Jonathan Rothwell, Brookings: “This report uses a unique database from the labor market information company Burning Glass and other sources to analyze the skill requirements and the advertisement duration time for millions of job openings. It reaches the following conclusions: Job openings for STEM positions take longer to fill than openings in other fields. The… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Cloud Innovation and the Law: Issues, Approaches, and Interplay
Gasser, Urs, Cloud Innovation and the Law: Issues, Approaches, and Interplay (March 17, 2014). Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2014-7. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2410271 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2410271 “We live in a quicksilver technological environment where one innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) follows the other. From a user’s perspective, the speed of innovation in the Internet… Continue Reading
For Many Americans, Stress Takes A Toll On Health And Family
NPR – “Stress is part of the human condition, unavoidable and even necessary to a degree. But too much stress can be toxic — even disabling. And there’s a lot of toxic stress out there A national poll done by NPR with our partners at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health finds that more than… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – IRS Correspondence Audits, Pension Advance Transactions, Private Pensions, IRS Internal Controls
IRS CORRESPONDENCE AUDITS: Better Management Could Improve Tax Compliance and Reduce Taxpayer Burden, GAO-14-479: Published: Jun 5, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 7, 2014. PENSION ADVANCE TRANSACTIONS: Questionable Business Practices Identified, GAO-14-420: Published: Jun 4, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 7, 2014 PRIVATE PENSIONS: Targeted Revisions Could Improve Usefulness of Form 5500 Information, GAO-14-441: Published: Jun 5, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 7, 2014. MANAGEMENT REPORT: Improvements… Continue Reading
10 Companies That Control Almost Everything We Eat
Via Business Insider – Oxfam International has made a graphic showing how a handful of corporations control nearly everything we buy at the grocery store. The graphic focuses on 10 of the world’s most powerful food and beverage companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Unilever, Danone, Mars, Mondelez International, Kellogg’s, General Mills, Nestle, and Associated British Foods. Oxfam calls these companies the… Continue Reading
Improvements Coming to PACER and CM/ECF
News release: “Beginning August 11, you may notice some changes on the PACER website. These changes will include the opportunity to upgrade your PACER account. NOTE: This upgrade is not mandatory. Your current PACER account will still function normally. However, you will need to upgrade your account in order to perform any maintenance functions outside… Continue Reading
“For Official Use Only” is Used Too Much at DHS, House Says – FAS
Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News: “There is too much information that is marked “For Official Use Only” at the Department of Homeland Security, the House Appropriations Committee said in its report on DHS Appropriations for 2015….Here is the Committee language from its June 19 DHS Appropriations report: Over-Classification of Information – The Committee is concerned with the number of reports, briefings,… Continue Reading
Flexible working extended to all employees in UK
Press Association: “Millions of employees will have the right to request flexible working from Monday under new measures the government believes will particularly benefit older people. The right has only been available for carers, or people who look after children, but is being extended to all employees. Ministers said flexible working helps people balance their job with… Continue Reading
Governments and Cloud Computing: Roles, Approaches, and Policy Considerations
Gasser, Urs and O’Brien, David, Governments and Cloud Computing: Roles, Approaches, and Policy Considerations (March 17, 2014). Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2014-6. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2410270 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2410270 “Governments from Bogota to Beijing are engaging with emerging cloud computing technologies and its industry in a variety of overlapping contexts. Based on a review of a… Continue Reading
The State of Data Centric Security
News release: ‘Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced the availability of a new research report by the Ponemon Institute LLC, entitled, The State of Data Centric Security. Based on a global survey of more than 1,500 IT and IT security professionals, the study reveals how organizations understand and respond to… Continue Reading
Whales as marine ecosystem engineers
Joe Roman, James A Estes, Lyne Morissette, Craig Smith, Daniel Costa, James McCarthy, JB Nation, Stephen Nicol, Andrew Pershing, and Victor Smetacek 2014. Whales as marine ecosystem engineers. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (e-View) http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/130220 “Baleen and sperm whales, known collectively as the great whales, include the largest animals in the history of life on Earth. With… Continue Reading
The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection
The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection. Science 30 May 2014: 344 (6187), 1246752 [DOI:10.1126/science.1246752] “A principal function of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is to “perform regular and timely assessments of knowledge on biodiversity.” In December 2013, its second plenary session approved a program to begin a global assessment in… Continue Reading
