Robert Pear, who has always provided excellent coverage of public health issues for The Times, reports that the administration plans to require drug and medical equipment suppliers to report all payments – down to coffee and bagels – made to physicians and medical personnel – and make them accessible to the public via the web. [...]
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Oil companies and other businesses helped pay Qaddafi’s $1.5 billion settlement for terrorist attacks. Should it matter that third parties paid the bill – or does that make them morally complicit?
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Interviewed in prison, Bernie Madoff asserted that banks and hedge funds were “complicit” in his elaborate fraud. Diana Henriques, writing in the NY Times, 2/15/11, (here) said ”Madoff described as ‘willful blindness’ their failure to examine discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information,” Quoting Madoff, “They had to know. But the attitude was sort of, [...]
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Once again, San Francisco innovates, by making municipal data available online in what appears to be a more comprehensive effort than done elsewhere.The project is called DataSF . watch full blue valentine movie in hd DataSF is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. While there is plenty of [...]
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Laura Strickler of the CBS News Investigative Unitreports on CBSNews.com that the Pentagon’s Inspector General has found that a great deal of equipment in Iraq is unaccounted for:Tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccounted for military equipment and [...]
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Tom VanDen Brookof USA today has reported thatThe Pentagon has asked Congress for $1.4 billion in emergency spending to combat a growing threat of sniper attacks in Iraq based on an overstated assessment of the extent of the attacks, its records show.[photopress:Marine_sniper_ghillie_suit.JPG,thumb,alignleft]In last week’s spending request, the Pentagon said sniper attacks have quadrupled in the [...]
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The International Herald Tribune reports that a company being paid $1 billion per year to provide meals in Iraq is under investigation for price-gouging. The company, formerly Public Warehousing, now Agility Logistics, appears to be so well-connected that ConAgra, Tyson Foods and Sara Lee were excluded from at least some business. (Scratch the surface here, [...]
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Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA) makes the case that military activities have had a profound environmental effect on Southern California:Southern California’s health and environment has been profoundly transformed by military activity. Did you know that the entire San Gabriel Valley is an EPA Superfund site – and the eastern half of the San Fernando [...]
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I don’t understand it.But – Michael Chertoff has started a blog. And, after a recent post, David W. Stephenson, of Stephenson Strategies, made a comment that actually made it through DHS screening.I’m not sure he could have gotten the comment onto a commercial flight, though, unless it was in checked luggage.Check out Mirabile dictu! My [...]
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According to an article on the website of The New York Times, Congressman Henry Waxman has Howard J. Krongard in his sights. David Stout and Brian Knowlton (for whom the Times doesn’t have an index page) report that Waxmansent the inspector general, Howard J. Krongard, a 14-page letter spelling out accusations that he said came [...]
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If you’re not already persuaded that the current state of affairs in Russia should be a cause of great concern, Mark Kleiman makes the point quite concisely in this post.I’ve been reading Kleiman’s work since dinosaurs roamed the Grand Concourse, carrying betting slips for wise-guys. When getting a copy of one of his article or [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.