Via Poynter – The YouTube Data Viewer enables you to enter in the URL of a YouTube video and automatically extract the correct upload time and all thumbnails associated with the video. These two elements are essential when verifying a YouTube video, and it’s information that’s difficult to gather from YouTube. The upload time is critical in helping determine… Continue Reading
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EU – Higher recycling targets to drive transition to a Circular Economy with new jobs and sustainable growth
[July 2, 2014] “the European Commission adopted proposals to turn Europe into a more circular economy and boost recycling in the Member States. Achieving the new waste targets would create 580 000 new jobs compared to today’s performance, while making Europe more competitive and reducing demand for costly scarce resources. The proposals also mean lower environmental… Continue Reading
Common Characteristics of the Government Fiscal Year 2013
“This document serves as an overview of the size and characteristics of the Federal civilian workforce, enabling reporters, external analysts, and the general public access to commonly requested descriptive information. This document will first cover the limitations and nature of the federal employment data that OPM regularly posts on the web. It will then describe… Continue Reading
Verizon’s Transparency Report for the First Half of 2014
“In the first half of 2014, Verizon received approximately 150,000 requests for customer information from federal, state or local law enforcement in the United States. We do not release customer information unless authorized by law, such as a valid law enforcement demand or an appropriate request in an emergency involving the danger of death or serious… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Afghanistan, Bulk Fuel Pricing, E-Health Records, Littoral Combat Ship, Software Licenses
AFGHANISTAN: Kabul Embassy Construction Costs Have Increased and Schedules Have Been Extended, GAO-14-661R: Published: Jul 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 8, 2014. BULK FUEL PRICING: DOD Needs to Reevaluate Its Approach to Better Manage the Effect of Market Fluctuations, GAO-14-595: Published: Jul 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 8, 2014. ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: Fiscal Year 2013 Expenditure Plan Lacks Key Information Needed to… Continue Reading
From despair to repair: Dramatic decline of Caribbean corals can be reversed
“With only about one-sixth of the original coral cover left, most Caribbean coral reefs may disappear in the next 20 years, primarily due to the loss of grazers in the region, according to the latest report by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the United… Continue Reading
In China’s Heartland, A Toxic Trail Leads from Factories to Fields to Food
“Long known as China’s granary, Hunan Province has been a major rice producer for the nation’s growing and increasingly urban population. But toxic pollution from Hunan’s mines and heavy metal plants has contaminated large tracts of its once-fertile farmland and put China’s staple food supply at risk.” The second in a series by He Guangwei, a staff writer… Continue Reading
News Literacy: Teaching the Internet Generation to Make Reliable Information Choices
“In the Digital Age, the ultimate check against the spread of rumor, pernicious falsehood, disinformation, and unverified reports masquerading as fact, will never be just more and better-trained journalists and professional gatekeepers, these scholars argue. Instead, it will require a generation of astutely educated news consumers, as well as native producers and distributors, who will… Continue Reading
Still Searching: Job Vacancies and STEM Skills
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
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
