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2008 Summer Market and Reliability Assessment, May 15, 2008: “The reliability and adequacy of the bulk power system this summer, as forecasted by the planning authorities and reviewed by the Regional Entities and NERC is projected to be adequate. Extreme weather conditions and major outages of generation and transmission pose risks to reliability and where …
Via Google Blogoscoped, “Google [has a] malware diagnosis service; just append any domain your domain or another site you want to check on to the end of the URL google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=, or paste a domain in the box below, and you will find an overview page listing potential problems like trojans or exploits (or …
Transportation for Tomorrow: Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, “prepared by a specially convened Commission, meets the charge given under Section 1909 of the Safe Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). The Report includes detailed recommendations for creating and sustaining a pre-eminent surface …
Department of Justice Issues New Annual FOIA Report Guidance: “In the wake of the OPEN Government Act of 2007, which amended the reporting requirements for agency Annual FOIA Reports, the Department of Justice, in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, has revised both the content and the format of the Report and its …
Annual Performance Plan (Revised), Fiscal Year 2008 (PDF, 94 pages)
Data on the Distribution of Federal Taxes and Household Income – December 2007 “This page contains CBO’s most recent estimates of federal effective tax rates (taxes as a percentage of income) across household income groups for the four largest sources of federal revenues–individual income taxes, social insurance (payroll) taxes, corporate income taxes, and excise taxes–as …
Microsoft Live Search Blog: “Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes. This also means that we …
Canada Country Analysis Brief (05/23/2008): “For the latest information on energy in Canada, please see our updated Country Analysis Brief. Acquisitions & Divestitures by Foreign Direct Investors in U.S. Energy in 2006 (05/22/2008): “Today the Energy Information Administration released its annual report, Acquisitions & Divestitures by Foreign Direct Investors in U.S. Energy in 2006. Foreign …
Chairman Kelliher testified before the House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology on Implications of Cyber Vulnerabilities on the Resiliency and Security of the Electric Grid “The Congress made FERC responsible for overseeing the reliability of the bulk power system, but it provided specific restrictions on the procedures to …
“The Commission on Growth and Development released its final report, The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development, which looks at how developing countries can achieve fast sustained and equitable growth. According to the Commission, fast sustained growth is not a miracle; it is attainable for developing countries with the “right mix of …
Department of Defence OIG: Internal Controls Over Payments Made in Iraq, Kuwait and Egypt, May 22, 2008 Between April 2001 and June 2006, the Army made 183,486 commercial and miscellaneous payments, totaling $10.7 billion, from 7 Army contingency disbursing stations in Iraq, Kuwait, and Egypt…DoD did not maintain a complete audit trail to facilitate transparency …
International Review of the Red Cross (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970): “The International Review of the Red Cross has been continuously published by the International Committee of the Red Cross since 1869, and jointly with Cambridge University Press since 2006. It was first published as Bulletin international Sociétés de secours aux militaries blesses and later …