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E-Discovery Update: Producing Spreadsheets in Discovery – 2008
In spite of great financial investment to produce these documents in a way that satisfies competing litigation needs of authenticity and full native functionality, litigants continue to disagree on a production format for these documents, according to Conrad J. Jacoby.

Addressing Misconceptions About The Consumer Price Index
"The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the Federal Government’s principal measure of inflation at the retail level, is one of the most-watched economic statistics in the world. Its prominence means that it receives a high level of scrutiny and analysis. Some questions that have been asked recently by journalists and other commentators about the index are:
Does the CPI include food and energy prices?
Does the current method of measuring home prices in the CPI serve to lower the official inflation rate?
When the costs of food rises, does the CPI assume that consumers switch to less expensive and less desired foods, such as substituting hamburger for steak?
The lead article in the August issue of Monthly Labor Review attempts to answer these and related questions."

From 2015, deaths projected to outnumber births in the EU27
"The EU27 population is projected to increase from 495 million on 1 January 2008 to 521 million in 2035, and thereafter gradually decline to 506 million in 2060. The annual number of births is projected to fall over the period 2008-2060, while at the same time the annual number of deaths is projected to continue rising. From 2015 onwards deaths would outnumber births, and hence population growth due to natural increase would cease. From this point onwards, positive net migration would be the only population growth factor. However, from 2035 this positive net migration would no longer counterbalance the negative natural change, and the population is projected to begin to fall.
The EU27 population is also projected to continue to grow older, with the share of the population aged 65 years and over rising from 17.1% in 2008 to 30.0% in 2060, and those aged 80 and over rising from 4.4% to 12.1% over the same period."

Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2008 – City Ranking
"Moscow is the world’s most expensive city for expatriates for the third consecutive year, according to the latest Cost of Living Survey from Mercer. Tokyo is in second position climbing two places since last year, where as London drops one place to rank third. Oslo climbs six places to 4th place and is followed by Seoul in 5th. Asunción in Paraguay is the least expensive city in the ranking for the sixth year running.
With New York as the base city scoring 100 points, Moscow scores 142.4 and is close to three times costlier than Asunción which has an index of 52.5. Contrary to the trend observed last year the gap between the world’s most and least expensive cities now seems to be widening. Mercer’s survey covers 143 cities across six continents and measures the comparative cost of over 200 items in each location, including housing, transport, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment.”

therefor (ther-FOR)
adverb: For that; in return or exchange for something, e.g. "placing an order and sending payment therefor".
From Middle English therefor, from there + for. The word 'therefore' arose as a variant spelling of this word.
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Five Laws of Librarians from I, Librarian
1. Books are to be read.
2. Every person his or her book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader
5. The library is a growing organism.
I, Librarian is one of the graphic novels featuring Rex Libris. Rex is part of Ordo Bibliotheca, the International Order of Librarians. He survived the burning of the Alexandrian Library in Egypt, and today is librarian at Middleton Public Library in North America. He fights the forces of evil and, if necessary, will travel to outer space to retrieve overdue books from patrons.
http://www.slgpublishing.com/prev_rex/prev_rex.html

The Burning of the Library of Alexandria
http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/articles/ArticleView.cfm?AID=9

The formal invention of high heels as fashion is typically attributed to the rather short-statured Catherine de Medici (1519-1589). At the age of 14, Catherine de Medici was engaged to the powerful Duke of Orleans, later the King of France. She was small (not quite five feet) relative to the Duke and hardly considered a beauty. She felt insecure in the arranged marriage knowing she would be the Queen of the French Court and in competition with the Duke’s favorite (and significantly taller) mistress, Diane de Poitiers. Looking for a way to dazzle the French nation and compensate for her perceived lack of aesthetic appeal, she donned heels two inches high that gave her a more towering physique and an alluring sway when she walked. Her heels were a wild success and soon high heels were associated with privilege. Mary Tudor, or “Bloody Mary,” another monarch seeking to appear larger than life, wore heels as high possible (McDowell 1989). By 1580, fashionable heels were popular for both sexes, and a person who had authority or wealth was often referred to as “well-heeled.”
In the early 1700s, France's King Louis XIV (The Sun King) would often wear intricate heels decorated with miniature battle scenes. Called “Louis heels,” they were often as tall as five inches. The king decreed that only nobility could wear heels that were colored red (les talons rogue) and that no one's heels could be higher than his own.
http://www.randomhistory.com/1-50/036heels.html

On September 8, 1892 an early version of the Pledge of Allegiance appeared in a magazine called The Youth's Companion. It read: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and Justice for all."
On September 8, 1664 the Dutch surrendered the city of New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York.
On September 8, 1565 a Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at St. Augustine, in northeastern Florida, making it the oldest continuously settled city in the United States.
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