Press release, June 12, 2007: “A diverse coalition of Mainers applauded the enactment today of the first net neutrality resolve in the nation. The resolution, LD 1675, recognizes the importance of full, fair and non-discriminatory access to the Internet and instructs the Public Advocate to study what can be done to protect the rights of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper on Causes of Civil War
The causes of civil war. Authors: Reynal-Querol, Marta; Djankov, Simeon; June 15, 2007, WPS4254 (33 pages, PDF) Summary: “The dominant hypothesis in the literature that studies conflict is that poverty is the main cause of civil wars. We instead analyze the effect of institutions on civil war, controlling for income per capita. In our set… Continue Reading
Office of Special Counsel Directs 18 Agencies to Preserve E-Mail for Investigation
Daniel Pulliam at Govexec.com reported, “Eighteen agencies have been asked by the Office of Special Counsel to preserve electronic information dating back to January 2001 as part of its governmentwide investigation into alleged violations of the law that limits political activity in federal agencies. The OSC task force investigating the claims has asked agencies, including… Continue Reading
FDA Releases New Software Tool to Help Keep Food Facilities Safe from Attack
Press release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a new tool to help growers, packers, processors, manufacturers, warehousers, transporters, and retailers in the food industry determine the vulnerability of individual food facilities to biological, chemical, or radiological attack. The software program, called the CARVER + Shock Software Tool, is a science-based prevention… Continue Reading
DHS OIG Review of Allegations Regarding San Francisco International Airport
Review of Allegations Regarding San Francisco International Airport, OIG-07-04 (PDF, 24 pages), October 2006 – Released June 15, 2007. Continue Reading
FDA Toothpaste Recall Website
“FDA has found a poisonous chemical, diethylene glycol (DEG), in certain toothpastes imported from China. The agency increased its scrutiny and testing of imported toothpaste and dental products after receiving reports in late May 2007 of contaminated Chinese dental products found in several countries, including Panama. The agency is warning consumers to avoid using tubes… Continue Reading
Chronicling America Site Now Offers 310,000 Newspaper Pages
Press release: “Program to Put Digitized Newspapers Online Makes Eight Awards – “Approximately 310,000 digitized newspaper pages, dating from 1900 to 1910, are now accessible through the Chronicling America Web site…New features in Chronicling America include: 80,000 pages have been added (including 11 new titles); The page display has been revised. Adobe Flash Player is… Continue Reading
New UK Report on Waste Management and Recycling
Press release: “Recycling rates have risen, and the UK is on schedule to meet EU targets, but the key to dealing with our escalating waste problem lies in changing our buying habits and our attitudes to consumption, according to the authors of a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) publication. Consumption: reducing, reusing and… Continue Reading
National Trust's 20th List of America's Most Endangered Historic Places
National Trust’s 20th List of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places: America’s priceless heritage is at riskfrom the storied waterfront of Brooklyn to the neon-clad mom-and-pop motels of Route 66some of America’s most irreplaceable landmarks are threatened. “The sites on this year’s list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places embody the diversity and complexity of… Continue Reading
Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Spring 2007
Bureau of Labor Statistics – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Spring 2007 Continue Reading
Article Identifies Image Spam and Explains Rising Use
Image Spam: By the Numbers, by Scott Berinato: “Image Spaman e-mail solicitation that uses graphical images of text to avoid filtersis not new. Recently, though, it reached an unprecedented level of sophistication and took off. A year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam, according to Doug Bowers of Symantec. Today,… Continue Reading
Study: Perceived Treatment of Foreign Travelers Driving Away Visitors, Damaging Americas Image Abroad
Press release: “Citing the results of a new economic study, Governor Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security…detailed how welcoming more overseas travelers to the United States could provide more resources for needed security enhancements. Ridge emphasized that overseas visitors are critical to Americas economy and public diplomacy and that… Continue Reading
