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LookAhead at EDGAR – the fast SEC-Edgar (2004-2006) Form Finding tool. [Tips] LookAhead into NCBI – Search All Databases for rapid searching across all NCBI Databases. [Tips] WikiWax – Wikipedia Search
DOJ OIG – Top Management Challenges in the Department of Justice – 2006 Challenges [Full Report] Section by section: Counterterrorism Sharing of Law Enforcement and Intelligence Information Information Technology Systems Planning, Implementation, and Security Violent Crime Financial Management and Systems Detention and Incarceration Supply and Demand for Drugs Grant Management Civil Rights and Civil Liberties …
President’s Management Agenda: Review of OMB’s Improved Financial Performance Scorecard Process, Full text GAO-07-95, and Highlights, November 16, 2006. “GAO found OMB’s staff were actively engaged in the scoring process and met regularly with agency officials to discuss progress in meeting scoring criteria and to provide input into agencies’ efforts to expand the use of …
Follow-up to this November 14, 2006 posting, CIA Provides Documentation of Presidential Order on Detention Facilities Abroad, see this press release: “Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seeking the release of previously unknown documents, relating to the Bush Administration’s interrogation and detention policies, that came to light as …
Spanish Language Style Guide and Glossaries for U.S. Government Web Sites: “This new Spanish Style Guide is a resource for government employees, translators, and communications professionals who work with the government to improve the way we communicate with the public in Spanish. The guide contains information on grammar and style issues as well as glossaries …
11/15/2006: Updated AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Policies Related to Medicare Part D, as of May 2006 11/15/2006: Updated Medicare Drug Benefit Low-Income Subsidy Applications, as of 10/27/06 11/15/2006: New Number of Companies Offering Medicare Advantage Drug Plans (MA-PDs), 2007 11/15/2006: Updated – Number of Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs), 2007 – “Data have also …
Follow-up to GAO Review HHS Abstinence-Until-Marriage Education Programs, Sen. Frank Lautenberg “introduced legislation [on November 16, 2006, titled the Guarantee of Medical Accuracy in Sex Education Act] to require that federally-funded sex education/abstinence programs teach medically accurate and factual information.” [press release]
Review of Allegations Regarding San Francisco International Airport, OIG-07-04 (PDF, 254 pages) November 16, 2006.
Follow-up to Reference from Coast to Coast: The Test Results are In! October 15, 2006 [LLRX.com], from the NY Lawyer: The New York Bar Exam results.
Related to my posting yesterday, GAO Report – Company Formations: Minimal Ownership Information Is Collected and Available, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on November 14, 2006: Failure to Identify Company Owners Impedes Law Enforcement. The hearing “…examine[d] the issue of states routinely incorporating hundreds of thousands …
Press release: “Symantec Corp…announced the opening of the Symantec Phish Report Network to consumers worldwide. As one of the world’s leading antifraud communities, the Symantec Phish Report Network, launched in May 2006, allows member companies to contribute and receive fraudulent Web site addresses that they can use in their antiphishing solutions to help protect users …
Bureau of Justice Statistics: “This annual report provides the number of applications checked by State points of contact, estimates of the number of applications checked by local agencies, the number of applications rejected, the reasons for rejection, and estimates of applications and rejections conducted by each type of approval system. It also provides information about …
