How does a woman lead a law firm during tough economic times, raise a family, mentor other lawyers, participate in professional organizations and have a sound marriage? Rhea Law, CEO of Fowler White Boggs Banker in Tampa has figured out a system. Every Thanksgiving she and her husband, owner of a telecommunications business, sit down and make a plan for what they want to accomplish

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Woman CEO uses a plan for work-life balance

Do you ever hear yourself saying, “How could I have forgotten to do that?” I’m desperately searching for an explanation why I can’t remember things I need to do without writing them down. No more mental lists for me! I’ve gotten to the point where if I’m driving while someone mentions something that she needs me to do, I pull over or ask the person to call me back so I can write it down. A co-worker assures me that my memory issues are helpful for raising responsible children.

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Are you getting more forgetful?

Because there are cracks appearing in my concrete block house over the past couple of years we had an engineering report prepared. Now while some of the damage has been caused because of the volatil;e clay soils, and the mining industry of the area over the past 100 or so years, and no-one knows even the exact location of some of the tunneling that went on. The major concern that involves a gardening perspective here was the ingoing damage of the small leaf fig tree in the neighbours yard near my fence line

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Tree Troubles

Being on dial-up I get very frustrated and often end up surfing away from many blogs when they have a lot of pictures on their main page. Simply because it takes so damn long to load their main page I end up giving up trrying to see it. It also frustrates me with the big gaps between their writings with the blank spaces between it…..Things often freeze up with my old computer while they are loading, and this is not just with that page but everything else that I am doing on the computer, which adds to the frustration levels.

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Dial up frustations

With reading many blogs from those in the northern hemisphere, and all the talk of visiting ‘Christmas tree farms’, I have to say I am grateful for the Aussie tradition of using ‘Plastic’ christmas trees. My own tree is about 5 years old, and gets packed away and brought out each year. With all the talk out there on the net of saving the environment and carbon tradeoffs etc

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Plant a plastic pine in your home this Xmas.

One of the problems that we face here in the subtropics during summer, is broiling our pot plants in their own juices…. With the heat we have during warmer weather when the sun heats the surface and sides of our pot plants. Why plant companies insist on putting our plants in black plastic pots is something I do not understand as things coloured black, like most of our pots conducts heat faster and more than other colours….

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Insulated Plant pots

Why not nail or screw up one or more old mouse traps above your garden shed bench, or even near the door of the garden shed. These can be put to all sorts of useful purposes, like…. Holding pairs of gloves, Fingers up for drying them out, or wrist end up (especially if the wrist is folded over), to stop creepy crawlies from crawling in and creeping you out on putting them on again Keeping Seed packets in view to remind you of what has to be planted soon Holding construction plans at view level, so that you don’t end up too many spare parts left after purchasing ‘Put together yourself’ items

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Mouse Trap Clipboards

We hear a lot of people state that we should not use peatmoss as an additive to our potting and propagation mixes and for burning in house fires, because of the farming/mining of which is destroying the ecosystems around the peat bogs, which are mainly located in the cool temperate climates of places of the world, like Europe. However I would have to argue why shouldn’t we use it? After all most of the Peatbog ecosystems are not natural ecosystems or environments after all…

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Why Protect Peatbog Ecosystems?

Helping my son do some research on ‘Collective Nouns’, I began to wonder what you would call a collective of gardeners. After searching around on the net for a while, I wasn’t able to find a reference anywhere, so I guess it is up to us ourselves, to come up with our own ‘collective noun’, for our own kind. What should the collective noun for a group of gardeners be

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Collective Noun for Gardeners

We gardeners often suffer from Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia Which simply means a fear of long words Just seeing some of the words and phrases used to describe some of the plants, chemicals, fancy botanical or manufacturing terms, pesticides and fertilizers. When it comes to the botanical words many of these words and terms are simply descriptive words and phrases in Latin or Greek, to describe a certain aspect of that species, whether it’s the flower or leaf colour, shape or texture. One of the problems we gardeners face is in dealing with Botanical Latin is in understanding and having a go at trying to pronounce some of these damn term and words, or what the botanists mean by many of the descriptive names they give to plants

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Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

It seems that DJMag top 100 DJ list has been a tradition from 1997. Before that time only people in music industry and the ones related to it were able to contribute towards building this annual candidate shortlist. In case you have extra spare time it would be nice if you could go and cast your vote for your 5 favorite DJs, (preferably house music DJs haha) It is already well known that past few years trance music DJ’s are dominating on the top100 dance music charts.

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DJ Mag Top 100 2007

Everybody wanna know Why I’m walking ’round with a big smile on my face Hey I’m happy and it shows Hey I’m back and I’m proud of the human race ‘Cause you know I’ve been down so long Never thought I’d ever feel this way again And everything was going wrong ‘Till you found me and you made me believe again I found you, I found you, I found you And I’m happy that I found you I don’t know what you did, But what you did to me keep on doing it up I’m so happy I wanna fly, ‘Cause your love keeps on taking me high ‘Cause you know I’ve been down so long Never thought I’d ever feel this way again And everything was going wrong ‘Till you found me and you made me believe again I found you, I found you, I found you And I’m happy that I found you Tags: Axwell , I found you , Music Video , Lyrics , House Music

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Axwell – I Found You (Video, Lyrics)

The ABA held a teleconference today about Family Responsibilities Discrimination (if you missed the program and want to order a recording, you can click here: EEO WorkLife Initiatives: Family Responsibilities Discrimination ). The program covered why FRD is such a hot issue in employment law right now, how the claims arise and how they are litigated, the recent EEOC enforcement guidance, statutes and causes of action commonly used by FRD plaintiffs, key cases, compliance and prevention, and litigation tips. Many thanks to Carolyn Lerner of Heller, Huron, Chertkof, Lerner, Simon & Salzman for moderating, to Margaret Murray of the Law Offices of Margaret E

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ABA Teleconference on FRD

Joan Williams and Cynthia Calvert gave a presentation at an ALI-ABA conference last week in Boston, and a question came up about how many sizable verdicts have been awarded in Family Responsibilities Discrimination cases. Here are the stats, which come from our ever-growing database of FRD cases (now over 1,000 cases): 80 verdicts/settlements at or over $100,000 10 verdicts/settlements at or over $1,000,000 largest multiple-plaintiff award (settlement): $49 million largest single-plaintiff award (verdict): $11.65 million Of course, not every FRD case concludes with stratospheric damages.

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Verdicts in FRD Cases

When I saw the headlines about WalMart moving to flexible scheduling, I was elated to think that it might have finally decided to become a leader in the work/life arena — but only until I read the story and saw that what WalMart is actually doing is undermining any sort of work/life balance for its employees. Here’s a bit of the story, from the Wall Street Journal: [U]sing a new computerized scheduling system, [WalMart] will start moving many of its 1.3 million workers from predictable shifts to a system based on the number of customers in stores at any given time

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WalMart Even More Family-UNfriendly

It’s here! We are pleased to announce that WorkLife Law’s Guide to Family Responsibilities Discrimination has finally been published! Here’s the press release: Legal Guide to Family Responsibilities Discrimination is Published Treatise is First of its Kind in Growing Area of Employment Law SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A woman’s position is eliminated while she is on maternity leave. A father who takes time off to be with his kids is taken off important assignments

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New Family Responsibilities Discrimination Treatise

Many women doubt there is an “opt out revolution”, and a new report by the Center for WorkLife Law proves their doubt is well-founded. The report, “Opt Out” or Pushed Out?: How the Press Covers Work/Family Conflict ” shows that press reports of women choosing to stay home have made sweeping generalizations about female workers from very limited examples of women who are not representative of female workers as a whole. Equally importantly, the report presents hard evidence that women who leave the workforce for childcare reasons are more often pushed out of their jobs by inflexible schedules and inflexible workplaces

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New Report: "Opt Out" or Pushed Out?