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|WPLLA member Cindy Cicco sent an invitation to join the weekly ALCTS e-Forum; specifically on called "eBook Management: What Works, What Doesn't." The event takes place on 11/13-11/14, so if you're hearing about this for the first time on the WPLLA website, you're out of luck. Perhaps one of our members who attended can fill us in on the details? Connect with any one of WPLLA's board members and we'll get a write-up on the site. If you're interested in receiving information on upcoming ALCTS e-forums, check out the events website.
|Fastcase Bulks Up on Treatises and Practice Guides From James Publishing
|On November 8, 2018, Fastcase announced a new partnership with James Publishing. James Publishing releases ". . . legal practice materials including model pleadings, client letters, and step-by-step procedural checklists, pattern arguments, model questions, and practice tips." This move helps position Fastcase as a ". . . full service legal research and analytics platform."
|Corbin on Pennsylvania Contracts
|The text, Corbin on Pennsylvania Contracts, is available for sale at the LexisNexis store. It covers Commonwealth-specific topics like the Uniform Written Obligations Act, the evidence of fraud needed to invalidate a contract, and the "four corners" approach to contract interpretation and construction (among many others).
|How to Be a More Patient Person
|Experts have ". . . found that patience as a personality trait is modifiable." Read through this article for info on how to control your temper and increase your patience.
|The Essential Ebook Converter Guide
|For a discussion on the 12+ common file types associated with e-books (and the compatibility with different e-readers), check out this article!
|PaperShip: Access Your Zotero-Stored Sources on your Phone
|The Harvard Law School Library's Blog, Et Seq., recently posted information about Zotero, a citation management software. The post includes a Zotero training PowerPoint slide deck and information on PaperShip, an app available through Apple's app store to that allows users to ". . . get immediate access to the sources you have stored in your Zotero account."
|The GovLab Launches The Living Library – A New Resource on Technology, Innovation and Governance
|The GovLab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering recently launched The Living Library. This is ". . . A new resource that seeks to inform those interested in and working at the intersection of technology, innovation, and governance." Review, search, and filter by categories like ". . . geography, topic, governance level, or sector."
|When Microsoft's Word Count feature goes to court
|The Legal Office Guru explains how to set the Word Count feature to include footnotes for Microsoft Word users. (HINT: there's a checkbox to "include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes.) Read through the post for detailed instructions!
|You Spin Me Right Round…
|A good lesson on the people (" . . . In house or outside counsel, senior partner or fresh faced associate, law clerk or technologist") ". . . grappling with what to do and how to make sense of all of the changes happening in the industry." Many of these changes are related to tech – either direct changes because of it, or ancillary changes by adapting to it. Please read the entire thoughtful post to gain more insights into the changes, and potential ways to combat resistance to and/or pivot with them.
|CRS Report – Types of Committee Hearings
|Another interesting CRS report (made available on Every CRS Report, obviously) on the four types of Congressional committee hearings: ". . . legislative, oversight, investigative, and confirmation."
|Here's What It's Actually Like To Be A Librarian
|A "human interest" news story from BuzzFeedNews: a tally of the 1,400 responses to an informal survey of public sector librarians (including details on projects they're working on, their pet peeves, and more).
|Introduction to the Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress
|From the website Every CRS Report comes a link to a CRS report which details ". . . the main steps through which a bill (or other item of business) may travel in the legislative process—from introduction to committee and floor consideration to possible presidential consideration." And take note – this CRS report identifies multiple other CRS reports that detail the many other " . . . specific elements of congressional procedure" (check out this link for more titles).
|As Federal Courts Urge Caution On Docket Services, Vendors Respond
|After many federal courts sent ". . . notices to attorneys urging them to exercise caution" when using companies that provide federal docket access services, many of these vendors began taking steps to remedy the concerns – though others proclaimed loudly that the caution should not apply to them. Click the link to learn more about the issues and the PR responses.
|Download 569 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
|Open Culture links to MetPublications, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website ". . . offering 'five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.'"
|Exonerees Racing Against a Tax Clock
|Defense attorneys and anyone working with populations of exonerees should know that the filing deadline for a special exoneree tax refund under the Wrongful Conviction Tax Relief Act is December 17, 2018.
|Cornell University's Legal Information Institute has published ". . . the first publicly-available web version of the Congressional Research Service's Constitution Annotated, a non-partisan publication that helps readers appreciate how Americans' collective understanding of our governing principles has changed throughout our history on timely issues such as the scope of presidential power, limits on free speech, or the right to bear arms."
|Opinion: Inside Bloomberg BNA's Fall Pricing Surprise
|Linked from Legaltechnews, author Michael Feit ". . . examines recent price increases for Bloomberg BNA and what it means for the company's market positioning."
|You Think Legal Education Can't Change? 8 Innovative Ideas from Law Schools
|Innovation is everywhere – even the ivory tower. Click through for eight new legal education ideas that could revamp the student experience and the profession itself.
|Legal Research Companies Post Laws Online, but Do They Own the Data?
|If laws, regulations, and judicial opinions aren't copyrightable, what to do about private companies who format, upload, and otherwise make this information available?
|Top 10 Tips for Solos and Young Lawyers
|Collected by beSpacific from two different ABA articles, anyone new to the practice of law should click through for a series of thoughtful tips for solo practitioners and young attorneys.
|Assessing Academic Law Libraries' Performance And Implementing Change While Reducing Budget
|Paul Caron of the TaxProf Blog highlights a recent law review article by Linda Kawaguchi. Kawaguchi worked to re-orient the Chapman University Law Library; she documented results that included adding new staff and purchasing new database while decreasing total library expenditures ". . . 16% from fiscal year 2010-11 to 2015-16."
|How To Grow A Lawyer: A Guide For Law Schools, Law Professors, And Law Students
|Paul Caron of the TaxProf Blog thoughtfully reviews Fruehwald's text, How to Grow a Lawyer. Fruehwald argues for a radical transformation to legal education, and advocates for a rejection of ". . . everything from the past that does not grow effective lawyers."
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October Link Roundup
|FDsys Website to be Retired This December
|Links to additional info on the transition from the GPO's Federal Digital System ("FDsys") to Gov Info. FYI (for those of you who've somehow made it this far without hearing the news): FDsys will be fully retired this December!
|The FY2019-2023 Strategic Plan of the Library of Congress
|The Library of Congress announced exciting new changes to put ". . . users first." Click the link to learn more about plans for ". . . expanding access and enhancing services, while applying data and optimizing resources."
|Try the New Experimental Congress.gov Chrome Browser Extension
|A new open source Google Chrome browser extension (available for download at the link) offers the ability to help " . . . quickly discover the primary source" of legislation discussed in news stories. By highlighting a bill's citation on a webpage, the extension will bring a user to the bill summary's landing page on Congress.gov. Because the extension is still in beta, it's not yet available on the Google Chrome Web store (hence the download).
|In an email sent by Rita Young (and initially spotted by Karen Shepherd), the SLA Solo Librarians Division & Route 66 Chapter presented a session called, "Challenges of Being an Embedded Librarian." If you're reading about this for the first time in the Monthly Recap posted on the wplla.org website, you've missed it. But if any WPLLA member attended, please reach out to let us know what you thought!
|5 Free JPG to PDF Converters: Combine Images Easily Into PDFs
|If you need to convert an image file to a .pdf, try one of these free websites or services that can help you with the task! Options include JPG2pdf.com, iLovePDF.com, JPG to PDF converter for Mac & Windows, SmallPDF.com, and PDFCandy.com. Click the link for more info on each one.
|Harvard Political Review – The 21st Century Library
|Comparing the traditional memory (or misconception) of the library to the contemporary version (one filled with ". . . students consumed by laptops" and librarians helping patrons ". . . access databases, not . . . retrieve documents"), this Harvard Political Review article, linked by beSpacific, denounces the perceived obsolescence of libraries and instead explains how they've evolved to become important in our modern and ever-changing world.
|How to Set Follow-up Reminders for Email in Outlook
|If your Outlook 2016 email account ". . . is set up with the IMAP protocol rather than POP3 or Exchange Server," you may have difficulty flagging a message for follow-up or setting an email reminder for yourself. Review this blog post at Attorney at Work for a step-by-step instruction on how to set reminders by turning Outlook emails into tasks.
|WPLLA member Dr. Joel Fishman forwarded an important announcement from HeinOnline: the U.S. Congressional Serial Set is now available. Any subscriber to the U.S. Academic Core+ package has access to this content at no extra charge, courtesy of the subscription.
|New Bots From DoNotPay Includes One That Lets You Sue In Any Small Claims Court At The Press Of A Button
|DoNotPay (discussed in an October 18, 2018 blog post on the WPLLA.org website) has launched several new ". . . legal and consumer-protection bots, including one ". . . that will enable individuals to file an action in any small claims court in the United States."
|The Cleveland Law Library links to PCMag.com to identify the best free password managers.
|American democracy is fracturing. Libraries say they know how to help
|Defenders of U.S. public libraries claim that ". . . in a fractured society, libraries are a crucial way to fight the ravages of scorched earth partisanship, rising social discord, and educational inequalities."
|What's new to Congress.gov in October?
|There are several new enhancements to Congress.gov, including an Advanced Legislation Search which allows users to see all names associated with a Committee and a Search Results Navigation improvement that lists all amendments for a specific bill.
|New GODORT website
|Though the GODORT wiki is no longer being updated, the main GODORT website just got a new makeover! More pages will be added in the upcoming weeks, but feel free to click through to get a feel for the new experience.
|Appeals Court Says Georgia's Laws (Including Annotations) Are Not Protected By Copyright And Free To Share
|Quoting a post from techdirt, beSpacific notes that "[t]he 11th Circuit appeals court has just overturned a lower court ruling and said that Georgia's laws, including annotations, are not covered by copyright, and it is not infringing to post them online." This in-depth post gives a thoughtful backstory to the saga, complete with multiple links.
|100 Websites That Shaped The Internet As We Know It
|beSpacific links to a Gizmodo article that attempts to define ". . . a canon of the most significant websites of all time." Some of the sites on the list are "cesspools" and the authors don't include apps or services; however, this list serves as a pretty good ". . . evaluation of power and who has seized it."
|12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love
|"The New York Times asked 12 authors to describe their local public libraries or share a memory of a library from their past."
|LC – Foreign Law Web Archives
|In a significant compilation first identified at The Signal and later defined in this beSpacific post, experts discuss significant Library of Congress collections, including the Foreign Law Web Archive (". . . comprised of foreign legal materials, including online gazettes and judicial websites").
|ABA ethics opinion offers guidance on data breaches
|"Lawyers have to safeguard client data and notify clients of a data breach, and the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has issued a formal opinion that reaffirms that duty." This beSpacific post links to Formal Opinion 483, as well as several other opinions and posts to provide background information and bolster the framework of the new opinion.
|US midterm elections: A guide to everything you need to know
|Linking to multiple articles posted by CNN, beSpacific provides information on the upcoming midterm elections.
|WIPO Lex provides free of charge access to legal information on intellectual property
|WIPO Lex, is a ". . . a global database that provides free of charge access to legal information on intellectual property (IP) such as treaties administered by WIPO." Because WIPO is a specialized Agency of the United Nations, it is required to make intellectual property information available to the public. WIPO Lex ". . . also covers IP legal information of the Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO)."
|GPO issues digital release of statue compilations
|The U.S. Government Publishing Office ("GPO") recently released 40 statute compilations as part of a pilot program on the website govinfo; "[t]hese publications are compilations of public laws that either do not appear in the U.S. Code or that have been classified to a title of the U.S. Code that has not been enacted into positive law." Expect additional statute compilations on the site in the next few months. Later, the GPO will ". . . convert legacy Statute Compilations file formats into United States Legislative Markup (USLM) XML and provide access to those files as bulk data."
|Navigating Law Librarianship While Black: A Week in the Life of a Black Female Law Librarian
|In a short yet poignant paper, three law librarians discuss a myriad of micro-aggressions that people of color, and specifically law librarians, suffer due to pervasive implicit biases. WPLLA member Joel Fishman also thoughtfully provided the paper as a /pdf attachment to the email, for those unable to visit the website.
|Statistics and Academic Law Library Survival
|Cross-posted from The RIPS Law Librarian Blog, beSpacific posts inspirational words from a law librarian about the future of law and new opportunities for reinvention.
|The Caselaw Access Project expands public access to US law
|Per beSpacific, the Caselaw Access Project ("CAP") makes ". . . all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online." The decisions are digitized from a collection housed at the Harvard Law Library. The information discussed on the blog post links to the scope and limits of the project, digitization specs, and usage and access rules, among others.
September Link Roundup
|Do these things to avoid post-vacation stress at work
|Seven great tips for bringing your sense of "inner peace" back with you post-vacation. Very smart of WPLLA Member Joel Fishman to send this link out the day after Labor Day!
|How to Create a Professional Online Presence Authentically
|Marketing expert and entrepreneur Vana Koutsomitis gave a thoughtful Q&A with goop.com. She outlined some interesting suggestions for maintaining an authentic online image and how to promote yourself, your skills, and your brand using social media.
|New on LLRX – Three TextExpander Snippets You Should Be Using to Save Time Immediately
|Try http://www.textexpander.com to create Snippets that plug in your email address, phone number, and office mailing address. Save some time where-ever and when-ever you can!
|Historical California legislative publications
|Check out the "California Legislative Publications 1850-2009" on HathiTrust for historical bills, statutes, bill histories, constitutional amendments, final calendars, and other materials.
|LexisNexis sued for breach of contract by Ohio county law library
|The Medina County Law Library in Ohio has contracted with LexisNexis since 2002 to provide search services for approximately 100 attorneys not otherwise affiliated with the County or the Law Library. The library paid for access privileges; however, LexisNexis recently cancelled this license because ". . . the listed subscribers were not government professional users employed by the subscriber." The library, in turn, filed suit.
|May I finish? The case against interrupting
|The author suggests that this is a real problem – especially for women. Learn why people interrupt and how to handle the interruptions.
|Save the Date: "The Past, Present, and Future of Libraries," September 27-29, 2018, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA
|If you're reading this on the WPLLA website, the event has already passed – but thanks to WPLLA member Joel Fishman for sending this to our attention! This free event focused on the history of libraries, the present opportunities for libraries, and the potential future for libraries as they continue to evolve in the 21st century. It also featured two keynote events. First, a panel discussion moderated by Sarah E. Thomas (Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian and Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) with comments from Mary Lee Kennedy (Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries), Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies), and Michael Witmore (Director, Folger Shakespeare Library). Second, a presentation from Deanna Marcum (Senior Advisor, Ithaka S+R) and Donald J. Waters (Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communications, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation).
If you attended, shoot someone on the WPLLA Board a quick message; we'd love to hear from you.
|Supreme Court Appointment Process: Senate Debate and Confirmation Vote
|beSpacific linked to a timely (and recently updated) CRS Report called, "Supreme Court Appointment Process: Senate Debate and Confirmation Vote." Though the U.S. Constitution provides instruction for appointment in only a few brief words ("the President 'shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint … Judges of the supreme Court'"), the process has undergone many changes over the past two hundred-or-so years. Click through for more info and the link!
|12 Things You Absolutely Won't Regret Doing at Work Today
|As the article so deftly notes, "Have you ever had one of those days when absolutely everything went wrong? When it felt like the universe was not only against you—but actually laughing in the face of your misfortune?" It then goes on to suggest 12 different quick-and-easy projects to tackle at work when you really need a "win" (like cleaning off your desk or tidying up your email inbox).
|Wolters Kluwer Partners with U.S. Legal Forms
|On September 12, 2018, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. announced its partnership with U.S. Legal Forms, Inc., ". . . the leading online publisher of state-specific legal documents." Additional features of Wolters Kluwer's Legal Forms will now include the following: "[a]ccess to a wide range of forms (mostly state-specific) across many practice areas; [r]emote access to forms, allowing professionals to work on the go and edit the forms according to specific needs," and customizable options tailored to specific practice areas or specific states.
|LII Announces U.S. Constitution Annotated
|The Legal Information Institute's ("LII") U.S. Constitution Annotated ". . . links to Supreme Court opinions, the U.S. Code, and the Code of Federal Regulations" and provides ". . . enhanc[ed] navigation through search, breadcrumbs, linked footnotes and tables of contents." Though the Congressional Research Service initially prepared the content, LII's version provides ". . . a hypertext interpretation of the CRS text, updated to the currently published version."
|New bill would finally tear down federal judiciary's ridiculous paywall
|ArsTechnica notes that ". . . Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) has introduced legislation that would require that the courts make PACER documents available for download free of charge. . . . [as] federal courts have used PACER revenues as a slush fund to finance other court activities." The author of the post doesn't anticipate the proposed legislation to become law during this specific session, but it does indicate Congressional willingness to at least take up the issue.
|New Corpus Linguistics Platform Lets Legal Researchers Explore the Meanings of Words and Phrases
|The Law and Corpus Linguistics Technology Platform, developed by BYU Law in Provo, Utah, is a ". . . first-of-its-kind technology platform" that ". . . allows legal researchers to examine large collections of historical texts to help determine the meanings of words and phrases in the contexts in which they historically were used." It launched with three primary text collections:
· Corpus of Founding Era American English (a collection from years 1760 to 1799);
· Corpus of Supreme Court of the United States (all SCOTUS opinions through the 2017 term); and
· Corpus of Early Modern English (a collection from years 1475-1800).
This project is already receiving accolades from distinguished sources, like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; it definitely seems worth a few minutes of curious exploration!
|Trending: Congressional Research Service Reports Now Available Online
|Per the Library of Congress' blog, "[t]he Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 directs the Library to . . . make CRS reports publicly available online." The reports are now available at crsreports.congress.gov. Developed by experts, ". . . the reports present a legislative perspective on topics such as agriculture policy, counterterrorism operations, banking regulation, veteran's issues and much more." Please note that, "[m]oving forward, all new or updated reports will be added to the website as they are made available to Congress." The CRS back catalog will be added as quickly as possible.
|Cracking Student Silos: Linking Legal Writing And Clinical Learning Through Transference
|An article linked by TaxProf Blog questions why ". . . highly competent and hard-working law students struggle to apply what they learn in legal writing to later clinical courses and law practice." Check out the article to find strategies that help students ". . . become reflective practitioners engaged in the life-long learning necessary for excellent legal practice."
|How to Prepare for an Interview: The Ultimate Guide
|An article published in the "Ask a Boss" column of The Cut (a style blog maintained by New York Magazine, and one of my guiltiest pleasures) promises to be the ". . . ultimate guide on how to prepare for an interview." If you're thinking about switching jobs anytime soon, give this a once-over!
|Introducing Vincent: the first intelligent legal research assistant of its kind
|vLex recently introduced Vincent, the first AI-powered intelligent legal research assistant to analyze documents in two languages (English and Spanish) from 9 countries. Vincent can also incorporate content from vLex's global collection, ". . . but also from internal knowledge management resources, public sources and licensed databases simultaneously." Software engineers parsed vLex's global collection of 100 million+ legal documents, and built the program ". . . on top of the Iceberg AI platform."
|Top 9 Writing Tools to Create Your Perfect Legal Resume
|The quality of a legal resume must be superlative because, ". . . as a lawyer, you are expected to present facts, as well as yourself, in the best way possible, as well as to pay attention to detail." Review this Legal Research for web-based services and apps to help you get your resume in tip-top shape!
|Important update about LC Public Access Portal for CRS Reports
|An update with important information about the Public Access Portal to Official CRS Reports:
First, "[t]he public versions of the reports are lightly redacted to remove the author's contact information, and to add some boilerplate language about CRS."
Second, currently, ". . . CRS is only posting its primary 'R series' reports" including reports like American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics and Congressional Primer on Responding to Major Disasters and Emergencies.
|Pennsylvania's Potential Gift to American Democracy
|As quoted by The Legal Intelligencer:
"On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case of immense political consequence, regarding fairness in elections, that almost no one has heard of. Both the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the basic citizen rights enumerated in Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania suggest that the plaintiffs have a very strong case."
|8 ideas for empowering jurors in complex trials
|Attorneys attempting to persuade jurors during a long and complex product liability trial usually focus on the clarity of their argument and the witness' testimony. But what about ". . . informing and honing the thinking of the jury?" Some attorneys are now working to ". . . develop jurors who are better prepared and better equipped to carry out the difficult tasks we place before them." Click through the article for suggestions on how to better train jurors.
August Link Roundup
|New Mexico Law School Librarians' Fight For Faculty Status And Equal Voting Rights
|A recent TaxProf Blog post highlights a new Law Library Journal article, published by AALL. "Based on research of over sixty years of archival records, this article presents a case study of the University of New Mexico School of Law librarians' fight for respect, professional recognition, faculty status, and voting rights in the face of persistent opposition from law school administrators, faculty, and head librarians." It poignantly acknowledges the ". . . challenges law librarians have confronted as they have sought to obtain rights and privileges within their institutions that their academic credentials and professional responsibilities warrant."
|Is Wikipedia A Reliable Legal Authority? (2018 Update)
|The answer, as any good lawyer would tell you, is "it depends." But links from a beSpacific post to articles on Associates Mind and the Chronicle of Higher education provide a more nuanced analysis!
|The Citeable Opinion: A Quantitative Analysis of the Style and Impact of Judicial Decision
|In a research paper available for download on SSRN, and linked in this beSpacific post, Nina Varsava provides a quantitative analysis judicial legal writing style and the "legal impact or precedential power." Using regression analyses, Varsava suggests ". . . that readily measurable elements of style have strong associations with a decision's precedential power."
|WPLLA member Joel Fishman forwarded an email on August 8, 2018 from the Legal Office Guru. The post provides multiple helpful links on the basics of the relatively new Microsoft Word function, Styles. Check the email for more info!
|AALL 2018 Recap: 25 Free Technologies for Law Libraries: Second Edition
|Avery Le (Emory University School of Law) and Eliza Fink (University of Tennessee College of Law) presented the top 25 free technologies they use, divided into three categories (instructional, practical, and cost). The list includes:
– KnightLab (to make timelines or side-frame comparisons),
– YouCanBook.me (appointment scheduler),
– SlickPie (accounting software),
– and our old favorite, Grammarly (corrects grammatical mistakes).
Check out the blog post for the full list!
|Are Targeted Ads Stalking You? Here's How to Make Them Stop
|Online ads have become "stalker ads," as the tech piece from the New York Times claims. Ads are targeted and persistent. They use web cookies to collect information about our browsing activities; the data is compiled to target us across web-connected devices. This raises a host of privacy concerns. For ways to "sidestep" targeting ads, clear your cookies periodically and follow the rest of the suggestions in the article.
|Automatically Create Website Citations For a Bibliography With This Chrome Extension
|LifeHacker (a great website; check it out if you're not already a regular) reviews Cite This For Me. This Chrome extension ". . . automatically creates website citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard style with a quick click on its icon on your browser's toolbar."
|New Superintendent of Documents Classification Guidelines
|"Newly-revised Classification Guidelines for the Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) classification system are now available." Updates include:
– updated SuDocs link to Catalog of U.S. Government Publications ("CGP") catalog records,
– new Table of Contents structure,
– printer-friendly format,
– and more.
If you like what you see, or if you have any comments, questions, or concerns, send emails to Caroline Hassler or Fang Gao.
|The Art and Science of Lawyering: Law 3.0
|Law Technology Today, in a post highlighted by beSpacific, laments that "[l]egal organizations have a well-deserved reputation for using technology and implementing business processes ineffectively at scale." The issues can be traced back to "partner-focused business entities." Read on for more info!
|New CRS Reports – Judge Kavanaugh's Jurisprudence, Supreme Court Nomination, Records, Papers and Decision
|beSpacific links to five distinct articles analyzing not only the jurisprudence of Supreme Court Justice-nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh but also judicial ethics, fact-finding, and criminal sentencing. Click through each link for more detailed information.
|Hardly living on a UC librarian salary
|The University of California's librarians' union (UC-AFT) and the university system are currently in the middle of contract negotiations. This op-ed details some of the struggles UC librarians live with as their salaries seemingly shrink in the face of rising cost-of-living expenses in some of the most expensive areas of the country.
July Link Roundup
|President's Selection of a Nominee for a Supreme Court Vacancy: Overview
|Following Justice Kennedy's departure from the U.S. Supreme Court, the website "Every CRS Report" provides info on the process for selecting a new Justice. It also links to CRS Report R44235, Supreme Court Appointment Process: President's Selection of a Nominee.
|The Longform Guide to the Supreme Court
|beSpacific links to a cache of in-depth stories on the Supreme Court hosted by Longform.org. Article authors include Jill Lepore, Thomas L. Dybdahl, Justice John Paul Stevens, and Jeffrey Toobin.
|14 editing tips
|Wayne Schiess shares fourteen editing tips on his blog, legalwriting.net. They include "build in ample time for editing" and "employ an editing checklist—a list of mistakes you make, of required parts the document needs, and of formatting and other matters to check."
|Explaining the First Citation in Every Supreme Court Slip Opinion
|This statement is at the top of the original form of every Supreme Court opinion:
NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337.
Why? Orin Kerr on reason.com explains; it stems from a 1906 property dispute. Click through to the blog post to learn more.
|Getting a password manager is the most important way to improve your online security
|The Washington Post recommends Dashlane, used by over 10 million people, as the best password manager available today. Free for use on a single device, and $3.33 per month for multiple devices, it can securely sync your passwords across computers, phones, and tablets; it also sends you a new password via an app each time you try to log into a password-protected program. It hasn't been hacked since 2015 – and even then, no passwords were stolen. This beSpacific blog post links to both the Washington Post article and the Dashlane website itself.
|13 New Exhibitors at AALL Annual Conference: ILS Software, Data, Training Vendors
|Jean O'Grady of the Dewey B Strategic blog highlights the 13 "first time exhibitors" who attended the AALL Conference in Baltimore, held July 14-16th. Companies included Gobi (a web-based acquisition tool for managing both print and e-books) and Tyler Technologies (court workflow and records management services).
If you attended the AALL Conference, let us know if you chatted with reps from any of these companies! We'd love to get your opinion and schedule a Fall 2018/Spring 2019 lunch-and-learn program with anyone who knocked your socks off!
|Win for Public Right to Know: Court Vacates Injunction Against Publishing the Law
|A win for those dedicated to preserving public, equitable access to information: "A federal appeals court today ruled that industry groups cannot control publication of binding laws and standards. This decision protects the work of Public.Resource.org (PRO), a nonprofit organization that works to improve access to government documents. PRO is represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the law firm of Fenwick & West, and attorney David Halperin." Click the link for more info and the full opinion.
|The last 22 years of UK politics just became searchable online
|In an email from WPLLA member Joel Fishman, the new UK politics archive "contains over 1.4 billion web pages, documents and social media posts, from the 'dodgy' Iraq dossier to ministers' tweets." Though the main link requires a user account, the links in the body of the email to the UK Government Web Archive and GOV.UK are free and open to the public.
|Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top for July 2018
|The second set of enhancement to Congress.gov went live in June 2018; one area of focus "is on enhancing committee data."
|Beware the Hidden Costs of Bad Formatting
|"The Legal Office Guru has heard every excuse in the book for why law firms skimp on training, and reader Roberta Gelb forwarded an article illustrating how firms could be losing up to $400,000/year on basic editing mistakes that need to be painstakingly corrected. The post also includes a downloadable Word Skills Checklist so you can make sure you're one of the competent, capable ones in the office!
|One more time – No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries
|After Forbes magazine published the article, "Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money," the world erupted. Folks were especially upset with the author ". . . picking Amazon—notorious for its horrible treatment of employees, and accusations of ruining the cities it opens warehouses in—as a potential replacement." "[T]he notion that libraries aren't worth their value to taxpayers—one that fails to take into account the financial returns of a library and expenses of buying these items on one's own—fails to address the vast importance a library has on its community as a physical space open to anyone in the public." Forbes has since removed the anti-free-libraries article from its website.
|The Librarian And The Astrophysicist
|As WPLLA member Rita Young noted, Forbes quickly followed up their anti-free-libraries article with a pro-library article; "[a] bit of an 'oops, we're sorry." This new mea culpa was written by an astrophysicist/library-enthusiast.
|Three Technologies Transforming the Legal Field
|"Thomson Reuters' 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market surmised that declining profit margins, weakening collections, falling productivity, and loss of market share to alternative legal service providers are chipping away at the foundations of firm profitability." But there are ways to "counteract these market pressures and to differentiate . . . from competitors." Review this beSpacific post linking to a Law Technology Today article to learn more about analytics, blockchain, OCR, and other cost-effective services.
|Judicial Opinions of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and his very bigly paper trail
|Coordinating three articles from the Congressional Research Service, The Hill, and the Washington Post, this beSpacific post analyzes Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and the nearly 1,500 decisions he has adjudicated. Some suggest his paper trail "tops a million pages."
June Link Roundup
|Bye, Chrome: Why I'm switching to Firefox and you should too
|In an interview with Madhava Enros, the senior director of Firefox UX, and Peter Dolanjski, a product manager for Firefox, the two explain how Mozilla's browser builds privacy into its architecture.
|Bringing Harassment Out of the History Books
|Anne Ford, in a long form article posted on the American Libraries Magazine website, "address[es] the troubling aspects of Melvil Dewey's legacy." Ford's research highlights troubling aspects of Dewey's career and personality, calling it "tainted" by sexism and racism.
|5 Tools to Help You Search the Archived Internet
|As Adam Rowe of Tech.Co noted, "keeping the internet a stable and reliable network isn't all about data security – it's also about data preservation." This article reviews five websites, apps, and tools to help "preserve, protect, or search through your online footprint."
|What got breached this week? The List Keeps On Growing
|A beSpacific post links to a weekly cybersecurity column detailing corporate, social media, government, academic, e-commerce, and health care breaches.
|Casetext Survey Finds 'Shocking' Level of Missing Relevant Cases in US Courts
|Artificial Lawyer (an AI and Legal Automation news and opinion blog), in conjunction with Casetext, found that " that 83% of US judges and their clerks find that lawyers' briefs are missing relevant cases that could impact the trial 'at least some of the time'." Click through the link to learn more statistics and info.
|Librarians: Embrace the Career Revolution!
|Following the recent British and Irish Association of Law Librarians ("BIALL") Conference, attendees have decided to continue discussing its theme: "Designing our Future." Because people should now plan for "plan for five careers in a lifetime," this post discusses changes to the law librarian profession and things you can do to keep succeeding (or pivot).
|Best web browsers 2018: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera go head-to-head
|PCWorld reviewed various web browsers to make sure you're using "the best tool for the job," Read this post to find out if you should be using Edge, Chrome, Firefox, or Opera.
|Breaking News: Practicing Law Institute and Fastcase Alliance Adds Case Law Links to PLI Plus Platform
|Starting in July 2018, the PLI Plus platform user will have access to all United States federal and state case law citations; they will be linked to Fastcase documents as the result of a new alliance between the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) and Fastcase.
May Links Roundup
|Gmail's Smart Compose will write emails for you
|Smart Compose, a feature now available in the new Gmail re-vamp, "suggests complete sentences in your emails so that you can draft them with ease."
|Use Google Scholar's Advanced Search for Narrow Case Law Searching
|This Texas Tech Law Library's blog post provides interesting "tricks" for getting the most out of Google Scholar, a free case law search tool. These tricks "will help you narrow your search results to relevant cases."
|From Slip Law to United States Code: A Guide to Federal Statutes for Congressional Staff
|A CRS Report released on May 2, 2018 "provides an overview of federal statutes in their various forms, as well as basic guidance for congressional staff interested in researching statutes."
|3 Easy Ways to Convert Webpages Into PDFs
|If you could convert a webpage into a .pdf, "you could read any webpage offline in no-internet zones, making it easy to read articles and other pages offline." This blog post details three easy, user-friendly ways to complete such a task! (Now, we can take even more reading home with us when we leave the office each weekday!)
|Guide to Gmail's new 'confidential mode'
|According to Business Insider and beSpacific, "[c]onfidential mode is available to users with personal accounts who opted into the new version of Gmail last month, when Google announced the latest changes to its email application."
|How To Improve Pennsylvania's Tax System
|As noted by a professor at George Mason University, "Pennsylvania ranks near the top in tax burden and near the bottom in business friendliness in the nation. While much good can be said about the state's personal income tax rate and relatively low sales tax rate, Pennsylvania's business taxes are in serious need of reform." This blog post reflects on potential improvements.
|New on LLRX – 2018 New Economy Resources and Tools
|Linked by beSpacific, this guide "provides researchers in multiple disciplines – law, economists, academia, government, corporate, and journalism – the latest, most reliable web resources for discovering sources to meet the multifaceted needs of time sensitive, specific, actionable work product."
|Paper – Cutting through the Fog: Government Information, Librarians, and the Forty-Fifth Presidency
|Reflecting on "an increasingly polarized electorate, concerns about 'fake news,' and a greater use of social media" as well as the Trump Administration's utilization of "disintermediation of information consumption by communicating directly to the public and going around the 'experts,'" this new book examines the impact on government information librarians especially their concern "with the production, distribution, consumption, and preservation of government information, and impact the public's understanding of—and trust in—government information."
|Public can now search UK government's entire digital archive
|For the first time, "[t]he British government's entire online presence comprising billions of web pages has been indexed and digitally archived to the cloud for the first time. Manchester tech firm MirrorWeb has devised an all-new indexing to create an accessible, searchable and user-friendly resource for the public." This web archive collection is 120TB and includes every government department website and social media account from 1996 to the present.
|In a May 21, 2018 email, Rita Young shared her response from the Office of the Mayor of Philadelphia regarding the redistribution of civil filing fees (thus imperiling the Jenkins Law Library). The stinging message read, in part, "law libraries, including Jenkins, do not serve the same function today as they did years ago."
|CRS – False Statements and Perjury: An Overview of Federal Criminal Law
|The Mueller investigation's interest in potentially investigating President Trump begs the question: "whether a sitting President, consistent with the separation of powers and Article II of the Constitution, may be required to comply with a subpoena for his testimony as part of an ongoing criminal investigation." This CRS Report goes into detail about the type of subpoena Mueller could issue and thoughtfully questions issues regarding separation of powers between the various branches of government.
|A helpful post from the WisBlawg (the University of Wisconsin's Law Library Blog) recommends "Zotero," "an incredibly powerful citation manager that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share research." The site is open source (so it's free!), "perfect for large research projects where you're researching over a period of days, weeks, [or] months," and supports multiple citation styles, including Bluebook. The post also includes info on other citation sites, including EasyBib and ZoteroBib.
|New edition of Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Educators published by ACRL
|Follow the links provided in this Law Librarian Blog post for a "thorough introduction to Zotero."


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Once a mesh is generated, the set of elements that comprise it must be partitioned into subdomains. Each subdomain can then be mapped onto a processor of a parallel machine. The goal of mesh partitioning is to minimize communication time while maintaining load balance. In an explicit method, communication is associated with the nodes that lie on the boundaries between subdomains and are shared by more than one processor. Processors sharing a node must communicate six words per shared node for each matrix-vector multiply, i.e. twice each time step in our method. Communication time depends on both the message sizes, which increase with the number of shared nodes, and the number of messages, which increases with the number of adjacent subdomains. The load on a processor for explicit solution of linear wave propagation problems is easy to predict: it is proportional to the number of nodes on that processor. Prediction becomes more difficult when nonlinearities are present, such as with the soil plasticity models that we are currently introducing into our code. In these cases, the work per node is solution-dependent. Nevertheless, for our purposes, we consider a mesh partitioner desirable if it produces subdomains of nearly equal size (where size is measured by number of elements and not by volume) and with as few nodes shared between processors as is reasonably possible.
The partitioner we use is based on the algorithm of Miller, Teng, Thurston, and Vavasis [15]. This algorithm uses geometric information to construct a separator, i.e. a set of nodes whose removal separates the mesh into two pieces of roughly equal size. Each of these pieces is then recursively partitioned until the desired number of subdomains is reached. The Miller et al. algorithm produces separators that are asymptotically optimal; their length is of order in three dimensions, where N is the number of nodes. Theoretically, the algorithm runs in randomized linear time; in practice, the algorithm rapidly produces high quality partitions.
As an illustration, our implementation of this algorithm partitioned the 77 million element mesh described above into 256 subdomains in about 3.8 hours on one processor of the DEC 8400, and required 7.9 Gb of memory. The resulting partition (again for a factor of twelve coarser mesh) is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Mesh partitioned for 64 subdomains.
The figure shows the circular cuts produced by the partitioner. Despite the high spatial variability of the mesh, the partitions appear to be well-shaped.

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Free Software SupporterIssue 64, July 2013
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- FSF, other groups join EFF to sue NSA over unconstitutional surveillance
- Donate to Replicant and support free software on mobile devices
- New Internationalist adopts DRM-free label and over 50 others added to the DRM-free Guide
- Windows 8: PRISM Edition
- Introducing the Licensing team summer intern: Vinay Kumar Singh
- Introducing Sankha, summer campaigns intern
- Will Ubuntu Edge commit to using only free software?
- Cancel Netflix if you value freedom
- Customers streaming away from Netflix
- A distress call from a company threatened by a patent troll
- Interview with Shiv Shankar Dayal of Kunjika
- RMS in San Miguel, El Salvador - "Gone Fishin"
- May 2013 - Ciudad Madero, Mexico - RMS at the ITCM
- Richard Stallman becomes a Hall-of-Famer
- New Snowden leak: Storing your data at Microsoft is negligent
- German Parliament elections: The parties' positions on free software
- For the first time in France, the Parliament passes legislation that gives priority to free software
- MediaGoblin 0.4.1 (bugfix release)
- Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
- LibrePlanet featured resource: Defective By Design's DRM FAQ
- GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 32 new GNU releases!
- GNU Toolchain Update
- Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
- Thank GNUs!
- Take action with the FSF!
FSF, other groups join EFF to sue NSA over unconstitutional surveillanceFrom July 16th
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has joined eighteen other activist and advocacy organizations in challenging the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance of telecommunications in the United States with a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Donate to Replicant and support free software on mobile devicesFrom July 26th
The FSF launched a fundraising initiative for Replicant, a fully free Android distribution and the first mobile operating system (OS) to run without relying on proprietary system code.
- https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-launches-fundraising-program-for-replicant-the-fully-free-android-based-mobile-os
New Internationalist adopts DRM-free label and over 50 others added to the DRM-free GuideFrom July 26th
The Guide to DRM-free Living is consistently one of the most comprehensive and sought out resources of the Defective by Design campaign. Since the last major overhaul of the Guide, readers like you have helped us add over fifty new listings and we've even added new subsections.
Windows 8: PRISM EditionFrom July 25th
Microsoft is intercepting your stuff and sending it to the NSA (and the CIA and the FBI). This post offers suggestions on how to avoid surveillance, such as encrypting email, switching to GNU/Linux, and a full congressional investigation.
Introducing the Licensing team summer intern: Vinay Kumar SinghFrom July 25th
Vinay Kumar Singh recently started working at the FSF as this summer's licensing intern. In this post, he writes about what brought him to free software, and the goals for his internship.
Introducing Sankha, summer campaigns internFrom June 28th
Sankha Narayan Guria recently started as this summer's campaigns team intern. In this post, he writes about his experiences in free software activism and development.
Will Ubuntu Edge commit to using only free software?From July 25th
With $32 million to spend, will Canonical and Ubuntu commit to software freedom as the foundational design principle?
Cancel Netflix if you value freedomFrom July 12th
What does Netflix's proposal to squeeze support for Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into the HTML standard mean for you as a free software user?
Customers streaming away from NetflixFrom July 3rd
Remember Turn off the TV Week? This summer, we have an even better reason to spend less time in front of a screen: Netflix is collaborating with the World Wide Web Consortium to destroy Web freedom.
A distress call from a company threatened by a patent trollFrom July 11th
The FSF recently received a message from a software company in the legislative sights of the notorious patent troll NeoMedia Technologies. The company's lawyer, Charles Kramer, asked us to share a message with our supporters.
Interview with Shiv Shankar Dayal of KunjikaFrom July 19th
This is the latest installment of our Licensing and Compliance Lab's series on free software developers who choose GNU licenses for their works. In this edition, we interviewed Shiv Shankar Dayal, the developer of Kunjika, an extensible web-based Q&A system.
RMS in San Miguel, El Salvador - "Gone Fishin"From July 19
RMS was at the hotel Tropico Inn, in San Miguel, El Salvador, on June 5th, 2013, to deliver his speech "Copyright vs. Community," at the first Congreso Latinoamericano de Informática y Comunicaciones.
May 2013 - Ciudad Madero, Mexico - RMS at the ITCMFrom July 18th
RMS was in the Gran Salón of the Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero, in Ciudad Madero, Mexico, on May 29th, 2013, to deliver his speech "El movimiento del software libre," to an audience of more than 850 people.
Richard Stallman becomes a Hall-of-FamerFrom June 26th
Free Software Foundation founder and president Richard Stallman was inducted into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of other visionaries like Aaron Swartz, Jimmy Wales, and John Perry Barlow, who have all made significant contributions to the advancement of the global Internet.
New Snowden leak: Storing your data at Microsoft is negligentBy FSF Europe, from July 12th
In light of the recent revelations regarding Microsoft and the NSA's Prism program, how can free software activists promote online privacy?
German Parliament elections: The parties' positions on free softwareBy FSF Europe, from July 3rd
The Free Software Foundation Europe published its free software related election questions for this fall's elections to the German parliament, which will take place on September 22.
For the first time in France, the Parliament passes legislation that gives priority to free softwareBy April, from July 9th
The French Parliament wrote into law the first instance of free software priority in a public service, by adopting the Bill on Higher Education and Research.
MediaGoblin 0.4.1 (bugfix release)By Chris Webber of MediaGoblin, from July 10th
The MediaGoblin project has pushed out a bugfix release closely following 0.4.0: Hall of the Archivist. Users running 0.4.0 are encouraged to switch over to take advantage of several fixes.
Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software DirectoryFrom July 31th
Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions to version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing. The Free Software Directory has been a great resource to software users over the past decade, but it needs your help staying up-to-date with new and exciting free software projects.
To help, join our weekly IRC meetings on Fridays. Meetings take place in the #fsf channel on irc.gnu.org, and usually include a handful of regulars as well as newcomers. Everyone's welcome.
The next meeting is Friday, August 2nd from 2pm to 5pm EDT (18:00 to 21:00 UTC). Details here:
https://www.fsf.org/events to see the rest of August's weekly meetings as they are scheduled.
LibrePlanet featured resource: Defective By Design's DRM FAQEvery month on LibrePlanet, we highlight one resource that is interesting and useful -- often one that could use your help.
For this month, we are highlighting the Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) Frequently Asked Questions list put together by the Defective by Design campaign and is a collaboration among anti-DRM activists to develop introductory materials on why DRM is a threat to computing freedom. You are invited to adopt, spread and improve this important resource.
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 32 new GNU releases!32 new GNU releases this month (as of July 28, 2013):
- autogen-5.18
- bison-3.0
- ddrescue-1.17
- denemo-1.0.4
- freeipmi-1.2.9
- gettext-0.18.3
- glpk-4.52
- gnuhealth-2.0.0
- gnupg-1.4.14
- gsl-1.16
- gsrc-2013.07.06
- guile-sdl-0.5.0
- gvpe-2.25
- help2man-1.43.3
- jacal-1c3
- libextractor-1.1
- libgcrypt-1.5.3
- libidn-1.28
- libmicrohttpd-0.9.28
- libobjc2-1.7
- libzrtpcpp-2.3.4
- linux-libre-3.10-gnu
- lsh-2.1
- ocrad-0.22
- parallel-20130722
- pspp-0.8.0a
- scm-5f1
- slib-3b4
- ucommon-6.0.6
- units-2.02
- unrtf-0.21.5
- wb-2b2
I'd like to welcome Gaganjyot as the new maintainer of Dr. Geo, Avneet Kaur as the new maintainer of GNU libffcall, and Thad Meyer as the new maintainer of GNU rottlog, as well as Pratik Bhoir as a new-comaintainer for GNU gnats. Thanks everyone.
The GNU Hackers Meeting for 2013 is scheduled to take place from August 22 to August 25 in Paris, France. More information at https://www.gnu.org/ghm/2013/paris/.
A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to the GNU operating system, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
As always, please feel free to write to me, firstname.lastname@example.com, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.
GNU Toolchain updateBy Nick Clifton, from July 29th
The GNU toolchain refers to the part of the GNU system which is used for building programs. These components of GNU are together often on other systems and for compiling programs for other platforms.
Read about updates to NEWLIB, GCC, and more.
Richard Stallman's speaking scheduleFor event details, as well as to sign-up to be notified for future events in your area, please visit https://www.fsf.org/events.
So far, Richard Stallman has the following events in August:
- Aug 03, 2013 06:00 PM, Berlin, Germany, Richard Stallman inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
- Aug 05, 2013 07:00 PM, New York City, NY, Free Software and your freedom
Other FSF and free software events
- Aug 01, 2013 09:00 AM to Aug 08, 2013 05:00 PM, Brno, Czech Republic, GUADEC 2013
- Aug 22, 2013 09:00 AM to Aug 25, 2013 12:00 PM, Paris, France, GNU Hackers Meeting 2013
- Sept 27, 2013 12:00 AM to 11:55 PM, Worldwide, Happy 30th Birthday, GNU!
Thank GNUs!We appreciate everyone who donates to the Free Software Foundation, but we'd like to give special recognition to the folks who have donated $500 or more in the last month.
- Roland H. Pesch
- Jason Francis
- Antonio Carzaniga
- Mridul Muralidharan
- Sebastian Spaeth
- David Johnson
- Andrew Reid
Take action with the FSFContributions from thousands of individual members enable the FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at https://www.fsf.org/join. If you're already a member, you can help refer new members (and earn some rewards) by adding a line with your member number to your email signature like:
I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom! https://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=2442
The FSF is also always looking for volunteers (https://www.fsf.org/volunteer). From rabble-rousing to hacking, from issue coordination to envelope stuffing -- there's something here for everybody to do. Also, head over to our campaign section (https://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and take action on software patents, DRM, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA and more.
#Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.


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Well, the world didn't end, but it's still in a right old state, and isn't music the very best of comforts and the most comforting of distractions? I've had a special little moment with every one of these songs in 2012. I'll wax lyrical on the top ten when we get there, and what a ten it is. Here's the Spotify playlist, and here's the rundown from 50…
25. Caotico – Gold
24. Everything Everything – Cough Cough
23. Josephine Foster – Blood Rushing
22. Twin Shadow – Five Seconds
21. Krystal Klear – From The Start
20. Alex Winston – Medicine
19. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
18. Perfume Genius – Floating Spit
17. Phantogram – Don't Move
16. John Talabot – Missing You
15. Bright Moments – Drifters
14. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop - feat. Wanz
13. Friends – A Thing Like This
12. The Child of Lov – Heal
11. Orbital – One Big Moment
And the top 10…
10. Kitty Pryde – Okay Cupid
'Get out my rooooom….!' A super late entry from Ms Pryde and her girlish, lolloping gem of a single. It didn't occur to me until about my tenth listen that this was rap. I've been so brainwashed into thinking rap belongs entirely to hip-hop but here's Kitty to prove otherwise. Lyrically, this might be favourite thing on the list. Just listen:
'Lordy, shorty, you're a 10 and I wait for your drunk dials at 3:30 am, I love them.
So call me sober when you're ready, not goin' steady, but babe I planned our wedding already'
9. Todd Terje – Inspector Norse
Everybody loves this track, how could they not? It's Bentley Rhythm Ace and The Clangers for a generation reared on Aeroplane mixes. Terje's amazing instrumental shows there are other ways to be uplifting without having crashing great crescendos everywhere. And just when you think you're in the groove with it, at three minutes thirty that weird hummmmmm bottoms out and makes you want to do all the messy things in the world. Out and out magic.
8. Grimes – Genesis
She's the Enya you can dance to. That's a good thing, by the way. I nearly chose 'Oblivion' or 'Be A Body', the album is choc-full of these little masterpieces, but 'Genesis' neatly represents everything she's best at. The Enya's really kick in just shy of a minute but then it gives way to that amazing beat... An electronic masterclass.
7. Mykki Blanco & Brenmar – Wavvy
The queering of hip-hop continues apace. Mykki Blanco is not just an artist who happens to be gay either, there is full-on sexual potency and radical drag at the heart of his material. This addictive track is actually trad hip-hop in lots of ways, the me-me-me vibes are intact and the production could be a 50 Cent record, but just listen to those words:
'I pimp slap you bitch niggas with my limp wrist, bro
What the fuck I gotta prove to a room full of dudes
Who ain't listening to my words cuz they staring at my shoes…'
Come out Missy Elliott, it's lovely out here.
6. Girls Aloud – On The Metro
Comeback single 'Something New' was just clearing the decks for this knowing, rollicking bullet of a track. Great pop can usually eclipse whoever is actually singing it, and this would have been just as good in the hands of anyone from Mini Viva to Kylie, but the fact Cheryl at the very least might have actually cried on the Metro adds some charming veracity to the whole affair.
5. Sleigh Bells – Comeback Kid
I didn't really know or mind what Sleigh Bells were going to do next, but this piece of massive Ratatat-meets-Stars buzz-saw gutter pop turned into my favourite ever track of theirs. Drunk air-guitaring to this became a brilliant thing for me this year, it's in my repertoire forever.
4. iamamiwhoami – Goods
Kate Bush's influence seems to be all over the place this year (Alex Winston, Grimes) and nowhere is it more obvious than on the weird helium-and-trill vocals of this track, so it might take you a while to realise you are in the middle of the best dance song of 2012. Jonna Lee's iamamiwhoami project has delivered something astonishingly good in the Kin album. Not a shabby moment on it.
3. Haim – Forever
Perfect guitar pop record. I've been falling in love to and with this song since the summer. It might turn out to be one of those golden one-hit moments a la Wilson Philips but right now it sounds like the greatest reason in the world to grow your hair and cycle round town with your sisters. The Lindstrom and Prins Thomas re-work was one of my favourite mixes of the year too.
2. Solange – Losing You
Her most sensational output since 'Sandcastle Disco', nobody has quite put their finger on why this track is so great, so perfect in fact. Every botched description I've read in the press has put it further out of reach. It's a sad song first off, all my favourite songs are, but it sounds like she's at a block party, and the weird dissonance between the two is a pop trick worthy of Prince. It's quite simply brilliant. You can stop mentioning the B-word now.
1. Winhill/Losehill – Tell Her She's The Light Of The World
It's fate and only fate that a band that just rolled up in my 'recommended listening' one day has had such a lasting impact on me. This video was the first thing I heard from Sweden's Winhill/Losehill and it was love at first listen. 'Tell Her She's The Light Of The World' isn't just my song of the year, their album Swing Of Sorrow is the most perfectly realised and moving set of songs I have heard in ages. From the opening ten seconds of silence, to 'Karin's Hymn' where a mournful cello drops out of the sky like a Lancaster Bomber, to the perfect happy/sad Neil Young-esque 'The House Is Black' and 'Long Way To Next Stop', to the brilliantly funny Beirut-style stomper 'I Leave You 'Cause I Don't Care', this sounds like a band at the absolute peak of their vision, and it's only a debut. Song, band, and album of 2012.
Postscript and Interview
I was so possessed by wanting to know where this kind of songwriting can come from, and getting tired of reading badly Google-translated interviews in Swedish, that I tracked down the band myself and asked them some questions. Here's what they told me:
The music for this album was written under a terrible cloud of sadness around Jonas' mother's illness and subsequent passing. Is it important for listeners to know about these unusually fraught circumstances, or are you happy for the album to stand alone?
JONAS - I hope it can stand alone without the listeners necessarily knowing about all that. I mean, those things are the reasons we came together to make the record so of course it's really important for us, but my impression is that anyone who has been through something similar, like the loss of a loved one or any form of painful breakup, can catch up on that just from relating to the songs in themselves.
The band name comes from a place near to me, just over in Derbyshire, where Jonas visited as a youth. What are your memories of England, and have you or any of the band ever been to Manchester?
JONAS – One of my memories is walking in the mountains just outside of Hope village; the landscapes were very inspiring and beautiful. The strongest memory though is the music I experienced and learned during my stay at a folk music camp. English folk music has definitely been an inspiration for Swing of Sorrow. Unfortunately though, I've never been to Manchester.
CARL – Many members of the band have been to the UK and we'd obviously love to come play there soon, especially in a music city like Manchester!
Where does the album title Swing Of Sorrow come from?
CARL - The short answer is that 'back in your wild swing of sorrow love' is the first line in 'Don't let the inside shine out'. But Swing of Sorrow was also the working title for another song way back, which we eventually changed. When we were to decide on an album title it suddenly came back to us. Partly because we felt that all the mood swings we'd been through during the grieving process was exactly that, a swing of sorrow. And partly because of the musical reference, a way of tying grief and music together.
What makes this record so special for me is that there are moments of terrible melancholy offset by a wonderful sense of elation and hope. Is that a fair assessment of your intentions?
JONAS - I find it hard to define intentions like that, composing is just so much more intuitive to me, but it's definitely a really beautiful and flattering assessment of how one can receive our music.
Some artists revel in abstraction, such as Bon Iver, and that can work really well. Your writing seems to be the opposite, there's a concern that the listener understands exactly what you intend. For instance the line, 'In these songs I have tried to make it clear: whenever she is close there is no fear', is one of my favourite moments. I find that frankness and lack of irony really moving. Is that an accurate description for what your music is trying to achieve?
CARL - I believe that sometimes a straight line like that can be the best way to say something complicated, and sometimes a queer abstraction is necessary to say the simplest thing. We're really into writing songs and telling stories that matter to ourselves in ways that move the listener and I wouldn't want to avoid any methods of writing to achieve that. We write for ourselves and for strangers, so to speak.
In the rest of Europe and America, Swedish music seems to fall in and out of fashion from time to time (see also Canadian music). Would you consider yourself part of a 'scene', and do you think it's a help or a hindrance?
JONAS - I wouldn't really say we're part of a scene in that way. Of course there are some bands that we feel related to musically, but that's sort of independent of time and space, and some bands that are our friends, but that's mostly being from Umeå and having known each other from way back.
'Karin's Hymn' is one of the loveliest instrumental pieces I've heard in years. Are you classically trained musicians, and do you differentiate between using one type of instrument and another when you're making music for the band?
JONAS - Thank you so much. Writing that piece was a truly proud moment for me as a composer and one of the songs I remember playing on the piano for my mother while she was sick. Writing music to record and playing music live are two very different things to me and I try to think as little as possible of the practical circumstances and different levels of training of the musicians when I'm writing, so that the creative process can be as free as possible.
CARL – As far as the band is concerned, everybody comes from really different backgrounds with various degrees of having studied or worked with music, but we've all been playing together in different constellations since about high school.
What's great about living in Sweden, and wuld you ever consider living anywhere else?
CARL - What's great is the few remains of the welfare state, but that's unfortunately being dismantled more and more for every day. If things don't change for the better soon, maybe we'll have to consider going into exile: preferably somewhere a bit warmer, less racist and more fair. Where is that again?
JONAS - The musical climate in Sweden is often very warm and supportive and it has helped me and the band a lot in the creation of Swing of Sorrow to have the kind of support we've had from other musicians, teachers, institutions and people around us.
I can hear so many diverse influences in the music (some that may not even be there), such as Neil Young, Beirut, P:ano… Who really does influence you as musicians and songwriters?
JONAS – Me and my co-producer Henrik Nybom (also the band's drummer) were listening a lot to classical composers while arranging and recording Swing of Sorrow, for example Igor Stravinsky and György Ligeti. Rufus Wainwright and Frank Zappa are two other important influences.
CARL – From those you mentioned, I've taken more interest in Neil Young again just recently, when it comes to writing lyrics. But during the work with Swing of Sorrow, and in general, I really find the most inspiration in writers and poets rather than songwriters. Lyn Hejinian, Forough Farrokhzad and Marguerite Duras for example.
JONAS - And in the end, just hanging around together is probably the most inspiring for all of us!
What new music have you enjoyed this year?
JONAS - Just the other day I discovered Sufjan Stevens latest Christmas-album which gave me a joyful feeling that'll hopefully stick during the holidays. My greatest musical experience this year was definitely Bon Iver's perfomance at Way Out West in Gothenburg last summer, which was one of the greatest experiences of my life, all categories.
CARL - It's been a such a good year for new music I think, it's really hard to choose. But Cat Power was really great, as well as Patti Smith and Rufus Wainwright. And I'd say some of the songs on Psychedelic Pill are among the best Neil Young's ever written.
What's next for the band, and when can we see you play?
JONAS - Well, we're back to writing new material of course, and we're really looking forward to play at By:Larm in Oslo in February, our first gig outside of Sweden!


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Begun with a frustration on the lack of technical public information on ADS-B and Mode-S in the year 2015, I created a live online document to record my understanding of ADS-B data. Previously, this was known as "ADS-B Decoding Guide" project. Together with the tutorial, we also developed its related Python library, the pyModeS. With time, I received many feedbacks, compliments, and contributions from open-source community users.
Since the beginning of 2017, the interests of tapping into Mode-S Enhanced Surveillance (EHS) data brought us a whole new chapter of Mode-S inference and decoding into the pyModeS. This also enriches the "ADS-B" guide. With the advance in this area, I am planning to compile a more comprehensive online book to cover both ADS-B and Mode-S decoding and related topic.
That's the starting of this new repository. I am also starting to host the online book on my own server to allow more flexibility of editing and publishing. You can read the most up-to-date book on mode-s.org.
Oh, it is still GNU GPL. It was great to see the pull requests from different contributors previously. I am looking forward to seeing more comments and pulls from the community. Enjoy!
This guide document is shared on GitHub and mode-s.org. Please feel free to help us improving it.
Links to this guide document:
(Rst source) https://github.com/junzis/the-1090mhz-riddle
(Live book) http://mode-s.org
You can download the pyModeS tool from GitHub, which is a Python implementation of all (and more) message types described here:
(GitHub) https://github.com/junzis/pyModeS
From TU Delft:
Junzi Sun, PhD Candidate, TU Delft
Huy Vû, Master Student, TU Delft
Jacco Hoekstra, Prof.dr.ir, TU Delft
Joost EllerBroek, Dr.ir, TU Delft
From GitHub community:
Since the start of the this project, I have received many questions by email. However, the best way to post your questions is using the GitHub Issues. This way, your questions and my answers can help others as well:
Related with this book: https://github.com/junzis/the-1090mhz-riddle/issues
Related with pyModeS: https://github.com/junzis/pyModes/issues
Anyhow, still feel free to drop me a messages at: j.sun-1[at]tudelft.nl
Technical Provisions for Mode S Services and Extended Squitter. International Civil Aviation Organization, 2008.
Technical Provisions for Mode S Services and Extended Squitter, 2nd Edition. International Civil Aviation Organization, 2012.
Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, Aeronautical Telecommunications. International Civil Aviation Organization, 2002.
Minimum Operational Performance Standards for 1090 MHz Extended Squitter (DO-260B), RTCA, 2009
Elementary surveillance (els) and enhanced surveillance (ehs) validation via mode s secondary radar surveillance, Project Report ATC-337, Lincoln Lab., MIT, 2008.
Fundamentals of mode s parity coding, tech. rep., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, 1984.


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Experience Diana Krall's All For You on XRCD24 as you've never heard it before! Diana Krall's voice sounds fuller, richer and softer on this 24bit refined digital XRCD24!
All For You is Diana Krall's Grammy-nominated salute to a longtime musical role model, the legendary jazz pianist/vocalist Nat King Cole. The album captures the essence of the Cole trio's arrangements through Krall's sultry vocals and refined piano - she is featured in an appropriately unadorned trio setting with sidemen guitarist Russell Malone and bassist Paul Keller. This album, a perfectly-crafted artistic vision, casts new light on classic songs with soul, heart and intelligence.
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Diana Krall, piano, lead vocal
Russell Malone, guitar
Paul Keller, bass
Benny Green, piano (12)
Steve Kroon, percussion (5)
1. I'm An Errand Girl for Rhythm
2. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
3. You Call It Madness
4. Frim Fram Sauce
5. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
6. Baby Baby All the Time
7. Hit That Jive Jack
8. You're Looking At Me
9. I'm Thru With Love
10. Deed I Do
11. A Blossom Fell
12. If I Had You
13. When I Grow Too Old To Dream
"Brothers In Arms" was pretty much the success story of the 80's and was primarily fuelled by a slate of huge hit singles like the classic "Money For Nothing", "Walk Of Life" and "So Far Away". Obviously the production and Mark Knopfler's superlative guitar playing are exemplary as usual. Dette er en Hybrid SACD version dvs. cd'en kan også spilles på almindelige cd afspillere.
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One of the best sounding XRCDs featuring Female Vocals! Includes Alison Krauss, Jheena Lodwick, Eva Cassidy, Carol Kidd, Jane Monheit and more! This Hong Kong imported xrcd2 from the Premium label contains more than a dozen wonderful tracks from female vocalists famous for their music. The recording was very well done and the selections emphasize ballads to bring out the best in the artists.


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The Prosperity Special was a train that left a total of 24 Baldwin locomotives, part of a 50s order, until 27 May 1922. They came west from the Baldwin locomotive to East St. Louis and took the cotton belt line across Texas and was transferred to El Paso on SP tracks.
Thousands of spectators lined the tracks to see an almost half-mile long train, made up of new locomotives that left the country to California. A large signboard was built on the lead locomotive, The Prosperity Special & # 39 ;.
The special arrived at the beginning of the year in Taylor Yard in Los Angeles. Half of the locomotives would remain here and lead heavy goods across the Beaumont Hill and the Tehachapi Pass, the rest of the locomotives went to Sacramento for duty across the Sierra Nevadas, the train stopped to take water before the descent In Bakersfield and the journey into the valley to their new home in Sacramento
A few years ago I took this picture of the completed 50 in Eddystone, Pennsylvania: http: //justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/02/baldwin-locomotive-works-1922.html and had zero idea of what it was
Thanks Steve!
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Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Poland outlasted USA in a close match on Opening Day of the NBC10 Newport International Polo Series XXVII, presented by BMW, which began on Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 at 5pm. The exhilarating match ended with a score of 7-6, and Poland took home the trophy in their debut match of the Newport International Polo Series.
A ceremonial raising of the flag of Poland and national anthems followed the introduction of players. Wearing red for Poland in the #1 position was Mariana Olbrych, with Jakub Czekaj at #2, Maciej Olbrych at #3, and Pawel Olbrych at #4.
Representing USA was Minnie Keating in the #1 position, with Sam Clemens at #2, Rory Torrey at #3, and Peter Friedman at #4.
USA led the charge to open the match with the first goal scored by Torrey in the first chukka. Czekaj replied with a goal for Poland, and the first chukka ended tied at 1-1. The second chukka began with a similar pattern, as Clemens scored next for USA, followed by a goal from Mariana Olbrych to even the score at 2-2. Team Poland pulled ahead by the end of the second chukka with another goal scored by Maciej Olbrych, and took the lead for the first time, 3-2. Torrey and Maciej Olbrych individually posted their second goals of the match in the third chukka, to end the first half with Poland leading by a score of 4-3.
Torrey scored three consecutive goals to put USA in a two-goal lead at the beginning of the fourth chukka. Czekaj responded with a goal for Poland, and closed the gap to a one-goal lead by team USA at the end of the fourth chukka. The fifth chukka was a draw, as neither team was able to score. Mariana Olbrych tied the match with a goal at the beginning of the sixth chukka. Although the match was tied 6-6 during the sixth chukka, Czekaj secured a win for Poland by scoring the final goal of the match, and Poland outlasted USA with a final score of 7-6.
During the match, a lucky lady from Franklin Massachusetts won a magnum of Veuve Clicquot Champagne in the weekly door prize drawing. An extravagant tailgate party in spaces 27 & 28, wowed the judges with the National Flag of Poland, and red and white decorations throughout their tailgate spaces to claim the Stella Artois Best Tailgate Prize Package. The festive party goers even dressed in red and white to show their support for team Poland. Specialty vendors and concessionaires were present in the Hospitality village at the polo grounds, and included the Twisted Pony Cocktail Bar, Horseshoe Wine Bar, Newport Polo Pro Shop, Brahmin, Flint & Flame and gourmet food trucks.
After 6 chukkas, the match concluded with the Veuve Clicquot Champagne Toast & Trophy Presentation, as well as an autograph signing to meet the players. The USA vs. Poland Perpetual Trophy was presented by Mark Fischer, the General Manager of Hotel Viking, Official Headquarters of Team Poland. The evening concluded with an Après Polo Bialowieza Forest Boar Roast to celebrate Poland's win with traditional and savory foods native to Poland.
While in Newport, the Poland Team enjoyed many of the best attractions and highlights in the City by the Sea, including hospitality by Hotel Viking, team lodging sponsor; ROCKSTAR LIMO for ground transportation; Newport Helicopter Tours for aerial tours; Newport Mansion tours; America's Cup Charters for a glorious sunset sail; Sightseeing courtesy of Scooter World; Tennis on the legendary grass courts of the International Tennis Hall of Fame; Paddle boarding with Island Surf and Sport; cocktails & dancing at the Season Kickoff Bash on the eve of the match at the one and only Clarke Cooke House, and all the great goings on in the City by the Sea.
The origins of polo in Poland date back to the late 19th century when a family of Polish aristocrats established a team at their Lancut estate and traveled Central Europe competing against teams in Austria, Hungary, and Germany. In the early 1920's, the game was adopted by the Polish cavalry. The World Wars left a long wake of struggle for the nation and its sports and leisure. Polo re-emerged in 2002 and today there are seven hubs for the sport around the country, including arena polo, snow polo, and traditional grass polo! The Polish national team participated in the FIP European Championship in 2016, and used their experiences to plan their strategy for 2018.
This is the 27th season of Newport International Polo Series, which has hosted teams from over 30 nations including, Ireland, Germany, Spain, England, Argentina, France, Egypt, India, Australia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Canada, Chile, Jamaica, Nigeria, Portugal, New Zealand, Barbados, Scotland, South Africa, Hungary, Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Kenya, Brazil, China, Italy, Mexico, Sweden, Singapore, Monaco, Morocco, Peru and Poland making its debut.
Minutes from downtown Newport, the International Polo Grounds are located at historic Glen Farm, 250 Linden Lane (off of Rte. 138) in Portsmouth, RI. This bucolic setting is the last 100 acres of what was once a 700-acre manorial farm whose settlement dates back to the 1600's. Its classical stone barns from the Gilded Age and its park-like grounds were rehabilitated by polo series founder, Dan Keating, and thrive today as an equestrian & community recreational property, and home of the Polo Series.
The Newport International Polo Series is proud to present its 2018 sponsors including Gallo Thomas Insurance, NBC - 10, BMW Centers of Rhode Island, Grace Hotels, Gurney's Newport Resort & Marina, Hotel Viking, Vanderbilt International Properties, The Chanler at Cliffwalk, Veuve Clicquot Champagne, Brahmin, Clarke Cooke House, Flint & Flame, Rockstar Limo, Stella Artois, Newport Daily News, Where Boston, Atria Senior Living, Goslings Rum, The Hermitage Club and promotional partners including International Tennis Hall of Fame, America's Cup Charters, Newport Helicopter Tours, The Cocktail Guru, Newport Mansions, Island Surf and Sport, McGrath Clambakes and Scooter World. "Our sponsors have been with us since the beginning. Without their support, the Series would not be as extensive as it is," explains Dan Keating, Polo Series founder.
There's no sport like polo. Be a part of it! Newport Polo hosts the Newport International Polo Series XXVII, and is the home of America's first polo club, est. in 1876, offering public exhibition matches, polo club member services for grass & arena polo, and polo instruction year-round; founding member of the United States Polo Association.


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Going to the Public Service Career Fair on February 6? Not Sure How You Can Prepare? Check Out These Table Talk Tips & Career Fair Interviewing Tips!
Attention all students! Planning on attending the NW Public Service Career Fair? Whether you have an official interview or not, don't miss your chance to do table talk (informational interviews) the morning of the fair. Remember, organizations and agencies participate in table talk because it is an effective prescreening tool to recruit interns. There have been many instances where students were successful in securing internships through table talk so don't miss out! Center for Public Service Law staff will be at the fair for support and advice
See employers registered for Seattle
When: Friday, February 6, 2015
10-10:30—Student & Employer Check-in
10:30-12 noon—Table Talk
12:40-5:00pm – Pre-scheduled Interviews
Where: LeRoux in the Student Center at Seattle University
Whether you've got an official interview lined up or not NW Public Interest Career Fair, here are some helpful tips to guide you on being a savvy table talker or interviewee.
Read more about table talk tips here.
Read more about career fair interviewing tips here.
Forget to register for the NW Public Interest Career Fair? You can still register here. View a sample list of participating employers this year here.
Don't miss this opportunity! Make sure to register for new online Racial Justice Training Institute trainings
With recent events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and elsewhere, our nation is at a pivotal moment in understanding and addressing issues of race, implicit bias, and the structural barriers that marginalize communities of color. It is more important than ever for equal justice advocates to refocus their efforts to affirmatively advance racial equity.
Following the success of the inaugural 2014 Racial Justice Training Institute, the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is pleased to announce the 2015 Racial Justice Training Institute. By placing the most up-to-date racial justice tools in the hands of front line advocates, the Institute provides real opportunities to address the impacts of structural racialization and ensure that race is front and center in our efforts to eradicate poverty in the communities we serve.
The Institute will cover a wide range of equity best practices ranging from traditional litigation and policy advocacy, to media and messaging, to the latest debiasing strategies. Working in teams, and with support from skilled faculty and facilitators, participants will use new racial justice knowledge and skills in their daily work and in the race-equity initiatives that teams will pursue throughout the Institute.
Taking place over six months (June—November 2015), the Institute includes three parts:
PART 1: Online (June 1—June 19, 2015)
PART 2: Onsite in Chicago (June 23-26, 2015)
PART 3: Online (July – November 2015)
Up to 35 advocates will be selected for the second Institute cohort based on a variety of factors, including experience, interest, goals, capacity, and racial and geographic diversity.
Learn more about the Racial Justice Training Institute
Application Deadline: February 27, 2015
Get your your materials ready for the 2015 Law Student Legal Writing Competition!
Open to all students currently enrolled in an ABA Accredited Law School.
Papers should address any legal issue regarding affordable housing and/or community development law.
Submission Requirements:
Entries must be original, unpublished work. Articles should be between 25-50 double-spaced pages and should include footnotes in Bluebook format. There is no entry form of any kind. Articles should be submitted in Word format. All author-identifying information should be removed from the article. A separate title page should be attached and must contain the article's title, the student's name, and the student's contact information including street address, phone number(s), and email address.
Submissions will be blindly evaluated by a committee of Forum members. A single winning paper, as judged by the selection committee, will be awarded a prize of $1,000 and a trip to attend the Forum's Annual Conference, May 20-22, 2015, in Washington, D.C., airfare and lodging included*. The winner is responsible for any taxes on fair market value of full award, including travel, registration and lodging. Winner will be required to submit a completed 1099 as a condition of receiving award. The decision of the judges is final.
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Belizean cuisine is a smorgasbord of all the ethnicities in the country and their variety of food. As such there's a wide spectrum of flavors to experience every time you sit and chow down on Belizean food. Breakfast can comprise of homemade bread and tortillas, while lunch and dinner can involve curries, beans and rice, stewed chicken and vegetable soups. Belizeans also eat more chicken and fish than any other type of meat. This is why a Belizean restaurant is often thought of as a seafood restaurant.
At Belizean Paradise Cuisine, we strive to offer the best food that Belize has to offer. We highly recommend our curry fish and shrimp! You can have one of the best seafood dining experiences when you visit our restaurant. Of course, you can enjoy other staples of Central American cuisine.
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See Sansa Stark as a psychic mutant in X-Men: Apocalypse
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Sophie Turner the British actress who portrays Game of Thrones' Sansa Stark is swapping medieval-style fantasy for mutant sci-fi. Turner is set to play powerful psychic Jean Grey in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse, appearing for the first time alongside fellow mutant Jubilee, played by Lana Condor, in a picture shared on director Bryan Singer's Instagram account.
It's been reported that the new movie, which follows X-Men: First Class and last year's Days of Future Past, is at least partially set in 1983, and Singer looks keen to evoke the fashion of the era. The first pictures of teleporting mutant Nightcrawler appeared earlier this week, showing the blue-skinned mutant sporting a clothing combo that Michael J. Fox's Teen Wolf might…


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How to Properly Use a Weed Trimmer
A weed trimmer, like any garden tool, can make you more efficient if you use it properly. Safety is important, and a steady hand and quick eye will help you get the job done.
Be safe. Wear eye protection at all times. Weed trimmers cause grass, debris, rocks, sticks and anything else in their way to fly up and out, and you can easily be hit in the face and sustain eye injury if you do not wear safety glasses. Never use a weed trimmer when children are in the area. Never try to fix the head of a weed trimmer when the engine is running.
Keep the line short so that it does not extend past the guard on the head of the weed trimmer. Longer line will damage the guard and will create too much strain on the engine of the weed trimmer, which can cause it to burn up.
Keep one hand on the handle and one hand on the shaft of the trimmer to provide the greatest amount of control.
Use a shoulder strap for support, so that you're not taking all the weight and vibration in your hands as you use the weed trimmer. Shoulder straps clip onto the shaft of the trimmer and loop around one shoulder so you can distribute the weight of the trimmer as you use it. It reduces user fatigue.
Keep the throttle in the middle range. If you don't squeeze hard enough, you won't have enough power to turn the line fast enough to do the job. If you throttle too much, you may not be able to control the machine and you can burn the engine out faster.
Swing the head of the trimmer with a slow, smooth motion in an arc in front of you. Move the trimmer forward and step forward to cover more ground. Always look behind and to your sides before turning and using the trimmer behind you, to be sure you won't hit any obstacles.
Watch for hidden obstacles, such as wires, fence posts, metal poles, large rocks or bricks; a weed trimmer isn't powerful enough to eat through these objects and will bounce back upon contact, which can cause injury. Keep a wary eye out, and if you see an obstacle, turn off the trimmer, set it down, remove the obstacle, then resume use.
Always wear eye protection. Never modify the guard on a weed trimmer; doing so can result in injury and create too much strain on the engine, causing it to burn out. Never allow children to play with or use a weed trimmer, and never use a weed trimmer when children are nearby.
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- Always wear eye protection.
- Never modify the guard on a weed trimmer; doing so can result in injury and create too much strain on the engine, causing it to burn out.
- Never allow children to play with or use a weed trimmer, and never use a weed trimmer when children are nearby.