“Data are now available for metropolitan statistical areas and counties by enterprise employment size. Statistics include number of firms, establishments, employment, annual payroll, and estimated receipts.” Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources – The IUCN Global Species Programme working with the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) has been assessing the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties, and even selected subpopulations on a global scale for the past 50 years in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and thereby promote their conservation.… Continue Reading
Implications of fishing rope strength on severity of large whale entanglements
Conservation Ecology – Amy R. Knowlton, Jooke Robbins, Scott Landry, Henry A. McKenna, Scott D. Kraus and Timothy Werner. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12590 “Entanglement in fixed fishing gear is a conservation concern for whales worldwide, including in the United States where deaths of North Atlantic right and humpback whales have exceeded management limits for decades. We examined… Continue Reading
Fatal Injury Reports, National and Regional, 1999 – 2013
CDC provides a wide range of data from which users may create customized reports and charts by choosing among specific fields and date ranges – this data set was last updated on June 24, 2015. “CDC’s WISQARS™ (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury,… Continue Reading
US second only to Mexico in gun deaths among OECD countries
The Economist Data Team: “With one of the highest murder rates among OECD countries—second only to Mexico—America retains its reputation as a disproportionately dangerous country. The number of violent assaults in America is comparable to those of other western countries, yet murders are much more common. The prevalence of guns goes a long way toward explaining… Continue Reading
State Legislature Online Tech Landscape
A comparison of legislature and SaaS websites shows stark differences: “An analysis of 54 state legislature websites shows that the technology they utilize trails industry standards significantly. A majority, 35 (65%), are programmed in ASP.NET and running on IIS servers – both, usually paired, are Microsoft technologies. This differs greatly from standards seen in leading… Continue Reading
Fall and Rise of the Antitrust Class Action
Waller, Spencer Weber, The Fall and Rise of the Antitrust Class Action (August 10, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2641867 “Antitrust class actions have narrowed significantly in the United States in recent years but still remain robust compared to aggregate litigation in the rest of the world. While the Supreme Court continues to narrow… Continue Reading
Designing Successful Governance Groups
“The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, together with the Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers (NoC), is pleased to announce the release of a new publication, “Designing Successful Governance Groups: Lessons for Leaders from Real-World Examples,” authored by Ryan Budish, Sarah Myers West, and Urs Gasser. Solutions to many of the world’s… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Federal Supply Schedules, Medicaid, Federal Real Property
Federal Supply Schedules: More Attention Needed to Competition and Prices, GAO-15-590: Published: Jul 9, 2015. Publicly Released: Aug 10, 2015. Medicaid: Additional Reporting May Help CMS Oversee Prescription-Drug Fraud Controls, GAO-15-390: Published: Jul 8, 2015. Publicly Released: Aug 10, 2015. Federal Real Property: GSA Needs to Determine Its Progress toward Long-term Sustainability of Its Portfolio,… Continue Reading
CIA Releases Declassified Documents Related to 9/11 Attacks
LANGLEY, VA — [June 12, 2015] “The CIA has released to the public declassified versions of five internal documents related to the Agency’s performance in the lead-up to the attacks of September 11, 2001. The documents can be found at CIA’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) online reading room at http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/declassified-documents-related-911-attacks. The first of these… Continue Reading
Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure
Google Investor Relations posting: August 10, 2015 – “G is for Google. As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” As part of that, we also said that you could expect us to make “smaller bets in… Continue Reading
Cyber crimes against NATO and its members
Via Atlantic Council – New Twists in Russia’s Cyber Campaign Against NATO and Its Members By Sam Jones, Financial Times: “Russia’s aggressive actions in cyber space are all carefully designed to fall short of warranting any kind of serious military or aggressive response. One of Moscow’s new favoured tactics is to arm crime syndicates with… Continue Reading
