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Statement of Marybeth Peters, The Register of Copyrights before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives 111th Congress 1st Session, September 10, 2009 “In the view of the Copyright Office, the settlement proposed by the parties would encroach on responsibility for copyright policy that traditionally has been the domain of Congress. The …
News release: “On a seasonally adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.4 percent in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The index has decreased 1.5 percent over the last 12 months on a not seasonally adjusted basis. The 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted increase in the CPI-U was …
How Regulatory Standards Can Affect a Cap-and-Trade Program for Greenhouse Gases, September 16, 2009 “Some legislation considered by the current and previous Congresses has proposed combining cap-and-trade programs with various regulatory standards to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Greenhouse gases increase the amount of energy temporarily held in the lower atmosphere, keeping the Earths surface warmer than …
News release: “Real average hourly earnings fell 0.2 percent from July to August, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This decline stemmed from the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), up by 0.6 percent, outpacing 0.3 percent growth in average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers. …
“The Global Public Debt Clock was developed using data and forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit database. It is, of course, inspired by the National Debt Clock, a rolling measure of the US public debt that physically resides in midtown Manhattan. This clock was originally sponsored by a real estate developer, Seymour Durst, who wanted …
News release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro today announced that University of Texas School of Law Professor Henry T. C. Hu has been named Director of the newly-established Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation. The new division combines the Office of Economic Analysis, the Office of Risk Assessment, and other functions …
Senate Finance Committee: Baucus Releases Americas Healthy Future Act Chairmans Mark – Americas Healthy Future Act of 2009 Scheduled for Markup By the Senate Committee on Finance On September 22, 2009 [223 pages, PDF] 9-16-09 JCT Analysis of the America’s Healthy Future Act 9-16-09: Finance Committee Memo on Estimates of the Americas Health Future Act …
Google proposal: “The Newspaper Association of America’s Request for Information “seeks to gather information about the products and services available from qualified providers with expertise in helping local online publishers additionally monetize digital content, either through transactions (pay for content) and/or through collection of user data for enhanced advertising targeting or other ‘access to content …
“reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows…A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many …
Official Google Blog: “Google for the Public Sector, a one-stop shop of tools and tips that local, state and federal government officials can use to help promote transparency and increase citizen participation. The site helps government agencies: Make your website, and the information it offers, easier to find. For example, in less than 50 technical …
News release: “Apps.gov is an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based IT services, for productivity, collaboration, and efficiency. Cloud computing is the next generation of IT in which data and applications will be housed centrally and accessible anywhere and anytime by a various devices (this is opposed to the current …
