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Daily Archives: November 6, 2012
Pew – Social Media and Voting
Social Media and Voting by Lee Rainie, November 6, 2012 On Election Day 2012, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds social media to be a significant part of the process by which voters are talking about their ballot selections, especially younger voters: 22% of registered voters have let others know how they voted… Continue Reading
TRAC: Consumer Credit Civil Lawsuits Starting to Fall
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “The latest available data from the federal courts show that during September 2012 the government reported 723 new consumer credit civil filings, according to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). This number is down 8.8 percent over the previous month, when the number of civil filings… Continue Reading
Basel III: Necessary, but not sufficient (speech by Wayne Byres)
Remarks by Wayne Byres, Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, prepared for the Financial Stability Institute’s 6th Biennial Conference on Risk Management and Supervision, Basel, 6 November 2012: “My main message to you this afternoon is that implementing Basel III is essential, but it must be accompanied by other measures and reforms… Continue Reading
Google's redesigned search results page
Spiffing up your search results page search – “Youll notice a new simpler, cleaner design on the search results page weve been working on ways to create a consistent search experience across the wide variety of devices and screen sizes people use today. We started with tablets last year, got it to mobile phones… Continue Reading
NLM Resources on Hurricane Sandy: Health-Related Resources
Hurricane Sandy: Health-Related Resources Overview U.S. Federal Agency Web Pages on Hurricane Sandy State Agency Web Pages with Hurricane Sandy Information Cleanup and Recovery Specific Populations Mental Health & Disasters Health Resources for the Public Multi-language Resources Social Media Maps Apps and Widgets Animal Handling in Disasters Continue Reading
Report – Weather Services for the Nation: Becoming Second to None
“During the 1980s and 1990s, the National Weather Service (NWS) undertook a major program called the Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR). The MAR was officially completed in 2000. Now twelve years after the official completion of the (MAR), the challenges faced by the NWS are no less important than those of the pre-MAR era. The… Continue Reading
BJS – Arrest in the United States, 1990-2010
Arrest in the United States, 1990-2010, Howard N. Snyder, Ph.D – October 31, 2012. NCJ 239423 “Presents annual estimates of arrests in the United States covering the period between 1990 and 2010. Based on data collected by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, this report expands the FBI’s set of published arrest estimates to include… Continue Reading
CRS – Maritime Territorial and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Disputes Involving China
Maritime Territorial and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Disputes Involving China: Issues for Congress, Ronald O’Rourke, Specialist in Naval Affairs, October 22, 2012 “This report presents policy and oversight issues for Congress arising from (1) maritime territorial disputes involving China in the South China Sea (SCS) and East China Sea (ECS) and (2) an additional dispute… Continue Reading
CRS – Federal Involvement in Flood Response and Flood Infrastructure Repair
Federal Involvement in Flood Response and Flood Infrastructure Repair: Storm Sandy Recovery, Nicole T. Carter, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy, October 31, 2012 “Storm Sandy was a reminder that the United States is vulnerable to significant weather hazards, and that infrequent but intense flood events can cause significant damage and disruption. In addition to wind… Continue Reading
Tracking Weird Weather By City and Impacts on Americans Attitudes
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media: “The years string of weird weather what weather professionals generally refer to as anomalies appears to have had some significant impact on Americans attitudes toward global warming as a factor in determining every-day weather, according to new survey results. A question that arises now… Continue Reading
Identifying Peer Firms: Evidence from Edgar Search Traffic
Lee, Charles M.C., Ma, Paul and Wang, Charles C. Y., Identifying Peer Firms: Evidence from Edgar Search Traffic (November 5, 2012). Available at SSRN “Using internet traffic patterns at the SEC EDGAR website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact, traffic-based… Continue Reading
