Laurie Shertz

The invention of the can opener: from 0 to functional in 100 years

I was listening to a podcast recently1 and they were discussing the very unglamorous can opener. Perhaps unglamorous, but necessary. In 1795, Napoleon offered a prize for anyone who could develop a better preservation method for food for his army. The initial solution took 15 years and was essentially canning, but in glass jars… not

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In 2012, the federal courts created a web-based program called eVoucher that requires federally court-appointed attorneys (CJA Attorneys) to enter billing slips into a web-based program to submit statements for payment. eVouchers was rolled out to the District of Oregon after one bill was beta tested on one case by me.  From the very beginning,

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