Commercial Space Launches – FAA Should Update How It Assesses Federal Liability Risk, GAO-12-899, July 30, 2012 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Improved Oversight of State Eligibility Expansions Needed, GAO-12-670, July 26, 2012 World Health Organization – Reform Agenda Developed, but U.S. Actions to Monitor Progress Could be Enhanced, GAO-12-722, July 23, 2012 Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
EIA – Petroleum Supply Monthly, May 2012
“U.S. and regional petroleum supply and disposition balances reported by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in the Petroleum Supply Monthly (PSM) included biodiesel production data for the first time in May 2012. In addition, previously published PSM data for January-April 2012 were revised to include biodiesel production. Similar revisions will be reported for 2011… Continue Reading
Special IG for Iraq Reconstruction – July 2012 Quarterly Report and Semiannual Report
Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, July 2012: Quarterly Report and Semiannual Report To Congress – “SIGIR has published 214 audits since 2004.” “U.S. Agencies Reviews of Contractor Business Systems. In its review of the U.S. governments monitoring of the business system used by DoD contractors that operated in Iraq from 2004… Continue Reading
Comparison of Information Sharing, Monitoring and Countermeasures Provisions in Cybersecurity Bills
Via CDT: “The chart below compares on civil liberties grounds three bills that seek to promote cybersecurity and it updates a similar chart we issued on April 4, 2012 based on prior versions of all three bills. The Senate is set to consider the Cybersecurity Act, S. 3414 (Lieberman-Collins bill), introduced on July 19. The… Continue Reading
Recovery and resolution of financial market infrastructures – consultative report
“The consultative report Recovery and resolution of financial market infrastructures has been published for public comment. Financial market infrastructures (FMIs) play an essential role in the global financial system. The disorderly failure of an FMI can lead to severe systemic disruption if it causes markets to cease to operate effectively. Accordingly, all types of FMIs… Continue Reading
International Religious Freedom for 2011, State Department
“The annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom the International Religious Freedom Report describes the status of religious freedom in every country. The report covers government policies violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious denominations and individuals, and U.S. policies to promote religious freedom around the world. The U.S. Department of… Continue Reading
Modernizing the Legal Framework for Surveillance – An Integrated Surveillance Decision
“This IMF paper proposes a draft Integrated Surveillance Decision (ISD) for adoption. As part of broader efforts to strengthen Fund surveillance, the Fund is modernizing its legal framework to better support operations. In April 2012, the Funds Executive Board discussed Modernizing the Legal Framework for SurveillanceBuilding Blocks Toward an Integrated Surveillance Decision. That paper highlighted… Continue Reading
Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network
“The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) conducts active population-based surveillance in ten areas (Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, and selected counties in California, Colorado, and New York) for laboratory-confirmed cases of infection caused by Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, Listeria, Salmonella, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC, including STEC O157 and STEC non-O157), Shigella,… Continue Reading
New report – Global land temperatures have increased by 1.5 degrees C over the past 250 years
“Berkeley Earth has just released analysis of land-surface temperature records going back 250 years, about 100 years further than previous studies. The analysis shows that the rise in average world land temperature globe is approximately 1.5 degrees C in the past 250 years, and about 0.9 degrees in the past 50 years. Berkeley Earth also… Continue Reading
Capital requirements for bank exposures to central counterparties
The Basel Committee issued on July 25, 2012 interim rules for the capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties (CCPs). “The Committee’s framework for capitalising exposures to CCPs builds on the new CPSS-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMIs), which are designed to enhance the robustness of the essential infrastructure – including CCPs – supporting… Continue Reading
IBM – Capitalizing on the smarter consumer
Capitalizing on the smarter consumer, IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2012 “The consumer is digital. Smarter consumers take technology completely for granted. Nearly half the people we surveyed are eager to use two or more technologies to shop. Younger consumers are particularly keen and teenage twitterati have now escaped the parental leash. The… Continue Reading
Pew – The Future of Higher Education
The Future of Higher Education, by Janna Anderson, Jan Lauren Boyles, Lee Rainie. July 27, 2012 “For a millennium, universities have been considered the main societal hub for knowledge and learning. And for a millennium, the basic structures of how universities produce and disseminate knowledge and evaluate students have survived intact through the sweeping societal… Continue Reading
