Energy and Commerce Committee Releases Climate Change White Paper
"The Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality are issuing a series of Climate Change Legislative Design White Papers as the next step toward enactment of an economy-wide climate change program. The fourth White Paper, released today, is entitled Getting the Most Greenhouse Gas Reductions for Our Money. The White Paper discusses ways to keep costs as low as possible while still achieving environmental goals." Related postings on climate change

Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States
News release: "The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) today released Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 (SAP 4.3): The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States. The CCSP integrates the federal research efforts of 13 agencies on climate and global change. Today's report is one of the most extensive examinations of climate impacts on U.S. ecosystems. USDA is the lead agency for this report and coordinated its production as part of its commitment to CCSP."
At What Point Does Silence Become Malpractice? Suppose you’re working on a client matter and you mess something up — say, miss a filing date. How long can you wait before you must tell the client about it?
According to this story, from the Recorder, that’s the issue bubbling to the surface of a suit filed by Landmark Screens against its patent lawyer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner Thomas Kohler. Landmark Screens — whose picture-changing billboard can be seen on Highway 101 near San Carlos, Calif. — filed a malpractice suit against Kohler accusing Kohler of messing up a patent application. Here’s the complaint.
WSJ Law Blog May 29, 2008




FEC Launches Enhanced Presidential Campaign Finance Map
News release: "The Federal Election Commission (FEC/the Commission) has introduced a new and improved version of its Presidential Campaign Finance map...the map now includes detailed information on each candidate’s campaign expenditures. It also provides a number of enhanced viewing and searching options for information about campaign contributors. The upgraded map is an easy-to-use online tool for obtaining detailed information about the Presidential campaigns and how they spend their money, including the payee name, purpose, date and amount of each campaign expenditure. These improved features were included on similar maps for U.S. House and Senate campaigns that were added to the FEC web site late last year."
"Campaign finance information is now available via easy to use maps of the USA for both Presidential and House and Senate Elections through the most recent reporting period".

Nonprofit Group To Add Its Rankings To Crowded Field, By Anna Wilde Mathews: "The nonprofit Consumers Union is launching a new hospital-ratings service, adding to the growing competition to provide online consumer information about health care. The effort by the publisher of the popular Consumer Reports magazine is a gamble that the credibility of the magazine's name and its no-advertising stance, identified with widely used ratings for cars and other products, can translate into the tricky field of health care, where doctors and other providers have objected to some evaluations proposed by insurers."

To nature
It has ten eyes, it has an anti-infection compound in its copper-based blood, it preceded the dinosaurs by more than 100 million years, it has remained basically unchanged for 245 million years, it was unregulated until 1999, it is the state marine mammal of Delaware, it is the horseshoe crab. See pictures at http://www.nature.org/magazine/summer2008/features/

Find all state animals at http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Lists/state_mammals.html

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurist (1841-1935)