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Mid-Session Review Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2010. Office of Management and Budget: “When the President took office, the Nation was experiencing the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. This decline was not simply the result of a normal downturn in the business cycle; also contributing to it were irresponsible …
“A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devicesMobile IDhas been published by Commerces National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Devices that gather, process and transmit an individuals biometric datafingerprints, facial and iris imagesfor identification are proliferating. Previous work on standards for these biometric devices has focused …
News release: “U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke today approved a plan to prohibit the expansion of commercial fishing in federal Arctic waters until researchers gather sufficient information on fish and the Arctic marine environment to prevent adverse impacts of commercial harvesting activity on the ecosystem. As Arctic sea ice recedes due to climate change, …
“As lawmakers and Americans discuss health care reform, The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has made available H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, in electronic and printed form. The bill was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. The authentic, electronic version is available on GPOs Federal …
“In response to the burgeoning intelligence requirements dictated by the World War II (WWII), the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service (FBMS) evolved into the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) on 26 July 1942. The first 44 years of FBIS is chronicled dutifully and expertly in this 1969 study. Foreign Broadcast Information Service History, Part 1: 1941-1947.”
Monetary policy strategy in a global environment, by by Philippe Moutot and Giovanni Vitale. European Central Bank, ECB, Occasional Paper Series No 106. August 2009. “This paper discusses the structural implications of real and financial globalisation, with the aim of drawing lessons for the conduct of monetary policy and, in particular, for the assessment of …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Annual Economic Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming – August 21, 2009 Reflections on a Year of Crisis: “By the standards of recent decades, the economic environment at the time of this symposium one year ago was quite challenging. A year after the onset of …
Health Insurance: Enrollment, Benefits, Funding, and Other Characteristics of State High-Risk Health Insurance Pools, GAO-09-730R, July 22, 2009 “A growing number of states–35 as of June 2009–have created high-risk health insurance pools (HRPs) primarily to provide coverage to individuals whose health status limits their access to coverage in the private individual health insurance market. HRPs–typically …
Monthly Flash Estimate (08/20/2009): “The August, 2009 issue of the Monthly Flash Estimate (MFE) of Electric Power Data is now available… MFE provides an early look at the highlights of the upcoming Electric Power Monthly publication and presents tables of electricity generation, fuel consumption for generation, fossil fuel stocks, and average retail sales and prices …
TechDailyDose: “The Obama administration’s open government crusade appears to be contagious. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced the launch of DataSF.org, a Web site that will offer convenient access to city data that is relevant to the community. Much like Data.gov, a site spearheaded by federal CIO Vivek Kundra, the service provides the …
Form EIA-923 Generation by Unit, Fuel Consumption by Boiler, and Environmental Database (08/18/2009): “The Environmental Operational Data File for Final Form EIA-923 2007 data are now available. This data file includes unit level generation, boiler level fuel consumption, NOX control data, FGP data, and FGD data for steam-electric, organic-fueled electric power plants 10 megawatts and …
