JTA - Jewish News Archive

 

JTA - Jewish News Archive

 

The JTA Jewish News Archive is a powerful reference tool that offers a perspective on current events and modern Jewish history that is not available anywhere else. With free access to nearly a century of reporting about global events affecting world Jewry, the Archive will not only serve as a rich resource for both the casually curious as well as students and scholars of modern Jewish history, it will also transform the way the next generation of Jewish leaders and activists learn about their heritage.

Until now, there has been no authoritative site that provides a comprehensive chronicle of modern Jewish history, as seen through the eyes of journalists. From the aftermath of World War I, to the rise of Nazi Germany, through the Holocaust, the creation of the modern State of Israel and right up to today, JTA journalists have been reporting on stories and issues affecting Jews around the globe. The JTA Jewish News Archive holds over a quarter-million articles They provide a unique lens through which to view world events that no other news organization provides.

“The JTA Jewish News Archive has the potential to spark an interest in the past that will transform the future,” says Jonathan Sarna, the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and director of its Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program. Professor Sarna, a member of JTA’s Board of Directors, chaired the project.

It has long been JTA’s mission to document the narrative of modern Jewish history. JTA was founded in the waning days of World War I by Jacob Landau as a mechanism for transmitting vital information about what was happening in Jewish communities in various parts of the world. Orginally named the Jewish Correspondence Bureau, it was, in fact, the first news agency that not only gathered but also disseminated news in every part of the world.

The tag line on the logo, "Writing the first draft of Jewish history since 1917" reflects the reality that the correspondents reported what they could confirm at that time. It is possible that some of the facts in these articles were proven erroneous when more deliberate research became possible . As a news service, though, JTA reported events that would have otherwise not been documented. That is the nature of news reporting, particularly during times of war or political repression.

Throughout our long history, JTA has earned its reputation for journalistic integrity, outstanding reporting and insightful analysis. Over the years, the Jewish community has come to rely on JTA as the single most credible source of news and analysis available about events and issues of Jewish interest anywhere in the world.

Headquartered in New York, JTA is a not-for-profit corporation governed by an independent Board of Directors. It has no allegiance to any specific branch of Judaism or political viewpoint. We receive funding from a diverse array of sources.

Disability.gov: Connecting the Disability Community to Information & Opportunities

 

Disability.gov: Connecting the Disability Community to Information & Opportunities

 

What Does Disability.gov Do?

Disability.gov is the federal government website for comprehensive information on disability programs and services in communities nationwide. The site links to more than 14,000 resources from federal, state and local government agencies; academic institutions; and nonprofit organizations. You can find answers to questions about everything from Social Security to employment to affordable and accessible housing.

New information is added daily across 10 main subject areas – Benefits, Civil Rights, Community Life, Education, Emergency Preparedness, Employment, Health, Housing, Technology and Transportation.

Disability.gov is a web portal, which means every time you select a resource, you will be directed to another website. A PDF version of our fact sheet is available in the Newsroom.

How Do I Find Resources?

There are several ways to search for information on Disability.gov. Visit the How to Use this Site section of Disability.gov to watch videos about finding your way around the site or read our text-only guide.

Who Visits Disability.gov?

Many people visit Disability.gov, including individuals with disabilities, their families, Veterans, caregivers, employers, educators and others. Our purpose is to connect people of all abilities to the resources they need to fully participate in their communities.

Who "Owns" the Site?

Disability.gov is managed by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), in collaboration with 21 federal agency partners. For a detailed list, please visit our Partners page.

CPSC Home Page | cpsc.gov

 

CPSC Home Page | cpsc.gov

 

About SaferProducts.gov

SaferProducts.gov is the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database website of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC’s work to ensure the safety of consumer products—such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals—contributed significantly to the decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.

Through SaferProducts.gov, consumers, child service providers, health care professionals, government officials and public safety entities can submit reports of harm (Reports) involving consumer products. Manufacturers (including importers) and private labelers identified in Reports will receive a copy of the Report, and have the opportunity to comment on them. Completed Reports and manufacturer comments are published online at www.SaferProducts.gov for anyone to search.
CPSC was required to create a public portal and a publicly accessible, searchable database of consumer product incident reports by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which became law on August 14, 2008.

Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity — Home

 

Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity — Home

 

The Rudd Center seeks to improve the world’s diet, prevent obesity, and reduce weight stigma by establishing creative connections between science and public policy, developing targeted research, encouraging frank dialogue among key constituents, and expressing a dedicated commitment to real change.

The Rudd Center assesses, critiques, and strives to improve practices and policies related to nutrition and obesity so as to inform and empower the public, to promote objective, science-based approaches to policy, and to maximize the impact on public health.

These objectives are accomplished by addressing the following:

• Economics
• Food & Addiction
• Food & Agriculture Industry
• Food Marketing to Youth
• Law, Nutrition & Obesity
• Public Policy
• Schools, Families & Communities
• Weight Bias & Stigma
  

National Jukebox LOC.gov

 

National Jukebox LOC.gov

 

About the National Jukebox

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.

At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others.

Alan Friedman/ Not the Great Pumpkin / 20 October 2010

“Too Cool – you need to follow the link………HSM”

 

Alan Friedman/ Not the Great Pumpkin / 20 October 2010

ThomasNet® - Product Sourcing and Supplier Discovery Platform

 

ThomasNet® - Product Sourcing and Supplier Discovery Platform

 

“usually don’t add items that I know about and aren’t likely to forget, but the product news and guides areas ore new to me having not visited the site recently ….” HSM

 

 

ThomasNet, powered by Thomas Register® and Thomas Regional®, is an industrial search engine that provides one source for finding the exact product, service, or supplier –quickly and efficiently. ThomasNet provides direct access to the detailed information needed to make a purchasing or specifying decision, including line-item product details, CAD drawings, and more.

ThomasNet is brought to you by Thomas Industrial Network^sm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company. Thomas has been connecting industrial buyers and suppliers for over 100 years

 

ThomasNet Product News Room provides current, reliable industrial news articles which are delivered on a timely basis covering the whole range of products from adhesives through waste handling equipment. This premier news source serves the new product information needs of the industrial marketplace through websites, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, e-marketplaces and online publications.

 

ThomasNet Need-To-Know Guides

• Maybe you're just looking for some ground-level information. Maybe you need to make an informed sourcing decision. Whatever the reason, whatever you're looking for, these primers, briefs, articles and guides serve as your gateway to learning more. Each resource category offers a wealth of information aimed at providing you with the background and facts you need. Whether you're trying to track down the basics on a certain manufacturing process or deciding between various equipment vendors, ThomasNet's Need-to-Know Guides connects you to key industry info.

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

 

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

 

“…a repository of inestimable value, like the art world’s Fort Knox.”– contemporary art collector and friend of the Archives

Founded in Detroit in 1954 by Edgar P. Richardson, then Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Lawrence A. Fleischman, a Detroit executive and active young collector, the initial goal of the Archives was to serve as microfilm repository of papers housed in other institutions. This mission expanded quickly to collecting and preserving original material and, in 1970, the Archives joined the Smithsonian Institution, sharing the Institution’s mandate—the increase and diffusion of knowledge.

The Archives today is the world’s pre-eminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America.

Our vast holdings—more than 16 million letters, diaries and scrapbooks of artists, dealers, and collectors; manuscripts of critics and scholars; business and financial records of museums, galleries, schools, and associations; photographs of art world figures and events; sketches and sketchbooks; rare printed material; film, audio and video recordings; and the largest collection of oral histories anywhere on the subject of art—are a vital resource to anyone interested in American culture over the past 200 years.

Yet the Archives is still growing! Each year, our curators travel the country seeking the papers of today’s artists, dealers, and collectors, and once new collections are acquired, professional archivists preserve the materials and create easy-to-use guides.

Founded on the belief that the public needs free and open access to the most valuable research materials, our collections are available to the thousands of researchers who consult original papers at our research facilities or use our reference services remotely every year, and to millions who visit us online to access detailed images of fully digitized collections.

Our resources serve as reference for countless dissertations, exhibitions, catalogues, articles, and books on American art and artists, and preserve the untold stories that, without a central repository such as the Archives, might have otherwise been lost.

Through collecting, preserving, and providing access to our collections, the Archives inspires new ways of interpreting the visual arts in America and allows current and future generations to piece together the nation’s rich artistic and cultural heritage.

eBooks@Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online

 

eBooks@Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online

The purpose of this site is: to provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation; to promote reading of the same; and for the editor to have fun. There are many sites offering classic works in one form or another. Putting them into a format which readers might actually enjoy using is a challenge which I enjoy. If others benefit from it, so much the better.

The Collection began around 1998. I was aware of other e-text projects and had compiled a web page directory of these sites. Dissatisfied with the presentation on those sites, I wanted to explore how one might present a book usingHTML in such a way that it was as readable and enjoyable as a printed book. Having proved the concept, I then began adding titles and refining the format (and refinement continues to this day). The first title publicly promoted was Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend, done in order to tie in with an ABC TV adaptation which was showing at the time.

Selection of titles is loosely based on what are described as “the Great Books”, but includes all manner of things that took the Editor's fancy.

Hark: Sound Clips, Movie Quotes and Ringtones

 

Hark: Sound Clips, Movie Quotes and Ringtones

Just found this site and wonder if I can use them for ringtones….

 

Hark is an Internet media company that is changing the way people express themselves through creating, sharing and listening to entertaining, informative and timely sound bites online and through mobile devices. We started as a global community built around the largest collection of sound bites on the Web, but we've since made it easy for people to connect and engage in new ways around all sorts of compelling content, including images, slideshows, text (such as scripts) and lots more. Anyone who has access to a computer, mobile phone or video camera can upload an original piece of content in any format and distribute it to millions of people around the world through social media, email, blogs and mobile devices.

To hear about all the latest news for Hark, follow us on our Hark.com Facebook page or on our blog blog or on Twitter!

 

Hark: Sound Clips, Movie Quotes and Ringtones

Delete or Clear Jumplist Recent Items in Windows 7

 

Delete or Clear Jumplist Recent Items in Windows 7

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 5:06 am

Back in the days, I wrote an article on how to clear the recent documents list in Windows XP. If you ever went to My Recent Documents in the Start Menu, you used to get a list of all the files you recently opened!

If you’re a privacy freak who doesn’t want someone random to see what kind of documents  you were opening, this came in pretty handy! However, with Windows 7, there is a new feature called a Jumplist. You can read my previous post on how to create your own jumplists.

With Jumplists, that functionality basically moved from the Start Menu to the Taskbar! For example, if you open several Word documents and then right-click on the Word icon in the taskbar, you’ll get the following:

Hmm, maybe you didn’t want anyone to see that marriage proposal Word doc! Ok, bad example, but you see my point. The jumplist has a list of recent documents opened in Word. Great if you want quick access to a Word doc without having to browse in Windows Explorer, but not great if you want to hide this information.

Now this is just Word! Each program can have it’s own list of recent documents or files or whatever else that show up. The only obvious way to delete the entries from the jumplist right now is to right-click on an item and choose Remove from this list.

This is pretty painful for many different apps! Luckily, there is an easier way to remove multiple items from many jumplists at once. All recent items in any jumplists are stored by Windows in a hidden location. You can get to them here:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations

Copy and paste that into Windows Explorer. Now you will see a list of files with very long and convoluted names. This is because they are all encoded. Each one represents a list of recent items for a particular jumplist.

It’s impossible to tell which entries go with which jumplists unless you open the file in a text editor and browse through. However, since all of the files are just recent items in a jumplist, you can delete all the files and it will clear all recent items on all jumplists.

You can also run a simple command from the command prompt to do the same thing:

del %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\*

You can then add this to a Windows batch file and run it by just double-clicking on the shortcut. You can read my previous post on how to create Windows batch files. [via gHacks]

Delete or Clear Jumplist Recent Items in Windows 7

Her Campus: 7 Ways to Clean Up Your Facebook Profile For College Admissions

 

From -- http://www.hercampus.com/high-school/private-professional-7-ways-keep-your-facebook-profile-clean-during-college-admissions-p

 

7 Ways to Clean Up Your Facebook Profile For College Admissions

Posted: 10/10/11 03:47 PM ET

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At first, Lauren untags herself from any photos with red cups in sight. Next, she replaces obscene rap lyrics with sayings by Thoreau in her "Favorite Quotes" section. And finally, just minutes before hitting the "submit" button on the Common App, she changes the spelling of her name on Facebook to Loryn in an attempt at anonymity. Lauren isn't entering the witness protection program or hiding from the FBI -- she's simply using caution while applying to colleges. But do college admissions officers truly Facebook-stalk all incoming applicants? To what extent should you do a little Facebook spring-cleaning? Are there any red flags on your profile, and if so, how can you fix them? Her Campus sat down with Shawn Abbott, Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Admissions at NYU, to learn more about what role Facebook plays in the college application process.

How do college admissions officers use Facebook?

A 2011 Kaplan study shows that more than 80 percent of colleges consider their applicants' social media presence when reviewing applications. However, if you're worried about college admissions officers picking through your Facebook profile with a fine-toothed comb, take comfort in the fact that admission committees aren't likely to spend hours looking through your junior varsity volleyball photo album or scrolling through status updates dating back to 2009.

While admissions officers do check for obvious no-nos -- wall posts from friends along the lines of, "I can't believe how out of control you were last night" and explicit profile pictures -- the goal of the search isn't to get applicants into trouble. "Admission counselors search for students on Google and other search engines -- sometimes out of curiosity and sometimes to verify claims that an applicant will make in his or her application with regard to leadership or involvement with a particular organization or activity," says Abbott. Considering this angle, keeping your profile easily accessible and searchable might actually work to your advantage -- as long as your profile is clean. "I treat my profile as a way for college admissions officers to get to know me outside of my academic accomplishments," says Meg Enciso, an HC High School Ambassador from Ontario.

Considering the high volume of applications each school receives, there's simply no time to launch extensive internet investigations on every applicant. "If I can't find someone on Facebook, I certainly don't spend an extraordinary amount of time hunting them down," says Abbott. If you change your name on Facebook, you may be able to dodge the profile scan. Don't let a new Facebook name lull you into a false sense of security, though; Abbott warns, "We sometimes receive screen shots of internet activity that can be called into question."

How are pre-collegiettes dealing with this issue?

"When I was in high school, I didn't change my Facebook at all during college admissions," says Caitlin Fernandez, a Her Campus Branch Manager, Campus Correspondent, and Virginia Tech sophomore. It appears that as Facebook becomes more widespread, students are becoming more cautious with their online presence. "Most of my friends have either deleted their accounts or intensified their privacy settings," says Deborah Vasquez, an HC High School Ambassador from Florida.

Some students strive to keep their profile out of sight by changing their Facebook name. While some opt for unusual spellings or replacing their first or last names with words (e.g., Olivia Sunshine), others replace their last name with their middle name. Kiley K., an HC High School Ambassador from Connecticut, says, "I use my middle name as my last because I don't want people who don't personally know me friend requesting me or checking out my profile, especially college admissions officers!"

1. How should you clean up your Facebook profile?

Cleaning up your Facebook profile doesn't have to be difficult. "Common sense is key," Abbott explains. "You don't have to live undercover on the Internet. You should simply avoid posting pictures or messages that could come back to haunt you later." Take his advice to heart and keep your profile professional with these easy adjustments.

Remove or untag problematic photos.
Go through your profile pictures, albums, and tagged pictures and remove or untag any photos that could potentially cause trouble. The rule of thumb? If you wouldn't want to show the photo to your grandparents, you don't want it on your Facebook, either. Specifically, make sure to remove all traces of photos that include:

• Drinking and drugs - even if you're not the one holding the beer!

• Party photos that don't have any illegal substances in view, but you look like you're having a little too much fun.

• Nudity. (Beach vacation photos with your family? Totally okay. Party photos sans pants? Not okay at all.)

• Make-out sessions with your boyfriend. We know you think the album is adorable, but college admissions officers might not.

• Your profile picture is especially visible, so take extra precaution to ensure that it's G-rated and promotes a positive image.

How to do it:

1. To remove a photo, click the "Remove Photo" link directly under the bottom right corner of the photo.
2. To remove the tag, click on "Report/Remove Tag" on the bottom right corner of the screen.

2. Use Profile Review.

This feature is an easy way to keep your profile in check. Every time a friend posts on your wall -- whether in the form of a wall post, photo, video, or status update -- you will be required to approve it. This gives you ultimate control over what appears on your profile; there's no risk of questionable photos or wall posts appearing on your wall without your knowledge.

How to do it:

1. Go to "Privacy Settings."
2. Click on "How Tags Work."
3. Select "Profile Review."

3. Edit your Profile.

Now would probably be a good time to remove "lax bros" from your Interests section. You don't need to broadcast a fake interest in medieval poetry or quantum physics (unless you truly have a passion for those subjects), but make sure the information in your profile is clean and professional. Check to see that your Favorite Quotes section is free of any references to illegal activities and obscene or offensive language.

How to do it:

1. Click "About," right above your timeline.
2. Scroll to the section you'd like to change, and edit your basic information, activities and interests, contact information, and more.
3. Make sure to hit "Save Changes" at the end!

Her Campus: 7 Ways to Clean Up Your Facebook Profile For College Admissions

Test–Just a Test

Testing windows live writer from my new PC!

 

Lets see if it works…..

 

HSM

Test ScribFire

Lookign for a replacement for blog this with windows live writer....

Goint to look at the 60 apps in 60 min for the blogging apps mentioned at SLA since I need to find a new firefox tool...

 

Thanks - HSM

Green Business News, Resources, and Sustainability Career Tools | Business | GreenBiz.com

 

Green Business News, Resources, and Sustainability Career Tools | Business | GreenBiz.com

 

Our mission is to provide clear, concise, accurate, and balanced information, resources, and learning opportunities to help companies of all sizes and sectors integrate environmental responsibility into their operations in a manner that supports profitable business practices.

Our goals are to:

• Be the leading source of news and opinion on business and the environment.
• Serve as an information clearinghouse on green business practices, offering resources from companies, nongovernmental organizations, trade associations, government agencies, academic institutions, and thought leaders.
• Help readers turn information into knowledge and action by providing hands-on tools, expert advice, and case studies.
• Provide access to environmental sources and products.
• Facilitate increased communication, information sharing, and learning among green professionals and other interested parties.
• Promote increased understanding of green business practices to government entities, nongovernmental organizations, news media, investors, students and academics, and the public at large.
• Provide deep, vertical coverage of green business by sector and job function, ranging from product design to facility management, information technology to branding and marketing.

What We Believe

• A revolution is taking place that is leading companies of all sizes and sectors to comprehensively address environmental issues as part of their strategy and operations -- rethinking their policies, processes, and products, and their relationships with a variety of stakeholders and trading partners.
• Environmental concerns have resulted in a confluence of technologies, innovations, and creative thinking being unleashed that is enabling companies to transform such challenges into new business opportunities and competitive advantage.
• Companies address their environmental impacts in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons -- some voluntarily and others less so -- but all should be welcome and encouraged, regardless of their motivations or levels of commitment.
• Companies that go beyond society's regulations and expectations in addressing their environmental challenges often find that they can create new forms of business value, including both tangible and intangible measures of success.
• Those working inside companies -- from owners and bosses to managers and line employees -- overwhelmingly want their companies to be good corporate citizens, though most individuals lack the time, expertise, or resources to make significant changes.
• No company, even the most committed, will ever be perfect, from an environmental perspective, though they should be encouraged to continually improve their performance, and to make bold commitments and actions.
• Companies can be a powerful force for good, helping to solve the planet's and society's most pressing problems -- and do so in a way that aligns with their business goals and objectives.
• The time for companies to act is short, and the challenges are great -- but so are the opportunities.

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Earth911.com - Find Recycling Centers and Learn How To Recycle

Earth911.com - Find Recycling Centers and Learn How To Recycle

 

Earth911.com is a privately owned, for-profit company that specializes in providing consumers with accessible and actionable recycling information across the country.

Our online Recycling Directory is the most accurate and comprehensive directory of its kind and contains recycling information for over 300 different consumer products. We have collected over 1 million recycling locations and programs that people can search for to find their nearest recycling options and resources. We also have a toll-free and bilingual hotline (1-800 CLEANUP) and a free mobile application (iRecycle®).

We work with various corporate and industry partners to support this directory, which requires a significant investment to maintain and update on a daily basis. The information we provide through our directory, editorial, and resources maintain a strict neutrality policy and we take the distribution of fact-based, informational and actionable content very seriously.

Featured on popular venues like the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America and The New York Times, and syndicated by cool people like MSN.com, National Geographic and the Huffington Post, we want everyone to know that recycling is easy, and sometimes (dare we say) fun.

Going Green, Fuel Efficiency, Organic Food, and Green Living - The Daily Green

Going Green, Fuel Efficiency, Organic Food, and Green Living - The Daily Green

 

TheDailyGreen.com is a consumer's guide to green living, with daily news, tips, recipes, features and more. In 2007, TheDailyGreen.com was named Best New Site in the annual min Best of the Web awards. In 2010, TheDailyGreen.com was voted "Best Blog" by readers in the annual Best of Green Awards. In 2011, TheDailyGreen.com joined forces with Good Housekeeping and the Green Good Housekeeping Seal on an exciting new content partnership.

The annual Heart of Green Awards honor individuals, businesses and organizations that, like TheDailyGreen.com, are helping to make green go mainstream. In 2009 and 2010, TheDailyGreen.com celebrated its awards with star-studded ceremonies at at the Hearst Tower in Manhattan (see video at right). In 2011, the awards' scope expanded with many more categories, more winners and more audience participation - with the advent of online voting.

Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/about/about-us#ixzz1XIE10F00

Guide to Greener Electronics | Greenpeace International

Guide to Greener Electronics | Greenpeace International

Guide to Greener Electronics

The guide ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change. Last updated: October 2010. A new updated version is due out in November 2011.

Our three goals for this guide are to get companies to:

• Clean up their products by eliminating hazardous substances.
• Take back and recycle their products responsibly once they become obsolete.
• Reduce the climate impacts of their operations and products.

Guide to Greener Electronics | Greenpeace International

Home – Electronics TakeBack Coalition

 

Home – Electronics TakeBack Coalition

 

The Electronics TakeBack Coalition (ETBC) promotes green design and responsible recycling in the electronics industry. Our goal is to protect the health and well being of electronics users, workers, and the communities where electronics are produced and discarded by requiring consumer electronics manufacturers and brand owners to take full responsibility for the life cycle of their products, through effective public policy requirements or enforceable agreements.

We will accomplish this goal in part by establishing extended producer responsibility (EPR) as the policy tool to promote sustainable production and consumption of consumer electronics (all products with a circuit board).  EPR will improve the next generation of solid waste and toxic materials policy, promote the manufacture of cleaner computers and curb the flow of toxic electronic waste by pushing manufacturers to take responsibility for their waste, internalizing its cost in corporate bottom lines, and phasing out the use of hazardous substances.

The Electronics Recycling Superguide | PCMag.com

The Electronics Recycling Superguide | PCMag.com

The Electronics Recycling Superguide

We show you how to recycle your used electronics through manufacturers, your local electronics stores, and online trade-in programs that offer you cash or gift cards.

The Electronics Recycling Superguide | PCMag.com

eCycling | Common Wastes & Materials | US EPA

eCycling | Common Wastes & Materials | US EPA

eCycling

Highlights

• Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship
• Where Can I Donate or Recycle My Old Computer and Other Electronics?
• Recycle Your Cell Phone. It’s an Easy Call.
• eCycling Certification Programs
• TV Recycling Challenge Results

The use of electronic products has grown substantially over the past two decades, changing the way and the speed in which we communicate and how we get information and entertainment. According to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Americans now own approximately 24 electronic products per household.¹

Donating used electronics for reuse extends the lives of valuable products. Recycling electronics prevents valuable materials from going into the waste stream.  Consumers now have many options to recycle or donate for reuse their used electronics.  Many computer, TV, and cell phone manufacturers, as well as electronics retailers offer some kind of take back program or sponsor recycling events.   About half of the states currently have laws on disposal and recycling of electronics and several other states are considering passing similar laws.

Unfortunately not every electronic recycler follows environmentally sound recycling practices; however, responsible electronics recyclers and refurbishers can now become certified by demonstrating to an accredited, independent third party that they meet available standards on responsible recycling practices. EPA encourages all electronics recyclers to become certified and all customers to choose certified recyclers. Visit the eCycling Certification page for more information.

Reference to specific websites or organizations above is for informational purposes only and is not a reflection of EPA endorsement.

This site offers:

• Basic Information about reducing and recycling electronics
• Where You Live provides information about regional and State eCycling programs
• Where Can I Donate or Recycle My Old Computer and Other Electronics? lists organizations and retailers with donation and recycling programs
• Statistics on the Management of Used and End-of-Life Electronics
• Regulations/Standards for handling electronic equipment
• Frequent Questions and answers about electronic waste
• Resources publications and links that offer additional information on the management of electronics

¹ Consumer Electronics Association. Market Research Report: Trends in CE Reuse, Recycle and Removal. April 2008.

Reference to specific websites above is for informational purposes only and is not a reflection of EPA endorsement.

eCycling | Common Wastes & Materials | US EPA

Bugmenot.com - login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration

 

Bugmenot.com - login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration

 

Can never remember this site – I always need to search for it, so I thought I should add it so I have it backed up somewhere.

Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity — Home

 

Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity — Home

The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity is a non-profit research and public policy organization devoted to improving the world’s diet, preventing obesity, and reducing weight stigma. The Rudd Center serves as a leader in building broad-based consensus to change diet and activity patterns, while holding industry and government agencies responsible for safeguarding public health. The Center serves as a leading research institution and clearinghouse for resources that add to our understanding of the complex forces affecting how we eat, how we stigmatize overweight and obese people, and how we can change.

What We Do

Our charge is to reverse the global spread of obesity; to reduce weight bias; and to galvanize community members, public officials, and advocacy groups to achieve positive, lasting change.

How We Do It

The Rudd Center pursues our bold goals through: strategic science; interaction with key players in media, industry, and government; and mobilization of grassroots efforts. The Center stands at the intersection of science and public policy to develop innovative and effective measures to combat obesity and improve global health.

 

Includes publications, podcasts, policy statements, image gallery and seminar series.

Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in World | JSTOR

 

Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone in World

 

On September 6, 2011, we announced that we are making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world.  This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences.  It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR.

While JSTOR currently provides access to scholarly content to people through a growing network of more than 7,000 institutions in 153 countries, we also know there are independent scholars and other people that we are still not reaching in this way.  Making the Early Journal Content freely available is a first step in a larger effort to provide more access options to the content on JSTOR for these individuals. 

The Early Journal Content will be released on a rolling basis beginning today. A quick tutorial about how to access this content is also available.

We encourage broad use of the Early Journal Content, including the ability to reuse it for non-commercial purposes.  We ask that you acknowledge JSTOR as the source of the content and provide a link back to our site. Please also be considerate of other users and do not use robots or other devices to systematically download these works as this may be disruptive to our systems.  For more information, you can read a new section about Early Journal Content in our Terms & Conditions of Use. 

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Big Cartoon Blog- Cartoons News and Animated Film Information

 

Big Cartoon Blog- Cartoons News and Animated Film Information

The Big Car­toon Data­Base Blog Site.

This project started because we were bored. And, we wanted an easy way to look up infor­ma­tion about car­toons, a ded­i­cated car­toon fil­mog­ra­phy and in depth episode guide. While IMdb is very good for movies, and has some car­toon infor­ma­tion, it did not seem to us to be enough. So, we decided to make some­thing that did suit our needs, The Big Car­toon Data­Base (and lots of long nights) ensued.

First and fore­most, this is a labor of love. No one gets paid a dime for doing this fil­mog­ra­phy— in fact, we loose money monthly just run­ning the darn thing. But it is some­thing we enjoy, and so we will keep doing it, updat­ing and adding every chance we get. While the project started as a cou­ple of guys in Salt Lake City with too much time on their hands, we are very indebted to those oth­ers– who, like us, love car­toons– and have given freely of their time, hard work and research to help make The Big Car­toon Data­Base what it is today.

BCDB started as an Access data­base on my work com­puter. I had a list of all the Dis­ney fea­ture car­toons (peo­ple often ask me what the “offi­cial” list is, so I kept my own copy). Then I found a fil­mog­ra­phy of about 5000 car­toons that Nobuo Mochizuki main­tains at Shizuoka Uni­ver­sity Library in Japan. Nobuo was very kind and sent us his source, and we had enough info to get started. Since then, infor­ma­tion, car­toon his­tory and episode guides has come from all over the world– Aus­tralia, United King­dom, France, Japan— even Rus­sia. Sup­port has come from fans and pro­fes­sion­als alike, and we could not be more grate­fully for all the sup­port.

We have done our best to val­i­date the infor­ma­tion in the fil­mog­ra­phy. But some­times that can be hard to do, espe­cially for older car­toons. Please con­sider any errors in the data­base ours. How­ever, if you notice errors, it is pos­si­ble to send an error report for an indi­vid­ual car­toon right from its page. We want to do our best to make this the most infor­ma­tive, cor­rect resource possible!

But infor­ma­tion by itself is not use­ful if you can­not present it in an easy to use (and easy to main­tain) fash­ion. We needed scal­a­bil­ity, speed, secu­rity, speed, con­fig­ura­bil­ity and speed. We found all this (and more!) at Gos­samer Threads with Links SQL. While built as a “Links” data­base, àla Yahoo, it pro­vided the basis for what we turned into BCDB. And the sup­port has been tremen­dous– Alex is always avail­able to help in emer­gen­cies. And the online sup­port groups– most notably Pug­dog and Paul– have really helped us craft the episode guide and filmography.

Home | ReliefWeb

 

Home | ReliefWeb

ReliefWeb is your source for timely, reliable and relevant humanitarian information and analysis.

Our goal is to help you make sense of humanitarian crises worldwide. To do this, we scan the websites of international and non-governmental organizations, governments, research institutions and the media for news, reports, press releases, appeals, policy documents, analysis and maps related to humanitarian emergencies worldwide. We then ensure the most relevant content is available on ReliefWeb, or delivered through your preferred channel (RSS, e-mail, Twitter or Facebook).

We also produce maps and infographics to illustrate and explain humanitarian crises. To ensure ReliefWeb is updated around the clock, we maintain offices in three different time zones: Kobe (Japan), Geneva (Switzerland) and New York (USA). Wherever you are in the world, you can follow ReliefWeb on Twitter and Facebook, where we tweet on important and interesting humanitarian events, issues and content that we come across.

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

In a nutshell

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supports research into our world's frozen realms: the snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth's cryosphere.

NSIDC manages and distributes scientific data, creates tools for data access, supports data users, performs scientific research, and educates the public about the cryosphere.

NSIDC distributes more than 500 cryospheric data sets for researchers, from both satellite and ground observations. See Data at NSIDC to browse our holdings, get information, and download or order data sets.

 

Also a cool photo gallery -- http://nsidc.org/gallery/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=26&pos=80

APPS from USA.gov

APPS

 

Government apps provide information when you're on the go. Find instant notification of recalls to the status of veterans benefits. USA.gov is working hard to make government easy, convenient, and accessible.

What is an app?

An app, short for "application," is a tool that helps you accomplish a task or find information. The apps in the USA.gov app store are designed to work on your mobile phone. Some need to be downloaded to your phone while others can be accessed using your phone's web browser.

How much do apps cost?

All the apps featured currently are free. Charges from your cell phone carrier may apply.

Can apps access my personal information?

Review the terms of services page or privacy policy for each app to learn if and how it uses personal information. Most apps cannot access your personal information.

Are your apps available for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Nokia, etc.?

The apps featured in our gallery were developed by government agencies on a variety of platforms. Currently, we have apps for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. A lot of our apps are mobile-friendly websites, which means they can be accessed by any device. Each agency works one-on-one with the separate platform and signs a terms of service agreement with them, so it is up to the individual agency to decide which platform to use. At this time, there is no coordinated plan to offer each and every app on every platform.

Whom do I contact if I have problems with an app?

If you have problems with an app from the U.S. government, please send us an e-mail.

Whom do I contact if I have an idea for an app or would like to submit an app to this site?

If you have a suggestion, please send us an email. We review suggestions according to our Apps Policy.

Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide

 

Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide

Mashable is the largest independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. Mashable reports on the importance of digital innovation and how it empowers and inspires people around the world.

Mashable’s 13 million monthly unique visitors and 4 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities. Numerous studies and leading publications have declared Mashable the most influential online news outlet and a must-read site.

Mashable also syndicates its content to top publications including ABC News, CNN, Forbes, Metro, USA Today and Yahoo! News, amplifying its reach to many millions of additional readers each month.

Pete Cashmore founded Mashable in 2005 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His passion for sharing how web tools and social networks were transforming human interactions and reshaping cultures drove him to create what would become Mashable.

Mashable is headquartered in New York City, with an office in San Francisco. Mashable’s growing team can also be found across the United States, United Kingdom and in Eastern Europe

eXtension - Objective. Research-based. Credible.

 

eXtension - Objective. Research-based. Credible.

 

eXtension is an interactive learning environment delivering the best, most researched knowledge from the smartest land-grant university minds across America. eXtension connects knowledge consumers with knowledge providers - experts who know their subject matter inside out.

eXtension offers:

• Credible expertise
• Reliable answers based upon sound research
• Connections to the best minds in American universities
• Creative solutions to today's complex challenges
• Customized answers to your specific needs
• Trustworthy, field-tested data
• Dynamic, relevant and timely answers

eXtension is unlike any other search engine or information-based website. It's a space where university content providers can gather and produce new educational and information resources on wide-ranging topics. Because it's available to students, researchers, clinicians, professors, as well as the general public, at any time from any Internet connection, eXtension helps solve real-life problems in real time.

eXtension Foundation: The eXtension Foundation is a non-profit entity that exists to support the work of eXtension. Learn more about how you can support or sponsor this work at our eXtension Foundation.

Glassdoor.com – an inside look at jobs & companies

 

A free inside look at jobs and companies

Find jobs and see company salaries, reviews, and interviews – all posted
anonymously by employees.

Glassdoor.com – an inside look at jobs & companies

The Pop History Dig - a collection of short stories about popular culture - its history, its people, and its power

 

The Pop History Dig - a collection of short stories about popular culture - its history, its people, and its power

Welcome to The Pop History Dig.

     In today’s world, busy people often miss or by-pass important historic and cultural events when they first occur.  Others have completely forgotten older events or know little of their significance.  The Pop History Dig is offered as a place to revisit some of that cultural history, whether decades old or occurring just last week.  It is also a place to consider and reconsider the importance and meaning of these events – and their impact on society.

     What you will find here is a collection of stories that probe the history and power of popular culture – its people, its businesses, and its politics.  Everything from Thomas Edison’s inventions to Oprah Winfrey’s political endorsements is fair game at this site – and more.  Music, sport, film, and television are all part of the mix.  Media and entertainment, quite obviously, figure prominently in  make up of popular culture, and these are a primary focus.  History is covered, yes, but it’s history with a difference; political, cultural, and business history; history that helps explain, for example, how media and entertainment have become such a pervasive part of our daily lives.

 

     All of this is served up in a short- to medium-length story format – stories that are somewhat longer than a typical blog, but in-depth enough to provide thorough coverage of a particular subject or offer some new arrangement of  information.  Each story typically includes period photos, sidebars, and other graphics.  Some will contain music files, and some will link to videos on YouTube and elsewere.  There is also biography, business history, and a share of nostalgia found here.  Some stories are serious and conven- tional, others less so.

     Jack Kennedy’s politics are covered, as well as Mickey Mantle’s home runs and Madonna’s music.  Warner Brothers’ film history is included, along with John Steinbeck’s novels and the power of 1930s’ radio.  Walt Disney’s empire and how Ted Turner built CNN are also covered. Jack Kennedy’s politics are covered, as well as  Mickey Mantle’s home runs and Madonna’s music. And other stories to come might focus on the product endorsements of basketball phenom LeBron James, the history of MTV, or a Ray Charles song.

     These are all stories of a kind; part of the mix of people and events sometimes called “popular culture.”  But they are also more than that.  They are stories of money, politics, and power, too – and also, the longer timeline of history.  They tell us something about who we are, where we have come from, and what we value.  Some are significant in business or the arts; others have become historic milestones and landmarks; and still others have become woven into the social fabric over time.  Some are embedded in our personal lives and emotional memories – from music and film, or a good book or memorable sporting event.  And whether personal marker or cultural milestone, many of these events have come to us by way of the media and entertainment industries.

MetroTrends | Urban Institute's report card on social and economic trends in urban America

 

Welcome to MetroTrends—
The Urban Institute's report card and toolkit for researchers, students, journalists, elected officials and the public on the state of metropolitan economies. Here you'll find up-to-date charts and figures, expert commentaries and relevant, downloadable datasets. learn more

The MetroTrends Blog has launched and brings you seasoned voices on the changes and challenges facing metropolitan America.

MetroTrends | Urban Institute's report card on social and economic trends in urban America

Measure of America: American Human Development Project

 

Measure of America: American Human Development Project

The American Human Development Project provides easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding the distribution of well-being and opportunity in America and stimulating fact-based dialogue about issues we all care about: health, education, and living standards.

The hallmark of this work is the American Human Development Index, an alternative to GDP and other money metrics that tells the story of how ordinary Americans are faring and empowers communities with a tool to track progress over time. The Index is comprised of health, education, and income indicators and allows for well-being rankings of the 50 states, 435 congressional districts, county groups within states, women and men, and racial and ethnic groups.

Through national and state reports, thematic briefs, and the project’s interactive website, the American Human Development Project aims to breathe life into numbers, using data to create compelling narratives that foster greater understanding of our shared challenges and greater support for people-centered policies. The Project was founded in 2006, and became an initiative of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in 2008.

The Project is made possible through the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation‘s matching grant, which will match every dollar you donate–effectively doubling your contribution. Click on this secure link to donate today (please note this will direct you to the SSRC website).

 

The maps are the great interactive part….

http://www.measureofamerica.org/maps/

The Measure of America

How is opportunity distributed in America? Are we falling behind other affluent democracies? Which groups are surging ahead and which face the greatest risks? Which congressional districts enjoy the highest—and lowest—levels of well-being?

London Low Life

 

London Low Life

"This is an engaging and timely resource...with the potential to change the way we have approached the Victorian period and imagined life in London"
Rosalind Crone, Open University

This collection brings to life the teeming streets of Victorian London, inviting students and scholars to explore the gin palaces, brothels and East End slums of the nineteenth century’s greatest city.

From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the city. Children’s chapbooks, street cries, slang dictionaries and ballads were all part of a vibrant culture of street literature.

This is also an incredible visual resource for students and scholars of London, with many full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and a full set of the essential Tallis’ Street Views of London – a unique resource for the study of London architecture and commerce. We also include George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection, containing his research for London novels such as New Grub Street and The Netherworld.

Topics covered include:

• the underworld
• slang
• working-class culture
• street literature
• popular music
• urban topography
• ‘slumming’
• Prostitution
• the Temperance Movement
• social reform
• Toynbee Hall
• police and criminality

London Low Life

Esri Training | Library

 

Esri Training | Library

GIS Bibliography

This bibliography covers the literature of geographic information systems, science, and technology. It indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, and reports from the origins of GIS to the present. There are currently 111,052 entries in the Esri GIS Bibliography.

Search

All words Phrase Title Only Use boolean operators (AND/NOT) Search Tips

Advanced Search

Browse (by materials)

Books | Journals | Conference Proceedings | Magazines | Reports | Other Materials

Need the definition of a GIS term? Find it in the GIS Dictionary

Look for workbooks, industry-specific, and case study books from ESRI Press.

Esri Training | Library

Historic American Newspapers - Chronicling America (The Library of Congress)

 

Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress.

Historic American Newspapers - Chronicling America (The Library of Congress)

Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.

More information on program guidelines, participation, and technical information can be found at http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html or http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/.

Building the Digital Collection

Newspaper Title Directory

The Newspaper Title Directory is derived from the library catalog records created by state institutions during the NEH-sponsored United States Newspaper Program (http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html), 1980-2007. This program funded state-level projects to locate, describe (catalog), and selectively preserve (via treatment and microfilm) historic newspaper collections in that state, published from 1690 to the present. Under this program, each institution created machine-readable cataloging (MARC) via the Cooperative ONline SERials Program (CONSER) for its state collections, contributing bibliographic descriptions and library holdings information to the Newspaper Union List, hosted by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). This data, approximately 140,000 bibliographic title entries and 900,000 separate library holdings records, was acquired and converted to MARCXML format for use in the Chronicling America Newspaper Title Directory. Contact a CONSER member for updates and corrections to bibliographic records (see http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/conmembs.html ) through CONSER. The Chronicling America Directory bibliographic records are updated annually from the CONSER dataset hosted by OCLC.

Selected Digitized Newspaper Pages

Each NDNP participant receives an award to select and digitize approximately 100,000 newspaper pages representing that state's regional history, geographic coverage, and events of the particular time period being covered. In order to plan for phased development, the annual award program began with targeting digitized material for the decade 1900-1910. In subsequent award years, the time period was gradually extended decade by decade, to cover the historic period 1836-1922.

Participants are expected to digitize primarily from microfilm holdings for reasons of efficiency and cost, encouraging selection of technically-suitable film, bibliographic completeness, diversity and "orphaned" newspapers (newspapers that have ceased publication and lack active ownership) in order to decrease the likelihood of duplicative digitization by other organizations.

Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

 

Children's Picture Book Database
at Miami University

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Welcome to our academic website which gives teachers, librarians, parents, and students a place for designing literature-based thematic units for all subjects.

Our site offers you:

• abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books;
• search capabilities for over 950 keywords, including topics, concepts, and skills which describe each book;
• weblinks for keywords so you can integrate your up-to-date content knowledge with our picture book resources.

Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University (CPBD@MU) is a bibliography for designing literature-based thematic units for all disciplines, including health education.

Our database contains abstracts of over 5000 picture books for children, preschool to grade 3. Search over 900 keywords (topics, concepts, and skills) to locate books with storylines adaptable to your curriculum or program. Teachers, librarians, parents, students, and other professionals love this multidisciplinary, learner-centered resource.

We are continually expanding our database to include new picture book titles and content weblinks for frequently used keywords. Over 800 weblinks provide you with up-to-date content knowledge for each keyword so you can have ongoing professional development in several disciplines. In short, the CPBD@MU offers you two complementary resources: developmentally appropriate literature for use with young children and up-to-date content knowledge for selected topics, concepts, and skills.

Having the CPBD@MU online gives you the advantage of being the designers of learner-centered curriculum and instruction while meeting the needs, interests, and abilities of your students on a local level. The CPBD@MU can also supplement curriculum resources available from professional organizations, including educational, community, federal, and commercial sources.

The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC)

 

U.S. Army Heritage Collections Online

To search all of our materials, click on the "Search All Collections" button.
To limit your search to specific portions of our collection, please click one of the three search options below.

All Catalogs

U.S. AHEC Collections
Home of the U.S. Army Military History Institute (USAMHI)

Research Catalog

Search our catalog for books, manuscripts, photographs, serials, microfilm, and more.

Resource Guides Finding Aids

Search for subject bibliographies & collections of research sources.

Resource Guides Finding Aids

Search for digitized photographs, manuscripts, military publications, oral histories, and audio/video material.

The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC)

Academic Film Archive of North America

 

The mission of The Academic Film Archive of North America is to acquire, preserve, document, and promote academic film by providing an archive, resource, and forum for continuing scholarly advancement and public exhibition.  We also  document and archive historically important films not specifically in the academic genre, including anthropological, ethnographic, and medical subjects. We also engage in special research projects, and are the only institution in the U.S. dedicated to documenting the history of this endangered film genre.  We invite you to help us to save films and provide free access to them on the Internet Archive, by nominating a film and making a donation to fund uploading it. 

AFA director Geoff Alexander's new book "Academic Films for the Classroom: A History" is now available. 
Read Michael Fox's interview with Geoff.

Academic Film Archive of North America

CDC - Injury - WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)

 

Welcome to WISQARS^TM

WISQARS^TM (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. Learn more about WISQARS^TM >>

CDC - Injury - WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)

CDC’s WISQARS™ (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data from a variety of trusted sources. Researchers, the media, public health professionals, and the public can use WISQARS™ data to learn more about the public health and economic burden associated with unintentional and violence-related injury in the United States.

Users can search, sort, and view the injury data and create reports, charts, and maps based on the following:

• Intent of injury (unintentional injury, violence-related, homicide/assault, legal intervention, suicide/intentional self-harm)
• Mechanism (cause) of injury (e.g., fall, fire, firearm, motor vehicle crash, poisoning, suffocation)
• Body region (e.g., traumatic brain injury, spinal cord, torso, upper and lower extremities)
• Nature (type) of injury (e.g., fracture, dislocation, internal injury, open wound, amputation, and burn)
• Geographic location (national, regional, state) where the injury occurred
• Sex, race/ethnicity, and age of the injured person

A List Apart

 

A List Apart

“For people who make websites”

A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

Steal our code? Copy our content?

ALA’s content is protected by copyright shared jointly by the magazine and its writers, but our source code is freely available to all. We also welcome translation. See Permissions & Copyright for details.

Maybe you can be one of us...

...the few, the proud, the ALA contributing authors. A List Apart is written by the community it serves: designers, developers, architects, producers, project managers, and assorted specialists. Publishing in ALA confers prestige and has helped some of our authors gain book deals or find favor with the editors of print magazines. Interested in writing for us? See the Contribute page for guidelines

Poems & Poets : The Poetry Foundation

 

Poems & Poets : The Poetry Foundation

 

Poems and Poets are not really my specialty – but its nice to know there is a site where you can find a poem for any occasion or learn more about poets…

 

This is it…..HSM

Advertising Collections - Duke Libraries

 

Advertising Collections - Duke Libraries

This is a portal to search and explore all of the digitized advertisements from Duke University Libraries' digital collections. The Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke's Special Collection Library acquires and preserves printed material and collections of textual and multimedia resources and makes them available to researchers around the world. Through these collections and related programming, the Center promotes understanding of the social, cultural, and historical impact of advertising, marketing, and sales.

 

Had hoped to feed my Mad Men obsession, but most of the works in the Ad Access collection end in the 1950’s….

 

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/

 

The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

SPARC introduces Open-access Journal Publishing Resource Index

New resource helps streamline launch and operation of open-access
journals

Washington, D.C. -- SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition) today released a free online Open Access
Journal Publishing Resource Index with information and documents
to support the launch and operation of an open-access journal.
Materials in the index will help libraries, presses, and other
academic units on campuses as they work together to make the work
of their researchers more widely available.

This new resource is launched in conjunction with the SPARC
Campus-based Publishing Resource Center
(http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering), which delivers a guide to
critical issues in campus-based publishing partnerships, case
studies, a bibliography and resource list, an index of
collaborative initiatives (operated in partnership with Columbia
University Libraries), and access to the LIBPRESS online
discussion forum (operated by the University of California). The
Center is overseen by an editorial board representing library and
university press staff who are actively engaged in creating and
managing publishing partnerships.

The new index complements the rich existing resource center by
pointing to relevant sections in existing open-access journal
publishing guides and to sample journal proposals, policies,
bylaws, and other documentation to help with planning,
development, and collaboration issues. Topics covered include:

* New Journal Planning
* Journal Publishing Program Policies
* Governance
* Editorial
* Marketing & Promotion
* Technical Platforms
* Sustainability Planning

Relevant sections of existing open-access publishing guides,
including those by David Solomon, Carol Sutton, Kevin Stranack,
Jan Velterop, Howard Goldstein and Raym Crow, and others are
indicated under each topic area.

By highlighting samples and best practices, the index will help
give campuses the tools they need to develop and maintain
long-term, successful open-access publishing ventures. "As
campus-based publishing gets more ambitious in scope, it's
important to build on the successes and challenges of earlier
initiatives and adopt best practices," said Raym Crow, senior
consultant at SPARC. "Ultimately, campus-based publishing can
offer universities greater control over the intellectual products
they help create. SPARC is pleased to provide another tool to
support libraries and publishers in sustainable, professional,
open-access publishing."

Lee C. Van Orsdel, Dean of University Libraries at Grand Valley
State University, says faculty are beginning to consult
librarians for advice on journal publishing options, including
open-access models, and the SPARC site is a welcome resource.
"We're deepening our knowledge as quickly as possible, but it's a
whole new area of expertise for most of us," she said. "It will
save us time and increase the probability that we can get to the
right solution when advising our faculty on their best options."

The editorial board invites contributions from other campuses to
help build this resource and expand the bibliography --
especially with primary research papers on collaboration issues.
"SPARC hopes this will seed an effort where people will give
documents to share, making it a community hub," said Crow.
Members of the board and how to contact the managing editor with
suggestions are detailed on the Center home page.

The Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index is available
online at http://www.arl.org/sparc/partnering.

National Academies Press - free downloads

As of June 2, 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) will be downloadable free of charge to anyone. This includes our current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports published by NAP.*

Free access to our online content supports the mission of NAP--publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council--to improve government decision making and public policy, increase public education and understanding, and promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in matters involving science, engineering, technology, and health. In 1994, we began offering free content online. Before today's announcement, all PDFs were free to download in developing countries, and 65 percent of them were available for free to any user.

Like no other organization, the National Academies can enlist the nation's foremost scientists, engineers, health professionals, and other experts to address the scientific and technical aspects of society's most pressing problems through the authoritative and independent reports published by NAP. We invite you to sign up for MyNAP --a new way for us to deliver free downloads of this content to loyal subscribers like you, to offer you customized communications, and to reward you with exclusive offers and discounts on our printed books.

Sign up now. It's quick, easy, and free.
Sincerely,
Barbara Kline Pope
Executive Director for Communications and The National Academies Press
*There are a small number of reports that never had PDF files and, therefore, are not available for download. In addition, part of the "Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals" series is not available in PDF. Future titles in this series will also not have PDFs associated with them.

Disappeared: Google’s U.S. Government Search Sites and Other Special Search Interfaces Gone « INFOdocket

 

Disappeared: Google’s U.S. Government Search Sites and Other Special Search Interfaces Gone

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Gary D. Price

In the past few days we began noticing a number of Google Help Forum posts from users reporting that Google’s-Uncle Sam search is unavailable. The Uncle Sam interface provided a search of only government and military material and has been online for MANY years. “Uncle Sam” continues to redirect users to the Google homepage at this hour.

Another Google U.S. government search resource, USGov.Google.com is ALSO redirecting to the Google homepage. This site was “rebranded” on June 15, 2006 and received notice from a variety of sources. The USGov.Google.com documentation does remain online.

Reports say that users first noticed the redirects on June 2, 2011.

On Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz has also posted on the disappearance of both sites. He points out that Google is using a temporary redirect so perhaps this is a glitch or something else.

We wonder (and this is only a guess) if some new government site is planned to go live next week as USgov.Google.com marks its fifth anniversary.

As we’ve said in the past with similar situations, our issue is not with Google ending a service or temporarily taking it offline.

What does cause concern is that Google doesn’t let users know what’s going on until sometime after it happens or never make an announcement  Just because a service like USGov.Google.com is not used by the masses use doesn’t mean it’s any less important to those who do use it.

The reason for this might have something to do with advanced search sites and features in general. While 95% of users never use advanced search syntax (including members of the search team at Google) there are 5% of users who DO utilize these tools when they’re needed. With the vast amount of resources that Google has it’s difficult to imagine that they don’t have what’s needed to keep updates coming about comings and goings, syntax problems, etc.

In many cases Google is at or near the top of the list for getting their message(s) out to the public but in some situations it appears the opposite is true. We hope that the company looks at why this happens and find a way or ways to combat it.

INFOdocket finds it rather ironic that a company whose mission includes providing access to all of the world’s information has trouble providing updated info to users.

UPDATE: It appears that all of Google’s “Special Searches” for conducting limited searches of material about Linux, Macintosh, BSD, Microsoft as well as Uncle Sam are gone. Again, if this is the case why is the info page still live with the URL’s listed? Confusing! Why couldn’t a sentence or two explaining what’s going on be added to the page?

Disappeared: Google’s U.S. Government Search Sites and Other Special Search Interfaces Gone « INFOdocket

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