“The Weather Service has established a lightning safety awareness web page that provides a number of useful resources for your park’s lightning safety program: A page of lightning safety tips that includes guidance on “last resort outdoor risk reduction tips” A link to last year’s two-minute-long YouTube lightning safety video, which points out, among other things, how many people are… Continue Reading
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National HIV Testing Day (June 27) serves as a reminder of the importance of HIV testing
Use these resources to answer your questions about HIV testing: HIV Testing Locations – Enter your ZIP code to find a testing location near you, including those that offer free HIV tests. Types of HIV Tests – Different HIV tests are used in different situations, but the antibody test is the most common. Privacy Issues… Continue Reading
Report – Critical Nutrients for Premature Infants Often Unavailable Due to Shortages and Rationing
Washingtonian – Special report: Because of nationwide shortages, Washington hospitals are rationing, hoarding, and bartering critical nutrients premature babies and other patients need to survive. Doctors are reporting conditions normally seen only in developing countries, and there have been deaths. How could this be allowed to happen? “Doctors and pharmacists say that because of nationwide shortages… Continue Reading
HUD – Promoting Resilience Post-Sandy Through Innovative Planning and Design
“The Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force is pleased to launch REBUILD BY DESIGN, a multi-stage regional design competition to promote resilience for the Sandy-affected region. The goal of the competition is two-fold: to promote innovation by developing regionally-scalable but locally-contextual solutions that increase resilience in the region, and to implement selected proposals with both public and private… Continue Reading
Is the Amazon $600 million contract to build a “private cloud” for CIA moving forward?
Follow up to previous posting, FCW Reports on Bid Protest Over Amazon Cloud Contract for CIA, news that Amazon “is staffing up to meet the demand the new contract will require. Specifically, Amazon is looking for engineers who already have a “Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information” clearance, or are willing to go through the elaborate… Continue Reading
McKinsey – What executives think about the economy: 2004 to now
“Every quarter since early 2004, McKinsey has asked executives from around the world about their expectations for both national economies and companies. Since September 2008, as these topics have grown in urgency, we’ve asked about them more frequently and have added additional questions, including some on customer demand, company profits and funding, and when executives expect… Continue Reading
Commentary – Calling It ‘Metadata’ Doesn’t Make Surveillance Less Intrusive
By Geoff Nunberg: “Metadata” was bound to break out sooner or later, riding the wave of “data” in all its forms and combinations. “Big data” and “data mining” are the reigning tech buzzwords these days, and university faculties are scrambling to meet the surge in demand for courses in the hot new field of data… Continue Reading
Paper – NSA Spying Under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act
Follow up to previous posting, Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder – U.S. Domestic Surveillance, a new CDT Paper: “The FBI and NSA have abused Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act to compel disclosure of phone records of calls made to, from, and within the United States. This surveillance is not permitted by the statute, and was… Continue Reading
EU Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2013
EUROPEAN COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT – Digital Agenda Scoreboard, Brussels, 12.06.2013, SWD(2013). 217 final. “The EU economy was marked by recession in 2012. According to the latest Commission figures, annual GDP in 2013 is forecast to contract 0.1% in the EU and 0.4% in the Euro area. Unemployment is at unacceptable levels in many countries,… Continue Reading
Google – How to Delete Search History
“You can delete your search history at any time. However, before you do so, remember that saving your search history can help you quickly find information you’ve searched for in the past or pages you visited earlier. For example, if you visited a site with a great pasta recipe but can’t remember what the site… Continue Reading
CDC – New study shows HPV vaccine helping lower HPV infection rates in teen girls
“A new study looking at the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections in girls and women before and after the introduction of the HPV vaccine shows a significant reduction in vaccine-type HPV in U.S. teens. The study, published in [the June issue of] The Journal of Infectious Diseases reveals that since the vaccine was introduced… Continue Reading
CDC findings show higher suicide-related behaviors among youth involved in bullying
“The Journal of Adolescent Health released a special issue focusing for the first time on the relationship between bullying and suicide. The special issue was assembled by an expert panel brought together by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The panel looked at the latest research that examined youth involvement in bullying as a victim, perpetrator,… Continue Reading
