Blood Treatment's Promise Mired in Bureaucracy

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Navy of Tomorrow, Mired in Yesterday's
Politics

Navy of Tomorrow, Mired in Yesterday's
Politics 04/19/2005 03:52 AM
The price of the Navy's new ships, driven upward by old-school politics, may scuttle the Pentagon's plans for a 21st-century armada.

Marking Up Bureaucracy

Marking Up Bureaucracy 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Needing to cope with its enormous needs for document and data exchange, the United States is looking more and more to XML. Paul Ford explains what happens when Washington meets markup.

Wi-Fi Tax - Let the bureaucracy begin

Wi-Fi Tax - Let the bureaucracy begin 07/23/2004 11:16 PM

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Various departments of Japan’s government are toying with the idea of a Wi-Fi tax. As insane as this sounds, their government believes that this makes sense because other wireless device manufacturers as well as users pay for spectrum licenses. With this in mind, the logic follows that the Wi-Fi equipment makers should also be taxed as well….

Instant Bureaucracy!

Instant Bureaucracy! 01/02/2004 02:34 PM
Instant Bureaucracy! "The Power of middle management is as close as your printer." Friday non-Flash fun.

And they say that Italian bureaucracy is
complicated

And they say that Italian bureaucracy is
complicated 06/05/2005 11:19 PM
Being still an Italian citizen, I do get some mail from the Toronto consulate from time to time. Today, two big envelopes arrived in the post–as it turns out, there are some referendums that the Italian government wants my wife and me to vote on. I will not comment on the referendums themselves, but note the [...]

Bureaucracy Pins Rocket to Earth

Bureaucracy Pins Rocket to Earth 08/27/2004 02:09 PM
The da Vinci Project, a Toronto group planning to launch a homemade, manned spacecraft in October, is having trouble getting its paperwork off the ground. Canadian regulators are leery of approving the launch. And then there's the matter of finding insurance. By Dan Brekke.

The Beast That Feeds on Boxes:
Bureaucracy

The Beast That Feeds on Boxes:
Bureaucracy 04/09/2005 06:23 PM
In the history of American intelligence failure, one chronic culprit is that "giant power wielded by pygmies," as Balzac put it: bureaucracy.

Record and Chart Your Blood Pressure
with My Blood Pressure

Record and Chart Your Blood Pressure
with My Blood Pressure 06/24/2005 04:13 PM
My Health Software has released version 2.0 of My Blood Pressure, award winning Windows software that makes it easy for users to track and chart their blood pressure readings. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]

In Aftermath of Wildfires, Many Fault
Firefighters or Bureaucracy

In Aftermath of Wildfires, Many Fault
Firefighters or Bureaucracy 01/11/2004 02:41 PM
Residents of California's San Bernardino County and the eight other affected counties are growing increasingly frustrated with the process of recovering from the October wildfires.

Martin Luther King's kind of
bureaucracy: the FAA

Martin Luther King's kind of
bureaucracy: the FAA 06/22/2005 02:23 AM

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -- MLK, August 28, 1963

In the last couple of weeks I applied for a National Science Foundation grant (to go to Antarctica as part of their artists and writers program) and an FAA flight instructor's certificate, both of which involved cumbersome Web-based application systems.  The NSF won't let you proceed with any application unless you tell them your race, your sex, and your "ethnicity" (Hispanic/non-Hispanic).  They say that they won't look at an application unless the cover sheet includes an explanation of how you are going to spend the money in a way that helps what they call "underrepresented groups" (i.e., you're supposed to say how you are going to hire people with particular skin colors or sex chromosomes).

In using the FAA system a few days later it struck me as odd that they didn't ask my race, sex, or ethnicity.  In fact this might be one of the last government agencies that handles applications for its services without regard to race, sex, or ethnicity.  The FAA doesn't say "We really like your skin color, Mr. Airline Transport Pilot certificate applicant, so for you we're going to cut the required number of hours of experience from 1500 to 500."

[In case you're curious, the NSF won't let me know for some weeks but folks who've gotten the grants say that one is almost always denied as a first-time applicant.  I passed my flight instructor test with the FAA examiner (3.5 hours of oral exam plus 1.7 hours of flying a rented Piper Arrow with retractable landing gear).]

Radical Revamp of State Bureaucracy (Los
Angeles Times)

Radical Revamp of State Bureaucracy (Los
Angeles Times) 07/30/2004 05:13 AM
Los Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — A panel created by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing a top-to-bottom overhaul of state government that would leave virtually no piece of the state's sprawling bureaucracy intact.

Bureaucracy, Graft Hamper Thai Tsunami
Recovery (Reuters)

Bureaucracy, Graft Hamper Thai Tsunami
Recovery (Reuters) 03/26/2005 05:36 AM

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Regarding Blood And Oil

Regarding Blood And Oil 04/13/2005 02:32 PM
Whereas, in the past, national power was thought to reside in the possession of a mighty arsenal and the maintenance of extended alliance systems, it is now associated with economic dynamism and the cultivation of technological innovation. To exercise leadership in the current epoch, states are expected to possess a vigorous domestic economy and to outperform other states in the development and export of high-tech goods. While a potent military establishment is still considered essential to national security, it must be balanced by a strong and vibrant economy. 'National security depends on successful engagement in the global economy,' the Institute for National Security Studies observed in a recent Pentagon study.

Regarding Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency by Michael T. Klare, here is an excerpt from the book and here is his most recent article--Oil and the Coming War With Iran. Well, at least he has been consistent--consider The Geopolitics of War, Wars Without End, Oiling the Wheels of War, and Imperial Reach from his articles for The Nation alone. Here is an excerpt from his previous Resource Wars and here is Scraping the bottom of the barrel and Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World's Oil. Well, as to his position on current events, I don't think we need to draw a picture here.

Building Blood

Building Blood 11/03/2003 05:29 AM
Boston Globe Nov 3 2003 5:03AM ET

Gmail's new promise

Gmail's new promise 04/15/2004 02:16 PM

I can't believe how much flak Google is getting over gmail. Hotmail and Yahoo feature 5 or more obnoxious ads on every page view, plus advertising in each and every mail they send out, but Google creates a better version of web mail and we have state representitives introd ucing laws to ban the service before it even launches.

Has the whole world gone crazy?!

They've gone and updated their policy at gmail, and it boggles my mind that they even have to go to such great lengths to explain how their subtle ads aren't the new red menace.

They should introduce a new promise for gmail users. Every message that gets sent to a gmail account will result in a kitten getting petted one time. They could rival the old fishcam at Netscape, by having a big room with a kitten-petting robot showing everyone how much love the kittens are getting from the PetBot2000. And remember, no humans would be involved in the kitten petting.

Would that make things better finally?

Blood Substitute.

Blood Substitute. 05/27/2004 08:03 PM
Loyola University has received approval to investigate PolyHeme®'s use as a blood substitute for critically injured and bleeding trauma patients at accident scenes. Blood has a very short shelf life, requires refrigeration, and matching types takes too much time too carry blood in ambulances. The blood substitute has a long shelf life and is compatible with all blood types. It's designed to furnish oxygen which will "prevent organ damage in the brain, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys," until a transfusion can be done at the hospital. - pretty damn cool. I hope it works. [cross-posted on my site]

Blood Background?

Blood Background? 01/25/2003 07:49 PM
Perhaps something 3d, but it wouldn't matter... I searched all around google and could not find one, nor have I been able to make a good one using photoshop... ...

The Blood of Heroes

The Blood of Heroes 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
Valiant Comics are Back! After a brief surge in popularity and value at the start of 1991, Valiant comics soon died during the great comic crash of the mid nineties. Now it seems that valiant comics are worth their weight in gold with comics worth only a few dollars (or less) a few years ago, now bringing in 200 dollars. Is this surge in price a sign of a new comic book crash or are collectors finally finding value in Turock and Man-O-War?

Spring Again, with Blood

Spring Again, with Blood 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
We had rare Pacific-Northwest February sunshine today, and girded our loins for some serious pruning and cleaning. I took pictures and was editing them and thought “decent, but I had pictures of spring flowers (some of the same ones) this time last year.” Then I realized that was stupid; do I not look at this year’s flowers because I saw last year’s? And there are people who are living in places where winter is probably starting to wear ’em down again who might be cheered by a preview of what they’ll be seeing in a few weeks. So herewith the same old crocuses and daffodils, but this story has a pretty severe barb to it. [Update: Identified the mystery flower, worth checking out.]...

Brokers' New Blood

Brokers' New Blood 02/18/2004 04:11 PM
What's inside the discount brokers' impressive January?

When blood fizzes

When blood fizzes 01/27/2004 08:39 PM
Los Angeles Times Jan 28 2004 1:03AM GMT

Blood on bl0gs

Blood on bl0gs 12/18/2003 11:45 AM
My friend Rebecca Blood has a piece on blogs in The Guardian that tries to shift our enthusiasms about weblogs. I'm not entirely convinced by it. She starts by saying that "no one really understands weblogs." Fair enough. She then puts holes in those who have described weblogs in "outrageously overblown terms": Enthusiasm abounds. Bloggers enjoy describing themselves as pioneers, though their ideas of innovation are sometimes suspect. "We are writing ourselves into existence," some ecstatically proclaim, as if Pepys and Boswell and the historic legions of their fellow journal-writers had never existed. As the guy who said "We are...

My blood is unclean...

My blood is unclean... 05/23/2004 09:25 AM

I couldn't agree more with this piece on gay men being banned from being sperm donors. The same thing happened a few years ago with the blood transfusion service. They're desperate for donors and yet the rules say (in the UK) that any man who has ever had sex with another man should not donate. I've been tested regularly for pretty much everything and am clear, have a relatively rare blood type (A-) and there are chronic blood shortages that could result in deaths. What possible rationale could there be for stopping me from helping?

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The Promise of XML Realized

The Promise of XML Realized 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Microsoft's Jean Paoli, the architect of Office 11's XML support, was co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification with Tim Bray. The first thing Paoli showed Bray was that any existing .doc file can be saved as XML � specifically, as WordML, which expresses both the style and the content of the document in pure XML. "When I showed that to Tim," Paoli remarked, "he was jumping for joy."

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Young Blood

Young Blood 12/15/2003 01:16 AM
Like to live on the bleeding edge? Be the first freeloader on the block with this week's free software picks.

In this episode of Freeloader Friday were going to take a look at some new and promising software.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

Blood for Sale

Blood for Sale 01/04/2005 01:11 PM
Cord blood harvester ViaCell moves closer to its IPO.

ClickFox, E.piphany Promise Better CRM

ClickFox, E.piphany Promise Better CRM 07/05/2004 11:53 PM
ClickFox Inc. and E.piphany Inc. are each developing software designed to give enterprises better insight into the state of their customer dealings.

Promise of intelligent networks

Promise of intelligent networks 06/26/2004 01:31 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Jun 25, 09:42 am GMT

ISOC-ZA seeks new blood

ISOC-ZA seeks new blood 08/18/2004 10:01 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Aug 19 2004 2:22AM GMT

Why blood banks shouldn't use SSNs for
ID

Why blood banks shouldn't use SSNs for
ID 12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: Snip:

100,000 California donors receive identity theft warning after a single laptop is stolen from a mobile blood bank. It was being used to register donors. "The blood bank will no longer require Social Security numbers from its donors, and has revised procedures for handling computer hardware and other sensitive equipment."

Link (via Declan McCullagh's politech)

Saudis Promise to Increase Oil to U.S.
(AP)

Saudis Promise to Increase Oil to U.S.
(AP) 05/23/2004 01:46 PM
AP - Saudi Arabia has assured the United States that it will supply up to 2 million barrels a day in additional crude oil if the market demands it, the U.S. energy secretary said Sunday.

PE experts promise for primaries

PE experts promise for primaries 06/13/2004 04:24 AM
Specialist PE teachers will be brought in to every Scottish primary school to boost physical education.

Digital blood feud

Digital blood feud 05/03/2004 01:01 AM
Lessig surveys the battlefield in 'Free Culture' When future generations of search bots look back at this unsettled era in which we're transitioning from an analog to a digital society, they may be impressed most by the works of Lawrence Lessig. In his first book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, dark forces were gathering, conspiring to use code as a form of privatized law to hem in the Internet and the potential of the digital revolution. Readers learned that the Net, far from impervious, could be tamed by rewiring its architecture. The premise seems obvious now, but only because Lessig's 1999 ground-breaker connected the dots for us and set the scene for the struggles to follow.

Goverment Blood Money

Goverment Blood Money 04/16/2004 10:28 AM
JOEL JOHNSON -- Soldiers and citizens alike will have a better chance of surviving massive blood loss in the future, with both military and civilian research into new methods for dealing with trauma. Defensetech found a Darpa plan called 'Surviving Blood Loss (SBL)' intended to ultimately develop methods and...

Korea and the Political Promise of the
Net

Korea and the Political Promise of the
Net 04/19/2004 11:08 AM
Over a decade ago, I started to call attention to the importance of the Internet as a political force. In the last year, the Internet has begun to show what it can do. Last week, an extraordinary election was held in Korea. The Uri, or Our party, barely two years...

No VC in sight? This man tapped his
blood

No VC in sight? This man tapped his
blood 02/01/2005 09:26 PM
With his software start-up unable to land funding in America, Rick Bolin headed to Northern Ireland, where his family's roots lie.

Daily Kos :: Blood Sport

Daily Kos :: Blood Sport 03/27/2005 08:04 AM
from Hunter @ Daily Kos: .. Blood Sport .. DailyKos

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Ironing Out Blood Impurities

Ironing Out Blood Impurities 12/09/2003 06:13 AM
Injected nanoparticles may soon hunt down toxins in your bloodstream, but then how do you get them to leave? Easy, just pull them out with a magnet. By Louise Knapp.

PC Promise: Relook At Transaction Tax

PC Promise: Relook At Transaction Tax 07/12/2004 08:54 PM
Financial Express Jul 13 2004 0:25AM GMT
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