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.

FIND MAJOR AMOUNTS OF Free music

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

Each copy of the Daily News on Super Bowl Sunday, February 3rd and Grammy Sunday, February 10th will include an insert printed with a unique access code that will allow readers to search and download the music of their choice by visiting www.NYDailyNews.com.

CARIBOU RANCH By the mid '70s, the staff at Caribou Ranch was pretty blase about having big names around. But when John Lennon visited for four days in July 1974, everyone struggled to keep their cool.

Find out how to contact online librarians and get help for free. See if your library is online and participates. It's better than Google!!! Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars

The nation's premier database of biomedical research contains as many as 200,000 questionable publications, ranging from possible outright plagiarism to researchers recycling their own work, Dallas scientists have found.

This claims to be an annotated leaked document outlining the marketing methods to be used (which are used?) by the British government to "coerce" the public into accepting national ID cards.

In order to "protect america" from people who might have destroyed it they threw all the Japanese into camps. The country regretted that decision. BUT in order to protect america from other agents of terror they have thrown all the people under surveillance with technology. Is it any different? I don't think so.

Headlines and Resources

The Metasploit Project announced today the free, world-wide availability of version 3.1 of their exploit development and attack framework. The latest version features a graphical user interface, full support for the Windows platform, and over 450 modules, including 265 remote exploits. "Metasploit 3.1 consolidates a year of research and development, integrating ideas and code from some of the sharpest and most innovative folks in the security research community" said H D Moore, project manager. Moore is referring the numerous research projects that have lent code to the framework.

Follow the Drinking Gourd - This Song is not 'Authentic' It is not "traditional." The signature line in the chorus, "for the old man is awaitin' for to carry you to freedom," could not possibly have been sung by escaping slaves, because it was written by Lee Hays eighty years after the end of the Civil War!

Music bloggers do it for the love of music. They can be trusted. Profit is secondary. Are blogs the new radio? If not quite, they show a pathway to the future, where it's about being turned on by love, not hype.

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History. The Glenbuchat Ballads. Edited by David Buchan and James Moreira. The Folklore of the Jews. By Angelo S. Rappoport. Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring. By Michael Mangan. Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. By Gary L. Roberts.

Lily Vasquez, a marketing manager from Clifton, New Jersey, spent nearly eight years trying to break into the music business as a singer before she stumbled across SellaBand.com.

On Monday, January 28, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) begins the hearing that will determine mechanical rates for every songwriter and music publisher in America. It will be the most important rate hearing in the history of the music industry because in addition to setting rates for physical products, rates will be set for the first time ever for digital products such as digital downloads, subscription services and ringtones.

Network Tools

NetHappenings Headlines and Resources

Online Colleges to Post Effectiveness of Programs - Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education

Network Newsletter: This week, advisories were released for exiv2, php, scponly, xfree86, xine-lib, libvorbis, horde3, flac, tomcat, xorg, mantis, tikiwiki, libcdio, libxfont, cairo, mysql, lzma, regression, and apt-listchanges. The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, SuSE, and Ubuntu.

On Feb. 1 the National Institute of Standards and Technology will release a list of validated scanners that check for Federal Desktop Core Configuration compliance. The scanners all use the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to automatically scan desktop computers and return the results, said Peter Mell, NISTs SCAP validation program manager, at an FDCC workshop held yesterday in Gaithersburg, Md.

The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology, invites applications for IMLS fellowships for studies toward the PhD degree. The fellowships are funded by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). At least four fellowships of $40,000/year (including tuition and research stipend) will be awarded.

On March 13-14, 2008, leading scholars from throughout the United States will join experts from the Library of Congress in a free public presentation at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The symposium will re-focus attention on the New Deal, the multi-faceted social, cultural, and fiscal recovery programs launched by the Roosevelt administration in 1933, to reform and reinvigorate national life in the wake of the Great Depression.

k-12 science

X Games Competition Committee decided to whittle the Women's Superpipe final down to Gretchen Bleiler.

who has to join bmi or ascap? when does a business need to pay bmi or ascap? HOW ONE INDEPENDENT MUSICIAN DEFEATED BMI

FAIR USE - USE IT OR LOSE IT - Media Literacy High School curriculum

The aim of this colloquium is to further our understanding of the linguistic properties of Creole languages. More specifically, this colloquium will seek to examine the typological status of Creoles by examining empirical evidence concerning the morphological, phonological, syntactic and semantic properties found in Creole languages.

Internet Party: When Google's parents leave town...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgQMTLKmwrA


not to be watched during k-12 school hours warning

The Importance of Play

C-span Tonight Saturday, January 26, at 7:00 PM American book Awards

Most of these traditions are now a part of history, yet some of them have only stopped recently.

mac os x leopard installer

meta search engines and flicker, search quilt, read burner,

MPAA has told education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.

We put up an analysis of the 700 MHz auction that starts today, trying to give our readers an idea of what's at stake, and what to expect.

The newspaper carries this story without any consideration of the First Amendment implications of opening a criminal investigation into someone for the “crime” of linking to somebody else who in turn links to nude photographs and thence into the world of porn.

ATT on ATT and NSA

A Long Overdue Policy Promoting Consumer Choice and Competition Rob Frieden, Penn State University

Top 10 advisories and Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in Winamp, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The National Institute of Standards and Technologys second draft profile on IP Version 6, released Jan. 23, will help agencies buy products that the government considers capable of handling the new protocol.

Grants Deadline: Congressional Research Awards DEADLINE: All proposals must be received no later than February 1, 2008.

The eScholarship Repository, a service of the California Digital Library, provides a robust full-spectrum, open access publishing platform for pre-prints, post-prints, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. The repository houses a broad range of scholarly content from disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and sciences.

The list is intended to serve as a forum in which individuals of any and all interests can discuss Any and All issues relating to Online Social Networks, most notably their current and potential use by libraries/librarians and/or their current/potential use within institutions of higher learning.

NetHappenings Resources and Headlines 1/22/08

'Finding People' the mother load

US social networking: Fresh numbers, 'Grooming' by phone,teens mean online behavior, web briefs

K-12 Newsletter Science - Hilton Pond, Space Weather and NASA.

The Military Industrial Educational Complex - Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission:

Learn How Bit Torrent Works: Being tracked by anti-piracy organizations and receiving infringement notices on file-sharing networks is becoming more common. A security project manager has just released a short video showing how it’s done.

Fascinating, enlightening ... and appalling. WELL worth the time to read it! Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent

The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for its 2008 Summer Teacher Institutes. The institutes provide educators from grades 4-12 across the nation with the opportunity to engage in intensive study and exploration of a specific topic using the staff expertise and facilities of the Library of Congress.

Make it so cheap it's not worth it to steal. Build a business that scales. So you can make money in the future.

On C-span 27th Annual American Book Awards Ceremony - Daniel Cassidy January 26, at 7:00 PM Sunday, January 27, at 1:00 AM Monday, January 28, at 6:00 AM

Military industrial complex aims to revamp email. The requirements were defined and endorsed by the members of the TSCP: the US Department of Defense (DoD), UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), BAE Systems, Boeing, EADS, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Rolls-Royce. Comcast's been port 25 blocking since 2004.

NetHappenings Headlines and Resources

January 18, 2008 a bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders NCLB UPDATE, NATIONAL DASHBOARD, FEDERAL STUDENT AID, GRANTS FORECAST, MATH COURSETAKING AND ACHIEVEMENT

Tools: Captchas explanations for KNOW NOTHINGs, KNOW SOMETHINGs, and KNOWITALLs, colloquially speaking. Learn why it's bad for accessability - Imagine a World Without Apple, Bloggers, Google or Dell - Youtube Remixer button - blogtv - 2008 eduWeb Conference in Atlantic City

The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary

Headlines and Resources

Network Tools

Teen-distributed child porn; MO cyberbullying case; Imposter profiles; Online 'friending'; 'Semi-permeable' classrooms; Everybody a spin doctor; Oz filtering; Online socializing in Japan; UK's top social sites

* Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools -- CFDA# 84.184E * Professional Development for Arts Educators (PDAE)Program -- CFDA# 84.351C

Martin Luther King, Jr Day - which is January 21st this year - including audio and video links to some of Dr. King's most-loved speeches. Black History Month all year long. CLASSROOM RESOURCES, LEARN HISTORY THROUGH SONG, MUSIC, POETRY,and the ARTS. FOLKTALES -- 2 ORIGINAL E - BOOKS Read and Hear A Brother Anansi and Brother Tecoma Stories spoken in Standard English and Negerhollands English. LESSON PLANNING, UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, ABOUT AMISTAD, CENSUS 1999, PLANTATIONS, ADULT TOPICS, BOOKS, ONLINE TOOLS, BLACK SLAVERY IS NOT HISTORY ONLINE PROJECT

The great folksinger and storyteller Utah Phillips http://www.utahphillips.org/ has had to retire from performing due to chronic and serious heart problems that have plagued him for years. How you can help.

A Florida Fiddler: The Life and Times of Richard Seaman by Gregory Hansen

The Negro Spiritual is built on the pentatonic scale - 5 notes, just the black notes The Slave Scale - play "Amazing Grace"

This is a satire report on the RIAA. Newstarget.com is presented for educational and commentary purposes only and should not be construed as professional advice from any licensed practitioner. Truth Publishing assumes no responsibility for the use or misuse of this material. For the full terms of usage of this material, visit www.NewsTarget.com/terms.shtml

NetHappenings Headlines

Science 1/9/08

Headlines and Resources

The launch of Big Think (www.BigThink.com), the first online venue for the growing global conversation about where we are and where we're headed, was announced today by co-founders Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins.

XO laptop, Give 1 Get 1, G1G1, One Laptop per child - Critics of the rollout have two key concerns.

The Creative Commons foundation recently released the CC+ protocol, which allows authors and other content makers to ...Personal Electronic Devices Owned by Students

Virtuoso hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang has posted a fantastic review of the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, from a hardware engineer's perspective.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the final version of new security guidelines for government information technology systems used for industrial control processes.

Kudos to the NJEA Review Web widgets increase student engagement. W00t word and the language it comes from. Clustering Search Engines, K-12 Science. Sears exposes customer information via its web site. National Archives of Ireland 1911 Census. XO 1LPC, G1G1 Negreponte and Intel part ways. IWWIW Turn off the TV. Kids virtual worlds.

2007 Most searched for Google News, Presidential Campaigns, Lawsuits, RIP or Rumors of, TV shows, Movies, Lyrics, Ringtones, Recipes, Diets, Fitness, Who is, What is, How to.

2007 US search terms used in google.

Fastest rising Global search terms used in google.

Scoble Kicked Off Facebook For Downloading Content.

The perfect combination of IT security, physical security, and electronic countermeasures can pull off the perfect jewelry heist. WiFi flu: viral router attack could hit whole cities. Data Breaches: Getting Worse Or Better? Job hunt and career journal resources.

In October, Mr. Snyder was inducted into the National Security Agency-Central Security Service hall of honor for his work, which began in 1936 with the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service.

A happy New Year to all readers of the Internet Resources Newsletter!

High School Level Accountability, high school reform, virtual schools reports and databases.

TL INFOBITS December 2007 - Searchable Video Lectures, Online Group Learning Problems and Solutions, Papers on Online Research, Writing, and Citation Practices, Resources from the 2007 EDUCAUSE Conference, Recommended Reading

[EDInfo] Notices Inviting Applications (January 4, 2008)Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include... * Early Reading First Program -- CFDA# 84.359A and B * Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse -- CFDA# 84.184A

2007 American Starts of Teaching Awards, Reading First Program Cut, College Navigator, The Big Read Grants, National School and Business Partnerships Awards

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Newsletter Jan. 3

Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Newsletter

Oral Culture, Story Telling, Social Networking Scholarship, First Nation, and Computer Information History.

TIP: USE SCROOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY. Stop using Google directly.

This site is dedicated to the Preservation of the Legacy handed down to us by our forefathers! The Library is working to preserve this historic heritage whether in written, photographic, printed or hand-written form.

You can't take a picture of the sistine chapel cause you are stealing art! Disgusting.

Sight See: Mummers Parade, Tradition and History in Philadelphia, PA. alive and well can still be seen every January 1ST. Learn more about the European-American masking traditions and community morality.

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