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The Application of Visual Analytics to Financial Stability Monitoring
The Application of Visual Analytics to Financial Stability Monitoring (5/9/2014) Mark D. Flood, Victoria L. Lemieux, Margaret Varga, B.L. William Wong. “This paper provides an overview of visual analytics — the science of analytical reasoning enhanced by interactive visualizations tightly coupled with data analytics software — and discusses its potential benefits in monitoring systemic financial stability. Macroprudential supervisors face… Continue Reading
Consumer Product Safety Information Database website of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
“The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC’s… Continue Reading
Privacy Case Moves Forward Against Facebook and Zynga
EPIC: “The Ninth Circuit found that the companies may have violated Facebook’s privacy policies when they disclosed user information for advertising purposes. Separately, the court ruled that there was no violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act because the data disclosed (including Facebook IDs and HTTP referers) is not “contents” of a communication. Congress is set to consider several ECPA reforms,… Continue Reading
The Last Man at Nuremberg
Via the Atlantic, by Emma Green: The Last Man at Nuremberg The life of 95-year-old Benjamin Ferencz, the only living prosecutor from the war-crime trials that followed the Holocaust “Benjamin Ferencz was 27 when the Einsatzgruppen trial began in 1947. There were 22 defendants, all men, all members of the German SS. “One of the counsel has characterized this… Continue Reading
The Increasing Happiness of Parents
The Increasing Happiness of Parents, Chris M. Herbst and John Ifcher, Working Paper No. 2014-05-SCU-ECON. Economics Department, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. 2014. “Previous research suggests that parents may be less happy than non-parents. We critically assess the extant literature and reexamine the relationship between parental status and happiness using the General Social Survey (N = 42,298)… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Military Training, Economic Development
MILITARY TRAINING: DOD Met Annual Reporting Requirements for Its 2014 Sustainable Ranges Report, GAO-14-517: Published: May 9, 2014. Publicly Released: May 9, 2014. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Overview of GAO’s Past Work on the National Flood Insurance Program, GAO-14-297R: Published: Apr 9, 2014. Publicly Released: May 9, 2014. Continue Reading
U.S. Postal Service Records Second Quarter Loss of $1.9 Billion
News release: ” The U.S. Postal Service ended the second quarter of its 2014 fiscal year (Jan. 1, 2014 – March 31, 2014) with a net loss of $1.9 billion. This marks the 20th of the last 22 quarters it has sustained a loss…The Postal Service also is working to increase its package delivery business by… Continue Reading
Suicide in the Military: Army-NIH Funded Study Points to Risk and Protective Factors
“The largest study of mental health risk and resilience ever conducted among U.S. military personnel today released its first findings related to suicide attempts and deaths in a series of three JAMA Psychiatryarticles. Findings from The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS ) include: the rise in suicide deaths from 2004 to… Continue Reading
Changing Climate Is Affecting Agriculture in the U.S. – USDA
“Climate change presents real threats to U.S. agricultural production, forest resources, and rural economies. These threats have significant implications not just for farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners, but for all Americans. Land managers across the country are already feeling the pressures of a changing climate and its effects on weather. As these risks continue and… Continue Reading
Strategic thinking strengthens intellectual capacity
Science Daily: “Strategy-based cognitive training has the potential to enhance cognitive performance and spill over to real-life benefit according to a data-driven perspective article. The research-based perspective highlights cognitive, neural and real-life changes measured in randomized clinical trials that compared a gist-reasoning strategy-training program to memory training in populations ranging from teenagers to healthy older… Continue Reading
Director of National Intelligence Requires Pre-Publication Review of all Info
Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News [snipped] : “All employees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are required to obtain authorization before disclosing any intelligence-related information to the public. “All ODNI personnel are required to submit all official and non-official information intended for public release for review,” says ODNI Instruction 80.04 on “Pre-publication Review of Information to… Continue Reading
