News release: “CDC is collaborating with public health officials in multiple states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service to investigate a nationwide increase of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) infections with an indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern JEGX01.0004. This is the most common PFGE pattern for SE in the PulseNet database. Investigators are using DNA analysis of Salmonella bacteria obtained through diagnostic testing to identify cases of illness that may be part of this outbreak. Because the outbreak PFGE pattern (outbreak strain) commonly occurs in the U.S., some of the cases identified with this outbreak strain may not be related to this outbreak.”
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Daily Archives: August 20, 2010
DOD Releases Final Fort Hood Review
Follow up to previous postings on lessons from Fort Hood and the Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment, news today – DOD Releases Final Fort Hood Review. Protecting the Force: Lessons Learned from Fort Hood, August 18, 2010 Continue Reading
Informal Authority in the Workplace
Asian Development Bank – Informal Authority in the Workplace By Olivier Serrat [via Stuart Basefsky] “The Insufficient Returns from Formal Authority in Organizations: Formal authoritythe power to influence or command thought, opinion, or behavioris the defining characteristic of societal and organizational hierarchy.1 Ideally, after Ronald Heifetz, it is expected to serve five functions that most… Continue Reading
Policy Options for State Pensions Systems and Their Impact on Plan Liabilities
News release: “In recent months, discussion surrounding the financial soundness of state pension plans has been hotly contested. In fact, recent research by the Kellogg School suggests that pension programs in as many as 31 states are headed for run outs and financial disaster by 2030. A new paper co-authored by Associate Professor of Finance… Continue Reading
The First Command Financial Behaviors Index
“The First Command Financial Behaviors Index assesses trends among the American publics financial behaviors, intentions and attitudes through a monthly survey of approximately 1,000 U.S. consumers, ages 2570, with annual household incomes of at least $50,000…The First Command Financial Behaviors Index rose from 2009s year-end mark of 90 to a first quarter closing at 94,… Continue Reading
