May 17 2012

On the Heels of Lupus for Fashion

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Before the summer of 2007, “moderation” was not a word I liked to hear. I had severe fear-of-missing-out syndrome and would stay out all night on weekends “just in case” I missed something major. I was working long and late on everything at a new job (the coveted magazine fashion assistant position Office 2007 Key!), ate terribly, and looked forward to summer weekends of rushing to the beach, blowing it out, and rushing back to hectic city life. I was living off my vanity and confidence, and I was burning the candle at both ends and straight through the middle.

That all came to a full stop in September of that year, when I developed a hard, painful, and itchy rash all over my neck and face. I felt nothing but disappointment initially — here was my chance to make a killer impression on my new coworkers, these chic and well-established women whom I worshipped. They had given me this amazing opportunity “a million girls would die for,” and I had given them what I considered to be a shameful representation of the magazine. I was devastated — nothing could be worse to a 23-year-old’s ego. But I figured it could be fixed by a quick visit to a dermatologist, so I found the first one close to the office and went.

Only the rash didn’t get better. It got much worse. I ended up in the hospital three times before the end of the year, including on Christmas Eve and on New Year’s Eve. I dropped from a healthy 140 pounds on my 5-foot-8-inch frame to a scary 113 pounds. My naturally tan skin was losing color, my hair was falling out, and I was mixing up dates and numbers — hardly an asset to the busy (yet patient) director I was assisting. To this day, my friends ask me how I got up and went to such an intense job every day. The answer is still “I don’t know.”

After a year, a team of six specialists, eight medications, and countless nights mourning my “old” life and feeling desperately sorry for myself, there was a conclusion: I had lupus. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (S.L.E.) is a chronic autoimmune disease that has no known cause and no known cure. It can attack any organ of the body at any time and affects each patient differently. My targeted organ was my skin; others have problems with their heart, joints, lungs, or kidneys. My initial inflammation flare lasted about a year, during which my body just went completely haywire and began attacking itself, unable to distinguish between foreign invaders and healthy cells.

Every day more than 5 million people worldwide deal with a very personalized form of this disease. They are overwhelmingly almost all women — more than 90 percent — and are usually struck in the prime of their lives Buy Windows 7 Product Key, between 15 and 44. When lupus goes unmanaged, it can be fatal. Novelist Flannery O’Connor died from it, as did Lady Gaga’s beloved aunt, Joanne Germanotta. Through a life of moderation, patients do have a better chance of not having flares, which can last for anywhere from six weeks to years.

So now what? I have chosen a career path that in no way helps my situation and live a city that makes my life decidedly harder than it would be somewhere else. With exercise, a healthy diet, taking breaks when I need to, sleeping enough, and a strict regimen of medication, I am living that dreaded life of moderation while still keeping my dreams and goals intact. Turns out, it’s not so bad: Getting older coincided with self-control. I’m now a freelance fashion consultant working for magazines and event companies, which allows me to work project-based and take breaks from life when I need it. I’m celebrating how I live with lupus on World Lupus Day Windows Anytime Upgrade, May 10. Please help the fight against lupus by visiting www.lupusny.org and www.worldlupusday.org for more information and how you can help spread awareness.

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May 17 2012

On Mother’s Day Caring for All Creatures

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This Mother’s Day, as we celebrate our own mothers, we can also celebrate the many people who adopt other species, wild and domestic, and love them as their own. Sometimes it takes a village to practice this interspecies adoption.

In Nova Scotia, the village of Guysborough adopted an orphaned wild beluga calf they named Wilma. The two-year-old beluga swam lonely circles in the harbor. Wilma used floating buoys as her toys and rubbed up against boats so often that her white flanks were often gashed and scarred from propeller wounds. Yet true to the nature of this sociable species, Wilma continued to playfully approach boats to greet schoolchildren and tourists. So fishermen designed a protective box for their outboard motors. Village elders set their clocks by her and one couple said, “In the evening, we like to hear Wilma make noises like snoring. It’s very reassuring.”

Though Wilma was what scientists call a “lone, sociable,” who had somehow lost her mother and her pod, she was rarely alone in the harbor. At a town meeting, the whole village of Guysborough turned out to hear how they could best adopt and care for Wilma. They brought in Cathy Kinsman of the Canadian Whale Stewardship Project and marine mammal biologist replica watches, Dr. Toni Frohoff. Villagers wanted their conservation help to protect Wilma from any outside captive industry who might condemn Wilma to life in a tank.

“Wilma trusts us, don’t you know,” a grizzled boatman said. “She’s our responsibility. Just tell us what Wilma needs.”

The Whale Stewardship Program helped educate Guysborough about how to best watch over their baby beluga in the wild.

When I visited Guysborough, the boatman took us out to meet Wilma. I was struck by how young she seemed as she exchanged a long, childlike gaze. In Wilma’s eyes were all the loneliness and need, the dependence and trust of a human child. Wilma was alone of all her kind, yet surrounded by well-meaning people. She had the plaintive replica watches, engaging look of a child awaiting adoption. And this village had the earnest, anxious attitude of adoptive parents.

I realized that here was another kind of family model, an interspecies kinship new and fragile, awkward and inexperienced. But this was a model for what the future might be, between species that increasingly must meet. To adapt a scientific term, here was the human version of allomothering — caring for non-maternal offspring.

Animals who allomother offspring other than their own include aunties, uncles, siblings, and even non-relatives who babysit, feed, and protect the infants from predators. Animal allomothers spend time with the infant so the mother can forage, rest, and meet her own needs. Infants who enjoy such cooperative care have a much higher rate of survival in the wild. And if the mother dies, these offspring are often adopted and their lives saved.

There are benefits to being allomothers. In baboon society, primatologist Barbara Smuts observed that young male baboons who offered friendship, babysitting, grooming, and companionship to elder matriarchs, were often chosen as mates.

When humans offer allomothering to other species, it often requires remarkable adaptability and advocacy. It’s natural to love one’s birth child. But what if the creature you are trying to mother is covered with hair, or bites you, or claws you, or has a grasping tail? What if that baby needs to sleep in a pouch, or in a tree, or requires a diet that includes moose scat or pureed fish? And what if that baby animal is endangered or weighs tons at birth?

In another village on the remote Baja peninsula, San Ignacio Lagoon, generations of villagers have protected gray whales in their birthing lagoons. Since the 1970s, when Renulfo Mayoral’s father, Pachiko, first documented what scientists call “The Friendly Whale Syndrome,” villagers have served as naturalists and boatmen to researchers and tourists who seek a unique encounter with the great gray whales.

As well as being the foremost naturalist in this lagoon, Renulfo is training the next generation in stewardship of the gray whales. He looks on proudly when his first young female boatman, Lupita, navigates the exhilarating encounter with baby gray whales practically leaping into our boat to be touched.

“My grandfather taught me to love las ballenas, the gray whales,” Lupita says. “They are my relatives who visit every year.”

Closer to home in my own Seattle neighborhood of Alki Beach, a group of dedicated volunteers, called Seal Sitters, sit vigil over seals who spend half their lives sharing our shores. On a busy urban beach like Alki, dogs off leash and curious people can disturb the pup’s vital rest and scare him back into the water where he may not find his mother again. Weaned pups just learning to fish especially need to rest. Fifty percent of seal pups do not survive their first year. So the Seal Sitters, trained by NOAA, protect the seal and educate the many passersby until the seal can return to the water.

When we adopt another species, we reach out past the boundaries that keep us lonely and limited to just “me and mine.” Now as we face massive extinctions of other animals, we can expand the way we love. In the words of the wise Mongolian family in the film, The Weeping Camel — allomothers know that “the heart, whether human or animal replica watches, knows no borders.”

Brenda Peterson is a National Geographic author of 17 books, including the memoirs I Want to be Left Behind and Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals. She is the co-founder of the Seal Sitters Marine Mammal Stranding Network. Her new picture book, Leopard and Silkie: One Boy’s Quest to Save the Seal Pups is just out. For more:

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May 17 2012

Blood-filled syringes hidden in shop clothing in Q

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POLICE in the Quebec town of Sherbrooke called for calm today after more syringes containing a small amount of blood were found hidden in clothing in a retail store.

The discovery last weekend brings to 20 the number of such devices discovered since last January, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) said.

The Sherbrooke Record said two syringes were found in clothing at a Zeller’s store, where other syringes were also found last week.

According to the CBC, at least eight people have been injured after sticking themselves with the needles while handling the clothes.

Those who have been pricked are undergoing medical tests to make sure they have not been infected by any disease.

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The CBC said officials have confirmed that DNA found on the last three needles belonged to the same person but there is no match in police databases.

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"I think it’s premature to tell citizens to stay at home … the most significant caution is for the men and women working inside these shopping centers."

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May 17 2012

Act Different

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In a famous ad, Apple asked people to “Think Different.” We are now at a point in the natural history of the planet when it is essential to act different. There is no better time to begin than on Earth Day.

In 1970, the first Earth Day led to sweeping changes in public policy. It created a new constituency that demanded the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act to protect public health, and the Endangered Species Act to protect other living things.

In 2012, with the most polarized Congress in history, vital national legislation cannot even get a hearing. Consequently, the greatest immediate environmental opportunities today do not involve Washington, DC. They involve smart, sustainable choices by the private sector, states and cities, and individuals.

A good place to start is real estate.

Irrational real estate prices, combined with fraudulent derivatives, shaky mortgages and an over-leveraged banking sector, produced the latest economic bubble. Like every other bubble, it popped. Property values plummeted, new construction stopped, and investors sat on the sidelines.

Now that our devastated economy is finally showing signs of recovery, developers andbanks are starting once again to contemplate new real estate investments. Will we go back to business-as-usual, with the same risks and costs? Or will we act different?

In Seattle, we are doing things differently in a new office building known as the Bullitt Center. With a mix of vision and pragmatism, our goal is to do everything right.

What does “do everything right” mean?

A typical new office building has a design life of 40 years. The core of the Bullitt Center has a design life of 250 years.

In a typical office, windows are sealed shut while fossil fuels battle the summer heat and winter chill. By contrast, the Bullitt Center has a super-efficient shell. The windows automatically open when appropriate to allow Seattle’s temperate breezes in. And geothermal heat pumps use the constant temperature of the Earth to increase the efficiency of thetiny heating and cooling system. It will use about one-fifth as much energy as an average building its size.

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If an audacious entirely solar-powered six-story building is possible in Seattle, what’s possible across the U.S.? According to estimates from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, there are more than 481 square miles of roof available for solar in the U.S. If this area were covered with photovoltaic arrays, we could accommodate more than 700,000 megawatts of clean, renewable power, which is almost 75 percent of total electricity generation capacity in the U.S.

The Bullitt Center will also capture and treat the rain that falls on its roof, storing it in a 56,000-gallon cistern in the basement for months when it doesn’t rain. Eventually, we will gain permission to use rainwater for all purposes, including drinking.

While Seattle is more blessed with rain than some other cities, we receive less total precipitation than Atlanta Tattoo Carbon Paper, Boston, Houston or New York. And even in arid cities, rain typically falls in short, intense bursts that can carry pollutants down storm drains into local rivers, lakes and bays. If every building could capture the rain that falls on it, our reliance on remote water sources could be reduced, even as local water quality improved.

The Bullitt Center has only Forest Stewardship Council certified wood, toxic-free materials, composting toilets, and desk lamps that draw only 3 watts of power. These are all included in our attempt to do everything right.

Earth Day is a time when people around the world sharing environmental values hold rallies and teach-ins, plant trees and beautify parks, register voters and pull trash out of wetlands. It is also a time when individuals and institutions make lasting commitments to reduce their environmental footprints.

Buildings currently account for nearly 40 percent of all energy use in the United States. Three-fourths of this energy would be utterly unnecessary if we paid attention to efficiency. It’s time to act different.

Denis Hayes was the first national organizer of Earth Day in 1970. Today he is the president and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, which supports environmental projects throughout the Northwest. For more information about the Bullitt Center, visit www.bullittcenter.org.

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May 16 2012

Spain Park wins 6A boys golf crown; Cannon, Green

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OPELIKA, Alabama — Spain Park, led by Robby Prater, won the Class 6A boys Alabama High School Athletic Association state golf championship at Auburn-Opelika’s Grand National Golf Club. The Jaguars turned in a team score of 579 for the two-day, 36-hole event Herve Leger sale, winning the classification by five shots.

Hoover’s Will Cannon, with a 3-under-par round of 69 in the second round, and Fairhope freshman Alex Green, who shot 2-under 70, shared medalist honors, both with two-day totals of 4-under 140. Cannon is Hoover’s No. 1 player and Green earned his spot in the tournament as an individual.

Prater finished third in medalist play with a two-day score of 142.

Hoover, which had a 1-under team total in the final round, finished second at 584. McGill-Toolen (611) placed third Replica Chanel Dresses, followed by Auburn (617), Mountain Brook (619) and Prattville (645).

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May 15 2012

Mini Cooper reportedly under investigation by NHTS

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Mini boasts about the go-kart like handling of its popular Cooper model. It’s true, the car handles like a toy – except when the power-steering goes out. According to CNN Money, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into numerous claims by owners that their power steering assistance suddenly disappeared.

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May 14 2012

Bonus Round

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OK, my friends who are struggling to pay your mortgage, put away money for your kids’ college fund Buy Herve Leger v neck, wondering why the day-care lady earns more per hour than you do, and hoping duct tape and copper wire will hold the boiler together until spring Buy Herve Leger gown, consider this (calmly, please): Later this spring, elite law firms will again be offering Supreme Court law clerks signing bonuses of $200,000 (last year’s rate) or even more for their first jobs as practicing lawyers.

That will be $200,000 on top of a starting salary of $145,000 to $160,000. Which adds up to an awful lot of Pottery Barn sectional furniture for someone who is, on average, 26 years old and just two years out of school. As Chief Justice John Roberts pointed out recently Discount Chloe Dresses, that $360,000 beats the heck out of the $212,100 he’s taking home for, well, chief justice-ing the entire nation.

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The so-called “law clerk bonus” is a one-way ratchet, it seems. In a bidding war between boutique appellate practices at the nation’s fanciest firms Buy BCBG Dresses, the bonus not only rises each year, but seemingly it does so exponentially. When it hit $ 150,000 two years ago, it was hard to pick myself off the floor. Thomas Goldstein, who recently started the Supreme Court litigation section at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld, confirms that in the major markets, no large firm can expect to pay less than $200,000. ”The only question,” he says, “is whether it will be more.”

With so many powerful firms competing for only 36 clerks, it’s no surprise that the high court’s graduating law clerks will soon be staring down the barrel of NBA-grade salaries. At which point the already puzzling economics of elite law firm cachet will have become truly incomprehensible.

What is it about three-dozen legal rock stars that justifies paying them so much? Former Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger, who heads the appellate practice at O’Melveny and Myers in Washington, says that while not all Supreme Court clerks make brilliant lawyers, and not all of his best associates were trained at the high court, “there’s a very strong overlap with extraordinary talent.” He adds: “One of the least appreciated things in the practice of law, is lawyering that rates even above truly excellent lawyering.” And if you’re working on billion-dollar cases, he says, the client is willing to pay more for truly excellent work. Dellinger, it should be noted, is a former Supreme Court clerk himself, from the pre-bonus era.

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood’s managing partner, Carter Phillips, agrees that the Supreme Court’s selection system does single out extraordinary young lawyers. Moreover, “they’re used to working hard,” Phillips says. “They can’t get through their clerkships without putting in significant hours, so you know they can put in 2 Cheap Herve Leger v neck,200 hours at a firm.” (Billable hours are the six-minute increments by which lawyers account for their time. If the studies are right, and you must spend three hours at work for every two hours you can bill, working 10-hour days you’d bill between 1,500 and 1,600 hours a year. Way low. Hence the weekends and takeout and no-life to get you up to 2,200.)

Phillips also notes that because of their work considering possible future cases for their justice, Supreme Court clerks have been exposed to a much broader set of federal issues even than their colleagues from the federal appeals courts. As a consequence, they don’t have nearly the learning curve of other new associates.

But even Phillips acknowledges that the rates in this bidding war have his partners back in Chicago swallowing hard. “I think I’m the person who came up with this cockamamie idea in the first place,” he confesses, noting that in 1986, when he had the clever idea of wooing some particularly fabulous Supreme Court clerks, the dollar amount in question was closer to $5,000 or $10,000. “I’ll take the heat for creating this system. But I was never the market leader for driving it up.”

Clerkship bonuses have apparently increased 3,000 percent in the past 20 years, while Congress still refuses to pass legislation to provide a 16 percent increase in federal judges’ salaries. No wonder the justices are bitter.

Part of what’s happening here is the extraordinary rise in lawyers’ salaries in general. It’s hard to understand why some young associates are now being paid around $145,000 and many partners bring in a cool million and more. The firms acknowledge that times have changed. Attrition rates are soaring. According to the most recent figures from the National Association of Law Placement, 37 percent of associates leave large firms within the first three years, and 77 percent depart within five years. Lawyers no longer stay at a single firm for decades. Young lawyers demand more lifestyle accommodation and want to bill fewer hours. It’s taking them longer to make partner than it once did, and they resent that. And as demand for attorneys increases, the number of graduates from the nation’s top 25 law schools has remained constant. In short Herve Leger sale, the demand for lawyers is increasing, and the supply wants their weekends back. The solution has been to throw more money at them—and raise rates for clients. Top partners can now bill $800 an hour or more for their time.

But even that doesn’t fully account for the amount of money being thrown at Supreme Court clerks. There must be noneconomic factors pushing these numbers up.

The sheer bling factor is a part of it. On his legal gossip blog, Abovethelaw.com, David Lat tracks lawyer salaries with the glee most of us reserve for American Idol. And according to him, the hefty law clerk bonus stopped making any real economic sense several decimal points ago. Lat notes that these new associates just don’t bill extraordinary hours; that boutique appellate practice isn’t that lucrative; and a good many former clerks have academic aspirations. “They’re billing 1,800 hours, not 2,500, and a lot of them are probably already working on their job talks,” he says, referring to their sales pitches for the academic market.

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May 14 2012

Islamic Greenwashing

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The main rival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Iranian elections, Mir Hossain Mousavi, has adopted green as his signature color. The flags of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian group Hamas also include the color. Why is green so prevalent in the Muslim world?

Because it was supposedly Mohammed’s favorite color. The Islamic prophet is said to have worn a green cloak and turban, and his writings are full of references to the color. A passage from the Quran describes paradise as a place where people “will wear green garments of fine silk.” One hadith, or teaching, says, “When Allah’s Apostle died Cheap Karen Millen Dresses, he was covered with a Hibra Burd,” which is a green square garment. As a result, you’ll see green used to color the binding of Qurans, the domes of mosques, and, yes, campaign materials.

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May 14 2012

Phil Hill’s race-winning Jaguar C-Type on the bloc

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The upcoming auctions at Pebble Beach are shaping up to be the stuff of legends. Which should come as no big surprise as legends are exactly what will be up for grabs. In addition to the highly anticipated launch of the new “Grand Bentley” amidst the field of lust-worthy machinery on display Herve leger strapless sale, auctioneers will be putting such notable classics on the block as Ettore Buggati’s own Type 57C Buy Christian Audigier Clothes, the one-of-a-kind Miller V16 racing car, and this historic 1952 Jaguar C-Type.

The first C-Type Jaguar to be imported into the United States, model XKC-007 was sent straight to the race track where it was driven by no less a talent than the legendary Phil Hill. The World-Champion-to-be took this particular C-Type to three victories at Elkhart Lake Discount Marc Jacobs Dresses, Torrey Pines and Watkins Glen, the former scoring as the first victory for the iconic C-Type in its storied history. After being retired from active duty Herve leger strapless sale, XKC-007 passed through several collections before undergoing a full restoration in 1986 Buy Chloe Dresses, after which it won numerous awards on the vintage concours circuit – including a reunion date with Phil Hill to commemorate Jaguar’s 50th anniversary in 2002. XKC-007 will be up for auction at RM’s three-day Sports & Classics of Monterey event from August 13-15. Details in the press release after the jump and images in the gallery below.

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May 13 2012

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