“Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and based on information collected on or before January 6, 2014. This document summarizes comments received from business and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and is not a commentary on the views of Federal Reserve officials. Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggest economic activity… Continue Reading
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EIA – Drilling Productivity Report
“The Drilling Productivity Report uses recent data on the total number of drilling rigs in operation along with estimates of drilling productivity and estimated changes in production from existing oil and natural gas wells to provide estimated changes in oil and natural gas production for six key fields. EIA’s approach does not distinguish between oil-directed… Continue Reading
Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources, by Topic
CRS – Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources, by Topic – Rita Tehan, Information Research Specialist, January 9, 2014 “This report provides references to analytical reports on cybersecurity from CRS, other government agencies, trade associations, and interest groups. The reports and related websites are grouped under the following cybersecurity topics: policy overview National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)… Continue Reading
Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Declassified Bipartisan Report on Benghazi Terrorist Attacks
“The Senate Intelligence Committee today issued a declassified report on the September 11-12, 2012, terrorist attacks against U.S. personnel at the Temporary Mission Facility and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya. The committee found the attacks were preventable, based on extensive intelligence reporting on the terrorist activity in Libya—to include prior threats and attacks against Western targets—and given… Continue Reading
Billion-Dollar Weather/Climate Disasters
U.S. saw 7 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2013: “The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the Nation’s Scorekeeper in terms of addressing severe weather/climate events in their historical perspective. As part of its responsibility of monitoring and assessing the climate, NCDC tracks and evaluates climate events in the U.S. and globally that have great… Continue Reading
EFF – How To Opt Out of Gmail’s Google Plus Integration
“Google recently unveiled a feature that consolidates their products even further. Now you will receive an email in your Gmail inbox if someone sends a message to your Google Plus account, even if they don’t know your email address. Some people—perhaps most people—will not want it to be easier for strangers to send messages to their email inbox,… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – National Flood Insurance, VA Surgical Implants
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM – Progress Made on Contract Management but Monitoring and Reporting Could Be Improved, GAO-14-160, Jan 15, 2014 VA SURGICAL IMPLANTS – Shortcomings in Implant Purchasing and Tracking, GAO-14-271T, Jan 15, 2014 Continue Reading
McKinsey – What executives should know about open data
Novel and more accessible forms of information from government and private sources represent a new and rapidly growing piece of the big-data puzzle. January 2014 | byMichael Chui, James Manyika, and Steve Van Kuiken. “Not all data that’s valuable is internal and proprietary. New initiatives by governments as diverse as those of the United States, Mexico, and Singapore… Continue Reading
Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in Older Women
Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in Older Women (Am J Prev Med 2014;46(2):122–135) & 2014 American Journal of Preventive Medicine “Background: Although epidemiologic studies have shown associations between sedentary behavior and mortality, few have focused on older women with adequate minority representation and few have controlled for both physical activity and functional status. Purpose: The objective of this study… Continue Reading
NYT – N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
New York Times – David Sanger and Thom Shanker: “The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks. While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks,… Continue Reading
Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection
Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection – Baldwin, Carliss Y. and Henkel, Joachim (January 13, 2014). Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 14-046. “Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus… Continue Reading
How 3D printing technology will affect the creation, delivery, and consumption of art
Of PhDs, Pirates, and the Public: Three-Dimensional Printing Technology and the Arts, Lucas Osborn, Campbell University Law School, January 14, 2014, Texas A & M Law Review, Spring 2014, Forthcoming “The confluence of three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional scanning, and the internet will explode the dividing line between the physical and the digital worlds and will bring millions of lay people… Continue Reading
