Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2008
EPA-350-R-09-001 Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2008, [Report PDF - 22 pages] January 2009
"As the amount of funds available for Superfund work continues to diminish, it becomes increasingly imperative for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to spend its Superfund dollars as prudently as possible to achieve maximum benefits from dollars available. This report covers the Fiscal Year 2008 Superfund activity of the EPA Office of Inspector General. The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 requires the Office of Inspector General to annually audit the Superfund program and report the results to Congress. Although EPA regions have recovered 56 percent of the total Superfund costs from sites reviewed during an evaluation, they could recover more. EPA had not collected as much as $129 million (44 percent), and determined it will not attempt to recover between $30 million and $90 million of that amount. This indicates a potentially significant breakdown in controls over Superfund cost recovery."

Energy Information Adminstration Reports: International Energy Annual, Electric Sales, Electric Power
International Energy Annual 2006 (01/22/2009): "The International Energy Annual 2006 is the Energy Information Administration's primary report of international energy statistics. Included are data on energy consumption and production; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, and electricity, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuels, petroleum prices, energy reserves, and population; and data unit conversion tables . For many series, data cover the years 1980-2006. Also included is a World Energy Overview comparing 1996 and 2006.
Electric Sales, Revenue, and Price (01/22/2009): The annual report provides information regarding sales, revenue, number of consumers, and average retail price by sector, Census Division and State for traditional electric utilities, non-utility power producers, power marketers and energy service providers. The data is provided in Excel file format. Figures are also provided for average retail price per kilowatt hour by state and sector in html format.
Electric Power Annual Report 2007 (01/21/2009): The report presents 12 years (1996 - 2007) of National level data on electricity generation; electric generating capacity; capacity resource margins; fuel consumption; emissions; electricity trade; retail electric customers, sales, revenue and price; electric utility revenue and expense statistics; and demand-side management."

George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum: "The George W. Bush Library holds millions of pages of official records documenting the two-term administration (2001-2009) of the nation's forty-third president, as well as donated historical materials that document Bush's 2000 presidential campaign and his personal papers as Governor of Texas. In addition to these textual records, the Bush Library has an extensive audiovisual collection containing photographs and videotapes, as well as an extensive artifact collection containing presidential and gubernatorial domestic and foreign gifts."
Executive Orders Signed by George W. President Bush
Public Papers of President George W. Bush
Browse the George W. Bush White House Web Site

Toledo adopted the Philadelphia decimal numbering system of number addresses in 1888, changing all Toledo addresses. You Will Do Better in Toledo: From Frogtown to Glass City, a Toledo Retrospective in Postcards, 1893-1929

In the Philadelphia or Decimal System, an even hundred numbers are allotted to each block and the number indicates how many blocks distant it is from any given point on the street or avenue. A number is allotted to every 20 feet. All short streets take their numbers from the through streets, and correspond with them. The odd numbers are on the south and east sides of streets. http://bc.canadagenweb.org/1901vic_cen/home_num.htm

The Philadelphia system is explained in detail on page 32 of “Visitors’ Guide to the Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia, May 10th to November 10th, 1876.” You may see this at http://bc.canadagenweb.org/1901vic_cen/home_num.htm or Russell Library at the University of Michigan.

Entries in library card design contest speak volumes
David Berlin (Contact) 8:36 a.m. January 22, 2009
It started with simple, white, 4-inch-by-6-inch cards. It ended with everything from self-portraits to pictures of a dragon reading a book. More than 200 people from 4 to 73 years old participated in the Chula Vista library card design contest. The contest was divided into four age groups: kindergarten through third grade; grades four through six; grades seven through 12; and adults. The youngest age group was assigned the theme “My First Library Card.” The other groups used the theme: “I Love My Library.”
Some of the designs are especially intricate, considering the size of the canvas. Gretchen Kasler, 19, drew a dragon, surrounded by hardcovers, engrossed in a book. Nicole Bella, 15, interpreted the theme of discovery with a three-part illustration radiating from an open book. Library officials hope to raise up to $6,000 through the effort by selling the new library cards for $3 each next month. Proceeds will go to the Chula Vista Library Foundation, a nonprofit that buys books for the library. Regular free library cards still will be available. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jan/22/1sz22cards083659-entries-library-card-design-conte/?zIndex=41214

January 27 is the birthday of Lewis Carroll, (books by this author) born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in Cheshire, England in 1832, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He was a faculty member in mathematics at Oxford and a serious photographer. When he was 24 years old, a new dean arrived at Carroll's church and brought his three daughters: Lorina Charlotte, Edith, and Alice. Carroll befriended the girls and spent a lot of time with them. In July of 1862, floating in a rowboat on a pond, he came up with a story about a girl's adventures in a magical underground world, and he told it to the three sisters.
January 27 is the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in 1756 in Salzburg, which is now in Austria. Mozart's father, Leopold, was one of Europe's leading music educators, and he took Mozart and his sister on tours throughout Europe. Young Mozart began composing original work at age five. During a trip to Italy, Mozart amazed his hosts when he listened only once to the performance of a Gregorio Allegri composition and then wrote it out from memory. The Writer’s Almanac