Date: Tuesday February 28, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM ET (60 minutes) This quarterly case law update from Fios explores recent court decisions related to e-discovery, the impact these cases are already having and may have in the future, and tactics and strategies organizations should consider to help control their e-discovery risks. Rebecca James is joined by special guests Ralph Losey, National e-Discovery Counsel and Chair of the Electronic Discovery Practice Group at Jackson Lewis, and Seth Row, Partner and e-Discovery Consultant at Parsons Farnell & Grein. The panel discusses highlights of…
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When Can a Doctor’s Note Excuse You From Sanctions?
eLessons Learned21 Jan 2012 | 12:19 amNot communicating effectively with clients and counsel about exactly what versions of documents are required for trial can be extremely detrimental, even putting important cases at risk for dismissal and harsh sanctions. However, as in the case of Bull v. UPS, the increasingly technological nature of the world puts the validity these sanctions for “original” [...] -
Contribute to the Venezuelan 3.0 Licenses
Creative Commons » Commons News2 Feb 2012 | 10:31 amThe Venezuelan 3.0 license draft is open for public discussion! We welcome all those who are interested to view the Venezuela BY-NC-SA draft and contribute their comments this month. The next step for the Venezuela team will be to incorporate changes from the public discussion and to prepare the remaining five licenses for a complete Venezuela 3.0 license suite. A huge thank you to CC’s Venezuelan Affiliate, Centro Nacional de Tecnologías de Información (CNTI) and to the CC Venezuela Team led by John Piñango for all their hard work! A reminder to all that Creative Commons is wrapping up… -
Federal Judge Nixes EEOC Breast Milk Pumping Case, Finds No COA re ‘Lactation Discrmination’
ABA Journal Daily News8 Feb 2012 | 4:01 pmA federal judge in Texas says a mother was not protected by law from losing her job even if it's true she was fired for asking to pump breast milk at work for her baby. "Lactation is not pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition," and hence there is no cause of action for "lactation discrimination" under federal civil rights law protecting pregnant women, said U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes in a written opinion (PDF) last week in the Houston case, to which KTRK provides a link. "Discrimination because of pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition is illegal. -
Viktor Bout Wants Out Of Restrictive Jail Conditions
Law Blog8 Feb 2012 | 3:16 pmA suspected Russian arms dealer convicted last year of conspiring to sell surface-to-air missiles and other weapons in a U.S. sting operation wants to be held under less restrictive conditions while he’s awaiting sentencing. Viktor Bout, a former Soviet air force officer, no longer wants to be held in the special housing unit, or SHU, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan. He has been held there since he was extradited from Thailand in 2010 after two years of legal wrangling. His lawyer, Albert Dayan, said in a letter to the court that Bout, 45 years old, is…
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Discovery Resources
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New Fios Webcast: e-Discovery Case Law Update – Winter/Spring 2012
6 Feb 2012 | 12:04 pmDate: Tuesday February 28, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM ET (60 minutes) This quarterly case law update from Fios explores recent court decisions related to e-discovery, the impact these cases are already having and may have in the future, and tactics and strategies organizations should consider to help control their e-discovery risks. Rebecca James is joined by special guests Ralph Losey, National e-Discovery Counsel and Chair of the Electronic Discovery Practice Group at Jackson Lewis, and Seth Row, Partner and e-Discovery Consultant at Parsons Farnell & Grein. The panel discusses highlights of… -
2012: The Year Ahead in e-Discovery
27 Jan 2012 | 3:32 pmThis time last year, e-discovery future telling was in full swing. Looking back, how did some of the top predictions of 2011 pan out? Check out the success rate here. So, what’s coming in 2012? The weather forecasting groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, will not see his shadow on February 2 at Gobbler’s Knob – winter will not be extended! Phil doesn’t do e-discovery forecasts, but there’s no shortage of well-known voices from the industry making their best guesses and sharing their predictions. Over the past few weeks, blogs, tweets and articles have been forecasting what’s to come. No… -
Ethics and Legal Technology: LegalTech New York
20 Jan 2012 | 9:31 amAs e-discovery evolves and new legal technology emerges, practitioners need to invest in continued learning to maintain competence in the field and compliance with ethical standards. To help you stay current on case law, tools and rules impacting e-discovery and keep up with ethics standards, LegalTech New York (LTNY), is providing excellent educational tracks, including an opportunity to earn 5.5 units of ethics credit. Ethics, generally, is a set of rules for “right conduct” or a system of moral principles. What determines the “rightness” or “wrongness”… -
2012: Eye on the States (New Year, New Rules)
11 Jan 2012 | 11:32 amConnecticut rings in the new year with new rules, joining the pack of some 30 states now basing e-discovery rules in whole or in part on the 2006 Amendments. Florida and Massachusetts are considering new rules and the District of Columbia is awaiting approval of pending proposed rules. Also, Oregon has some minor amendments going into effect this year and Pennsylvania has some proportionality concepts brewing. A dozen states remain without action. Tom Allman, a leading state e-discovery expert, joined the year-end Fios webcast and presented updates on state e-discovery activity. He discussed… -
e-Discovery Project Management presentation at Litigation Summit and Expo
17 Nov 2011 | 10:29 amOver the past year, legal project management has become a popular topic at e-discovery conferences, legal education courses and white papers. A recent example could be found at the Litigation Summit and Expo (#LITSUM) held this week (Nov. 15-16). The session, entitled “Legal Project Management: Best Practices for eDiscovery Projects,” was presented by Bobby Malhotra, Staff Counsel at Munger, Tolles & Olson and our own Joanna Harrison, Sales Consultant at Fios. Thank you Bobby and Joanna for a very informative presentation and for sharing best practices and practical tips for…
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eLessons Learned
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When Can a Doctor’s Note Excuse You From Sanctions?
21 Jan 2012 | 12:19 amNot communicating effectively with clients and counsel about exactly what versions of documents are required for trial can be extremely detrimental, even putting important cases at risk for dismissal and harsh sanctions. However, as in the case of Bull v. UPS, the increasingly technological nature of the world puts the validity these sanctions for “original” [...] -
Attorneys Beware – Attempting to Erase the Past on Facebook Can Result in Costly Sanctions
5 Jan 2012 | 9:37 pmTo delete or not to delete – that is the question Facebook users and their counsel must carefully contemplate when responding to eDiscovery requests. Making the wrong decision can be costly for users and their counsel as was the case in Lester v. Allied Concrete Co. In Lester, when served with a demand for the [...] -
Finders Keepers? What Not to Do With Inadvertently Received Privileged Information
29 Nov 2011 | 2:00 amEver find something you knew did not belong to you, but kept it anyway? If you have, perhaps you did so under the guidance of the old adage “Finders keepers, losers weepers.” The adage can be applied in a multitude of ways to a variety of things. One of the more humorous situations in which [...] -
Supreme Court Deciding Whether to Occupy 1984 — Is Your Privacy at Stake in US v. Jones?
14 Nov 2011 | 7:34 amOn November 8, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments for its review of U.S. v. Jones (U.S. v. Maynard), the Fourth Amendment-focused case which has garnered much attention in the news over the past few weeks. The issue before the Court is whether the warrantless use of a GPS tracking device by the police violates a defendant’s Fourth Amendment [...] -
Time to Get Physical (Hard Drives)
9 Nov 2011 | 12:08 pmOn May 4, 2010, ANZ Advanced Technologies (plaintiff) was ordered to produce all hard drives and storage devices used by two of the company’s officers (Irfan Sheriff and Rakesh Vashee) for forensic analysis and ESI production. ANZ moved to modify the order seeking to substitute forensic images of the devices for the devices themselves. The [...]
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Creative Commons » Commons News
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Contribute to the Venezuelan 3.0 Licenses
2 Feb 2012 | 10:31 amThe Venezuelan 3.0 license draft is open for public discussion! We welcome all those who are interested to view the Venezuela BY-NC-SA draft and contribute their comments this month. The next step for the Venezuela team will be to incorporate changes from the public discussion and to prepare the remaining five licenses for a complete Venezuela 3.0 license suite. A huge thank you to CC’s Venezuelan Affiliate, Centro Nacional de Tecnologías de Información (CNTI) and to the CC Venezuela Team led by John Piñango for all their hard work! A reminder to all that Creative Commons is wrapping up… -
COMMUNIA’s response to the proposed amendments to PSI Directive
2 Feb 2012 | 10:18 amThis post is an adaptation from the COMMUNIA International Association blog and is cross-posted at the Open Knowledge Foundation website. Creative Commons and the Open Knowledge Foundation are institutional members of COMMUNIA. The mission of COMMUNIA is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society and with policymakers. The European Commission Public Sector Information Directive, which describes the conditions under which European public sector information (PSI) should be made available for reuse by the public, has… -
12th Annual Media That Matters Festival – Call for Entries!
1 Feb 2012 | 12:12 pmArts Engine‘s annual Media That Matters Festival — now in its 12th year — is accepting new entries for short films! In addition to being a “premier showcase for short films with big messages” Media That Matters will give filmmakers the opportunity to connect with educators, activists, and nonprofits around the globe, helping to move communities towards social change. If selected, your film will be screened at the Fall festival and featured via a “multi-platform campaign combining online streaming with personalized screenings,” and made available under… -
Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online by the Open Knowledge Foundation
25 Jan 2012 | 11:01 amThe Open Knowledge Foundation has published a nifty guide on the basics of Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online. You can skim the guide in well under ten minutes, and it includes useful links and accompanying descriptions to online collections where PD works can be found, including Europeana, the Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg. It also contains quite a few references to Creative Commons and succinct explanations of the relevant CC tools, such as the Public Domain Mark and the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. The guide, like all articles at The Public Domain Review, is… -
Final Public Comment Period on LRMI Draft Specification
24 Jan 2012 | 12:01 pmAs you may recall, the LRMI project is creating a educational metadata vocabulary that will hopefully plug into the Schema.org metadata framework to be used by the major search engines. Last week, the LRMI Technical Working Group released version 0.7 of the LRMI specification and with it, began the last public comment period ending January 31st. Barring any issues that need to be addressed, this will be the version that is submitted to the Schema.org community for review and inclusion. Please provide any input on the LRMI mailing list or on the web forum at LRMI.net.
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ABA Journal Daily News
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Federal Judge Nixes EEOC Breast Milk Pumping Case, Finds No COA re ‘Lactation Discrmination’
8 Feb 2012 | 4:01 pmA federal judge in Texas says a mother was not protected by law from losing her job even if it's true she was fired for asking to pump breast milk at work for her baby. "Lactation is not pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition," and hence there is no cause of action for "lactation discrimination" under federal civil rights law protecting pregnant women, said U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes in a written opinion (PDF) last week in the Houston case, to which KTRK provides a link. "Discrimination because of pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition is illegal. -
Could Deaths of Two Boys in Supervised-Visitation House Fire Have Been Prevented?
8 Feb 2012 | 3:05 pmIn the aftermath of a terrible tragedy, observers are wondering what, if anything, could have been done to prevent two boys, ages 5 and 7, from dying along with their father after his Washington state home erupted in flames during a supervised visit on Sunday. Little, it seems, likely could have circumvented the deaths after Josh Powell shut the door on the caseworker assigned to come inside and supervise the visit, Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Ed Troyer told the Seattle Times. However, Troyer said the sheriff's department it is unhappy about the approximately seven… -
Top Texas Criminal Court OKs Use of Defendant’s MySpace Pages to Convict Him in Slaying
8 Feb 2012 | 1:19 pmDespite an absence of forensic evidence, Ronnie Tienda Jr. was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison in the slaying of a 23-year-old man in a 2007 Dallas freeway shootout. The guns that were fired in the incident were never recovered, nor was there a bullet match. However, Tienda, who was present at the crime scene, according to evidence presented at his Dallas County trial, was convicted after the judge allowed in evidence of postings on Tienda's MySpace account. Today, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Tienda's conviction concerning the death of David Valadez, finding… -
Pa. Lawyer Gets 1-Year Suspension for Facilitating Now-Disbarred Partner’s Thefts from Clients
8 Feb 2012 | 12:39 pmA Pennsylvania attorney has been suspended from practice for one year because he failed to act promptly and sufficiently to deal with red flags concerning his law partner's conversion of client settlement funds for his own personal use. Among other signs that should have alerted Lawrence L. Rubin was his partner's statement that he intended to refinance his home to make clients whole, a disciplinary board said in a report and recommendation (PDF) attached to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's order on Monday. Although Rubin had trouble getting a grip on the situation initially, he eventually… -
Judge May Avoid Ruling on the Merits in Suit Seeking to Allow Law Firm Investors
8 Feb 2012 | 12:03 pmJacoby & Meyers may have failed in its personal appeal to a federal judge overseeing its suit seeking to pave the way for nonlawyers to invest in New York law firms. Jacoby had asserted it needs a judge with a “profile in courage to ensure that antiquated barriers” are cast aside. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan indicated he’s not likely to hear the case, report the New York Law Journal and Thomson Reuters News & Insight. Kaplan said he would either dismiss the suit for lack of standing or he would abstain from hearing it because state courts…
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Law Blog
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Viktor Bout Wants Out Of Restrictive Jail Conditions
8 Feb 2012 | 3:16 pmA suspected Russian arms dealer convicted last year of conspiring to sell surface-to-air missiles and other weapons in a U.S. sting operation wants to be held under less restrictive conditions while he’s awaiting sentencing. Viktor Bout, a former Soviet air force officer, no longer wants to be held in the special housing unit, or SHU, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan. He has been held there since he was extradited from Thailand in 2010 after two years of legal wrangling. His lawyer, Albert Dayan, said in a letter to the court that Bout, 45 years old, is… -
Creative Sentencing: Red Lobster and Bowling
8 Feb 2012 | 1:57 pmMaybe you saw this gem from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about a man who was sentenced to a date night: A marital spat that began when a Plantation man didn’t wish his wife a happy birthday and then escalated into a domestic violence charge, resulted in an unusual bond court ruling by a perceptive judge. Instead of setting bond or keeping Joseph Bray locked up, [the judge] ordered him to treat his spouse to dinner, a bowling date and then to undergo marriage counseling. “He’s going to stop by somewhere and he’s going to get some flowers,” Judge John “Jay” Hurley said during… -
Spitzer And Breuer Spar On NYU Law Panel
8 Feb 2012 | 1:40 pmDOJ’s Lanny Breuer You’d think Lanny Breuer, head of the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice, would want to avoid a panel discussion called “Crooks on the Loose? Did Felons Get a Free Pass in the Financial Crisis?” Apparently not. Breuer walked into a brawl Wednesday when he sat on the New York University School of Law panel with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, an outspoken critic of the Justice Department’s lack of criminal prosecutions in the wake of the subprime mortgage collapse. Shots were fired almost immediately when the moderator Neil Barofsky, a… -
The Daily Writing Sample: A ‘Scraggly Expression of Time’
8 Feb 2012 | 11:09 amThis WS comes to us via Howard Bashman at How Appealing. In a dissent Tuesday, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit let loose his inner grammarian on sentencing guidelines for defendants who illegally re-enter the country after being deported. He wrote, In the richness of the English language, few things can create as much mischief as piling prepositional phrase upon prepositional phrase. The child says, “I saw the man on the hill with the telescope.” Did the child use the telescope to see the man on the hill? Or did the child see a man — or even… -
Canada: Constitutional Superpower?
8 Feb 2012 | 10:31 amAdam Liptak at the Times had a fascinating story yesterday on the waning influence of the U.S. Constitution. It was based largely on a new study by David S. Law of Washington University in St. Louis and Mila Versteeg of the University of Virginia. The gist: Our founding document is passe. It is less imitated these days, and to the extent it is still an example, the Constitution is more likely to serve as what-not-to-do guide, the authors say. These are harsh truths. Why is the Constitution losing its sway internationally? The authors point to criticism that the document is out of…
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How Appealing
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"Appeals court halts deportation of 7 immigrants"
8 Feb 2012 | 2:10 pm"Appeals court halts deportation of 7 immigrants": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "A San Francisco-based federal appeals court is putting the Obama administration's new immigration directive to the test by halting the deportation of seven immigrants alleged to be in the country illegally." -
"California's Gay Marriage Ban Case May Be Quickly Headed to Supreme Court"
8 Feb 2012 | 10:14 am"California's Gay Marriage Ban Case May Be Quickly Headed to Supreme Court": Bloomberg News has this report. And today's broadcast of NPR's "Morning Edition" contained an audio segment entitled "Calif. Ban On Gay Marriage Ruled Unconstitutional." -
"US Supreme Court won't permit Ohio execution"
8 Feb 2012 | 8:40 am"US Supreme Court won't permit Ohio execution": The Associated Press has this report. -
Sesame Street: Sonia Sotomayor -- "The Justice Hears a Case."
8 Feb 2012 | 8:33 amSesame Street: Sonia Sotomayor -- "The Justice Hears a Case." Video of Justice Sotomayor's recent appearance on "Sesame Street" is now available online via YouTube at this link. My earlier coverage appears here. -
"Experts: Marriage ban's path to high court unclear."
8 Feb 2012 | 4:49 am"Experts: Marriage ban's path to high court unclear." The Associated Press has this report.
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The Seattle Times: Local News
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Gay-marriage bill passes House, awaits Gregoire's signature
8 Feb 2012 | 4:54 pmThe state House on Wednesday approved legislation legalizing gay marriage, voting 55-43. The bill now goes to Gov. Chris Gregoire for her signature. -
Washington's new coaches finally settling in
8 Feb 2012 | 4:46 pmJustin Wilcox was first contacted about becoming the new defensive coordinator on a Saturday evening, was in Seattle by Monday and on the road recruiting on behalf of the Huskies by Tuesday night. -
Washington's new coaches finally settling in
8 Feb 2012 | 4:43 pmJustin Wilcox was first contacted about leaving Tennessee to become the new defensive coordinator at Washington on a Saturday evening, was in Seattle by Monday and on the road recruiting on behalf of the Huskies by Tuesday night. -
Quotes from the WA House debate on gay marriage
8 Feb 2012 | 4:38 pm"With today's vote, we tell the nation that Washington state will no longer deny our citizens the opportunity to marry the person they love. We tell every child of same-sex couples that their family is every bit as equal and important as all other families in our state. And we take a major step toward completing a long and important journey to end discrimination based on sexual orientation." - Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire. -
Agency will investigate 911 call in Powell fire
8 Feb 2012 | 4:31 pmA social worker pleaded with a 911 dispatcher throughout a nearly seven-minute call to quickly get police to Josh Powell's house after he locked himself inside with his two sons.
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seattlepi.com: Local News
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Washington state House approves same-sex marriage
8 Feb 2012 | 3:40 pmThe state House of Representatives, after two hours of intense debate, voted 55-43 on Wednesday to make Washington the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage. The legislation passed the State Senate last week, and goes to Gov. Chris Gregoire who has promised to sign it into law. Gregoire, one of several Catholic governors who support marriage equality, watched House debate from the wings. “This is truly a historic day in Washington state and one where I couldn’t be more proud,” Gregoire said in a statement. “With today’s vote, we tell the nation that Washington state… -
Hipsters of the future (because everyone gets old)
8 Feb 2012 | 12:57 pmHere's something to ponder: If hipsters never grow up, will they just be old wrinkly people who drink cheap beer and talk about how "sick" everything is? (That word might revert back to its original meaning when you're past 70, I'd imagine.) This video is courtesy of promote Social Media Week 2012. The event snubbed Seattle in favor of cities like Miami and Washington D.C., but the promo is still fun. -
Charge: Treasurer pilfered Police Guild fund for fallen Lakewood officers
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911 tapes from Josh Powell house explosion
8 Feb 2012 | 12:15 pmPolice released 911 calls that revealed a social worker's frantic attempts to alert authorities that Josh Powell had locked himself in his home with his two young sons, Charlie and Braden Powell, moments before he set off a huge fire that killed all inside a Pierce County home. "He exploded the house!" the social worker tells a dispatcher at one point. Powell had been a suspect in the death of his missing wife, Susan Powell, in Utah. -
Is Jeff Bezos paying for a racist, anti-abortion search engine?
8 Feb 2012 | 12:15 pmAmazon founder Jeff Bezos is in the news today because of a Gizmodo story that calls one of his many investments "bigoted, racist and anti-abortion." The story exposes some of the slanted answers given by answer service ChaCha.com. The site helps powers Iris, an Android-platform answer app that utilizes voice-recognition technology. (Think iPhone's Siri, but for Android.) Gizmodo writer Jesus Diaz asked ChaCha several controversial questions about abortion, race and even rape -- and got some interesting answers.
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The Seattle Times: Mariners Blog
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Study shows link between payroll and wins not as big as before, but teams like Mariners still face bigger obstacles than others
8 Feb 2012 | 1:04 pmRead an interesting study by Dave Studeman over at The Hardball Times that shows the correlation between team payroll and wins has dwindled to the lowest it's been historically for quite some time in baseball. Now, before any of you go planning World Series parades, it's important to take the study in its proper context and not read stuff into it that wasn't stated. The study looked at regular season wins for all teams and the payrolls they carry and compared it to previous points in the game's history. The study concludes that the correlation between wins and payroll is indeed relatively… -
Sports and media expert agrees Mariners in line for big financial windfall in coming years
7 Feb 2012 | 9:46 pmI've been writing for a while now about how the Mariners are in line for a big financial windfall in a few years because of a 2015 opt-out clause in their regional sports network (RSN) deal with ROOT Sports. Today, I had a conversation with Adam Chase, a Washington, D.C-based lawyer with the Media and Information Technologies practice group and Sports Law practice group at the DowLohnes legal firm. Chase has spent years working on sports licensing and media deals and figures there isn't much chance the Mariners will fail to land a big money boost now that they have a contractual chance to… -
Looking at the future: a Mariners, NBA, NHL sports network?
7 Feb 2012 | 7:00 pmPlenty of buzz around the city about the possibility of an NHL and NBA team coming here within the next couple of years. That potential arrival of two new sports franchises will also coincide with the Mariners getting their opt-out clause on their current TV deal with ROOT Sports in 2015. As we have seen in the past, you don't just start negotiating such deals on Dec. 31, 2014. The groundwork will have to be laid well in advance. So, what do the Mariners do? Well, first off, they aren't about to tell you, silly. That much hasn't changed. But with the value of local media deals soaring in… -
Mariners gain some experience, back-end bullpen help with two signings
6 Feb 2012 | 10:44 pmThe Mariners not only added Taiwanese left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo to their midst, as expected, earlier today, but then tacked on veteran right hander Shawn Camp. Both have been given one-year major league deals by the Mariners, meaning they will very likely be on the squad that leaves spring training. For a team that had no real southpaws in the bullpen when the winter began -- other than long relief types -- the Mariners now have multiple. Between George Sherrill and Kuo, the team has lefties who can deal with both situational and set-up roles. I spoke to GM Jack Zduriencik about this today… -
Leadoff spot and implications for rest of Mariners lineup
6 Feb 2012 | 11:31 amWrote on Saturday night that the M's were going strong after lefthanded reliever Hong Chih-Quo. Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times is now reporting he's signed a one-year deal with the Mariners. You'd have to be illiterate to take an extended glance at the tea leaves and come away with the impression Ichiro will be batting leadoff to start the 2012 season. The Mariners have been dropping none-too-subtle hints for a while now about moving Ichiro out of his customary No. 1 role and the implications will be felt elsewhere in the lineup. For instance, the decision will likely make it difficult for…
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The Onion
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TV Listings: Cryojennifer
8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pmCW 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST Tonight: The beautiful but absentminded Cryojennifer completely messes up a sales report at work, makes the mistake of questioning her sister's weight, and burns a meal she cooks for her boyfriend, realizing once again that the o... -
Letters To The Editor: Cloning Update
8 Feb 2012 | 3:15 pmDear The Onion, Where are scientists at on cloning? Since the sheep it seems like there’s been nothing. Paul Goethe, Rochester, NY -
EL PASO, TX—A cockroach living under the fridge in Nelson and Elizabeth Gebler's kitchen headed to work thinking, "Cockroach’s gotta make a living."
8 Feb 2012 | 2:00 pmEL PASO, TX—A cockroach living under the fridge in Nelson and Elizabeth Gebler's kitchen headed to work thinking, "Cockroach’s gotta make a living." -
Study Reveals Majority Of Suicides Occur While Trying To Put Fitted Sheet On Bed
8 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pmBALTIMORE—According to a study published Monday in Psychological Bulletin, more than 83 percent of suicides take place when an individual is faced with the task of putting a fitted sheet onto a mattress. -
Area Woman Becomes Nation's First Grandma Courtney
8 Feb 2012 | 11:30 amArea Woman Becomes Nation's First Grandma Courtney
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Seattle Food Geek
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Ultrasonic Absinthe Mist Cocktail
29 Jan 2012 | 8:54 pmIt must be ultrasonic month here at Seattle Food Geek headquarters, ‘cause I’ve got another high-frequency food hack. I recently bought an ultrasonic mist generator to use as a humidifier for a meat curing chamber I’m working on. These little devices emit ultrasonic waves (around 20KHz) which cause the surrounding water to cavitate into a very fine mist without raising the water temperature. Since the mist is so fine (about 1 micron) and is instantaneous and low-temperature, I thought it might be a great way to disperse aromatics around a food or beverage. I ran… -
A Little More Food Photography at Canlis
22 Jan 2012 | 1:01 pmYesterday I had the pleasure of photographing (and eating!) the Winter Tasting Menu at Canlis with Brian Canlis. Again, Chef Jason Franey the team at Canlis are absolutely killing it. Here’s a look at what they’ve been up to, but the pictures don’t begin to do justice to the experience of dining at Canlis. I can’t stress this enough: if you haven’t been, go. If you haven’t been recently, you’re in for a whole new experience. Big thanks to Brian and the entire Canlis crew. Click through for photos of the whole menu… Above & below: smoke… -
Experimenting with the PolyScience Sonicprep™ Ultrasonic Homogenizer
17 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pmThe nice folks at PolyScience generously loaned me a Sonicprep ultrasonic homogenizer for a few weeks of experimentation. If the last sentence sounded like gibberish, it’s probably a good idea to read Jethro’s post on our experiments for a little background knowledge. The Sonicprep is a device that emits powerful ultrasonic energy through the tip of a metal probe, into your food. Fundamentally, high-amplitude ultrasound is really good at two things: making stable emulsions and smashing molecules together. The Sonicprep excels in both applications, but has a few nuances… -
Cryopoached Coconut Meringue with Powdered Strawberry
31 Dec 2011 | 1:09 pmJethro and I were asked to create a dish with “wow factor” for a group of scientists for an upcoming event. We wanted to craft a bite that’s first and foremost delicious, but also illustrates some of the hallmarks of modernist cooking: textural transformation, surprise, and use of unconventional techniques to refine and reinterpret something traditional. It also had to be practical and economical, since we’ll be serving nearly 200 people in two hours. This meant quick plating time, low portion cost, and minimal prep. After some brainstorming, we decided that a… -
Sous Vide Christmas Goose
22 Dec 2011 | 10:00 amMy favorite part of any bird is the dark meat – besides the skin, dark meat is the only real “flavor country” found in foul. I’m particularly fond of duck because both the leg and breast meat is darker than you’ll find in a chicken or a turkey. But ducks are relatively small and, shall we say, flat-chested. A goose, however, is a much more curvaceous creature and offers quite a lot to love. Like ducks, geese fly quite a lot. And just like in any other animal (that I’m aware of), the more a muscle needs to work, the darker its meat will be. So, geese end up being an…
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Orangette
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Dear World,
7 Feb 2012 | 7:55 amI am writing to you, once again, from my friend Ben’s dining room.When I was here last August, writing my brains out, I had a hunch that a return visit might be helpful before my manuscript deadline. Turns out, that was correct. In Ohio, there are no Brandons to distract me, no Delanceys to worry about, no Jacks or Alices to bark suddenly at absolutely nothing and, boom, scare the organs out -
I am here to tell you
25 Jan 2012 | 11:30 pmFirst things first: thank you for the well wishes! That cold was a real heavyweight champion, the type that takes you down so hard that, for five or six days, your eyelids never make it above half-mast. I’m so glad that’s behind me. Though I did sneeze twice as I was typing that last sentence.A couple of years ago, not long after we opened Delancey, back in the days when I was still cooking -
You can count on me
11 Jan 2012 | 10:51 pmI am writing to you today with a wool scarf wound around my entire upper body and a wool blanket tied at my waist. I have a cold, and Brandon has a cold, and before that, he had food poisoning. We are a house under siege. That, however, has not prevented me from getting that salted chocolate cookie recipe that you wanted. Nor has it stopped me from eating said salted chocolate cookies. You -
December 24
28 Dec 2011 | 4:34 pmWhenever we spend the holidays with my relatives in northern California, we eat Dungeness crab on Christmas Eve. I can’t remember when the tradition was started, but when Brandon and I got together, I introduced him to it. He was still mostly a vegetarian then, and he’d never tasted crab, but he was curious about it - enough to grab a couple of crab legs and, however awkwardly, get himself -
In my better moments
15 Dec 2011 | 12:16 amAbout three weeks ago, I printed out all the drafts I’ve written so far for my next book, and then I spent three weeks avoiding reading them. I finally got up the courage on Sunday night. I poured myself a beer, sat down at the dining room table, and read through all of it. Afterward, I wanted to stab myself in the eye. But that didn’t seem like it would make the manuscript any better, so I
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Cooking with Amy: A Food Blog
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Winter 2012 Fancy Food Show Cookies
7 Feb 2012 | 1:26 pmAt the Winter 2012 Fancy Food Show there were quite a number of truly great cookies. Last year I discovered Vin Tucci, biscotti made with wine, for pairing with wine and also Cookies and Corks cookies designed to pair with wine. This year in the new products showplace I tried Napa Cookie Company's Wine Snaps. These thin little cookies have a nice crunch and buttery flavor with a spicy kick of black pepper. Red and white wine versions include wine in the recipe and are designed to pair with wine. Sturdy enough to top with cheese like a cracker, but sweeter. I love these cookies and I love this… -
Love begins in Winter
3 Feb 2012 | 11:33 amThere's nothing more cozy than cuddling up on the sofa with a book and a box of chocolates on a chilly Winter day. And it seems I'm not alone in my love of pairing chocolates with a good read. For Valentine's Day this year one of my favorite chocolatiers Richart has combined a big box of chocolates with a book of short stories, from an award-winning writer Simon Von Booy. Even better, there are twelve specific chocolates that pair with passages from the book! The gift is called Love begins in Winter ($75), after the name of the book. I haven't experienced any of the lovely pairings yet, but I… -
Eggplant Parmesan Soup Recipe
31 Jan 2012 | 9:55 amI've started off this year eating more soup. It's amazing what can go in soup. I mean, pretty much anything. And many classic comfort food dishes can be transformed into soup. Macaroni and cheese, baked potato, even eggplant parmesan. I got the idea to make this soup when I was contacted by Whole Foods about a Parmigiano Reggiano promotion they were planning. I wanted to make something with the flavors of eggplant parmesan, but lighter and healthier. I used a few croutons and roasted the eggplant, instead of breading and frying it and skipped the mozzarella altogether. And you know what? It… -
Ed Kenny talks Hawaiian Food
17 Jan 2012 | 7:58 pmI've been a fan of the restaurant Town in Kaimuki since I first dined there back in 2008. I always make a point of visiting whenever I'm in Honolulu. Ed Kenney is the chef and owner, and a great voice for sustainability in the food system. He's very approachable, in fact you'll see him shopping at the farmers market most weekends. He also has his finger on the pulse of what's happening so on my last visit I got a sat down to chat with him about the local Oahu food scene and since I'm heading back tomorrow, I thought it's about time I shared this interview...What do you think would surprise… -
The Good Food Awards 2012 January 13-14
10 Jan 2012 | 5:28 pmPhoto credit: Marc Fiorito Now in it's second year, the Good Food Awards comes to the San Francisco Ferry Building this weekend. It's a celebration of food in the categories of beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, coffee, pickles, preserves and spirits. The awards draw attention to the most delicious, authentic (no artificial ingredients) and responsible food (GMO-free, respect and fair compensation). More details on the guiding principles here. The awards are a great way to learn about some of the best speciality foods being produced in America today and if you come to the award ceremony or…
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JancisRobinson.com
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Southwold 2008s - right bank (Tasting articles)
7 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pmHere are my notes on all of the right-bank wines tasted at this year's major blind tasting of Bordeaux's four-year-old vintage in the seaside town of Southwold (pictured). An overview and full description of the tasting follows on Saturday. My notes on the even more numerous left-bank wines follow. -
Flavours of the month - January (Free for all)
7 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pmJanuary brought an epic parade of more than 2,000 Burgundy 2010 tasting notes to JancisRobinson.com. If, perchance, this passed you by (where have you been?!), then you can catch up by reading a guide to our coverage here . However, it wasn't all Pinot and Chardonnay. Below are some of the other. -
Don Cornwell - the fine-wine bidder's hero (Alder on America)
6 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pmWe are publishing Alder's February contribution a little early this month, in time for the controversial wine auction scheduled for tomorrow* night (Wed 8 Feb) in London by Spectrum Wine Auctions of California and Vanquish Wine of London. See details of these two companies here , and some worrying. -
Postcard from Sydney (Free for all)
6 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pmI took this hazy early-morning picture from our hotel room yesterday morning just before the FEIRT two-day Rieslingfest . But what a great welcome Sydneysiders gave us on Saturday night. The fourth annual wine gala dinner organised by the indefatigable Australian chapter of Room to Read raised the. -
Our top wines in January (Tasting articles)
6 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pmAs well as the flood of Burgundy 2010 notes that dominated January on Purple Pages, there were plenty of other tasting notes on all sorts of wines to tickle your fancy. These include nine standout standalone tasting notes (in other words, notes that do not appear in a published article but are.
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Presentation Zen
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Hans Rosling: The Jedi Master of data visualization
26 Jan 2012 | 11:31 pmDr. Hans Rosling is one of my presentation heroes; he's been featured or mentioned in all my books and several times on presentationzen.com over the years. If there is a Jedi Master of presenting data clearly, visually, and simply, then it is Hans. He proves time and time again, that data are not dull—and when you are trying to change the world, there is no excuse for boring presentations. Most people are aware of Dr. Rosling through his popular TED Talks, but just in case you've never seen him present, below is a nice 5-minute piece he did on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. At TED.com you'll… -
New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition)
18 Jan 2012 | 10:36 pmFour years ago my first book Presentation Zen was published by Peachpit Press. Since then I wrote two other presentation books and a sketchbook/storyboard book and a DVD (plus an additional DVD/Book just for Japan). Although a lot of time had passed, I was still happy with the original Presentation Zen. And yet, the original Presentation Zen book could benefit from a little freshening up in the form of a 2nd edition for 2012. This 2nd edition of Presentation Zen has the same look and feel as the original book and I still did all the design and layout myself. The biggest difference is the book… -
10 great books to help you think, create, & communicate better in 2012
10 Jan 2012 | 4:54 amIn the spirit of personal kaizen, I have listed below a few books that I read (or reread) over the past year that you may want to read as part of your own continuous improvement journey. (Clicking on the book's icon takes you to Amazon.com.) (1) Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long. Over the last 10-20 years scientists have made many remarkable discoveries concerning the brain and how it works. David Rock is not a neuroscientist but he is a good "neurotranslator" of the scientific evidence and does a good job of… -
Progress and the intentional selection of less
30 Dec 2011 | 5:26 pmMany people today talk about presentation technology as if it were a panacea for boring lectures and ineffective presentations. Technologies such as our laptops, iPads, and cool software packages are wonderful tools that can, when used well, increase the quality of communication and engagement. This is especially true when we need to engage with people live on the other side of the planet via tools like video conferencing, webinars, Skype, and so on. However, while technology has evolved in dramatic ways over the last generation, our deep human need for visceral connections, and personal… -
Steve Jobs: "People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint"
20 Dec 2011 | 5:12 amOne thing we need to constantly remind ourselves is that slides and other forms of projected visualization—no matter how "cool" they may be—are not appropriate for every context. Multimedia is great for presentations before large groups such as keynote addresses or conference presentations, but in meetings where you want to actively discuss issues or go over details in depth, slides—especially the snooze-inducing bulletpoint variety, which are never a good idea—are almost always counter productive. I stressed early on in the first version of Presentation Zen four years ago—and ad…
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WineSpectator.com: News & Features
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Moscato Mania (Wine Spectator)
8 Feb 2012 | 7:00 amSales of the easy-drinking bubbly have skyrocketed—is it a passing fad or here to stay? -
Wine's Three Biggest Lies (Wine Spectator)
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New Hillside Vineyards on Hold in Sonoma (Wine Spectator)
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Oysters, Caviar and Sauvignon Blanc for Valentine's Day (Wine Spectator)
3 Feb 2012 | 2:00 amEnjoy this elegant, flavorful dish from Yountville's Brix restaurant, plus pick a pairing from our list of 14 recently rated whites -
Jackson Family Wines Buys Historic Australian Vineyard (Wine Spectator)
2 Feb 2012 | 9:00 amCalifornia company acquires Hickinbotham’s Clarendon property in McLaren Vale
