News release: “Based on the U.S. Census Bureaus American Community Survey, 22,295,000 Americans with disabilities are of working age; however, only 36.9 percent were employed, compared to the 79.7 percent of the non-disabled. Acknowledging this disparity, the American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disabilities hosted the Second ABA National Conference on the Employment… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Google Announces Automatic Captions in YouTube
Official Google Blog, Ken Harrenstien, Software Engineer: “Since the original launch of captions in our products, weve been happy to see growth in the number of captioned videos on our services, which now number in the hundreds of thousands. This suggests that more and more people are becoming aware of how useful captions can be.… Continue Reading
Federal Regulators Issue Final Model Privacy Notice Form
News release: “Eight federal regulatory agencies today released a final model privacy notice form that will make it easier for consumers to understand how financial institutions collect and share information about consumers. Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act), institutions must notify consumers of their information-sharing practices and inform consumers of their right to opt out… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Budget Issues, Corporate Crime, Recovery Act , Private Pensions
Budget Issues: Electronic Processing of Non-IRS Collections Has Increased but Better Understanding of Cost Structure Is Needed, GAO-10-11, November 20, 2009 Defense Acquisitions: Further Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in DOD’s Management of Professional and Management Support Contracts, GAO-10-39, November 20, 2009 Corporate Crime: Prosecutors Adhered to Guidance in Selecting Monitors for Deferred Prosecution and… Continue Reading
New CBO Reports: Affordable Health Care and DOD FY2010 Budget
H.R. 3962, Affordable Health Care for America Act, November 20, 2009. Revised cost estimate for the bill as passed by the House of Representatives Information on Medicare’s Payments to Physicians and the Budgetary Effects of H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physicians Payment Reform Act of 2009, November 19, 2009. Letter to the Honorable Paul Ryan Patient… Continue Reading
District Court in Louisiana Findings of Fact in Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation
“The Court entered its Findings of Fact and Conclusion of law in the Robinson matter. The Court ruled that the failure of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to maintain and operate the MRGO properly was a substantial cause for the failure of the Reach 2 Levee. It found that the Corps was not… Continue Reading
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Annual Report Released
“The Commission released its 2009 Annual Report to Congress today. The Report cites trends for U.S. economic and national security interests, and offers 42 recommendations for Congressional action.” 2009 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 381 pages, PDF Continue Reading
Benchmark Measurement of European eGovernment services
News release: “Capgemini released the 8th Benchmark Measurement of European eGovernment services. This Benchmark, prepared since 2001 for the European Commissions (EC) Directorate General for Information Society and Media on the progress of eGovernment across the EU overall, shows Europes steady progress in terms of online availability the EU27+ measure has risen to 71… Continue Reading
DHS Critical Infrastructure Protection Website Launched
Critical Infrastructure Protection – The nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) include systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic vitality, or public health and safety. Ensuring CIKR resiliency and protection is essential to… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Homeland Security, Combating Nuclear Smuggling, Federal Land Management, International Trade
Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Help Address Security Vulnerabilities at Federal Buildings, GAO-10-236T, November 18, 2009 Homeland Security: Greater Attention to Key Practices Would Improve the Federal Protective Service’s Approach to Facility Protection, GAO-10-142, October 23, 2009 Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Recent Testing Raises Issues About the Potential Effectiveness of Advanced Radiation Detection… Continue Reading
Long-Term Implications of the Department of Defense's FY2010 Budget Submission
Long-Term Implications of the Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Submission, November 18, 2009. Testimony before the Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives. “CBO projects that carrying out the plans proposed in the Presidents 2010 budget request, excluding overseas contingency operations (in general, overseas military operations against hostile forcescurrently consisting of the… Continue Reading
Navy Arctic Roadmap: Ice Free Arctic by 2030?
Wired: “The Navys Arctic Roadmap, written by the recently launched Navy Task Force Climate Change (TFCC), opens with an acknowledgment that worldwide temperatures are on the rise especially up north. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe. While significant uncertainty exists in projections for Arctic ice extent, the… Continue Reading
