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Monthly Archives: August 2016
New Google Chrome 55 will boost use of HTML5 over Adobe Flash
Flash and Chrome – August 9, 2016. “Adobe Flash Player played a pivotal role in the adoption of video, gaming and animation on the Web. Today, sites typically use technologies like HTML5, giving you improved security, reduced power consumption and faster page load times. Going forward, Chrome will de-emphasize Flash in favor of HTML5. Here’s… Continue Reading
Household Debt Balances Increase Boosted by Growth in Auto Loan Credit Card Balances
Federal Reserve Bank of New York – “Aggregate household debt balances grew slowly in the second quarter of 2016. As of June 30, 2016, total household indebtedness was $12.29 trillion, a $35 billion (0.3%) increase from the first quarter of 2016. Overall household debt remains 3.1% below its 2008Q3 peak of $12.68 trillion, but is… Continue Reading
FHFA Announces Results of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Dodd-Frank Act Stress Tests
“The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released a report providing the results of annual stress tests Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) are required to conduct under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). The Dodd-Frank Act requires certain financial institutions with more than $10 billion in assets to… Continue Reading
GAO Report – DOE Project Management
DOE Project Management: NNSA Needs to Clarify Requirements for Its Plutonium Analysis Project at Los Alamos, GAO-16-585: Published: Aug 9, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 9, 2016. “The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) defined requirements for the revised Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) project to provide plutonium analysis equipment at its… Continue Reading
Article – International shipping touches 90% of everything we buy
Via Fast co.exist: “The climate deal made in Paris last November didn’t include cargo ships—despite the fact that shipping emits roughly as much climate pollution as the entire country of Germany (and more pollution than the 160 least-polluting countries to sign the agreement, combined). A visualization from researchers at University College London and the digital… Continue Reading
Violent Death Rates: The US Compared with Other High-income OECD Countries, 2010
Via Fast co.exist: “You’re 25 Times More Likely To Be Shot To Death In America Than Any Other Developed Nation…In a study based on World Health Organisation (WHO) data from 2010, by Erin Grinshteyn and David Hemenway, researchers from the University of Nevada-Reno have detailed the absurd risks of guns in the U.S. The study… Continue Reading
The Atlantic – Is America Any Safer Post 9/11?
Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion to defend against al-Qaeda and ISIL, dirty bombs and lone wolves, bioterror and cyberterror. Has it worked? -“… over the past 15 years, the American government has spent $100 billion to $150 billion on failed or unworthy homeland-security programs and on acquiring and maintaining equipment that… Continue Reading
FTA Releases WMATA Track Integrity Investigation Report – Safety Directive to Correct Systemic Track Safety Problems
“The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today issued a Safety Directive to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) requiring the transit agency to complete 12 actions to correct track integrity deficiencies in the Metrorail system. The Safety Directive is based on 12 significant findings set out in a Track Integrity Investigation… Continue Reading
Born digital news collections: New formats, new approaches
Born Digital News Collections: New Formats, New Approaches Elisa Villanueva, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands); Jasper Faase, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), IFLA 2016. “Nowadays most newspapers (or almost all of them) have a digital version or are definitely turning to digital. Furthermore, there are many news websites which provide news… Continue Reading
Care Count School Laundry Program Exposes Link Between Clean Clothes and Attendance
Healthy meals every day, and clean clothes – yes nutrition and clean clothes impact school attendance. Every child in America deserves safe public schools, good food, and clean clothes (and great teachers, libraries and librarians, music and art classes…) When did we stop considering this to be a right, not a Privilege? Via Care Counts… Continue Reading
Legal Theory among the Ruins
Moyn, Samuel, Legal Theory among the Ruins (August 1, 2016). In Search of Contemporary Legal Thought, ed. Justin Desautels-Stein and Christopher Tomlins (CUP, Forthcoming). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2817067 “This paper responds to an ongoing discussion initiated by Duncan Kennedy concerning the identity of “contemporary legal thought.” This contribution argues that that category is… Continue Reading
