Los Angeles Times: “A new database, Clean Streets LA, measuring garbage on more than 9,100 miles of Los Angeles streets and alleys shows poorer areas of the city see more illegal dumping and litter than affluent ones. City officials on Friday released details on the far-reaching study, which is designed to help guide the city… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Pew – Planning for responsible shipping in Canada’s Arctic waters
Via Pew Charitable Trusts: “The world is looking to Canada’s Arctic Ocean for the promise of faster and cheaper intercontinental shipping and unexploited natural resources. The Arctic ice is melting because of climate change, which is creating a longer shipping season and has already resulted in vessel traffic increases of 166 percent through the Canadian… Continue Reading
World military spending resumes upward course, says SIPRI
(Stockholm, 5 April 2016) “World military expenditure totalled almost $1.7 trillion in 2015, an increase of 1 per cent in real terms from 2014, according to new figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The data is being released to coincide with the start of the Stockholm Forum on Security and Development. The… Continue Reading
A 25-Year Survey of Prosecutorial Misconduct and a Viable Solution
Caldwell, Harry M., Everybody Talks About Prosecutorial Conduct But Nobody Does Anything About It: A 25-Year Survey of Prosecutorial Misconduct and a Viable Solution (2016). U. Ill. L. Rev. (2016 Forthcoming); Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2761252 “Prosecutors, whom we trust to carry out the demanding and… Continue Reading
Through a Glass, Clearly: Reflections on Team Lawyering, Clinically Taught
Brescia, Raymond H., Through a Glass, Clearly: Reflections on Team Lawyering, Clinically Taught (April 8, 2016). New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 61, 2016 (Edited Version Forthcoming). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2761245 “The litigation surrounding the maintenance of a refugee camp for HIV Haitian refugees in the early 1990s has been written about… Continue Reading
Profits from cloud computing ring up billions in micro charges
Billing by Millionths of Pennies, Cloud Computing’s Giants Take In Billions by Quentin Hardy – “This economics of tiny things demonstrates the global power of the few companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and Google, that can make fortunes from the small..Amazon Web Services…Andrew R. Jassy, the senior vice president of Amazon Web Services. The per-millionth pricing… Continue Reading
Facebook posts now include more about news that personal issues
Bloomberg: “Facebook Inc. is working to combat a decline in people sharing original, personal content, the fuel that helps power the money machine at the heart of its social network, according to people familiar with the matter. Overall sharing has remained “strong,” according to Facebook. However, people have been less willing to post updates about… Continue Reading
Veterans and Agent Orange: 2014
“From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of US base camps and outlying fire-support bases. Mixtures of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic… Continue Reading
Analytic Research Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid
“Electricity is the lifeblood of modern society, and for the vast majority of people that electricity is obtained from large, interconnected power grids. However, the grid that was developed in the 20th century, and the incremental improvements made since then, including its underlying analytic foundations, is no longer adequate to completely meet the needs of… Continue Reading
Resignation Letter Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie
Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie sent an unusual letter of resignation to the management group that owns the team. The 13 page letter, dated April 6, 2016 – has been picked up, referenced and re-posted on a number of sites – originating with ESPN. Hinkie begins the letter saying “…I hope to accomplish here… Continue Reading
IMF – The Big Squeeze Global Population Pressures
Demographic Upheaval Finance & Development, March 2016, Vol. 53, No. 1. David E. Bloom. “The world will struggle with population growth, aging, migration, and urbanization.” Humankind is being buffeted by the forces of demographic change. The most prominent changes are rapid population growth in some developing economies and shifting shares of adolescents and young adults… Continue Reading
World Bank Group Unveils New Climate Action Plan
“The World Bank Group today announced plans to help developing countries add 30 gigawatts of renewable energy – enough to power 150 million homes – to the world’s energy capacity, bring early warning systems to 100 million people and develop climate-smart agriculture investment plans for at least 40 countries – all by 2020. These are… Continue Reading
