The EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee has released the results of its ninth annual survey of information technology (IT) issues that concern higher education.

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The U.S. Office of Human Research Protections is seeking advice on whether to issue guidance or require additional training for those who serve on institutional boards that review proposals for research with human subjects. The agency posted its request, which follows criticism that some of those serving on the campus-based boards lack adequate training, in the Federal Register.

It will be a free, non-profit, K-12 educational video contest, currently under planning and development. Imagine tens of thousands of excellent short videos explaining nearly every topic taught in U.S. public schools. WatchKnow will be a free (open content), non-profit beta project, to launch probably this fall, to see whether we can create that. We will set the topics and invite teachers—and everyone—to submit videos. Videos will be rated, and, at a certain point, we'll select a winner for each topic. We'll pay the winner(s) within each topic small prize(s),

Music Business Video. Terry Prince explains how he sold 15,000 music CDs in 18 Months by playing 30 hours a month on the Santa Monica Pier.

A subject that I believe will be critical to whoever is elected: the seemingly arcane (but in truth quite fascinating and dynamic ) subject of widespread, automated releases of government data combined with new Web 2.0-based tools to turn that data into informative, illustrative visualizations.

The question is not how do ISPs recover their costs -- the question is why we keep insisting on funding our infrastructure by charging for services instead of recognizing that the infrastructure is not a profit center. It’s a means by which we create value everywhere else in society.

Amazing OCW collections to explore for free!

The court’s order grants Viacom's request and erroneously ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and threatens to expose deeply private information about what videos are watched by YouTube users. The VPPA passed after a newspaper disclosed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rental records. As Congress recognized, your selection of videos to watch is deeply personal and deserves the strongest protection.

And let me make clear, at the outset of this debate, that this is not about domestic surveillance itself. We all recognize the importance of domestic surveillance ­ in an age of unprecedented threats. This is about illegal, unwarranted, unchecked domestic surveillance. And that difference—the difference between surveillance that is lawful, warranted and that which is not—is everything.

Companies in charge of seemingly public spaces online wipe out content that's controversial but otherwise legal. Service providers write their own rules for users worldwide and set foreign policy when they cooperate with regimes like China. They serve as prosecutor, judge and jury in handling disputes behind closed doors.

Something for everyone: fiddlin', yodeling, double-double bass, drums by fireside and Tex Williams crooning 'Trouble With Me'.

Sage Products informed healthcare professionals of the voluntary recall of limited lots of 2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Cloth Patient Preoperative Skin Preparation product.

Reports Of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy In Patients Treated With CellCept

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The products were recalled because certain lots contained thiomethisosildenafil, an undeclared ingredient that is an analog of sildenafil, a FDA-approved drug used for Erectile Dysfunction.

life-threatening complications associated with recombinant human Bone Morphogenetic Protein (rhBMP) when used in the cervical spine.

Drink Green Tea for your Heart. July 2008 FDA Patient Safety News. April 2008 drug safety-related labeling changes for 47 drugs.

The show, Red, White and Blues: The Sounds of Patriotic Pluralism is not the same old Sousa. Hear guests from Merle Haggard to Joan Baez talk about patriotism and protest with host Nick Spitzer as well as blues and New Orleans jazz versions of classic freedom songs, American anthems from James Brown, the Staple Singers, the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Martin, and more. A brief history of the holiday also known as Independence Day, which observes the day in 1776 when "the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence." Includes speeches, music, photos, and links to related topics. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

One Web site, called Textbook Torrents, promises more than 5,000 textbooks for download in PDF format, complete with the original textbook layout and full-color illustrations. Users must simply set up a free account and download a free software program that uses a popular peer-to-peer system called BitTorrent. Other textbook-download sites are even easier to use, offering digital books at the click of a mouse.

If you were on your way to work and heard a musician in the subway play for free, would you stop when you didn't know this musician was paid $1000.00 a minute to play? Learn what happened.

all mp3s will be DRM-free

There's just one catch to this energy conservation story: Each CFL contains a small amount (3 to 5 milligrams) of mercury, a neurotoxin that can be released as vapor when a bulb is broken. The gas can pose a minor risk to certain groups, such as infants, small children and pregnant women. Mercury can escape from plastic bags containing discarded bulbs, which makes long-term storage, disposal or recycling tricky.

three-dimensional navigational browsers through which students can take a virtual tour of the human body over an Internet2 connection.