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BY LEE RAINIE AND JANNA ANDERSON – December 18, 2014. The terms of citizenship and social life are rapidly changing in the digital age. No issue highlights this any better than privacy, always a fluid and context-situated concept and more so now as the boundary between being private and being public is shifting. “We have seen …
“The first global maps of atmospheric carbon dioxide from NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission show elevated carbon dioxide concentrations across the Southern Hemisphere from springtime biomass burning and hint at potential surprises to come. At a media briefing at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; …
Goldstein, Herman and Scott, Michael S., Shifting and Sharing Responsibility for Public Safety Problems (December 22, 2014). Problem-Oriented Guides for Police, Response Guide Series No. 3, Center for Problem-Oriented Policing , U. S. Department of Justice (2011); Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1340. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2541922 “The public calls …
“Internet Monitor is delighted to announce the publication of Internet Monitor 2014: Reflections on the Digital World, the project’s second annual report. The report is a collection of roughly three dozen short contributions that highlight and discuss some of the most compelling events and trends in the digitally networked environment over the past year. The publication, …
December 2014 – The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have published the Assessment methodology for the oversight expectations applicable to critical service providers. The Principles for financial market infrastructures, published by the then Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and IOSCO in April 2012, include …
“This paper reviews the role of long-term interest rates in international monetary transmission and related policy challenges in the wake of exceptionally easy US monetary policy. It employs a panel VAR model to examine the impact of a very low US term premium on relatively small open Asian economies. The results show that unconventional US …
“The wealth gap between America’s high income group and everyone else has reached record high levels since the economic recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-09, with a clear trajectory of increasing wealth for the upper-income families and no wealth growth for the middle- and lower-income families. A new Pew Research Center analysis of wealth finds …
REPORT ON ACTIVITIES FISCAL YEAR 2014 – Office of the Investor Advocate. “THE OFFICE OF THE INVESTOR ADVOCATE was established pursuant to Section 915 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), as codified under Section 4(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), 15 U.S.C. § 78d(g). Exchange Act Section …
“By adding an average of 803 new residents each day between July 1, 2013 and July 1, 2014, Florida passed New York to become the nation’s third most populous state, according to U.S. Census Bureau state population estimates released today. Florida’s population grew by 293,000 over this period, reaching 19.9 million. The population of New …
Federal Food Service Operations: Implementation of the HHS/GSA Health and Sustainability Guidelines, GAO-15-262R: Published: Dec 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 23, 2014. Improper Payments: DOE’s Risk Assessments Should Be Strengthened, GAO-15-36: Published: Dec 23, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 23, 2014.
