Global Publics Back U.S. on Fighting ISIS, but Are Critical of Post-9/11 Torture – June 23, 2015: “The rise of ISIS has generated strong concerns in nations around the world, and a new Pew Research Center survey finds broad global support for American military efforts against the terrorist group. And unlike the Iraq War a… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Only 29 Convictions in Federal Hate Crime Cases Since FY 2010
“During the first eight months of fiscal year 2015, the federal government reported the convictions of eight individuals who had been charged with federal hate crimes under Title 8 Section 249 of the U.S. Code, according to the latest available data from the Justice Department. If this activity continues at the same pace, the annual… Continue Reading
Drexel Law Librarian John Cannan Cited by U.S. Supreme Court in King v. Burwell
Via Peter J. Egler Research & Instructional Services Librarian, Thomas R. Kline School of Law Drexel University: “I am proud to report that our colleague John Cannan has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its decision in King v. Burwell, issued today. The court cites John’s article from the Law Library Journal: “A… Continue Reading
Post 9/11 attacks predominantly by American extremists
Follow up to previous posting – Updated Guide to Mass Shootings in America – via the New York Times, Homegrown Extremists Tied to Deadlier Toll Than Jihadists in U.S. Since 9/11: “In the 14 years since Al Qaeda carried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in… Continue Reading
UK: Information Security Breaches Survey 2015
PWC: “We have been commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to survey companies across the UK on cyber security incidents and emerging trends…The key observations from the 2015 survey were: The number of security breaches has increased, the scale and cost has nearly doubled. Eleven percent of respondents changed the nature… Continue Reading
Accounting-Based Downside Risk Cost of Capital and Macroeconomy
Konchitchki, Yaniv and Luo, Yan and Ma, Mary L. Z. and Wu, Feng, Accounting-Based Downside Risk, Cost of Capital, and the Macroeconomy (June 23, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2622180 “We develop an earnings downside risk measure that captures the expectation for future downward operating performance. We hypothesize that this measure contains distinct information about… Continue Reading
Facebook research reveals facial recognition accuracy
NextGov: “Facebook has gotten so good at recognizing people from images that it doesn’t even need to see their faces anymore. At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Boston earlier this month, the social network presented research that shows it can identify individuals with 83% accuracy, according to The New Scientist. Continue Reading
Environmental Monitoring and Ecosystem Management in Oil Sands
Olszynski, Martin, Environmental Monitoring and Ecosystem Management in the Oil Sands: Spaceship Earth or Escort Tugboat? (June 22, 2015). McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Policy, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2014. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2621795 “Spurred on by mounting international concern about the environmental impacts of the oil sands and determined to… Continue Reading
Intelligence Cmte’s investigation of interrogation techniques
The New Yorker – To expose torture, Dianne Feinstein fought the C.I.A. -and the White House, June 22, 2015. “Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic senator from California, is making a late career of not quite pleasing anyone. After five decades in politics, Feinstein, at eighty-one, is the oldest sitting member of the Senate, where a late… Continue Reading
EIA Syria Country Analysis Brief
“Syria’s energy sector is in turmoil because of the ongoing civil conflict that began in the spring of 2011, with oil and natural gas production declining dramatically since then. Syria’s energy sector has encountered a number of challenges as a result of conflict and subsequent sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union. Damage… Continue Reading
Government Credentials on the Open Web
Follow up to Massive hack of federal personnel files included security-clearance database – related news – “Recorded Future identified the possible exposures of login credentials for 47 United States government agencies across 89 unique domains. As of early 2015, 12 of these agencies allowed some of their users access to computer networks with no form of two-factor… Continue Reading
Net Stable Funding Ratio disclosure standards
Bank for International Settlements, June 22, 2015: “Disclosure requirements for the Net Stable Funding Ratio (“NSFR”) have been developed to improve the transparency of regulatory funding requirements, reinforce the Principles for sound liquidity risk management and supervision, strengthen market discipline, and reduce uncertainty in the markets as the NSFR standard is implemented. Similar to the LCR disclosure framework, and to promote the… Continue Reading
