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ResourceShelf Newsletter <http://www.resourceshelf.com> Number 259 May 4, 2006
++ Thursday, May 4, 2006 ++ Resource of the Week By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor -------------------------------
Golf--Database Source: United States Golf Association (USGA) Seagle Electronic Golf Library (SEGL)
"The United States Golf Association (USGA) has served as the national governing body of golf for the U.S., its territories and Mexico since its formation in 1894. It's a non-profit organization run by golfers for the benefit of golfers." There are often quite wonderful things lurking within association websites. USGA says it has "the world's largest and most complete golf library;" it contains "books on all aspects of the game, including history, rules, instruction, equipment, biography, records, travel, club histories, literature and reference. The periodical collection encompasses more than 800 bound volumes, as well as some 10,000 unbound issues representing more than 100 titles dating back to the 1800s."
Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4hkfy>
Professional Reading Shelf --------------------------
Reference Reviews Source: Gale.com The May 2006 Edition of Peter's Digital Reference Shelf Is Now Online
We had plenty to say a few week's ago when MS Academic Live launched. This time, legendary reviewer Dr. Peter Jacso shares his thoughts in his monthly column.
He writes, "The beta version of Microsoft's free indexing/abstracting service is an effort that is too little, too late from an industry leader. While Windows Live Academic makes it easy to find the bibliographic records for some scholarly papers on a topic in computer science, electric engineering and physics, it is nothing new and not evolutionary, let alone revolutionary." Jacso concludes, "Windows Live Academic is a deeply disappointing product, even for a beta release."
Access to Research--United States Federally Funded Research--United States Scholarly Publishing Source: SPARC
Senators Cornyn (R-TX) and Lieberman (D-CT) Introduce Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006
"The bill requires federal agencies that fund over $100 million in annual external research to make electronic manuscripts of peer- reviewed journal articles stemming from their research publicly available via the Internet."
See Also: Tax Payer Alliance Support See Also: ACRL Support See Also: SPARC FAQ See Also: Track the Legislation via THOMAS See Also: Read the Introduction of the Legislation in the Senate (via the Congressional Record)
Do an edit/find for S. 2695.
Libraries--Canada Canadian Librarian Association CLA Responds to New Proposed Government Budget (PDF) From the release, "As expected, there is little in it for the Canadian library and information community."
Libraries--Iraq Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
Professors, Publishers, and the Pentagon Help Build a Virtual Library for Iraqi Scientists
Jeff Young writes, "The Iraqi Virtual Science Library, as the collection is called, gives scientists at seven participating universities in the country access to millions of articles from some 17,000 journals. The 14 publishers involved agreed to drastically reduce their regular licensing fees to help make the project possible, with some giving discounts of 95 to 97 percent, said Susan L. Cumberledge, who helped lead the project."
See Also: A Bit More from This National Academies of Science Announcement
See Also: Direct to Iraqi Virtual Science Library
Newspapers Source: Technology Review The Times Emulates Print on the Web
Of course, many other options to view the full text of newspapers (in their original form, online or printed on demand) exist. For example, NewspaperDirect.com offers same day full text and full image access to over 320 newspapers from 57 countries. PressDisplay is their online viewing service that we've been blogging about for several years. Very Cool!
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4hkfw>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents ---------------------------------------------------------
Holocaust Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica New Resource: New, EB Holocaust Resource Site
From the announcement, "A central part of the site is a body of articles by the noted Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum, former director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In addition to an overview of the Holocaust and its history, Berenbaum contributes more than 25 related articles, some of which probe unresolved issues, such as why the Allies didn't bomb the extermination camps. He also addresses the 'artistic response' to the tragedy, examining how artists in every medium have sought to give voice to the horror, pain and loss of the Holocaust...The site includes a number of multimedia elements, such as photographs and film clips, some of them disturbing; and several sets of discussion questions for use in high-school classrooms." From what we've been able to review, access to almost all of this content is available at no charge.
See Also: NewspaperArchive.com Has Released A New Collection Containing More than 50,000 Full Text/Full Image Newspaper Pages (Searchable) About the Holocaust. Free to Access and Use.
Business--History Source: Baker Library, Harvard Business School Financial Bubbles
"Financial Bubbles, capsule one in the Historical Returns series, explores some of the extraordinary similarities between the South Sea Bubble of 1720 and the recent technology bubble." Includes reading list, multimedia, images, and related resources.
See Also: More About the Historical Returns Series from Baker Library
Information Technology--Security--Lists & Rankings Source: Sophos Top ten malware threats and hoaxes reported to Sophos in April 2006
Terrorism Source: United Nations Just Released, Report of the Secretary-General: Uniting Against Terrorism - Recommendations for a global counter-terrorism strategy Direct to Full Text of Report. (via DocuTicker.com)
Venture Capital Source: Ernst & Young New, Transition, the fourth annual Ernst & Young Venture Capital Insight Report A look at global VC in 2005. 84 pages; PDF.
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4hkft>
++ Wednesday, May 3, 2006 ++
eBooks ------
Coming this Summer: Free Access to Thousands of eBooks via The World eBook Fair
Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4hkfq>
Professional Reading Shelf --------------------------
Health Research--United States--Statistics Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project Finding Answers Online in Sickness and in Health
"Recent research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that, as more Americans come online, more rely on the internet for important health information...Fully 58% of those who found the internet to be crucial or important during a loved one?s recent health crisis say the single most important source of information was something they found online. Direct to Research Brief.
Health Research--Databases Source: NLM New Version of the NLM Gateway Includes Two New Resources
"On May 1, 2006, NLM released a new version of the Gateway that includes access to two additional NLM resources. Users are now able to search the Household Products Database and the Bookshelf, a growing collection of full text biomedical books." Direct to NLM Gateway.
Podcasting Source: USC Libraries USC Libraries Begins Offering Podcasting Production Class
"The USC Libraries support a pilot project that helps students and faculty acquire production skills in a growing technology."
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4hkfp>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text -----------------------------------------------
Censorship--Lists & Ranking Source: Committee to Protect Journalists 10 Most Censored Countries
Energy--United States--Chronology Source: EIA Annual Oil Market Chronology, 2005 See Also: A Primer on Gasoline Prices See Also: Fuel FAQ (via FuelEconomy.gov)
Medicine--Timelines Source: Infoplease.com Medical Advances Timeline
Curling--Canada Source: Library and Archives Canada New, Bonspiel! The History of Curling in Canada
Intellectual Property Source: WIPO New, IP Audit -- A "How to" Guide
Labor Markets--International Source: MLR New, A visual essay: international labor market comparisons
"International comparisons of labor market and competitiveness indicators, as well as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), provide a snapshot in time of the world economy. The first 3 sections of this visual essay include charts covering 12 selected countries in North America, Europe, and Asia, although not all countries appear on all of the charts because of data constraints."
Direct LINK to These ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4hkfn>
Congressional Research Service ------------------------------
Source: CRS via OpenCRS, FAS, NCSE, FPC A Selection of New/Updated CRS Reports
+ The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11
+ Oil Industry Profit Review 2005
+ Immigration Statistics on the Web
+ Arab League Boycott of Israel
+ Oil Shale: History, Incentives, and Policy
Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Posts <http://digbig.com/4hkfm>
++ Tuesday, May 2, 2006 ++
Professional Reading Shelf --------------------------
Podcasting--United States--Legal Issues Source: Creative Commons New, Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules For The Revolution "Like EFF's [blogging] guide, the Podcasting Legal Guide provides a useful summary, in plain English, of the complex body of laws that govern the use of copyrighted content."
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Public Libraries--New Zealand Source: National Library of New Zealand Just Released: Public Libraries of New Zealand: A Strategic Framework 2006 to 2016
Information Retrieval Source: Information Retrieval Specialist Group, British Computer Society The Spring Issue of the BCS Informer is Now Online (PDF)
+ Conference Review: ECIR 2006 + Book Review: Web Content Retrieval + Product Update: Trexy.com
http://digbig.com/4hkfj>
Multimedia Shelf -----------------
Two Recent Presentations Available on the Web
+ What is Happening to the American Media? A speech by Dan Rather at the Commonwealth Club, April 25, 2006. Audio only.
Rather also spoke (video available) at UC Berkeley the same day. The title of this talk was "Is the Media Failing in America?"
+ TV's New Economics These presentations were sponsored by MIT's Communication's Forum and took place on March 8, 2006. Speakers:
++ David F. Poltrack: Executive Vice President, Research and Planning, CBS Television.
++ Jorge Reina Schement: Distinguished Professor of Communications; Professor of Information Sciences and Technologies and Co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy, College of Communications, The Pennsylvania State University.
http://digbig.com/4hkfh>
Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents ---------------------------------------------------------
Immigration Enforcement--United States Source: CRS (via FPC) Immigration Enforcement Within the United States 82 pages; PDF.
Digitized Images Digitization Projects Source: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Archive of One of America's Earliest News Picture Agencies Now Online
"The Library of Congress's Prints & Photographs Division is pleased to announce that all the negatives in the George Grantham Bain news photograph collection (nearly 40,000 glass negatives in all) have now been digitized and are available for searching in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. The collection, which represents the archive of one of America's earliest news picture agencies, features an array of personalities, news events, sports coverage, and sites, particularly in New York City, for the period 1900-1931. More information about the collection available here.
Wiretaps--United States--Statistics Source: U.S. Courts Just Released, 2005 Wiretap Report
"The number of orders authorizing or approving the interception of wire, oral or electronic communications by federal and state courts increased 4 percent in 2005, for a total of 1,773 applications. Of the total applications, 625 were submitted to federal judges, down 14 percent from 2004, and 1,148 applications were submitted to state judges, an increase of 17 percent over 2004."
Ready Reference Fast Facts Source: The World Almanac New, The May 2006 Issue of The World Almanac E-Newsletter is Online
Contains a chronology of January events and holidays, "This Day in History," and much more.
See Also: Back issues and subscription info (free)
Workplace--Canada--Lists & Rankings Source: Canadian Business Best Places to Work in Canada, 2006
http://digbig.com/4hkfg>
++ Monday, May 1, 2006 ++
Professional Reading Shelf --------------------------
Public Libraries--Web Services Source: Glenn Peterson EngagedPatrons.org
"We provide website services connecting public libraries and their patrons. We handle the programming; you reap the benefits of being able to offer your users a more engaging and interactive web presence." Offers events listing and online registration, weblogs, feedback form, RSS feeds, custom Web-enabled databases. Services are free to qualifying public libraries -- e.g., "U.S. public libraries receiving less than $1 million per year in total income (as reported to the National Center for Education Statistics." Peterson, a former reference librarian with more than 25 years of experience, has been creating websites for the Hennepin County Library for 10+ years. (EngagedPatrons.org is not affiliated with the Hennepin County Library.)
Library Management and Organization Source: INFORMED LIBRARIAN Guest Forum: Values: A Human and Organizational Resource Part II
This forum was written by Audrey Fenner from the Congressional Research Service and John Fenner. "In Part II of their article they explain how managers can identify, develop, support, and exploit staff values. This is definitely worth reading."
American Library Association Annual Conference Source: ALA Abstracts for 25th Annual ALA Poster Sessions Now Online
http://digbig.com/4hkfd>
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Terrorism--Databases Source: MIPT New, Terrorism Knowledge Base Quick Reference Guide and More http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/technology/securitycrisisB.html
The TKB was a ResourceShelf ROTW last September. Jacso also reviewed the dbase a week later. Since then, several new features and additions including:
+ "Quick Reference Guide" to the Terrorism Knowledge Base (PDF)
+ New Data Source: U.S. State Department Travel Warnings and Public Announcements
+ New Data Source: "State Department Terrorist Designation Lists" with direct links to TKB information on terrorist groups and entities officially designated by the U.S. government.
+ New Content: "Over the past two months, our research team has added nearly 600 terrorism incident reports, 40 terrorist group profiles, and more than 100 terrorist leader and member profiles."
+ Direct access from the TKB to the The International Security and Counterterrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC).
ISCTRC is an EBSCO database that is accessible (registration required, free) and permitted for personal, non-commercial use. The same is the case with Thomson's Terrorism Reference Library and Encyclopedia of Terrorism.
Employment--United States--Statistics Source: BLS Employment Characteristics of Families Summary, 2005
Mexican Americans--Statistics Source: U.S. Census Fast Facts: Statistics About Mexican Americans A new compilation to celebrate Cinco de Mayo on Friday.
Law Firms--United States--Ranking Source: American Lawyer The Am Law 100
"The American Lawyer's newest Am Law 100 findings highlight this provocative fact: At the United States' top-grossing firms, additional lawyers are slowing the rate of revenue growth. Law firms are managing to improve profitability by cutting costs, boosting efficiency and making equity partnership more exclusive -- but revenue per lawyer isn't keeping pace with head count increases. Growing, it turns out, is easy. Growing profitably is what's hard."
http://digbig.com/4hkfc
++ Sunday, April 30, 2006 ++
Professional Reading Shelf --------------------------
Libraries Source: Ariadne The April 2006 Issue of Ariadne is Now Available
Articles include:
+ Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be by Phil Bradley
+ Preserving Electronic Scholarly Journals: Portico
+ Retrospective on the RDN
Note: What's the RDN? A resource we love.
+ Metasearch: Building a Shared, Metadata-driven Knowledge Base System
+ Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging
+ Serving Services in Web 2.0
Art History--Imagery--Databases Illinois Library Consortium Debuts Digitized Image Archive
"CARLI [Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois] has purchased the Saskia digital image archive from Scholars Resource. The collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture, and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre, as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt. The images are displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail format. Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history texts..." Thanks to Bernie S. for the news tip.
See Also: Learn More about the Saskia Digital Image Archive
http://digbig.com/4hjwn
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Internet Regulation--United States Source: Oxford Internet Institute Lecture (Webcast): Recent Developments in FCC Internet Regulation
This presentation was given about 10 days ago at Oxford Unversity. "Susan Crawford summarizes recent changes by the FCC on 'common carrier' rules, and assesses the current U.S. debate about the provision of a 'prioritized Internet'." Professor Crawford is a faculty member at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University.
Direct LINK to This ResourceShelf Post <http://digbig.com/4hjwk>
++ Saturday, April 29, 2006 ++
Professional Reading Shelf --------------------------
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh--Economic Impact
Source: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Economic Development
Economic Impact Study: Regional Benefits of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
"With more than 2 million visitors annually, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is the area's most visited regional asset. Yet, despite its 110-year history, the library has never quantified its contributions to the region. In 2005, the library partnered with Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Economic Development to explore the many ways that Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh impacts the economic vitality of the region. The report examines both the library's value to the economy in terms of return on investment as well as its contributions to people and their communities."
E-Textbooks Source: The New York Times The Bottom Line on E-Textbooks
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/literacy/e-books.asp
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Terrorism Source: U.S. Department of State Just Released: Country Reports on Terrorism
"U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism." Download in sections as PDFs.
Presidents of the United States--Speeches Source: Miller Center, University of Virginia Miller Center Presidential Speech Collection
"The Scripps Library, through cooperation with various presidential libraries, has been collecting some of the more important presidential speeches of the past 60 years. These speeches are available in their entirety in full audio. When possible, we have also provided transcripts of the speeches. Recently we have expanded our collection to include the full text of some of the more important presidential speeches from the 18th and 19th centuries."
See Also: WhiteHouseTapes.org (A ResourceShelf Site of the Week) See Also: Presidential Reference Files--Bibliographies
http://digbig.com/4hjwh
+ Gasoline Price Spikes and Regional Gasoline Content Regulation: A Structural Approach
+ World Health Organization releases new Child Growth Standards
+ U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress (PDF; 43 KB)
+ Vertex 2005 Sales Tax Rate Report (PDF; 143 KB)
+ Teen Relationship Abuse Survey (PDF; 100 KB)
+ The Devaluing of Higher Education: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession 2005-06
http://digbig.com/4hjwg
++ Friday, April 28, 2006 ++
Professional Reading Shelf --------------------------
Open Source http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/technology/VIVE.html
Information Retrieval
Workshop Info and CFP: Second International Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval
"The goal of the Open Source Information Retrieval Workshop (OSIR) is to bring together practitioners developing open source search technologies in the context of a premier IR research conference to share their recent advances, and to coordinate their strategy and research plans. The intent is to foster community-based development, to promote distribution of transparent Web search tools, and to strengthen the interaction with the research community in IR."
Digitsation Source: The Electronic Library (via E-LIS) Developing a Digitisation Framework for your organisation
This paper describes how a Digitisation Framework was set up at the University of Auckland Library from 2001 - 2004. The elements of the framework are discussed, how it was developed and implemented and what was learnt from this. The purpose of the paper is to help organisations of any size and type to set up their own digitisation framework in the near future.
http://digbig.com/4hjwf
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Maps--China Source: MapsAsia.com MapsAsia.com "Search the location and information of more than 50,000 geographic records including cities, towns, roads, streets, landmarks, and facilities in Asia on an interactive digital map."
Business--China Source: US Commercial Service Doing Business In China: A Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies
227 pages; PDF. Thanks to SB for the tip.
Energy Industry--Research Guide Source: Business and Economics Research Advisor (BERA)/Business Reference Services
Science, Technology & Business Division Library of Congress New: The Oil & Gas Industry
BERA "The issue takes a global view of the industry and is intended to serve as a research aid for the discovery of interesting and useful sources worldwide. Included is a brief history of the oil and gas industry, oil and gas production, transportation and storage, marketing and distribution, as well as statistical sources, and a brief section on company research and finding aids. Sections on world natural gas production and alternative energy sources are also included in the guide."
Toll Collection--Glossary Source: International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association Glossary of Terms "A list of specialized words related to the Toll Industry." In alphabetical order, from AASHTO to WCDMA.
http://digbig.com/4hjwd
++ Thursday, April 27, 2006 ++
Professional Reading Shelf --------------------------
Cataloging Source: American Libraries MARC Creator Henriette Avram Dies
See Also: From 2004, Accomplishments and Other Info Henriette D. Avram (via University of Tennessee)
Public Libraries--Readers Advisory Source: StatesmanJournal.com (OR) Salem library worker matches readers' tastes with book titles
"If you've got a hankering for a book but can't quite decide what, Robin Beerbower likely can help you. Beerbower, the Salem Public Library's outreach coordinator, is known as one of the top readers' advisers in the state -- a person who specializes in suggesting books for patrons."
Digital Preservation Source: LC Library Holds Strategy Session on "Preserving Creative America"
Focus of session? Working with the commercial sector. "A recent Library of Congress strategy meeting with leading producers of commercial content in digital formats has revealed that creators of television, radio, music, film, photography, pictorial art, and video games are keenly interested in the preservation of their digital materials for archival and other purposes...The April 7 session, which drew more than 50 attendees from the private sector, focused on potential partnership projects between NDIIPP and the content producers. The Library plans to issue in 2006 a request for expressions of interest from private industry for cooperative projects as a way to catalyze preservation work in the private sector."
Librarians Source: The Scientist Rise of the Bio-Librarian
Access only available to subscribers of The Scientist. "Once the part-time, poorly paid province of postdocs and graduate students, biocuration has become a full-time, salaried career, driven by the explosive growth of biological data in recent years."
http://digbig.com/4hjtx
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Two archived lectures/webcasts.
+ Preserving Digital Public Television (via Library of Congress)
This presentation took place on March 8, 2006. "Project director Nan Rubin discussed the "Preserving Digital Public Television" project, which is funded with a dollar-for-dollar matching award from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. The "Preserving Digital Public Television" project is exploring the selection and appraisal of programs for preservation, a variety of technical issues and the roles and responsibilities for long-term preservation within the public television community. Among other technical topics, the project is examining appropriate formatting for video preservation. One of the key contributions from New York University, which is also part of the project, is the development of a model digital repository to demonstrate several of the project's technical findings.
+ Journalism: "Send us your photos: How the Net makes us all reporters"
This presentation took place at Oxford University in October, 2005. "Nobody who uses the Internet or watches news programmes on TV can be unaware of the phenomenon of 'citizen journalism', found everywhere from personal blogs to sites like OhmyNews and Dan Gillmor's Bayosphere to the BBC, CNN, Sky, and every other news outlet where people are invited to send in photos, videos, or eyewitness reports of any newsworthy event they happen to witness. Journalist and website editor Bill Thompson will discuss the likely impact of this new form of journalism on the mainstream media, attempting to place it in a historic context both technically and in terms of the way journalism has developed. He will look at the ethical issues which new forms of newsgathering and publication raise, both for contributors and for the news organisations which use their material, and consider how those training tomorrow's journalists should respond."
http://digbig.com/4hhfx
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Human Rights Source: NYU Law's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice New Web Resource: The Project on Extrajudicial Executions
Via an e-mail: "NYU Law's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice has just launched a new web site: www.extrajudicialexecutions.org. The site aims to make information about issues taken up by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions more accessible. Features include:
+ A country-by-country guide to the Special Rapporteur's fact-finding visits and correspondence with governments. This will be helpful to anyone researching the human rights situation in a particular country.
+ A guide to the legal observations the Special Rapporteur has made on the death penalty, shoot-to-kill policies, human rights law in armed conflict, and other issues. This will be helpful to lawyers, scholars, and advocates working in the area of international human rights law. The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions is an independent human rights expert appointed by the United Nations with a mandate to respond effectively to cases of extrajudicial killings around the world."
Nepal--Demonstrations--Map
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs --ReliefWeb
New, Nepal: Demonstrations -- Situation Map
"Nationwide general strike started 6th April 2006. Night time curfew that started on 5th April still continues in capital, but daytime curfew lifted on 12th April. Curfew also in effect in many cities outside Kathmandu. Demonstrators continuously taken to the streets. This has left hundreds of people wounded. More emergencies will arise in coming days and need for care and treatment of wounded may arise both in capital and other parts of country."
HIV/AIDS Source: MedlinePlus New Resource Compilation: AIDS Medicines
Bald Eagles--Webcams Source: US Fish and Wildlife Service and Wheeling Jesuit University It's Bald Eagle Cam!!!
"Unique partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's training facility in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and the technology center of the Wheeling Jesuit University is bringing real-time online views of the growth and development of three energetic American bald eagle chicks. The camera is strategically placed directly above their nest on the grounds of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Conservation Training Center." Streaming video is also available. "A link to the eagle cam and instructions for viewing is at http://www.fws.gov/nctc/cam/videoinstr.html. Video is available for viewing Monday through Friday between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. EDT through mid-June."
http://digbig.com/4hjty
Internet--Statistics --------------------
Source: EIU and Pew Internet and American Life Project
Two New Statistical Reports
1) e-Readiness--Lists & Rankings Source: Economist Intelligence Unit Digital divide narrows, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's seventh annual e-readiness rankings Key findings:
+ In e-readiness, the distance separating the best from the rest has declined Denmark and the US retain their top positions among 68 countries + Broadband connectivity is becoming less of a differentiator among e-readiness leaders The complete list (67 countries) is included. List is also available as PDF file.
2) Internet Penetration and Impact (via Pew Internet) "Surveys fielded in 2006 show that internet penetration among adults in the U.S. has hit an all-time high. While the percentage of Americans who say they use the internet has continued to fluctuate slightly, our latest survey, fielded February 15 - April 6, 2006 shows that fully 73% of respondents (about 147 million adults) are internet users, up from 66% (about 133 million adults) in our January 2005 survey. And the share of Americans who have broadband connections at home has now reached 42% (about 84 million), up from 29% (about 59 million) in January 2005."
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