Senate Health Care Bill – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in the Senate on December 24, 2009. [Note – 2409 pages, PDF] Related postings on health care reform Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2009
CRS Report on Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
News release: “House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released a report prepared by the Congressional Research Service on several issues concerning the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The report was requested by Chairman Conyers and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank on September 22, 2009 and is linked here: CRS… Continue Reading
New York Review of Books – Google & the Future of Books: An Exchange
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search – Google & the Future of Books: An Exchange By Paul N. Courant, Laine Farley, Paula Kaufman, John Leslie King, Theodore Koditschek, Anthony Lewis et al. “To the Editors: In his recent article criticizing the Google settlement [Google and the New Digital Future, NYR, December 17,… Continue Reading
U.S. EPA Releases Annual Enforcement Results and Mapping Tool
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released enforcement results for fiscal year 2009, and has developed a new Web-based tool and interactive map that allows the public to get detailed information by location about the enforcement actions taken at approximately 4,600 facilities. The new mapping tool allows the public to view the… Continue Reading
Emotional intelligence in the workplace
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is Europe’s largest HR development professional body: “This factsheet gives introductory guidance. It: summarises the literature on emotional intelligence; looks at its potential value in the workplace; considers whether it can be learned; asks whether it is just another way of describing long-established competencies; includes the CIPD viewpoint.” Continue Reading
Pew Hispanic Center – Latinos Online, 2006-2008
Latinos Online, 2006-2008: Narrowing the Gap – “From 2006 to 2008, internet use among Latino adults rose by 10 percentage points, from 54% to 64%. In comparison, the rates for whites rose four percentage points, and the rates for blacks rose only two percentage points during that time period. Though Latinos continue to lag behind… Continue Reading
Mercer Study – Influenza A (H1N1) update
“Mercers H1N1 pages are meant to provide you with access to current “information and resources to help manage the risks. Now, you can see the results of our survey – Influenza A (H1N1): How is your organization coping? – that gathered information from nearly 1000 companies to see what they are doing to plan, communicate… Continue Reading
American Institute of Philanthropy
“The mission of the American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP), a nonprofit charity watchdog and information service, is to maximize the effectiveness of every dollar contributed to charity by providing donors with the information they need to make more informed giving decisions. Goals: To research and evaluate the efficiency, accountability and governance of nonprofit organizations; to… Continue Reading
Amazon Kindle is the Most Gifted Item Ever on Amazon.com
News release: Amazon.com, Inc. today announced [December 26, 2009] that Kindle has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history. On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books. The Kindle Store now includes over 390,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want… Continue Reading
Commentary: Aquacalypse Now – The End of Fish
Aquacalypse Now – The End of Fish, by Daniel Pauly “Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madofflike callousness by the worlds fisheries. Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized–with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS–they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole,… Continue Reading
Legal Guide for the Seriously Ill Released by the ABA
News release: “The onset of a serious illness or injury can affect much more than a persons health. Knowing what steps to take to get ones financial and legal affairs in order is often vitally important not only to the affected individual, but to his or her loved ones as well. The Legal Guide for… Continue Reading
UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate
“Guided by Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001) and 1624 (2005), the CTC has been working to bolster the ability of United Nations Member States to prevent terrorist acts both within their borders and across regions. The CTC is assisted in its efforts by the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), which carries out the policy decisions… Continue Reading
