Archive for September, 2008


Press Conference at FCCJ - Children Lost in Japan

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan
Press Conference, Thierry Consigny, Colin Jones & Takao Tanase
15:00-16:00 Monday, July 14, 2008
(The speech and Q & A will be in English)
“Children Lost in Japan”
An intense debate is occurring now in the media in Japan, at the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations (Nichibenren), and within the Japanese political system about […]

YouTube blocks hottie’s sex video

Video sharing Web site YouTube is blocking steamy footage showing supermodel Daniela Cicarelli in intimate scenes with her boyfriend, the company said a day after a judge ordered it to find a way to stop Brazilian viewers from seeing the video.
‘’The video in question was removed from YouTube because it violated our terms of use,’’ […]

U.K. House Prices Fall Most Since at Least 2002, Rightmove Says

U.K. house prices posted the biggest annual decline in August since at least 2002 as reduced mortgage lending deepened the property slump in London, Rightmove Plc said.
The average asking price for a home fell 4.8 percent from a year earlier to 229,816 pounds ($426,929), Britain’s most-used property Web site said in a statement […]

Chinese Returnees from the U.S.

(August 21, 2007) by Linda Ho
As expats in Suzhou, we have met Chinese returnees from all over the world, including the U.S. A “Chinese Returnee” is someone formerly a Chinese citizen returning to China. Upon graduation from a foreign university, some Chinese become permanent residents or citizens of the host country where they settle down […]

ECB Likely to Keep Rates at 7-Year High Even as Recession Looms

The European Central Bank will probably keep interest rates at a seven-year high this week, and may even threaten to raise them, at the risk of prolonging the economic slump.
All but one of 47 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News predict the bank will leave the benchmark rate at 4.25 percent on Sept. 4 […]

The Document-Blob Model

Gosh darn, it’s hard to get this right. In my most recent work on AltLaw, I’ve been building an infrastructure for doing all my back-end data processing using Hadoop and Thrift.
I’ve described this before, but here’s a summary of my situation:

I have a few million files, ~15 GB total.
Many files represent the same logical […]

the wait is over…

So it’s Joe Biden for VP. Not that surprising, and certainly a better choice than a lot of other names that were being floated around in the past couple of days/weeks. He’s not the most “exciting” or “fresh” choice, but he is a solid choice. And I’m officially stoked for the vice […]

Real estate Laws

Laws in real estate are put into effect to protect you and the buyer. You are protected should someone stop making payments or they wreck a house you sold them. The seller can take legal action should any of this happen. There are many laws governing real estate to protect everyone involved.
If a property is […]

UK Law Question 2 by xxai

1).You must familiar with UK Law, only UK Law & its cases can be applied. 2).The questions are extracted from the UK Law professional past exam paper, and you need to provide sample answer in powerpoint slide and transcript for presentation… (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: Legal Advice)
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Marriage License, Los Angeles County Clerk’s Office

The Los Angeles County Recorder, also known as the L.A. County Clerk, is a very busy place. All kinds of people go there to get many sorts of things such as marriage licenses and other legal documents. It’s a very large place and yet, every time that I go there to file a marriage license […]