New on LLRX: Metadata - What Is It and What Are My Ethical Duties?
Metadata - What Is It and What Are My Ethical Duties?: Jim Calloway explains why every lawyer needs to understand a few basic things about metadata. He contends that the legal ethics implications of metadata “mining” are no longer just of interest to the lawyers processing electronic discovery, or the ethics mavens.

CRS Reports: Job Loss and Infrastructure Job Creation During the Recession, Membership of the 111th Congress
Job Loss and Infrastructure Job Creation During the Recession, December 23, 2008: "After the long economic expansion that characterized much of the current decade, the nation entered its eleventh postwar recession in December 2007. The unemployment rate rose from 5.0% in that month to 6.7% in November 2008, the latest data released to date by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). A majority of those unemployed in November—some 6 out of 10 million people—had been laid off by their employers. In November 2008 alone, employment at nonfarm businesses fell by 533,000, marking the biggest one-month drop recorded by the BLS Current Employment Statistics program since December 1974."
Membership of the 111th Congress: A Profile, December 31, 2008: "This report presents a profile of the membership of the 111th Congress. Statistical information is included on selected characteristics of Members, including data on party affiliation, average age and length of service, occupation, religious affiliation, gender, ethnicity, foreign births, and military service.

Statistical Abstract of the United States 2009
U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2009 (128th Edition) - Washington, DC, 2008
"The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts."

Congressionally-Mandated Study Says Improve, Do Not Suspend, Fair Value Accounting Standards
News release: The Securities and Exchange Commission has delivered a report to Congress mandated by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that recommends against the suspension of fair value accounting standards. Rather, the 211-page report by the SEC's Office of the Chief Accountant and Division of Corporation Finance recommends improvements to existing practice, including reconsidering the accounting for impairments and the development of additional guidance for determining fair value of investments in inactive markets, including situations where market prices are not readily available. SEC Report to Congress on Mark-to-Market Accounting

shilly-shally (SHIL-ee-shal-ee)
adverb: Hesitantly; irresolutely.
adjective: Hesitant; vacillating.
noun: Hesitation; vacillation.
verb intr.: To vacillate; to dawdle.
From reduplication of the question Shall I? A.Word.A.Day

Architects are visionaries. They see space and know what to do with it.

Healthified recipes from a muse reader
http://www.eatbetteramerica.com/

The following Web link comes from the Department of Mathematics at Boise State University, but—surprise—you will find The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. In addition to the contents, you will enjoy the graphics, the color and the layout.
http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/

Ojai, California is known for its sunsets with droves of people heading for their favorite lookouts in time for the so-called Pink Moment when the sun the sun hits the surrounding Topa Topa Mountains. The Chumash Indians were the first settlers, followed by whites in the 1870s, convinced that the air held supernatural, curative powers. When Edward Drummond Libbey, glass manufacturer from Toledo arrived for winter in 1908, he thought the town sloppy and unremarkable. He also saw potential and became Ojai’s greatest benefactor, forever altering the town’s layout and architecture.
Preservation magazine January/February 2009

January 6 is the 12th day of Christmas. Christmas Eve begins the 12 days of Christmas, so January 5th, the eve of Epiphany, is called Twelfth Night. William Shakespeare wrote a play for the festivities in 1602, which is why it is called Twelfth Night. James Joyce's famous short story "The Dead" is set at a party for the Feast of the Epiphany. The Writer’s Almanac