LLRXBuzz - January 29, 2001
By Tara Calishain, Published on January 29, 2001
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FreeERISA.com
Announces New Resources
FreeERISA.com has added new resources
to its Web site of pension and welfare reports. First is a database of
more than 1.3 million employer identification numbers, EIN FINDER.
EIN FINDER also provides legal entities related to an EIN. Second is a Tax Exempt Funds database listing of more than half of its organizations. FreeERISA.com Tax Exempt Funds database is reported to be the only source of such Internal Revenue Service information.
The site is available at http://freeerisa.com/. Normally this is the part where I tell you about using the resource and how it worked for me, etc. Unfortunately I can't do that this time. I had to register. I registered. Next I was told I would be mailed a special password to start using the site. I never got anything. But if you want more information about the new features you could access the FreeERISA press release at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010122/dc_freeeri.html.
Government
Offers Food Recall Information Site
There's so much news nowadays
about recalled food that it's not too surprising that the government
offers a regularly- updated site to track those recalls. The site, at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/recalls/rec_intr.htm,
offers a FAQ about food recalls in addition to listing information.
Listing information is divided into two sections -- state and federal. The federal section is divided into active recalls and all recalls (back to 1994 in some cases.) The active recall tables contain the recall number, brief description of the recalled item, the date, and a link to the recall press release. The state section has active recalls only, with no archives, and press releases for those recalls are not available.
The site warns that recall information for state agencies may not be complete (it sure doesn't look complete from this list) but offers links to individual states' health and agriculture agencies.
NY Times.com
Launches New Sections
The Health section also includes an extensive news
section (obviously), information on health-related subjects, a Health Navigator for searching other Web sites, and a searchable HealthStreet directory. There's also a "doctor finder" that allows you to search by name or specialty with some pretty extensive options. For example, you may search for a pediatric surgeon in Decatur, Alabama. Some pretty good tools here, and the news is excellent.Another Legal
Research Newsletter
What Does
That Extension Mean, Anyway?
.doc. .dll. .vbs. What do all these file
extensions mean, anyway? Now you can find out with the ExtSearch, the file
extensions search engine, at http://extsearch.com/
. This site lets you search through a database of over 1600 file
extension.
Using the search engine is simple. You just put in the file extension your interested in, using any case, without the dot. I tried hqx. The search results will give you basic information about the file extension. The HQX result, for example, gives information about the extension and what program is used with it. Sometimes that information isn't immediately helpful (the fact that DLL means dynamic link library and it's a file used by Windows is sometimes less information than you need) but it gives you enough information that you can extend your search elsewhere.
Microsoft
Offers Local Business Information Through Portal
Microsoft's business portal site, bCentral (http://www.bcentral.com)
has teamed up with American City Business Journals to offer business news
denoted by city name. From the site's front page, choose a city from the
drop-down menu. You'll be taken to a page which has both local business
news and business news from MSNBC. These pages offer a lot of news, but if
you're feeling overwhelmed or are only looking for one or two things, you
can set up a "search watch" that will review all the news in all
the markets for news in which you're interested. You can set up as many
searches as you like.
Track New
Additions to the ODP
One of my complaints about DMOZ.org
(the Open Directory Project) is that there's no way to get listings of new
additions to the index (like there is with Yahoo.) Apparently I'm not the
only one who has a problem with this, as Axie (http://axie.com/index.php3
) aims to provide those listings. After completing the free registration
(and if you're looking for the privacy policy, it's buried in the About
section) you'll be able to specify Boolean searches you want Axie to
monitor. You can receive your weekly notifications of new sites in HTML or
plain text, and there's an "adult block" which can help keep
your search alerts free of inappropriate content. I haven't gotten an
alert yet, so I can't speak to how the report looks, but I'm looking
forward to seeing it.
Sabrina I. Pacifici
From beSpacific.com 
beSpacific
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- Information Sharing and Collaboration in the United States Intelligence Community
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- Little Data Book on Financial Development 2014
- Bank for International Settlements – Property price statistics
- Federal Innovation Policy: The Current Context and Some Possible Changes
- Failure to Launch: Structural Shift and the New Lost Generation
- Statistics on payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries
- Multifactor productivity rose in 55 of 86 detailed manufacturing industries in 2011