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Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme  (RCAP)  Assessment of Basel III regulations – China. September 2013 “The CBRC [China Banking Regulatory Commission] issued the core elements of the Basel III capital standards in June 2012. Supplementary documents were published in October and November 2012, including additional requirements on capital  instrument innovation, transitional arrangements, and capital adequacy ratio reporting. Based […]The post Regulatory Consistency Assessment of Basel III regulations – China appeared first on beSpacific.

BUDGET ISSUES - Key Questions to Consider When Evaluating Balances in Federal Accounts, GAO-13-798, Sep 30, 2013 DEFENSE HEALTH CARE - Evaluation of TRICARE Pharmacy Services Contract Structure Is Warranted, GAO-13-808, Sep 30, 2013 FEDERAL USER FEES - Fee Design Options and Implications for Managing Revenue Instability, GAO-13-820, Sep 30, 2013 MEDICAID MANAGED CARE, Use of Limited Benefit Plans to Provide Mental […]The post New GAO Reports – Budget Issues, Defense Health Care, Federal User Fees, Medicaid Managed Care, Nuclear Terrorism Response Plans appeared first on beSpacific.

Information Sharing and Collaboration in the United States Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study of the National Counterterrorism Center by Bridget Rose Nolan, PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2013. [via FAS/Secrecy News] “The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) was established to serve as the primary organization in the U.S. Government for the integration, sharing, and analysis of […]The post Information Sharing and Collaboration in the United States Intelligence Community appeared first on beSpacific.

EIA: “Diesel fuel consumption by Class I railroads represented 12% of all diesel fuel demand in the transportation sector in the United States in 2012. Diesel fuel consumption in 2012 was higher than the low of 3.2 billion gallons used during the 2009 economic recession, but still 14% below the 2006 peak of 4.2 billion […]The post Lower railroad energy consumption reflects improved efficiency, reduced tonnage appeared first on beSpacific.

Little Data Book on Financial Development 2014 “The little data book is a pocket edition of the global financial development database published as part of the work on the Global Financial Development Report 2014: financial inclusion. The book has put more emphasis on access indicators and, in particular, includes additional variables capturing different aspects of […]The post Little Data Book on Financial Development 2014 appeared first on beSpacific.

“The property price statistics bring together data from different countries. The BIS, with the assistance of its member central banks, 1 has obtained approval of various national data providers to disseminate the statistics as long as the national sources are clearly indicated. The sources and any relevant disclaimers are listed separately (sources of data). Copyright in these data must […]The post Bank for International Settlements – Property price statistics appeared first on beSpacific.

“CBO Director Doug Elmendorf spoke on September 30, 2013 at a conference on “Federal Tax Policy and Entrepreneurship” sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation and hosted by the Tax Policy Center at the Brookings Institution. [His] presentation explored a wide array of possible changes in federal policy that might bolster innovation, including increased spending on research and development, increased support for […]The post Federal Innovation Policy: The Current Context and Some Possible Changes appeared first on beSpacific.

“Between 1980 and 2012, significant structural economic shifts produced a new postsecondary phase in the labor market entry of young adults, delaying their career launch. Older adults are working longer; however, they are not crowding young adults out of the labor market. In fact, today there are more job openings per young person resulting from […]The post Failure to Launch: Structural Shift and the New Lost Generation appeared first on beSpacific.

“This is an annual publication that provides data on payments and payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries. This version of the statistical update contains data for 2012 and earlier years. There are detailed tables for each individual country as well as a number of comparative tables. Please note that this publication contains some provisional […]The post Statistics on payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries appeared first on beSpacific.

BLS news release: “ Multifactor productivity — defined as output per unit of combined inputs — increased in 55 of the 86  four-digit NAICS manufacturing industries in 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.  This was down from 2010, when multifactor productivity increased in 63 of those  industries. However, more industries recorded increases in […]The post Multifactor productivity rose in 55 of 86 detailed manufacturing industries in 2011 appeared first on beSpacific.

“Welcome to the U.S. Department of State Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) website. Like all federal agencies, the Department creates and receives records when carrying out its mission. This website provides a wealth of information about the Department’s FOIA program and how to obtain access to the Department’s records, as well as a search tool […]The post New Department of State Freedom of Information Act Website appeared first on beSpacific.

Via LLRX.com – The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp): An “unconference” experience LLRX readers might enjoy “Archivist and Librarian Celia Caust-Ellenbogen writes: “if you read LLRX, it is probably because you are interested in various facets of a massive constellation of issues surrounding technology, legal research, jurisprudence, library and information science, and related subjects. You […]The post New on LLRX – The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp): An “unconference” experience appeared first on beSpacific.

How Economic Insecurity in Children Changed Over the Course of the Great Recession: Fact Sheet by Lisa Dubay and Elena Zarabozo “Given the high stakes for children living in economically insecure families, it is important to document how many children are living in such circumstances, how economic insecurity has changed over the course of the […]The post How Economic Insecurity in Children Changed Over the Course of the Great Recession appeared first on beSpacific.

DOJ OIG -  Interim Report on the Department of Justice’s Use and Support of Unmanned Aircraft Systems – Report 13-37, September 2013. “While both the FBI and ATF have developed procedures guiding how to receive approval to operate UAS, officials with both components told us they did not believe that there was a need to […]The post Interim Report on DOJ Use and Support of Unmanned Aircraft Systems appeared first on beSpacific.

What does the data show? “Microsoft (including Skype) received 37,196 requests from law enforcement agencies potentially impacting 66,539 accounts in the first six months of this year. This compares to 75,378 requests and 137,424 potential accounts in the whole of 2012. Approximately 77 percent of requests resulted in the disclosure of “non-content data”. No data […]The post Microsoft’s Law Enforcement Requests Report for first six months of 2013 appeared first on beSpacific.

Altering Attention in Adjudication – Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Cornell Law School; Andrew J. Wistrich, California Central District Court; Chris Guthrie, Vanderbilt University – Law School. September 27, 2013. UCLA Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 1586, 2013. “Judges decide complex cases in rapid succession but are limited by cognitive constraints. Consequently judges cannot allocate equal attention […]The post Altering Attention in Adjudication appeared first on beSpacific.

Explaining Trends in SNAP Enrollment – Peter Ganong, Harvard University; Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University, and NBER. “Approximately 1-in-7 people and 1-in-4 children received benefits from the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in July 2011, both all-time highs. We analyze changes in SNAP take-up over the past two decades. From 1994 to 2001, coincident […]The post Explaining Trends in SNAP Enrollment appeared first on beSpacific.

The Atlantic – The Odd Story of the Law That Dictates How Government Shutdowns Work, by Andrew Cohen “If rogue Republicans do not relent over the budget impasse by October 1, whatever pandemonium happens next will largely be governed by a federal statute you likely have never heard of: the Antideficiency Act. You can call […]The post What will happen if Congress fails to enact a Continuing Resolution by October 1, 2013 appeared first on beSpacific.

New York Times – By Claire Cain Miller “Amit Singhal, senior vice president of search at Google, introduced the Hummingbird search algorithm at the garage in Menlo Park, Calif., where the company was founded 15 years ago. Google on Thursday announced one of the biggest changes to its search engine, a rewriting of its algorithm to handle […]The post Google Alters Search to Handle More Complex Queries appeared first on beSpacific.

A New Interface: a Modern Bing.com: “With this release we’ve created a modern Bing.com experience – one that is faster, cleaner and more visually appealing. We believe that search can be beautiful as well as functional and efficient. With that as our goal, we evaluated fonts, spacing, color, visual scan patterns, the search box and […]The post Bing.com redesigned appeared first on beSpacific.