“The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today published a report assessing the regulations that implement the Basel capital framework in Singapore. Through its Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP), the Committee monitors the timely adoption of regulations by its members, assesses their consistency with the Basel framework and analyses the quality of intended regulatory outcomes.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2013
BIS – Results of the Basel III monitoring exercise as of 30 June 2012
“This report presents the results of the Basel Committee’s Basel III monitoring exercise. The study is based on rigorous reporting processes set up by the Committee to periodically review the implications of the Basel III standards for financial markets. The results of previous exercises in this series were published in April 2012 and September 2012.… Continue Reading
Electronic Waste is on the rise – check out the National Center for Electronics Recycling
“The National Center for Electronics Recycling (NCER) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 2005 that is dedicated to the development and enhancement of a national infrastructure for the recycling of used electronics in the U.S. If you are searching for electronics recycling options in your area, please see the Recycling Basics section of our… Continue Reading
Explore Everest, Kilimanjaro and more with Google Maps
Google Official Blog: “Now you can explore some of the most famous mountains on Earth, including Aconcagua (South America), Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mount Elbrus (Europe) and Everest Base Camp (Asia) on Google Maps. These mountains belong to the group of peaks known as the Seven Summitsthe highest mountain on each of the seven continents. While theres… Continue Reading
Report – the reality of the public library ebook marketplace reflected in usage data from a selection of public libraries
Matt Weaver, Board member, Library Renewal, March 2013: “In order to serve our constituents with electronic content, libraries need to be able to understand how our collections are being used. This paper aims to present library-centered usage data to help libraries make decisions with regards to e-content, and to counter media and industry hype. Much… Continue Reading
Industry Labor Productivity Trends from 2000 to 2010
Spotlight on Statistics, by Michael R. Brill and Samuel T. Rowe: “Labor productivity rose for most industries during the first decade of the millennium. The expansion of information technology (IT) that fueled rapid productivity growth during the 1990s continued after 2000, and improvements in IT hardware and software, mobile telecommunications, data communications, and the growth… Continue Reading
EOP – Improving the Collection and Use of Information about Contractor Performance and Integrity
Office of Federal Procurement Policy, March 6, 2013 “Over the past several years, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) has worked with agency Chief Acquisition Officers (CAOs) and Senior Procurement Executives (SPEs) to improve the value of contractor performance assessments and increase the transparency of data about contractor integrity. Through these efforts, our past… Continue Reading
2013 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning?
“This is the twelfth edition of the Brown Center Report. The structure of the report remains the same from year to year. Part I examines the latest data from state, national, or international assessments. This year the focus is on the latest results from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and Trends in… Continue Reading
Opinion column by security technologist – The Internet is a surveillance state
Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of “Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive.” “The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, and whether we like it or not, we’re being tracked all the time. Google tracks us, both on its pages and on… Continue Reading
NOAA proposes plan to address environmental injuries from 2005 Gulf oil spill
“NOAA today released a draft damage assessment and restoration plan addressing environmental injuries from the 2005 Tank Barge DBL 152 oil spill in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The draft plan describes the steps NOAA has taken to see if natural resources, such as marine habitats, were injured by the nearly two million… Continue Reading
New GAO Report – Dietary Supplements
Dietary Supplements – FDA May Have Opportunities to Expand Its Use of Reported Health Problems to Oversee Products, GAO-13-244, Mar 18, 2013 “From 2008 through 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received 6,307 reports of health problems–adverse event reports (AER)–for dietary supplements; 71 percent came from industry as… Continue Reading
Pew – State of the News Media 2013
Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism: “In the news media, a continued erosion of reporting resources has converged with growing opportunities for newsmakers, such as political figures, government agencies, companies and others, to take their messages directly to the public. The public, for its part, is not very aware of the financial struggles… Continue Reading
