“Significant strides in science have been made to better understand potential ground shaking from induced earthquakes, which are earthquakes triggered by man-made practices. Earthquake activity has sharply increased since 2009 in the central and eastern United States. The increase has been linked to industrial operations that dispose of wastewater by injecting it into deep wells.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Sacramento Tops Large Counties in Employment Growth Rate
“Among the 50 largest counties with the most employees, Sacramento, Calif., had the highest rate of employment growth among all sectors between 2012 and 2013 (up 5.5 percent to 428,475), according to new U.S. Census Bureau statistics released today. Sacramento was followed by two Texas counties: Travis (up 4.9 percent to 514,749) and Harris (up… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Airport Funding
Airport Funding: Changes in Aviation Activity Are Reflected in Reduced Capacity Concerns, GAO-15-498T: Published: Apr 23, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 23, 2015: “U.S. airports are key contributors to the national and regional economies, providing mobility for people and goods, both domestically and internationally. Since 2007 when GAO last reported on airport funding, airports of all… Continue Reading
A Report Card on Child Homelessness
America’s Youngest Outcasts – A Report Card on Child Homelessness, American Institute of Research, November 2014: “America’s Youngest Outcasts reports on child homelessness in the United States based on the most recent federal data that comprehensively counts homeless children, using more than 30 variables from over a dozen established data sets. A staggering 2.5 million… Continue Reading
A Look at the End-of-Life Financial Situation in America
A Look at the End-of-Life Financial Situation in America, April 2015, Vol. 36, No. 4 Employee Benefit Research Institute, 2015 “This report takes a comprehensive look at the financial situation of older Americans at the end of their lives. In particular, it documents the percentage of households with a member who recently died with few… Continue Reading
Partial Privatization of Listed Chinese Companies
Long, Frank Fu and He, Yan, Partial Privatization of Listed Chinese Companies: Revelations by Literature Survey and Analyses (April 20, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2596908 “We survey and analyze the existing literature about private vs. government ownership of listed Chinese companies in seven areas (corporate governance, M&As and other corporate transactions, IPOs and… Continue Reading
CFPB – More financial empowerment tools for communities
“Today, we’re expanding the Your Money, Your Goals toolkit. This toolkit is a comprehensive and interactive guide designed for organizations that serve low-income consumers. It covers topics like budgeting for daily expenses, managing debt, and avoiding common financial traps. We’re releasing three versions of the toolkit for: Organizations that engage volunteers Legal aid organizations Workers… Continue Reading
The Spy in the Sandbox – Practical Cache Attacks in Javascript
The Spy in the Sandbox — Practical Cache Attacks in Javascript. Yossef Oren, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, Simha Sethumadhavan, Angelos D. Keromytis (Submitted on 25 Feb 2015 (v1), last revised 1 Mar 2015 (this version, v2)) “We present the first micro-architectural side-channel attack which runs entirely in the browser. In contrast to other works in this… Continue Reading
New studies on political fact-checking: Growing, influential
“The amount of fact-checking journalism produced in the United States is increasing dramatically, and while there are limits to its persuasiveness, it is a measurably effective tool for correcting political misinformation among voters, according to new scholarly research conducted for the American Press Institute and released today. The number of fact-check stories in the U.S.… Continue Reading
eweek – Google’s Jsonnet Language Generates JSON
Darryl K. Taft – eweek: “Google recently introduced a new open-source configuration language for generating JSON known as Jsonnet. Google quietly released Jsonnet a few months ago as a programming language for specifying data. The Jsonnet Website calls Jsonnet a data templating language. Jsonnet doesn’t just generate JSON: It is also an extension of JSON,… Continue Reading
NOAA – Fifty-four early restoration projects underway in Gulf
“We have 54 early restoration projects underway throughout the Gulf, and now you can track our progress quickly and easily using our new interactive map. Go straight to your state using the tabs at the top or use your cursor to navigate around. Each location has a link to more project information that will provide… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board releases info on Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee
“The Federal Reserve Board on [April 17, 2015] released additional information on the operating structure of the Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee (LISCC) supervisory program. The attached memorandum supplements previously released information regarding the LISCC and provides additional details on the program’s organizational structure, including the functions of its subcommittees. The LISCC program was established… Continue Reading
