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.

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?

College Majors 101 - Within Every Major A Universe

 

College Majors 101 - Within Every Major A Universe

College Majors 101: Is an education resource dedicated to one purpose and one purpose only. To teach students about different college majors in depth so that they can make more informed college and career choices. College Majors 101 has a goal of becoming a long lasting institution in the college landscape as its work in helping students find the right college major is revolutionary. Our company and website will be a place where students can openly research the greater world around each college major in order to better understand each major as a whole universe, rather than random, unconnected objects in the landscape.

College Majors 101: Helps students understand the greater world around each college major
Through our partnerships with Universities, Professional Associations, Future Employers and Business media in each major, College Majors101 helps students better understand the greater world around each career as told by the people who are in that industry currently at all levels. Students all too often will look for colleges programs having no idea what the actual industry is like. Students who use CM101 will make more mature and informed decisions about their future. They will go into the right programs, at the right schools, for the right reasons.

College Majors 101: Is where Admissions and Career Services come together
Admissions is where students enter college, career services is where they exit. Through CM101, Students will come to understand the relationship between the two. The goal is to have each student enter college knowing that in 4-5 years they will seek employment in their chosen field, and prepare themselves from the onset to craft their college experience to achieve the best outcome.

Free Online Invitations -- Pingg, Evite, My Punchbowl, etc.

I have been reviewing the potential for using online invitation systems for scheduling and managing invitation for a workshop on EndNote, EndNote Web, and Zotero at my institution and I thought I would share my thoughts....such as they are.  I googled online invitation systems and got evite and a few others right away and since evite didn't fit my needs, I looked further.  The best comparison I found of services was from squidoo, entitled "Free Online Invitation Comparison and Evite Alternatives".  After looking at the sites listed, I choose Pingg - http://www.pingg.com/.

The reason for my choosing is the layout options, the ability to customize as well as the fact that it contained the key elements I needed.  These essential elements included (1) ability to e-mail invitations, (2) a web page for non-invited people to sign-up and register, (3) the ability to limit the number of registrations to the room size, and (4) the ability to communicate with the invited and registered attendees (to thank attendees, use surveymonkey for evaluation, or in case I have to change date or cancel.)

There are several which had these features and some that didn't.  A brief overview.

Evite didn't create a web page unless you were invited so it was out of the running... You could use it and say you weren't the person invited and then put in your name and e-mail but I couldn't figure out how to gather the e-mails and also explaining this seemed problematic...

PurpleTrail -- had to pay to limit the number of RSVPs -- so that's out

My Punch Bowl -- their e-mail went into my spam filter so this was a problem, plus it's name didn't seem professional.  Had all the other features -- probably my 3rd choice...

Man Vites -- not professional

Made It -- Doesn't work

Good Invitation -- Interesting might use sometime due to being able to used customized flash -- but no way to limit RSVP"s.

Events Listed -- Ticketing Service -- NA

Socializer -- My 2nd Choice -- probably better in functionality than Pinng but not as artsy or clean looking.  Had all the features and more and could be customized to make it look like I think I want it....

Invitastic - Not working on sending when I looked.... so I didn't look further.

Zoji -- Can't limit number of guests/RSVP's

Enclude -- Doesn't work

Shindigg - No limiting number of attendees and no website

Sendomatic -- Need to pay for more than 10 invites...

 

So Pingg (http://www.pingg.com/) is my choice --  I will let you know how it works out and if I switch to another system... If you know of any e-vite or ticketing systems that are free that have my criteria that I missed let me know.

 

Thanks -- Stephen

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