Monthly archives: August, 2012

New GAO Reports – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Counternarcotics Assistance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – Estimates of the Effect on the Prevalence of Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage, GAO-12-768, July 13, 2012 Counternarcotics Assistance – U.S. Agencies Have Allotted Billions in Andean Countries, but DOD Should Improve Its Reporting of Results, GAO-12-824, July 10, 2012 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families – More States Counting Third …

Subjects: Government Documents

NOAA – July 2012: hottest month on record for contiguous United States

News release: “Drought expands to cover nearly 63% of the Lower 48; wildfires consume 2 million acres. The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during July was 77.6°F, 3.3°F above the 20th century average, marking the hottest July and the hottest month on record for the nation. The previous warmest July for the nation was …

Subjects: Government Documents

United States Population Reaches Milestone

“Shortly after 2:29 p.m. EDT today, the U.S. population clock will reach a milestone that is very meaningful to mathematical statisticians: it will show there are 314,159,265 residents, or pi (3.14159265) times 100 million. Pi is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. This is a once in …

Subjects: Government Documents

Open For Business: How Immigrants Are Driving Small Business Creation In The United States

News release: “Open For Business: How Immigrants Are Driving Small Business Creation In The United States analyzes the increasing importance of foreign-born entrepreneurs on U.S. economic growth and job creation. Picking up and moving to another country is brave and risky, so perhaps it is not surprising that immigrants are venturing out and starting new …

Subjects: Government Documents

American Banker – 9 Big Data Challenges Banks Face

“Banks have begun dusting off some of the ambitious data management projects they began in the early 2000s, then shelved when the financial crisis and recession hit. But according to SAP’s top banking executives, who met with us last week, these projects are being scaled down to handle a single problem, such as improving same-day …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

OCLC provides downloadable linked data file for the 1 million most widely held works in WorldCat

News release: “OCLC has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable filerepresenting nearly 1.2 million resourcescontains approximately 80 million linked data triples, the term for the most granular relationship possible between discrete pieces of information…The linked data is provided as RDF serialization, and uses the Schema.org ontology as …

Subjects: Libraries

2011 Wind Technologies Market Report

2011 Wind Technologies Market Report – Primary authors – Ryan Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Mark Bolinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “The U.S. wind power industry is facing uncertain times. With 2011 capacity additions having risen from 2010 levels and with a further sizable increase expected in 2012, there are on the surface …

Subjects: Government Documents

New York Fed – Small Business Borrowers Poll

FRBNY Small Business Borrowers Poll, August 14, 2012 “More than three years into the economic recovery, the number of small business loans stands at three-quarters of its 2008 peak. National data show that the number of small business loansdefined as $1 million or lessdeclined by 4.7 percent in 2011. A closer look reveals that most …

Subjects: Government Documents

2012 Six-State Virtual Government Information Conference Presentations

“The 2012 Six-State Virtual Government Information Conference was held August 8-10, 2012. This free conference, while focusing on the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico,Utah, and Wyoming, was open to all. An recorded archive of all presentations is linked here including Abstracts, Powerpoints, Handouts. See also the Conference Planners and Contributors.” [via Peggy Jobe …

Subjects: E-Government

Presentation – Handheld Librarian Online Conference

“Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project, will present the latest Project findings to the Handheld Librarian Online Conference about how many people have mobile devices and how they use these devicesfor accessing all kinds of content, using apps, social media, and for specialized searches such as for politics, …

Subjects: Internet, Libraries

Commentary – Japans Fiscal Crisis Comes of Age

Japans Fiscal Crisis Comes of Age, by Yuriko Koike [former chairwoman of Japan’s Liberal Democrat Party]: “By virtually any measure, official Japanese debt is the highest in the world. The total outstanding volume of Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) is an almost unfathomable $9 trillion, only just below the $10.5 trillion in outstanding debt for the …

Subjects: Government Documents

CDC – 2011 State Obesity Map Now Available

“2011 CDC map detailing adult obesity prevalence for all U.S. states based on Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data. In 2011, rates of adult obesity remain high, with state estimates ranging from 20.7 percent in Colorado to 34.9 percent in Mississippi. No state had a prevalence of adult obesity less than 20 percent, and …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

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