Follow up to previous postings on the United States Postal Service, via Federal Times: “U.S. Postal Service leaders are poised to forgo legal obligations next month by skipping a $5.5 billion payment for retiree health care, but even that unprecedented step won’t buy the flailing mail carrier much time, one of its top officials said… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
OMB: Instructions and Guidance for Completing the Web Inventory
Follow up to .gov Reform Effort: Improving Federal Websites – Instructions and Guidance for Completing the Web Inventory, August 19, 2011 “Instructions: Agency CIOs must include key internal stakeholders, including the Agency Web Director, New Media Director (where applicable), Director of Public Affairs, and other staff responsible for managing Agency web resources, in completing the… Continue Reading
Report: What Is the Average Retirement Age?
What Is the Average Retirement Age?, by Alicia H. Munnell, August 2011 – The Center for Retirement Research, Boston College “Since working longer is the key to a secure retirement for the vast majority of older Americans, it is useful to take a look at labor force trends for those under and over age 65… Continue Reading
Does the World Bank Have a Micro-Macro Paradox or Do the Data Deceive?
Howes, Stephen, Otor, Sabit Amum and Rogers, Cate L., Does the World Bank Have a Micro-Macro Paradox or Do the Data Deceive? (June 1, 2011). “In 1986, Mosely first drew attention to an apparent paradox in the performance of international aid. Microeconomic data from evaluations of aid financed projects showed a majority of projects were… Continue Reading
Antarctic Ice Movement Is Fully Mapped for the First Time
“Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, have for the first time fully mapped the movement of Antarcticas vast ice sheets and glaciers, which comprise 90 percent of the ice on Earth. Using data gathered by satellites from the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Japan, the researchers have assembled a color animation depicting how the glaciers… Continue Reading
U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010
U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010 “This analysis examines the level and drivers of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2010. After a historic decline in 2009, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rebounded in 2010, but still remain 358 million metric tons (6 percent) below the 2005 level. What happened to carbon dioxide emissions from energy use… Continue Reading
EIA: Air conditioning in nearly 100 million U.S. homes
Air conditioning in nearly 100 million U.S. homes, RECS 2009 Release date: August 19, 2011 “Except in the temperate climate regions along the West coast, air conditioners (AC) are now standard equipment in most U.S. homes. As recently as 1993, only 68% of all occupied housing units had AC. The latest results from the… Continue Reading
Seeking Synchronicity: Revelations and Recommendations for Virtual Reference
Update, November 30, 2011: Seeking Synchronicity Webinar Recording Now Available OCLC – “A new membership report from OCLC Research, in partnership with Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Seeking Synchronicity distills more than five years of virtual reference (VR) research into a readable summary that features memorable quotes that vividly illustrate very specific and… Continue Reading
Freedom House Releases Special Report on 20th Anniversary of Failed Soviet Coup
“Freedom House launched a special report, Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On, to mark the 20th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup of August 19, 1991. A retrospective essay examining changes in the state of political rights and civil liberties in the former Soviet Union over the last two decades, as well… Continue Reading
Google Street View goes to the Amazon
“With Google Street View, you can do amazing things such as hike around Stonehenge or even ski down Whistlers slopesall without leaving home. Soon, youll be able to float down the Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers of northwest Brazil and experience some of the most remote and biodiverse areas in the world. A few members… Continue Reading
A pocket Congress track elected officials, read the latest bills and laws
“The government apps and mobile sites allow you to access official information on various topics from the palm of your hand. Learn more about apps.” Congress A Pocket Directory – Sunlight Labs – “track elected officials, read the latest bills and laws. Want to know more about Congress?: Find your representatives by your location;… Continue Reading
OMB Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Guidance
Jacob J. Lew, OMB, Director: “The President has defined our fiscal challenge as demonstrating that we can live within our means so that we can invest in job creation and economic growth now and in the long term. In April, he proposed a balanced framework for $4 trillion in deficit reduction that would put us… Continue Reading
