Moving paper death certificates to an online process should be easy.
The EDRS, or the Washington State Electronic Death Registry System is an online system that is moving paper death certificates to an online process. This system should make the process of completing death certificates faster and easier. But, the government designed the system.
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Fewer flights and smaller aircraft leading to many more passengers per flight.
Airline travel today mostly stinks. It is thanks to higher costs, worse service, and truly uncomfortable in-flight conditions. But understanding why life in the air isn’t particularly good takes a little work. Actually, it takes a lot of work because the Department of Transportation’s new assessment of the airline industry runs a lugubrious 78 pages and is laden with enough charts, statistics, and graphs to make Battlefield Earth seem entertaining.
Only about one in 10 consumers participating in debt-settlement programs actually ends up debt-free in the promised period of time.
Debt settlement companies claim that they can significantly reduce someones debt for just pennies on the dollar. And desperate debtors are looking for a quick fix to a problem that they have spent years creating. They want the phone calls and letters to stop. They want to get rid of the stress they are experiencing.
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The crash at Wenzhou.
Train passengers hurried across Beijing South Station at the final call to board bullet train D301, heading south on the world’s largest, fastest, and newest high-speed railway, the Harmony Express on the morning of July 23, 2011. It was bound for Fuzhou, fourteen hundred miles away.
Continue reading… “The disaster that exposed the corruption of China’s economic boom”
New government nutrition standards went into effect this year in a bid to combat childhood obesity.
School lunches for the first time this year are required to be healthier but they are getting some push back from students and teachers across the USA who say they are still hungry after eating the noon meal.
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The new energy policy calls for a wider use of renewable energy sources.
The Japanese government’s just-released energy policy calls for the complete phase-out of nuclear power. However, the timeline is somewhat longer than many expected, with the policy saying that nuclear generation will be eliminated by the end of the 2030s, instead of at the beginning of that decade. The 20-page policy paper also lacks specific details about how the government will achieve its target.
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Honduras
The Honduras government has signed a deal with private investors to create three privately run cities with their own legal and tax systems.
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An information war has erupted around the world.
Around the world an information war has erupted. The lines for battle have been drawn between governments that regard the free flow of information, and the ability to access it, as a matter of fundamental human rights, and those that regard official control of information as a fundamental sovereign prerogative. The contest is being waged institutionally in organizations like the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and daily in countries like Syria.
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The rate for the South was 29.5%, followed by the Midwest at 29%, the Northeast at 25.3% and the West at 24.3%.
On Monday, the federal government released its “obesity map”, outlining the rates of obesity and how rates in the states compare. Colorado gets the svelte bragging rights, with 20.7% of its adults obese. At the other end of the scale is Mississippi, with a rate of 34.9%.
Continue reading… “New federal obesity statistics show Mississippi fattest, Colorado thinnest”
The Indian government is planning to give one mobile phone to every family living below the poverty line.
The Indian government is considering giving one mobile phone to every family living below the poverty line, according to Today Online.
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The number of clearances rose in 2011 by about 3% to 4.86 million.
As of October 1, 2011 a new reported record of 4.8 million people held security clearances for access to classified information, according to a new intelligence community report to Congress.
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Congress now has second thoughts on safety after pushing FAA to allow UAVs.
In a House Homeland Security oversight subcommittee hearing members of Congress raised concerns over the potential security risks posed by jamming and electronic hijacking of unmanned aerial systems, and the potential use of drones by terrorists.
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