The Herald (United Kingdom): “The US has suffered more than 72,000 battlefield casualties since the start of the war on terror in 2001, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The query by the campaigning Veterans for Common Sense organisation shows that 4,372 American soldiers have died and another 67,671 have been wounded in action, injured in accidents or succumbed to illness in Iraq and Afghanistan. The veterans’ group had to force the US Defence Department to release the figures by persuading judges to uphold their FoI rights. A second request to the Veterans’ Administration, the government-funded body responsible for taking care of ex-servicemen and women, showed 263,909 soldiers with experience of the two 21st-century wars have so far received treatment for everything from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the aftermath of amputated limbs.”
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Daily Archives: January 27, 2008
EU Data Protection Day, January 28, 2008
“The aim of the Data Protection Day is to give European citizens the chance to understand what personal data is collected and processed about them and why, and what their rights are with respect to this processing. They should also be made aware of the risks inherent and associated with the illegal mishandling and unfair… Continue Reading
Ombudsman: NGOs can help EU institutions do their job better
Press release: “The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has underlined the importance of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in pointing out possible instances of maladministration in the EU institutions. Over the past ten years, the Ombudsman’s office has received almost 1,000 complaints from NGOs and associations. They included alleged maladministration concerning environmental projects, late payment for EU… Continue Reading
OMB and GAO Discontinue Print Copies of Key Report
OMB, GAO to Go Digital on Key Reports, By Stephen Barr, Washington Post.com, Thursday, January 24, 2008: “The Office of Management and Budget will not print 3,000 copies of the president’s budget to hand out to members of Congress, the Cabinet and their staffs on Feb. 4. Instead, the four books that lay out the… Continue Reading
Tech Writers Speculates on World Without Internet
What if the Internet went down…and didn’t come back up? By Lynn Greiner, CIO.com, 01/22/08 “Imagine, if you will, a world with no Internet. No e-mail. No e-commerce. And no BlackBerrys. E-mail would be supplanted by snail mail; cell phones by land lines. Now imagine what the future would look like. Futurists say virtual business… Continue Reading
Wilderness Alliance Sues Interior Over Drilling Leases
Case No. 2:08cv00064, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Natural Resources Defense Council, vs. Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, United States District Court, District of Utah, Central Division, January 23, 2008. “This suit challenges the decisions by the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of the Interior, and Secretary of the Department of… Continue Reading
2008 HHS Poverty Guidelines
Federal Register Notice with 2008 Guidelines Full Text Prior Poverty Guidelines and Federal Register References Since 1982 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Further Resources on Poverty Measurement, Poverty Lines, and Their History Computations for the 2008 Poverty Guidelines Continue Reading
Rand Report: Managing Diversity in Corporate America
Managing Diversity in Corporate America, An Exploratory Analysis – By: Jefferson P. Marquis, Nelson Lim, Lynn M. Scott, Margaret C. Harrell, Jennifer Kavanagh, January 23, 2008. “Managing diversity has become a primary concern of top U.S. corporations. In this paper, the authors develop a fact-based approach to modeling diversity management. They use the model to… Continue Reading
Guide to Lesser Known Technology Web Sites
Top 60 Little-Known Technology Web Sites, By Charles Babcock, Thomas Claburn, John Foley, W. David Gardner, Antone Gonsalves, Nicholas J. Hoover, K.C. Jones, Elena Malykhina, Richard Martin, Paul McDougall, Marianne McGee, Chris Murphy, Cora Nucci, Art Wittman, and Serdar Yegulalp, InformationWeek, January 26, 2008 “Our guide to great blogs and Web sites worth adding to… Continue Reading
New CRS Report on Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities
Follow up to previous postings on nuclear power, this new CRS report, Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities, January 18, 2008: “The physical security of nuclear power plants and their vulnerability to deliberate acts of terrorism was elevated to a national security concern following the events of September 11, 2001. Title VI of the Energy… Continue Reading
Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for May 2007
CDC National Vital Statistics Reports – Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for May 2007 – released January 25, 2008. See also CDC Vital and Health Statistics – Health Characteristics of the Asian Adult Population: United States, 20042006, released January 222, 2008 Continue Reading
UK Counter-Terrorism Bill 2007-08
Bill 63 07-08 (90 pages, PDF), and Summary of the Bill: “A Bill to Confer further powers to gather and share information for counter-terrorism and other purposes; to make further provision about the detention and questioning of terrorist suspects and the prosecution and punishment of terrorist offences; to impose notification requirements on persons convicted of… Continue Reading
