AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life.
"Roy Moore's wife reveals their 'Jewish attorney' and he's a Christian": Greg Garrison of Alabama Media Group has this report
"Law Clerks, Judicial Power, and the Code of Silence": Eric Segall has this blog post at "Dorf on Law."
After accusations that he pressured female students for sex, made merit scholarship recipients sign secrecy and loyalty oaths and implemented a dress code that mandated miniskirts for women, an Italian judge and law school leader has been barred from teaching and faces removal from the bench.
Francesco Bellomo, who the Washington Post says sits on one of the country’s highest courts, was also director of Diritto e Scienza, a school that prepares students for the state exam to become a judge.
Online at "The Cut," Rebecca Traister has an essay titled "This Moment Isn't (Just) About Sex. It's Really About Work."
Online at The Washington Post, columnist Petula Dvorak has an essay titled "How many men are harassers or predators?"
And if you think reporting on the matter sounds creepy in English, consider how it sounds in Filipino, as Abante of Manila reports that "US judge inireklamo, staff pinaghuhubad, pinapanood ng porn video."
Gill, Lex, Law, Metaphor and the Encrypted Machine (2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2933269 – “The metaphors we use to imagine, describe and regulate new technologies have profound legal implications. This paper offers a critical examination of the metaphors we choose to describe encryption technology in particular, and aims to uncover some of the normative and legal implications of those choices. Part I provides a basic description of encryption as a mathematical and technical process. At the heart of this paper is a question about what encryption is to the law. It is therefore fundamental that readers have a shared understanding of the basic scientific concepts at stake.
Three Australians arrested in Serbian cocaine sting that hauled in over US$778,000 in cash | South China Morning Post
Murdoch's ex a Chinese agent?
You can't quite imagine reading this saga in The Wall
Street Journal while owner Rupert
Murdoch was still married to Wendi Deng Murdoch, with whom he
broke up amid his reported belief that she'd carried on with others,
notably former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In case you're late to
this tabloid delight, Vanity Fair detailed it all here in
2014.
But, yes, the notion of her as handmaiden to the totalitarians
in Beijing is
now found in The Journal.
"U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared
Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, that Wendi Deng Murdoch,
a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman, could be using her close friendship
with Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to further the interests of the
Chinese government, according to people familiar with the matter."
This all tuns on a planned $100 million Chinese garden at the
National Arboretum. It was deemed a security risk "because it included a
70-foot-tall white tower that could potentially be used for surveillance."
Yes, surveillance in a garden "planned on one of the higher patches of
land near downtown Washington, less than 5 miles from both the Capitol and the
White House."
Yes, this Kushner-Murdoch tale may actually divert your attention
from the adjacent saga, "Platinum, Clinging to its Status as a Top
Precious Metal, Faces a Crisis."
The
appeal of the ‘flat’ organisation — why some firms are getting rid of middle
managers.
Hierarchies at work can stifle new ideas and increase costs. The flat organisation is increasingly in vogue in the private sector.
Hierarchies at work can stifle new ideas and increase costs. The flat organisation is increasingly in vogue in the private sector.
CALIFORNIA MAN IS GIVING FLORIDA MAN A SERIOUS RUN FOR HIS MONEY:Drugged driver crashes car into second story of California building, officials say.
That’s pretty impressive air for a Nissan Altima.
Most literature and film is mediocre or worse. Yet reviewers spout effusive praise. Why aren’t critics critical enough? Ben Yagoda has a few thoughts Thick Skin of Grid Ironmen
When I visited Ken Inglis early last month, a few weeks before he died, I found him engrossed in the day’s edition of the Sunday Age. It was perhaps eighty years since he’d begun reading the papers as a schoolboy in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Preston, and during that time he’d become one of Australia’s most highly (and warmly) regarded historians. But his passion for the press — his fascination with the way it recorded “the history of the present”, as the historian Timothy Garton Ash calls it — was undiminished. And not just newspapers — on the table beside his bed were copies of the New Yorker, the magazine that helped shape his style and fuel his remarkable curiosity. Continue reading
In his book review on Inequality and the Coming Storm, Edoardo Campanella comments: “the super-rich are not all the same. Some are entrepreneurs or entertainers who create real wealth for society. Others run hedge fund, private equity firms or other rent seeking businesses who contribute nothing or little.” Inequality and the Coming Storm by Edoardo Campanella – Project Syndicate
Laura Kipnis in the New York Review of Books says ‘Like beauty contestants, women at Fox are hired on the basis of looks, then laminated into near mannequins…the optics at Fox make clear what’s expected from women’. Rupert Murdoch boasts his businesses reflect his values.
At a time when the word ‘migrant’ is often accompanied by the word ‘crisis’, we at Europeana are focusing our 2018 activities on gathering and enriching Europe’s cultural heritage relating to migration in cooperation with museums and the people of Europe. Making Europe richer – From folklore and traditions to visual arts, our cultural heritage shows us that the Europe we inhabit today is the result of a flow of people and ideas, and that migration is woven through our everyday lives. As a pan-European campaign encouraging us all to think of migration differently, Europeana Migration will promote values of diversity and inclusivity: in looking at migration to and from Europe historically, we’ll show that how the geographical moving of people has made culture richer, and even more than that, that migration is intrinsic to what it means to be European. Our thematic collection, Europeana Migration, will bring together collections dedicated to the theme of migration to, from and within Europe. An alpha version is already online, gathering just under 200,000 objects from more than 750 museums, galleries, libraries, audio-visual archives and archives across Europe. Throughout 2018, our intention is to build this collection by improving and adding content from cultural heritage institutions across Europe. New content will be sourced and digitised via partners in the Migration in the arts and sciences project, dedicated migration museums, our network of existing Europeana data providers, and new providers. Does your organisation hold collections relating to migration? Read more on how you can contribute your collections!?Russ Kick – The Memory Hole 2: “The governments of several countries (plus the European Union and the United Nations) have programs for medical practitioners, members of the public, and pharmaceutical companies to report “adverse events” regarding prescription and over-the-counter drugs (as well as medical devices, personal care products, and occasionally other things). As defined by the FDA, “adverse events” include hospitalization, surgical intervention, permanent disability/damage, “substantial risk of dying,” death, birth defects, seizures, and more. These reports can also cover “product use errors, product quality problems, and therapeutic failures.” Several countries have set up publicly accessible databases containing details from these reports. The full reports themselves usually aren’t there, but in some databases you’ll find details from each report, such as type of adverse event, age and gender of the patient, etc. Other databases present overall statistics but not details of individual reports. You can bet that the pharmaceutical industry is not happy that these exist…”
