The President S Secret Ims

Author : Danielle Crittenden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781416954811

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The President's Secret IMs by Danielle Crittenden Pdf

Uncensored. Unrestrained. Un-politically correct. It's a little-known fact that President Bush -- known to his Instant Messenger buddies as "Kickass43" -- has logged almost as much time chatting online as he has clearing brush at Crawford. Now this hilarious collection of imaginary online correspondence between the POTUS and pals sheds light and empathy on W's tumultuous second term in office. Whether it's dodging Harriet Miers after the fallout of her Supreme Court nomination, hosting a live online chat with the nation's schoolchildren to disastrous effect, or the surprising late-night alliance with Bill Clinton ("Ladeezman42") because both wish to keep Hillary out of the White House, you'll never look at politics the same way again. Gleefully poking fun at political figures on both sides of the divide, The President's Secret IMs is wickedly clever, deliciously irreverent, and in the words of Kickass43, "ttly awesum" and "gr8." Srsly.

Author : Anne Applebaum,Danielle Crittenden
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781452110554

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From a Polish Country House Kitchen by Anne Applebaum,Danielle Crittenden Pdf

In making her new home in Poland in 1989, Applebaum had to cook with ingredients that were local, fresh, and available. She learned how to make food that was, if not exactly traditional, in the Polish spirit. The national rebirth of Poland in the last two decades has meant the rebirth of its cuisine, and the authors have modernized many of its dishes, without losing any of the centuries-old flavors. Collects ninety Polish recipes, including roasted winter vegetables, stewed beef rolls with kasha, pork loin stuffed with prunes, and fruit pierogi.

Author : Adam Tanner
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780807033357

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Our Bodies, Our Data by Adam Tanner Pdf

How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomes Hidden to consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade industry between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of the prescription you recently filled, your hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results, and more, stripped of your name but possibly with identifiers such as year of birth, gender, and doctor. As computing grows ever more sophisticated, patient dossiers become increasingly vulnerable to reidentification and the possibility of being targeted by identity thieves or hackers. Paradoxically, comprehensive electronic files for patient treatment—the reason medical data exists in the first place—remain an elusive goal. Even today, patients or their doctors rarely have easy access to comprehensive records that could improve care. In the evolution of medical data, the instinct for profit has outstripped patient needs. This book tells the human, behind-the-scenes story of how such a system evolved internationally. It begins with New York advertising man Ludwig Wolfgang Frohlich, who founded IMS Health, the world’s dominant health-data miner, in the 1950s. IMS Health now gathers patient medical data from more than 45 billion transactions annually from 780,000 data feeds in more than 100 countries. Our Bodies, Our Data uncovers some of Frohlich’s hidden past and follows the story of what happened in the following decades. This is both a story about medicine and medical practice, and about big business and maximizing profits, and the places these meet, places most patients would like to believe are off-limits. Our Bodies, Our Data seeks to spark debate on how we can best balance the promise big data offers to advance medicine and improve lives while preserving the rights and interests of every patient. We, the public, deserve a say in this discussion. After all, it’s our data.

Author : John Prados
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517115107

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President's Secret by John Prados Pdf

Author : David Priess
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610395960

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The President's Book of Secrets by David Priess Pdf

Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top–secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply “the Book.” Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character–rich stories revealed here for the first time.

Author : Ronald Kessler
Publisher : Crown Forum
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : 9780307461353

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In the President's Secret Service by Ronald Kessler Pdf

After conducting exclusive interviews with more than 100 current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.

Author : Mary Graham
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300227680

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Presidents' Secrets by Mary Graham Pdf

A “succinct and well-written” look at how presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy—and gain power (The Wall Street Journal). Ever since the nation’s most important secret meeting—the Constitutional Convention—presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in military affairs and negotiations. For the first one hundred and twenty years, a culture of open government persisted, but new threats and technology have long since shattered the old bargains. Today, presidents neither protect vital information nor provide the open debate Americans expect. Mary Graham tracks the rise in governmental secrecy that began with surveillance and loyalty programs during Woodrow Wilson’s administration, explores how it developed during the Cold War, and analyzes efforts to reform the secrecy apparatus and restore oversight in the 1970s. Chronicling the expansion of presidential secrecy in the Bush years, Graham explains what presidents and the American people can learn from earlier crises, why the attempts of Congress to rein in stealth activities don’t work, and why presidents cannot hide actions that affect citizens’ rights and values. “Engrossing . . . chilling and fascinating.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Luca Rubini
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849807142

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Microsoft on Trial by Luca Rubini Pdf

Microsoft on Trial analyses the antitrust cases that have involved Microsoft in both sides of the Atlantic and offers a thorough and timely discussion on the regulation of unilateral behaviour in a topical sector. This fascinating and highly topical book facilitates discussion on the difficult technical, legal and economic issues with respect to innovation,competition and welfare raised, through the span of more than a decade, by the US and EC Microsoft antitrust cases. It assesses their impact on the evolution of EC and US laws on competition and intellectual property in the IT sector and beyond.

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0060921781

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For the President's Eyes Only by Christopher Andrew Pdf

From the co-author of KGB: The Inside Story and an acknowledged authority on the subject comes "the most important book ever written about American intelligence."--David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers and Hitler's Spies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Advertising
ISBN : UOM:35128001887197

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Printers' Ink by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Mathematical statistics
ISBN : UCSD:31822036030641

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IMS Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marc Pallot,Victor Sandoval
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461540700

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Concurrent Enterprising by Marc Pallot,Victor Sandoval Pdf

Concurrent Enterprising: Toward the Concurrent Enterprise in the Era of the Internet and Electronic Commerce presents the concurrent enterprise business model and concurrent enterprising approach, which is emerging as a crucial challenge for organizations in all geographical locations and economic sectors. To achieve this goal, this book deals with the main aspects of the merging context in which enterprises are doing business. This context is characterized by the fastest-spread information and communication technologies (ICT) that constitute the new infrastructure of the global marketplace. This book discusses a set of the most advanced enterprise paradigms created during the 1980s and 1990s, most of them supported by advanced research programs, especially in the worldwide manufacturing industry. The book discusses differences between these enterprise paradigms and presents Internet-related technologies as a main driver toward a new business model. It then examines less theoretical questions - among them, how to implement this new business model and how companies can move to the concurrent enterprise paradigm in creating a concurrent business environment. And it introduces a methodology for enterprises willing to maintain or even improve their competitiveness in the global marketplace. The book has eight chapters. The first two concentrate on the advanced enterprise paradigms, and their advantages and limits for maintaining or improving competitiveness in the global marketplace. Chapter 3 studies, separately, the virtual enterprise and related approaches. Chapter 4 studies another fundamental ingredient of the new business model - concurrent engineering (CE). Chapter 5 summarizes these preceding approaches and establishes a foundation for building a concurrent enterprise. Chapter 6 presents specific business cases illustrating the advantages and limits of virtual enterprise applications and introduces electronic commerce and electronic documents. Chapter 7 presents concurrent enterprise as a new business model, and Chapter 8 synthesizes the concurrent enterprising process. Concurrent Enterprising: Toward the Concurrent Enterprise in the Era of the Internet and Electronic Commerce is a reference and a user's guide designed for business managers, IT managers, engineers, researchers, scientists, and other individuals interested in learning how to use a sustainable business model driven by the Internet and electronic commerce.

Author : C.N. Bean
Publisher : C.N. Bean
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780463406717

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Anti-Im! Anti-Im! Day One, a Modern Parable by C.N. Bean Pdf

Anti-Im! Anti-Im! Day One, revives an ancient art form, the parable, to weave a modern mystery in four parts. At the heart of the mystery that unites artificial intelligence, genetic warfare and genocide into an entirely plausible context is 15-year-old Nicole Dee Showalter, a biracial girl from a small southern town, a nobody until she becomes the active carrier of a contagious disease that modifies the human genome. She is now on trial for a capital crime she allegedly committed when she was a teen. Four years beyond 15, she is in her 40s, aging quickly from her infection and fighting not just for her life but for the lives of countless humans who carry the latent germ she circulated. The parable is full of dark moments and sayings told in a well-lit courtroom. Day One is the first installment of four.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Crowds
ISBN : MINN:31951D03803141E

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Mass Gathering Security by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications Pdf

Author : Don Calmus
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633381995

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They'll Never Die by Don Calmus Pdf

In the 22nd Century, John Dalton, a retired billionaire, does not want to die, so he devises an illegal scheme to live forever—a scheme that will ultimately change the social structure of mankind. Four friends become entangled in Dalton’s scheme and agree to join him on a journey into the evasive world of immortality. The journey begins with the take-over of the only institute in the world capable of scanning and recording the memory in a human brain and continues with an