The School Civil Rights Vacuum

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Wed Mar 21 10:47:55 PDT 2018

The article argues that courts unjustifiably limit public school liability under both Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment to students who suffer sexual, physical, and verbal abuse and harassment. As a remedy, the article proposes changes to the assessment of Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX claims that abandon misconceptions, increase schools’ potential for liability, and promote the development in schools of processes for preventing, discovering, and addressing students’ harms.

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Darren Aronofsky Views ‘One Strange Rock’ as a Companion Piece to ‘mother!’, Because Maybe There’s Hope for the World Yet

by Liz Shannon Miller @ IndieWire

Tue Mar 27 08:47:45 PDT 2018

The director made the new NatGeo documentary series about Earth, hosted by Will Smith, at the same time as his controversial drama.

Future electric cars could recharge wirelessly while you drive

by @ Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily

Tue Mar 27 06:40:23 PDT 2018

Electric vehicles may one day be able to recharge while driving down the highway, drawing wireless power directly from plates installed in the road that would make it possible to drive hundreds -- if not thousands -- of miles without having to plug in.

Practice Safe Clean-up After a Fire

by Website Administrator @ Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Fri Dec 15 11:47:20 PST 2017

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Video: Jaylen Hands, Prince Ali after UCLA’s 89-73 win over Stanford

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Sat Jan 27 23:01:28 PST 2018

Guards Jaylen Hands and Prince Ali talk about Hands’ show-stopping assist, the defense against Stanford and hosting USC next week.

Substance, Procedure, and the Rules Enabling Act

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Tue Mar 27 13:34:52 PDT 2018

The Supreme Court promulgates rules of procedure pursuant to the Rules Enabling Act. This statute provides that “Such rules shall not abridge, enlarge or modify any substantive right.” The Court has not taken the opportunity to refine the precise contours of the Act and has never invalidated a rule under it. This article takes up that enterprise, articulating an understanding of the Rules Enabling Act that will clarify the scope of the Supreme Court’s rulemaking authority.

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QA 39: Galactic Escape Velocity and More... Featuring Astronaut Terry Virts

by @ Universe Today Guide to Space Audio

Sun Dec 10 15:12:32 PST 2017

In this week’s question show, Fraser explains why almost everything in the Solar System is spinning in the same direction, is there a limit to how massive black holes can get, and do galaxies have an escape velocity?

Congratulations Class of 2021

by Family Medicine @ Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Mon Mar 26 23:56:02 PDT 2018

Gonzalo Castaneda Univ Autonoma de Guadalajara Christine Choi Touro Univ - New York Deirdre Davis Michigan State University Renee El-Khoury Midwestern Univ Arizona  Stephanie Garcia UC San Diego Lorenzo Gonzalez UC San Diego Anna Haynes Univ of Minnesota Amber Lara Western University Saba Malik Albany Medical College Francisco Mendoza UC Davis Elisa [...]

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FPR Sex/Gender Conference Summary: Part 2 – What’s Fixed, Changing, Changeable

by Constance Cummings @ FPR

Thu Apr 14 16:40:22 PDT 2016

Part 2 of the FPR-UCLA conference on sex/gender, which was chaired by cultural anthropologist Gilbert Herdt, explored aspects of brain and behavior that are “fixed” by evolution and biology and other aspects that create, reflect, and respond to human social and cultural environments. Speakers in the first session addressed, in Darwin’s phrase, the “entangled bank” […]

Statutory Interpretation as 'Interbranch Dialogue'?

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Sat Mar 10 11:29:43 PST 2018

Much in the field of statutory interpretation is predicated upon “interpretive dialogue” between courts and legislatures. Yet, the idea of such dialogue is often advanced as little more than a slogan; the dialogue that courts, legislators, and scholars are imagining too often goes unexamined and underspecified. This essay attempts to organize thinking about the ways participants and theorists conceive, and should conceive, of interbranch dialogue within statutory interpretation.

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ABC Dateline

by Family Medicine @ Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Tue Oct 24 13:06:46 PDT 2017

One of our residents, Dr. Jon Watson, was recently featured in the ABC Dateline episode on Healthcare Solutions. ABC Dateline

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Open Records, Shuttered Labs: Ending Political Harassment of Public University Researchers

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Fri Mar 23 13:17:47 PDT 2018

This article confronts a dangerous contemporary trend: the escalating political harassment of public university scholars through the use of public records requests. This phenomenon impedes academic enterprises as diverse as climate change research and biomedical experiments. The article argues that most of professors’ records should not be subject to laws that exist to promote democratic accountability, both because professors do not govern, and because open records laws conflict with the academic freedom necessary for knowledge generation.

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It’s Not Just A Bite

by Website Administrator @ Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Thu Oct 19 16:55:53 PDT 2017

Mosquitoes spread serious diseases, like West Nile virus and Zika Protect yourself and your family from mosquito bites. Wear mosquito repellent when you’re outdoors. Use spray, wipes or lotion. Keep mosquitoes from infesting your home and yard. Tip and toss containers that hold water. It is important that LA County residents take actions to protect [...]

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CLIR Announces Six New Appointments to Board of Directors

by ksmith @ CLIR

Thu Nov 16 06:15:33 PST 2017

Washington, DC, Nov. 16, 2017—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has appointed six new members to its Board of Directors. Joining the board are Guy Berthiaume, Librarian and Archivist of Canada; Michele Casalini, chief executive officer of Casalini Libri; Christopher Celenza, dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University; Tess Davis, executive director of the Antiquities Coalition; Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian at University of Oxford; and Sohair Wastawy, executive director of the Qatar National Library. “CLIR’s commitment to international and inter-institutional collaboration is manifested in its governance; these highly distinguished new board members will help foster the organization’s vision of a coherent, robust, secure knowledge and cultural heritage environment for the future,” said CLIR Board Chair Kathleen Fitzpatrick. CLIR President Charles Henry added, “Our new board members bring an exciting diversity of professional experience and interests to CLIR, a rich array of insight and practical acumen that will strengthen our mission to foster and support communities of shared technical practice and provide leadership to develop sustainable information resources that augment human capacity.” Guy Berthiaume is a Canadian historian who specializes in the study of classical antiquity. Before becoming the Librarian and Archivist of Canada in June 2014, he served for five years as the chair and chief executive officer of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Michele Casalini is chief executive officer of Casalini Libri, a family-run business based in Florence, Italy, providing bibliographic search and supply services for academic libraries and supporting publishers through promotion and distribution. He has a special interest in the digital transition in humanities and social sciences academic publishing. Christopher Celenza is dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, where he is also a professor of history and classics. He came to Georgetown in 2017 from Johns Hopkins University, where he most recently served as vice provost for faculty affairs and held the Charles Homer Haskins Professorship in Classics. Tess Davis, a lawyer and archaeologist by training, serves as executive director of the Washington, DC-based Antiquities Coalition. Since 2013, she has been affiliated with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow, and before that served as executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation. Richard Ovenden is Bodley’s Librarian at University of Oxford, the 25th person to hold the title. He has served on the staff of Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and member of the American Philosophical Society. Sohair Wastawy was recently appointed executive director of the Qatar National Library. She previously served as dean of libraries at Florida Institute of Technology, Illinois State University, and Illinois Institute of Technology. She was the first chief librarian for the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt. A complete list of Board members is available at https://www.clir.org/about/governance. The Council on Library and Information Resources is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. CLIR promotes forward-looking collaborative solutions that transcend disciplinary, institutional, professional, and geographic boundaries in support of the public good.

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The Excessive Fines Clause: Challenging the Modern Debtors’ Prison

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Thu Mar 22 21:53:05 PDT 2018

In recent years, the use of economic sanctions—statutory fines, surcharges, administrative fees, and restitution—has exploded in courts across the country. Economic sanctions are imposed for violations as minor as jaywalking and as serious as homicide. Inability to pay the sanctions often leads to perpetual debt. This article posits that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause may help address the debtors’ prison crisis and examines the key concerns underlying the U.S. Supreme Court’s determinations that criminal and civil forfeitures constitute fines.

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TE Matt Alaimo commits to UCLA

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Wed Jan 31 15:33:57 PST 2018

COMMITTED!!! #GoBruins #4sUp pic.twitter.com/84K4FobBlD — Matt Alaimo (@Matt_Alaimo) January 31, 2018 UCLA added a verbal commitment from tight end Matt Alaimo on Wednesday, pushing its 2018 recruiting class to 19 total recruits with one week left before National Signing Day … Continue reading →

QA 12: Does the Universe Have a Preferred Spin and More...

by @ Universe Today Guide to Space Video

Mon Jan 09 15:12:32 PST 2017

This week's question show includes the visible versus the visitable Universe, and why don't black holes increase in mass as virtual particles fall into them? Does the Universe have a preferred spin direction?

Four-star recruit Elijah Wade picks UCLA

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Sun Jan 28 20:08:21 PST 2018

120% Committed to THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES #4sUp #8clap For you Mama pic.twitter.com/5MZBK8uBcN — Elijah (@Elijah_Wade_) January 29, 2018 Four-star weakside defensive end Elijah Wade announced a verbal commitment to UCLA on Sunday night, pushing Chip Kelly’s first … Continue reading →

Standing, Litigable Interests, and Article III’s Case-or-Controversy Requirement

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Thu Mar 22 21:42:42 PDT 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court has based requirements of standing and party adverseness on the “case-or-controversy” language of Article III and the history of judicial practice in England, but neither text nor history can bear the weight of justification. New research reveals that the term “case” extends more broadly to encompass what Roman and civilian jurists referred to as noncontentious jurisdiction. The article proposes a more historically defensible construct—that of the litigable interest—to regulate access to federal dockets.

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Three-star DB Elisha Guidry commits to UCLA

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Sun Jan 28 13:04:12 PST 2018

Secured the bag #Blessed #GoBruins #Legacy #Guidryfootball pic.twitter.com/6T9Nl7xSUz — Elisha Guidry (@BiG_EZ7) January 28, 2018 Elisha Guidry is familiar with the ways of blue and gold. The defensive back from Murrieta is the son of two UCLA alumni, including former … Continue reading →

330 - Going Back To The Moon

by @ Universe Today Guide to Space Video

Wed Nov 08 15:53:12 PST 2017

On October 5th, 2017, US Vice President Mike Pence announced that NASA is going back to the Moon. He didn’t provide any other details, just some kind of moonward directed space exploration. And it turns out they won’t be the only ones. The Moon is going to be a busy busy place.

Leading Change Institute 2018 Participants Named

by ksmith @ CLIR

Wed Mar 07 12:09:12 PST 2018

Washington, DC, March 7, 2018—Forty individuals have been selected for participation in the 2018 Leading Change Institute. The Institute, sponsored by CLIR and EDUCAUSE, will be held June 3-8, in Washington, DC. Jon Allen, Assistant Vice President & CISO Baylor University Benjamin Armintor, Head, Developer Infrastructure and Applications Columbia University Libraries Tara Baillargeon, Assistant Dean for Digital Scholarship Marquette University Libraries Michael Beccaria, Director of Library and Technology Services Paul Smith’s College Brian Bolsinger, Director, Educational Technology Duquesne University David Bruce, Deputy CIO University of Arkansas Twila Camp, Director of Web Operations University of Oklahoma Tara Carlisle, Head, Digital Scholarship Lab University of Oklahoma Matthew Dalton, Chief Information Security Officer University of Massachusetts Amherst Leland Deeds, Head of Systems University of Miami Damian Doyle, Senior Director of Enterprise Infrastructure University of Maryland, Baltimore County James Fadden, Director Allegheny College Jennifer Faist, Library Systems & Digital Collections Administrator ArtCenter College of Design Jean Ferguson, Learning and Research Communities Librarian University of California, Berkeley Nadia Ghasedi, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections Services Washington University in St. Louis Cathryn Goodwin, Manager, Collections Information and Access Princeton University Kimberley Heraux, IT Project Manager California State University, Office of the Chancellor Christine Iannicelli, Instructional Technology Librarian Ursinus College Annie Johnson, Library Publishing and Scholarly Communications Specialist Temple University Joseph Kempista, Director, IT Client Support & Services University of Delaware Jennifer King, Program Director Boston University Mary Beth Lock, Director of Access Services Wake Forest University Isaac Lopp, Associate Director of User Services Dickinson College Nandita Mani, Associate University Librarian & Director, Health Sciences Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rebecca Metzger, Associate University Librarian for Research, Learning & Engagement University of California, Santa Barbara Matthew Mihalik, Director of Scholarly Technology The George Washington University Peter Mosinskis, Director of IT Strategy California State University Channel Islands Heidi Nance, Director, Resource Sharing Initiatives Ivy Plus Libraries Susan Payne, Head of Assessment & User Experience Johns Hopkins University Amy Pearlman, Director of Client Services and IT Procurement Bryn Mawr College Darylyne Provost, Interim Director of the Colby Libraries Colby College Barton Pursel, Assistant Director, Education Technology Services The Pennsylvania State University Doralyn Rossmann, Associate Professor and Head of Digital Library Initiatives Montana State University Library Rhasheema Sanders, Change Manager California State University, Office of the Chancellor David Seidl, Senior Director for Campus Technology Services University of Notre Dame McKinley Sielaff, Librarian Colorado College Stuart Snydman, Associate Director for Digital Strategy Stanford University Libraries Edward Stanley, Director of Technology Support Services Georgia College and State University Joseph White, Director, Finance and Business North Carolina State University Xiaojing Zu, Library Director New York University Shanghai

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Demetrice Martin heading to Arizona

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Tue Jan 30 10:47:22 PST 2018

Former UCLA defensive backs coach Demetrice Martin made his new job Twitter official on Tuesday, changing his Twitter avatar to a photo of Arizona’s block A and adding Arizona’s #BearDown slogan to his biography. #NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/pY0gSu6NXD — Demetrice Martin (@coach_meat) … Continue reading →

Detection of transcranial direct current stimulation deep in the living human brain

by @ Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily

Tue Mar 27 13:26:10 PDT 2018

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) produces electric fields (EFs) at subcortical levels of the human brain, report investigators . Data demonstrate that detected voltage changed proportionally with the amount of current applied and varied by pad placement. This clinical evidence reveals that scalp-applied tDCS can indeed generate EFs deep inside the living human brain that are potentially of biological relevance.

Valorie Kondos Field surpasses 500 career wins with UCLA gymnastics

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Sun Jan 28 09:35:56 PST 2018

UCLA gymnastics coach Valorie Kondos Field passed the 500 career win mark Saturday as the No. 4 Bruins won the Metroplex Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas with a season-high score of 197.625. Behind Kyla Ross‘ winning all-around score of 39.7, … Continue reading →

Proposition 64: Adult Use of Marijuana

by Website Administrator @ Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Fri Dec 15 12:04:47 PST 2017

With the passage of Proposition 64, California legalized responsible adult use of marijuana. Please see the following for more information on marijuana use, and on the efforts of Department of Public Health to promote the health and safety of our communities. Click Here to read the entire article

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UCLA gets revenge against Stanford in style

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Sun Jan 28 00:15:27 PST 2018

After what Stanford did to UCLA earlier this month, beating the Bruins in double overtime, Prince Ali thought the Bruins “owed them this game.” UCLA delivered a shot of revenge in style Saturday with an 89-73 win in Pauley Pavilion … Continue reading →

QA 39: Galactic Escape Velocity and More... Featuring Astronaut Terry Virts

by @ Universe Today Guide to Space Video

Sun Dec 10 15:12:32 PST 2017

In this week’s question show, Fraser explains why almost everything in the Solar System is spinning in the same direction, is there a limit to how massive black holes can get, and do galaxies have an escape velocity?

Thank you Wendy Abarca, Lynette Cooper, Rachel Grazer, and Tyler O’Brien!

by jmcmahan @ UCLA Extension Education

Tue Apr 05 14:58:08 PDT 2016

The employees of the UCLA Extension Education Department are doing wonderful work with their respective programs. The department has recently instituted a “Thank You Board” to allow recognition of this work from co-workers, instructors, students, and other extension community members. The four employees we are honoring this month are Wendy Abarca, Lynette Cooper, Rachel Grazer, […]

QA 12: Does the Universe Have a Preferred Spin and More...

by @ Universe Today Guide to Space Audio

Mon Jan 09 15:12:32 PST 2017

This week's question show includes the visible versus the visitable Universe, and why don't black holes increase in mass as virtual particles fall into them? Does the Universe have a preferred spin direction?

Video: Thomas Welsh after UCLA’s 89-73 win over Stanford

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Sat Jan 27 23:00:33 PST 2018

Center Thomas Welsh talks about playing with Aaron Holiday and Jaylen Hands, his preference between a between-the-legs pass and windmill dunk and how the Bruins were able to learn from their previous loss to Stanford.

CLIR Issues 121

by ksmith @ CLIR

Thu Feb 22 05:56:46 PST 2018

Number 121 • January/February 2018 ISSN 1944-7639 (online version) Contents Endangered Data Week Starts Feb. 26 CLIR Appoints Kevin FitzGerald Verner Clapp Distinguished Research Fellow CLIR Releases Prototype Proof of Concept for Digital Library of the Middle East E-Research Network Registration Opens in March Welcome New Staff! Reminder: Digitizing Hidden Collections Q&A Webinar Feb. 28 Save the Date: 2018 DLF Forum CLIR Issues is produced in electronic format only. To receive the newsletter electronically, please sign up at https://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/signup. Content is not copyrighted and can be freely distributed. Follow us on Twitter @CLIRNews, @CLIRHC, @CLIRDLF Endangered Data Week Starts Feb. 26 Some 40 events are planned throughout North America in conjunction with Endangered Data Week Feb. 26–March 2, 2018. Endangered Data Week, first held in April 2017, is a collaborative effort coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, citizen science initiatives, and cultural heritage institutions to shed light on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost. The project aims to raise awareness of different types of threats to publicly available data; engage with the power dynamics involved in data creation, sharing, and retention; foster concrete skills and collaborative projects; and highlight work to make endangered data more secure and accessible. The week will kick off with a variety of activities, including a Public Data Stories Campaign on Twitter (#EndangeredData), workshops, presentations, and panel discussions that will continue through Saturday. DLF’s interest group on Government Records Transparency & Accountability will hold an #EndangeredData Week Twitter chat on Feb. 27 at 9 pm ET.  A full list of events is available here. DLF is the organizational home of Endangered Data Week. Among other volunteers, the coordinating team includes Jason A. Heppler, of the University of Nebraska at Omaha; Brandon Locke of Michigan State University; Rachel Mattson, of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and founder of the DLF interest group in Government Records Transparency & Accountability; and Sarah Melton, of Boston College Libraries. This team was selected to join Mozilla’s 2018 Open Leaders program, which recognizes individuals who “fuel the Internet Health movement by engaging more contributors in their work and connecting with other leaders in the Mozilla community.” CLIR Appoints Kevin FitzGerald Verner Clapp Distinguished Research Fellow CLIR has named Kevin FitzGerald as Verner Clapp Distinguished Research Fellow. In this role, FitzGerald will conduct research on making the cycle of academic knowledge—its creation, discovery, publication, accessibility, preservation, and reuse—more cost effective and coherently managed, while facilitating greater scholarly productivity and learning capacity. As fellow, FitzGerald will have two primary areas of research. First, he will document and analyze current and emerging digital projects that promote a federated, sustainable, global knowledge environment to preserve and make accessible data and artifacts representative of our cultural heritage. Second, he will oversee research on business models for the long-term sustainability and scaling of this global digital knowledge environment, including initial costs and eventual return on investments. In addition, FitzGerald will solicit institutional and corporate interest in the project. The Verner Clapp Distinguished Research Fellowship is named after the first president of CLIR’s predecessor organization, the Council on Library Resources. Clapp was passionate about collaboration and facilitating stronger alignment at a national scale of library and university interests to mitigate resource redundancy, costly duplication, and the prevailing fragmentation of U.S. institutions of higher education. FitzGerald has been actively involved in CLIR’s efforts to promote the wide adoption and sustainability of Coherence at Scale efforts. He recently retired from the University of North Carolina system, where he served as senior vice president and chief of staff. Previously he served as vice dean for finance and administration and chief of staff at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. An adjunct faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of Government, he was the founding director of the Center for Public Technology. He has also held senior public executive positions with the state of North Carolina and Forsyth County Government. FitzGerald has an MPA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and baccalaureate degrees in religious studies from the College of the Holy Cross and canon law from Saint Paul University. CLIR Releases Prototype Proof of Concept for Digital Library of the Middle East CLIR has released a prototype proof of concept for the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME). The prototype was developed in partnership with the Antiquities Coalition, Qatar National Library, and Stanford Libraries, and in service to and collaboration with institutional and individual collaborators throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region. Created with funding from the Whiting Foundation, the current prototype includes some 135,000 objects. The DLME will ultimately encompass text, video, photographs, archives, manuscripts, 3-D data, and maps illuminating the region’s history over 12 millennia, curated by scholars, specialists, and members of the living and vital cultures it represents. The platform, developed by Stanford Libraries, allows for the display of information in Romanized or Arabic forms. DLME partners include cultural heritage organizations worldwide who aim to contribute to a globally available resource that provides detailed descriptions and images of artifacts, along with culturally nuanced information about the objects’ history and provenance. Scholars in Cairo, school-children in California and Ankara, travelers from Buenos Aires, and customs agents fighting artifact trafficking in Singapore, among others, will benefit from access to the DLME. In conjunction with the launch, sample exhibits and case studies are being curated for the website, at https://dlme.clir.org/. Initial exhibits focus on Egyptian and Near Eastern female figurines, Qatar’s maritime history and heritage, and on how the DLME supports cultural heritage preservation. The case study recounts Egyptologist Jacco Dieleman’s discovery, made using the prototype, of papyrus fragments that had not been indexed in other papyrological resources, and illustrates the kind of discovery that the DLME hopes to reveal for users around the world. DLF E-Research Network Registration Opens in March DLF’s eResearch Network (eRN), a six-month program that brings together teams from research-supporting libraries to strengthen and advance their local data management and digital scholarship services, will open enrollment March 19. From May through October, Read More

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Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: When the Remedy is the Wrong

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Thu Mar 22 11:13:15 PDT 2018

The familiar ideal is that the remedy should “fit the wrong”. This article reveals that in copyright law, the remedies actually create the wrong. Conducting a novel study of infringement claims and case law involving statutory damages, the author explains how plaintiffs routinely employ enhanced damage claims to threaten and subdue alleged infringers into making settlement concessions. The article concludes that copyright’s statutory damage framework is a remedy in dire need of reform and provides a number of substantive and procedural policy suggestions.

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The Applicability of the Federal Rules of Evidence at Class Certification

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Thu Mar 22 21:25:55 PDT 2018

In Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that class certification requires evidentiary proof of prerequisites required by Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Yet the Court has not clarified whether the evidence offered must be admissible. This Comment addresses the split of lower courts on the issue and argues that the Federal Rules of Evidence need not apply at the class certification stage.

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Making Innovation More Competitive: The Case of Fintech

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Thu Mar 22 21:29:44 PDT 2018

Unlike in other digital arenas in which American companies are global leaders, the United States lags in consumer financial technology. The article argues that this effect can largely be attributed to the institutional design of federal regulators. Competition authority—including antitrust and the extension of business licenses—is spread across at least five agencies, none of which has the motivation and expertise to promote consumer financial competition. A reallocation of competition authority would better position regulators to navigate the future of innovation.

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Exploring the thermoelectric properties of tin selenide nanostructures

by @ Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily

Tue Mar 27 08:05:03 PDT 2018

Single crystal tin selenide is a semiconductor and an ideal thermoelectric material; it can directly convert waste heat to electrical energy or be used for cooling. When a group of researchers saw the graphene-like layered crystal structure of SnSe, they had one of those magical 'aha!' moments.

How To Lose A Constitutional Democracy

by LRIRE @ UCLA Law Review

Thu Mar 22 21:47:40 PDT 2018

Is the United States at risk of democratic backsliding? And would the Constitution prevent such decay? To many, the 2016 election campaign and the conduct of President Donald Trump may be the immediate catalyst for these questions. But structural changes to the socio-economic environment and geopolitical shifts are what make the question a truly pressing one. This article develops a taxonomy of different threats of democratic backsliding, the mechanisms whereby they unfold, and the comparative risk of each threat in the contemporary moment.

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Weekly Space Hangout – Jan 24, 2018: Paul Hildebrandt’s “First to the Moon”

by @ Weekly Space Hangout Video

Tue Jan 23 15:04:37 PST 2018

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org) Special Guest: Paul Hildebrandt (director of the film Fight for Space) joins us again to discuss his newest project, a documentary which is an historical piece about […]

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Weekly Space Hangout – Jan 24, 2018: Paul Hildebrandt’s “First to the Moon”

by @ Weekly Space Hangout Audio

Tue Jan 23 15:04:37 PST 2018

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org) Special Guest: Paul Hildebrandt (director of the film Fight for Space) joins us again to discuss his newest project, a documentary which is an historical piece about […]

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CLIR Issues 119-120

by ksmith @ CLIR

Fri Dec 01 10:47:24 PST 2017

Numbers 119-120 • September/October; November/December 2017 ISSN 1944-7639 (online version) Contents CLIR Launches New Website Recordings at Risk Third Call Opens Today Announcing New Data Curation Fellowships for Energy Economics CLIR Board Elects New Members Convening Focuses on Ways to Sustain a Public Broadcasting Archive 2017 DLF Forum Draws Record Attendance Remembering Billy Frye CLIR Issues is produced in electronic format only. To receive the newsletter electronically, please sign up at https://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/signup. Content is not copyrighted and can be freely distributed. Follow us on Twitter @CLIRNews, @CLIRHC, @CLIRDLF CLIR Launches New Website Welcome to CLIR’s new website! After catching up on the news in this edition of CLIR Issues, we hope you’ll explore the rest of our redesigned site. Read CLIR President Chuck Henry’s message, and visit our home page to view our latest news and program highlights. We’d love to know what you think. Recordings at Risk Third Call Opens Today The third call for Recordings at Risk proposals is now open. The program supports the preservation of audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. CLIR seeks proposals that can demonstrate the scholarly and public impact of the project, the urgency of undertaking reformatting to avoid risk of loss, the viability of applicants’ plans for long-term preservation, and the overall cost-effectiveness of the proposals. Applicants are required to partner with an external qualified service provider that can perform technically competent and cost-effective digital reformatting for all formats included in the project. More information about the program and a link to the online application form are available here. The third call application deadline is February 9, 2018. An informational webinar for prospective applicants will be held Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 2:00 pm ET.  Registration is not necessary. The link will be made available at https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/applicant-resources/ the day of the webinar. In October, CLIR announced awards for the second call for proposals. Sixteen institutions received funding totaling $540,200. Announcing New Data Curation Fellowships for Energy Economics CLIR has added a new track to its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: the CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for Energy Economics. The fellowships, funded by a recent grant from the Sloan Foundation, will support four energy fellows for two years starting in 2018. Fellows will have joint appointments between energy research centers and libraries at Duke University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Chicago; and University of Texas at Austin. “The ability to store, access, and reuse digital research data is critical to the advancement of energy economics, a field of study that transects a range of disciplines concerned with the supply and use of energy in societies,” said Senior Program Officer Alice Bishop. “While data in this field have the potential to support innovative solutions to both economic and social challenges, this potential is premised on the long-term curation and responsible sharing of the raw materials of research.” The Postdoctoral Fellowship Program now encompasses four tracks—data curation for energy economics, fellowships in software and research data curation for the sciences and social sciences supported by the Sloan Foundation, fellowships in data curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies funded by the Mellon Foundation, and fellowships in academic libraries, which are funded by individual host institutions. While fellows work intensely with colleagues in their own cohorts, they participate in networking, education, and training that spans all four tracks. The fellowships provide recent PhDs the opportunity to help develop research tools, resources, and services in data curation while exploring new career opportunities. Through these fellowships, CLIR seeks to raise awareness and build capacity for sound data management practice throughout the academy and to develop new models of institutional support for data curation. The deadline for fellowship applications is December 29, 2017. CLIR Board Elects New Members At its fall meeting, the CLIR Board of Directors elected six new members. Joining the board are Guy Berthiaume, Librarian and Archivist of Canada; Michele Casalini, chief executive officer of Casalini Libri; Christopher Celenza, dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University; Tess Davis, executive director of the Antiquities Coalition; Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian at University of Oxford; and Sohair Wastawy, executive director of the Qatar National Library. “CLIR’s commitment to international and inter-institutional collaboration is manifested in its governance; these highly distinguished new board members will help foster the organization’s vision of a coherent, robust, secure knowledge and cultural heritage environment for the future,” said CLIR Board Chair Kathleen Fitzpatrick. CLIR President Charles Henry added, “Our new board members bring an exciting diversity of professional experience and interests to CLIR, a rich array of insight and practical acumen that will strengthen our mission to foster and support communities of shared technical practice and provide leadership to develop sustainable information resources that augment human capacity.” Guy Berthiaume is a Canadian historian who specializes in the study of classical antiquity. Before becoming the Librarian and Archivist of Canada in June 2014, he served for five years as the chair and chief executive officer of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Michele Casalini is chief executive officer of Casalini Libri, a family-run business based in Florence, Italy, providing bibliographic search and supply services for academic libraries and supporting publishers through promotion and distribution. He has a special interest in the digital transition in humanities and social sciences academic publishing. Christopher Celenza is dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, where he is also a professor of history and classics. He came to Georgetown in 2017 from Johns Hopkins University, where he most recently served as vice provost for faculty affairs and held the Charles Homer Haskins Professorship in Classics. Tess Davis, a lawyer and archaeologist by training, serves as executive director of the Washington, DC-based Antiquities Coalition. Since 2013, she has been affiliated with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow, and before that served as executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation. Richard Ovenden is Bodley’s Librarian at University of Oxford, the 25th person to hold the title. He has served on the staff of Durham University Library, the House Read More

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330 - Going Back To The Moon

by @ Universe Today Guide to Space Audio

Wed Nov 08 15:55:52 PST 2017

On October 5th, 2017, US Vice President Mike Pence announced that NASA is going back to the Moon. He didn’t provide any other details, just some kind of moonward directed space exploration. And it turns out they won’t be the only ones. The Moon is going to be a busy busy place.

CLIR Appoints Kevin FitzGerald Verner Clapp Distinguished Research Fellow

by ksmith @ CLIR

Thu Feb 22 07:19:38 PST 2018

Washington, DC, February 22, 2018—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced the appointment of Kevin FitzGerald as Verner Clapp Distinguished Research Fellow. In this role, FitzGerald will conduct research on making the cycle of academic knowledge—its creation, discovery, publication, accessibility, preservation, and reuse—more cost effective and coherently managed, while facilitating greater scholarly productivity and learning capacity. As fellow, FitzGerald will have two primary areas of research. First, he will document and analyze current and emerging digital projects that promote a federated, sustainable, global knowledge environment to preserve and make accessible data and artifacts representative of our cultural heritage. Second, he will oversee research on business models for the long-term sustainability and scaling of this global digital knowledge environment, including initial costs and eventual return on investments. In addition, FitzGerald will solicit institutional and corporate interest in the project. The Verner Clapp Distinguished Research Fellowship is named after the first president of CLIR’s predecessor organization, the Council on Library Resources. Clapp was passionate about collaboration and facilitating stronger alignment at a national scale of library and university interests to mitigate resource redundancy, costly duplication, and the prevailing fragmentation of U.S. institutions of higher education. FitzGerald has been actively involved in CLIR’s efforts to promote the wide adoption and sustainability of Coherence at Scale efforts. He recently retired from the University of North Carolina system, where he served as senior vice president and chief of staff. Previously he served as vice dean for finance and administration and chief of staff at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. An adjunct faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of Government, he was the founding director of the Center for Public Technology. He has also held senior public executive positions with the state of North Carolina and Forsyth County Government. FitzGerald has an MPA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and baccalaureate degrees in religious studies from the College of the Holy Cross and canon law from Saint Paul University. The Council on Library and Information Resources is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning.  

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Jordin Canada named Pac-12 Player of the Week

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Mon Jan 29 15:14:43 PST 2018

Senior guard Jordin Canada earned her second Pac-12 Player of the Week honor this season after helping No. 9 UCLA to a road sweep of Washington and Washington State last weekend, the conference announced Monday. Canada averaged 20.5 points per … Continue reading →

UK Gambling Commission Considering Credit Card Ban for Online Gamblers

by Katie Barlowe @ Casino.org

Tue Mar 27 16:00:18 PDT 2018

The UK Gambling Commission is mulling a ban on credit cards for use as a deposit method for online gambling, as per a new online gambling review, published Monday. The regulator says it plans a new consumer protection drive, aimed at making online gambling “safer than ever before.” “We will consider prohibiting or restricting the...Read More

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‘Godard Mon Amour’ Trailer: Louis Garrel Is Jean-Luc Godard in Michel Hazanavicius’ Delightful Romance

by Jude Dry @ IndieWire

Tue Mar 27 09:13:51 PDT 2018

The director of "The Artist" delivers a youthful portrait of the New Wave icon in love.

Programming note: Blog on the move

by Thuc Nhi Nguyen @ Inside UCLA with Thuc Nhi Nguyen

Thu Feb 01 17:39:34 PST 2018

Greetings, friends! I probably don’t say this enough, but thank you for visiting and reading this blog. I appreciate that you dedicate your time to come here for information. As you’ve likely seen on Twitter and other internet-based places, the … Continue reading →