Five Years Post 9/11 and One Year Post Hurricane Katrina: The State of America’s Readiness – The U.S. Conference of Mayors Homeland Security Monitoring Center: 2006 Survey on Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, July 26, 2006. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Report on the Foundation and Corporate Response
Foundation Center’s press release: “In response to last summer’s Gulf Coast hurricanes, U.S. foundations have already committed more than $577 million for relief, recovery, and rebuilding, according to a report released today by the Foundation Center. Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Report on the Foundation and Corporate Response [32 pages, PDF]… Continue Reading
New Report Tracks the Origin and Path of Unwanted Internet Ads
Press release: “More than half of the pop-up ads served by nuisance “adware” programs are placed knowingly by advertisers, according to a study released today by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT).” Following the Money II: The Role of Intermediaries in Adware Advertising (28 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
AOL Data Breach Causes Privacy Group to File Complaint With FTC
Press release: “The World Privacy Forum announced [August 8, 2006] that it would be filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about the posting by AOL of a portion of its users’ search data on the Internet. While the data was not expressly identified by name, the search queries themselves included in some cases… Continue Reading
Dirty Kilowatts: America's Most Polluting Power Plants
Environmental Integrity Project – Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants, by Ilan Levin. “New EIP report ranking worst plants on CO2, SO2, NOx and mercury emissions…Mixed Picture: CO2 Pollution Up, Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxide Easing, Mercury Holding Steady; States With Most Problem Facilities Are AL, IA, IL, IN, KY, ND, NE, NJ, OH,… Continue Reading
New LC Country Profile of China
LC Country Profile of China, August 8, 2006 (43 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
UC Libraries Partner With Google to Digitize Books
Press release: The University of California libraries today (August 9, 2006) announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. UC becomes the latest partner in the Google Books Library Project, which was launched in December 2004 to digitize books drawn from the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford… Continue Reading
Bush Economic Record in Pocket Card Format
Joint Economic Committee, Democrats: The Bush Economic Record in Pocket Card Format, Updated August 4, 2006. From the same committee, see also August 8, 2006 – Losing Ground: The Middle Class in the Bush Economy Continue Reading
Recent CRS Reports on Israel, Lebanon and Syria
Israel: Background and Relations with the United States, Updated July 26, 2006 Israeli-Arab Negotiations: Background, Conflicts, and U.S. Policy, Updated July 25, 2006 Lebanon, Updated July 24, 2006 Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues, Updated July 27, 2006 Continue Reading
DHS OIG InfoTech Audit
Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2005 DHS Financial Statement Audit (Redacted), OIG-06-49 (PDF, 77 pages), 08/07/2006. Continue Reading
State of the Blogosphere, August 2006
State of the Blogosphere, August 2006, by David Sifry. “50 Million Blogs and Counting.” Kevin Burton’s Feed Blog – Technorati’s Numbers are Wrong Continue Reading
BJS Special Report: Violent Felons in Large Urban Counties
Violent Felons in Large Urban Counties (NCJ-205289), by Bureau of Justice Statistics’ statistician Brian A. Reaves. “Fifty-six percent of the violent felons convicted in the nation’s 75 most populous counties from 1990 through 2002 had a prior conviction record, 38 percent had a prior felony conviction and 15 percent had been previously convicted for a… Continue Reading
