pie Justice Department Settles Lawsuit with Pierce County, Washington, Alleging Employment Discrimination By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:31:33 EDT The Justice Department announced today it has entered into a consent decree with Pierce County, Wash., that, if approved by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, will resolve allegations that the county discriminated against a female employee by retaliating against her in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII is a federal statute which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin or religion and protects employees who file complaints under any of those bases. Full Article OPA Press Releases
pie Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Bank of America to Resolve Allegations of Discrimination Against Recipients of Disability Income By www.justice.gov Published On :: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:48:53 EDT Bank of America N.A. has agreed to maintain revised policies, conduct employee training and pay compensation to victims to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of disability and receipt of public assistance in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). Full Article OPA Press Releases
pie Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Piedmont Regional Jail to Reform Medical and Mental Health Care at the Facility By www.justice.gov Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:28:05 EDT Today the Department of Justice filed a complaint and a simultaneous settlement agreement in the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to ensure that prisoners at the Piedmont Regional Jail in Farmville, Va., receive appropriate medical and mental health care. Full Article OPA Press Releases
pie Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Fifth Third Mortgage Company to Resolve Allegations of Discrimination Against Recipients of Disability Income By www.justice.gov Published On :: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:15:06 EDT The Department of Justice filed a settlement today with Fifth Third Mortgage Company to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of disability and receipt of public assistance in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). Under the settlement, Fifth Third has agreed to maintain revised policies, conduct employee training and pay over $1.5 million to compensate victims Full Article OPA Press Releases
pie MilliporeSigma set to build $100m facility for viral and gene therapies By www.biopharma-reporter.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:26:00 +0100 The facility will be the companyâs second facility in Carlsbad specifically for its BioReliance viral and gene therapy service. Full Article Upstream Processing
pie AskBio buys BrainVectis for early-stage gene therapies By www.biopharma-reporter.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0100 AskBio acquires gene therapy biotech working on treatments for neurodegenerative disorders. Full Article Markets & Regulations
pie Australia Digest: Qwilr raises $7.25m; PieLAB invests in :Different By www.dealstreetasia.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 01:34:21 +0000 Sydney-based document design company Qwilr has raised $7.25-million Series A led by AirTree Ventures. The post Australia Digest: Qwilr raises $7.25m; PieLAB invests in :Different appeared first on DealStreetAsia. Full Article airtree ventures Different PieLAB Qwilr
pie Smart-technology spies, a final warning on the environment, and the staggering costs of cancer: Books in brief By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-05-06 Full Article
pie Viral contamination in biologic manufacture and implications for emerging therapies By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-04-27 Full Article
pie Inducing senescence sensitizes pancreatic tumours to therapies By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-04-28 Full Article
pie Combining radiolabelled therapies for neuroendocrine neoplasms By feeds.nature.com Published On :: 2020-05-07 Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Apr 3, 2020 Apr 3, 2020Calder Walton describes four ways how intelligence services are certain to contribute to defeating COVID-19 and why pandemic intelligence will become a central part of future U.S. national security. Full Article
pie Does Access to Information Technology Make People Happier? By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:55:00 -0500 Access to information and communication technology through cell phones, the internet, and electronic media has increased exponentially around the world. While a few decades ago cell phones were a luxury good in wealthy countries, our data show that today over half of respondents in Sub-Saharan Africa and about 80 percent of those in Latin America and Southeast Asia have access to cell phones. In addition to making phone calls and text messaging, cell phones are used for activities such as accessing the internet and social network sites. Meanwhile, the launch of mobile banking gives access to these technologies an entirely new dimension, providing access to financial services in addition to information and communication technology. It is estimated that in Kenya, where the mobile banking “revolution” originated, there are some 18 million mobile money users (roughly 75 percent of all adults). Given the expanding role of information technology in today’s global economy, in this paper we explore whether this new access also enhances well-being. Neither of the authors is an expert on information technology. The real and potential effect of information technology on productivity, development, and other economic outcomes has been studied extensively by those who are. Building on past research on the economics of well-being and on the application of the well-being metrics to this particular question, we hope to contribute an understanding of how the changes brought about by information and communication technology affect well-being in general, including its non-income dimensions. Our study has two related objectives. The first is to understand the effects of the worldwide increase in communications capacity and access to information technology on human well-being. The second is to contribute to our more general understanding of the relationship between well-being and capabilities and agency. Cell phones and information technology are giving people around the world – and particularly the poor – new capabilities for making financial transactions and accessing other services which were previously unavailable to them. We explore the extent to which the agency effect of having access to these capabilities manifests itself through both hedonic and evaluative aspects of well-being. Downloads Download the full paper Authors Carol GrahamMilena Nikolova Image Source: © Adriane Ohanesian / Reuters Full Article
pie Highlight reel: Some of Brookings’s best foreign policy pieces of 2015 By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 Experts in the Brookings Foreign Policy program produced a lot of impressive work in 2015—from blog posts to policy papers to book manuscripts. Mike O'Hanlon, the program's research director, gives a snapshot of some of the highlights. Full Article Uncategorized
pie Secrets and Spies By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:11:19 +0000 Exploring how intelligence professionals view accountability in the context of twenty-first century politics How can democratic governments hold intelligence and security agencies accountable when what they do is largely secret? Using the UK as a case study, this book addresses this question by providing the first systematic exploration of how accountability is understood inside the… Full Article
pie Why nonworking men are unhappiest in America By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:00:17 +0000 In new research, Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto assesses the troublesome levels of ill-being among men who are out of the labor force (as distinct from unemployed men), and the challenges this poses to the future of work and the future of the middle class more generally. Carol Graham, the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and… Full Article
pie Lucirmás Turns Single Wine Bottles into 3-Piece Table Sets By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:52:00 -0400 Spanish company Lucirmás debuts Pure-Bottle, a fully recycled and recyclable table set which consists of a glass, lantern and spoon. Full Article Living
pie The new piece of outdoor gear that every woman needs By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Because no one likes to pop a squat surrounded by piles of soggy toilet paper. Full Article Living
pie The 20 happiest countries in the world By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:00:00 -0400 The World Happiness Report 2015 takes a look at well-being for the good of social progress and public policy. Full Article Living
pie All of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions in one awesome interactive pie chart By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 15:30:01 -0400 A visual breakdown of emissions by country and industry. Full Article Science
pie 20 happiest countries on the planet 2016 By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 04:10:00 -0400 Who wins this year's crown of contentment? The results are in for the UN's World Happiness Report 2016. Full Article Living
pie Is Hello Barbie the creepiest doll of all? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:20:45 -0400 New eavesdropping Barbie records your child’s conversations and transmits them to a corporation that analyzes your kid’s likes and dislikes. And then things get weird. Full Article Living
pie Lego announces launch of bioplastic pieces By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:31:00 -0500 Made from sugarcane, the new sustainable play pieces will be included in Lego kits in 2018. Full Article Business
pie Easy pumpkin pie squares with candied ginger [Vegan, Gluten-Free] By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:00:00 -0500 These delicious dessert squares skip the crust and the refined sugar. They're quick and easy to make for lightly sweet snacks during fall and winter. Full Article Living
pie Smart Egg Carton Redesign is Made From Single Piece of Cardboard By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:00:00 -0400 One designer tackles how the ubiquitous egg carton could be rethought in order to waste less. Full Article Design
pie 7 great squashes to use for pumpkin pie By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:36:37 -0400 What’s the best pumpkin for pumpkin pie? Maybe not a pumpkin at all. Full Article Living
pie Modern classic jewelry made with recycled domino & Scrabble pieces By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 07:00:00 -0500 'Slow' games make a comeback, as stylish jewelry with a twist. Full Article Living
pie How an Abandoned Market Garden Was Occupied (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:57:31 -0500 A village that was threatened by the expansion of Heathrow Airport in London became home to a squatted community garden. Here's how it happened. Full Article Living
pie People Provide Missing Piece in Biodiversity Puzzle By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:18:00 -0400 The head of a cooperative of honey harvesters, a park guide, and a doctor who uses a garden of medicinal plants to treat asthma and other ailments are Full Article Science
pie Super axe uses leverage to make woodcutting a piece of cake (Video) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:00:24 -0400 This specially designed Finnish axe requires less force to split wood as it acts both as a wedge and as a lever. Full Article Energy
pie New study confirms that adjustable standing desks make you happier, healthier and more productive By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:29:56 -0400 Because people gotta move. Full Article Design
pie The 20 happiest countries on the planet By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 02:04:00 -0400 The numbers are in for the World Happiness Report 2017; who wins this year's crown of contentment? Think of it as a love letter to Scandinavia. Full Article Living
pie Four-Piece, No Screw No Glue Modular Shelving System By Disenaveral In Buenos Aires By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 25 May 2011 08:00:26 -0400 Another interesting find from Buenos Aires design fair, Feria Puro Diseno (FPD), this is a modular system designed by local studio Disenaveral to build different kinds of shelving spaces that adapt to changing situations. Full Article Design
pie Federal Food Aid Recipients Double Their Money at Local Farmers' Markets By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Sun, 06 May 2012 06:00:00 -0400 The evaluation report three years after Double Up Food Bucks started giving incentives to SNAP (formerly food stamp) recipients Full Article Living
pie Big Brothers Spies On Your...Recycling? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:00:00 -0400 That's right, in communities across the US, recycling bins are now being outfitted with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips. And if you don't recycle, they'll let you know that they know.Savannah, GA, Full Article Technology
pie Green roofs make happier, more productive workers By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 18 May 2015 14:59:36 -0400 A new study shows that a quick look at a green roof perks you right up. Full Article Design
pie 15 resolutions you could make for a happier, lower-impact 2019 By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 15:25:00 -0500 Reducing your carbon footprint and building community go hand-in-hand toward creating a better planet. Full Article Living
