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Introduction Three valuable resources give the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) the capability to perform full-scale local tests on highway pavements. These resources are located at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Virginia: * The Pavement Isothermal Test System (PITS), which consists of two concrete chambers containing full-scale pavements. These pavements can be subjected to any configuration of controlled stress fixed-position loading in order to simulate a variety of highway load magnitudes and frequencies.
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Two-thirds of the 7-mile-long Hermit Road, west of Grand Canyon Village, is now closed to traffic, buses and pedestrians for major reconstruction. That closure, from Hopi Point westward, will continue through November 2008, and starting on July 7, the entire Hermit Road will be closed for construction. This $17 million reconstruction project will widen the road, improve the viewpoints and better define the walking trail. “People will be inconvenienced,” said Maureen Oltrogge, Grand Canyon spokeswoman.

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Unity PrintingOwner: John Wilkerson Address: 2024 W. 2nd St., Little Rock, 664-2223 Start-up date: June With 19 years of printing experience, John Wilkerson decided to open his own printing and typesetting business, Unity Printing.
Paw-Print Software has launched Adbin, its new tool that integrates with Microsofts Internet Explorer browser to remove advertising from web pages as they are downloaded. Adbin uses an extensible set of rules to identify ads during page downloading. When it finds an image that it suspects is an ad it replaces the it with another one directly from the PCs local drive.
Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 19, 2000 Genuity Inc. (NASDAQ:GENU) today launches a $20 million global marketing campaign — including the companys first-ever television advertising — to support the introduction of its innovative new Network Services Platform (NSP), Black Rocket(TM).

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Ads Highlight Ricohs Ability to Provide New Solutions for Production Printing Industry WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the launch of a new print and online advertising campaign for the RICOH Pro C900, the newest product from Ricohs Production Printing Business Group (PPBG). Created by Gigante Vaz Partners, Inc., the campaign highlights PPBGs ability to provide a new approach to production printing based on understanding and addressing customers specific printing needs. The ads are designed to reach key audiences within PPBGs core business segments: In-Plants, Data Centers and Graphic Arts. The new campaign features visuals of customers pondering various printing needs, with creative that touts the products quality and affordability. In order to encourage customers to consider Ricoh and the Pro C900 when choosing a production device, the campaigns Think Production. Think Ricoh slogan positions the RICOH Pro C900 as the solution for critical printing needs such as web-to-print, variable data printing, and document design and production. The affordability message is supported by the printers superior performance combined with its extremely low maintenance and ability to co-exist within the current production printing environment. In addition, the RICOH Pro C900 incorporates Trained Customer Replaceable Units (TCRU), which allows customers to replace necessary parts, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.
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Wood still good: Wood-finished cabinets are still the style of choice in kitchens across the United States; they represent about 80 percent of all cabinets purchased, according to a 2002 survey conducted by the National Kitchen and Bath Association. Scripps Howard News ServiceCountertops: Few home remodeling projects are more desirable and offer more bang for your buck than new kitchen countertops. According to a National Kitchen and Bath Association survey, about 94 million linear feet of countertops were installed in homes in 2002. Sixty-two percent of that was used for kitchen remodels. The amount spent on countertops ranks just below cabinets.
To open up a small kitchen, remove upper cabinet doors. Paint the inside a bright color and keep everything organized. Paint can dramatically update an old appliance. Be sure to use a paint made specifically for appliances, because other paints will not adhere correctly. Tired of your tiled backsplash, but cant afford to replace all the tiles? Remove a few with a grout remover and chisel, then replace with decorative tiles that fit your kitchens theme.
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Max Klimavicius, managing partner of the venerable Sardis in New York, recalls the evening Joan Rivers strolled into the restaurant for dinner with three friends and a large duffel bag in tow. The talk show hostess deposited the bag under the table, and the group placed its order for four main courses — plus a hamburger without a roll. It seemed like a strange order, but we didnt ask any questions, Klimavicius remembers. Shes a regular customer. Since Sardis doesnt allow dogs in the dining room, an uneasy Klimavicius was presented with a dilemma: Should he invoke policy and run the risk of angering a faithful — if not famous — patron or simply ignore Rivers burger-chomping pet and hope no one else in the room noticed? What could I do? he questions. I looked the other way.
South Tyneside Council today launched Customer Care Week in a bid to remind all staff of the need to always remember the customer. It has also joined the Institute of Customer Services.
What is a dangerous customer? It is not necessarily a customer that is threatening you with a knife or a gun. (That is not just a dangerous customer, but a dangerous person.) What we are discussing in this article is the customer that puts you into the “danger zone” of lost business. We arent talking about customers who have a complaint about you and choose to tell everyone they know. We are talking about that potentially very dangerous type of customer, a “satisfied” customer.Recently, two professors, Anthony J. Zahorak and Roland T. Rust, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee conducted a study on customer satisfaction. What they found was that approximately 25% to 40% of satisfied customers do not come back to the places of business where they have been satisfied.Wait a minute! Why would a satisfied customer not come back? The answer is very simple. Because, they were simply satisfied. Everything was satisfactory, nothing great, just okay. For example, you may have gone out to dinner at a restaurant. The next day a friend asks you about your meal and you tell them it was okay. Nothing special, simply average. Another way of putting this. satisfactory. Will you go back? With all of the choices of places to dine and spend your hard earned dollars, probably not. No, unless you are a glutton for punishment, you will most likely look for the restaurant that gives you a great meal, great service and exceeds your expectations.

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STAY in an ice hotel on a 3-night Norwegian Coastal Voyage cruise. The Arctic Adventure trip (pounds 795pp) from Jan 21, sees temperatures of -7, but ensures comfort with reindeer hides and thermal sleeping bag. Details: 020 8846 2666.
The Capital-Journal Cruise Holidays, 5967 S.W. 29th, has been named 2004 Agency of the Year West Region by Royal Caribbean International. The award was given for outstanding revenue achievement, innovative marketing strategies and unwavering loyalty to the Royal Caribbean brand. “Royal Caribbean experienced significant growth in 2004 and we are tremendously grateful for your contribution,” the companys award reads. “Cruise Holidays of Topeka delivered an impressive 195 percent to goal in 2004.
Price includes flights from Heathrow and all meals on board. For pounds 70 extra, you can opt to fly from Manchester and add one night in a Miami hotel on the outward journey. Details: 020 7940 4499.

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Every year we swear this Christmas is going to be different, and every year we find ourselves wrapping presents as we walk out the door. Why do we allow our procrastination to play havoc with our lives year after year? I want to help you cruise through this holiday season! Our goal is to have all the gifts bought, wrapped and under the tree. This means that our home has to be decorated and holiday food waiting in the pantry. We wont have time to do much shopping when our cruise is over. We have the whole month to do this. All we have to do is take baby steps.
STAY in an ice hotel on a 3-night Norwegian Coastal Voyage cruise. The Arctic Adventure trip (pounds 795pp) from Jan 21, sees temperatures of -7, but ensures comfort with reindeer hides and thermal sleeping bag. Details: 020 8846 2666.
Price includes flights from Heathrow and all meals on board. For pounds 70 extra, you can opt to fly from Manchester and add one night in a Miami hotel on the outward journey. Details: 020 7940 4499.

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The new fund, Schuster Realty Partners, will focus on creating exceptional returns (ROI) for investors while adhering to founder and CEO Mark Schusters principles and vision, which are rooted in a commitment to environmentally green, sustainable development and community revitalization. Since the firms creation in 1989, The Schuster Group has generated an impressive list of real estate projects that have enhanced communities while delivering strong returns (ROI) for investors. These include Mosler Lofts, downtown Seattles first green condominium, which is on target to be Seattles first LEED[R] Silver-certified condominium tower; Normandy Park Towne Center, an environmentally savvy shopping center; and Holmes Harbor Golf and Beach Club, which will include Built Green[TM] Certified homes. According to Mark Schuster, Weve managed to build a reputation of trust which has inspired investors, while serving as a catalyst for re-developing neighborhoods and creating positive change.
Business Editors and High Tech/Real Estate Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 1, 2000 uot;With the real estate market booming in the Pacific Northwest, we feel that expanding to the Seattle area is the next logical step for eHome,uot; said Andrew Oldham, eHomes co-founder and CEO. uot;We believe that Web savvy residents of Seattle will embrace our cost effective and full service model for home buying and selling.uot;
Business Editors/Real Estate Writers BERKELEY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 21, 1999 Less than four months after introducing the first online real estate brokerage in the San Francisco Bay Area, zipRealty.com introduced its service to Seattle in the first phase of its planned nationwide roll out.

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Personal Injuries follows The Laws of Our Fathers, which Turow completed in 1996. His latest novel is set in the fictional Kindle County, which has much of the atmosphere and many attributes of Chicago, the city in which Turow and his wife practice law. The IRS has located a bank account into which large amounts of money have been deposited by those associated with a small law firm. The account appears to be a device to hide income, and the IRS immediately puts the pressure on Robbie Feaver, one of the two partners in the firm. The real problem for Feaver began when the IRS agents opened his front door to let in U.S. Attorney Stan Sennett, who had an entirely different goal than tax recovery on his mind. That is when George Mason got involved. Mason was an attorney who had an office in the same building where Feavers firm had its offices. Mason becomes the voice of the novel as Feavers attorney for the defense of the tax fraud charges. The story is told largely from his point of view as he attempts to help Feaver through what becomes a complicated hodgepodge of personal relationships, schemes, double-dealing, subterfuge and, ultimately, death. It seems the U.S. Attorney is interested in leveraging the potential tax charges against Feaver to force Feavers cooperation in a sting operation. The target of the sting is Feavers law partners uncle, the chief judge of the local court. U.S. Attorney Sennett believes there is widespread corruption in the courts. Feaver confirms that he has been involved in a system by which he can influence the outcome of cases favorably. The system involves giving money to various people who work for different judges, and the belief is that some of the money in each case makes its way to the chief judge.
When you are involved in a car accident, there are a number of things you should know, but unfortunately, this information is not readily available. This article discusses what you need to know about personal injury claims long before you even think about hiring a lawyer. If you are injured in a car accident, and the accident was not your fault, you have the right to sue the owner and driver of the other vehicle for damages. These damages are paid to you by the other drivers insurance company. Tort law does not compensate the other driver for any injury he or she may have suffered as a result of causing the car accident. However, separate from tort law, all automobile insurance policies sold in Alberta provide for me payment of accident and disability benefits. Unlike tort law, both you and the driver of the other vehicle are entitled to receive the same accident and disability benefits.
It is almost worthwhile getting “whiplash” preprinted on a claim form to save time Turning first to the real increase, the recently published report by the governments Statistical Service on Road Accidents in Great Britain in 1996 provides a clue. Injuries in 1996 totalled 317,000, which was an increase on the 307,000 in 1995. Fatalities, however, fell slightly to 3,598 from 3,621. Both figures had been generally falling since the mid 60s, when they peaked at just under 8,000 fatalities and just under 400,000 injuries. This has doubtless arisen for a whole number of reasons, including compulsory seat belts and crash helmets, drink drive regulations, air bags, better car design, and many others. To achieve this reduction over that period was particularly remarkable, because the vehicle population in the mid 60s was 13 million compared with slightly over 26 million now. Most of this increase in vehicle population can be found on the M25 each morning and evening!

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The Lying Game James W. Loewen, a guy obsessed with the dissemination of misinformation (”Lies My Teacher Told Me”) is back with “Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong” (Touchstone, $15). Its not precisely a travel guide, but its a good guide for travelers who visit historic sites. Did you know the Traditional Lincoln Birthplace Cabin in Kentucky is a composite of several old cabins, none of which are where the late great president was born? Some examples he gives are lies by omission, others an attempt to be politically correct - but inaccuracies are rife, nonetheless.
Butterfly expansion The World Travel 101 workshops, sponsored by Hostelling International-American Youth Hostels, will visit Colorado Springs with a session on traveling in Australia and New Zealand. It will cover possible itineraries, transportation options, ways to save money, packing, travel documents and safety. The free event is at 7 p.m. Thursday at the REI store at 13476 E. Woodmen Road. Call the store at 260-1455.

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This thesis will be tested on data pertaining to those Aberdeenshire turnpikes constructed before 1810 and will be considered from five standpoints: Aberdeenshire roads before 1796, the administration of the turnpike trusts, the topography of Aberdeenshire, local road construction practice, and the supervision of road construction. It will also be tested against relevant data published in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia3 and the observations of contemporary writers.First it is necessary to establish the physical and theoretical criteria and the limits to be considered in argumentation. First, the roads to be considered all lay within the boundaries of the old county of Aberdeenshire as it existed before it became a part of the Grampian Region. Whilst concentrating on events in Aberdeenshire, reference will be made to road conditions and construction in the adjacent counties of Kincardineshire and Banffshire which formed the sparsely populated land mass of north-east Scotland. Second, the emphasis of this article, unlike some previous studies of turnpike roads,4 will be aimed primarily toward the engineering aspects of road construction, with the administration of road trusts being considered only where it impinged directly on engineering matters. Third, local road construction practices, established from archival sources, will be compared with those specified by Telford and McAdam, and with those used previously for the construction of roads in other areas of Britain.

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Eight of the 12 categories showed an ad spending increase in June compared to last year, including Automotive (+34.2%), Services/Direct Response (+22.6), Retail (+22.3) and Horticulture/Farming (+15.3). The Travel (-26.6%), Computers (-14.9), Software (-7.0) and Telecom (0.3) categories showed spending declines. Half of the categories showed an ad page increase, led by Horticulture/Farming (+87.9%), and half showed an ad page decline.
Unity PrintingOwner: John Wilkerson Address: 2024 W. 2nd St., Little Rock, 664-2223 Start-up date: June With 19 years of printing experience, John Wilkerson decided to open his own printing and typesetting business, Unity Printing.

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Unity PrintingOwner: John Wilkerson Address: 2024 W. 2nd St., Little Rock, 664-2223 Start-up date: June With 19 years of printing experience, John Wilkerson decided to open his own printing and typesetting business, Unity Printing.
MALVERN, Pa. — Stream Companies, one of the Philadelphia regions fastest growing marketing, advertising and promotions agencies, recently hired advertising industry veteran Marc Crusemire as the companys Director of Business Development. Crusemire joins the team at Stream Companies from his most recent position with Comcast Spotlight (Exton, PA). Previously, he was Advertising Director for The Trentonian (NJ) and Daily Local News (West Chester, PA) at the Journal Register Company. Earlier, Crusemire was the Business Development Coordinator, Major Accounts Manager and Display Advertising Manager for The Calkins Newspaper Group. He is a 1991 graduate of Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, and a concentration in Advertising. Crusemire, his wife and two daughters reside in Chester County.
Ads Highlight Ricohs Ability to Provide New Solutions for Production Printing Industry WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the launch of a new print and online advertising campaign for the RICOH Pro C900, the newest product from Ricohs Production Printing Business Group (PPBG). Created by Gigante Vaz Partners, Inc., the campaign highlights PPBGs ability to provide a new approach to production printing based on understanding and addressing customers specific printing needs. The ads are designed to reach key audiences within PPBGs core business segments: In-Plants, Data Centers and Graphic Arts. The new campaign features visuals of customers pondering various printing needs, with creative that touts the products quality and affordability. In order to encourage customers to consider Ricoh and the Pro C900 when choosing a production device, the campaigns Think Production. Think Ricoh slogan positions the RICOH Pro C900 as the solution for critical printing needs such as web-to-print, variable data printing, and document design and production. The affordability message is supported by the printers superior performance combined with its extremely low maintenance and ability to co-exist within the current production printing environment. In addition, the RICOH Pro C900 incorporates Trained Customer Replaceable Units (TCRU), which allows customers to replace necessary parts, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.

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Have you ever thought of your kitchen as a laboratory? Whenever you make something in your kitchen, you are using science. Cooks, like scientists, combine and change materials to create something new. Everything in the world is made of chemicals. When chemicals are mixed together, interesting things can happen. In laboratories, scientists mix and experiment with chemicals. In kitchens, cooks mix chemicals also, but call them ingredients. A scientist in a laboratory follows an experiment. A cook in a kitchen follows a recipe. Both need to follow directions and measure carefully. They both use special equipment. A scientist may use test tubes and a cook may use bake pans. For both of them, temperature and timing are very important.

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North State Custom auto body shops building in Bedford Hills is the pride and joy of Gregory Coccaro Sr., president and coowner of the company. The 7,000-square-foot building is much bigger than most auto body shops, and its as neat and well-run as he likes his customers cars to be, he said. It always meant a lot to me how were presenting ourselves,” Coccaro said. “Thats half the sell.. if you come in and it looks good, people are neat, theyre professional - you feel better about leaving your car there.”
South Tyneside Council today launched Customer Care Week in a bid to remind all staff of the need to always remember the customer. It has also joined the Institute of Customer Services.

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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ — On October 16, 2008, in conjunction with thousands of other cruise-selling travel professionals across North America, Cruise Holidays of Alexandria will host a virtual Worlds Largest Cruise Night. This year marks the third year Cruise Holidays of Alexandria has participated in this industry event. In addition to the videos, virtually all of Cruise Holidays cruise line partners are offering tremendous savings opportunities. From action-oriented Royal Caribbean to family-friendly Disney to the luxury of Regent Seven Seas and Crystal, nearly all are offering reduced deposits and generous shipboard credit for clients who book with Cruise Holidays on October 16th and during a short window thereafter. Worlds Largest Cruise Night (WLCN) is the highlight of Octobers National Cruise Vacation Month, the once-a-year period during which travel professionals across North America sponsor exciting events and promotions all focused on cruising. This year a projected 12.8 million travelers are expected to take a cruise vacation.
Every year we swear this Christmas is going to be different, and every year we find ourselves wrapping presents as we walk out the door. Why do we allow our procrastination to play havoc with our lives year after year? I want to help you cruise through this holiday season! Our goal is to have all the gifts bought, wrapped and under the tree. This means that our home has to be decorated and holiday food waiting in the pantry. We wont have time to do much shopping when our cruise is over. We have the whole month to do this. All we have to do is take baby steps.

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Unity PrintingOwner: John Wilkerson Address: 2024 W. 2nd St., Little Rock, 664-2223 Start-up date: June With 19 years of printing experience, John Wilkerson decided to open his own printing and typesetting business, Unity Printing.
Ads Highlight Ricohs Ability to Provide New Solutions for Production Printing Industry WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the launch of a new print and online advertising campaign for the RICOH Pro C900, the newest product from Ricohs Production Printing Business Group (PPBG). Created by Gigante Vaz Partners, Inc., the campaign highlights PPBGs ability to provide a new approach to production printing based on understanding and addressing customers specific printing needs. The ads are designed to reach key audiences within PPBGs core business segments: In-Plants, Data Centers and Graphic Arts. The new campaign features visuals of customers pondering various printing needs, with creative that touts the products quality and affordability. In order to encourage customers to consider Ricoh and the Pro C900 when choosing a production device, the campaigns Think Production. Think Ricoh slogan positions the RICOH Pro C900 as the solution for critical printing needs such as web-to-print, variable data printing, and document design and production. The affordability message is supported by the printers superior performance combined with its extremely low maintenance and ability to co-exist within the current production printing environment. In addition, the RICOH Pro C900 incorporates Trained Customer Replaceable Units (TCRU), which allows customers to replace necessary parts, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.
The What It Takes television spot focuses on how it takes a person with truly special and unique qualities — from patience and dedication to a sense of humor — to handle the day-to-day challenges of running a small business. Recognizing small business owners are stretched for time and lack the resources of large corporations, the MasterCard ad captures real-life small business moments such as working odd hours and dealing with faulty office equipment. MasterCards What It Takes commercial salutes people in business for themselves, while also demonstrating why MasterCard business cards are the most effective way to pay for all the things a small business needs. A corresponding print ad is slated to break later this summer in publications such as Fortune, New York Times Magazine, TIME and The Wall Street Journal. The creative used in the print versions will follow the What It Takes theme leveraged in the new television commercial. Both the television and print ads are designed to build awareness of MasterCards suite of solutions created specifically for small business owners. To address the needs of this target market, MasterCard developed MasterCard Working for Small Business, a comprehensive global program that provides small businesses with payment cards, online tools and other resources that deliver financial control, data management, analysis and reporting, along with rewards and benefits.

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Kitchen. By Yoshimoto Banana. Translated from the Japanese by Megan Backus. New York: Grove Press, 1993. 152 Pages. Kitchen, a short novel, is paired in the same titled book, with a novella of Bananas, Moonlight Shadow. Kitchen chronicles a contemporary young womans journey through the grief and healing process. Banana uses this main character as a vehicle for the reader to view the social change occurring in contemporary Japan. The first person account by the main character, Mikage, describes the loss she feels not only for all the members of her immediate family, but also the larger nuclear family of past generations. The story begins with the death of Mikages grandmother, the last surviving member of her family. Her grandparents raised Mikage, after both of her parents were killed when she was very young, and in her teenage years, her grandfather has also died. As part of her grief process, Mikage is adopted by a very complex and contemporary family, Yuichi, a young man who had befriended Mikages grandmother and Eriko, his transsexual mother. While living with this family, Mikage learns the meaning of joy, finds comfort in belonging to a family, and develops a satisfying career in cuisine. However, her grief and healing process become complicated when Eriko dies and Yuichi succumbs to depression over his mothers death. Because of Erikos and Yuichis generosity and compassion, Mikage is able to reach Yuichi, and in the process, learns a life lesson, finding the necessary balance between suffering and pleasure.
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What is a dangerous customer? It is not necessarily a customer that is threatening you with a knife or a gun. (That is not just a dangerous customer, but a dangerous person.) What we are discussing in this article is the customer that puts you into the “danger zone” of lost business. We arent talking about customers who have a complaint about you and choose to tell everyone they know. We are talking about that potentially very dangerous type of customer, a “satisfied” customer.Recently, two professors, Anthony J. Zahorak and Roland T. Rust, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee conducted a study on customer satisfaction. What they found was that approximately 25% to 40% of satisfied customers do not come back to the places of business where they have been satisfied.Wait a minute! Why would a satisfied customer not come back? The answer is very simple. Because, they were simply satisfied. Everything was satisfactory, nothing great, just okay. For example, you may have gone out to dinner at a restaurant. The next day a friend asks you about your meal and you tell them it was okay. Nothing special, simply average. Another way of putting this. satisfactory. Will you go back? With all of the choices of places to dine and spend your hard earned dollars, probably not. No, unless you are a glutton for punishment, you will most likely look for the restaurant that gives you a great meal, great service and exceeds your expectations.
South Tyneside Council today launched Customer Care Week in a bid to remind all staff of the need to always remember the customer. It has also joined the Institute of Customer Services.

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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ — On October 16, 2008, in conjunction with thousands of other cruise-selling travel professionals across North America, Cruise Holidays of Alexandria will host a virtual Worlds Largest Cruise Night. This year marks the third year Cruise Holidays of Alexandria has participated in this industry event. In addition to the videos, virtually all of Cruise Holidays cruise line partners are offering tremendous savings opportunities. From action-oriented Royal Caribbean to family-friendly Disney to the luxury of Regent Seven Seas and Crystal, nearly all are offering reduced deposits and generous shipboard credit for clients who book with Cruise Holidays on October 16th and during a short window thereafter. Worlds Largest Cruise Night (WLCN) is the highlight of Octobers National Cruise Vacation Month, the once-a-year period during which travel professionals across North America sponsor exciting events and promotions all focused on cruising. This year a projected 12.8 million travelers are expected to take a cruise vacation.

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OREM — Portions of Geneva Road and 800 North will be closed Monday through May 29 for construction, Utahs Department of Transportation announced Friday. Geneva Road will be restricted to one lane from 400 North to 1600 North in Orem while the road is being paved. The restriction will be in effect from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Tuesday-Friday and on May 29. On-street parking will also be restricted during this time and motorists should expect moderate travel delays, UDOT advises.
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The What It Takes television spot focuses on how it takes a person with truly special and unique qualities — from patience and dedication to a sense of humor — to handle the day-to-day challenges of running a small business. Recognizing small business owners are stretched for time and lack the resources of large corporations, the MasterCard ad captures real-life small business moments such as working odd hours and dealing with faulty office equipment. MasterCards What It Takes commercial salutes people in business for themselves, while also demonstrating why MasterCard business cards are the most effective way to pay for all the things a small business needs. A corresponding print ad is slated to break later this summer in publications such as Fortune, New York Times Magazine, TIME and The Wall Street Journal. The creative used in the print versions will follow the What It Takes theme leveraged in the new television commercial. Both the television and print ads are designed to build awareness of MasterCards suite of solutions created specifically for small business owners. To address the needs of this target market, MasterCard developed MasterCard Working for Small Business, a comprehensive global program that provides small businesses with payment cards, online tools and other resources that deliver financial control, data management, analysis and reporting, along with rewards and benefits.
Paw-Print Software has launched Adbin, its new tool that integrates with Microsofts Internet Explorer browser to remove advertising from web pages as they are downloaded. Adbin uses an extensible set of rules to identify ads during page downloading. When it finds an image that it suspects is an ad it replaces the it with another one directly from the PCs local drive.
Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 19, 2000 Genuity Inc. (NASDAQ:GENU) today launches a $20 million global marketing campaign — including the companys first-ever television advertising — to support the introduction of its innovative new Network Services Platform (NSP), Black Rocket(TM).

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Business Editors TRUMBULL, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 21, 2002 Imagistics International Inc. (NYSE: IGI), formerly Pitney Bowes Office Systems, today announced the launch of its first nationwide advertising campaign to build brand awareness and national recognition for its office document equipment and solutions.
Eight of the 12 categories showed an ad spending increase in June compared to last year, including Automotive (+34.2%), Services/Direct Response (+22.6), Retail (+22.3) and Horticulture/Farming (+15.3). The Travel (-26.6%), Computers (-14.9), Software (-7.0) and Telecom (0.3) categories showed spending declines. Half of the categories showed an ad page increase, led by Horticulture/Farming (+87.9%), and half showed an ad page decline.

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Kitchen. By Yoshimoto Banana. Translated from the Japanese by Megan Backus. New York: Grove Press, 1993. 152 Pages. Kitchen, a short novel, is paired in the same titled book, with a novella of Bananas, Moonlight Shadow. Kitchen chronicles a contemporary young womans journey through the grief and healing process. Banana uses this main character as a vehicle for the reader to view the social change occurring in contemporary Japan. The first person account by the main character, Mikage, describes the loss she feels not only for all the members of her immediate family, but also the larger nuclear family of past generations. The story begins with the death of Mikages grandmother, the last surviving member of her family. Her grandparents raised Mikage, after both of her parents were killed when she was very young, and in her teenage years, her grandfather has also died. As part of her grief process, Mikage is adopted by a very complex and contemporary family, Yuichi, a young man who had befriended Mikages grandmother and Eriko, his transsexual mother. While living with this family, Mikage learns the meaning of joy, finds comfort in belonging to a family, and develops a satisfying career in cuisine. However, her grief and healing process become complicated when Eriko dies and Yuichi succumbs to depression over his mothers death. Because of Erikos and Yuichis generosity and compassion, Mikage is able to reach Yuichi, and in the process, learns a life lesson, finding the necessary balance between suffering and pleasure.
Fake More SpaceYou can always knock down walls to expand your kitchen. But if youre not ready for that kind of construction commitment, there are simpler ways to make your kitchen grow. Is there hollow wallspace that could become an appliance garage? Do you have a nook where an extra fridge could fit? The Glatting family of Atlanta surveyed their place and, together with kitchen designer Linda Pittam, made their kitchen live larger. Steal some of their smart ideas for your home. SARA ANDERSON*Give a couple of cabinets glass fronts. The glass will break up the solid color that can make kitchens feel cramped.
Wood still good: Wood-finished cabinets are still the style of choice in kitchens across the United States; they represent about 80 percent of all cabinets purchased, according to a 2002 survey conducted by the National Kitchen and Bath Association. Scripps Howard News ServiceCountertops: Few home remodeling projects are more desirable and offer more bang for your buck than new kitchen countertops. According to a National Kitchen and Bath Association survey, about 94 million linear feet of countertops were installed in homes in 2002. Sixty-two percent of that was used for kitchen remodels. The amount spent on countertops ranks just below cabinets.

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What is a dangerous customer? It is not necessarily a customer that is threatening you with a knife or a gun. (That is not just a dangerous customer, but a dangerous person.) What we are discussing in this article is the customer that puts you into the “danger zone” of lost business. We arent talking about customers who have a complaint about you and choose to tell everyone they know. We are talking about that potentially very dangerous type of customer, a “satisfied” customer.Recently, two professors, Anthony J. Zahorak and Roland T. Rust, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee conducted a study on customer satisfaction. What they found was that approximately 25% to 40% of satisfied customers do not come back to the places of business where they have been satisfied.Wait a minute! Why would a satisfied customer not come back? The answer is very simple. Because, they were simply satisfied. Everything was satisfactory, nothing great, just okay. For example, you may have gone out to dinner at a restaurant. The next day a friend asks you about your meal and you tell them it was okay. Nothing special, simply average. Another way of putting this. satisfactory. Will you go back? With all of the choices of places to dine and spend your hard earned dollars, probably not. No, unless you are a glutton for punishment, you will most likely look for the restaurant that gives you a great meal, great service and exceeds your expectations.
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Every year we swear this Christmas is going to be different, and every year we find ourselves wrapping presents as we walk out the door. Why do we allow our procrastination to play havoc with our lives year after year? I want to help you cruise through this holiday season! Our goal is to have all the gifts bought, wrapped and under the tree. This means that our home has to be decorated and holiday food waiting in the pantry. We wont have time to do much shopping when our cruise is over. We have the whole month to do this. All we have to do is take baby steps.
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THE genial buffoons in Jerome K. Jeromes Three Men In A Boat found their journey up the Thames to be invigorating and amusing, if a little trying at times. Mishaps abounded, ale flowed in splendid waterside inns, and the holidaying chums larked around as they plotted their course through the finest scenery Old England could offer. On a small, wooden boat, propelled by oar and sail, they meandered from Kingston to Oxford and then back to Pangbourne in Berkshire, cursing the perils of the river, not least the modern invention that was the steam-launch. Jerome wondered what should become of his beautiful river in 125 years time.

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Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 19, 2000 Genuity Inc. (NASDAQ:GENU) today launches a $20 million global marketing campaign — including the companys first-ever television advertising — to support the introduction of its innovative new Network Services Platform (NSP), Black Rocket(TM).
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[1] Kitchen Faucet Watermark introduces the new Loft kitchen faucet. The faucet features a spout that swivels a full 180 degrees and can come with different size projections. The Loft faucet is available in 35 finishes.

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Customizing For Customer Service Leading analysts say it is time to take technology out of the office and factory and put it in the marketplace. The U.S. business community has plateaued on the first application of technology. Everyone is using computers for spreadhsheet analysis [for example], yet there are so many other potential applications waiting to be discovered, declares John J. Connell, executive director of the Office Technology Research Group, a Pasadena, Calif., association for senior U.S. and European managers. Take the automobile industry. By analyzing census data, it could surmise which families are likely to be in the market for new cars and target individual households with fancy brocures advertising automobiles appealing to their tastes and pocketbooks, Harvard Business School Prof. F. Warren McFarlan says. Yet not once has such information ever crossed my desk, he says.
South Tyneside Council today launched Customer Care Week in a bid to remind all staff of the need to always remember the customer. It has also joined the Institute of Customer Services.

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Every year we swear this Christmas is going to be different, and every year we find ourselves wrapping presents as we walk out the door. Why do we allow our procrastination to play havoc with our lives year after year? I want to help you cruise through this holiday season! Our goal is to have all the gifts bought, wrapped and under the tree. This means that our home has to be decorated and holiday food waiting in the pantry. We wont have time to do much shopping when our cruise is over. We have the whole month to do this. All we have to do is take baby steps.
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They argue that, if marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs were legalized, several positive things would probably occur: (1) drug prices would fall; (2) users would obtain their drugs at low, government-regulated prices, and they would no longer be forced to resort to crime in order to support their habits, (3) levels of drug-related crime, and particularly violent crime, would significantly decline, resulting in less crowded courts, jails, and prisons (this would allow law-enforcement personnel to focus their energies on the “real criminals” in society); and the drug production, distribution, and sale would no longer be controlled by organized crime, and thus such criminal syndicates as the Colombian cocaine “cartels,” the Jamaican “posses,” and the various “mafias” around the country and the world would be decapitalized, and the violence associated with drug distribution rivalries would be eliminated. By contrast, the anti-legalization camp argues that violent crime would not necessarily decline in a legalized drug market. In fact, there are three reasons why it might actually increase. First, removing the criminal sanctions against the possession and distribution of illegal drugs would make them more available and attractive and, hence, would create large numbers of new users. Second, an increase in use would lead to a greater number of dysfunctional addicts who could not support themselves, their habits, or their lifestyles through legitimate means. Hence crime would be their only alternative. Third, more users would mean more of the violence associated with the ingestion of drugs. These divergent points of view tend to persist because the relationships between drugs and crime are quite complex and because the possible outcomes of a legalized drug market are based primarily on speculation. However, it is possible, from a careful review of the existing empirical literature on drugs and violence, to make some educated inferences.
A room full of lawyers had the potential to become as hospitable as an aquarium full of piranhas. But conversation was polite when the managing partners, chairmen, and presidents of 21 Utah firms gathered in the boardroom of the Salt Lake Chamber for Utah Business magazines fifth Industry Outlook round table. Attendees included Robert Anderson, VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall McCarthy; Dennis Astill, Strong Hanni; Peter Billings, Fabian Clendenin; Lou Callister, Callister, Nebeker McCullough; Blaine Carlton, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews Ingersoll; Paul Durham, Durham, Jones Pinegar; James Duzan, Trask Britt; Ray Etcheverry, Parsons, Behle Latimer; Russell Fericks, Richards, Brandt, Miller Nelson; David Gee, Parr, Waddoups Brown, Gee Loveless; James Jardine, Ray, Quinney Nebeker; John Kirkham, Stoel Rives; John Lund, Snow, Christensen Martineau; Ralph Mabey, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene MacRae; Thomas Mecham, Kirton McConkie; Robert OConnor, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich Rosati; Jonathan Richards, Workman, Nydegger Seeley; Steven Snarr, the Williams Companies; Alan Sullivan, Snell Wilmer; Glen Watkins, Jones, Waldo, Holbrook McDonough; Gary Weston, Nielsen Senior. Special thanks to Scott Matheson, Jr., dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, for serving as panel moderator.

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Get a shot in the arm If you cant remember the last time you got a tetanus shot, you might want to celebrate next weeks National Public Health Week with a visit to the El Paso County Department of Health and Environment, 301 S. Union Blvd. The department is offering free tetanus shots to adults next week, April 3-7. A tetanus booster is recommended every five to 10 years for adults.
Children dont come with instructions. But parents might long for some when a health problem arises. A free forum designed to make parents health-wiser by providing care tips and strategies is planned 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 19 at the Pikes Peak East Library, 5550 N. Union Blvd. Lunch will be provided to those who R.S.V.P. by Monday. The forum is hosted by Resources for Young Children and Families Inc. To R.S.V.P. or for more information, call Robin Mitchell at 577-9190.
For women only Women can learn about heart disease, menopause, infertility and other health issues at a Womens Health Fair, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Chapel Hills Mall. Sponsored by Memorial Hospital, the health fair will include $5 bone-density screenings for osteoporosis for the first 400 women. Women also may talk to a nurse about breast self-exams.

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It was on 24 October 1929 - 70 years ago today - that the roof began to cave in on the New York Stock Exchange. It was the start of the crash that lowered the curtain on the “Roaring Twenties” and ushered in the misery years of the Depression. By the end of that Thursday, $4bn had been wiped off the value of shares. The stories of pavements being knee-deep in the bodies of those who jumped have always been madly exaggerated. Only a handful took their lives this way. But the extent to which Americas confidence was damaged cannot be exaggerated. It was not a disaster that came and went away again. The stock market slide continued, with occasional breaks, for nearly three years. When the Dow Jones reached its low point in the summer of 1932, stocks were worth one tenth of what they had been at its height. By then the Depression was taking its cruellest toll. While it may be wrong to suggest that the 1929 crash caused the Depression, the two events are inextricable. No wonder Wall Street is less than keen to commemorate this particular anniversary.
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International scholarly collaboration has long been an important part of U.S. higher education. The response to September 11, 2001, dramatically affected this collaboration, increasing difficulties for Americans studying abroad. More serious, however, has been the enactment of major new barriers prohibiting many students and scholars from coming to this country.The Association spoke on this issue in the November 2003 Report on Academic Freedom and National security in a Time of Crisis, calling for “fair procedures for noncitizens who seek visas or other approvals to study, teach, or collaborate with researchers in the United States,” and advising the academic community to “pursue special efforts to make such visitors welcome on U.S. college and university campuses.” The Associations Committee on Government Relations recognized the importance of these issues when it adopted international education and scholarship as one of its major federal legislative priorities for the year.Last year saw the first absolute decline in foreign student enrollments since the early 1970s. Total international student enrollment for 2003-04 declined by 2.5 percent compared with the previous academic year for an overall total of 572,509 students. Graduate enrollments increased, but they were offset by a 5 percent drop in undergraduate enrollments. Those overall figures hide variations among different institutions and fields of study. The numbers come from Open Doors 2004, a report on international students, published by the Institute of International Education, with support from the U.S. State Departments Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
The conditions under which the Bridging Visa E have been issued to persons seeking a Protection Visa in Australia have been criticised by some community groups. This article provides further information on these conditions and the number of persons holding such visas. Our response seeks to clarify and update certain information in relation to Bridging Visa Es, and to provide information on a review of the whole Bridging Visa regime that is expected to be finalised shortly. The support arrangements available to Bridging Visa E holders are a matter of Government policy, and therefore it is inappropriate for DIMA to comment in our response on the pros and cons of these settings.
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A review of the marketing literature in both the traditional (offline) and new era (online) environments was undertaken to compare and contrast marketings role in both types of organisation. Insights derived from this review formed the basis for a series of in-depth interviews with leading marketing professionals in Ireland. The paper draws conclusions regarding the overall effect of the Internet on marketing. In particular it notes that, while marketing has evolved into an all-encompassing role in the organisation, the marketer remains the focal actor. The paper looks to a future with two distinct kinds of marketer and highlights the importance of retaining the traditional commitments of marketing practice. The Internet is a significant global medium for communications, content and commerce. It is a powerful tool for building relationships with all of a companys communication targets. It is cheap, immediate and repeatable. With appropriate technology it can be personalised and is measurable. Building one-to-one relationships with customers online provides marketers with the ability to cut through the clutter that is characteristic of traditional marketing activities such as TV/radio and newspaper advertising, PR and outdoor, ambient media.
The following paper represents the current state of research into the use and usage of the Internet for marketing purposes by small medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The paper discusses how the research was established, its design and development, and sets out the operational parameters addressed. It also identifies the factors that SMEs view as critical to the success or otherwise of their development of a web presence. * What is the main driver for an SME to develop a web site * What are the main, identifiable marketing benefits and drawbacks of a Web presence for an SME

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The Jewelers Town of New York, a jeweler, has leased approximately 500 s/f of retail space at 372 Fifth Avenue, announces Abraham J. Hidary, president of Hidrock. The asking price was $200 per square foot. The tenant is relocating from 23 West 35th Street and will take immediate occupancy of the ground floor space for a term of 10 years. Terzi represented both the tenant and the landlord.
While waiting for his federal criminal trial to begin is September, Little Rock tax attorney Barry Jewell is trying to collect some old debts. But it hasnt been easy. The Jewell Law Firm recently sued Chad Dean Powers and Arkansas Power Steering Hydraulics Inc. of Little Rock in an attempt to collect $1,750 for work that Jewell did. That didnt sit well with Powers or Arkansas Power.

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A newcastle church is to host a North Korean charity event. The event is to be held at the St James United Reformed church on Northumberland Road on Saturday, May 6, from 11am until 5.30pm. There will be volunteers there from the church selling Korean food as well as CDs and toys to raise money for the starving children of North Korea.
Box at top: El Dia de los Ninos: Celebrating Young Americans will be from 1 to 4 p.m. April 30 in and around the band shell at Gage Park. Day with Latino roots welcomes all to celebration

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Formerly a guitarist, he now plays the no-input mixing desk. The equipment is not actually designed to make music, but by connecting the output to the input, circuit feedback is generated and sounds are conjured up that shouldnt really exist. These are then manipulated by the desk controls, sampled and looped to produce music that veers unpredictably from a ringing purity of tone to sine waves of alarmingly high frequency. Toshimaru is one of the musicians appearing on the upcoming Japanorama tour. The Tokyo-based improvising music scene to which he belongs is called “Onkyo” (”reverberation of sound”), in which musicians strive to be ever more minimal, closer to pure sound. Many Japanese musicians operating nearer the mainstream have a reputation for taking Western ideas and warping them to their own specifications, then leavening the results with kitschy humour - current indie acts like Cornelius and Pizzicato Five come to mind. Japanorama seeks to show that on the margins, the music is both peculiarly Japan-ese and strikingly original.
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FREMONT, Calif. — Experiencing digital music just got easier. Logitech (SWX:LOGN) (Nasdaq:LOGI) today introduced the Logitech(R) Wireless Music System for PC, which can stream any format of digital audio from the PC to a home stereo system or to a separate speaker system. No wireless network is needed; everything required is in the box. The digital music revolution has given people new flexibility in how they purchase and organize their digital music — but for most people, that music is held captive on a PC, said Ray Weikel, director of product marketing for Logitechs Audio Business Unit. With the Wireless Music System for PC, people can enjoy their favorite playlists or Internet radio on their living room entertainment system. The product takes less than five minutes to set up, and it works without any cables or adapters, without a Wi-Fi network, and without any restrictions on file format. The Logitech Wireless Music System for PC is targeted at the growing number of people who are buying digital music tracks and subscription services through online music stores such as Apples iTunes(R) or Musicmatch(R). A recent study by Parks Associates showed that two-thirds of online U.S. households listen to music on a home computer. And whether they use a portable player or not, most people dont have a good way to get their online music from the PC to their entertainment center.
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There is no single group of lawyers who sacrifices more than members of the Florida Legislature. These outstanding individuals work tirelessly to ensure the vitality of Florida. The commitment of time involved in their service is extraordinary. Yet, they are able to fulfill their family obligations and professional responsibilities while serving in the legislature. Such devotion goes above and beyond the call of duty. Clearly, membership in the Florida Legislature is and should be open to people from all walks of life. Diversity of background and profession is vital to achieve a balance of thought. It is healthy and constructive to have voices from differing backgrounds. Legislative service by nonlawyers is welcomed, and we applaud those nonlawyers who serve. It is important, however, to acknowledge the commitment and sacrifices made by those lawyers who serve in the Florida Legislature.
PLUS workshop examines hard market for legal liability, jump in law suits Lawyers malpractice insurance rates are on the rise, primarily due to a prolonged soft market that had to flatten out sooner or later, and partly due to a legal system that is growing more complex every day.
Lawyers need courage and compassion as personal virtues. But lawyers may need these virtues in ways that they had not imagined when they first entered the Bar. Statistics about lawyers are alarming. I have read that 40-50 percent of disciplinary cases involve lawyers who are suffering from an impairment, usually an addiction to alcohol or drugs. I have read that lawyers are twice as likely as other Americans to have an addiction, depression, suicidal tendencies, or stress anxiety. To be more concrete, I have read that 10 percent of Americans suffer from an addictive, emotional, or mental impairment. By contrast, these same sources estimate that 20-25 percent of lawyers suffer from an impairment. If this is true, it means that in Oklahoma at least 2,000 lawyers are practicing who are impaired. Two thousand lawyers who likely do not realize that they need to be courageous and compassionate toward themselves. Lawyers need courage to say, “I am an alcoholic,” or “I am addicted to drugs.” Lawyers need courage to say, “I am emotionally exhausted by my divorce,” or “I am overwhelmed with grief at the death of my child,” or “I am debilitated by too much work.” Once lawyers are courageous with themselves, they can be compassionate to themselves by seeking assistance to address these burdens. But not all lawyers individually will either have the insight or the courage to face the fact that they are suffering from an impairment. In those instances, their fellow lawyers must have the courage to speak the truth to the impaired lawyer. Fellow lawyers must not turn away from the impaired lawyer in the ill-advised hope that all will be OK somehow. Fellow lawyers show compassion for an impaired lawyer not by ignoring the lawyers impairment but by helping that lawyer to get needed assistance. Moreover, by acting with courage to assist an impaired lawyer, fellow lawyers can often prevent serious harms from occurring either to the impaired lawyer or to the impaired lawyers clients. Once harm occurs to clients, fellow lawyers have the obligation to report the impaired lawyer to disciplinary authorities for misconduct. Where can a lawyer with an impairment, or fellow lawyers desiring to assist, go for help? Since 1985, the Oklahoma Bar Association has supported the Lawyers-Helping-Lawyers Committee. For 12 years, the volunteer members of this committee have provided confidential, immediate responses to those who call for help. Volunteer members arrange a meeting to discuss the situation and to offer suggestions for further treatment — be it counseling, admission to a treatment center, or joining a 12-step program. Volunteer members will serve as a sponsor to meet with the impaired lawyer as often as necessary to get the lawyer on the road to recovery. Lawyers-Helping-Lawyers has the goal of recovery, not discipline. Beginning in January, the Oklahoma Bar Association committed $18,000 to match $18,000 provided by the Oklahoma Attorneys Mutual Insurance Co. to hire a part-time director for the committee. As described by the Lawyers-Helping Lawyers Committee, the director will develop treatment plans, conduct counseling sessions, make lawyer evaluations and referrals, maintain a 24-hour hotline, coordinate the activities of the committee volunteers and develop educational programs for the Bar about impairment. In addition, the director will identify professionals from other disciplines who have the skills and the desire to work with lawyers suffering from an impairment. This year is the first year that Lawyers-Helping-Lawyers has had a staff member devoted to its tasks. While the arrangement at present is only for a one-year trial period, Lawyers-Helping-Lawyers is hopeful that the trial period will convincingly show the need for a full-time director on a permanent basis beginning in 1999. Lawyers-Helping-Lawyers has acted with courage and compassion to face an issue that has not received the attention that its seriousness deserves. Lawyers are suffering; clients are at risk; the profession bears the stigma of attorneys who commit misconduct while impaired. For ourselves, our clients, and the profession, we, the organized Bar, need to say, “We, my brother and sister lawyers, are human. We are impaired. Let us show courage and compassion for one another.” To reach the Lawyers-Helping-Lawyers Committee, call 1-800-364- 7886. Drew Kershen, the Earl Sneed Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, welcomes your comments and contributions. You may reach him by phone at 325-4699 or by mail at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, 300 W. Timberdell Road, Norman, OK 73019-5081.

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Business Editors The nations top limousine services were honored as Operators of the Year at the Limousine Chauffeured Transportation Show held at the Mandalay Bay Resort Casino, Las Vegas. Category winners included Concorde Limousine, Freehold, N.J. (Robert Bellagamba); Touch of Class Limousine, Fresno, Calif. (Deena Papagni); Two Step Limousine, Littleton, Colo. (Barbara and Walter Curtis); and the National Network Award to BostonCoach, Chelsea, Mass. (Russ Cooke). Award criteria included innovative services, customer service, staff training, safety records, and industry involvement. The awards are presented annually by industry magazine, Limousine Chauffeured Transportation.

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London by Sheila OConnell British Museum Press, hb, pp96, 9.99 [pounds sterling] So its good to see the British Museum Press doing a bit of a PR job for the capital. Sheila OConnells anthology is a passionate and unashamed celebration of the city that moved William Wordsworth, the greatest of Romantic spirits, to some of his most sublime poetry. The book meanders through the city, taking in river and street via prints, engravings, watercolours, sketches and photographs–from the rural edges of Frank Auerbachs Primrose Hill to the despair of Gustave Dores poverty-stricken backstreets. There are, of course, some of the great works of art in here–from the likes of Turner and Whistler–but where the book seems to really make its mark is in the helpful accompanying text. Normally, when a books raison detre is the display of visual images you can assume that the words were added as an afterthought, but here the text is often genuinely fascinating. For example, were you aware that the invention of the washing machine is responsible for Chinatowns location? As we all know, it was the good Dr Johnson who said that a man bored with London is a man bored with life. But of course, he didnt live in the 21st-century version of the metropolis. Today, its all too easy to become bored with London, but this book serves as a reminder of why you shouldnt.

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