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Guide on Firearms Licensing Law, 2012 to 2013 “This revised guide aims to provide the police with guidance on firearms legislation. It should be noted that this is not a definitive statement of the law but is intended to provide a cohesive explanation of the often complex area of firearms licensing. The guide is being …
Debt, Damned Debt, and Statistics: The Effects of Budget Cuts on Federal Statistics Program Dan Coyle, ProQuest. June 2013 Statistical Programs Affected by Sequestration: Census Bureau, BLS, USDA
Turning Optimism into Reality: How Big Data Is Transforming Government: “The proliferation of Big Data has forced agencies to consider its great potential to revolutionize federal operations. The White House’s Big Data Initiative has invested $200 million in new research and development projects to use Big Data, and the use of Big Data in various …
Census – “Using the two most recent waves (11 and 12) from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation panel, this table package presents income and earnings estimates at the individual, family and household level for the first quarter (January, February and March) of 2012. Quarterly estimates by selected demographic characteristics, such as gender, …
(Reuters) – “The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said [August 8, 2013] it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information.”
NASA at 50: Interviews with NASA’s Senior Leadership, SP–2012–4114, ed. by Steven J. Dick, et.al. Click here for a complete listing of our e-Books.
Cory Doctorow: “The European Parliament is currently involved in a wrangle over the new General Data Protection Regulation. At stake are the future rules for online privacy, data mining, big data, governmental spying (by proxy), to name a few. Hundreds of amendments and proposals are on the table, including some that speak of relaxing the …
Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans’ communications – “The National Security Agency has a secret backdoor into its vast databases under a legal authority enabling it to search for US citizens’email and phone calls without a warrant, according to a top-secret document passed to the Guardian by Edward Snowden. The previously …
Crawford, Susan P. and Walters, Dana, Citizen-Centered Governance: The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Evolution of CRM in Boston (August 7, 2013). Berkman Center Research Publication No. 17. Available at SSRN. “Over the last three years, the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, the innovative, collaborative ethos within City Hall fostered …
“The Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) is a joint project of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and National Library of Medicine (NLM). The DSLD contains the full label contents from a sample of dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S. Within the DSLD you may select one or more …
“This release provides a comprehensive look at the financial activity and membership information of the nation’s 227 state-administered defined benefit retirement systems. Statistics are shown at the national and state levels for revenues, expenditures, cash and investment holdings, membership and beneficiaries. This information includes actuarial liability statistics, which project the total obligation required to cover …
“The U.S. Census Bureau released an interactive, online map pinpointing the wide array of languages spoken in homes across the nation, along with a detailed report on rates of English proficiency and the growing number of speakers of other languages. The 2011 Language Mapper shows where people speaking specific languages other than English live, with dots representing how …
