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GAO Reports – Defense Health Care Reform, Emergency Management, International Food Assistance, IRS Case Selection

Defense Health Care Reform: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Defense Health Agency Maintains Implementation Progress, GAO-15-759: Published: Sep 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 2015. Emergency Management: FEMA Collaborates Effectively with Logistics Partners but Could Strengthen Implementation of Its Capabilities Assessment Tool, GAO-15-781: Published: Sep 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 2015. International Food Assistance: …

Subjects: Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management

September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance

“The September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance is the culmination of efforts originally launched in 2002 by the 9/11 nonprofit MyGoodDeed with wide support by the 9/11 community and leading national service organizations. This effort first established the inspiring tradition of engaging in charitable service on 9/11 as an annual and forward-looking tribute …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents

World Bank Group – Women, Business and the Law 2016

News release: “The world’s high-income economies boast wide-ranging laws to promote women’s economic advancement, but more needs to be done to protect them against violence, says the World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law 2016 report, released today. Just over half of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economies have laws that …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Economy, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

On Terra Firma with English

Lebovits, Gerald, On Terra Firma with English (September 1, 2015). 16 Scribes J. Legal Writing 123 (2014-2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2654479 “This article discusses how to write legal prose in clear, forceful, and plain English and without turgid, boring, and unclear legalisms. From the Editor: “We finish with the next installment of our …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Legal-Writing Myths

Lebovits, Gerald, Legal-Writing Myths (September 1, 2015). 16 Scribes J. Legal Writing 113 (2014-2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2654470 “This article debunks misconceptions associated with writing in the law. From the Editor: “We finish with the next installment of our ‘Best of’ series, this time featuring short pieces by Gerald Lebovits. Judge Lebovits . …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Julian Assange’s Introduction to The Wikileaks Files

Via Gizmodo: “This essay by Julian Assange is taken from the introduction to The Wikileaks Files: The World According to the US Empire, a collection analyzing how Wikileaks’ release of US diplomatic cables impacted foreign policy.” “…Cultures and economies communicate using all manner of techniques across the regions and years of their existence, from the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Payment aspects of financial inclusion

Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures World Bank Group Consultative report – Payment aspects of financial inclusion, September 9, 2015: “In recent years,a number of reports have been prepared by organisations on financial inclusion , a topic whose importance is increasingly being recognised. However, few of these reports have addressed what may be called the …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Earth View – collection of beautiful striking landscapes found in Google Earth

“In certain locations, you can view and navigate street-level imagery in almost the same way that you can in Google Maps. Watch the video (English only) below or read the instructions to learn how. View in 3D Ground-level view Displaying the sun Terrain 3D viewer navigation Viewing 3D buildings Viewing 3D trees Viewing SketchUp 3D …

Subjects: Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

New Census Web Tool Helps Business Owners Make Data Driven Decisions

“The U.S. Census Bureau today released Census Business Builder: Small Business Edition, a new Web tool that allows business owners and entrepreneurs to easily navigate and use key demographic and economic data to help guide their research into opening a new business or adding to an existing one. The Census Business Builder was developed with …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Knowledge Management

GAO Reports – Defense Infrastructure, General Aviation, Ground System Development Problems

Defense Infrastructure: In-Kind Construction and Renovation Projects Initiated by DOD during Fiscal Year 2013, GAO-15-649: Published: Sep 9, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2015. General Aviation: Observations Related to Liability Insurance Requirements and Coverage for Aircraft Owners, GAO-15-740: Published: Sep 9, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 9, 2015. GPS: Actions Needed to Address Ground System Development …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Transportation

Impact of urbanization on US surface climate or why we need trees

Impact of urbanization on US surface climate – Lahouari Bounoua, Ping Zhang, Georgy Mostovoy, Kurtis Thome, Jeffrey Masek, Marc Imhoff, Marshall Shepherd, Dale Quattrochi, Joseph Santanello, Julie Silva, Robert Wolfe and Ally Mounirou Toure – Published 12 August 2015 • 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd • Environmental Research Letters, Volume 10, Number 8. “We combine Landsat …

Subjects: Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management

CBO Monthly Budget Review for August 2015

“The federal government’s budget deficit amounted to $528 billion for the first 11 months of fiscal year 2015, CBO estimates. That deficit was $61 billion smaller than the one recorded during the same period last year. Revenues and outlays were both higher than last year’s amounts, by 8 percent and 5 percent, respectively. Adjusted for …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

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