Congressional Primer on Responding to Major Disasters and Emergencies. Francis X. McCarthy -Analyst in Emergency Management Policy; Jared T. Brown – Analyst in Emergency Management and Homeland Security Policy. May 24, 2013 “Before and after a disaster strikes, it may be helpful to understand the broad outlines of the national emergency management structure and where authority rests at… Continue Reading
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Cool Tools at American Association of Law Libraries Event
Cool Tools at American Association of Law Libraries Event. Sean Doherty, Law Technology News, July 22, 2013. “The American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting & Conference finished up on Tuesday. The event had ninety exhibitors who presented their products and services to the law library community at the Washington State Convention Center. Here’s the… Continue Reading
How America’s Top Tech Companies Created the Surveillance State
National Journal – They’ve been helping the government spy on people for a very long time. The cozy relationships go back decades. By Michael Hirsh – July 25, 2013 “The saga of the private sector’s involvement in the NSA’s scheme for permanent mass surveillance is long, complex, and sometimes contentious. Often, in ways that appeared… Continue Reading
Constitutional Personae
Constitutional Personae, Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School, July 25, 2013 “American constitutional law is dominated by four Constitutional Personae, who can be identified by their inclinations, their temperaments, their sensibilities, and their self-presentations. Indeed, many constitutional debates consist of stylized disagreements among the leading Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Burkeans, and Mutes. Earl Warren is the… Continue Reading
GAO Report – Military Readiness
MILITARY READINESS – Opportunities Exist to Improve Completeness and Usefulness of Quarterly Reports to Congress, GAO-13-678, Jul 26, 2013 Continue Reading
Annual Report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner to Prime Minister and to Scottish Ministers
Annual Report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner to the Prime Minister and to Scottish Ministers for 2012-2013 – July 2013 “The powersand duties of the Surveillance Commissioners in scrutinising and deciding whether to approve authorisations under PA97 (property interference) and under RIPA and RIP(S)A (intrusive surveillance) have been explained in earlier reports and are publicly… Continue Reading
Challenges of Digging Data paper
“Written by Ixchel Faniel, OCLC Research; Eric Kansa, University of California Berkeley, School of Information; Sarah Whitcher Kansa, The Alexandria Archive Institute; Julianna Barrera-Gomez, OCLC Research; and Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan, School of Information, “The Challenges of Digging Data: A Study of Context in Archaeological Data Reuse” appears in JCDL 2013 Proceedings of the… Continue Reading
A Frequency-Domain Alternative to Long-Horizon Regressions with Application to Return Predictability
A Frequency-Domain Alternative to Long-Horizon Regressions with Application to Return Predictability, Natalia Sizova – Rice University, July 24, 2013 “This paper aims at improved accuracy in testing for long-run predictability in noisy series, such as stock market returns. Long-horizon regressions have previously been the dominant approach in this area. We suggest an alternative method that… Continue Reading
E-patients and their hunt for health information
E-patients and their hunt for health information by Lee Rainie Jul 26, 2013 at Medical Library Association – “Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet Project, described the Project’s research on how patients and caregivers seek health information in the digital age and he will describe how people fit librarians into their general information needs… Continue Reading
Casetext – freely available, annotated database of legal resources
“Casetext is a freely available, annotated database of legal resources. Researchers find relevant documents and immediately see analysis by other attorneys and paths for further research. Contributors mark up documents in a simple, digital format and make their expertise widely known, all while helping to build a comprehensive public research tool. Who are we? Co-founders Jake Heller and Joanna… Continue Reading
Halliburton Agrees to Plead Guilty to Destruction of Evidence in Connection with Deepwater Horizon Tragedy
News release: “Halliburton Energy Services Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of Justice announced today. A criminal information charging Halliburton with one count of destruction of evidence was filed today in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana. Halliburton has signed a… Continue Reading
CDC – Health of White non-Hispanic Population
Health of White non-Hispanic Population (Data are for the U.S.) Continue Reading
