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From John P. Joergensen, Rutgers University School of Law – Camden Law Library, news about the launch of a searchable online collection of U.S. Congressional documents, hearings and prints that are being scanned from their holdings. This is an ongoing project, and the collection will expand over time. In addition, see also the New Jersey …
“The CorporateAffiliations.com database provides corporate linkage information on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions – down to the seventh level of corporate linkage…[the] database is compiled and updated from information supplied by the listed companies themselves, as well as from research gathered from business publications and annual …
Press release: “A new study, House Prices in America, using Global Insight’s extensive proprietary databases on the housing market – which combined data and forecasts for home prices, home sales, housing stock, and household income with a methodology developed by the economics department of National City Corporation examines current and expected housing prices in …
Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA or Agency) Counterfeit Drug Task Force: 2006 Update, released June 8, 2006. “Counterfeit prescription drugs are illegal, generally unsafe, and pose a serious threat to the public health. Many are visually indistinguishable from authentic drugs… We have witnessed an increase in counterfeiting activities and a more sophisticated ability to introduce …
Follow-up to postings on the FBI’s Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program, today GAO released a report, FBI Trilogy: Responses to Posthearing Questions, Full-text GAO-06-853R, which stated in part, “…unless the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) strengthens its controls over contractor payments and purchased equipment, future projects, including the new Sentinel project, will be highly vulnerable …
Arguments by the DOJ (Anthony J. Coppolino) and the ACLU were heard today in U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Michigan. The government maintains that the domestic surveillance program is legal.
FDA Food Safety Website “For general food safety questions, call the FDA Food Safety Hotline at 1-800-723-3366. If the situation is critical, phone FDA’s emergency number, (301) 443-1240, which is staffed 24 hours a day. If your questions involve meat or poultry products, call the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s hotline at 1-800-535-4555.”
Available today, Google Earth (Release 4 – BETA) Press release: Google Announces Major Imagery Update For Google Earth, New Tools And Innovations in Mapping.
The following were released on June 8, 2006 (all in PDF): Elections: 2005 Survey of Local Election Jurisdictions, full-text GAO-06-452SP, June 6, 2006. “The purpose of the survey was to collect nationwide information on a range of election topics that included voter registration, absentee voting, early voting, poll workers, polling places, voter education, voting methods …
Hosted by Wikipedia, this List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States is a collaborative work in progress, may contain errors and never be complete, but is interesting nevertheless.
Press release: “The FBI released the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2005 today, which showed a mixed direction in crime nationwide: the number of violent crime offenses rose 2.5 percent, but the number of property crime offenses decreased 1.6 percent when compared with data from 2004. The FBI collected these preliminary data from 12,485 …
Kudos to Kathy Biehl, whose short story, Accounting for the Stars, was awarded third place this year. The list of 2006 Short Story Fiction Writing Contest Finalists is here.
