How hard it was to destroy data? If you don't know how to do it then smash it into oblivion.

Find your makeup see how it rates cosmetics and personal care products. They are not safe.

Music business model: Just how fast can the music labels go out of business, the sooner the better, for refusing to get with the program and choosing to sue everyone back into the stone age. The 12 days of Christmas.

$100.oo laptop, xo lap top, give one get one g1g2 laptop what i've heard - no cranks and Device ships with Python but not Perl.

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amateur media production and its importance in life-long learning. Since 1988, it has been an annual, statewide event open to school-aged Texas residents.

XO laptop delivered today - see it fresh out of the box!

The In the Spirit Art show is open to all members of North American Indian tribes in the U.S. and Canada and to Native Hawaiian artists. Final works will be juried in for exhibition and then for awards.

K-12 public education funds Listed by state

K-12 Resources Grants Scholarships SCOTTISH BREAKTHROUGH IN ENDING PUPIL ILLITERACY

Free: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia* Hear Peter Cole tell the story of America’s first truly interracial labor union.

Learn Character Education: Mothers and daughters and fathers, too, talked about — or tried not to talk about — the pregnancy of 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears who you know as the virginal teenage girl on "Zoey 101" on Nickelodeon. Britney Spears sister Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy is a teachable moment.

EduCon 2.0 is both a conversation and a conference. And it is not a technology conference. It is an education conference.

Sellaband is more like a bank, since it makes interest on the money invested in the site’s bands.

NCAA sets rules for credentialed reporters. And, as a private organization, the NCAA can set whatever rules it wants for handing out credentials.

A law expected to revolutionize Israel's library system, with radical changes that include canceling membership fees.

Johnsonton County is on the hunt for books to remove from its collection after removing "How the Girls lost their accents". What scariest of all is that they aren't waiting to react, they're just looking for books that are "offensive."

Prior to joining Internet2, Rob was the Director of theConnecticut Education Network Advanced Services Center

CommitteeCaller.com is a site that allows one person to target an entire congressional committee over the phone.

Understand Rootkit and why Sony is a Cracker.

Developers urged to avoid built-in backdoor

205 high schools in the state, representing about 125,000 high school students, now have access to the materials through the agency's servers.

Elementary students program in Scratch to develop applications for special needs class.

Consumers Union has set up shop in dozens of state capitals, has signed up more than half a million activists who send e-mail messages to lawmakers and corporations and has taken on causes like forcing drug companies to disclose the results of clinical trials.

Sight See: Fact check: GOP debate in Florida

Sight See: The new site, USASpending.gov, launched today, two weeks ahead of schedule.

Mexico’s country music stars are being killed at an alarming rate ­ 13 in the past year and a half, three already in December ­ in a trend that has gone hand in hand with the surge in violence between drug gangs here.

Catching Digital Cheaters vs. Should iPods or other handheld gadgets instead be “required” during tests?

A former Texas principal launched TeacherTube this year so educators could upload their students' videos and share creative lessons while developing an online community.

In ranking the 100 best public high schools in the United States, the magazine U.S. News and World Report found a common denominator in their unwavering commitment to excellence

Proof - George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. Hitler had a nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who grew up in England, moved to America, and had three sons.

General Meade Birthday Celebration Monday, December 31 Free at Last: Commemorating Juneteenth and the Civil War Saturday, June 21,

Teen Chat Decoder database will automatically start to display all possible acronyms results for your search.

Comcast's Secret War on File-Sharing Packet Forgery By ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair Without telling customers, Comcast had begun a secret program to send automatic reset commands to customers'computers if they were using BitTorrent, Gnutella, or a few other programs. Comcast installed new software or equipment on its networks that began selectively interfering with some of Comcast's customers' TCP/IP connections

Ethnomusicologists study music in varying ethnic contexts. She studied the music of the Sephardim, Jews. Folk Songs: She knew Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, The Weavers.

NetHappenings Headlines and Resources

Index for December 14, 2007

Secunia Weekly Summary This week: 100 advisories

December 15, 2007 Issue 182

Minnesota bans mercury from mascara, eye liners and skin-lightening creams. No other state has specifically gone after mercury in cosmetics. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics in Berkeley, Calif. Mercury-added products used by schools are not subject to this ban. (4) (a) Except as provided in subsection (4)(b), beginning January 1, 2008. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Louisiana ban products containing more than low levels of mercury, with some exceptions. New York and Illinois prohibit consumer products with mercury, such as figurines, toys and jewelry. Many ingredients aren't listed on the labels

Jewish Holidays - Passover, Shavuot, Purim, Hanukkah resources. A Synagogue has an ever lasting light burns daily and is not allowed to ever go out. "Lag Ba'Omer" the Lighting bonfires, a central form of celebrating until this day in Israel and explanations of the holiday.

School officials say IDs will only be checked against sex-offender registries.Phone with sex-offender alerts: With GPS technology, linked to a national database of sex offenders.

cell phone, privacy, security - Download naughty or sexually explicit vidio or pics to the cell phone. Once they put it on the net it never comes off.

k12.wi.us K12.wi.us is a top 5,000 education destination that reaches over 638K U.S. monthly unique people. The destination is popular among a more educated, more affluent, very slightly female biased, youthful group. Also see services.education.wisc.edu

European Union leaders signed a new treaty on Thursday that would give the 27-nation bloc a long-term president and streamline its decision-making process.

Nice work Teachers! Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 School Directory welcomes Grace Hill Elementary School in Arkansas and Rock Lake Middle School in Florida.

K-12 First Grade Practice Skills - Literacy 100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers, pre-primer, early, and first grade readers. Reading Children's Books online, Audio Books to hear and read along, Teacher Recommended online reading activities, games and resources. The top 20 titles that created readers. Introduce children to writing.

sight see 2 cool new places on the net.

Are you happy? Well don’t try to be happier; you might become less happy. That is the gist of a multi-cultural study published this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. Martha I. Chew Sánchez’ book, Corridos in Migrant Memory, provides us with a brilliant, in-depth analysis of contemporary --mainly 1990-2003-- Mexican-immigration-themed corridos or Mexican ballads.

Journal of Folklore Research Reviews Jack Zipes, setting forth a framework for the social history of the literary fairy tale (10), puts the genre back into history.

New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids vol. 81 (3&4) 2007 - Articles and Book Reviews

Open source sue Verizon, Protect home computer shop online, google wants white spectrum, tool kit catch isp changes web page, Iceland High School Student Dials Bush's Phone Number,Preserving America's Diverse Heritage, Texas annonymous Internet bloggers keep rights.

The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's most relevant Linux security headlines. This week, advisories were released for sitebar, e2fsprog, wesnoth, zabbix, asterisk, heimdal, liblcms, openssh, openssl, vixie-cron, apache,openoffice, cairo, samba, mono, perl, and php. The distributors include Debian, Mandriva, Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware, Ubuntu.

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Headlines and Resources: Warning over flirting robots,Open Yale Courses, Open Learning Resources, Doris Lessing Nobel Prize,TJX lawsuit,cyber security, secure electric grid,full disclosure in UK, network warriors of cyberspace,DOMEX document and media exploitation, A Toaster hacks computer,ipone target for hacking

Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Newsletter Science: History of the Interent, Raptors in the City, NASA's fleet of THEMIS satellites, NASA Opportunities for Undergraduate Students, NOVA presents "Missing in MiG Alley", space weather Geminid Meteor Shower, Zotera helps pool research,

Sigmund Lubin pirated films and claimed them as his own. The program discusses Lubin's piracy and how it changed the world of film. He was brought into court by Thomas Edison and it is determined whether his piracy is considered legal or not.

Jerry Ricks Obit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,and began playing guitar in Philadelphia venues in the late 1950's. He had lessons from the legendary Lonnie Johnson. Research Education, State Department, Research Smithsonian Institute Folklife Division. Special Instructor for the University of Colorado, Folklore Division to teach Traditional American Guitar Styles of the Southern United States.

Community radio supporters have fought for years to not just stop media consolidation, but to roll it back -- bringing new voices to cities and towns, large and small. Don't miss your chance to stand up for diverse and accountable media in the United States! Take a stand now. You can file a comment at the FCC here: http://tinyurl.com/2yswbr Technology, Internet, K-12 Newsletters, NetHappenings, Network Newsletters, Arts, Music

"Will privacy sell? Ask.com is betting it will.

Inviting Applications (December 11, 2007) grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Charter School Program (CSP) -- CFDA# 84.282A * Grants for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems -- CFDA# 84.215M * Steppingstones of Technology Innovation for Children with Disabilities -- CFDA# 84.327A

Vista patch 3 secrutiy flaws, hacking competition, quarter million blood donors data stolen, Heritage Preservation Invitation, NeoAmericanist, an online multi-disciplinary journal ,

Hilton Pond 11-22-07 (Water & Drought)- Requirements for healthy kids, tweens, and teens - Save oral Culture - blend databases with digital maps or 3-D models

A bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders

Pfaffenberger's study has already turned up some surprises.

"If the government had been more diligent in looking for workarounds instead of baring its teeth when Amazon balked, it's probable that this entire First Amendment showdown could have been avoided," he wrote.

802.15 beyond bluetooth of interest re licence-exempt wireless

This is probably the ugliest intrusion on privacy I've seen in this whole controversy. - Dave

Learn how American 15 year old students scored on science literacy and math literacy compared to 30 industrialized countries.

Northwest Folklife is seeking film and video submissions for "City Folk," a film series celebrating the creativity and adaptability of urban communities.

Here Comes Another Bubble The Richter Scales

The Securing Adolescents from Exploitation-Online Act of 2007 (SAFE Act)

Starting immediately, AT&T (T) customers can ditch their AT&T phones and use any wireless phone, device and software application from any maker.

SCIENCE: NASA New Discovery: The Sun is Bristling with X-ray Jets. And Upcoming Center for Astronomy Education Teaching Excellence Workshops Announced. NOVA Presents "Deadly Ascent"

A millowatt is 1/1000 of a watt. Something we learn in middle school science.For companies, it would mean having smaller computers that are far more powerful than today's machines, yet produce far less heat.

Google's primary purpose in these programs seems to be to increase the number and quality of Open Source programmers.

Secunia Advisories

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Internet, technology, security, College, Indentity Theft, Play, trends in Computing, SSN, Students privacy rights, doomsday seed bank, NetHappenigs Headlines and Resources

[ECP] Educational CyberPlayGround K12 Newsletters message from please read.

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The K -12 school directory is organized by state and by grade level. Click on a state to browse the schools. http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/schools/

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It's really about science and technology. Sight See HouseHold Hacker

For the first time in the prestigious national math and science contest's nine-year history, girls were awarded both grand prizes

A women's tale of moving up the technology ladder, and how not to let adversity stop you from your personal best!

More about these amazing PEOPLE and the JOB they did for AMERICA. These People are COMPUTER PIONEERS. Computer Wonder Women Hedy Lamarr's Invention Finally Comes of Age Movie actress Hedy Lamarr invented cell phone technology. Decline in Numbers of Women in Computer Science Threatens U.S.Competitiveness

Do you know your State Song? Jimmy Crack Corn, Jump Jim Crow, Folksongs, Funk Brothers and Motown, History of Chicago Blues by Buddy Guy, Negro Sheet Music, AACORN, Teach History through Music. African American Vernacular English, Creole speakers, Dialect and West Indian Creole.

NetHappenings Google's campaign to digitize the world's books. How to work with Google.

NetHappenings - Everybody must read Conversation between Schneier and Marcus Ranum will appear in Information Security Magazine this month. < - >

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The West Virginia stringband, Gandydancer, performs spirited old-time mountain music on a variety of stringed instruments.

Hacker, Security, Identity Theft, Teen Hacker Autism,

Sight See: This Holiday think about buying products that are fairly traded and benefit the billions of people in our world that are in poverty.

Nifty Gifty Technology tools

Losing Our Edge: American Students Unprepared for the Global Economy Featuring Andreas Schleicher, Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division, OECD Directorate for Education

Kellie Pickler clip? From "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader"? Americans are SO STUPID!

Fragmented Culture, Using music to motivate and engage students. Van Zandt - Teach History Through Music.

The most secure version of DNS is considered djbdns.Author, Dr Dan J Bernstein, one of the most prominent voices for security over functionality in computer software

Perception 3.0 Biologists are interested in proteins, drugs, genes. Businesspeople are interested in customers, products, sales. We are all interested in friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances.

Child Protection and Safety Act which established "comprehensive standards for sex offender registration and notification" across all 50 states.

Social Networking, Online Games, Game Ratings, Game Gift Guide, What they play, Rock Band Guitar Hero III video game do rock, but real is better. Fun is fake guitars Happiness is . . . . .

K12 Newsletters - Music and Dance for the Jewish Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanza Holiday.

Each month the ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. - Observations on Scholars' Use of Digitized Resources - Technology Standards for Students - Preventing Online Exam Cheating, Call for Papers on Academics in Virtual Environments - Recommended Reading: Book Review STUDIO THINKING: THE REAL BENEFITS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION

NATIVE VILLAGE YOUTH AND EDUCATION NEWS December 1, 2007 ISSUE 182

ECP K-12 Newsletters Grants and Scholoarships from the U.S. Dept. of Education

Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Newsletters Mailing List Science Resources

2 New Schools Added to the K-12 Online Directory - Check their sites out. The Woods Academy Washington International School

Simply put, we're on the precipice of something groundbreaking that will change this industry forever. Whether it will be good or bad is unknown, but regardless of the long-term effect, Google has its sights firmly planted on this 700MHz spectrum and if you ask me, we won't even know what hit us.

INTERNET: WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL NETWORKING : INTERNET: ADVERTISING: A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than expected in tracking people's Web activities.

Sight See: My Friend Jim Carty blues radio host at WMFO in metro Boston Saturdays 1-3PM 91.5FM & www.wmfo.org

This is a collection of hand (literally) painted animals by Guido Daniele.


He was born in Soverato, Italy & now lives and works in Milan. Since 1964 until 1968 he attended Brera artistic High School and he graduated from Brera School of Arts (major in sculpturing) in 1972.

In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones, using the body painting technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions.

http://www.guidodaniele.com

Life gives you clues that you can use. It sometimes makes the news... Performed by Judith Owen. Written and Directed by Harry Shearer

Sight See Utterz publish brief audio updates via your cell phone and Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.