Chemical Safety Board: Improvements in Management and Oversight Are Needed, GAO-08-864R, August 22, 2008 “The principal role of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is to investigate accidental releases of regulated or extremely hazardous substances to determine the conditions and circumstances that led to the accident and to identify the cause or causes… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Fact Sheet: Homeland Security Agencies Protect Political Conventions
News release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designates certain major events – including the national conventions and the presidential inauguration – as National Special Security Events (NSSEs). The U.S. Secret Service is designated as the lead agency with unified command representation from participating federal, state, and local agencies with NSSE responsibilities. Federal resources… Continue Reading
National Cancer Center Report: The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use
“The National Cancer Institute presents this 19th monograph in the Tobacco Control Monograph Series, The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use. Monograph 19 provides a critical, scientific review and synthesis of the current evidence regarding the power of the media, both to encourage and to discourage tobacco use. It is the… Continue Reading
How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students
Via BoleyBlogs: How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students, Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University – Law School, The GREEN BAG, An Entertaining Journal of Law, Vol 11, No. 1, p. 51, Autumn 2007: “This essay is designed to help new law students prepare for the first few weeks of… Continue Reading
National Security Archive: PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 254: “The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados. The documents suggest that the public relations push… Continue Reading
Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau – 3rd Meeting in Economic Sciences
“The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings provide a globally recognised forum for the exchange of knowledge between Nobel Laureates and young researchers. The original idea of the meetings goes back to the two Lindau physicians Dr. Franz Karl Hein und Professor Dr. Gustav Parade and Count Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg, a member of the Swedish royal… Continue Reading
CBO: Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security
Congressional Budget Office: Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security, August 21, 2008. “Today, Social Securitys revenues each year are greater than its outlays, but as the baby-boom generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) continues to age, growth in the number of Social Security beneficiaries will accelerate, and outlays will grow substantially faster than revenues.… Continue Reading
NIST WTC 7 Investigation Finds Building Fires Caused Collapse
News release: “The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce Departments National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today following an extensive, three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation.… Continue Reading
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005, 07/08. Presents findings from the Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005. NCJ 222181: “The nation’s nearly 400 publicly funded forensic crime laboratories perform a variety of forensic services, including DNA testing and controlled substance identification for federal, state, and local jurisdictions. The report examines the… Continue Reading
OIG : EPA Decisions to Delete Superfund Sites Should Undergo Quality Assurance Review
08-P-0235 EPA Decisions to Delete Superfund Sites Should Undergo Quality Assurance Review, [Report PDF – 59pp] [At a Glance PDF] “As of September 2007, EPA had deleted 322 sites from the National Priorities List (NPL). Among the eight sites we reviewed, documentation for the Agencys decision to delete three sites was not consistent with EPA… Continue Reading
2008 World Population Data Sheet
News release: “The demographic divide the inequality in the population and health profiles of rich and poor countries is widening. Two sharply different patterns of population growth are evident: Little growth or even decline in most wealthy countries and continued rapid population growth in the worlds poorest countries. In 2008, world population is… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Technology Tools for Information Management
Technology Tools for Information Management – Roger V. Skalbeck and Barbara Fullerton’s share a fast paced presentation of 19 practical, low cost and innovative tech tools they respectively use on a regular basis. So if you are looking for ideas to improve your use of Outlook, RSS, Adobe, and enhance your presentations and collaborative goals,… Continue Reading
