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August 26, 2007
Headlines - FLARE: Foreign Law Research
- Current Awareness Search Engine Indexes 1,400 RSS Feeds on Library Related Topics
- Medical RSS Filter Engine Offers Over 4000 Authoritative RSS Feeds
- Lawyers Without Borders Seeks Book Donations
- Resource for Congressional Research Service Reports
- The Ten Most Costly World Insurance Losses, 1970-2006
- Presidential Candidates' Contact Information
- Government Maintained Terrorist Screening Database Privacy Controversy
- National Wildlife Federation Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Report Card
- U.S. Supreme Court Coloring and Activity Book
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 FLARE: Foreign Law Research Foreign Law Research: " FLARE is a collaboration between the major libraries collecting law in the United Kingdom: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Bodleian Law Library, Squire Law Library, British Library, and School of Oriental and African Studies. It is working to improve the coverage and accessibility of foreign legal materials at the national level and to raise expertise in their use." Current Awareness Search Engine Indexes 1,400 RSS Feeds on Library Related Topics " LibWorm Beta is intended to be a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries. LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his/her favourite aggregator or in LibWorm's built-in aggregator...Each feed searched by LibWorm has been assigned a category, so when you browse by Feed Category, you're seeing all the content from the feeds that have been assigned to that category. Subjects are pre-built searches, usually of greater complexity than the user interface currently supports, for common subjects of interest to libraryfolk." This site is free. Medical RSS Filter Engine Offers Over 4000 Authoritative RSS Feeds " MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds...MedWorm collects updates from over 4000 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds. From the data collected, MedWorm provides new outgoing RSS feeds on various medical categories that you can subscribe to, via the free MedWorm online service, or another RSS reader of your choice, such as Bloglines, Newsgator, Google Reader or FeedDemon." Users may construct free text key word searches, or search for an exact phrase, and may further specify inclusion of content from the following areas: news, consumer, journals, organizations, info and blogs. This service is free. Lawyers Without Borders Seeks Book Donations " Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB), an organization that coordinates volunteer lawyers with nonprofit groups, rule of law initiatives, and other human rights work, is seeking donations of law books for courts and lawyers in Albania and Liberia. The law library of the Supreme Court of Albania in the capital of Tirana, which is accessed by judges, practitioners, and law students, is seeking English-language major treatises, hornbooks, and other publications focusing on American law and legal institutions. Donations to Albania should be sent to Paramount Stamping and Welding, 1200 West 58th Street, Cleveland, OH 44102, with a marking that reads, Attention: Peter Kole–LAW BOOKS. Another donor has underwritten the costs of shipping to Albania from that address. LWOB also is seeking donations for the University of Liberia Louis Arthur Grimes Law School, as well as for judges, students, and lawyers in Liberia. In particular, complete sets of the AmJur series are requested. These include any edition of AmJur, AmJur Forms, and AmJur Trials. These donations should be sent to Mr. Ray Fallon, Fallon Moving and Storage, 800 Marshall Phelps Road, Building 3, Unit A, Windsor, CT 06095, with a marking that reads, Attention: Lawyers Without Borders, Book Donation Project Liberia." Resource for Congressional Research Service Reports Congressional Research Service reports on current agricultural and food law and policy issues are online courtesy of the The National Agricultural Law Center, here. The National Agricultural Law Center has several hundred reports for users to read, accessible via a Subject Index, on topics that include: Animal Agriculture, Biotechnology, Budget and Appropriations, Commodities and Programs, Disasters and Assistance, Farm Bills, Farm Labor, Finance and Credit, Food Aid - Domestic, Food Aid - Foreign, Food Safety and Nutrition, Marketing, Renewable Energy, and Trade. See also the LLRX.com Guide to CRS Reports on the Web, and related postings on current CRS reports via beSpacific The Ten Most Costly World Insurance Losses, 1970-2006 Insurance Information Institute: The Ten Most Costly World Insurance Losses, 1970-2006 "ISO defines a catastrophe as an event that causes $25 million or more in insured property losses and affects a significant number of property/casualty policyholders and insurers. The estimates in the following chart represent anticipated insured losses from catastrophes on an industrywide basis, reflecting the total net insurance payment for personal and commercial property lines of insurance covering fixed property, vehicles, boats, related-property items, business interruption and additional living expenses. They exclude loss-adjustment expenses. Losses from catastrophic events declined sharply in 2006 but were nonetheless at their sixth highest level since 1997. The frequency of catastrophes, at 33 events, was the second highest level recorded in a decade." Presidential Candidates' Contact Information Foreign Press Centers, 2008 Presidential Primary Contacts: Republican Candidates and Democractic Candidates - for each candidate, includes name, info, telephone, website and media contact information. (2 pages, PDF) Government Maintained Terrorist Screening Database Privacy Controversy Washington Post: Terror Suspect List Yields Few Arrests - 20,000 Detentions in '06 Rile Critics: "The government's terrorist screening database flagged Americans and foreigners as suspected terrorists almost 20,000 times last year. But only a small fraction of those questioned were arrested or denied entry into the United States, raising concerns among critics about privacy and the list's effectiveness...The database is maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center, a joint operation between the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Rick Kopel, the TSC's deputy director, called it "one of the best things the government has been able to accomplish since 9/11." National Wildlife Federation Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Report Card National Wildlife Federation Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Report Card: "Two years after Hurricane Katrina much has become clear. We know that the devastation in New Orleans and surrounding areas was less a natural than a man-made disaster. Katrina's surge into New Orleans was the direct result of poorly constructed levees, an ill-conceived navigation channel, and the destruction of millions of acres of coastal wetlands. Furthermore, the storm's intensity itself was fueled by unusually warm waters in the tropical Atlantic due, in part, to global warming pollution." Two Years After Katrina, What Progress? Report Card Grades the President, Congress in Key Areas Related postings on Katrina U.S. Supreme Court Coloring and Activity Book " About the Book - "Have fun and learn about the Supreme Court! It's a coloring book with a surprising educational twist. This 32-page coloring book features expertly rendered illustrations depicting significant Supreme Court Justices of the United States to color in--including all current sitting Justices. The U.S. Supreme Court Coloring and Activity Book is perfect for the children of lawyers and judges, or for teachers looking for a new resource for Law Day or Constitution Day."
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