Press release: “The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has underlined the importance of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in pointing out possible instances of maladministration in the EU institutions. Over the past ten years, the Ombudsman’s office has received almost 1,000 complaints from NGOs and associations. They included alleged maladministration concerning environmental projects, late payment for EU… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
OMB and GAO Discontinue Print Copies of Key Report
OMB, GAO to Go Digital on Key Reports, By Stephen Barr, Washington Post.com, Thursday, January 24, 2008: “The Office of Management and Budget will not print 3,000 copies of the president’s budget to hand out to members of Congress, the Cabinet and their staffs on Feb. 4. Instead, the four books that lay out the… Continue Reading
Tech Writers Speculates on World Without Internet
What if the Internet went down…and didn’t come back up? By Lynn Greiner, CIO.com, 01/22/08 “Imagine, if you will, a world with no Internet. No e-mail. No e-commerce. And no BlackBerrys. E-mail would be supplanted by snail mail; cell phones by land lines. Now imagine what the future would look like. Futurists say virtual business… Continue Reading
Wilderness Alliance Sues Interior Over Drilling Leases
Case No. 2:08cv00064, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Natural Resources Defense Council, vs. Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, United States District Court, District of Utah, Central Division, January 23, 2008. “This suit challenges the decisions by the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of the Interior, and Secretary of the Department of… Continue Reading
2008 HHS Poverty Guidelines
Federal Register Notice with 2008 Guidelines Full Text Prior Poverty Guidelines and Federal Register References Since 1982 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Further Resources on Poverty Measurement, Poverty Lines, and Their History Computations for the 2008 Poverty Guidelines Continue Reading
Rand Report: Managing Diversity in Corporate America
Managing Diversity in Corporate America, An Exploratory Analysis – By: Jefferson P. Marquis, Nelson Lim, Lynn M. Scott, Margaret C. Harrell, Jennifer Kavanagh, January 23, 2008. “Managing diversity has become a primary concern of top U.S. corporations. In this paper, the authors develop a fact-based approach to modeling diversity management. They use the model to… Continue Reading
Guide to Lesser Known Technology Web Sites
Top 60 Little-Known Technology Web Sites, By Charles Babcock, Thomas Claburn, John Foley, W. David Gardner, Antone Gonsalves, Nicholas J. Hoover, K.C. Jones, Elena Malykhina, Richard Martin, Paul McDougall, Marianne McGee, Chris Murphy, Cora Nucci, Art Wittman, and Serdar Yegulalp, InformationWeek, January 26, 2008 “Our guide to great blogs and Web sites worth adding to… Continue Reading
New CRS Report on Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities
Follow up to previous postings on nuclear power, this new CRS report, Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities, January 18, 2008: “The physical security of nuclear power plants and their vulnerability to deliberate acts of terrorism was elevated to a national security concern following the events of September 11, 2001. Title VI of the Energy… Continue Reading
Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for May 2007
CDC National Vital Statistics Reports – Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for May 2007 – released January 25, 2008. See also CDC Vital and Health Statistics – Health Characteristics of the Asian Adult Population: United States, 20042006, released January 222, 2008 Continue Reading
UK Counter-Terrorism Bill 2007-08
Bill 63 07-08 (90 pages, PDF), and Summary of the Bill: “A Bill to Confer further powers to gather and share information for counter-terrorism and other purposes; to make further provision about the detention and questioning of terrorist suspects and the prosecution and punishment of terrorist offences; to impose notification requirements on persons convicted of… Continue Reading
Media Myths and Realities: A Public of One
Press release, December 10, 2007 – “The way communicators dispense information is out of sync with the way consumers use media, according to Media, Myths & Realities, a comprehensive survey of media usage among consumers and communications professionals conducted by global public relations firm Ketchum and the University of Southern California Annenberg Strategic Public Relations… Continue Reading
Planned Removal of Gray Wolf From Endangered Species List
Earthjustice – Wolves in Danger: “The wolf’s amazing comeback in the northern Rockies is one of our country’s greatest wildlife success stories. But it may be dangerously short-lived now that the federal government has issued a rule that permits wolf killing in the northern Rockies. This heralds the beginning of a larger plan to remove… Continue Reading
