“One-third of adults are now obese, and children’s obesity rates have climbed from 5 to 17 percent in the past 30 years. The causes of the nation’s obesity epidemic are multi-factorial, having much more to do with the absence of sidewalks and the limited availability of healthy and affordable foods than a lack of personal… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2012
LLRX – Reliable Sites and Sources for Election Fact Checking
Via LLRX: Reliable Sites and Sources for Election Fact Checking – The event happens every four years in the U.S., but it consumes us for over 10 months, and takes perhaps 10 minutes to complete. The event is the U.S. Presidential Election. The action is voting. There are so many different points of view and… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Recovery Act, Energy-Water Nexus, Prevention and Public Health Fund, Homeland Security, H-2A Visa Program
Recovery Act – Most DOE Cleanup Projects Are Complete, but Project Management Guidance Could Be Strengthened, GAO-13-23, Oct 15, 2012 Energy-Water Nexus – Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Manage Energy and Water Tradeoffs, GAO-12-880, Sep 13, 2012 Prevention and Public Health Fund – Activities Funded in Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011, GAO-12-788, Sep 13,… Continue Reading
ICE Requests for Deportation Orders Steady Last Month, Down Overall for Year
TRAC Immigration: “The latest available data from the Immigration Courts show that during September 2012 the government reported 17,276 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filings seeking deportation orders. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number is little changed compared to filings in the previous month. These… Continue Reading
Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment
Identifying Threats to Successful Digital Preservation: the SPOT Model for Risk Assessment, Sally Vermaaten, Brian Lavoie and Priscilla Caplan. D-Lib Magazine, September/October 2012. Volume 18, Number 9/10 “Developing a successful digital preservation strategy amounts to accounting for, and mitigating, the impact of various threats to the accessibility and usability of digital materials over time. Typologies… Continue Reading
CDC – Consumption of Diet Drinks in the United States, 2009‒2010
Consumption of Diet Drinks in the United States, 2009‒2010. Tala H.I. Fakhouri, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Brian K. Kit, M.D., M.P.H.; and Cynthia L. Ogden, Ph.D., M.R.P. “Sugar drinks are a major source of added sugars in the diets of Americans. Several recent studies have described factors associated with sugar-drink consumption; however, the consumption of diet drinks… Continue Reading
Key Mechanics of The U.S. Tri-Party Repo Market
Key Mechanics of the U.S. Tri-Party Repo Market, Adam Copeland, Darrell Duffie, Antoine Martin, and Susan McLaughlin, NY Fed, October 2012. “The 2007-09 financial crisis exposed weaknesses in the design of the U.S. tri-party repo market that could rapidly elevate and propagate systemic risk. A study of the market identifies the collateral allocation and unwind… Continue Reading
OIG – SECs Records Management Practices
SECs Records Management Practices, September 30, 2012. Report No. 505 “SECs records include confidential treatment requests files, correspondence, investigation records, matters under inquiry records, transcripts, working papers, consumer complaint files, Congressional and Chairman files, administrative proceedings files, self-regulatory files, bankruptcy files, effective orders, etc. On November 28, 2011, a presidential memorandum was issued on managing… Continue Reading
OECD Internet Economy Outlook
OECD Internet Economy Outlook, October 2012 “The Internet is now a fundamental infrastructure supporting the economy and is firmly in its second stage of development, having evolved from a data network connecting PCs with wires to a much broader network of new portable devices from mobile phones to tablet computers. It is also on the… Continue Reading
CRS – Iraq: Politics, Governance, and Human Rights
Iraq: Politics, Governance, and Human Rights, Kenneth Katzman, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs, October 2, 2012 As U.S. troops completed the withdrawal by December 18, 2011, Administration officials asserted publicly that Iraqs governing and security capacity is sufficient to continue building a stable and democratic Iraq. Iraqs security forces number nearly 700,000 members, increasingly well-armed… Continue Reading
2012 edition of Measuring the Information Society
Measuring the Information Society 2012: “New figures released today by International Telecommunications Union (ITU) show that information and communication technology (ICT) uptake continues to grow worldwide, spurred by a steady fall in the price of telephone and broadband Internet services. The new data, released in ITUs flagship annual report Measuring the Information Society 2012, rank… Continue Reading
How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace
How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace. October 16, 2012 | Alison J. Head “Qualitative findings about the information-seeking behavior of todays college graduates as they transition from the campus to the workplace. Included are findings from interviews with 23 US employers and focus groups with 33 recent graduates from four… Continue Reading
