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The ultimate greenwash two years ago was when TruGreen tried to co-sponsor the big 40th anniversary of Earth Day, but was removed just one month before the event because it was sued by New York State for $400 Microsoft Windows 7 Key,000 for chemical violations. It shouldn’t have taken legal action to know that a chemical-based lawn company is the anti-thesis to Earth Day. There are many actions we can do to show Mama Earth we still care about the planet and our future on it. One clear message is to go organic with your lawn and garden care. If not completely organic at first, at least use Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques to take control of your piece of real estate and nurse it back from addiction.

There are many reasons to do so, but as a toxicologist, it is my duty to put in front of you the emerging information about cancer risk. In yet another study, dogs were found to be at higher risk of canine malignant lymphoma (the dog version of Non-Hodkin’s Lymphoma) if the yard was treated regularly by a lawn company. Since it’s still at the level of association without ironclad proof Cheap windows 7 key, the companies have plausible deniability and you probably won’t win a court case against them if your dog (or, god forbid Windows 7 Activation Key, child) gets cancer. But why deal with the possible risk when its easy to just say no to one of the major sources of toxic chemicals most homeowners, children and pets come into contact with — lawn chemicals. Most people don’t realize that more pesticides and fertilizers are applied per acre on residential lawns than on commercial farms. It’s pointless to worry about the pesticides in your produce if you hire a commercial lawn company.

To show just how possible it is to cut back, cities and towns across Canada have been banning “Cosmetic Pesticide” uses from its green spaces, tremendously reducing the use of fertilizer and herbicide. And to help you right in your neighborhood, organic lawn care companies have been springing up that use biodiverse methods — look for companies which know how to replenish the soil with organic “teas” and how to test the soil for what it is missing. Learn proper watering and mowing practices and natural methods at weed control (e.g., corn gluten). Safelawns.org is an excellent resource.

Your lawn will look great and your family will be safer and there won’t be days when you can’t walk on it because of the pesticides. And oh, yes — Mama Earth will be a little less stressed. Happy Earth Day.

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Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., says that she’s focused on remaining a senator, not becoming the vice presidential nominee, but added that she’s more qualified to be president than President Obama was when he ran in 2008.

“I have, some would say, better experience than Barack Obama had when he was a senator and ran, having been the chief law enforcement officer of my state,” Ayotte said this morning on “Meet the Press. “I serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee. But again, what it comes down to for me, it’s serving New Hampshire.”

The junior senator said that while it’s an “honor” to be mentioned as a potential vice presidential pick of Mitt Romney, her focus is on serving New Hampshire in the Senate.

“There’s so many good candidates out there that Governor Romney has to choose from,” Ayotte said. “Senator Rubio, Senator Portman in Ohio. So he’s got a lot of great choices.”

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Google MapsA 48-year-old Hoboken man was charged with criminal mischief and issued a summons after he broke into the wrong car to retrieve his keys early Saturday morning, according to police.

HOBOKEN — A 48-year-old city man was charged with criminal mischief and issued a summons after he broke into the wrong car to retrieve his keys early Saturday morning, according to police.

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LONDON, May 14, 2012 (Reuters) — Rebekah Brooks, a former top lieutenant in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, will learn on Tuesday whether she will be charged as part of a phone-hacking scandal at one of his British newspapers. Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks leaves after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into the ethics and practices of the media at the High Court in central London May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Police launched an investigation in January last year into allegations that journalists at the News of the World tabloid regularly hacked the voicemails of phones of people from celebrities and politicians to victims of crime.

More than 40 people, including Brooks and Prime Minister David Cameron’s former media chief, have since been arrested by detectives investigating whether staff hacked into computers and made payments to public officials Cheap Herve Leger gown, including the police, to get exclusive stories.

Last month, police handed prosecutors four files of evidence against 11 suspects to see if charges should be brought against them over possible offences including perverting the course of justice and interception of communications.

Brooks, former chief executive of News International, News Corp’s British newspaper arm, and an ex-editor of the News of the World Cheap BCBG Dresses, will learn tomorrow if she will be charged.

Her husband Charlie, a race horse owner and columnist, and five other non-journalists will also learn their fate. If charged, they will be the first to face criminal prosecutions over a scandal which has rocked the British establishment.

It would not only be potentially damaging to Murdoch’s News Corp empire but also embarrassing for Cameron, who is close friends of Brooks and her husband, with whom he went to one of the most elite British schools.

“They are both answering (police) bail dates tomorrow. I can’t say if they’ll be charged or not,” Brooks’s spokesman told Reuters.

In addition to the allegations of perverting the course of justice, a serious offence which carries a maximum penalty of a life prison term, Rebekah Brooks has been arrested on suspicion of phone-hacking and corruption.

However, detectives have not concluded their investigations into the latter allegations.

In a statement to a public inquiry into media ethics last week, Brooks, who quit last July as the phone-hacking furor engulfed News International, said she was horrified by revelations about the News of the World.

She told the inquiry that she had close contacts with politicians even though the hacking scandal was gathering steam, and Cameron was among those who indirectly conveyed sympathy to her when she resigned.

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Debrahlee Lorenzana 

Debrahlee Lorenzana made news this week with the unusual civil rights claim that her employer, Citigroup, has discriminated against her because she is a hottie. “At five-foot-six and 125 pounds … she is J-Lo curves meet Jessica Simpson rack meets Audrey Hepburn elegance—a head turning beauty,”drools the Village Voice. According to her lawsuit, Lorenzana is so smoking hot that her co-workers couldn’t concentrate on their jobs. Her bosses eventually demanded that she revamp—or, rather, de-vamp—her wardrobe: They banned tight pants, pencil skirts, high heels, and clingy turtlenecks. When Lorenzana pointed out that other women in her office wore more revealing clothes than she did, Lorenzana says her bosses replied, in essence: “Yeah, but they aren’t as hot as you are.” And when Lorenzana came to work, still looking just as jaw-droppingly sexy as ever, Citibank fired her. Believe it or not, Lorenzana is not the first person to claim in court that she’s too sexy for her job. In 2005 librarian Desiree Goodwin sued Harvard University for discrimination, complaining that she was denied promotions because she was “seen merely as a pretty girl who wore sexy outfits, low cut blouses, and tight pants.”

Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful isn’t the best line to inspire public sympathy, much less to begin your complaint for employment discrimination. But Lorenzana might have stronger arguments than her crippling gorgeousness: For instance, she claims her supervisors refused to enroll her in the training sessions she needed to do her job; handed off clients she had cultivated to men, then dinged her for not bringing in enough business; and fabricated incidents of tardiness as an excuse to put her on probation. This sounds like straightforward sex discrimination and harassment. In other words, if these more straightforward claims are true, the whole sexy wardrobe issues are a pointless—if headline-grabbing—distraction.

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But is it illegal to fire someone just for being too sexy? Should it be? Federal civil rights law prohibits sex discrimination, and some courts have interpreted that law to forbid dress codes that are “demeaning” to women or impose “unequal burdens” in terms of time and money for men and women. Most cases challenging employer dress codes as sex discrimination have involved requirements that women wear makeup or revealing outfits—these women lost their jobs not for being too sexy but, arguably, for not being sexy enough. But for the most part, workplace dress codes are legal, even when they impose different requirements for men and women. For instance, in Jespersen v. Harrah’s Operating Co., a bartender at a Reno, Nev., casino sued when her employer adopted a new dress code that required her to style her hair and wear makeup.  Jespersen complained that she found wearing makeup “degrading.” But the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Harrah’s grooming code was equally burdensome for men and affirmed the dismissal of her lawsuit.

A handful of jurisdictions prohibit “appearance discrimination.” Almost all of those laws are limited to things like unequal treatment for height, weight, and immutable physical characteristics. Yet high-profile cases like Jespersen have led some legal commentators—such as my Stanford colleague Deborah Rhode—to insist that dress codes that clash with the personal values or self-image of employees violate their civil rights unless that dress code is objectively job-related. And if that’s true, shouldn’t we be just as concerned with protecting the rights of the hotties as the notties? Debralee Lorenzana’s complaint may look like the opposite of Darlene Jespersen’s, but in a sense they’re the same. In reaction to Citibank’s demand that she wear looser-fitting clothes, Lorenzana complained: “Where I’m from … women dress up—like put on makeup and do their nails—to go the supermarket.” Jespersen said hair and makeup had nothing to do with her job and complained that she found getting dolled up demeaning. Both women objected that the dress codes clashed with their own personal self-image. If Jespersen should have a right not to wear makeup because she finds it degrading, shouldn’t Lorenzana have a right not to wear baggy clothes if she finds them bland and stifling?

The strongest arguments against appearance discrimination focus on its effect on women. Existing laws against sex discrimination can and should prohibit policies that are sexually demeaning (hence the entire Hooter’s business model might violate federal law, but that’s another article) or impose discriminatory burdens. But beyond that, it’s hard to know where civil rights based on appearance would end. Hundreds of American businesses have strict dress codes, especially for employees who interact with the public. For instance, according to the Los Angeles Times, the Ritz Carlton hotel chain forbids “beards and goatees Tattoo Supplies, ‘mutton chop’ sideburns, dreadlocks, big hair … earrings larger than a quarter, more than two rings on each hand, skirt lengths higher than 2 inches above the top of the knee and long fingernails.” Lots of people really like their goatees, dreads, and door-knocker earrings, but must every workplace permit them? Thousands of employers insist that employees wear understated suits and ties, skirts and nylons, polished shoes Tattoo Supplies, conservative haircuts. None of these norms of dress and grooming are directly related to objective job performance—but should they be outlawed?  Many employers try to cultivate a workplace culture and image—whether staid and professional like Citibank or glitzy and glamorous like Harrah’s—by establishing standards of grooming and dress.

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Even if he weren’t allowed to vote, Stevens would still be able to continue his Senate campaign. There’s no law barring felons from the Senate, and he fits the only constitutional requirements for the position: He’s an Alaskan resident over the age of 30 and has been a U.S. citizen for more than nine years. State law does stipulate that a candidate for the Senate must be a registered voter—and thus not a felon who committed acts of moral turpitude—when he files for the office. But Stevens had not yet been found guilty when he filed.

Bonus Explainer: If Stevens wins re-election but is expelled by the Senate, can Gov. Sarah Palin appoint herself to his seat? No. In most states, when a Senate seat is vacated midterm, the governor of the state appoints someone to fill it. That was the case in Alaska until 2004, when public outrage over Gov. Frank Murkowski’s 2002 appointment of his daughter Lisa to his vacated Senate seat prompted accusations of nepotism and led to a ballot initiative requiring that special elections be held within 90 days. (Palin may still be able to make a temporary appointment within those three months.)

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