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Subject:     Please Visit the Center for Families, Children and the Courts’ Blog
Date:     03/08/2010 05:39:24 PM (Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:39:24 -0500)

Hi, all.

I am excited to announce that theUniversity of Baltimore School of Law Center for Families, Children and the Courts has created a blog.  The blog, at http://ub-cfcc.blogspot.com/, is intended to be a medium to share and discuss ideas, information, and news related to CFCC’s mission and projects.

We hope you will subscribe to, follow, or regularly check the blog to get updates about our work and to engage in discussions on some very important issues related to law’s impact on the lives of families and children.  Your involvement no doubt will deepen our understanding of the many influences affecting this work, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Barbara

Barbara A. Babb

Associate Professor of Law and Director

Center for Families, Children and the Courts (CFCC)

University of Baltimore School of Law

1420 North Charles Street

Baltimore, Maryland  21201

410.837.5661 (p)

410.837.5737 (f)

bbabb@ubalt.edu
CFCC’s Web site:  http://law.ubalt.edu/cfcc
My scholarship is available at http://ssrn.com/author=29837.
 See http://www.therapeuticjurisprudence.org

BBC News - Budding authors publish own work online and in printFrom:     John Page <jpagesq@GMAIL.COM>
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To:     SOLOSEZ@MAIL.ABANET.ORG
Subject:     [SOLOSEZ] OPEN JURIST FREE SEARCH ENGINE INSTALLS ON TOOLBAR
Date:     02/11/2010 05:47:41 PM (Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:47:41 -0500)

 Open Jurist is a resource for access to the case law of the United States.
Our organization believes that because the laws of the land are in the
public domain, they should be accessible by the public without restriction
and especially without charge. Our collection includes approximately 647,000
opinions and other transactions from the:

   - United States Supreme Court <http://openjurist.org/us>, beginning with
   the first session in 1790; and
   - Lower Federal Courts <http://openjurist.org/browse-open-jurist>, as
   published in the Federal Reporter beginning in 1880.

Search engine installs with your others on tool bar.  Convenient for quick
search.  I often like a global search just to get idea of syntax variations
related to theory of law.  For that I use VersusLaw, which will search all
states and fed in one pass.  Open Jurist may serve for those who don’t have
that option.

Can’t find much about OJ search connectors, syntax.  Seams to do fairly well
for plain language.

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It is designed to be similar to the Obama administration’s data.gov project, run by Vivek Kundra.

Mr Kundra is Chief Information Officer in the US. The American site, while not yet comprehensive, is already up and running, with improvements fuelled by user feedback.

An ambitious website that will open up government data to the public will launch in beta, or pilot, form in December.

Reams of anonymous data about schools, crime and health could all be included.

Data.gov.uk has been developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Professor Nigel Shadbolt at the University of Southampton.

It is designed to be similar to the Obama administration’s data.gov project, run by Vivek Kundra.

Mr Kundra is Chief Information Officer in the US. The American site, while not yet comprehensive, is already up and running, with improvements fuelled by user feedback.

Solos: Unbundling

The lightweight, touch-screen device went on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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People blessed with youthful faces are more likely to live to a ripe old age than those who look more than their years, work shows.

Danish scientists say appearance alone can predict survival, after they studied 387 pairs of twins.

The researchers asked nurses, trainee teachers and peers to guess the age of the twins from mug shots.

Those rated younger-looking tended to outlive their older-looking sibling, the British Medical Journal reports.

Survival advantage

The researchers also found a plausible biological explanation for their results.

Key pieces of DNA called telomeres, which indicate the ability of cells to replicate, are also linked to how young a person looks.

Perceived age, which is widely used by clinicians as a general indication of a patient’s health, is a robust biomarker of ageing that predicts survival among those aged over 70 The report authors

A telomere of shorter length is thought to signify faster ageing and has been linked with a number of diseases.

In the study, the people who looked younger had longer telomeres.

All of the twins were in their 70s, 80s or 90s when they were photographed.

Over a seven-year follow-up the researchers, led by Professor Kaare Christensen of the University of Southern Denmark, found that the bigger the difference in perceived age within a pair, the more likely it was that the older-looking twin died first.