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+ El Salvador

+ Honduras

+ Suriname

Source: BuyUSA.gov

Happy Mother’s Day. Here’s a compilation of facts about mom’s in the United States.

Source: U.S. Census

Key figures on European business 2008 Edition
152 pages; PDF.

Summary/News Release

The pocketbook Key figures on European business1, published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, summarises the main features of European business in a concise and simple manner. The publication consists of fourteen short chapters, focusing on particular aspects of the European business economy; from the size and structure of business sectors to the importance of foreign controlled enterprises. This edition includes a special feature on the factors of business success, which presents an analysis of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs for 15 Member States. The special feature gives an insight into the issues that determine the success and growth of newly born enterprises, as well as the motivation of entrepreneurs and the difficulties they face.

Source: EuroStat (via Basefsky’s IWS Documented News Service)

Posted 9 May 2008 on DocuTicker:
+ U.S. Airline Industry: Issues and Role of Congress (Congressional Research Service)
+ Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat (U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs)
+ The Context of Unwanted Sexual Experiences (University of New Hampshire)

From the article:

Each year, Weddle’s (www.weddles.com), a major U.S. publisher of print guides to Internet job hunting, invites the public to visit its Web site and vote for their favorite job boards. The 30 sites with the most votes at the end of the year are declared the winners of the Users’ Choice Awards. It’s not a scientific survey, since those polled are a self-selected sampling and tend to feel strongly about certain sites, both pro and con.

Source: Fortune

+ Google moves to make Google Reader more social (via Computerworld)

+ Report from Google’s Annual Stockholder Meeting (via Forbes)

From the post:

The Web site will let residents compare inpatient procedure prices at more than 80 hospitals statewide. Meanwhile, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano issued an executive order to increase the use of electronic prescribing in an effort to boost patient safety.

Source: iHealth Beat

From iHealthBeat:

The Oregon Web site now provides the average hospital prices for more than 90 medical procedures and conditions at hospitals in the state, as well as cost and quality comparisons for eight common procedures, including heart failure and stroke.

Source: iHealthBeat

From the summary

A national-level update of characteristics of the nation’s more than 75 million students. Eight tables include number of students by attributes such as age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, family income, type of college and vocational course enrollment. This Internet-only release comes from data collected each October as part of the Current Population Survey. The full report with analysis of the details is expected later this summer.

Source: U.S. Census

72 New Members Chosen by Academy

The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 9 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

The election was held this morning during the business session of the 145th annual meeting of the Academy. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,041. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States. Today’s election brings the total number of foreign associates to 397.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.

Press release contains list of new members and their institutional affiliations.

Source: NAS

The team at NewsNow has built page, updated every 5 minutes, with news from Myanmar/Burma. Tens of thousands of sources (global in scope) are visited and the page will auto-refresh every 300 seconds.

+++ Burma Cyclone +++

Source: NewsNow

See Also: Hundreds of Other Topical Collections Can Be Found in the Left Rail of All NewsNow Pages

The Facebook Application Ecosystem: Why Some Thrive, and Most Don’t

What do the killer apps on the Facebook platform have in common? What must you build into your application if you want Facebook users to adopt it and pass it on to their friends? In this live webcast, Shelly D. Farnham, Ph.D. discusses the application features that lead to success on the Facebook platform, including the best practices to launch and build Facebook apps, what people are using the top Facebook apps for, winning ad strategies, and how to innovate for success.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (17:00 GMT)

Free; registration required.

Source: O’Reilly Events

Webinar — The Outlook for Foundation Giving in 2008

Join us from the comfort of your own office to hear the latest perspective on how grantmaking foundations are being affected by current trends in the U.S. economy and how foundation giving might fare. Steven Lawrence, senior director of research at the Foundation Center, will present findings from the Foundation Center’s new report, Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates: Current Outlook, and address the following topics:

• Did foundation giving falter as the economy began to slow in 2007?
• Given a weak economic climate, what is the outlook for foundation giving in 2008?
• What do prior downturns suggest about the current funding environment?

The webinar will conclude with a question-and-answer segment.

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 2:00-3:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Source: Foundation Center

Top 5 Cities Surviving the Housing Bust

+ Charlotte
+ Portland, OR
+ Seattle
+ Dallas
+ Boston

Source: SmartMoney

From the site:

Collected Learning Units in Mathematics
provides more than 200 instructional units in arithmetic, algebra, calculus, data analysis, fractions, geometry, number theory, pre-algebra, pre-calculus, probability, statistics, and trigonometry. The units were developed by teachers attending summer institutes sponsored by the National Security Agency.

Source: FREE/National Security Agency