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May 2010 Archives
The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service has food safety tips for your summer grilling.
From purchasing, transporting, cooking, to serving barbecued food, the USDA teaches you how to avoid foodborne illness caused by bacteria.
Have a safe, delicious summer!
From purchasing, transporting, cooking, to serving barbecued food, the USDA teaches you how to avoid foodborne illness caused by bacteria.
Have a safe, delicious summer!
Bloomberg and Business Week have compiled a list from various business school professors on recommended summer reading for current and aspiring MBA students. The complete list of books and why they believe they are important can be found at:
Business School Summer Reading Lists 2010
The National Fire Protection Association issued a press release about the high risk of fatality among older adults in house fires. The press releases states that "adults over the age of 75 are nearly three times as likely to die in a home fire as the general public."
This NFPA video offers fire safety tips for older adults and their families. For UMUC fire science students, the library provides a research guide with recommended databases, Web sites, and other authoritative resources.
Continue reading Fire Safety and Older Adults.
The Federal Trade Commission offers information and resources to help you protect yourself against identity theft.
The Social Security Administration, which keeps track of baby names in the United States, just released the list of the most popular names in 2009. Jacob tops the list for baby boys, Isabella for girls. You can also find the most popular names for every year going back to 1880, and track the popularity of a name over time at the Social Security baby name Web site.
Herman, for example, was the 48th most popular name for boys in 1880, but by 2000 it had dropped out of the top 1,000 male names. Among girls, Gertrude was ranked 25th in 1880, but after 1965 it no longer made the top 1,000.
You can also see which names changed the most in popularity from 2008 to 2009 (Cullen, Jax, and King made big jumps in popularity for boys, while Maliyah, Isla, and Caylee gained the most ground for girls).
You can see the top 5 names over the last 100 years, popular names for twins, popular names by state, and more fun facts.
Go to womenshealth.gov for a list of resources and activities to help celebrate National Women's Health Week, May 9-15. Coordinated by the Office on Women's Health, National Women's Health Week initiatives include:
Image source: http://www.womenshealth.gov/whw/
- Planning resources to get your community organization involved
- A pledge to visit a health care professional for National Women's Checkup Day
- An interactive screening chart and immunization tool
- Health resources
Image source: http://www.womenshealth.gov/whw/
With people planning summer vacations, the government Web site usa.gov offers resources on safe travel, both domestic and international, including:- highway safety (from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
- tips for traveling abroad (Department of State)
- preparing to fly (Federal Aviation Administration)
