Interesting video from H&K.

h/t David Jones

Cameron MacLean and Chanakya Sethi of The Court picked up on an amusing post about a reference to American Idol in the New Brunswick legislature,

Former AG Charges: “Pants on the Ground”
T.J. Burke, New Brunswick MLA and the province’s former attorney general, recently accused Conservative opposition leader David Alward of being caught with his “pants on the ground/pants on the ground/looking like a fool with his pants on the ground.” The result? ”[M]any requests from television and radio stations in Canada and the United States to repeat his performance, but [Burke] has no plans to do so or to seek a career in singing or dancing,” reports the CBC. Confused readers should watch a video of the speech given in the legislative assembly (HT: LawIsCool) and check-out this episode of American Idol.

Alex Smith of The Radio Ecoshock Show interviews Dr. Jonathan Patz on climate change.  He mentions a presentation that Omar Ha-Redeye attended in 2009 where Dr. Patz spoke.

NASA just declared 2009 the second hottest year since modern measurements began in 1880. The warmest year was 2005. And the past decade was the warmest on record. Global climate change is upon us.

In this program, you’ll hear two of the world’s top authorities explain how this will impact our health, and the survival of the species.

I interview Dr. Jonathan Patz, a physician and lead author for the IPCC, on health and climate change. He is now advising emergency doctors and disaster agencies on what to expect as climate disruption proceeds…

Then, we’ll go straight to Paris, for a speech by Thomas Lovejoy, the inventor of the term “biological diversity.” His speech, recorded January 25th, 2010 opened a United Nations conference to celebrate this year of biodiversity. But Lovejoy warns we are entering the sixth great extinction. Don’t miss this powerful overview on climate change and the species, in our second half hour.

Climate change is an important issue, and one that all citizens of the planet must work together to raise awareness of.

Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration shares:

Around 70% of hiring managers in in US have rejected candidate just because of their online reputation.

See the full presentation here.

The working paper, “The Role of Islamic Shari’ah in Protecting Women’s Rights“, is on the for Top Ten list for the journal ­HRN Forthcoming Research Networks Top Ten.

The working paper, “Media Narratives in Times of Turmoil: Depictions of Minorities in Canada Post 9/11,” is on the Top Ten list for the journal Law, Politics & the Media Top Ten.

The working paper, “A Trial to End All Terrorism: How the United States Could Have Won the War on Terrorism Before it Even Began, with the Trial of Only One Man“, recently made the Top Ten list for the journal Canadian Law Top Ten and LSN: Canadian Law – International (Topic) Top Ten.

The working paper, Media Narratives in Times of Turmoil: Depictions of Minorities in Canada Post 9/11, was listed in LSN: Canadian Law – Public Law (Topic) Top Ten on SSRN.

See the article, First-Rate Mind, Third Rate Temperament in UWO Law’s Student Paper, Amicus Curiae, or hyperlinked on Slaw and Law is Cool.

Omar Ha-Redeye received two international CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in academic achievement for the highest performance in courses on the Holocaust and genocide, and another in religious laws while studying in Israel.