Bottled water is and has been the rage here in the states and for companies, restaurants, ballparks and anyone out to make a buck, it is truly amazing, marking up essentially free water means high profit levels for everyone along the way. Bottled water in third world countries makes sense (although this too hopefully can [...]
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You may have guessed, without even really knowing (or thinking about) that the font Helvetica is from Switzerland as it echoes some of the values of Swiss design and neutrality. You may not know that its now 50 years old, many major corporations use it for their logos (including Microsoft who used Arial (a knock [...]
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Columbus Ohio may be good at creating chain restaurants and the insurance business, but it is not good at public transport. Of course with cheap gas flowing through its veins Columbus has sprawled and built countless highways and no one seemed to care – until now that is. Now that gas is riding up towards [...]
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Okay, I hear this so often that I thought I should put this up. You CANNOT ‘sear in juices.’ So many cooks who should know more seem to fall into the logic that the reason you sear something is to lock in the juice, this is not so, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t sear your [...]
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Hopefully my lack of posting has helped all of your relative productivity’s (rest assured, it has not helped mine!) I just thought I’d throw briefly my thoughts on the bipartisan immigration reform bill, working its way through Washington. First of all, despite my pro-immigration stance, I recognize the problems with having a blatant disregard for [...]
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Sitting in the PMBR multistate bar review class each day this week has proved to be insightful, both for learning (relearning I should say) the law school basics that we were long oh so long ago i my first year of law school and also for learning about the Hyrdacoach. Now, it took me a [...]
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So this morning I strode into the halls of Capitol Law School in downtown Columbus to begin my six days with PMBR, a law review course for the multistate bar exam portion of the bar exam (the bar exam is in late July). The course is not cheap and consists of taking multiple choice practice [...]
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So May 14th brings rate hikes for the postal service and people are all apparently clamoring over the ‘new’ forever stamp that if you buy now at $0.41 will ‘always’ be good for first class postage. Lifehacker, a blog that occasionally has something useful gives the unhelpful advice that one should invest in these now [...]
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3 years can really pass quickly when your too busy reading dusty old cases and spending your nights in coffee shops with oversized books, smaller sized supplements and a laptop screen that is too often in gmail rather than on my notes. Sadly and gladly 3 years of law school are now over. Last Friday [...]
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Clicking over to ESPN.com you may be surprised to see the top two stories are boxing and horse racing, leading one to wonder whether we are reading the screen correctly (is this 1920s?). Horse racing definitely is not big news, Barbaro, the Derby, Tripe Crown contenders do make national news and get coverage, but in [...]
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