China Baidu.com Bravo! Hewlwtt-Packard, the world's top PC maker and Dell Inc. Said they wer not providing Green Dam with their PC's in China. DO NOT BUY Acer, Lenovo and Sony who are providing Green Dam Software and Minor Escort programs with computers sold in China on July 4th which coincides with America's Independence Day Celebration.

Educational CyberPlayGround K12 Newsletter New survey for pre-service teachers and partnership with Chicago Public Schools. Speak Up 2009 will include online surveys for K-12 students, parents, teachers, principals and district administrators, and for the first time, will include a specific survey for pre-service teachers enrolled in post-secondary degree programs in higher education schools and departments of education.

K12 Newsletter The SC09 Conference features three Challenges (Storage, Bandwidth, Data Center of the Future) and a Student Cluster Competition that will showcase both expertise and HPC resources in friendly, yet spirited competitions with other participants. The deadline for submissions is coming up fast, so we are encouraging people to begin to submit entries for all of these areas.

"in an ethical manner"; "to strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide"; and to manage their enterprises "in good faith, guarding against decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves."

ChemNutra,Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. and Suzhou Textiles, Silk, Light Industrial Products Arts and CHINA: Crafts I/E Co. were indicted with 13 felony counts of introduction of adulterated food into interstate commerce and 13 felony counts of introduction of misbranded food into interstate commerce. The indictment also names Mao Linzhun, Xuzhou's owner, and Zhen Hao Chen, Suzhou's president. The indictment also alleged that Suzhou Textiles, an export broker, mislabeled 800 metric tons of tainted wheat gluten manufactured by Xuzhou to avoid inspection in China. Suzhou then did not properly declare the contaminated product it shipped to the U.S., the indictment said. It also said the shipment was falsely declared to the Chinese government in a way that would avoid a mandatory inspection of the company's plants.

In Today’s Global Economy, only a Handful of States Score Favorable ‘Letter Grades’ on International Benchmarks. The report, issued today by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), based on international performance benchmarks in math for 4th and 8th grade students concluded that only 4th graders in a handful of states – among them Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Kansas and Vermont – are learning at B or B- levels when compared with students internationally. “The highest achieving countries are so far ahead of us, we will never catch up if we run at the current pace,” said Phillips. “Our states and school districts should no longer be comparing themselves to their neighbors. They will be competing for jobs and innovations with students around the globe.”

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?

DIYbiology is, in fact, an exciting and potentially productive new field. In much the same way that homebrew computer science built the world we live in today, garage biology can affect the future we make for ourselves.