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WSJ: “In a texting donation, a person types a so-called short-code such as 90999 and then types in “HAITI” to donate a preset amount of $10. The cellphone user then gets a text back asking that they confirm the donation. After a confirmation, the person receives a text saying, “Thanks! $10 charged to your phone …
Follow up to previous postings on Follow up to previous postings on missing White House emails during Bush administrations, from the National Security Archive: “Pursuant to a settlement reached between the National Security Archive and the White House Executive Office of the President (EOP), the White House today issued a letter describing critical aspects of …
DOD Directive 3020.40, DoD Policy and Responsibilities for Critical Infrastructure, January 14, 2010 “It is DoD policy that: a. Coordination on the risk management of defense critical infrastructure (DCI) shall be accomplished with other Federal departments and agencies; State, local, regional, territorial, and tribal entities; the private sector; and foreign countries, as appropriate….”
Person Finder: Haiti Earthquake, embeddable application: What is your situation? / I’m looking for someone / I have information about someone. See also: Open Street Map Project’s Haiti Earthquake Map Free access to Haiti Earthquake imagery through DigitalGlobe’s Crisis Event Service Haiti 2010 Sahana Disaster Response Portal [all via Brady Forrest] and Haiti Earthquake Recovery …
A Perfect Storm Brewing: Budget Cuts Threaten Library Services at Time of Increased Demand, January 2010. “Todays public libraries are vital community technology hubs that millions of Americans rely on for their first and often only choice for Internet access. Despite increased demand for library computers, however, libraries typically have not seen a corresponding increase …
Weekly Address: President Obama Vows to “Collect Every Dime” of Taxpayer Funds that Helped Big Banks: “In this weeks address, President Barack Obama proposed a fee on major financial firms to recoup on behalf of American taxpayers – the $700 billion paid out in TARP, saying we want the taxpayers money back, and were …
News release: “IRS e-file, the popular electronic tax return delivery service used by two-thirds of the nations taxpayers, opened for business January 15 and marks 20 years of safely and securely transmitting nearly 800 million individual federal tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service debuted e-file nationally in 1990, delivering 4.2 million tax returns. Last year, …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing water quality standards to protect peoples health, aquatic life and the long term recreational uses of Floridas waters, which are a critical part of the states economy. In 2009, EPA entered into a consent decree with the Florida Wildlife Federation to propose limits to this …
