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Salon: “The high-capacity magazine of the semiautomatic pistol used in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen other people on Saturday would have been illegal to manufacture and difficult to purchase under the Clinton-era assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004. According to police and media reports, the alleged shooter, Jared …
Via WSJ Law Blog, Obituary: Arizona Federal Judge, John Roll, 63 “The tragic shooting in Tucson Saturday morning took the life of six people, among them John McCarthy Roll, the chief judge of the District of Arizona. Judge Roll was 63. Click here for my and Nathan Koppels story on Roll in the WSJ; here …
News release: “The Federal Interagency Solutions Group, established at the request of the U.S. Coast Guard and authorized under a directive from the National Incident Commander (NIC), released a peer-reviewed report that details the scientific calculations of the Deepwater Horizon BP Oil Spill Oil Budget Calculator response tool announced last August. The report, developed in …
Saudi Arabia Country Analysis Brief Jan 4, 2011: “Saudi Arabia has approximately one-fifth of the world’s proven oil reserves, and is the largest oil producer and exporter of total petroleum liquids in the world. The country maintains the world’s largest crude oil production capacity, estimated by EIA at over 12 million bbl/d at end-2010. …
Distribution and Production of Oil and Gas Wells by State Jan 7, 2011: “Distribution tables of oil and gas wells by production rate for all wells, including marginal wells, are now available for most states for the years 1995 to 2009.”
Urban Institute – Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Benefits Over a Lifetime, January 2011 “How much will you pay in Social Security and Medicare taxes over your lifetime? And how much can you expect to get back in benefits? It depends on whether youre married, when you retire, and how much youve earned over …
Policymaking from a “macroprudential” perspective in emerging market economies, by Ramon Moreno, Working Papers No 336, Bank for International Settlements, January 2011 “Recurrent capital inflows pose important challenges for authorities in emerging market economies seeking to preserve financial stability. Raising interest rates to dampen imbalances that could arise from capital flows can also attract more …
Via Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, this new memorandum on technology neutrality: “Each year, the U.S. Government spends almost $80 billion dollars buying information technology (IT); the software, computer equipment and network devices that help the Government run efficiently. It is important that those purchases be fair, neutral and based on an …
News release: “At a forum with Silicon Valley business and academic leaders at Stanford University, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard A. Schmidt announced plans to create a National Program Office to help foster an environment in which sensitive online transactions can be carried out with greater levels of trust. …
Government Technology: “A new study ranking government, nonprofit and industry trade groups for their use of social media and online strategies revealed that more than 50 percent of the organizations polled are not using these digital avenues as effectively as they could be. The first L2 Digital IQ Index: Public Sector was co-authored by digital …
News release: “Nearly 10 years after the greatest human-made disaster in U.S. history– the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers — there has been little research documenting the attacks consequences among those most directly affected — the survivors who escaped the World Trade Center towers. In a study just released by Columbia Universitys …
News release: “…the FCC announced a challenge to researchers and software developers to engage in research and create apps that help consumers foster, measure, and protect Internet openness. The Open Internet Challenge is part of the FCCs efforts to empower end users to help preserve Internet openness. Details of the challenge are posted at openinternet.gov/challenge. …
