Disability Insurance – Work Activity Indicates Certain Social Security Disability Insurance Payments Were Potentially Improper – GAO-13-635, Aug 15, 2013 Interstate Compacts – Transparency and Oversight of Bi-State Tolling Authorities Could Be Enhanced – GAO-13-687, Aug 15, 2013 Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Commission on Long-Term Care Summary of Recommendations
“The Commission on Long-Term Care met on September 12, 2013 and voted in favor of putting the Final Report forward as the broad agreement of the Commission. A summary of the recommendations is available here. The Call to Action is available here. A press release on the Committee vote is available here. The full Final… Continue Reading
The LexisNexis® 15th Annual Mortgage Fraud Report
The LexisNexis® 15th Annual Mortgage Fraud Report, August 2013 “As the mortgage industry heads into the latter part of 2013, the housing market is showing signs of positive growth. According to the National Association of Realtor’s (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) which is based on purchase contracts, in May 2013, pending home sales were… Continue Reading
CRS – Syria’s Chemical Weapons: Issues for Congress
Syria’s Chemical Weapons: Issues for Congress. Mary Beth D. Nikitin, Coordinator, Specialist in Nonproliferation; Paul K. Kerr, Analyst in Nonproliferation; Andrew Feickert, Specialist in Military Ground Forces. September 12, 2013 “Syria has produced, stored, and weaponized chemical agents, but it remains dependent on foreign suppliers for chemical precursors. The regime of President Bashar al Asad… Continue Reading
Possible U.S. Intervention in Syria: Issues for Congress
Possible U.S. Intervention in Syria: Issues for Congress. Christopher M. Blanchard, Coordinator, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs; Jeremy M. Sharp, Coordinator, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs. September 12, 2013 “Reports of a mass casualty chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus are reshaping the long-running and contentious debate over possible U.S. intervention in Syria’s… Continue Reading
CRS – Securing U.S. Diplomatic Facilities and Personnel Abroad
Securing U.S. Diplomatic Facilities and Personnel Abroad: Legislative and Executive Branch Initiatives. Alex Tiersky, Analyst in Foreign Affairs. September 12, 2013 “The September 11, 2012, attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, prompted sustained congressional attention on the specific circumstances of the events in question, as well as broader questions regarding how U.S. diplomatic personnel… Continue Reading
Bloomberg Visual Charts of Billionaires
Today’s rankings of the world’s richest people – Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest – Visual charts provide bios. Provides the ability to: Explore – Rank – Plot – Map specific individuals and groups. Includes key data points: citizenships, genders, ages, sources of wealth. Continue Reading
EC Database on Transnational Company Agreements
Database on Transnational Company Agreements “The database contains all transnational company agreements and texts identified and catalogued by the European Commission. It also contains sheets with details on every company and agreement. You can only download texts and agreements for which we obtained an authorization to publish by at least one signatory. There are two possible… Continue Reading
Global Consistency in Financial Regulation
Global Consistency in Financial Regulation: Is the glass half full, half empty, or just more transparent? Remarks by Wayne Byres, Secretary General, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, at the RiskMinds Risk and Regulation Forum, Nice, France, 10 September 2013: “…bankers are somewhat despondent, lamenting gaps and inconsistencies, while regulators are focusing on the good and steady progress… Continue Reading
Pew – Location-Based Services
“The role of location in digital life is changing as growing numbers of internet users are adding a new layer of location information to their posts, and a majority of smartphone owners use their phones’ location-based services. A new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project sheds light on three major aspects of how… Continue Reading
Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults
Citation: Kross E, Verduyn P, Demiralp E, Park J, Lee DS, et al. (2013) Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults. PLoS ONE 8(8): e69841. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069841 “Over 500 million people interact daily with Facebook. Yet, whether Facebook use influences subjective well-being over time is unknown. We addressed this issue using experience-sampling, the most… Continue Reading
EPIC – Federal Appellate Court Upholds Privacy Protection for Wi-Fi Communications
“The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling against Google in a case arising out of the Street View interception of private Wi-Fi communications. The lawsuit alleges that Google’s ongoing interception of Wi-Fi payload data through its Street View program violated several laws, including the federal Wiretap Act. The court rejected… Continue Reading
