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kubki stanley pproaching, computer glitches, operational missteps and ballooning costs could overwhelm the government s ability to conduct the once-a-decade count of the nation s population, congressional investigators said Thursday.Rep
stanley thermos orts released by the Government Accountability Office show critical preparations for the 2010 census are behind schedule and the Census Bureau has no clear strategy for improving the count of hard-to-reach minorities.The reports are the latest to highlight difficulties for the census, which now costs $14 billion and has been beset by partisan bickering. Disagreements over the handling of the census were part of the reason that President Barack Obama s pick as commerce secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg, withdrew his name last month.The GAO found that the bureau had failed to complete checks on several of its systems that are used to compile address lists that will be critical to mailing out census forms, canvassing homes and following up with people who don t submit responses.Partly faulting a lack of executive-level oversight, the GAO said the bureau, which has been operating without a permanent director since January, had set questionably short timelines for completing its work that would put it behind in delivering maps to field offices. Investigators also found the Census Bureau lacked spe
stanley quencher cific plans to improve participation from minorities. They noted a special challenge in reaching out to Latinos and people of Middle Eastern Foqj Criminologists explain why RoboCop, Dredd and Running Man make sense
We ;ve been following the emergence of Apple sapphire production plant in Arizona closely this y
stanley cup ear, since it tells us a lot about the products coming down the line. Now, Mark Gurman reports, filings from Apple indicate that not only is the company manufacturing a new sapphire product this month鈥攊t being classified as jewelry. And no, it not a smart ring. Probably. Rather, documents unearthed by analyst Matt Margolis detail the components in a new product, including a sapphire glass described as Articles Of Jewelry Of Precious Or Semiprecious Stones. The filing came from Apple Direc
stanley cup tor of Global Trade Compliance in early July, addressed to the U.S Department of Commerce, describing a aggressive go-live timeline of August 2014. The fact that the component is described as jewelry seems
stanley us to indicate that the component will be something worn鈥攅.g., a health-tracking iWatch, as plenty of speculation has suggested over the past year. Now, since Apple is already planning the launch of the iPhone 6 on September 9, this filing could, in theory, be about a coating for the new phone. But Gurman points out a crucial distinction that would prove there are two new products coming our way, and one of them isn ;t a phone: The fact that Apple already filed documents for a sapphire phone display this year. So this new jewelry component is, it would seem, far more likely destined fo
