Karen, on email for first time in 5 days... NYT story is #6 on most emailed POPULAR stories today IT WAS SO GREAT SEEING YOU...YOU ARE THE GIN-I-KER LET'S GET THIS SHOW ON DE ROAD Growing up Irish in Queens and on Long Island, Daniel Cassidy was nicknamed Glom. “I used to ask my mother, ‘Why Glom?’ and she’d say, ‘Because you’re always grabbing, always taking things,’” he said, imitating his mother’s accent and limited patience, shaped by a lifetime in Irish neighborhoods in New York City. It was not exactly an etymological explanation, and Mr. Cassidy’s curiosity about the working-class Irish vernacular he grew up with kept growing. Some years back, leafing through a pocket Gaelic dictionary, he began looking for phonetic equivalents of the terms, which English dictionaries described as having “unknown origin.”

Sources have differing opinions about the legal requirements and what they mean. But given the outcome, the incompatibility of the two organizations seems one thing that is beyond dispute.

Read excerpts from an interview and watch a short video with Senior Executive Producer Paula Apsell explaining why NOVA decided to tackle the controversial issue debated in Kitzmiller v. Dover. (Grades 9-12) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Morning Edition, November 8, 2007 - Chicago is one of the world's great music cities, but it's still surprising that a Latin Grammy-nominated Mexican folk group calls it home. Sones de Mexico is a group of musicians, all immigrants now living in Chicago, who play a wide variety of Mexican folk styles. Their latest release, Esta Tierra Es Tuya, has been nominated for Best Folk Album. Son is the traditional Mexican music that gives the band its name. But the most striking songs on Sones de Mexico's new CD draw on more diverse influences, including hard-rock giant Led Zeppelin and its song "Four Sticks."

Background and news about the 2007 negotiation for a new contract for television and movie writers and the strike arising from the negotiations.

Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is uniquely encoded before it leaves your computer."

Salesforce.com is refusing to reveal details of a security breach caused when one of its employees surrendered their password in a phishing attack against the company.

Montana State University is sending letters to 271 students and MSU employees to warn them that their Social Security numbers might have been exposed because of three separate security breaches.

Security researchers say they have discovered a program that could be used by Islamic terrorists to launch data attacks against Western targets.

The Russian Business Network (RBN), a notorious hacker and malware hosting organization that operates out of St. Petersburg, Russia, has gone off the air, security researchers said today.

The Educational CyperPlayGround Internet Tutorial For Beginners. Learn to Click and Scroll to rock and roll around the net.

GSN Host Dylan Lane Discusses the Competition, Prizes and Goals in New Cable in the Classroom Podcast. About the “National Vocabulary Championship” GSN’s National Vocabulary Championship (NVC) is a nationwide academic competition that offers high school students the opportunity to win money toward college tuition through local and national events.

We've had a few stories now about Verizon FiOS (its fiber optic broadband offering) installs that resulted in fires and damaged properties.

In 11 states, over half of students live in poverty. Standardized high school exit exams put states to the test.

Internet2 has today announced that Verizon Business has joined Internet2 as a corporate member. The company plans to engage the consortium in several innovative ways, including collaboration with the Internet2 community on projects involving advanced optical networking as well as in important areas of next-generation content delivery and network security.

The piece is called, “A Vision of Students Today,” and features a very large class of college students, sharing short notes about their personal and education learning experiences, and the vast gap that exists between the one that they have created (one that many of us remain ignorant of) and the one that we inflict on them.

Cybersquatting Legislation Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) definition of cybersquatting

Hilton Pond Center and "Operation RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project," we got many reports in 2007 of white hummingbirds around the country. Registration deadlines for our 2008 hummingbird banding trips to Costa Rica are approaching;

Artist Courtney Love issued a letter to the music industry explaining that until recently, Congress believed that the RIAA spoke for recording artists, and not a trade group that is paid for by record companies to represent their interests. Her letter calls for support over collective bargaining in negotiations with record companies because singers are served by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), and musicians are served by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and there is no single organization to negotiate health care and pension plans

The Greenwood Library of American Folktales. 4 vols. Edited by Thomas A. Green. 2006. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. 1592 pages. ISBN: 0-313-33772-1 (hard cover). This story of the trickster trying to imitate another occurs in other variants in the Southwest (See, for example, the Jicarilla Apache, "Tales of Fox: Fox and Kingfisher," p. 116). As in the tale types designated by folklorist Stith Thompson as animal tales, "The Coyote and the Woodpecker" offers a moral lesson. The philosophy of acceptance and noncompetitiveness is consistent with general Pueblo worldview and morality. (3:109)

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Bush said $386 million of the new spending would be offset by reductions in previously requested funding and cancellation of unobligated balances, and $50 million would come from funds appropriated in U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans Care, Hurricane Katrina Recovery and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007.

Two men, one of whom worked on the computer help desk at the California State University at Fresno, could be sentenced to 20 years of jail time if convicted of breaking into the university system to change their grades.

Meet my friends The Funk Brothers ~ Karen Ellis MORE #1 HITS THAN The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and Elvis Combined HOW ALLAN SLUTSKY GET THE IDEA FOR THE MOVIE? This film is based on a book of the same title by Mr. Allan Slutsky that won the 1989 Rolling Stone/BMI Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Mr. Slutsky a New Jersey-based musician, author, and movie producer who worked for 14 years in putting together the movie, told me that after a theatrical run, the film will go to cable and then be released on tape and DVD. The documentary movie has already played in Los Angeles for a week in December 2001 in order to qualify for next year's Academy Awards, but that its official world premiere will be in Detroit in January or February of 2002. Produced by Paul Elliott and David Scott, Executive Producers Allan Slutsky, Paul Justman, Sandy Passman and Karen Ellis Founder and CEO of the Educational CyberPlayGround, Honorary Funk Sister