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Earth has done an ecological about-face: “Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought. NASA-funded researchers Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running, of the University of Montana in Missoula, discovered the global shift during an analysis of NASA satellite …
House Financial Services Committee, Empowering Consumers: Can Financial Literacy Education Prevent Another Financial Crisis? August 24, 2010 Related postings on financial system
Government Auditing Standards: 2010 Exposure Draft, GAO-10-853G, August 01, 2010: “To help ensure that the standards continue to meet the needs of the audit community and the public it serves, the Comptroller General of the United States appointed the Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards to review the standards and recommend necessary changes. The Advisory …
Recall of Shell Eggs: “An outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) that has sickened hundreds of people across the country has led to a recall of shell eggs. On August 13, Wright County Egg voluntarily conducted a nationwide recall of shell eggs on 3 of its 5 farms. Further epidemiologic and traceback information led to Wright …
OPM: Federal Student Loan Repayment Program Calendar Year 2009, Report to the Congress, August 2010 “Overall for CY 2009, 36 Federal agencies provided 8,454 employees with a total of more than $61.8 million in student loan repayment benefits….Section 5379 of title 5, United States Code, authorizes agencies to establish a program under which they may …
“The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a new and unique human rights mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council aiming at improving the human rights situation on the ground of each of the 192 UN Member States. Under this mechanism, the human rights situation of all UN Member States is reviewed every 4 …
Fuel for Food: Energy Use in the U.S. Food System – “Population growth, higher per capita food expenditures, and greater reliance on energy-using technologies boosted food-related energy consumption in 1997 to 2002. Patrick Canning In 2007, the U.S. food system accounted for almost 16 percent of the Nations energy budget. Between 1997 and 2002, over …
8/20/10 – Statement of FCCC ommissioner Clyburn at “The Future of the Internet” Public Hearing, Minneapolis, Minnesota: “an open Internet is indeed the great equalizer. It enables traditionally underrepresented groupslike minorities and womento have an equal voice and an equal opportunity. It allows any connected individual to distribute their ideas to a global network or …
Cleveland.com: “..the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips and bar codes. The chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection. If a chip show a recyclable cart hasn’t been brought to the curb in …
Support to Civil Authorities: Protecting the Homeland Newsletter, July 2010 “The task of protecting borders and ports of entry from transnational and other threats to the security of the United States is a colossal undertaking, requiring the coordination and cooperation of many U.S. government agencies. This newsletter is a collection of articles, some previously published …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, along with four other Senators, have sent a letter to the head of the US Marshal Service to ask why the federal agency stored more than 35,000 images …
News release: “CDC is collaborating with public health officials in multiple states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service to investigate a nationwide increase of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) infections with an indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern JEGX01.0004. This is the most common PFGE …
