Day archives: December 26th, 2010

Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours Documented with Charts, Photos, and Testimony

Follow up to previous postings on the Deepwater oil spill via the NYT: Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours: “Interviews, sworn testimony and statements from crew members show that the oil rig should have weathered the well blowout, but it didn’t because every one of its defenses failed.” Video and graphic and Photo slideshow – Firestorm Aboard …

Subjects: Government Documents

NPR Interactive Map: The Economy Where You Live

“The fallout from the recession has cut deeply into the housing security, employment and income of many Americans. But some parts of the country are clearly faring better than others. Here, three interactive maps – Foreclosure Rates | Unemployment Rates | Median Household Income | show foreclosure and jobless rates as well as household income …

Subjects: Government Documents

Center Presents New Approach to Improve the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Programs

News release: “Georgetown Public Policy Institute’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform released a paper titled Improving the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Programs: A New Perspective on Evidence-Based Practice…The paper is co-authored by Mark W. Lipsey, James C. Howell, Marion R. Kelly, Gabrielle Chapman, and Darin Carver. The paper presents a new approach to evidence-based practice …

Subjects: Legal Research

Links to Free Kindle Books

Free Kindle Books: A Guide, by Lauren Indvik “Project Gutenberg: 33,000 free e-books, including all of the classics, available in Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. Google E-Bookstore: The free section is filled with thousands of free, scanned copies of books, available in Kindle-friendly PDF formats. Internet Archive: Millions of primarily rare, out-of-print works in …

Subjects: Internet

Obama Administration Releases December Housing Scorecard

News release: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury [December 22, 2010] released the December edition of the Obama Administration’s Housing Scorecard. The latest housing figures show continued home affordability in the housing market, with interest rates near record lows, but the market remains fragile, as …

Subjects: Government Documents

Senior Supervisors Group Issues Report on Risk Appetite Frameworks and IT Infrastructure

Federal Reserve Bank of New York: “Senior financial supervisors from ten countries — collectively, the Senior Supervisors Group (SSG) — issued a report on December 23, 2010 that evaluates how financial institutions have progressed in developing formal risk appetite frameworks and in building out highly developed IT infrastructures and firm wide data aggregation capabilities. The …

Subjects: E-Records, EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Human Service Nonprofits and Government Collaboration Findings from the 2010 National Survey of Nonprofit Government Contracting and Grants

Urban Institute – Human Service Nonprofits and Government Collaboration – Findings from the 2010 National Survey of Nonprofit Government Contracting and Grants, Elizabeth T. Boris, Erwin de Leon, Katie L. Roeger, Milena Nikolova, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, October 2010: “The recession crippled the budgets of many nonprofits just as demand for their services rose. …

Subjects: Government Documents