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LawPundit Optical Graphic Interface Change to Coincide with the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America Barack Obama

Posted on January 18, 2009
In anticipation of the direction of "change" to be ushered in by the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, we have also "changed" the graphic interface of LawPundit, something which we may now do periodically over the coming months and years, to coincide with seasons, events and trends...

Lexmachina at Stanford Law School : Online IP Clearinghouse for Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Antitrust, free for non-commercial use

Posted on January 14, 2009
Lexmachina anyone? Law@Stanford in the January 2009 issue links to a Sheri Qualters article about the fact that Stanford Law School [has launched an] Online IP Clearinghouse writing: "Stanford Law School has launched the Stanford Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse [IPLC], a searchable online database of intellectual property cases filed since 2000...

The American Car Industry and the Stupidity of the US Automobile Manufacturers : What would Apple's Steve Jobs make of this mess?

Posted on January 14, 2009
Speaking of cabbages and kings, as in the previous LawPundit posting, while doing a Mad Hatter through the Internet, we ran across Cabbages & Kings, Limited - "Quickly. A blog for slow readers by Joel Shurkin.", where there is discussion of an idea by Robert X...

SLAW is LAW : Do Something for Your Health and Start Eating Healthy Foods : Eleven Tips from Jonny Bowden via the Well at the New York Times

Posted on January 14, 2009
Slaw (with apologies to the blawg) is law. Cole slaw that is. Lewis Carroll wrote: "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings--"There was poetry in a posting last year at the Well, a New York Times blog on health by Tara Parker-Pope, which gave some superb nutritional advice from nutritionist and author Jonny

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Interactive Collaborative Student-Centered Learning is Best : Universities such as MIT are Getting Smarter

Posted on January 14, 2009
According to Sara Rimer at the New York Times, they are getting smarter at MIT, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at North Carolina State University, at the University of Maryland, at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at Harvard. They are finally catching on that interactive and collaborative student-centered learning in smaller groups is far more effective than one-directional

Kristy Kay has a New Song : I Will Wait

Posted on January 14, 2009
Kristy Kay has a new upbeat song at her website and at MySpace I Will Wait

Man's History is a question of EVIDENCE: Where was Troy? Where did Paris take Helen of Troy? Greece & the Origins of Writing in Western Civilization

Posted on January 12, 2009
Not all disciplines understand evidence the way that the law does. John F. Hughes, Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, provides us with the following anecdote about the way in which archaeologists treat evidence: "In 2001, archaeologists discovered a ship sunk in the middle of the Mediterranean, surrounded by amphorae...

Sustainable Development Now : The ENERGY CRISIS and the continued POPULATION EXPLOSION : 2009 and Beyond : Quo Vadis Malthus?

Posted on January 09, 2009
Herve at the Blogactiv.eu blog Un peu de bon sens (A Bit of Good Sense) made the following posting on January 5, 2009. For some reason, neither Herve nor the blog are now accessible, but we found the text in Google cache. Herve's posting sets out the major problems facing humanity in the year 2009 and beyond : the energy crisis and the population crisis...

International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) initiated by UNESCO and the IAU to be Launched on January 15 and 16, 2009

Posted on January 09, 2009
As you can read at NASA, 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, which will be officially launched on January 15 and 16 at UNESCO. This is the official logo. UNESCO writes: "The International Year of Astronomy will be launched at UNESCO on 15 and 16 January...

Europeana Online Again : European Union Relaunches its Multimillion-Euro Digital Library Experiment : Example : Oldest Illustration of Stonehenge

Posted on January 09, 2009
We posted previously about Europeana, the EU's digital library project that went online in November, 2008, only to crash the first day of operations. Today, we received news that Europeana is back online again. Here is a screen capture: It is accompanied by the following message: "Europeana is back online Thanks for registering with Europeana...

Fixed Vote at the 2nd Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100 Reader Poll to determine the favorite Reader Blawgs in 10 Categories

Posted on January 08, 2009
How about blawg popularity voting? The ABA Journal online has a thought-provoking article by Edward A. Adams titled "Some People Love the Blawg 100 a Little Too Much". Language is a funny thing - and the law uses this fact to its advantage. We intentionally selected the word "fix" in our title because it possesses a double entendre in the case of a "fixed" vote at the 2nd Annual ABA Journal

I-tah! U-tah! We-tah! but Nobody-tah Utahns! Yuttahih! Football Polls are Exposed as a Popularity Contest Based on Opinion not Viewed Performance

Posted on January 05, 2009
There are two theories about the origin of the State name Utah: "[1] . . .named after the Ute Indian tribe, it means "people of the mountains" [2] . . . from the word "Yuttahih" [Apache term for the Navajo] meaning "one that is higher up"". Sportswriter Dan Wetzel has a nice piece at Yahoo! Sports about the Utah University Utes and the current college football BCS bowl and poll fiasco, which

NFL Playoffs 2009 : National Football League Divisional Round Predictions January 10 and 11, 2009

Posted on January 05, 2009
NFL National Football League Divisional Round YPPSYS Predictions January 10 and 11, 2009 [These predictions are made just for fun. We disclaim any liability for any reliance upon them.] Baltimore Ravens (11-5, 1-0 in playoffs) at the Tennessee Titans (13-3) Our stats favor the Titans by 4...

THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS FINAL COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS for the 2008 / 2009 SEASON - USC is the NATIONAL CHAMPION according to YPPSYS

Posted on January 05, 2009
FINAL YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS 2008 /2009 (after the bowl games)... and the national champion is ... Southern Cal (USC). Compare these rankings to last year's rankings. NAYPPA (net average yards per play advantage) as a rating is calculated using data obtained at CFBSTATS...

ESPN Sports Blogs : Golf Blog : NFL Nation

Posted on January 04, 2009
ESPN has a number of sports blogs. Take a look at that link for a linked list. We are, for example, following the newly founded ESPN Golf Blog which is a statistical treasure chest on golf thus far, and in view of the now ongoing NFL playoffs, we are following NFL Nation...

LawPundit Football Championship Head Coaches of the Year 2008/2009 Season

Posted on January 04, 2009
The LawPundit Football Championship Head Coaches of the Year for the 2008/2009 Season (all photos enlarged on this website) are: NCAA Division I-A (FBS) Kyle Whittingham of Utah (13-0, Only undefeated Division I-A FBS Team in the 2008/2009 Football Season) Photo linked from Continuum, the Magazine of the University of Utah Utah took over as holders of the nation's longest bowl win streak this

2009 Husker Recruits are Top : University of Nebraska Cornhusker Football Recruitment Commits are the Kind of Players that Make Winning Football Teams

Posted on January 02, 2009
In spite of the Nebraska Cornhuskers 9-4 record in the 2008 / 2009 football season, the SI.com team of 2008 College Football All-Americans does not include a single Husker, not even in the honorable mentions, which go up to 15-deep at each position, including the 1st two teams...

YPPSYS NFL Pro Football Pre-Playoff Rankings and Playoff Predictions (2008/2009 Season) based on NAYPPA Statistics

Posted on January 02, 2009
YPPSYS NFL Pro Football Pre-Playoff Rankings and Predictions (2008/2009 Season) based on NAYPPA Statistics (Net Average Yards Per Play Advantage) YPPSYS POST-SEASON PRE-PLAYOFF NFL PRO FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS (* = Division Champion. The Rating is determined by taking the NAYPPA - net average yards per play advantage, subtracting ...

Happy New Year 2009 from LawPundit : Onward with Our Moleskine

Posted on January 01, 2009
We wish all readers and subscribers of LawPundit a Happy New Year 2009. Starting 2009, our Google PageRank has improved from a 5 to a 6, which is pretty good for a blog. Google's own Official Google Blog has a ranking of 8 and the first blog to appear on Google Search for the keyword "blog" is Seth Godin's Blog which has a ranking of 7...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a Guest Column at ADAC Magazine (Germany's leading automobile club) identifies Measures for the 2009 Economy

Posted on December 29, 2008
ADAC Motorwelt is the club magazine of the ADAC, Germany's and Europe's leading automobile club with over 16 million members. The January 1, 2009 print issue (accessible digitally online only to members) of ADAC Motorwelt contains a guest column by Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor (the Chancellor is the CEO of the government), in which Merkel talks about the measures taken by the German

New Head Football Coach Gene Chizik of Auburn Hires Gus Malzahn of Tulsa (and formerly of Arkansas) as Offensive Coordinator

Posted on December 28, 2008
Fans of Auburn. Your fortunes are looking up. Definitely. As just reported by the AP via Rivals.com at Yahoo Sports, new head football coach Gene Chizik of Auburn has hired Gus Malzahn of Tulsa (and formerly of Arkansas) as the new Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at Auburn...

Music and Culture : Elina Garanca - A New Mezzo-Soprano Star on the Opera, Symphony and Classical Music Recording Scene

Posted on December 27, 2008
Elina Garanca is a new mezzo-soprano star on the opera, symphony and classical music recording scene. NEW RELEASE, JANUARY, 2009 To be released in January 2009 by Deutsche Grammophon ("Deutsche Grammophon is Classical Music") is Elina Garanca Bel Canto: Already available are, for example, the following recordings: Elina Garanca - Mozart Opera & Concert Arias: Elina Garanca - Arie

The Financial Credit Crisis : Rescue in USA UK Germany : Paul Weiss publishes Reference Guide to Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (Bailout) & More

Posted on December 23, 2008
Our alma mater law firm, Paul | Weiss (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP), headquartered in New York City, one of the top law firms in the world, has just issued its December 22, 2008 Reference Guide to U.S. Rescue Efforts in the current financial credit crisis...

Key Secrets of Good Coaching Leadership II : Winning 151 Football Games in a Row can be Taught Learned :: Prepare Your Team : Recognize Priorities

Posted on December 22, 2008
This posting is Nr. II of a series about The Key Secrets of Good Coaching Leadership : Winning can be Taught Learned : Personnel : Recruiting : Mentoring : Preparedness. How is it possible that Bob Ladouceur, the head football coach at De La Salle High School in Concord, California, won 151 straight football games from 1992 to 2003 and keeps winning at an incredibly high percentage rate? pa href="http://feeds...

Mount Union Purple Raiders Win NCAA Division III National Football Championship as Nate Kmic First to Cross 8000 Yard Career Rushing Mark

Posted on December 20, 2008
Nate Kmic of the Larry Kehres coached Mount Union Purple Raiders ran for 88 yards in the NCAA Division III National Football Championship Final to raise his career rushing total to 8074 yards and become the first player ever to cross the 8000 yard career rushing mark in NCAA competition, as the Purple Raiders - returning just six starters from the previous season - regained their Division 3 pa href="http://feeds...

LawPundit Subscribers Please Note Format Change of RSS and Atom Feed due to FeedBurner Inability to Handle Large Feeds

Posted on December 18, 2008
This is a special message to LawPundit Subscribers. Up to now, our RSS and Atom feeds have fed your aggregators with the entire text of all LawPundit postings. However, since some LawPundit postings are quite long, we have, for the second time this year, been faced with the inability of FeedBurner to handle our FeedBurner LawPundit feeds, as FeedBurner shuts off any feed - not just LawPundit's pa href="http://feeds...

Khan of Khans Kagan recaptures cyberlawyer Lawrence Lessig who is leaving Stanford Law School to return to Harvard : HLS Leads Trend, but Quo Vadis?

Posted on December 16, 2008
Kagan (viz. khaghan or khakhan) in Mongolian means "khan of the khans" or "emperor" and Elena Kagan of Harvard Law School is befitting that approximate appellation well in her capacity as Dean of HLS (Harvard Law School). HLS has now stocked up its professorial assets for the 20th time under Kagan's reign by hiring a tenured professor from another law school, in this case Stanford Law School's ( pa href="http://feeds...

College Football Results the Weekend of Saturday, December 13, 2008 : Nate Kmic of Division III Mount Union Sets NCAA All-Time Career Rushing Record

Posted on December 14, 2008
There were no Division I-A FBS football games this weekend as the Bowl games kick off next weekend, but we report the following results in the playoff games in the other football divisions. Division I-AA FCS In semifinal playoff games James Madison almost came back from a 35-17 deficit, but Montana held on to win 35-27 and make it to the national championship FCS game whereas Richmond came back pa href="http://feeds...

Auburn Selection of Gene Chizik from Iowa State as Head Football Coach viewed from the standpoint of YPPSYS Rankings and Statistics

Posted on December 14, 2008
It appears to us in college football that defensive coordinators may sometimes make better head coaches than offensive coordinators, so that the selection of Gene Chizik, head coach at Iowa State as the new head football coach at Auburn could be viewed as understandable, as Chizik made a name for himself as a stellar defensive coordinator at Texas and Auburn before being named head coach at Iowa pa href="http://feeds...

Marriott on the Move : The Blog of CEO J.W. Marriott, Jr. Talks about the Economy and Marriott Hotels in 2009

Posted on December 12, 2008
Did you ever stay at a Marriott hotel? J.W. Marriott, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Marriott International, Inc., has a blog at Marriott on the Move in which Arne Sorensen, chief financial officer, presents Reflections on the Economy and Marriott's Prospects for 2009 and talks about RevPAR (revenue per available room), a key performance measuring stick in the hotel industry...

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