Andy Ambler said: "We are very disappointed that it hasn't worked out for Steve. He has been thoroughly professional in his approach to the job during his short period with the club and remains a very promising young manager.
However, the board feels that it is in the best interests of Millwall that we make the change at this time and the search for a successor to Steve begins immediately. We thank Steve for his efforts and wish him the very best for the future."


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Coming for Holiday 2008 - Community Games on Xbox LIVE Announcement at GDC
Finally finally finally I get to blog about this. :) This is the team I am on you know - I am a pm for the community games team in XNA. But I've been so busy today at the conference, really other people are doing a better job of blogging it now.
There are 3 parts to this blog post - the big community announcement, how you can get games you can play RIGHT NOW, and where developers can find out more about developing community games for Xbox LIVE at GDC.
Oh yeah, and I finally fulfilled a dream of playing Dishwasher with the creator, James Silva. Dean or Cyrus have the photo of the actual playing where I basically hacked randomly and James wreaked carnage.
Dave Weller has a long blog post here:
And there's more going on at the XNA Creators Club Web site:
I offer some photos....
Chris Satchell, below, talks about opening up the Xbox to community games.
The initial list of community games is:
• The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai (I played this at Gamefest and could not stop)
• JellyCar ( I loved the sound effects of this game - squishy and addictive)
• Little Gamers (much carnage with cute characters from the Web site)
• Proximity HD (This game got Dax addicted)
• Rocketball (great multiplayer game - met them at Gamefest - playtested with friends and pizza)
• TriLinea (the one game I have not played yet)
• Culture (if you like flowers you will like this - non violent)
How to get community games now is in the FAQ posted here: http://forums.xna.com/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=46554
If you are a visual person, Major Nelson and Michael Klucher show you in video format how to get the community player and download the games:
For GDC-goers, the breakout sessions about community games (Albert Ho and Dax Hawkins presiding) and the Zune announcement (which Michael Klucher is speaking on) are tomorrow afternoon in room 3002, Moscone West. They will have additional info not present in the FAQ or other locations. More to come!
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This Policy Paper is a work and a publication of the B20 Financing Growth & Infrastructure (FGI) taskforce!
By 2050 the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to 9.7 billion and is expected to reach 11.2 billion by 2100. Many countries will be hard pressed to meet the needs of their people. There are, for example, already considerable investment gaps in infrastructure, research, and development, as well as education. Yet, as governments pushed to restore stability and resilience in the wake of 2008 global financial crisis, infrastructure investment has been neglected.
There is increasing awareness that a more balanced policy mix is required to deliver a stronger path for growth and financial stability. The G20 has already taken actions to improve the environment for infrastructure investment, however, as this paper reports, more must be achieved so private investors can undertake the long-term, capital intensive investments such complex projects demand.
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Our team is growing! The State Climate Office of North Carolina at NC State University is seeking qualified applicants for a new Climatologist position. This scientist will contribute to the extension, research, and outreach mission of the State Climate Office of North Carolina and will specifically work to support and enhance the development of climate data analysis tools and technologies. This scientist will also help support the community outreach effort of the program through climate science communications, including visual, written, and oral communication.
Required Qualifications: This position requires B.S. degree in climatology, geography, atmospheric science, or related discipline, or equivalent experience. An M.S. degree in these or related field is preferred.
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WASHINGTON, (AHC) – March 15, 2012. The United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) has joined the Unwanted Horse Coalition (UHC).
"Supporting the mission of UHC is totally in line with the USHJA's mission of which a major component is protecting the well being of our participants both human and equine and offering broad based education for our members. We want to do all we can to help ensure that these generous animals have the responsible care that they deserve from all of us," said Shelby French, CEO of the USHJA.
The USHJA, which is the nationally recognized affiliate for the hunter and jumper riding disciplines, promotes the equestrian sport and the well being of its participants. The USHJA offers broad based education for its members and provides the framework for the conduct of the hunter/jumper sport.


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Felger and Massarotti opened the day previewing Saturday night's Division round game between the Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots. The Colts advanced to face the Patriots after coming from behind to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 45-44 during Wild Card Weekend. What did we learn about Andrew Luck during Saturday's come from behind victory? The Colts rallied back from being down 38-10 to eliminate the Chiefs. What are the biggest issues surrounding the Cincinnati Bengals?[cbs-audio url="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d4/dE/d8/d5/14E85_3.MP3″ size="340px" download="true" name="Hour 1″ artist="Felger and Massarotti"]
In Hour 2, Felger and Mazz continued to discuss Wild Card weekend and the role weather played in the games. How much of an affect did the cold weather have on this weekend's games? Mike and Tony continue to pick through the Chargers-Bengals game. Can the Bengals be successful with Andy Dalton as the quarterback? What about with Marvin Lewis as head coach? The guys went on to discuss the San Francisco 49ers 23-20 win over the Green Bay Packers. Are the 49ers the most hateable team left in the playoffs? Finally, Felger and Mazz look back at Saturday's New Orleans Saints 26-24 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.[cbs-audio url="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d4/dE/d8/dS/14E8S_3.MP3″ size="340px" download="true" name="Hour 2″ artist="Felger and Massarotti"]
During Hour 3 of Felger and Massarotti, the guys continue to preview Saturday night's Divisional match-up between the Colts and the Patriots. Today the Colts signed former Patriots receiver Deion Branch. What will the Branch signing mean for the Colts? Getting back into the Saints-Eagles game, does playing more than half of his games in a dome overrate Saints quarterback Drew Brees? Felger and Mazz look back at the season of, former Pats running back and current running back for the San Diego Chargers, Danny Woodhead. Could Woodhead have helped out the Patriots this season? Also, the Patriots have placed Brandon Spikes on season-ending IR. How will the loss of Spikes hurt the Pats?[cbs-audio url="http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d4/dE/d9/dF/14E9F_3.MP3″ size="340px" download="true" name="Hour 3″ artist="Felger and Massarotti"]
In the fourth and final hour, Felger and Mazz are still discussing the Patriots upcoming Divisional game against the Colts. What do the Colts have to do to get past the Patriots? Why cant the commentators of the games admit that the weather will be a factor in these games? Finally, we hear the Final Word with Marc Bertrand.[cbs-audio url="http://nyc.podcast.play.it/media/d0/d0/d1/d4/dE/d9/dW/14E9W_3.MP3″ size="340px" download="true" name="Hour 4″ artist="Felger and Massarotti"]


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Monday, March 8, 2010 Voter Fraud
Foot Locker beat out Avatar for movie of the year? You've got to be kidding me.
A movie that no one has seen lost to one that 80 gazillion people have flocked to see at least twice. So what does the Academy know that serfdom does not?
We don't know if instant runoff voting decided the winner because we dont have the vote data. Instant runoff voting is complex to count and makes fraud very easy to hide, especially when the vote data is not public.
IRV is not additive and there are several variations with different algorithms that decide how votes will be sorted, re-allocated,re-shuffled and eliminated.
We have no idea if IRV came into play, but we do know that real life jurisdictions (Aspen CO, Cary NC, Burlington Vermont, Pierce Co Washington and maybe San Francisco next) are ditching IRV because of its complexity and sometimes bizarre results.
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Returning To Academia
The University of Liverpool recognises that returning to academia following a break can sometimes be difficult. This website provides information and resources to support you in your plan to return to academia.
- The Open University's 'Returning to STEM' free badge course
This free online course is designed to help you get back into work in Sciences, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics following a career break:
- The Women Returners Network
This free networking tool for women returning to work following a break provides a comprehensive advice and resource service and is the main access point for UK organisations wishing to hire returning professionals,
- The Royal Society of Biology's Returners' Resource
Funding Opportunities
University staff can apply to our ECR and Returners fund. This is open to those in the early stages of their career or those who have recently – within the last 12 months – returned to work after a long (3+ months) period of absence. This fund has been established to support activities aimed at positioning ECRs and Returners for future funding applications: by establishing new research collaborations or learning new specialist techniques; by embedding fund holders into interdisciplinary networks; by providing pump priming funds to carry out research related to a future funding application or production of a research output.
- Daphne Jackson Fellowships, which are intended to help scientists and engineers retrain after taking time out for family commitments for up to two years.
- Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship which is a Royal Society scheme aimed at retaining the most able women in science at an early career stage Applicants of postdoctoral status, with no more than four years' postdoctoral research experience may apply.
- Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellowships are for postdoctoral scientists in the biomedical sciences to return to research after a career break of at least two years. Four years' duration.
- Embo Fellowships may be awarded for a period of up to 24 months. Applicants who interrupted their career due to childcare for at least 1 year will also be given special consideration when applying to stay within the same country.
- Rosalind Franklin Award - Royal Society - the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin Award is made to an individual for an outstanding contribution to any area of natural science, engineering or technology (SET). While open to both sexes, the recipient of the award is expected to spend a proportion of the grant on implementing a project to raise the profile of women in STEM in their institution and/or fi
eld of expertise.
- L'Oréal UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science Launched in January 2007, these Fellowships are offered to promote, enhance and encourage the contribution of women pursuing their research careers in the UK or Ireland in the fields of the life and physical sciences. Four fellowships, worth £15,000, are awarded annually to outstanding female postdoctoral researchers. The deadline for the 2013 application round is Friday 15th March.
- British Federation of Women Graduates Scholarships Founded in 1907, the British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG) has been providing Scholarships Funds for women in their final year of study for a PhD since 1912. Its wholly owned subsidiary charity Funds for Women Graduates makes awards to help women graduates while undertaking postgraduate study or research.
Royal Society of Biology blog, Returning to work after a career break? The four things you should know
Naturejobs blog, Women in science: A returner's perspective
Royal Society of Biology blog, Returners to Bioscience - a neglected pool of talented workers
Bioindustry Association blog, The first Returners to Bioscience Week 2015 - raising awareness and celebrating talent
Royal Society of Biology blog, Choosing between 'life' or research - survey data shows the outlook is good for returners
Biochemical Society blog, Five things having a career break has taught me
The Telegraph, How to return to work after a long career break
PLOS blog, 7 Tips for Women at Science Conferences
The Telegraph, You have 8.8 seconds to impress with your CV. Here's how
The Wellcome Trust blog, How to return to a research career after a break from the lab
Women Returners blog, Five ways to build your back-to-work networks
The Guardian, The five things I want to tell employers about women returning to work


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House considers proposals on ethics, gestation stalls, governance
The AVMA House of Delegates will consider a revised version of the AVMA's Principles of Veterinary Medical Ethics, a resolution against sow gestation stalls, and proposals on governance during its regular annual session, July 24-25 in Denver, preceding the AVMA Annual Convention.
Principles of ethics
The AVMA Executive Board submitted the new version of the principles of ethics as a resolution with a recommendation for approval. The Judicial Council has spent more than a year revising the principles and incorporating input from AVMA members.
The council completely reformatted the document, modeling the new version in large part on the American Medical Association's Code of Ethics. The council proposed eight overarching tenets and reformatted the document into three sections—an introduction, principles, and useful terms. The council believes the new framework will allow the principles to endure as written and that supporting annotations can be revised as needed to address new concepts.
The revised version of the document also incorporates input from the House, other AVMA entities, AVMA members, AVMA general counsel, executives of state VMAs, and other stakeholders.
Sow gestation stalls
The Humane Society VMA submitted the resolution against gestation stalls by petition of AVMA members. The resolution would revise the AVMA policy "Pregnant Sow Housing" by adding that housing should allow pregnant sows "to stand up, fully turn around, and stretch their limbs."
The statement about the resolution asserts: "The intensive confinement of pregnant sows in gestation crates for a prolonged period of time creates serious physical and psychological consequences. Given the viable alternatives to gestation crates, namely a variety of group housing options, there is a global trend toward phasing out gestation crate use where growing social concern and acknowledgment of the ethical issues inherent in gestation crates is being recognized."
The statement goes on to describe gestation stalls, welfare concerns, the percentage of a sow's life span typically spent in gestation and farrowing stalls, the elimination of gestation stalls by some states and countries, and a movement away from gestation stalls by some pork producers and food companies. The statement concludes by noting that a recent AVMA literature review acknowledged certain welfare disadvantages with gestation stalls.
The AVMA Executive Board also submitted a resolution to revise the policy on pregnant sow housing per recommendations from the AVMA Animal Welfare Committee (see JAVMA, June 1, 2014). Among other changes, the resolution would revise the policy by adding that housing should provide "adequate quality and quantity of space that allows sows to assume normal postures and express normal patterns of behavior."
Governance proposals
The board submitted a number of proposed amendments to the AVMA Bylaws for consideration by the House. The proposed changes to governance would provide for AVMA members to elect about half the delegates in the HOD and would reduce the term of board members from six years to four.
The AVMA Governance Engagement Team crafted the proposal that would allow direct election of many delegates by AVMA members.
Currently, the state VMAs and other veterinary organizations represented in the House, such as species groups, each designate a delegate and an alternate delegate.
The proposed bylaws amendments would allow AVMA members residing in each state or belonging to other organizations represented in the House to elect one voting delegate to represent the state or organization. The state VMAs and the other organizations would designate a second voting delegate.
The proposal also would limit almost all delegates to serving no more than two consecutive four-year terms.
The board's Governance Bylaws Working Group crafted the proposal to change the term of board members from six years to four.
The proposed bylaws amendments would make the term for board members consistent with the proposed term for delegates. The working group believes that a shorter term will result in more opportunities for AVMA members to serve on the board. The bylaws already provide for board members not to serve two consecutive terms.
The proposal also would change the name of the board from Executive Board to Board of Directors to be consistent with the terminology of the laws covering not-for-profit organizations in Illinois, where the AVMA is incorporated.
In addition, the board submitted a proposed bylaws amendment to add a veterinary student as a nonvoting member of the AVMA Council on Research.
Proposals going to the House of Delegates are available here. AVMA members can find contact information for their delegates here.
Related JAVMA content:
Pregnant sow housing, cat declawing on HOD agenda (June 1, 2014)


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Contrary to popular opinion, most cyclists aren't jerks. Yes, from time to time they ride on the sidewalk or run red lights or invade space otherwise reserved for people walking along the ground. But as TIME's Bryan Walsh pointed out in July, an Australian study of vehicle-cyclist collisions found that 90 percent of cyclists were doing their thing safely and 80 percent of the time the driver of the car was cited. Bike lanes are supposed to keep cyclists and cars far apart, but do you think New York City has enough space for that? With no barrier between riders and cars, taxis swerve in and out of the bike lane, while bikers have to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting cars that make left turns.
But as bad as the cars are, the people are worse. I've been riding a road bike in New York for more than two years, and am constantly amazed that people often park, walk, stand, socialize and wander in the bike lanes, oblivious to the fact that the little picture of a bicycle on the ground means they might encounter an actual bicycle. Nearly every time I've gone over the handlebars of my bike in New York (and yes, it's happened multiple times) it's because someone darted right in front of me. Every time they have been fine, while my elbows and knees (and bike) have suffered some dings. Biking is a joy–it's hard and fun and exhilarating, so I'll keep it up and invite skeptical New Yorkers to try it too.


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