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BeSpacific joins ABA Top 100 Blawgs 2016

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“BeSpacific NEW, Top 100 Blawgs: “No one better has her finger on the pulse of the legal information world than Sabrina Pacifici, law librarian and author of the blog BeSpacific,” writes blogger Robert Ambrogi. “Launched in 2002, BeSpacific is one of the longest-running legal blogs and, remarkably, Sabrina seems more prolific today than ever. She posts multiple items every day, covering the gamut of law, technology and knowledge discovery and topics ranging from cybersecurity to legal research to government regulation to civil liberties to IP and more. For me, BeSpacific is one of my daily must-reads and has been for 14 years straight.”

Many thanks to the American Bar Association, to master legal tech blogger Bob Ambrogi, and to the readers of BeSpacific. I look forward to sharing another 14 years of research through my site. And I hope to hear from you as well – please send me your news, idea, links and information that will help us have a positive impact on issues the encompass law and technology during these most turbulent and challenging of times.

New American Community Survey Data Now Available in Social Explorer Reports

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“The newly released data from the 2011-15 American Community Survey are now available on Social Explorer. Subscribers can access the new data through our reports. The companion interactive maps will be our site in the next few days. Stay tuned for updates. The American Community Survey (ACS) is an extensive annual survey administered by the Census Bureau… Continue Reading

NYU Furman Center Launches CoreData.nyc, Hub for NYC Housing and Neighborhood Data

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“Today, the NYU Furman Center announced the launch of a new online hub for New York City housing and neighborhood data. CoreData.nyc standardizes datasets from a variety of city, state, and federal sources to present over 100 indicators describing New York City’s housing and neighborhoods. It is the city’s most comprehensive resource for property-level subsidized… Continue Reading

From Responsibility to Cost-Effectiveness to Litigation: The Evolution of Climate Change Regulation and the Emergence of Climate Justice Litigation

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Nwapi, Chilenye, From Responsibility to Cost-Effectiveness to Litigation: The Evolution of Climate Change Regulation and the Emergence of Climate Justice Litigation (December 2016). In Randall Abate, ed, Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges (Washington, DC: Environmental Law Institute, 2016) at 517-542. Available for download at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2876777 “A review of climate… Continue Reading

2016 OECD Pensions Outlook

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“Pension systems are changing in response to the challenges they face. Funded Pension arrangements, in particular defined contribution ones, are playing a growing role in complementing retirement income from public sources in OECD countries and worldwide. However, their design needs to be improved, according to a new OECD report. The 2016 OECD Pensions Outlook analyses… Continue Reading

CRS Insight – Trump call to Taiwan

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CRS INSIGHT The Trump-Tsai Call and the United States’ “Unofficial” Relationship with Taiwan, December 8, 2016 (IN10620). Susan V. Lawrence, Specialist in Asian Affairs. “President-elect Donald J. Trump’s telephone call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on December 2, 2016, and subsequent Tweets, broke precedent. No previous U.S. president or president-elect is known to have spoken… Continue Reading

CRS – Improper Payments Legislation

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Improper Payments Legislation: Key Provisions, Implementation, and Selected Proposals in the 114th Congress, Garrett Hatch, Specialist in American National Government, December 7, 2016. “As Congress searches for ways to generate savings, reduce the deficit, and fund federal programs, it has held hearings and passed legislation to prevent and recover improper payments. Improper payments—which exceeded $137… Continue Reading

GAO Report on Restructuring Air Traffic Control

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Air Traffic Control: Experts’ and Stakeholders’ Views on Key Issues to Consider in a Potential Restructuring [Reissued on December 9, 2016], GAO-17-131: Published: Oct 13, 2016. Publicly Released: Nov 15, 2016. “Experts, aviation stakeholders, and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials GAO spoke to said that if Congress decides to remove air traffic control (ATC) from… Continue Reading

Bipartisan Electoral College Members Request Intelligence Briefing On Russia

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Follow up to previous posting – Unreleased CIA assessment concludes Russia aided Trump – see this follow on – Open Letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper via Christine Pelosi (CA) “We are Electors who were selected by the voters of our states to represent them in the Electoral College on December 19, 2016.… Continue Reading

Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images

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Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images, Xiaolin Wu, Xi Zhang (Submitted on 13 Nov 2016 (v1), last revised 21 Nov 2016 (this version, v2)) arXiv:1611.04135 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:1611.04135v2 [cs.CV] for this version) “We study, for the first time, automated inference on criminality based solely on still face images. Via supervised machine learning, we build… Continue Reading