News release: [December 30, 2008] “from 1-3 pm, David Saranga, Consul for Media and Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York will host a LIVE Citizen “Press” Conference on Twitter in order to directly answer the public’s questions regarding the current situation in Israel and Gaza. This is the first time that a government is holding such a conference on Twitter. “We are constantly getting questions from the public regarding the situation in Israel and Gaza,” David Saranga, Consul for Media and Public Affairs, explains, “so we are answering the public’s call and holding a Citizen Press Conference on the social networking site, Twitter, to answer these questions directly.” Twitter users can take part in the Citizen “Press” Conference by going to http://www.twitter.com/IsraelConsulate and directing their messages to @israelconsulate and including the tag #AskIsrael. Questions will be answered on Twitter, with a link to IsraelPolitik if the answer exceeds Twitters maximum length of 140 characters.”
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Daily Archives: December 29, 2008
Tennessee Valley Authority Webpage on Ash Slide at Kingston Fossil Plant
Kingston Update Page: “TVA, local, state and federal agencies continue to work on recovery and clean up of a release of ash caused by a failure of a coal fly ash containment retention wall at TVAs Kingston Fossil Plant in East Tennessee….An aerial survey completed last week shows that about 5.4 million cubic yards of… Continue Reading
OCC Reports Third Quarter Bank Trading Revenue of $6.0 Billion
News release: “Insured U.S. commercial banks reported $6.0 billion in revenues from trading cash and derivative instruments in the third quarter, compared to revenues of $1.6 billion in the second quarter of 2008, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reported today in the OCCs Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities: Third… Continue Reading
8 Events that Shook the Banking Industry in 2008
8 Events that Shook the Industry in 2008 – From Hurricanes to Ponzi Schemes, it Was a Year of Disasters, Linda McGlasson, Managing Editor, Bank Info Security: “The year 2008 was marked with significant milestones. Major banks and investment firms around the globe foundered, failed and were acquired or propped up by their governments and… Continue Reading
Public Retirement Benefit Payments Reach Record $168 Billion
News release: “State and local government defined-benefit employee retirement systems paid $168 billion to 7.5 million retirees and survivors in fiscal year 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This is a $12 billion increase from the previous year when 7.3 million received payments. There were 2,547 retirement systems in 2007, with memberships of 18.6… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Projects U.S. Population of 305.5 Million on New Year's Day
News release: ” As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2009, total U.S. population will be 305,529,237 up 2,743,429, or 0.9 percent, from New Years Day 2008. In January 2009, one birth is expected to occur every eight seconds in the United… Continue Reading
Report: Lifetime Losses – The Career Wage Gap
Center for American Progress Action Fund, Lifetime Losses: The Career Wage Gap, by Jessica Arons: “Unfortunately, even in the absence of intentional discrimination, most women in this country also are likely to lose substantial amounts of income due to something we at the Center for American Progress Action Fund have termed the career wage gap.… Continue Reading
OECD Information Technology Outlook 2008
“Information technology (IT) and broadband are major drivers of research, innovation, economic growth and social change. The 2008 edition of the OECD Information Technology Outlook analyses recent developments in the IT goods and services industries, and suggests that the outlook is for continued long-term growth, constrained by the currently very uncertain macroeconomic environment in OECD… Continue Reading
NASA's Top Science, Exploration and Discovery Stories of 2008
NASA Year in Review 2008: “NASA landed on Mars, photographed distant worlds, added to the International Space Station, took part in a lunar science mission with India and made major progress toward returning astronauts to the moon as the agency celebrated its 50th birthday in 2008. Here on Earth, NASA researchers recorded the continued decline… Continue Reading
