“To enhance the law library user experience, we are creating Libguides on popular legal topics. Libguide is a free online content management system that allows us to share information with you online. You may conveniently access Libguides from the comfort of your home or office.”
via Free Guide on California Family Law – San Diego Law Library.
“If you’re concerned about Google neglecting Chromecast lately, take heart: The tech giant has not forsaken the $35 TV stick. On the contrary, this week the company finally delivered on Backdrop, a new feature it first promised at the Google I/O developer conference last June.”
via Google’s Chromecast Can Now Beam Art And Your Photos To Your TV – ReadWrite.
“Libraries, archives, and museums have vast numbers of resources within their four walls “that the Web can not see or use,” according to the press release introducing the Libhub Initiative. This project, which had its official launch at the American Library Association’s (ALA) annual conference this summer, aims to raise the web visibility of libraries’ resources by allowing search engines to see inside a library to the item level.
Libraries “need to speak in a way the Web can see and represent consistently. Our users live on the web and rely on the Web to deliver information resources, yet the lack of access to harvestable library data and a consistent way to understand that information has removed libraries from view of Web users,” the site’s FAQ section states. This effort will allow the Googles of the world to harvest data from library catalogs and make sense of their contents.”
via The Libhub Initiative: Making Libraries More Visible.
“Michael Benson tells the thrilling story of the discovery and description of the universe in a new way. Selecting artful and profound illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the world’s great science libraries and virtually unknown today, he chronicles more than 1,000 years of humanity’s ever-expanding understanding of the size and shape of space itself.”
via Cosmigraphics: Michael Benson: 9781419713873: Amazon.com: Books.
“One of the District’s least highlighted gems is getting some national love. Tuesday, The Aspen Institute issued a report called “Rising to the Challenge: Re-Envisioning Public Libraries.” The document is the work of the institute’s Communications and Society Program, which put together the Dialogue on Public Libraries to study how the facilities can be better equipped to deal with a rapidly changing information world. As it turns out, the District is doing pretty well in that regard.”
via D.C. public library system highlighted in Aspen Institute’s national report – The Washington Post.
“Chuck Yeager, byname of Charles Elwood Yeager (born February 13, 1923, Myra, West Virginia, U.S.), American test pilot and U.S. Air Force officer who was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in flight.”
via Chuck Yeager (American pilot) — Encyclopedia Britannica.
“The real-estate website Movoto says that San Diego’s 92121 ZIP code is not only the best one in the county, but the sixth best out of 28,061 in the United States.”
via One of San Diego’s zip codes shines above the rest. | UTSanDiego.com.
“Now technology is of course changing how Americans read and in many ways it is opening up exciting new avenues for learning,” Clinton said. “We don’t have enough research, but I think what we are learning is that the earliest years before a child is 2, televisions, iPads and screens are no substitute for actual parent-child interactions like talking, reading and singing.”
via Hillary Clinton says no iPad time for babies | UTSanDiego.com.
“Once again, Christina Morua found herself in the South Dade library longer than she would like on a school night. The 28-year-old single mom sat in the bustling children’s section on a recent Thursday, waiting for her fourth-grader to get on a computer and start some online math homework.
“We don’t have any Internet at home,” Morua said as her oldest, 11-year-old Abel, clicked through an assignment on a library laptop while Alina, 9, waited for her turn at a desktop. “We just reserved a computer. We have to wait 70 minutes. He got one of the last laptops.” ”
via With no Internet at home, Miami-Dade kids crowd libraries for online homework | The Miami Herald.
“The state of Hawaii, the city of Washington, D.C., and Oakland County, Mich., are home to the best government websites in the nation. These sites topped the 2014 Best of the Web awards, a joint project of Government Technology and e.Republic’s Center for Digital Government, which highlights the public sector’s evolving capabilities on the Web. Winners were announced Oct. 7.”
via The Best Government Websites for 2014.
“J.J. Abrams traces his love for the unseen mystery –- a passion that’s evident in his films and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Lost and Alias — back to its magical beginnings.”
via J.J. Abrams: The mystery box | Talk Video | TED.com.
“Robots can help build cars, they can vacuum your floor, they can even engage in galactic war . . . well, maybe eventually they can do that. But can you check one out at a local library?
Not yet, but close.”
via Beyond bookshelves: Meet your public library’s robots | Marketplace.org.
“From a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the world’s most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in the run-up to Christmas. Its author Jen Campbell introduces some of the finest.”
via Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide – in pictures | Books | The Guardian.
“More than four decades ago, Alice Waters, a pioneer of farm-fresh California cuisine, opened Chez Panisse in a jewel-box Craftsman-style building just north of downtown Berkeley. Other outstanding food purveyors followed, but this being a university town, Berkeley’s culinary landscape remained heavily colonized by frozen yogurt vendors and cheap burrito and ramen joints.”
via 36 Hours in Berkeley, Calif. – NYTimes.com.
“You have the right to remain silent.”
“Any devotee of TV crime dramas or police procedural shows hears the phrase regularly. But new court decisions in recent years have chipped away at that principle.
Take the case of California resident Richard Tom. In 2007, he broadsided a car, injuring a girl and killing her sister. At the accident scene, he asked to go home but was told no. He wasn’t handcuffed, but police held him in the back of a police car. At no point did he ask the police about the victims.”
via ‘You Have The Right To Remain Silent.’ Or Do You? : NPR.
“Creepshots, one of the Internet’s many bizarre sexual scourges, are “repellent and disturbing,” a D.C. judge ruled Thursday — but they are not technically illegal.
In case you aren’t familiar with the term (and you might not want to be, FYI), creepshots are essentially just what they sound like: sneaky, surreptitious photos of a person’s, usually a woman’s, private areas, taken without her consent — and often, without her knowledge that the parts in question are even visible. They’re widely considered a genre of so-called “nonconsensual porn” — explicit images or videos traded without permission from the people they depict.”
via Even at a national memorial, no one is safe from ‘creepshots’ – The Washington Post.
“Seniors in almost every state in the country don’t have enough income to get by comfortably.
Households ages 65 and older in the U.S. are living on an average of only $37,847 a year. That’s around 60% of the annual earnings of today’s 45- to 64-year olds and falls well short of the 70% in pre-retirement income that’s typically recommended for retirees, according to an Interest.com analysis of 2013 Census Bureau data.
“It’s clear that, nearly everywhere in the country, older Americans still don’t have the kind of money coming in they need for a secure and comfortable retirement,” said Mike Sante, managing editor of Interest.com.”
via Seniors in 49 states are struggling to afford retirement – Oct. 9, 2014.
“CBS has decided to keep the production of “Under the Dome” in North Carolina for the drama’s third season, even though the state has scaled back its tax incentive program.
“It is our pleasure to return to North Carolina for our third season of ‘Under the Dome,’ ” said Kevin Berg, exec VP of production for CBS Television Studios. “The film community in the state, and particularly in the greater Wilmington area, is simply outstanding.”
The show will return EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, where it has been based since its inception in 2013.”
via ‘Under the Dome’ Staying in North Carolina for Third Season | Variety.
“A former staff member for congressional candidate Carl DeMaio has released results of a polygraph test that he says support his claims that DeMaio sexually harassed him.
Todd Bosnich says he was subjected to unwelcome touching and repeated sexual harassment while working on the congressional campaign for the former San Diego city councilman and 2012 mayoral candidate.”
via Carl DeMaio Accused of Lewd Acts by Ex-Staffer | NBC 7 San Diego.
“Thousands of federal and state government workers reporting for duty in San Diego are making more than they did during the Great Recession.
Most local government workers can’t say the same, especially when you factor in a rising cost of living.
The average wage for San Diego County and the patchwork of local municipalities and agencies in the county makes about 3 percent less per week than she did in early 2009 when you include inflation.”
via Local Government Salaries Are Ticking Up — Slowly | Voice of San Diego.
“Right now it seems the two major mines for new TV shows are in the form of classic ’80s and ’90s movie de-makes (Problem Child, Uncle Buck, Big), or a collection of superheroes too numerous to even mention at this point. But at least one new show will be based on a video game, two forms of media which only rarely meet.
The game is Myst, the cult-classic puzzle game which first premiered in 1993. The show is from Legendary’s TV division, who will be working closely with Myst creators Rand and Robin Miller on the project, Variety reports. It is as of yet undecided whether Myst will be a digital offering, heading to a streaming service like Netflix NFLX -0.8%, Hulu, or Amazon, or will air on traditional broadcast TV.”
via New ‘Myst’ Game Will Be Based On New ‘Myst’ TV Show.
“On Sept. 28, 2013 Jonathan Moore took his girlfriend, Amber Garcia, to the new central library dedication.
Instead of looking for books, however, they searched for bricks.
As part of a fundraiser for the futuristic dome-shaped library, a few months earlier Moore had purchased a brick for Garcia to have inscribed with a message of her choosing.
After they found her brick inlaid on the patio, Moore led her to a brick he had secretly bought. It said: “I love you, Amber.” Then he guided her to a third brick, inscribed: “Will you marry me?”
On Sept. 27, the anniversary of the library dedication, Moore and Garcia got married — in the library.”
via Library wedding proposal results in marriage a year later — in the library. | UTSanDiego.com.
“After what had to be the better part of an eternity, San Diego finally built a much needed new library. There were cries almost immediately after the old downtown library was completed in the 1950’s that the size and scope of it were not large enough to accommodate a growing city. What started in the 70’s as a hopeful push to construct an adequate library turned into decades of missed opportunities and internal strife. The new Central Library accomplishes those initial scale goals, and then some. Constructed by local architect, Rob Quigley (local!…for a civic project!), the library provides a core hub of education. It’s far more than just books; a pubic school and large digital education component solidfy the importance of this building as a place where the community can embrace knowledge and the act of learning. Library Director Deborah Barrow said upon the library’s opening, “We are more than just books in a big facility. We are a place for people. There is some of everything that you need in a cultural, educated, city, and this is part of the reason the San Diego Public Library has been so important to the city.” Well put.”
via San Diego Central Library | Orchids & Onions.
Results for Keywords= ebola
from Catalog of U.S. Government Publications…
via Entire CGP Catalog – Results List.
“NOOK Media, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), and OverDrive, the leading eBook platform for libraries, today announced a new partnership to enable public libraries to provide readers with access to hundreds of the most popular digital magazines and newspapers from the NOOK Newsstand®. Utilizing OverDrive platforms integrated with library catalogs, library patrons in the U.S. and U.K. will be able to discover, access and read a huge selection of NOOK Newsstand titles on their NOOK tablet device and on tablets, smartphones and PCs via the suite of Free NOOK Reading Apps™. The new service is expected to roll out to customers in the coming months.”
“Criminals are using malware to steal cash from ATMs without debit and credit cards.
The Tyupkin malware, which was discovered by Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team, enables criminals to withdraw large sums of money by just typing in a code.”
via Malware being used to steal cash from ATMs.
The secret stars of the San Francisco Public Library
Aidin Vaziri
Published 5:13 pm, Wednesday, October 8, 2014
“We’re sure it’s a bit of a coincidence, but after years of visiting different branches of the San Francisco Public Library, we started to discover that there are some incredibly talented people who work behind the desks, shelve the books and keep order in the world of reference materials. We set out to meet just a few of the astonishing number of musicians, artists and other creative types who dutifully serve the public every day.”
via The secret stars of the San Francisco Public Library – SFGate.
Redskins critic speaks about diversity
Suzan Harjo appears at CSUSM at kickoff event for Diversity Awareness Month
I guess I’m too old or not insensitive to understand this POV. Honoring our Native Americans is one thing I agree with doing; they were here a long time ago. But, using a name like Washington Redskins for a sports team honors them, but not according to some. In a politically correct overdone world, it’s more than absurd. If one person feels “hurt,” do we chop down the forest of words for the rest of us? Oh well.. the debate goes on.
“MADRID — A dog named Excalibur who belonged to an Ebola-infected nurse was euthanized on Wednesday, even as protesters and animal rights activists surrounded the Madrid home of the nurse and her husband. A online petition calling for the dog’s life to be spared had drawn hundreds of thousands of signatures.
The furor came amid questions about whether dogs can get and transmit the disease.”
via Spain, Amid Protests, Kills Dog of Ebola-Infected Nurse – NYTimes.com.
Relive The ‘Blood Moon’ With These Dazzling Lunar Eclipse Photos
via Relive The ‘Blood Moon’ With These Dazzling Lunar Eclipse Photos.
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Americans can expect to live longer than ever before, CDC data show
via Americans can expect to live longer than ever before, CDC data show – baltimoresun.com.
Ebola-infected nursing assistant’s dog euthanized, Spanish officials say
via Ebola-infected nursing assistant’s dog euthanized, Spanish officials say – LA Times.
Love Rosamund Pike in ‘Gone Girl’? Five Other Great Roles Available Online
By Kimberly Truong | Posted on October 6th, 2014
Adobe Spyware Reveals (Again) the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
“The publishing world may finally be facing its “rootkit scandal.” Two independent reports claim that Adobe’s e-book software, “Digital Editions,” logs every document readers add to their local “library,” tracks what happens with those files, and then sends those logs back to the mother-ship, over the Internet, in the clear. In other words, Adobe is not only tracking your reading habits, it’s making it really, really easy for others to do so as well.”
DrWeb notes.. very not okay.
“Over 500 vendors, live entertainment, and food from around the world have combined to make the Escondido Downtown Street Faire a family tradition since 1989.”
via Escondido Street Faire » San Diego Food Finds.
These 22 Photos Will Get You Incredibly Excited For Autumn
By Jack Archer
via These 22 Photos Will Get You Incredibly Excited For Autumn « Airows.
The Great Wage Slowdown of the 21st Century
OCT. 7, 2014
“American workers have been receiving meager pay increases for so long now that it’s reasonable to talk in sweeping terms about the trend. It is the great wage slowdown of the 21st century.”
via The Great Wage Slowdown of the 21st Century – NYTimes.com.
Public library engagement in the United States
By Kathryn Zickuhr
“An overview of three years of research into Americans’ relationships with public libraries in the digital age.”
via Libraries in the Digital Age | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
Early San Diego Business Directories
26th August 2011
written by Richard
“Back in December 2010 we talked about digitization of San Diego Directories from the San Diego Public Library. One glitch in the link above is that most of the directories are not dated on the web site. I’ve listed these directories below. Just find the year you need and click on the corresponding title. I hope that will make it a bit easier.”
via San Diego Yesterday » Search Results » directories.
12 Simple Reasons Why You’re Unhappy
October 6, 2014 by Danny Baker
via 12 Simple Reasons Why You’re Unhappy –.
NFL Plans Return to LA in a Year or Two: Report
By Willian Avila
via NFL Plans Return to LA in a Year or Two: Report | NBC 7 San Diego.
“Thousands of years ago, artifacts of the early space age were lost to rising oceans and widespread turmoil. Garnett Baylee devoted his life to finding them, only to give up hope. Then, in the wake of his death, one was found in his home, raising tantalizing questions. Had he succeeded after all? Why had he kept it a secret? And where is the rest of the Apollo cache?”
via Coming Home (An Alex Benedict Novel) by Jack McDevitt — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists.
Next book by Jack McDevitt in this series.. due out November 4th, 2014.. can’t wait.. sounds intriguing…
Not Your Mother’s Library
“How Columbus, Ohio, is building community spaces for the 21st century”
Deborah Fallows Oct 6 2014, 12:11 PM ET
via Not Your Mother’s Library – The Atlantic.
Rare Illness in California Afflicts Children With Polio-Like Symptoms
“A California toddler learns to cope with the effects of a mysterious disease that paralyzes.”
via Rare Illness in California Afflicts Children With Polio-Like Symptoms.
Paul Revere, Rocker Who Founded the Raiders, Dies at 76
via Paul Revere, Rocker Who Founded the Raiders, Dies at 76 – NYTimes.com.
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Chargers overcome injuries, pummel Jets
via Chargers overcome injuries, pummel Jets 31-0 | UTSanDiego.com.
“Perhaps you’ve heard that we have a pretty serious problem with retirement planning in the United States. Over half of all baby boomers have less than $250,000 saved in retirement accounts — a sum that by itself would only allow for $833 in cash per month.
At the same time, some pretty alarming trends are pinching America’s middle class. As calculated by Bard College economics professor Pavlina Tcherneva, the bottom 90% of U.S. workers have largely missed out on the economic expansions since 1982.”
via Retirement Planning: The Ridiculous Expectations of the Middle Class.
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