“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
~William JamesCorning's highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world ...
A Day Made of Bohemian Glass: Unpacked. The Story Behind Corning's Vision
Meanwhile, here: prominent Harvard Law professor says “rule of law” and “First Amendment” are “almost entirely without content” [David Bernstein on views of Mark Tushnet]
Federal Telework: Better Guidance Could Help Agencies Calculate Benefits and Costs, GAO-16-551: Published: Jul 15, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 1, 2016: “With over 1 million federal employees eligible for telework in 2013, federal agencies are fully engaged in incorporating telework as a standard human capital flexibility.
Janet Novack, Buffett Challenges Trump: I’ll Show My Tax Returns If You’ll Show Yours
The Lawyerist, How to Stay Married to a Lawyer:
Digital disrupts all of society — including politics and public policy
Berlin's Startup Hub Wants To Prove It's More Than Just A Scene
What are the challenges that come with marrying a lawyer and maintaining a happy marriage with a lawyer? Are there special rules or considerations when loving a lawyer?
Berlin's Startup Hub Wants To Prove It's More Than Just A Scene
World Economic Forum: “The report, Risk Mitigation Instruments in Infrastructure: Gap Assessment, offers a framework for institutions to assess gaps in the provision of risk-mitigation instruments and to mobilize much-needed long-term infrastructure investment in emerging and developing economies.
Man may […] be master of his fate, but he has a precious poor servant. It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.
— Hilaire Belloc who will never be able to read about the fate of the Cold River as he died in 1870
Fail Fast: Komedian Glynn Nicholas on Trust, HuMan Konnektion, Laughter essential ingredients for small business success
This small business guy used over 80,000 old photos to create a Google Street map of New York City in the 1800s
China’s Uber rival Didi Chuxing now owns a stake in every major ride-hailing company on Earth Quartz
“I felt like I never said what I really meant to anyone; I was trying to
please everybody. I felt like a coward, and I wanted to break out of
all of that.”~ Quote from an evening walk...
GSK and Google parent forge $715 million bioelectronic medicines firm Reuters
"People here pride themselves on a kind of militant open-mindedness," Manjoo writes. "It is the kind of place that will severely punish any deviations from accepted schools of thought."~Mr. Manjoo and his editor need to read what he writes more attentively.
Two villages either side of the Apurimac River in Peru must rebuild the rope bridge linking their communities every year. You wonder: why don't they build a modern one that lasts? Then you watch the video and you know why. Every year, this scary rope bridge over a river must be replaced
Is the Present Worse Than Any Fictional, Futuristic Dystopia? Vulture
Hour’s activity ‘offsets sedentary day’ BBC
On Tuesday, film industry house organ Variety ran the headline, “Box Office Meltdown: Hollywood Races to Win Back Summer Crowds.”
Debt Collectors’ Abuses Prompt Consumer Agency to Propose New Rules New York Times
There is that platitude in smug work groups: We work hard, we play hard...
Miss South Dakota, a knife and fee sharing — this attorney suspension has everything but the kitchen sink. [Legal Profession Blog]
News from the Profession. Rise of the Robots” – It’s Time for Accountants to Be Afraid (Jim Peterson, Going Concern). “They’ll come first for audit staff, and eat upwards.”
Using legal technology to help low-income Americans get legal services. [Law360]
“Filmmakers, photographers, artists, authors, designers, musicians, and others reported that their project led to professional growth, greater earnings, and career advancement.”
AVC Kickstarter’s Impact On Cold River and Other The Creative Economies
Crowd funding site Kickstarter has helped generate more than $5.3 billion for creators and their communities, according to a new study
Forbes: Woman Sentenced To Jail For Pretending To Be A Tax Attorney, by Kelly Phillips Erb:
Kimberly
Kitchen ... worked as an attorney in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania,
for ten years. There was just one problem: Kitchen was never actually
licensed to practice law.
Behavioural Approaches to Increasing
Diversity Over Lunch
NSW Behavioural Insights CoP, 4/8/16. We have put together a short publication on some of the ways biases can affect decision making in the recruitment process and examples of evidence-based behavioural interventions that could prevent and overcome these biases. These interventions, coupled with structural changes, could help to drive diversity in our workplaces.
NSW Behavioural Insights CoP, 4/8/16. We have put together a short publication on some of the ways biases can affect decision making in the recruitment process and examples of evidence-based behavioural interventions that could prevent and overcome these biases. These interventions, coupled with structural changes, could help to drive diversity in our workplaces.
Judge orders suspect to cover his tattoos with makeup for trial (also a semi-noisy video at that link)
New online literary magazine for artificial intelligence only
“He envisions a society where each person can express himself or herself in a manner that enriches everyone – in the way that an orchestra harnesses the gifts of its members or a potluck becomes more fun when many people bring their signature dish.”
Aeon
“Though the occupation is only expected to grow by 2 percent from 2014 to 2024, many librarians have forgone bookkeeping and cataloging for specializing in multimedia and taking on research- and technology-oriented projects such as digitizing archives.” The Atlantic
*How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Once again, I have run into a law review that has adopted
the convention of using decisionmaking as a one word unhyphenated noun and
adjective. I hate to be pedantic about this, but the Chicago Manual of Style
still says that decision making is an unhyphenated two word compound noun and
a hyphenated two word compound adjective… Decisions Decisions
I ALWAYS WORKED AT LEAST TWO JOBS while going to college. One of the
most interesting was working the midnight shiftat the newspaper in town.
That job entailed getting the newspapers packaged and prepared for
delivery by 3 a.m. to the Post Office. Trust me when I say that most of
my fellow employees for that shiftcame from the "rough and tumble" side
of the community. I decided on the first night that I should just work
hard, keep my head down and not draw attention to myself. Unfortunately,
my work ethic was noticed by the supervisor and he quickly decided on
my first night on the job that I should be the driver of the truck to
deliver the papers at the end of the shift. At the time, I was confident
that it was my work ethic that drew his attention to me. Looking back
years later, I think I was selected to drive the truck because he knew I
was the only one working who held a valid driver's license! He threw me
the keys and loudly instructed three of my friendly fellow employees to
go with Plagge to deliver the papers. As soon as we got outside of the
building, one of those fellow employees told me to throw him the keys
because he was driving. Noting his size, angry demeanor and bulldog leadership style, I quickly decided that he would be an excellent driver and I
threw him the keys. Needless to say, we made it back and forth from the
Post Office in record time. I learned two things that night: first, some
people have a leadership style that is more direct than others, and second, I needed to take college more seriously and get a real job ;-)
-JEFF PLAGGE is president and CEO of Northwest Financial Corp., Arnolds Park, Iowa'
I remember the old fashion ways with fondness ... The internet of things (IoT) refers to the network of interconnected physical devices and equipment, in which those devices are capable of collecting, sending and receiving data autonomously, predominantly via wireless communications
Gartner Says Worldwide IoT Security Spending to Reach $348 Million in 2016
"It's OK to Hold Police to a Higher Standard": Online today at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, "Can police be held to a higher standard than civilians? The Ohio Supreme Court said no last week, in striking down a law that criminalizes sex between a police officer and a minor."
Off-duty cop refused service at McDonald’s in Texas.
Related: Virginia police officer refused service at Noodles & Co.; Two employees fired for their ‘inexcusable actions.’
Following up on yesterday's post, 2016 Google Law Review Rankings:
-JEFF PLAGGE is president and CEO of Northwest Financial Corp., Arnolds Park, Iowa'
I remember the old fashion ways with fondness ... The internet of things (IoT) refers to the network of interconnected physical devices and equipment, in which those devices are capable of collecting, sending and receiving data autonomously, predominantly via wireless communications
Gartner Says Worldwide IoT Security Spending to Reach $348 Million in 2016
"It's OK to Hold Police to a Higher Standard": Online today at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, "Can police be held to a higher standard than civilians? The Ohio Supreme Court said no last week, in striking down a law that criminalizes sex between a police officer and a minor."
Off-duty cop refused service at McDonald’s in Texas.
Related: Virginia police officer refused service at Noodles & Co.; Two employees fired for their ‘inexcusable actions.’
Brian Leiter (Chicago), Annals of "Bullshit" Rankings:
The problem (we've encountered it in philosophy in
the past, but now everyone there knows Google Scholar is worthless for
measuring journal impact) is that there is no control for the volume of
publishing by each journal, so any journal that publishes more pages
and articles per year will do better than a peer journal with the same actual impact that publishes fewer articles and pages.
This rare disease brews beer in your stomach:
Leiter's arguments are (mostly) incorrect. And as my previous posts about Google Scholar were used as part of the ranking, I felt the need to respond. ...
Against Injustice: Corbyn launches his campaign Defend DemocracyAstronauts who reach deep space ‘far more likely to die from heart disease’ Independent
How to Run a Successful Mobile Crowdsourcing Project
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Photographer Puts Her Images In Public Domain; Getty Picks Them Up And Charges Others To License Them; Photographer Sues Getty For $1 Billion