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News release: “Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday witnessed one of the world’s worst environmental disasters as he flew over the shrinking Aral Sea a sight which he said underscores the need for collective action to save the planet’s resources. The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest lake, has in recent decades shrunk in …
Deforestation and Climate Change, Ross W. Gorte, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, Pervaze A. Sheikh, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy – March 24, 2010 “Efforts to mitigate climate change have focused on reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere. Some of these efforts center on reducing CO2 emissions from deforestation, since deforestation releases about …
White House – Surface Transportation Security Assessment, March 2010 “Securing the Nations surface transportation network requires a coordinated effort among all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, communities, and individual citizens. While much has been accomplished to date toward securing this network, a highly focused, collaborative effort is required to identify residual risks …
Follow up to postings on security issues and erasing hard drive, from Gizmodoa detailed article with accompanying screen shots and product references: “With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the …
News release: “House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released a report examining the rebranding of 13 ACORN affiliated organizations following reports that ACORN had disbanded. The report includes evidence of a recent business transaction between ACORN and the organization rebranded as Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) which details …
YouTube Blog: “…we’re in the midst of one of the largest redesigns in YouTube’s history: we’re simplifying the look and functionality of the video page. That’s the page you see whenever a video plays, and this redesign is about going “back to basics,” focusing attention on the reason why you came to YouTube in the …
News release: ‘Department of Justice announced today that it supports a proposal by The Associated Press (AP) to develop and operate a voluntary news registry to facilitate the licensing and Internet distribution of news content created by the AP, its members, and other news originators. The department said that the development and operation of the …
News release: “The University of Maryland and the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) Foundation have unveiled a new children’s reading and library application – ICDL for iPad brings to Apple’s iPad access to the world’s largest freely available collection of multi-lingual, online children’s books with titles in more than 54 languages representing 64 countries. Through …
News release: “The board of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) modified its definition of a digital magazine in the U.S. and Canada to accommodate new reading devices such as the Apple iPad. The new standards state that a replica digital edition must include a print edition’s full editorial content and advertising, but it no …
USC Marshall Center for Global Innovation: “Innovation is widely acknowledged as an important but difficult construct to measure. Currently indices of the most innovative corporations rely on soft data such as polls or subjective judgments of raters. This page describes an index for ranking the most innovative corporations that is based on hard market data. …
