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The United Nations Office of Legal Affairs launched the Audiovisual Library of International Law. [Lorraine Pellicano Waitman] “The Audiovisual Library is a unique, multimedia resource which provides the United Nations with the unprecedented capacity to provide high quality international law training and research materials to an unlimited number of recipients on a global level. The …
News release: “Consistent with Section 601 of the “Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007,” Public Law 110-53, the Director of National Intelligence is disclosing to the public the aggregate amount of funds appropriated by Congress to the National Intelligence Program (NIP) for fiscal year 2008 not later than 30 days after the …
Check 21 Act: Most Consumers Have Accepted and Banks Are Progressing Toward Full Adoption of Check Truncation, GAO-09-8, October 28, 2008: “The purpose of Check 21, which took effect in 2004, was to facilitate electronic check processing by authorizing the acceptance of substitute checks as the legal equivalent of the original checks.” Check 21 Act: …
News release: “Over 14,000 plaintiff winners received monetary damages in civil trials nationwide in 2005, with less than 5 percent receiving damages exceeding $1 million, the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The BJS study is the first nationally representative measure of general civil (that is, tort, contract, and real property) bench …
News release: “The Financial Stability Report is published half-yearly by Bank staff under the guidance of the Banks Financial Stability Board. It aims to identify the major downside risks to the UK financial system and thereby help financial firms, authorities and the wider public in managing and preparing for these risks. The Report starts with …
List of Polling Places in the Washington Metropolitan Area Voting States’ Polls Closing Times and Networks Projections CANDIDATES – John McCain | Barack Obama eJournal – “The Candidates” Individual States and Background Information ELECTORAL COLLEGE | Background Information | eJournal – “The Electoral College” CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS | Background Information
Testimony for the House Education and Labor Committee – The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Workers Retirement Security, October 7, 2008. Additional Statement for the Record, Jack VanDerhei, Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) “Background The ability of future cohorts of retirees to have broadly defined levels of retirement security has been the focus …
OTS 08-051 – OTS Issues New Examination Procedures on Identity Theft Red Flags and Address Discrepancies: “This Regulatory Bulletin transmits revised Examination Handbook Section 341, Information Technology Risks and Controls, and revised Examination Handbook Section 1300, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The revised Handbook Sections contain new guid-ance and examination procedures for the final rules …
Search by State or County for Real-Time Voter Reports on Election Day – Reporters, bloggers, and voters across the country can monitor problems at the polls on Election Day on OurVoteLive.org, a project built and hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of Election Protection, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition, and …
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction 09-004 Iraq Reconstruction Project Terminations Represent a Range of Actions, October 27, 2008: “As of June 2008, SIGIR identified 1,262 DoD Iraq reconstruction projects that have been terminated, including 732 for the convenience of the government, and 530 for default on the part of the contractor. These terminated projects …
News release: “Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released statistics which indicated that 7,624 criminal incidents involving 9,006 offenses were reported in 2007 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability. Hate Crime Statistics, 2007, published by the FBIs Uniform Crime Reporting Program, includes …
Preparing for Our Common Future: Policy Choices and the Economics of Climate Change, October 2008. CBO Director Peter Orszag’s presentation for the Goldman Lecture in Economics, Wellesley College. “Global climate change represents one of our most serious long-term risks.” Related postings on climate change
