Steven Van Zandt starts Middle School and High School Music Education Curriculum.T hat's guitarist/singer Steve Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band -- a.k.a. Little Stevie, a.k.a. Miami Steve, a.k.a. Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano's consigliere -- at a sit down in the Capitol yesterday with Sens. Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg.

Known as the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time. Early Twentieth Century Afro-Caribbean Activist/Intellectual in Harlem.

The state of Pennsylvania is telling those who sell other people's stuff on eBay that it's time to get a state-issued auctioneer's license.

Award-winning correspondent, David Faber examines the rapid advance of technology which allows companies to monitor our every move and record our most private personal information. Driving habits are being recorded; employees are monitored; shoppers and diners are observed and analyzed; internet searches are saved and used as evidence in court. It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it is the government that’s using it. The documentary takes viewers inside the FBI, the Border Patrol, police departments and schools to see how they are using biometric technologies to establish identity. There is also a rare look inside a little-known division of AOL that works solely with law enforcement requests for information about AOL’s members.Faber also examines some of the downsides of the new surveillance society: a man whose cell phone records were stolen by his former employer; a women who lost her job due to mistaken identity; a man who discovered his rental car company was tracking his every move.BIG BROTHER, BIG BUSINESS takes an enlightening and sometimes disturbing look at how the growth of the information society may be eroding the freedoms many people take for granted.

Your right to have your own radio station. Protect your rights! "In recent weeks, the Federal Communications Commission, and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, have made strong public statements about supporting the low power FM radio service, and the vital work that it does nationwide. As the commission works at its November 27th meeting to make decisions about the future of LPFM, they must lay the groundwork to ensure that LPFM will not only be available in rural areas in the future. They must also protect the low power stations from losing their frequencies to full power stations that encroach upon their signals. No matter what happens in Congress, LPFM will only be available in America's cities if the FCC acts to make room for it. threaten to knock them off the air. NetHappenings

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Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Best for Enterprise Use and Congress Moves Forward With Required University Subsidies To Napster, Ruckus. MPAA Explains Why It's Okay To Tie Federal Funds To Blocking File Sharing.

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Learn How to Handle CyberBullies. A 13 year old girl who was bullied at school struck up an online MySpace relationship with a 13 year old boy that went sour and turned to bullying. She committed suicide. It turns out that the 13 year old boy who taunted her was actually the mother of another 13 year old girl in the neighborhood.

Michelle Malkin our student’s test scores on a major international reading exam have been rendered invalid because the contractor who printed the tests misnumbered the pages–and the Department of Education failed to proofread the booklets! Comments anyone?

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The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education Conference is happening now. Education Vendor Directory.

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