Its scientific name is Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Latin: Haliaeetus or "sea eagle"; leucocephalus or "white head"). Its common name, bald eagle, may be from the
old English word balde (white), or may be a derivation of piebald, which
describes the eagle's white head and tail feathers and dark body feathers. Read more and see pictures at http://www.hornbyeagles.com/eaglefaq.htm See also http://www.joeygreen.com/blog-myfavoritefalsefacts.html
Paraphrases from The Gods of Guilt, fifth novel by Michael Connelly to
feature criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller (the Lincoln Lawyer) The law is like soft lead--it can be bent and
molded. If I'm working for you, don't lie
to me--if you lie, I fly.
Mecha Justice:
When Machines Think Like Lawyers by Ken Strutin The term “Mecha” envisions a futuristic
artificial intelligence wrapped in human likeness and seamlessly woven into the
activities of society. It
represents a time when the aggrandizement of our species will depend on
technology that looks and thinks like us.
Today, the prototype of attorney mechas are emerging from advances in
computer reasoning and big data. In this
age of super-surveillance, multimedia communications and limitless accumulation
of data, the information science of law necessitates the investment of
cognitive computing. One by one human
modes of thinking are being supplemented by artificial intelligences that can
search and analyze billions of gigabytes of information. At the same time, the ongoing
computerization of people is reducing their legal problems and disputes into
datasets solvable by finely tuned algorithms.
Still, the soul of legal rights resides in human authorship. This compilation of notable news articles,
scientific studies and legal scholarship highlights the progress of rights,
responsibilities and roles of legal professionals and thinking machines. http://www.llrx.com/author/strutin-ken/
The fifty U.S. states have taken their names from a wide variety of
languages. The names of 24 states derive
from indigenous
languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian: eight come from Algonquian languages,
seven from Siouan languages (one of those by way of Illinois, an
Algonquian language), three from Iroquoian languages,
one from a Uto-Aztecan language,
and five from other Native
American languages. Twenty-two other state names derive from
European languages: seven come from Latin (mostly
from Latinate forms of English personal names, one coming from Welsh), five come from English, five come from Spanish (and one more from an Indigenous
language by way of Spanish), and four come from French (one of these by way of English). The etymologies of six states are disputed or
unclear: Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine,
Oregon, and Rhode Island. Of the fifty
states, eleven are named after an individual person. Of those eleven, seven are named in honor of
European monarchs: the two Carolinas, the two Virginias, Maryland,
Louisiana and Georgia. Over the years,
several attempts have been made to name a state after one of the Founding
fathers or other great
statesmen of US history: the State of Franklin, the State of
Jefferson (three separate attempts),
the State of
Lincoln (two separate
attempts), and the State of Washington; in
the end, only Washington materialized (ironically, Washington Territory was carved out of the Columbia District, and
was renamed "Washington" in order to
avoid confusion with the District of Columbia,
which contains the city of Washington.
Several of the states that derive their names from (corrupted) names used for Native peoples, have
retained the plural ending of "s":
Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts and Texas
Absence makes the heart grow fonder; prolonged absence makes the heart grow cold. Visitors, a novel by Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner, novelist and art
historian, born 16 July 1928; died 10 March 2016, observed of Emile
Zola, “One marvels at his ability to start another book almost as soon as one
was finished.” Much the same could be
said of Brookner herself, since from 1981, when she turned to fiction with A
Start in Life, she published at the rate of a novel a year, easing up only at
the end of the century. Her feelings
about being so prolific were mixed: “I
don’t like writing fiction much; it’s like being on the end of a bad telephone
line--but it’s addictive.” All the same,
and although she wrote much else, it was for her fiction that Brookner was best
known. One of her earliest novels, and
still the bestselling one, is Hotel du Lac (1984),which
won the Booker prize from under the nose of JG Ballard, whose Empire of the Sun
had been tipped as the winner. A
television version came in 1986. Until the novels started, Brookner had practised
purely as an art historian. She was the
first woman to hold the Slade chair of fine art at Cambridge University
(1967-68), and was based principally at the Courtauld
Institute of Art in
London. Michael McNay Read extensive article at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/15/anita-brookner-obituary
Digitized collection from the Law Library of Congress
American Indian Constitutions and Legal Materials Haiti: Legal Bibliography John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trial Lincoln and the Law
Piracy Trials Statutes at Large
United States Treaties
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/digitized-books/digital.php?loclr=bloglaw
The pel in compel, impel, and propel derives from the Latin verb pellere, “to
drive,” as in the way one drives sheep, forcing them to go in a certain
direction. compel:
transitive verb. To urge
irresistibly, oblige, force. impel: transitive verb. To drive, force, or constrain a person to
some action by acting upon her mind or feelings; to urge on, incite. In a literal sense, impel means to cause something to move
onward. propel: transitive verb. To drive away or out. to drive or push
forwards, onwards, or in a specified direction; to cause to move along. Figuratively, propel means “to encourage or promote an
enterprise or activity.” Three other pellere verbs in English are: dispel: to
drive asunder, scatter; expel: to drive out; repel: to push or thrust away Maeve Maddox
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/compel-impel-and-propel/
What would happen in 2016 if a candidate for President
or Vice President were to die or leave the ticket any time between the national party conventions and
the November 8 election day? What would
happen if this occurred during presidential transition, either between election
day and the December 19, 2016, meeting of the electoral college; or between
December 19 and the inauguration of the President and Vice President on January
20, 2017? Procedures to fill these
vacancies differ depending on when they occur.
Find three scenarios discussed:
(1) During the Election Campaign—Between the National Party Nominating
Conventions and the Election (2) Between the Election and the Electoral
College Meeting (3) Between the Electoral College Meeting and
Inauguration Read Congressional Research
Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov R44648 paper by Thomas H. Neale at http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44648.pdf
5 must-see new features at the renovated Nixon Library by Denisse Salazar
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1537
October 14, 2016 On this date in 1656, Massachusetts enacted the first punitive legislation
against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). They regarded the Quakers as spiritually
apostate and politically subversive. On
this date in 1926, the children's
book Winnie-the-Pooh,
by A. A. Milne,
was first published. Quote of the Day
To read fast is as bad as to eat in a hurry. - Vilhelm Ekelund, Swedish poet, aphorist, and essayist (14
Oct 1880-1949) Find biography at http://www.enotes.com/topics/vilhelm-ekelund
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