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News release: “EPA is finalizing the volume requirements and associated percentage standards that will apply under the RFS2 program in calendar year 2011 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel. The standards will ensure that transportation fuel sold in the United States contains a minimum volume of renewable fuel as required …
“HHS OIG conducted a survey to learn what types of instruction medical students, residents, and fellows receive on Medicare and Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse. OIG developed a document that summarizes the five main Federal fraud and abuse laws and provides tips on how physicians should comply with these laws. Take a look at the …
News release: “New regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) require health insurers to spend 80 to 85 percent of consumers premiums on direct care for patients and efforts to improve care quality. This regulation, known as the medical loss ratio provision of the Affordable Care Act, will make the insurance …
Rand – Confronting Space Debris, Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon, by Dave Baiocchi, William Welser, IV “Orbital debris represents a growing threat to the operation of man-made systems in space. There are currently hundreds of thousands of debris objects greater than one centimeter in diameter in Earth’s orbit, and the collision …
“This report, Work-related stress, examines the issue of work-related stress in the 27 EU Member States and Norway. Studies capturing data on work-related stress in individual countries differ in terms of their scope, methodology and coverage. The main risk factors for work-related stress include heavy workload, long working hours, lack of control and autonomy at …
Summary: “Governments must make their health care systems more efficient if they are to maintain quality of care without putting further stress on public finances, according to a new OECD report. In Health Care Systems: Efficiency and Policy Settings, the OECD warns that cash-strapped governments no longer have the option of boosting spending to improve …
“Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities. The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February …
Following WikiLeaks Releases Secret US Embassy Cables, confirmation that China hacked Google’s source code – see also related information on this issue from TechCrunch.
News release: “U.S. house prices fell in the third quarter of 2010 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agencys (FHFA) seasonally adjusted purchase-only house price index (HPI). The HPI, calculated using home sales price information from Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-acquired mortgages, was 1.6 percent lower on both a seasonally adjusted and unadjusted basis in …
Is Structural Unemployment on the Rise? By Rob Valletta and Katherine Kuang “An increase in U.S. aggregate labor demand reflected in rising job vacancies has not been accompanied by a similar decline in the unemployment rate. Some analysts maintain that unemployed workers lack the skills to fill available jobs, a mismatch that contributes to an …
“For seven months, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists deployed 12 journalists to investigate the black market bluefin trade, a trail that led from major fishing fleets and tuna ranches in the Mediterranean and North Africa, through ministry offices, to some of the worlds largest buyers in Japan. ICIJs team uncovered a supply chain that at …
Holiday Shopping Tips: “This holiday season the FBI reminds shoppers that cyber criminals aggressively create new ways to steal money and personal information. Scammers use many techniques to fool potential victims, including conducting fraudulent auction sales, reshipping merchandise purchased with stolen credit cards, and selling fraudulent or stolen gift cards through auction sites at discounted …
