News release: “The Defense Departments current reliance on expensive, difficultto-transport and finite fossil fuels affects cost-reduction efforts as well as war-fighting operations, a senior Pentagon official said. Certainly, for current operations and for the future, one of the things we’re really focused on is reducing demand, [which is] reducing our consumption, because no matter what… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Range of Methodologies for Risk and Performance Alignment of Remuneration – consultative paper
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: “Ensuring that remuneration is effectively aligned with risk and performance is an essential element for reducing incentives that may arise from the design of remuneration schemes and that can lead to excessive risk taking. In practice, the idea that an employee’s compensation should take account of the risks that employees… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Statistical Release: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization, G.17, released October 18, 2010: “Industrial production decreased 0.2 percent in September after having increased 0.2 percent in August. The indexes both for manufacturing and for manufacturing excluding motor vehicles and parts also moved down 0.2 percent in September. Production at mines moved up 0.7 percent, while the output of… Continue Reading
National Protect Your Identity Week – Learn How to Deter, Detect and Defend Against ID Theft
News release: “This is National Protect Your Identity Week, and the Federal Trade Commission, the nations consumer protection agency, has information to help consumers, businesses, and law enforcement officials safeguard personal information and take action if an identity thief strikes. www.ftc.gov/idtheft is a one-stop national resource to learn about the crime of identity theft. Consumers… Continue Reading
BJS: Criminal Victimization, 2009
Criminal Victimization, 2009 – Michael Rand, Jennifer Truman, October 13, 2010 – NCJ 231327 “Presents the annual estimates of rates and levels of violent crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault), property crime (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and property theft), and personal theft (pocket picking and purse snatching). This report describes… Continue Reading
GPO Releases MetaLib Federated Search Tool
“MetaLib is a service of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. MetaLib is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online. To learn more, view additional brief or detailed search information.” Continue Reading
Pew Survey: Survey: 96% of Young Adults Own Cell Phones
Americans and their gadgets, by Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, October 14, 2010 “In recent years the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop1, and consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for anytime, anywhere access to news, information, friends and entertainment. This report examines the latest… Continue Reading
State of the Internet 2010: A Report on the Ever-Changing Threat Landscape
State of the Internet 2010: A Report on the Ever-Changing Threat Landscape, CA Technologies Internet Security Business Unit Internet Security Intelligence Report, October 2010 “Today approximately 1.8 billion people use the Internet to do everything from conduct business, communicate with friends and family, keep up with current events or simply entertain themselves playing games or… Continue Reading
Ruling Imperils Production of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
WSJ: “U.S. sugar production will be cut by about 20% if farmers are banned from planting genetically modified beets next year, according to data prepared for the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of a court case over whether to continue allowing the practice. Genetically modified beets have come to account for 95% of the… Continue Reading
WSJ: Facebook in Privacy Breach Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs
WSJ: “Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying informationin effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ namesto dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook… Continue Reading
The Effects of the Foreclosure Crisis on the Metropolitan Fringe
Pretend and Extend–Our Mortgage Crisis Fantasy – Christopher B. Leinberger, Brookings Visiting Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program “According to Stan Humphries, the chief economist of Zillow, an online housing-research firm, if you plot changes in home values within a typical metro region on a satellite map, the result looks like an archery target, with the outlying… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Using the Kindle in Library Settings
LLRX.com: Using the Kindle in Library Settings – A Survey – Special Librarian Montrese Hamilton shares effective ways an electronic document reader may be used to provide customers on-demand access to new content. Beyond instant access to material, e-readers can: reduce the need for Interlibrary loans, help grow the collection without adding shelf space, and… Continue Reading
