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The Associated Press Poll conducted by Ipsos Public Affaird Project, Interview dates August 6-8, 2007: AP article, One in Four Read No Books Last Year Poll: 1 in 4 Adults Read No Books Last Year; Biggest Readers Were Women, Older People
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee “Chairman Waxman writes to federal agencies requesting documents about their involvement in White House asset deployment meetings held to discuss the use of federal resources to promote the reelection of President Bush and Republicans in Congress. Agencies receiving this request: Departments of Justice, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, …
“Four data sets from the Pew Internet Project’s health research were the basis for a poster presented at the American Psychological Association convention on Sunday [August 19, 2007]. Phyllis Schumacher and Janet Morahan-Martin took the 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2004 health surveys and ran the numbers to prove four hypotheses: Women are more likely than …
Energy Information Administration (EIA), Renewable Energy Consumption and Electricity Preliminary 2006 Statistics (08/21/2007): “Preliminary report showing renewable energy provided 7 percent of total U.S. energy consumption in 2006. Total renewable energy market consumption was comprised of biomass, hydroelectricity, geothermal, wind and solar.”
Statement to Employees by Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael V. Hayden on the Release of the 9/11 IG Report Executive Summary, August 21, 2007: “Earlier this month, Congress passed a bill implementing some of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. The legislation, lengthy and complex, includes a provision dealing with the report …
2007-P-00030 Improved Management Practices Needed to Increase Use of Exchange Network [Report PDF, 34 pages] [At a Glance PDF] August 20, 2007 2007-S-00002 Making Better Use of Superfund Special Account Funds for Thermo Chem [Report PDF – 6 pages] [At a Glance PDF] August 20, 2007
HHS OIG Report on State Medicaid Agenices’ Initiatives on Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange, August 2007 (30 pages, PDF)
Follow up to August 20, 2007 posting, White House Fails to Comply With Subpoenas on Domestic Surveillance Program – additional related government documents and news: Letter from Fred Fielding, Counsel to the President, to Chairman Leahy, August 20, 2007 Letter from Shannen W. Coffin, Counsel to the Vice President, to Chairman Leahy, August 20, 2007 …
Internet Health Report, Keynote Systems, “The Mobile and Internet Performance Authority”: metrics include Latency, Latency, Network Availability, Packet Loss.
Audit Initiated of FAA’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast Program: Automatic Dependent Surveillance – “Broadcast (ADS-B) is a cornerstone technology planned for FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). This satellite-based technology has significant potential to improve safety and enhance capacity of the National Airspace System by, among other things, providing greater situational awareness to …
Google Lat Long Blog: “…the Google Book Search and Google Earth teams are excited to announce the next step: a new layer in Earth that allows you to explore locations through the lens of the world’s books. Now when you turn on the “Google Book Search” layer in Google Earth (found in the “Featured Content” …
Technology Review – Searching for Humans – Various websites are trying to make it easier to find friends and colleagues online: “Jaideep Singh, cofounder of the new people-search engine Spock, says he wants to build a profile for every person in the world. To do this, he plans to combine the power of search algorithms …
