With honeybees threatened by a mysterious illness called colony collapse disorder, keeping pollinators healthy is more important than ever. Demonstration gardens teach ways to create pollinator habitats.

What Amber Alerts do create, its critics say, is a climate of fear around a tragic but extremely rare event, pumping up public anxiety. Griffin calls it "crime control theater," and his critique of Amber Alerts fits into a larger complaint on the part of some criminologists about crime-fighting measures - often passed in the wake of horrific, highly publicized crimes - that originate from strong emotions rather than research into what actually works.

The briefing will highlight how the traditional health policy world has embraced blogging and will feature a keynote address by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, the first cabinet officer to author an official blog, followed by a moderated discussion with a variety of health policy bloggers and a media analyst. Questions to be explored with the panelists include: Why do individuals and organizations blog? How does blogging impact the broader work of an organization? Are there different standards used when blogging versus other writing? Have blogs impacted the news business significantly? What kind of influence are blogs having on political and policy debates?

The mission of the Training Corps is to support district-level professional development efforts by providing demonstrations by expert teachers and practitioners of ways to improve academic performance through increased content knowledge and improved pedagogical skill. Participants in the trainings should leave sessions with ready-to-use strategies and an understanding of why and when those strategies are effective. The Training Corps will also support participants through regional workshops, e-mail mentoring, e-Learning presentations, web casts and follow-up visits.

ED REVIEW July 2, July 18, ...a bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders

Screw the DMCA: The chorus of voices criticizing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) has just gotten a bit louder with the addition of a new and authoritative voice: The Library of Congress.

Creole Dialect Speakers and Creole Culture. Learn about stigmatized varieties and much more. Administrators, Educators, Reporters, and the Public are invited to learn about the following topics from Academic Experts. Creole, Pidgin, Patois, Dialect AAVE, African American Venacular English, Ebonics Irish American Vernacular English.

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Since Care2.com is classroom-appropriate and kid-friendly, it’s also a great place to do some technology and writing lessons with ecards.

factcheck.org In this election year let me recommend this site run by the Annenberg School at UPenn

New York 50 Percent of Sequoia Voting Machines Flawed. Don't allow vendors hack the vote.

We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator. Moreover, the antenna and tuner are implemented in a radically different manner than traditional radios, receiving signals via high frequency mechanical vibrations of the nanotube rather than through traditional electrical means.

offbeat angle on the iPhone mania: "Talking to God on a Two Way Radio" in honor of the recently-passed George Carlin.

The FCC commissioners heard about privacy, fairness and commercial possibility. Rep Mike Doyle (D-PA) helped organize the event saying it was intended to address two major concerns -- the so- called "digital divide" between those who have broadband access and those who don't, and "Network Neutrality," or the openness of the Internet.

Amazing Animal True Story about two men who adoped a 35 pound lion cub from Harrod's dept. store, raised, then released, and reunited with him in the wild.

Letters, prose, poems, drawings mailed by soldiers and other servicemen and women during world war two.

What are your skills worth on the open market?

This is not a guide on how to plan a wedding, but rather on how to find information on the business of weddings.

FDA is updating healthcare professionals about recent changes made to the Boxed Warning, Warnings, and Contraindications sections of the prescribing information for micro-bubble contrast agents, a sterile suspension of perflutren gas microspheres, indicated for use in certain patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, to opacify the left ventricular chamber and to improve the delineation of the left ventricular endocardial border.

NASA's Spaceward Bound: Arctic 2008 Follow along as American, Canadian and Inuit teachers work side by side with NASA scientists studying remote and extreme environments in the Arctic July 25 through Aug. 2, 2008 and Space Kaleidoscope Science Institute in Baltimore. "It's an exciting time for the field of astrokaleidoscopics, or anyone interested in the vast, wacked-out nature of space."

"What Your Broadband Provider Knows About Your Web Use: Deep Packet Inspection and Communications Laws and Policies." Contact Congressman Ed Markey, John D. Dingell(chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce) and Joe Barton (ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce opt out of NebuAd, Frontporch, ContxtPlus, 121Media, Phorm and PeopleOnPage

School Teachers and other scholars Deadline for proposals: September 1, 2008 for October through December 2008. December 1 for January through August 2009.

U.S. 6th Circuit says there is no meaningful risk of hardship to the plaintiff! read more . . .

You are invited open to the public The Federal Communications Commission today announced a public en banc hearing to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Monday, July 21, 2008.

Bush brings us back to the dark ages: "The Department proposes to define abortion as 'any of the various procedures -- including the prescription and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action -- that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation,"' it said.