Day archives: November 9th, 2010

DOT Reports Long Tarmac Delays in September Down From Last Year

News release: “The nation’s largest airlines reported four flights in September with tarmac delays of more than three hours, down from six flights in September 2009, with only a slight increase in the rate of canceled flights, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Data filed …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Google Launches Instant Previews

Official Google Blog: “With Google Instant you get results as fast as you type, but your search doesn’t stop there. Once you get results back, you choose a site to visit based on the information in each result—like the title, a snippet of text and the URL. Over time we’ve made steady improvements to our …

Subjects: Search Engines

DOD Announces the Services’ Final Fort Hood Reviews

Follow up to previous postings on the Fort Hood attach, the “Department of Defense (DoD) announced today the release of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps final reviews of the recommendations from the independent report “Protecting the Force: Lessons Learned from Fort Hood.” The DoD places a high priority on implementing recommendations that …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

CDC – A record number of adults 18-64 years old are uninsured

“CDC Vital Signs offers recent data on the important health topics of key diseases, conditions, or risk factors. Data is gathered from CDC’s national monitoring systems to show progress in important areas of public health, and the ways people can increase their health, prevent or control disease. New 2010 estimates show that the number of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

CDC Releases Two Reports on Excessive Alcohol Use and Related Harms

News release: CDC’s Guide to Community Preventive Services has released two reports on Maintaining Limits on Days and Hours of Sale of Alcoholic Beverages to Prevent Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Related Harms. These reports were posted online today by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and will be published in their December 2010 issue. The …

Subjects: Government Documents

Pew: How libraries can serve Networked Individuals

“Pew Internet Director Lee Rainie spoke at the annual meeting of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium. His speech is entitled, How libraries can serve Networked Individuals. In it he discusses the latest research of the Project and previews the themes of his forthcoming book, “Networking: The New Social Operating System.” He also describes how the …

Subjects: Internet, Libraries