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1. T10 Technical Committee
- www.t10.org
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2. Design that Matters Home
- www.designthatmatters.org
- Design that Matters (DtM), a Massachusetts nonprofit, helps underserved communities realize an improved quality of life by creating products and services that meet needs identified by the communities themselves. ...
- DtM works with NGOs, corporate partners and local entrepreneurs to ensure that promising student innovations result in products and services for communities in need. Since its launch at MIT in 2000, DtM has worked with over 600 university engineering and business students and dozens of professional volunteers to develop dozens of prototypes that promise to improve thousands of lives.
- Expressive Interfaces for Children with Special Needs: development of inexpensive and customizable communication devices using "supermarket sensors"-simple foam capacitors that can be fabricated from inexpensive local materials. ...
- Design that Matters in the Field.
- In the summer of 2003, Design that Matters spent six weeks in Mali and Benin on an extended field study. ...
- The United States Agency for International Development has partnered with Design that Matters and World Education to support a pilot test of the Kinkajou Portable Library and Projection System in night-time adult literacy classes in 45 villages in rural Mali. ...
- About 1,350 adults in 45 communities across Mali soon will learn to read with the aid of the Kinkajou Portable Library as part of a six-month pilot test of the system that got underway January 2005. ...
- DtM kicked off the year with field studies in Bangladesh and India designed to enhance the organization’s capacity to innovate solutions right at every level – from design to marketing to pricing to distribution and financing – so that they reach as many beneficiaries as possible. ...
3. Spiritual Gifts Discovery Tool - Home Page
- www.cforc.com
- And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. ...
4. Economic History Resources - How Much is That?
- www.eh.net
- NOTE: Please also see What is the Relative Value?, which presents five different ways (including the CPI) that can be used to compare the worth of a United States Dollar for the years 1789 - 2003.
- For example, you may want to know: How much money would you need today to have the same "purchasing power" of $500 in year 1970 If you entered these values in the correct places, you will find that the answer is $2,290. ...
- Source note for "How Much Is That Worth Today?" .
5. FDA/CFSAN - Claims for Conventional Foods and Dietary Supplements
- www.cfsan.fda.gov
- Claims That Can Be Made for Conventional Foods and Dietary Supplements.
- Claims that can be used on food and dietary supplement labels fall into three categories: health claims, nutrient content claims, and structure/function claims. ...
- government or the National Academy of Sciences; such claims may be used after submission of a health claim notification to FDA; and 3) the 2003 FDA Consumer Health Information for Better Nutrition Initiative provides for qualified health claims where the quality and strength of the scientific evidence falls below that required for FDA to issue an authorizing regulation. ... Appendix C of The Food Labeling Guide contains a summary of those health claims that have been approved for use on food and dietary supplement labels: http://www. ...
- For example, statements that address a role of dietary patterns or of general categories of foods (e. ... , fruits and vegetables) in health are considered to be dietary guidance rather than health claims, provided that the context of the statement does not suggest that a specific substance is the subject. ... Statements that address a role of a specific substance in maintaining normal healthy structures or functions of the body are considered to be structure/function claims. ...
- The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) of 1990, the Dietary Supplement Act of 1992, and the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), provide for health claims used on labels that characterize a relationship between a food, a food component, dietary ingredient, or dietary supplement and risk of a disease (for example, "diets high in calcium may reduce the risk of osteoporosis"), provided the claims meet certain criteria and are authorized by an FDA regulation. FDA authorizes these types of health claims based on an extensive review of the scientific literature, generally as a result of the submission of a health claim petition, using the significant scientific agreement standard to determine that the nutrient/disease relationship is well established. ...
- Qualifying language is included as part of the claim to indicate that the evidence supporting the claim is limited. ... Qualified health claim petitions that are submitted to FDA will be available for public review and comment. ...
- The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 (NLEA) permits the use of label claims that characterize the level of a nutrient in a food (i. ... Nutrient content claims describe the level of a nutrient or dietary substance in the product, using terms such as free, high, and low, or they compare the level of a nutrient in a food to that of another food, using terms such as more, reduced, and lite. ... , 200 mg of sodium) that does not "characterize" the nutrient level may be used to describe any amount of a nutrient present. However, a statement such as "only 200 mg of sodium" characterizes the level of sodium as being low and would therefore need to conform to the criteria of an appropriate nutrient content claim or carry a disclosure statement that it does not comply with the claim. Most nutrient content claim regulations apply only to those nutrients or dietary substances that have an established daily value: http://www. ... The requirements that govern the use of nutrient content claims help ensure that descriptive terms, such as high or low, are used consistently for all types of food products and are thus meaningful to consumers. Healthy has been defined by a regulation as an implied nutrient content claim that characterizes a food that has "healthy" levels of total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium. ...
6. OJR article: News That Comes to You
- www.ojr.org
- News That Comes to You.
- Well, here's one possible solution: news readers -- a new crop of software programs that fetch updated dispatches from your favorite online writers, bloggers or news outfits.
- Instead of the hunt and peck of Web surfing, you can download or buy a small program that turns your computer into a voracious media hub, letting you snag headlines and news updates as if you were commanding the anchor desk at CNN.
- reach that most elusive of creatures: the wired, tech-savvy professional. And you can bet that within a year or so, students will be latching onto RSS subscriptions in a big way.
- RSS feeds fit into that strategy, along with free daily e-mail headline summaries (30,000 subscribers), electronic PDF files of the print edition, mobile news feeds, and 400 yearly appearances by Monitor staffers on TV and radio stations.
- Unfortunately, there's no way to determine how many readers that number represents.
- "The content is already made, and once that's done we need to challenge ourselves to get it into somebody's path so they can engage with the Monitor in whatever form suits them," he says.
- org, and sites that plumb niche subjects like linguistics and sociology.
- "Within 10 minutes time I became convinced that RSS was going to become an incredibly important piece of Web publishing," he says. ...
- After seeing bloggers copy and paste his RSS blurbs into their weblogs, Bowman now spends a bit more time sprucing up the summaries that accompany each posting.
- Bowman, a freelance journalist and designer, makes two predictions: "I think that RSS feeds will start replacing e-mail newsletters because they do a better job of providing structure and a more efficient means of parsing through data. ...
- "That would be a killer app," he says.
- browser and Netscape 7 come with sidebars that can display RSS feeds. There are news readers for handheld devices, and one being tested now that uses a ticker format to display headlines non-stop in the top line of your browser, like TV Headline News. ...
- Perhaps news readers will evolve into something that has little to do with news. Suggests Turner: "The perfect news reader won't be a 'news reader' -- it'll be an agent that mediates our interaction with personalized bulletins: aggregating, filtering, and prioritizing many sources of changing information. ...
7. Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
- c2.com
- Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work.
- So when I asked KentBeck , "What's the simplest thing that could possibly work," I wasn't even sure. I wasn't asking, "What do you know would work?" I was asking, "What's possible? What is the simplest thing we could say in code, so that we'll be talking about something that's on the screen, instead of something that's ill-formed in our mind. ...
- First, implement a new capability in the simplest SimplestOrEasiest? way you can think of that "could possibly work". ...
- With each increment of an IterativeDevelopment one should do the simplest thing that could possibly work. ... That way you can at least pick the simpler, if not the simplest. ...
- Know that the ways could possibly work. ...
- That leaves the existing test cases running. ...
- It might mean "refactor the part hierarchy so that entitlements and deductions both have positive balance when they are normal". ...
- What it does mean, however, is to pick something you can do and do quickly, so that you can get on with the other things you really need to do. Then do that thing professionally and well, complete with all appropriate refactoring. ...
- One final note: ExtremeProgramming rests, I believe, on the assumption that developers want to do well, and that when they know what is expected, they will do well. We do, as a team, require that our rules about testing and other key processes be followed. In almost every case, that works just fine. ...
- Remember, however, that "quality" is probably impossible to fully define. ... No one expects a US payroll system to accurately deduct income taxes; it is expected that each employee will have to make a manual adjustment with his yearly income tax filing. ...
8. Wired News: You Have an Rx for That Vibrator?
- www.wired.com
- You Have an Rx for That Vibrator? .
- I have tendonitis in both arms, a chronic condition that causes me quite a bit of pain if I'm not careful. I use various devices to help me work around it, including a wireless curved keyboard and an ergonomic mouse that I can use with either hand. ...
- It makes me wonder what I would do if I lived in Alabama, one of the few remaining states whose obscenity law makes it illegal to "produce, distribute or otherwise sell sexual devices that are marketed primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs. ...
- However, even this law recognizes that sex toys are not inherently criminal. ... " It just isn't clear on what qualifies as "bona fide" -- or who makes that decision. ...
- "The reason they put that (exemption) in the law was so they didn't violate the rights of people who needed (these devices)," she says. "But the witnesses in our case are stating in their depositions that they physically need sexual aids," and it's not making any difference. ...
- Another plaintiff testifies that sexual intercourse is painful for her. Two other plaintiffs state that marital aids saved their marriages, while another -- a 50-year-old woman -- uses sex toys so she is not at risk for STDs. ...
- One is the Eros Therapy, a suction cup that is placed on the clitoris. ...
- The problem is that even if this particular type of sex aid works for you -- and I can tell you right now that a suction cup doesn't do anything for me -- not everyone can use them easily. ...
- Cory Silverberg, a sex educator and co-author of The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability, says that unfortunately, "sex is not considered an activity of daily living" when it comes to attendant care for people with disabilities. ...
- 07, 2005Cell Phones That Do It Dec. ...
9. What can you say to that? (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
- www.aaronsw.com
- What can you say to that?.
- When it was over I was so filled with anxiety over uncompleted tasks that I could hardly sit or walk. ...
- And his IP address shows that yes, he really is from China. ... What can you say to that?.
- Stanford: Limerick Stanford: Psychology is a Fraud Jimbo Wales on Wikipedia Stanford: Roosevelt Institution Kickoff Party Stanford: You Really Don’t Have To Read This What can you say to that? The Republican Playbook The Case Against Lawrence Summers Blogshine Sunday: US Greenlights, Funds Genocide Fraud in Science .
- What do you say to that? I’d start exercising, just so I could justify my complaining. ...
- If the chinese work 12 hours+ every day, why are all the best universities (according to this ranking) US/UK? I can think of several factors, like brain drain and biased comparison methods, but one that worries me is the english theory: That it’s the native english speaker’s advantage, through superior control of the language that is used, and the fact that he/she doesn’t have to read or write articles in foreign languages to the same degree.
- Yes, for most of the Chinese students, they work hard like that every day, but the truth is not necessary to be we are that dedicated at and concentrated on our work: it seems we, the students and teachers, have been trapped in the system, in which the general public have shaped a strange environment: It makes us take pride in this kind of self-torture,(take kk as a good example. ...
- Anyway, as far I know, the most excellent students in China are all exceptions of that pattern. ...
- There is no good idea to deal with that hard life. ...
10. Philip Greenspun's Weblog:
- blogs.law.harvard.edu
- Tuesday, March 8, 2005 -->Business schools redefine hacking to "stuff that a 7-year-old could do".
- Instead of students studying Literature, Art, History, and Science they would be going through the motions of a scholar while occupying their minds with things that formerly had been learned at a desk as an apprentice in a dreary Victorian counting house. ...
- Harvard and a bunch of other B-schools with a collective IT budget of maybe $50 million decided that writing Perl scripts was too hard so they outsourced Web-based applications to a company called ApplyYourself. ...
- You'd think that the main advantage of a centralized service such as ApplyYourself would be that a prospective student could fill out one application and the information be sent simultaneously to many schools. ...
- The ApplyYourself code had a bug such that editing the URL in the "Address" or "Location" field of a Web browser window would result in an applicant being able to find out his admissions status several weeks before the official notification date. ...
- Now all the curious applicants, having edited their URLs, are being denied admission to Harvard and, due to the fact that universities form cartels to fix tuition prices and other policies, presumably to the other B-schools as well.
- One interesting data point is that I once supervised a couple of MIT students building an online system for submission of essays to be graded. ... One server with a single database is programmed to handle students and evaluators from many different schools and keep everything that should be separate separated. ...
- There was at one time a bug in IIS/ASP that enabled anyone to view the source code by appending "::$DATA" to any. ... So it seems that my curiosity into just how incompetent an institution with $billions in assets could be would have led to me failing the ethics test, being convicted of hacking, and being denied admission to a top business school.
- Where would I personally draw the line? A grad student at MIT figured out that Fandango, the movie ticketing service, was passing the price of the movie ticket as a hidden form variable in the HTML instead of doing the pricing on the server at the final page. He was able to edit the HTML form in Emacs and submit it to Fandango and buy tickets for any price that he felt was fair (being a grad student, his preferred price for tickets was $0. ... He invited me to try it out but it but I thought that either Fandango or a movie theater would end up having to make up the difference and it didn't feel right to take their money. ... Thus I predict that one day Disney will have a Web site where you can buy access to any of their movies. ...
- This is a remarkable achievement considering that the U. ...
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11. Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE)
- www.cognitiveliberty.org
- A 50-page policy report released by the non-profit Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics warns that the war on drugs may be about to enter a new era “that expands the drug war battlefield from the Colombian coca farms and the Middle Eastern poppy fields, to a new terrain directly inside the bodies and brains of drug users. ...
- The newspaper The Australian reports that “a group of Queensland politicians want the federal Government to investigate giving an anti-junkie vaccination to babies. ...
- Our mission is to develop public polices that will preserve and enhance freedom of thought into the 21st Century. ...
12. The W3C Markup Validation Service
- validator.w3.org
- The W3C Markup Validation Service is a free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards. ...
- 7, a maintenance release that fixes a few minor bugs, improves authentication proxying, and makes some slight tweaks to the website style and markup. ... 6, a maintenance release that fixes a few minor bugs, resurrects the whitespace-preserving source display, adds explanations for additional error messages, and makes some slight tweaks to the website style. ...
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