Boston College (Alma Mater) National Champs!!!

For Boston

Third time a charm for B.C.

By ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Sports Writer26 minutes ago

DENVER - Nathan Gerbe no longer has to be a gracious runner-up.

Twenty-four hours after missing out on the Hobey Baker award, the nation’s leading scorer led Boston College to the NCAA hockey championship that had eluded the talent-laden Eagles the last two seasons.

Gerbe scored twice and added two assists in B.C.’s 4-1 win over Notre Dame at the sold-out Pepsi Center on Saturday night as the Eagles finally hoisted the trophy after losing in the title game to Wisconsin in 2006 and Michigan State last year.

Gerbe had a hat trick in the semifinals against North Dakota and finished his command performance at the Frozen Four with five goals and three assists.

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Visit College Hockey Champs Home Web Site

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Kaye Sues State Over Judicial Salaries

By Joel Stashenko and Daniel Wise
April 11, 2008

ALBANY - Stymied for a fourth straight fiscal year in securing a pay raise for state court judges, Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye sued the Legislature and Governor David A. Paterson yesterday to force the first judicial salary increase in New York since 1999.

At about the time attorney Bernard W. Nussbaum was filing the complaint in Supreme Court in Manhattan at 60 Centre Street, Chief Judge Kaye and Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau (sent a message to the 1,300 judges saying that the exclusion of a pay raise in the budget adopted in Albany on Wednesday was the last straw.

“At this point, we are left with no choice but to take legal action to address this intolerable situation,” the judges said. They called the need to file a suit, first threatened by the chief judge in April 2007 but often cited by her since then as a last resort, as “regrettable.”

The complaint, Kaye v. Silver, names the chief judge and the Unified Court System as plaintiffs. The defendants are Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, Mr. Paterson and the State of New York.

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The New York Law Journal - Kaye Sues State Over Judicial Salaries

Law.com - A ‘Balanced Life’ Is Increasingly Rare for Lawyers, Concludes N.Y. Bar Report

A ‘Balanced Life’ Is Increasingly Rare for Lawyers, Concludes N.Y. Bar Report

Committee chair says biggest surprise was how many firms allow flexible schedules, at least on paper. But they don’t get used
Joel Stashenko
New York Law Journal
April 9, 2008
M. Catherine Richardson says she has a message for young associates she finds working at her firm’s office on Saturdays.

Their presence at their desks means they are not spending free time with their families. It is time young attorneys may think they can spare but which they really cannot, as her own life proved, she said.

“My dad died when I was 15 years old,” Richardson said. “If my mother had not put her foot down that, ‘Weekends are for your family,’ we wouldn’t have known my dad at all.”

Richardson said the cherished time she did get with her father, George Richardson, a one-time city of Syracuse corporation counsel, informed her work as chairwoman of the New York State Bar Association’s Special Committee on Balanced Lives in the Law.

The committee’s report, adopted unanimously by the Bar’s House of Delegates on Saturday, concluded that being an attorney is an ever-more demanding profession in which practitioners are finding less time for families or for the citizenship activities that have been the traditional obligation of lawyers.

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Women Lawyers–Back on Track

The ubiquitous Nicole Black has another very interesting blawg. Her goal is to provide women lawyers with resources and information about the legal field and to explore how they do/can happily and successfully fit into it.

To that end she’ll be aggregating articles relating to women in the legal profession and will provide a weekly round up of relevant and interesting posts from the legal blogosphere as well.

Nicole will post her own commentary on issues surrounding women lawyers in the form of a video blog (vlog) once each week.

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Hat Tip to LegalEase Blog.

Legal Ease Blog: Do Something - Take Action on Interruptions

***On average, it takes approximately 10 minutes to get back on track after each interruption. The vast majority of interruptions (up to 80%) are typically of ‘little’ or ‘no’ value. If you’re interrupted 20 times a day (which isn’t tough if you’re constantly checking email), you lose over two productive hours a day.***

Allison C. Shields has some helpful hints on how to manage your interruptions.

Read her entire article.***

Allison’s LEGALease blog is available through RSS and email. Her law office management insights are especially helpful for the small firm and solo practitioner.

23andMe

A web-based service that helps you read and understand your DNA. After providing a saliva sample using an at-home kit, the site provides interactive tools to shed new light on your distant ancestors, your close family and most of all, yourself.

Costs $999.00 per kit.

TaxProf Blog: Teaching Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors

Teaching Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors

For practitioners and others contemplating joining the law professor ranks, many law schools offer wonderful opportunities to transition into the legal academy with one- or two-year fellowships which allow you to enter the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference (the “meat market”) armed with teaching experience and published scholarship under your belt:

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Click here for the entire list.

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Thanks to Carolyn Elefant of My Shingle.

Dutch Police Claim First Real-Life Arrest for Virtual Burglary

The First Post: Attacked in cyberspace? Call 999

News that Dutch police have arrested a teenager for stealing 4,000 euros worth of virtual furniture from an online, virtual-world hotel is the latest bizarre twist in an ongoing cyber-saga, in which virtual world property crimes are attracting real-life law-enforcement.

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The unfortunate Dutch 17-year-old is accused of tricking players out of their passwords, and using the information to steal virtual furniture, which he and a gang of five 15-year-old accomplices were storing in their own virtual hotel rooms.

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One Laptop Per Child–Ready Now!!

 

 

 

One Laptop Per Child intends to provide a means for learning, self-expression and exploration to the nearly two billion children of the developing world with little or no access to education. While children are by nature eager for knowledge, many countries have insufficient resources to devote to education—

sometimes less than $20 a year per child. Imagine the potential that could be unlocked by giving every child in the world the tools they need to learn, no matter who they are, no matter where they live, no matter how little they may have. 

 

If you’d like to donate an XO laptop today, click here. A donation of $200 will pay for and deliver one XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, $400 will pay for and deliver two XO laptops, and so on. 

 

Starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child (”OLPC”) will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 Program for a brief window of time in North America. For $399, you will be purchasing two XO laptops—

one that will be sent to empower a child to learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child at home.

OLPC was founded and is chaired by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab fame.  

As one might expect, the computer that Negroponte and his fellow Media Lab faculty have developed is like no other computer. The XO laptop is a computer built for learning and designed specifically with children in mind. Because of this, the features deemed most valuable for its purposes are as good (and in many cases, better) than comparable features on a $1000 laptop. For instance, the XO’s screen can be viewed as clearly as a newspaper in broad daylight, and the wireless range of the XO is several times longer than your average laptop. It’s also more rugged, resilient and power efficient than most other laptops on the market. While other features, such as power and speed, cannot compare to a $1000 machine, they are excellent for the XO’s $200 price point and meet the necessary requirements for learning. The XO’

s operating system is based on a free and open source version of Linux.  

Zonbu

Zonbu: Good things come in small packages

Zonbu is a compact, ultra low power mini with all the bells and whistles:Intel-compatible ultra-low power CPU512 MB RAM 4GB flash-based local storageGraphics up to 2048 x 1536 (16 million colors, 75 Hz). Hardware graphics and MPEG2 accelerationPC-compatible ports for keyboard and mouse6 USB ports to plug-and-play all standard USB accessoriesBroadband ready: 10/100 Mbps Ethernet built-in.