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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Security Update: White House’s Microsoft Outlook Email Outage
by The Membrane Domain Full Article Headline: The President gets to keep his Blackberry, but the White House can’t keep their Microsoft server running for email.
Federal Reserve’s Position on the Housing Crisis
by AllRealEstate.com The Federal Reserve continues to offer plans for owners of distressed real estate. “The goal of the policy is to avoid preventable foreclosures on residential mortgage assets that are held, owned or controlled by a Federal Reserve Bank,” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke wrote in a letter Tuesday to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman [...]
Interest Rates: Federal Reserve Auction Yields .25% Rate
by Widgette.com On January 26, 2009, the Federal Reserve conducted an auction of $150 billion in 84-day credit through its Term Auction Facility. Following are the results of the auction: Stop-out rate: 0.250 percent Total propositions submitted: $136.051 billion Total propositions accepted: $136.051 billion Bid/cover ratio: 0.91 Number of bidders: 102 The awarded loans will [...]
Real Estate: Toll Brothers Builders Offers 3.99% 30 Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
by AllRealEstate.com The Philadelphia area builder Toll Brothers announced an in-house financing plan on the purchase of their new construction houses. The APR is 4.05% 30-year fixed for loan amounts up to $417,000. The rate can be locked in 270 days prior to your closing.
White House (.gov) Email Down Due to Microsoft
The new White House team found out there email systems were down for most of the day on Monday. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mad the announcement of the technical difficulties at his 1:30 p.m. briefing. He apologized for the e-mail silence and blamed it on a Mircrosoft Outlook server. Both incoming and outgoing email were [...]
An Old Killer Strikes Anew
The malaria parasite finds new tricks. Artemisin is the best drug against malaria, extracted from the annual wormwood plant (Artemisia annua) known to the Chinese herbalist for a millennium or two. From the New York Times, we find that the malaria parasite is evolving resistance to artemisin. A resistant strain of the parasite has been [...]
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Emperor penguins at risk as ice melts
Story From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Emperor penguins, the waddling stars of the 2005 movie March of the Penguins, could face extinction by 2100 as Antarctic sea ice melts because of global warming, a study reported Monday. The study, the first to link climate change with this penguin species, [...]
PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDA: EPA To Review California’s New Auto Emissions Standards
SUBJECT: State of California Request for Waiver Under 42 U.S.C. 7543(b), the Clean Air Act Under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets emissions standards for new motor vehicles. California may also adopt standards for new motor vehicles if the Administrator of the EPA, based on criteria set out [...]
Whitehouse Briefing: Auto Industry To Adhere To MPG Standards
SUBJECT: The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 In 2007, the Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). This law mandates that, as part of the Nation’s efforts to achieve energy independence, the Secretary of Transportation prescribe annual fuel economy increases for automobiles, beginning with model year 2011, resulting in a combined [...]
Putin:”We are not invalids”