That's the word from Jordan Furlong, Editor-in-Chief at Canadian Bar Association's National magazine and Executive Editor at Canadian Corporate Counsel Association. The necessity and effectiveness of law firm newsletters have been long overrated. Partly this is because the content is written by lawyers, and is therefore a reliably tortuous read. Partly it’s because a general legal update is of limited interest and use to clients, who don’t really have time for FYI documents that don’t deal ...

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Vande Velde at TDG The US-based Slipstream-Chipotle put Christian Vande Velde in the lead of the 2008 Giro d'Italia on Saturday by winning the opening team time trial. It marks the first time in 20 years that an American has worn the leader's pink jersey at the Giro. The Slipstream squad gained the lead after finishing the 14.6-mile course around Palermo on the island of Sicily in 26:32. Of the teams that followed, High Road and Team CSC ...

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Here's a little light reading for your weekend: The Southeast (Seattle) Transportation Study (SETS), just released by the Seattle Department of Transportation for public review. I haven't had time to read the 200-plus-page document thoroughly, but jumping ahead to the parts of most personal interest to me, I see a lot that's encouraging and a few places where's there's room for improvement. The city, it seems, has gotten the message that Rainier Ave. South is ...

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When dogtags meet dogs: The Pentagon is recommending changes in the handling of troops' remains, after it was revealed that crematoriums contracted by the military are used for both human and animal cremations. In other corpse-disposal news: Now a new option is generating interest: dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain. The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and was developed in this country 16 years ago to get rid of animal carcasses. ...

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Rumor: Microsoft May Debut New Xbox 360 Motion Controller Next Week I've heard about the May PR event that is going on for Tuesday and I knew that it was going to be about the E3 game finalists. However Kotaku is talking about a rumor that Rare is going to show off a new game Banjo-Kazooie 3 and that it might use a motion sensing new Xbox controller. I am not sure if new accessory hardware ...

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Ladies and gentleman, the Uno. The electric Uno is the brainchild of 18-year-old Canadian Ben Gulak who spent several years developing the bike, which is controlled entirely by body movements. The machine actually has two wheels, side-by-side, and uses gyroscopic technology to stay upright. It moves in the direction the rider leans - and the more you lean, the faster you go. Ben claims that the bike could help beat pollution and he was inspired to design ...

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If there's one thing you can say that the artists whose shows opens tonight at Roq la Rue have in common, it's that they both really like women. Esao Andrews, an NYC-based artist, likes to contort the feminine form into the oddest situations: stuck inside the bowl of a flower vase, riding a giant swan, or with a head blasting hot air into the sack of a hot air balloon. Japanese artist Fuco Ueda is ...

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When we walked into the Bagley Wright Theatre last night, we had absolutely no expectations from Aurelia's Oratorio. We'd seen the publicity photos and figured it had something to do with playful illusion, but that was the extent of it. What we saw was astounding. Curtains alive and in love, violent clothing, puppets watching a show starring Aurelia's head, and Aurelia's leg disappearing right in front of us, as a thread-hungry creature unravels the lace ...

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