Natalie Merchant Teams With Music Legends for a Special Project to Benefit the Homeless Nov. 9, 2007 — Platinum-selling singer and songwriter Natalie Merchant is lending her world-famous voice to the homeless. "Homeless people are dehumanized by the whole experience," Merchant told ABC News' Charles Gibson in an interview, "and really isolated and robbed of their humanity in the eyes of so many of the nonhomeless people." We went out last night to see Mighty Sam McClain perform his new tune for the first time in public. I had to hold and console his wife she wept with joy so much. Sam & Weepin Willie, the bluesman I take care of, are both on Give Us Your Poor, a project from UMASS Boston & Appleseed Records of Westchester PA! Check the video! S Merchant decided that the way to restore human dignity to the homeless was to give them a voice, and she lent them hers. Merchant and other musical celebrities like Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi and Keb' Mo' paired up with homeless and formerly homeless musicians to create a new album called "Give Us Your Poor." Songs on the album were also written by homeless artists. Merchant described the collaboration as a musical petition on behalf of the homeless: "It's like stop pretending you don't notice us. Listen to us. And that's what I want this record to do. I want people to listen and allow these people to reestablish their humanity."

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The Sanas (Irish Etymology) of Faro, Poker and the Secret Flash Words for the Brotherhood of American Gamblers By DANIEL CASSIDY The Irish... gave American, indeed, very few new words; perhaps speakeasy, shillelah and smithereens exhaust the list." H.L. Mencken, 1937. A Dictionary of Hiberno-English,...corroborates the well-known but puzzling fact that so few Irish words have been absorbed into Standard English." Terence Patrick Dolan, 1999 "There's A Sucker (Sách úr, fresh new "fat cat") Born Every Minute," Mike McDonald, 1839 - 1907 The Irish language in America is a lost, living tongue, hidden beneath quirky (corr-chaoí, odd-mannered, odd-shaped) phonetic orthographic overcoats and mangled American pronunciations. Irish words and phrases are scattered all across American language, regional and class dialects, colloquialism, slang, and specialized jargons like gambling, in the same way Irish-Americans have been scattered across the crossroads of North America for five hundred years. Irish was transformed by English cultural imperialism from the first literate vernacular of Europe in the 5th century, into the underworld cant (caint, speech) of thieves and "vagaboundes" in the 16th century, and then into the countless number of anonymous Irish words and phrases in American Standard English, vernacular, slang, and popular speech today .

Clearly, the changes occurring between 1976 and 1988, when the PC and automation were becoming ubiquitous in libraries, had nothing on the changes we were to see in the last five, no the last 2 years! Retooling was essential for me. It is essential for the survival of the profession. We cannot expect to assume a leadership role in information technology and instruction, we cannot claim any credibility with students, faculty, or administrators if we do not recognize and thoughtfully exploit the information and communication paradigm shifts of the past two years. I attempted to chart the changes I've observed to help plan for the future. I invite you all to help me refine this chart.

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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.

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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.

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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;