“reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows…A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Launch of Google for the Public Sector
Official Google Blog: “Google for the Public Sector, a one-stop shop of tools and tips that local, state and federal government officials can use to help promote transparency and increase citizen participation. The site helps government agencies: Make your website, and the information it offers, easier to find. For example, in less than 50 technical… Continue Reading
Apps.gov – New Source for Government IT Cloud Computing
News release: “Apps.gov is an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based IT services, for productivity, collaboration, and efficiency. Cloud computing is the next generation of IT in which data and applications will be housed centrally and accessible anywhere and anytime by a various devices (this is opposed to the current… Continue Reading
Director of National Intelligence unveiled the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy
News release: “On September 15, 2009, the Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair unveiled the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy – the blueprint that will drive the priorities for the nation’s 16 intelligence agencies over the next 4 years. The National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) is one of the most important documents for the Intelligence Community… Continue Reading
WSJ's Financial Crisis Word List
WSJ – Matthew Rose: “Just as the financial crisis has morphed into a daily grind instead of a daily fire drill, its peculiar argot has found its way into everyday conversations. This is probably an unwelcome surprise to those not conversant with the narrow byways of Wall Street. So, in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce… Continue Reading
GAO Reports and Testimony: DOD Business Systems Modernization, Homeland Security, FDIC's Internal Controls, Personnel Security Clearances, Mineral Revenues
DOD Business Systems Modernization: Navy Implementing a Number of Key Management Controls on Enterprise Resource Planning System, but Improvements Still Needed, GAO-09-841, September 15, 2009 Homeland Security: Despite Progress, DHS Continues to Be Challenged in Managing Its Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Investment in Large-Scale Information Technology Systems, GAO-09-1002T, September 15, 2009 Management Report: Opportunities for Improvements… Continue Reading
DOT and EPA Propose National Program to Improve Fuel Economy and Reduce Greenhouse Gases
News release: “U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today jointly proposed a rule establishing an historic national program that would improve vehicle fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gases. Their proposal builds upon core principles President Obama announced with automakers, the United Auto Workers,… Continue Reading
FDA Approves Vaccines for 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus
News release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it has approved four vaccines against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. The vaccines will be distributed nationally after the initial lots become available, which is expected within the next four weeks…The vaccines are made by CSL Limited, MedImmune LLC, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Limited,… Continue Reading
September 2009 MetroMonitor: Tracking Economic Recession and Recovery in Americas 100 Largest Metropolitan Areas
Brookings September 2009 MetroMonitor: “The American economy continued to weaken during the months of April, May, and June 2009, but it was no longer in free fall. Employment remained on a downward paththe nation lost nearly 1.3 million jobs during those three months aloneand by June, the national unemployment rate had reached its highest… Continue Reading
Time Outs Top Ten cities in the world
“In arriving at Time Outs greatest cities, we were not looking for great holiday destinations but living, working cities. This meant looking at all aspects of urban life, not just those one encounters on a weekend break, and what everyday life is like for people who actually live there. Resident writers were asked to rate… Continue Reading
Urban Institute: Poverty in the United States, 2008
Commentary: “..the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the U.S. poverty rate reached 13.2 percent in 2008. Even this significant increase from the 12.5 percent rate in 2007 surely understates the share of Americans struggling to make ends meet today in September 2009. The Census poverty data are based on the incomes of individuals and families… Continue Reading
NYT: How the Giants of Finance Shrank, Then Grew, Under the Financial Crisis
$947 Billion – Market capitalization of 29 of the biggest financial firms on September 11, 2009: “Since the stock markets peak in October 2007, Wall Streets landscape has been permanently altered. Lehman Brothers, gone. Bear Stearns, gone. Merrill Lynch, gone. Main Streets landscape has also changed. Wachovia, National City, Washington Mutual and Countrywide, all gone.… Continue Reading
