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News release via Andrea Titus: “Two big updates from Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy’s [CDDEP] Extending the Cure project… First, ResistanceMap has released its first ever interactive visualizations on antibiotic use. The new maps show trends in outpatient prescribing across the United States over time, and viewers can sort data by geography (at …
More Unequal and More Separate: Growth in the Residential Segregation of Families by Income, 1970-2009, Center for Education Policy Analysis, 11/16/2011 “As overall income inequality grew in the last four decades, high- and low-income families have become increasingly less likely to live near one another. Mixed income neighborhoods have grown rarer, while affluent and poor …
Landmine Monitor 2011 – International Campaign to Ban Landmines [See also the searchable database] “Peace agreements may be signed, and hostilities may cease, but landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) are an enduring legacy of conflict. Antipersonnel mines are munitions designed to explode from the presence, proximity, or contact of a person. Antivehicle mines …
2011 Peer-to-Peer Violence and Bullying: Examining the Federal Response, September 2011, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. “This report focuses on the governments efforts to enforce federal civil rights laws with respect to peer-to-peer violence based on race, national origin, sex, disability, religion, and sexual orientation or gender identity. The Commission examined the nature and incidence …
EIA: “In 2010, Australia was the world’s largest coal exporter and fourth-largest liquefied natural gas exporter. Australia is one of the few countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that is a significant net hydrocarbon exporter, sending abroad about two-thirds of its total energy production. Energy exports accounted for 34% of total …
News release [Note; scroll down to locate links to the documents obtained via FOIA]: “President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983, according to …
Speech by Andrew Bailey, Director of UK Banks & Building Societies, at the Future of Retail Banking Conference, London, November 24, 2011 “…I am going to speak this morning in the style of a game of two unequal halves. In the first half I am going to talk about the pressures on the industry, and …
News release: “The Government is too complacent about the UK’s nuclear research and development (R&D) capabilities, and associated expertise, which will be lost unless there is a fundamental change in the Governments approach. This is just one of the conclusions of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, which publishes its report [November 22, …
Commission Staff Working Paper – Anti-money laundering supervision of and reporting by payment institutions in various cross-border situations, October 7, 2011 “The purpose of this working document is to provide guidance to EU supervisors and private stakeholders as regards the interaction of the Payment Services Directive (2007/64/EC, hereafter “the PSD”) and the Anti-Money Laundering Directive …
Simon Rogers: “US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America – 369,629 people died on America’s roads between 2001 and 2009. Following its analysis of UK casualties last week, transport data mapping experts ITO World have taken the official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – and produced this powerful map using …
Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) – Compilation of Weekly Survey Data for 2011: Average Rates for a 30 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage – 3.98%, November 23, 2011
Probation and Parole in the United States, 2010 – Thomas P. Bonczar, Lauren E. Glaze, November 21, 2011. NCJ 236019 “Presents statistics about adult offenders under community supervision while on probation or parole during 2010. It examines changes in community supervision populations during 2010 and prior years. The report documents a slowing of growth in …
