CBO Report, August 7, 2014: “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) oversees a disability program that makes payments through the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) to compensate U.S. veterans for medical conditions or injuries that are incurred or aggravated during active duty in the military, although not necessarily during the performance of military duties. Compensable service-connected… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households
“In its new Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households, the Federal Reserve Board provides a snapshot of the self-perceived financial and economic well-being of U.S. households and the issues they face, based on responses to the Board’s 2013 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking. The report provides insight into numerous topics of current relevance to… Continue Reading
Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
“On August 6, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center released updated information on 2013 Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters and several new tools to assist users in analyzing the data. These new features allow users to better explore the type, frequency and cost of U.S. billion-dollar events by state and year, from 1980 to 2013. Based on updated… Continue Reading
Command & Control: Understanding, denying, detecting
UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure report: “Modern computer usage has seen an ever-increasing use of the Internet. More and more business is being conducted on or over the Internet, communication via the Internet is the norm for many transactions, and many people now socialise via sites on the Internet. This is generally… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Contractor Performance, School Meal Programs
CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE: Actions Taken to Improve Reporting of Past Performance Information, GAO-14-707: Published: Aug 7, 2014. Publicly Released: Aug 7, 2014: “ SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS: Implications of Adjusting Income Eligibility Thresholds and Reimbursement Rates by Geographic Differences, GAO-14-557: Published: Jul 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Aug 7, 2014. Continue Reading
New York Times Launches Enhanced Archive Search and @NYTArchives Twitter Account
PressRun: “Today The New York Times launches search on its interactive digital archive: TimesMachine. With this newly-developed search technology, users can now use both free text and subject headings from the Times Index to search the 11,298,320 Times articles published across 46,592 issues between September 18, 1851 and December 31, 1980. Unlike previous iterations of search… Continue Reading
An introduction to the Congress.gov legislative information website
“Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office… Continue Reading
A Day in the Life of NYC’s Hospital for Wild Birds – Wired
Brandon Keim: “Even in a city famed for its oddities, New York’s Wild Bird Fund is an unusual place. To wit: one morning in April, while sitting in their Upper West Side waiting room, it dawned on me that I wasn’t alone. Perched on a chair, motionless in front of a life-sized photograph of a… Continue Reading
DOJ and Bank of America Close to Settlement on Consumer Mortgage Relief
WSJ.com: “Bank of America Corp. and the Justice Department are close to a deal in which the bank will pay between $16 billion and $17 billion to resolve allegations of mortgage-related misconduct in the run-up to the financial crisis, according to people familiar with the matter. The bank has agreed to pay roughly $9 billion in… Continue Reading
Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates
2013 Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Graduates. Lee B. Becker • Tudor Vlad • Holly Anne Simpson. James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research. Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication. August 6, 2014. “The vast majority of graduates of journalism and mass communications programs leave the university with at least one job offer.… Continue Reading
AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs
Pew Report – “The vast majority of respondents to the 2014 Future of the Internet canvassing anticipate that robotics and artificial intelligence will permeate wide segments of daily life by 2025, with huge implications for a range of industries such as health care, transport and logistics, customer service, and home maintenance. But even as they… Continue Reading
Consumer Privacy Organizations Oppose Farcical Class Action Settlement
“EPIC, along with a group of consumer privacy organizations, has asked the Federal Trade Commission to object to an unfair class action settlement in California federal court. In 2010, Google was sued for sharing user web browsing information with advertisers. Under the proposed settlement agreement, Google will distribute several million dollars to a handful of organizations, many of… Continue Reading
