“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is working with the House of Representatives Committee on Rules, the House Parliamentarian, and the Clerk of the House to make Jefferson’s Manual and the Rules of the House of Representatives available in XML format using the United States Legislative Markup (USLM) schema. USLM is an XML information model… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
GAO Report – Security and Privacy Controls
Healthcare.gov: Actions Needed to Enhance Information Security and Privacy Controls, GAO-16-265: Published: Mar 23, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2016: “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported 316 security-related incidents, between October 2013 and March 2015, affecting Healthcare.gov—the web portal for the federal health insurance marketplace—and its supporting systems. According to GAO’s review… Continue Reading
International Criminal Court – What are War Crimes?
“War crimes” include grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict and in conflicts “not of an international character” listed in the Rome Statute, when they are committed as part of a plan or policy or on a large scale. These prohibited acts… Continue Reading
United Nations World Water Development Report 2016
United Nations World Water Assessment Programme. 2016. The United Nations World Water Development Report 2016: Water and Jobs. “Among its findings, this report shows that many jobs in the global workforce depend on water. It demonstrates that water stress and the lack of decent work can exacerbate security challenges. It also traces the link between… Continue Reading
Capital Commitment and Illiquidity in Corporate Bonds
Bessembinder, Hendrik and Jacobsen, Stacey E. and Maxwell, William F. and Venkataraman, Kumar, Capital Commitment and Illiquidity in Corporate Bonds (March 21, 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2752610 “We use a comprehensive sample of U.S. corporate bond trades from 2003 to 2014 that includes dealer identifiers to assess liquidity and dealers’ capital commitment. We… Continue Reading
Annual Report to Congress: Federal Information Security Modernization Act
Submitted by OMB, March 18, 2016 – “The attached report is submitted pursuant to Section 3553 of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-283), which requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to submit an annual report on the effectiveness of information security policies and practices during the preceding year and… Continue Reading
Pew – Lifelong Learning and Technology
“A large majority of Americans seek extra knowledge for personal and work-related reasons. Digital technology plays a notable role in these knowledge pursuits, but place-based learning remains vital to many and differences in education and income are a hallmark of people’s learning activities.. Most Americans feel they are lifelong learners, whether that means gathering knowledge… Continue Reading
FTC Releases Reports on 2013 Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Sales
FTC – “The number of cigarettes sold by the largest cigarette companies in the United States to wholesalers and retailers in the U.S. declined from 267.7 billion in 2012 to 256.7 billion in 2013, according to the most recent Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report. The amount spent on cigarette advertising and promotion decreased from $9.17… Continue Reading
Hearing Report – The Intelligence Community: Keeping Watch Over Its Contractor Workforce
Via FAS – “The Intelligence Community: Keeping Watch Over Its Contractor Workforce, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, June 18, 2014, published March 18, 2016. The hearing record is of particular interest as a reflection of the revived intelligence oversight role assumed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) following the issuance of 2014 Intelligence… Continue Reading
Paper on climate change – Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms
Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 degrees C global warming could be dangerous – Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 3761–3812, 2016, www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/3761/2016/, doi:10.5194/acp-16-3761-2016. “We use numerical climate simulations, paleoclimate data, and modern observations to study the effect of growing ice melt from Antarctica and… Continue Reading
University research reveals unhealthy lifestyle of most American adults
Via Oregon State University – “Only 2.7 percent of the U.S. adult population achieves all four of some basic behavioral characteristics that researchers say would constitute a “healthy lifestyle” and help protect against cardiovascular disease, a recent study concluded.” Reference – see Healthy Lifestyle Characteristics and Their Joint Association With Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers in US… Continue Reading
State and Local Government Tax Revenues Fourth Quarter 2015
Via Census – “The summary provides quarterly estimates of state and local government tax revenue at a national level, as well as detailed tax revenue data for individual states. This report produces three tables: Table 1 and 2 include income and sales data and Table 3 provides tax collections by state.” Continue Reading
