Monthly archives: May, 2013

Suicide Among Adults Aged 35–64 Years — United States, 1999–2010

Suicide Among Adults Aged 35–64 Years — United States, 1999–2010. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. May 3, 2013 /Vol. 62/ No. 17 “Traditionally, suicide prevention efforts have been focused mostly on youths and older adults, but recent evidence suggests that there have been substantial increases in suicide rates among middle-aged adults in the United States. …

Subjects: Government Documents

For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialization of Digital Spying

Citizen Lab [University of Toronto] “released a new report, For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialization of Digital Spying. The report features new findings, as well as consolidating a year of our research on the commercial market for offensive computer network intrusion capabilities developed by Western companies. Our new findings include: We have identified FinFisher Command …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Internet, Privacy

Climate Central Report – Sewage Overflows From Hurricane Sandy

Sewage Overflows From Hurricane Sandy. Alyson Kenward, PhD, Daniel Yawitz, Urooj Raja. “Six months after Sandy, data from the eight hardest hit states shows that 11 billion gallons of untreated and partially treated sewage flowed into rivers, bays, canals, and in some cases, city streets, largely as a result of record storm-surge flooding that swamped …

Subjects: Government Documents

CIO Insights: Leading Innovation in a Time of Change

“Each year TechAmerica and Grant Thornton LLP survey federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) on issues most affecting the community. CIOs had a lot to say about budget, policy and governance, acquisition, human capital, mobility, and cybersecurity…The budget is the top concern of CIOs. While budget cuts drive CIOs to improve efficiency and spark innovation, they …

Subjects: Government Documents

Annual Report to Congress on the Status of U.S. Fisheries

“The 2012 Annual Report on the Status of U.S. Fisheries highlights the progress that collectively, NOAA Fisheries, the regional fishery management councils, and our stakeholders have made to end overfishing and rebuild stocks. The report documents additional progress towards long-term economic sustainability of our nation’s fisheries. Recent economic data illustrates that the overall seafood industry …

Subjects: Government Documents

Alleged Improprieties Regarding the Canine Program at the Dept. of Energy's Y-12 Site

“The Department of Energy’s (Department) Canine Program is an essential component of its efforts to identify and deter potential threats to infrastructure and personnel. At the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) and other nuclear material hosting sites in the Department, canines are used to detect explosives, narcotics, concealed humans and also track human presence at …

Subjects: Government Documents

Paper – Internet Content Governance & Human Rights

Lucchi, Nicola, Internet Content Governance & Human Rights (May 1, 2013). Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law Vol. 16, No. 3 (2013). Available at SSRN “The paper examines how Internet content governance is posing regulatory issues directly related to the growing importance of an equitable access to digital information. In particular, it looks at …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal Research

GPO’S Federal Digital System Reaches 500 Million Retrievals

Gary Somerset: “The U.S. Government Printing Office’s (GPO) Federal Digital System (FDsys) has achieved the milestone of 500 million document retrievals. FDsys is a one-stop site for authentic, published information on the three branches of the Federal Government. Retrievals are measured by the number of times content is viewed or downloaded from FDsys. GPO launched …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation, Libraries

World Report on Child Labour

World Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection and the fight against child labour – How can we reduce child labour in the less favourable circumstances of a global economic slowdown? [30 April 2013] “This new report is the first in a series to be published annually by the ILO’s International Programme on the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents

Pew – Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading

Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading, by Carolyn Miller, Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie and Kristen Purcell. May 1, 2013 “The vast majority of parents of minor children — children younger than 18 — feel libraries are very important for their children. That attachment carries over into parents’ own higher-than-average use of a wide range of library …

Subjects: Libraries