David Ziff

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Maine, Oxford and Scandinavia might look nice on the telly but they're sure keeping the funeral parlours busy, according to the Sun. After totting up the figures, Radio 4's More or Less has worked out that the deadliest fictional place in the world of deadly fictional places is Cabot Cove in Maine, home town of one Jessica Fletcher (played by Angela Lansbury) in Murder, She Wrote, which has 149 murders for every 100,000 people. Ystad, home of Swedish detective Wallander, is nipping at its heels, with 110 murders per 100,000. By comparison, Oxford, which is home to Inspector Morse and his sidekick Lewis, is positively boring, with a mere three murders for every 100,000, while Midsomer, of Murders fame, (where recent deaths include the body of a tax inspector being found dumped in a barrel of cider and a local farmer brutally murdered on an ancient stone circle) has just 3.2 murders per 100,000. Handily, the Sun gives a few top tips for keeping safe if you ever find yourself in any of these places, including keeping an eye on your drink so no one can poison it and making sure you never arrive in storm. Dead-end towns indeed.
This here's a jam for all the fellas Tryin' to do what those ladies tell us Get shot down 'cause you're overzealous Play hard to get, females get jealous Ok, smarty, go to a party Girls are scantily clad and showin' body A chick walks by you wish you could sex her But you're standin' on the wall like you was Poindexter
Morocco was the first nation to recognise the fledgling United States of America as an independent nation in 1777, only a year after the country's founding.[64][65][66] In the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean were subject to attacks by other fleets from the Barbary corsairs. On 20 December 1777, Morocco's Sultan Mohammed III declared that American merchant ships would be under the protection of the sultanate and could thus enjoy safe passage. The 1786 Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship stands as the United States' oldest unbroken friendship treaty.[67][68]
Poirot with the no smoking sign through him.
A win percent/prediction chart that has Serena on the upper left and M. Joint on the upper right, but Serena indicated as up and Joint is down.
MADSEN, J.∗ (concurring)—I agree with the majority. However, I write separately to give context to the concurrence by Justice González, which reveals confidential information about the internal actions of the court. Six justices agreed with the following concurrence/dissent before the majority revised: I completely agree with the majority opinion, however I decline to join the asterisk located above footnote 1 as it is outside of our appellate record. RAP 9.1(a) (appellate courts consider only the record on review). It is also a practice with which I disagree. I understand the desire to recognize the contributions of dedicated court staff, but “[a] majority opinion is the product of a collegiate court and . . . when filed, it no longer retains any proprietary aspect so far as the drafter is concerned . . . [i]t becomes an institutional product that is owned only by the court.” Engberg v. Meyer, 820 P.2d 70, 170 (Wyo. 1991) (Thomas, J., dissenting). Similar to the United States Supreme Court, this court “is a collegial institution, and its decisions reflect the views of a majority of the sitting Justices.” Holtzman v. Schlesinger, 414 U.S. 1304, 1313, 94 S. Ct. 1, 38 L. Ed. 2d 18 (1973). I do not mean to detract from the work of law clerks, student volunteers, and staff—they are invaluable resources and essential to the work of this court. I write separately because a majority opinion represents the judgment of the court speaking with one voice, not the views or work product of any individual justice or clerk.1 At best, attribution to a law clerk in a majority opinion may create confusion and invite questions that are left unanswered in the court’s opinion. E.g., Parker v. Connors Steel Co., 855 F.2d 1510, 1524 (11th Cir. 1988) (the practice of attributing credit to a law clerk “may erroneously lead some to believe that the law clerk decided the case”). Law clerks serve vital and instrumental roles; however, it is the justices themselves who make the final determin…
GORDON McCLOUD, J. (concurring)—The debate in this court over a withdrawn footnote has now delayed the issuance of this opinion for more than a month. The debate about whether to adopt one particular academic convention for expressing gratitude in published articles, about whether that method of expressing gratitude implicates a particular heritage or value system, and about whether one justice needs to speak up for another justice who is more than capable of speaking up for herself is certainly interesting. But there’s another debate going on in this case, and it is also interesting: whether a Department of Ecology rule implementing an aspect of the Climate Commitment Act1 is lawful. Our main job is to resolve that legal dispute. When and how to express gratitude, whether and when to elevate transparency, and how best to foster respect for the court are also important. And I welcome the continuation of that discussion elsewhere. But not in the course of debating a withdrawn footnote in an otherwise unanimous decision.
GONZÁLEZ, J. (concurring) — Deru kui wa utareru (出る杭は打たれる).1 No justice on this court could do their work without the assistance of brilliant and hardworking law clerks and other staff. I have signed the majority opinion written with the assistance of the author’s outstanding law clerk, Bailey Warrior Pahang. Justice Montoya-Lewis will leave this court in January 2027 when her term ends since she has decided not to run for another term. She has done exemplary work these past seven years. Readers of our recent opinions may have noticed that she has been thanking her staff in her opinions without any problems except for an
L. Maria Child, Introduction to Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 3, 3–4 (L. Maria Child & Jean F. Yellin eds., Harvard Univ. Press 1987) (1861). Henry M. Hart & Herbert Wechsler, Preface to the First Edition of Paul M. Bator et al., Hart and Wechsler’s the Federal Courts and the Federal System, at xxvii, xxx (3d ed. 1988).
Me getting a 0 from Wordlebot for Plica as a guess for Wordle. It would have guessed ALIBI.
12 years ago. A post from Bryan Garner on old Twitter. QT "@sfmnemonic: I'd be startled if new Benghazi panels turned up anything on the scale of Watergate." Garner responds: Me too, bc stonewalling is so good.
optical illusion with green and blue hearts that are actually the same color.
CONCLUSION The “Second Amendment is neither a regulatory straightjacket nor a regulatory blank check.” N.Y. State Rifle, 597 U.S. at 30. Under the Second Amendment, the temporary firearm prohibition for recidivist drunk drivers in RCW 9.41.040(2)(a)(i)(D) is constitutional without an individualized assessment of McLellan’s or Holloway’s dangerousness. We reverse and remand to the superior court for entry of judgment on the pleadings in favor of the State.
Clip of "Greed is Good" but it's The Bluebook instead of Greed.
Not long after I arrived at Brown in the Fall of 1992, I went up to talk to him after a lecture class I was taking with him and also to get back a paper I’d written. As he handed me the paper, he told me with a sort of glancing wince that I needed to learn how to write clearly, or just better. He may have just said, you don’t write very well. (I may still be trying to soften the moment in my recollection more than 30 years later.) I had not been aware this was a problem. So it was a predictably crushing thing to hear. I asked him what he suggested, as we both stood there at the front of the lecture hall, now with most of the undergraduates filed out. He told me to get a book called Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. I did that. I got it and pored over it and it ended up becoming foundational to pretty much all my understanding of how to write.
Wood, Creation of the American Republic
Fievel Mousekewitz
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Young was born in Wimbledon, London, to Jamaican immigrant parents. He left the United Kingdom at the age of three and later moved to Queens, New York, when he was eight years old.[1] Young attended Hunter College High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (he was honored at the school's 2018 convocation).[2] He went on to earn a degree in economics from the University of Southern California (USC).
12-year-old FB post. Me: This is an option for lawprof karaoke tomorrow. Just sayin'. Image: Video still for the music video for Kreayshawn's Gucci Gucci.
Book page: Dress for Success I don't give a damn what you wear. Just make sure the brief is good. Chapter Eight
Portrait of Abigail Adams that does not seem to be a real portrait of her?
Search for ewe done it and Google gives me this It sounds like a major milestone just got knocked out! Whether you finally aced a tough project, reached a massive fitness goal, or just wrapped up an epic accomplishment, a huge congratulations is in order. You absolutely nailed it!
Seattle bloody mary with a burger in it.
Bloody Mary with a burger on it.
Three different versions of a Z curve fractal.
Screen cap of iSchool event story. Picture caption: Ph.D. student Kennedy Orwa discusses a research project poster.
Indiana Jones scene: But in the English alphabet, “Israel” starts with an “I.”
The terrible strike call to end the DR-US game, but instead of showing a strike, it says "One Battle After Another"
Fair enough. If we force a last turtle, the most honest answers, ranked by my preference: Nothing. The last turtle floats in a void, unsupported, existing without cause or foundation. This is actually the position most modern physics flirts with — the universe simply is, a brute fact, requiring no substrate beneath it. It's unsatisfying, but probably true. Itself. The last turtle's existence is self-explanatory — it is its own cause (causa sui, as Spinoza would say). This is the move most conceptions of God make. It doesn't fully satisfy logically, but it at least closes the loop rather than leaving things dangling in a void. Something categorically different — not a turtle at all, not even a "thing" in the normal sense. Maybe the ground beneath the last turtle is pure mathematical necessity, or consciousness, or a principle so fundamental it doesn't need support because it is the precondition for support meaning anything. This is the most intellectually ambitious answer.
No. 103800-3 MADSEN, J. (concurring)—I completely agree with the majority opinion. I write separately because I cannot join the asterisk note as it is outside of our appellate record. RAP 9.1(a) (appellate courts consider only the record on review). Accordingly, I respectfully concur. ______________________________________ Madsen, J.
In fact, ordinary speakers used “miscarriage” to refer to problems with mail caused by intentional misconduct. When a mail pouch was “stolen,” a newspaper reported that the letters “[m]iscarried.” Kansas City Star, Oct. 20, 1911, p. 6A. When a priest failed to receive a summons because it was “burned by an ecclesiastic,” the headline read “His Letter Miscarried.” The Carbondale Leader, Jan. 3, 1893, p. 1. And when litigants’ documents failed to arrive, courts classified “miscarriage” of mail as an excuse, without any suggestion as to whether the carrier acted intentionally. See, e.g., Lake v. Lake, 63 Wyo. 375, 402, 182 P. 2d 824, 835