Online Guide to the House and Senate Members of the 110th Congress
"This online Guide to the House and Senate Members of the 110th Congress is intended to be a single point of access for Member information from several different official sources. Both congressional offices and the public will be able to:
Access data concerning House and Senate Members from various publications including: the Congressional Pictorial Directory, Congressional Biographical Directory, and the Congressional Directory.
Search for and retrieve individual Members by Name, Hometown, State/Territory, District, Term Count, Bio Data, Birth Date, Place Of Birth, WebSite, Zip Code, Counties/Parishes, Office Building or groups of Members by state, party affiliation, or number of terms.
Link to individual Member's corresponding information in the Biographical Directory maintained by the House and Senate and link to individual member web pages."

Capturing King Coal: Deploying Carbon Capture and Storage Systems in the U.S. at Scale
News release: "A WRI [World Resources Institute] analysis of the complex challenges that investors would face when deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies shows that until government policies support large-scale demonstrations it is unlikely that CCS will be able to fulfill its potential in combating climate change. Carbon capture and storage, the process whereby carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power plant is injected deep underground to prevent it from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change, could play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions while allowing for the continued use of coal as an energy source. Coal is one of the cheapest fuels for power generation, and its affordability and large domestic reserves make it likely to remain so for some time.
Capturing King Coal: Deploying Carbon Capture and Storage Systems in the U.S. at Scale, May 2008. Hiranya Fernando, John Venezia, Clay Rigdon, Preeti Verma

Proofpoint’s Outbound Email and Data Loss Prevention in Today’s Enterprise, 2008 report - ["the survey was fielded in the US, UK, France, Germany and Australia to explore global concerns.]
"Email remains the most important medium for communications both inside and outside the enterprise. But the convenience and ubiquity of email as a business communications tool has exposed enterprises to a wide variety of legal, financial and regulatory risks associated with outbound email. Enterprises continue to express a high level of concern about creating, managing and enforcing outbound messaging policies (for email and other communication protocols) that ensure that messages leaving the organization comply with both internal rules, best practices for data protection and external regulations. In addition, organizations remain very concerned about ensuring that email (and other electronic message streams) cannot be used to disseminate confidential or proprietary information...The results show that data protection concerns are not confined to the US and that globally, email, webmail, FTP, blogs message boards, media sharing sites and social networking sites are a source of concern as well as real-world risk for IT professionals working in large enterprises."

New Study Sheds Light on the Growing U.S. Wind Power Market
News release: "For the third consecutive year the U.S. was home to the fastest-growing wind power market in the world, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Specifically, U.S. wind power capacity increased by 46 percent in 2007, representing a $9 billion investment in new wind projects. At this pace, wind is on a path to becoming a significant contributor to the U.S. power mix: wind projects accounted for 35 percent of all new electricity-generating capacity added in the U.S. in 2007, and more than 200 GW (gigawatts, or billion watts) of wind power are in various stages of development throughout the country."
Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2007

In Texas-Arkansas Spat, Judge Orders Parties to Midfield
We’ve always known that folks from both Texas and Arkansas take their college football pretty seriously. Apparently, so do their judges. In the case of Waggoner v. Wal-Mart, which is being litigated in the Western District of Texas, a discovery dispute arose over the location of a deposition for a Wal-Mart representative. The choices were San Antonio, Texas, and Bentonville, Arkansas.
Acknowledging the delicate nature of the problem, Judge James Nowlin, in an order <http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/waggoner.pdf> , wrote:
The Court is sympathetic with the Defendant’s argument. Surely Defendant’s corporate representative, a resident of Arkansas, would feel great humiliation by being forced to enter the home state of the University of Texas, where the legendary Texas Longhorns have wrought havoc on the Arkansas Razorbacks with an impressive 55-21 all-time record.
On the other hand, the Court is sympathetic with Plaintiff’s position. Plaintiffs might enter Arkansas with a bit of trepidation as many residents of Arkansas are still seeking retribution for the “Game of the Century” in which James Street and Darrell Royal stunned the Razorbacks by winning the 1969 National Championship.
Judge Nowlin’s solution? He ordered that the deponent appear on the steps of the Texarkana Federal Building, 500 State Line Avenue, TX/AR 71854.
While he chose to split the baby, Judge Nowlin, in a footnote, revealed where his football loyalties lie: “It is worth noting,” he wrote, “that the Razorbacks, who disgracefully retreated from the Southwest Conference to the gentler pastures of the Southeastern Conference, could have likely learned a lesson about stamina and perseverance in the face of battle by visiting the Alamo in San Antonio.”
WSJ Law Blog June 4, 2008

Gaming U.S. News by sneaking students through the back door?
Over at Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports blog <http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2008/06/schools-that-ta.html> he takes a look at the schools that take the largest number of transfers as a percentage of their first-year class. Why take transfers? Leiter suggests a reason: Since 22.5% of the U.S. News ranking of a school is based on the median LSAT and GPA of the One L class, it’s easier to report better medians by keeping One L classes small. “Of course,” writes Leiter, “a school that reduces the size of its 1L class needs to make up the lost revenue, and one way to do that is by taking a large number of transfers. The transfers are ‘invisible’ as far as 22.5% of the US News ranking is concerned, though their tuition dollars still pay the bills.”
Here are the ten schools that take the largest number of transfer students, relative to the size of their first-year class: 1) Florida State University; 2) Rutgers University, Camden; 3) Washington University, St. Louis; 4) University of Illinois; 5) Georgetown; 6) NYU; 7) Emory; 8) UCLA; 9) Northwestern; 10) Columbia.
WSJ Law Blog June 4, 2008

Opponents of teaching evolution, in a natural selection of sorts, have gradually shed those strategies that have not survived the courts. Over the last decade, creationism has given rise to “creation science,” which became “intelligent design,” which in 2005 was banned from the public school curriculum in Pennsylvania by a federal judge.
Now a battle looms in Texas over science textbooks that teach evolution, and the wrestle for control seizes on three words. None of them are “creationism” or “intelligent design” or even “creator.” The words are “strengths and weaknesses.”
Starting this summer, the state education board will determine the curriculum for the next decade and decide whether the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution should be taught.
Flaws in Darwinian theory are listed on an anti-evolution Web site, strengthsandweaknesses.org, which is run by Texans for Better Science Education.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/us/04evolution.html?ref=us

A Manhattan skyscraper that is home to The New York Times became the site of twin daredevil stunts on June 5, with two men scaling the 52-story office tower within a matter of hours. The Times moved into the new building, covered with slats that helped the climbers, last year.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-X9EiTPmtPeKpyu5eoS_apDk-9AD914GBPO0

Missing pyramid found
On June 5, Egyptian archaeologists unveiled a 4,000-year-old missing pyramid that is believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist about 175 years ago and never seen again.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/06/MN7M1143AD.DTL

June 6 is the birthday of the poet, novelist, and children's author Maxine Kumin, (books by this author) born in Philadelphia (1925). She won the Pulitzer Prize for a book inspired by her New Hampshire farm titled Up Country: Poems of New England (1972). In college, an instructor handed back comments on her poetry that read: "Say it with flowers, but for God's sake don't try to write poems."

TOLEDO EVENTS
Valentine unveils mural
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080605/COLUMNIST10/806050350/-1/ART

Old West End festival June 7 and 8
http://www.dotoledo.org/gtcvb/events/event_detail.asp?key=3283
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080605/ART03/806050304