NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS – HHS Is Monitoring the Progress of Its Medical Countermeasure Efforts but Has Not Provided Previously Recommended Spending Estimates, GAO-14-90, Dec 27, 2013 SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH DATA – Additional Action Needed to Address Data Errors and Federal Agency Access, GAO-14-46, Nov 27, 2013 FINANCIAL AUDIT – Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fiscal Years 2013 and 2012 Financial Statements [Reissued… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2013
New on LLRX – Making the national digital library dream come true for the Hernandezes
Via LLRX – Making the national digital library dream come true for the Hernandezes–not just the American elite: Strategies for librarians and public officials This is the last article David Rothman’s current series mapping out a path for planners of America’s digital libraries. Part One encouraged librarians to be open to new ideas likeBiblioTech, especially from friends outside the profession. Part… Continue Reading
How the Hernandez family will benefit from two well-stocked national digital library systems and a digital library endowment
Via LLRX.com – How the Hernandez family will benefit from two well-stocked national digital library systems and a digital library endowment – This is Part Two of LibraryCity’s series, by David Rothman, mapping out a digital future for U.S. libraries to better our lives. Part One is on the need for librarians to open their minds to innovations like the BiblioTech digital… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Commentary – public libraries: You’ll go the way of print newspapers if you automatically diss nonlibrarians’ gutsy ideas
Via LLRX.com – Beware, public libraries: You’ll go the way of print newspapers if you automatically diss nonlibrarians’ gutsy ideas This is the first article in a three-part series by David Rothman, all three of which are published here at LLRX.com. Part Two is about Carmela Hernandez and family. Set in the San Antonio area, a future scenario shows how a national… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Voice Dream text-to-speech app can now play audiobooks
Via LLRX.com – Voice Dream text-to-speech app can now play audiobooks, too, and soon you may be able to hear audios of PDFs while seeing the original layouts David Rothman gives kudos to the latest version of the Voice Dream text-to-speech app that can now play audiobooks. David also let’s us know that soon you may be… Continue Reading
CRS – Federal Pollution Control Laws: How Are They Enforced?
Federal Pollution Control Laws: How Are They Enforced? by Robert Esworthy, Specialist in Environmental Policy. December 16, 2013 “This report focuses on enforcement of federal environmental pollution control requirements under the Clean Air Act (CAA); the Clean Water Act (CWA); the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund); and other statutes for which EPA is the primary federal… Continue Reading
Fathers’ Involvement With Their Children: United States, 2006–2010
National Health Statistics Reports Number 71 December 20, 2013: “Objective—This report measures fathers’ involvement with their children. Father involvement is measured by how often a man participated in a set of activities in the last 4 weeks with children who were living with him and with children who were living apart from him. Involvement is measured separately for children… Continue Reading
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
“Here you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright’s Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas’s nearly 700 maps. Many of these beautiful maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to… Continue Reading
Interagency Statement on Final Rule Implementing the “Volcker Rule”
“The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (collectively, the agencies) issued a statement on December 27, 2013, indicating they are evaluating whether it is appropriate not to subject pooled investment vehicles for Trust… Continue Reading
WaPo – Afghanistan gains will be lost quickly after drawdown
Report predicts Taliban’s influence will grow, even if small troop presence remains and aid continues – By Ernesto Londoño, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller “A new American intelligence assessment on the Afghan war predicts that the gains the United States and its allies have made during the past three years are likely to have been significantly eroded by 2017, even if… Continue Reading
New research suggests that people even solve math problems differently if their political ideology is at stake
Mother Jones – Science Confirms: Politics Wrecks Your Ability to Do Math, by Chris Mooney “Everybody knows that our political views can sometimes get in the way of thinking clearly. But perhaps we don’t realize how bad the problem actually is. According to a new psychology paper, our political passions can even undermine our very basic reasoning skills.… Continue Reading
Investigative Report – A Deadly Mix in Benghazi
A Deadly Mix in Benghazi By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK December 28, 2013, New York Times [snipped] “”A fuller accounting of the attacks suggests lessons for the United States that go well beyond Libya. It shows the risks of expecting American aid in a time of desperation to buy durable loyalty, and the difficulty of discerning friends from allies… Continue Reading
