Available today, Google Earth (Release 4 – BETA) Press release: Google Announces Major Imagery Update For Google Earth, New Tools And Innovations in Mapping. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2006
GAO Releases Trio of Surveys on Election Issues
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… Continue Reading
List Compiled of Supreme Court Law Clerks Over the Years
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. Continue Reading
FBI Releases Preliminary Crime Statistics 2005
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… Continue Reading
Texas State Bar 2006 Short Story Winners
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. Continue Reading
The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States
CRS Report, The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States, May 5, 2006 (31 pages, PDF): “The objective of this report is to highlight some of the demographic changes that have already occurred since 1950 and to illustrate how these and future trends will reshape the nation in the decades to come (through 2050).” Continue Reading
Commentary on Security and Secrecy in the Age of Terrorism
Washington Post, Public Secrets, by Robert G. Kaiser, Sunday, June 11, 2006. “Steven Aftergood, who works on classification issues for the Federation of American Scientists, calls the administration’s approach to secrets “a cultivation of fear as a policy driver.” He adds: “We are being told that nothing is more important than the external threat that… Continue Reading
Primary Research Group Has Published Law Library Benchmarks
Press release: “The study presents data from a survey of 84 law libraries; data is broken out for law firm, university, government and private company law libraries, and by size of the librarys content budget. The study has approximately 300 tables of data summarizing a broad range of developments in law library policies regarding personnel… Continue Reading
Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force Draft Final Report on Katrina
Press release, June 1, 2006: “The Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET)…is releasing this draft final report of its performance evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System during Hurricane Katrina. Our sincere hope is that the results of this report, used already in the repairs of the system, the assessments of… Continue Reading
Political and Historical Quotations
“Eigen’s Political & Historical Quotations is the world’s largest collection of memorable quotes about and by historians, politicians and other public figures. The collection is designed for the use of students, journalists, teachers, historians, political scientists and the many other people who are interested in politics and political history. Use the quotation search to look… Continue Reading
eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program Launched
“…the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program (eHVRP) is a collaborative of health care industry organizations, technology companies and security professionals. eHVRPs mandate is to establish approaches and procedures that will help ensure eHealth systems are broadly and rapidly deployed with the highest levels of privacy and security.” Continue Reading
