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The Educational Outreach Division of the Library of Congress is seeking applications from secondary teachers for a Teacher-in-Residence position during the 2008/09 school year.

In Cyberspace, Everyone Can Hear You Scream T he kid knows no boundaries. But neither does the adult. The high school senior is so lost in a hyper-public, YouTube world that he thinks nothing of forwarding a private phone call to the entire planet. The wife of the Fairfax County schools administrator the kid called at home is understandably miffed about the invasion into her private sphere, yet she returns fire with a shockingly disproportionate blast of rage.

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ED Review (02/01/08)

a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface.

List of Songs about rain.

“Using a tool like CiteULike, researchers (who are finding 99 percent of their journal papers online, probably bypassing the library) can now reach directly into the bookshelves of other researchers in their field (or any other field), anywhere the world, knowing nothing about them other than what they have bookmarked, and see what they are reading right now,” he said.

we need to establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative consensus about what's fair and what isn't at the small-scale, hand-to-hand end of copying, display, performance and adaptation.

NASA AND THE BEATLES CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARIES BY BEAMING SONG 'ACROSS THE UNIVERSE' INTO DEEP SPACE WASHINGTON -- For the first time ever, NASA will beam a song -- The Beatles' "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4.

"Our friends at The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) will be representing the mechanical right interests of songwriters and music publishers in this hearing. They will be fighting vigorously to protect those mechanical right interests to ensure that musical compositions are compensated fairly," Bergman wrote. "On the other side of this fight stands the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Digital Media Association (DiMA). Both the RIAA and DiMA have proposed significant reductions in mechanical royalty rates that would be disastrous for songwriters and music publishers."

NetHappenings Newsletter - Headlines and Resources 2/1/08

NASA Science News Plant Growth Chamber Image Gallery and Video Available - NOVA

The Internal Revenue Service has fixed only 29 of 98 weaknesses in its information security controls, threatening the confidentiality and availability of its financial processing systems and information and limiting the reliability of its taxpayer and financial data.

[EDInfo] Notices Inviting Applications (January 31, 2008)Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Grant Program -- CFDA# 84.351D * Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program -- CFDA# 84.364A * Schools/Healthy Students Program -- CFDA# 84.184L * Alaska Native Education Program -- CFDA# 84.356A * Native Hawaiian Education Program -- CFDA# 84.362A

Music Travels - reconstructed a nearly extinct music for wooden flute

"Not content with current statutory damages, the RIAA is pushing for higher damages for infringement(1), damages that would total $1.5 million for copying a CD with ten songs. It's all part of debate over the proposed PRO-IP Act. William Patry, a lawyer who wrote the seminal seven-volume reference on US copyright law(2), called it the most 'outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.'"

Book Review: Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil and Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction and Tech Girls Are Chic

"The Kickoff Webcast with Karen Ellis" webcast.

NetHappenings Headlines: Holy War! Researchers say EEs have a 'terrorist mindset',Details of Scots on stolen laptop, New data security breaches come in fours, Industry experts question $6 billion Bush cybersecurity plan.

SECURE WEB SERVERS: PROTECTING WEB SITES THAT ARE ACCESSED BY THE PUBLIC

"CIPA does not require the tracking of Internet use by minors or adults."

For compliance, schools are required to address the safety and security of minors when using email, ... But, that does not prescribe the logging of activity.

Source: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html

 From http://www.ifea.net/cipa.pdf

TITLE XVII--CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION
   SEC. 1701. SHORT TITLE.
    This title may be cited as the ``Children's Internet Protection Act''.
   SEC. 1702. DISCLAIMERS.
    (a) DISCLAIMER REGARDING CONTENT.--Nothing in this title or the
amendments made by this title shall be construed to prohibit a local
educational agency, elementary or secondary school, or library from blocking access on the
Internet on computers owned or operated by that agency, school, or library to any
content other than content covered by this title or the amendments made by this title.
    (b) DISCLAIMER REGARDING PRIVACY.--Nothing in this title or the
amendments made by this title shall be construed to require the tracking
of Internet use by any identifiable minor or adult user.

Sec 1702(b) indicates that it doesn't need to be tracked. If it doesn't
need to be tracked, then, logically, it cannot be archived.

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Only 29 percent said that college transcripts were either very or fairly useful to them in assessing an applicant's skills and knowledge. At the very bottom of the heap were multiple-choice and general-knowledge tests, which most business executives dismissed as ineffective means of assessment.

The Web address for the map and other information about the Corruption Perceptions Index