News release: “The free legislative information website, Congress.gov, is transitioning into its permanent role as the official site for federal legislative information from the U.S. Congress and related agencies.The site, which launched in beta form last fall and features platform mobility, comprehensive information retrieval and user-friendly presentation, is replacing the nearly 20-year-old THOMAS.gov. Beginning Nov. 19, typing… Continue Reading
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KRISTALLNACHT: A NATIONWIDE POGROM, NOVEMBER 9–10, 1938
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Kristallnacht, literally, “Night of Crystal,” is often referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass.” The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops. Instigated primarily… Continue Reading
New GAO Report – Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
GREAT LAKES RESTORATION INITIATIVE: Further Actions Would Result in More Useful Assessments and Help Address Factors That Limit Progress – GAO-13-797, Sep 27, 2013 Continue Reading
2013 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey
Since 2002, OPM has called on Federal employees to provide their candid opinions on all aspects of their Federal employment – their supervisors, their work experience, their agency and their senior leaders. This year, 376,577 employees provided their input to the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) to influence change at their agencies. The 2013 Federal Employee… Continue Reading
What’s Really At Stake in Better Interfaces to Government
Code for America – Tim O’Reilly: “…While cynics may say that “government just doesn’t get it,” we know through our work with the Code for America city partners that things are already changing in profound ways. And the work of agencies like the UK Government Digital Service (whose Design Principles are a manifesto for the new… Continue Reading
Commentary – How Twitter Hijacked My Mind
That G-ddamned Blue Bird and Me: How Twitter Hijacked My Mind by Kathryn Schulz “Collectively, the people I follow on Twitter — book nerds, science nerds, journalists, the uncategorizably interesting — come pretty close to my dream community. They also function as by far the best news source I’ve ever used: more panoptic, more in-depth,… Continue Reading
UNESCO/OECD/EUROSTAT (UOE) education database
“The UNESCO/OECD/EUROSTAT (UOE) database on education statistics is compiled on the basis of national administrative sources, reported by Ministries of Education or National Statistical offices according to international standards, definitions and classifications. The collected annual data cover the outputs of educational institutions, the policy levers that shape educational outputs, the human and financial resources invested… Continue Reading
Neurodegeneration: Exploring Commonalities Across Diseases
Neurodegeneration: Exploring Commonalities Across Diseases “is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders in Spring 2012 to explore commonalities across neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Participants from academia; pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries;… Continue Reading
October payroll employment increases; unemployment rate changes little
News release: “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 204,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in leisure and hospitality, retail trade, professional and technical services, manufacturing, and health care. Household Survey Data Both the number of unemployed persons, at… Continue Reading
The challenges in obtaining non public IG reports via FOIA
WaPo – Looking for needles in a federal haystack – By Al Kamen, Published: November 7 “And now, a journey into the sometimes surreal world of the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. The law can be a powerful tool for the public and the news media to discover all manner of mal- , mis- and nonfeasance… Continue Reading
FDA takes step to further reduce trans fats in processed foods
News release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its preliminary determination that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the primary dietary source of artificial trans fat in processed foods, are not “generally recognized as safe” for use in food. The FDA’s preliminary determination is based on available scientific evidence and the findings of expert scientific panels. … Continue Reading
2013 Survey of Americans on U.S. Role in Global Health
“The Kaiser Family Foundation 2013 Survey of Americans on the U.S. Role in Global Health is the fifth in a series of surveys designed, conducted, and analyzed by the Kaiser Family Foundation in order to shed light on the American public’s perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes about the role of the United States in efforts to… Continue Reading
