The New, Convoluted Life Cycle Of A Newspaper Story, by Lauren Rabaino “News must be really hard to follow for an everyday consumer of a newspaper website. First tweets go out, sometimes with no links to additional coverage. Then a few grafs go up on a blog, followed by additional updates, either to the top… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Obama Administration Proposes Historic Fuel Economy Standards to Reduce Dependence on Oil, Save Consumers Money at the Pump
News release: “Building on President Obama’s historic national program, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. Cars, SUVs, minivans, and pickup trucks are currently… Continue Reading
Dept. of Energy IG – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Unclassified Cyber Security Program – 2011
Evaluation Report – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Unclassified Cyber Security Program – 2011. OAS-M-12-01 November 2011. “The Commission had taken actions to improve its cyber security posture and mitigate risks associated with certain issues identified during our FY 2010 evaluation. While these measures are noteworthy, our current evaluation disclosed that additional action is needed… Continue Reading
Discussion Paper – Strategic Release of News at the EPA
Strategic Release of News at the EPA – Lucija Muehlenbachs, Elisabeth Newcomb Sinha, and Nitish Ranjan Sinha, October 26, 2011 “Using advances in text analysis, we examine the content and timing of 21,493 press releases issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) between 1994 and 2009. Press releases announcing enforcement actions or regulatory changes… Continue Reading
Law School Transparency – "Advocating for the means to make informed decisions"
“What is LST? – Law School Transparency is a Tennessee non-profit dedicated to encouraging and facilitating the transparent flow of consumer information. It was founded by two Vanderbilt University Law School students in 2009 on the belief that other law schools could be as transparent as Vanderbilt. LST operates independently of any legal institutions, legal… Continue Reading
The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics
The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics – Eoghan Caseya, Geoff Fellowsb, Matthew Geigerc, Gerasimos Stellatosd “The increasing use of full disk encryption (FDE) can significantly hamper digital investigations, potentially preventing access to all digital evidence in a case. The practice of shutting down an evidential computer is not an acceptable technique… Continue Reading
Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
First Joint Session of Working Groups I and II IPCC SREX Summary for Policymakers, November 18, 2011 “This Summary for Policymakers presents key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The SREX approaches the topic by assessing the scientific literature on issues… Continue Reading
WSJ: The Surveillance Catalog – Where governments get their tools
“Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The techniques described in the trove of 200-plus marketing documents include hacking tools that enable governments to break into peoples… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Releases Comprehensive Analysis of Fast-Growing 90-and-Older Population
“The nation’s 90-and-older population nearly tripled over the past three decades, reaching 1.9 million in 2010, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau and supported by the National Institute on Aging. Over the next four decades, this population is projected to more than quadruple. Because of increases in life expectancy at… Continue Reading
An Analysis of the Navy's Amphibious Warfare Ships for Deploying Marines Overseas
An Analysis of the Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Ships for Deploying Marines Overseas – November 18, 2011 “A force of 33 ships represents a fiscally constrained compromise from the Marine Corps objective of having 38 amphibious ships. That 38-ship goal represents the number of ships the Navy and Marine Corps would like to have in the… Continue Reading
Determination of Depository Institution and Credit Union Asset Size For Purposes of Sections 1025 and 1026 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
News release: “The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve Board (FRB), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) (the Prudential Regulators), and the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) (collectively, the Agencies), are issuing this Supervisory Statement to provide clarity and transparency on how and when the… Continue Reading
The Foreign-Born with Science and Engineering Degrees: 2010
“This brief, based on 2010 American Community Survey estimates, examines patterns of science and engineering educational attainment among the foreign-born population, with attainment of specific science and engineering degree types by place of birth and sex, as well as metropolitan statistical area. It also compares attainment of such degrees by the foreign-born and native-born populations.… Continue Reading
