by Nina Totenberg, NPR, March 12, 2009. [This item added 13 March 2008]
Biomet, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., Smith & Nephew and Zimmer have deferred prosecution agreements (dpa) with the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey and have listed recipients of payments as required by the settlement to post them prominently on the company's websites. Stryker was not prosecuted because it cooperated with federal investigators, but it was required to post names and amounts on its website. (Stryker posted information in a format that makes it difficult to view or reproduce). See DOJ press release - Five Companies in Hip and Knee Replacement Industry Avoid Prosecution by Agreeing to Compliance Rules and Monitoring. Below are links to the lists (not always "prominently" posted):
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Bill McKibben on Deep Sustainability: Building Communities that Actually Work (53 minutes) on April 17, 2006.
There are also interviews by journalist Andrew Blum of participants in the Emerging Voices lecture series. Among the architects interviewed:

- "Fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court." Also known as the Old Bailey Sessions Papers. See Digitizing the Hanging Court by Guy Gugliotta, Smithsonian, April, 2007, pp. 66-75.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Macaulay Library - Sound & Video Catalog - Offers over 80,000 sound and video recordings of animals (65,000 sound clips and some 18,000 video clips). See Calls of the wild: More than 80,000 sound and video recordings of animals now available to public online, By Miyoko Chu, Cornell Chronicle, December 14, 2006. Search for the red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus).
International Tracing Service Bad Arolsen - "The International Tracing Service came into being in its present form through the Bonn Agreements of 6 June 1955. It has the mammoth task of gathering, filing, preserving and processing the personal records of civilians who were persecuted under the Third Reich. Archive now contains over 50 million reference files relating to 17.5 million people." See Revisiting the Horrors of the Holocaust: Millions Of Nazi Documents Are Being Made Available to the Public , 60 Minutes, CBS, December 17, 2006.
Terry Gross interviews Comedic Actor and Writer Ricky Gervais, Fresh Air, WHYY, December 18, 2006. "Gervais is the creator and star of the British TV comedy series The Office, which has been adapted into a hit show [NBC's The Office] starring Steve Carrell. He's [Gervais] won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and three BAFTA Awards. Gervais also writes the Flanimals series of children's books." The interview is 34 minutes long, The Office is discussed about 15 minutes into the interview. (You can watch the NBC episodes online.)
Bell is profiled in Fast Company's November 2006 issue, unfortunately not available in full-text. "For the past seven years, Bell has been conducting an audacious experiment in "lifelogging"- creating a near-total digital record of his experience. His custom-designed software, "MyLifeBits," saves everything it can get its hands on. For every piece of email he sends and receives, every document he types, every chat session he engages in, every Web page he surfs, a copy is scooped up and plashed away." (A Head for Detail, by Clive Thompson, Fast Company, November, 2006, pp. 73-83.)
Learn more about the project: Digital age may bring total recall in future, CNN, October 20, 2006; Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell - A look into Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, a 43 minute video by Charles Torre and Robert Scoble for Microsoft's Channel 9. Jim Gemmell is a developer at the Microsoft Research Center in San Francisco, who is working with Jim Gray and Gordon Bell on MyLifeBits. Other videos on the project include Jim Gemmell - Sensecam, and its role in MyLifeBits (5:48 minutes, 8/21/2005); Roger Lueder - Developing MyLifeBits (6:50 minutes, 8/21/05); and MyLifeBits: The Memex Vision and Some Implications of Storing Everything Personal, a 45 minute presentation by Gorden Bell, IT Conversations, November 11, 2004.
In Sleeping Where Keats Died (Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2006. pg. P.4) Barry Newman describes a house near the Spanish Steps in Rome where poet John Keats died of tuberculosis in 1821. Newman rented this Landmark Trust property on Piazza di Spagna for $570 a night. Other Italian properties include the Casa Guidi in Florence where Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning lived in 1847, Sant'Antonio in Tivoli, near Rome, and Villa Saraceno in Venice.
In Live-In History: Vacationing in a Landmark (Wall Street Journal, Aug 22, 2006. pg. D.6) Bill Coles describes his stay in Auchinleck House in Ayrshire, Scotland, the birthplace of James Boswell. He tells you about other interesting Landmark properties: Luttrell's Tower in Hampshire ("as follies go, is an absolute beauty"); Freston Tower in Suffolk; Fort Clonque, in the Channel Islands; Crownhill Fort in Devon; Gothic Temple in Buckinghamshire; and the Pineapple in Dunmore, Scotland. Emma Tennant describes many of the properties in Superbly stopping the rot, The Spectator, March 11, 2000. Jonathan Glancey describes the Grange, the former home of Augustus Welby Pugin, In bed with Pugin (the Guardian, June 5, 2006.
Other gems: Castle Bungalow (Peppercombe, near Bideford, North Devon) a 1920s bungalow with a spectacular view of the sea; Whiteford Temple (Cornwall) sleeps two, has an open fire place, a small garden and "a fine open view, looking towards the estuary of the Tamar in the distance;" Marshal Wade's House, Abbey Churchyard, Bath, which sleeps four, is the "nearest to Florence you get in England, with stunning views...;" Egyptian House (Cornwall); Elton House (Bath); East Banqueting House (Chipping Campden); Field House (Minchinhampton, Gloucester); the Old Parsonage (Iffley, Oxford); Prospect Tower (Belmont Park, Faversham, Kent); and Fish Court Apartment (Hampton Court, London). You can visit the buildings during Open Days. There is an Availability List and a Late Availability List but the best descriptions can be found in the Handbook which you can order for $25, refundable if you book, from The Landmark Trust USA, 707 Kipling Road, Dummerston, Vermont 05301 (802-254-6868). A Landmark Trust price list from 1991 in my possession states that "really well-behaved dogs are welcome at most places..." There are newsletters (pdf files): Spring 2006, Autumn 2005 and Spring 2005. Take a look, too, at the National Trust Cottages, "a unique collection of over 330 properties in outstanding locations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland" and the Irish Landmark Trust.
Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest - Published by the Art Institute of Chicago in association with Yale University Press for the exhibition at the Art Institue of Chicago from April 22 to August 13, 2006. This is a beautiful book with 141 color photographs of pre-Columbian pottery, primarily from private collections. It's $28.35 at Amazon.com (the list price is $45.00). See UNESCO's World Heritage List - Archeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes.
South by Southwest Festival - Austin, Texas, annual showcase for independent music. In SXSW Bands you can listen to music by over 900 bands.