May 18, 2008 at William Grant Still Arts Center Queen Calafia: Ruler of California starring Ursaline Bryant. The idea of the name of California being derived from a saga of black women warriots was not taken seriously in historical circles.

Parents, students, and teachers can enter the 2008 Samsung's Hope for Education essay competition geadline is 11:59 p.m. , 08/31/08.

Incredible pictures of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes firing bows and arrows

A Trained but Novel Way to Keep Track of an Underground Library Collection While Making It a Stationary Lending Collection

Comcast Spy job requires a "B.S. Degree in Information Systems Technology, MIS or related field or equivalent years of progressive experience and self-study," a minimum of two years of policy or security engineering experience," as well as the "ability to carry and coordinate delivery of a 50-pound server to support deployments in local market."

“Comcast will assist law enforcement agencies in their investigations while protecting subscriber privacy as required by law and applicable privacy policies.”

Revision3's CEO Jim Louderback explained the SYN flood attack and MediaDefender's role in his blog.

[Got an idea of how to spend NASA's money doing cool things on the Moon? NASA wants to hear 'em - and quick!]

Great Resources for Medical Information

Useful Links to information about drugs.

Grants and Funding Information: Back to school grants. Grants for Education on Forest Stewardship. Grants for the welfare of American children.Award for Design and Educational Excellence in Schools.

SCIENCE: This Week at Hilton Pond" our photo essay encompasses "seven bird notes. NOVA and Space Weather News. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped some jaw-dropping photos of Phoenix's plunge to the surface. a billion-ton cloud of gas launching itself off the surface of the sun and then ... doing a cartwheel. Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star.

FDA MedWatch-Viril-ity Power (VIP) Tablets: Recall Of SupplementProduct Because It Contains A Potentially Harmful Undeclared Ingredient

1935-2008: Bruce 'Utah' Phillips Folk artist made name singing of Utah history

Potentially harmful ingredients in the product are chlorphenesin and phenoxyethanol. Chlorphenesin relaxes skeletal muscle and can depress the central nervous system and cause slow or shallow breathing in infants.

This new Orphan Works legislation proposes a change in U.S. copyright that would (indirectly) require artists, illustrators, photographers, and any creative individual to actively maintain and defend their copyright by registering each and every work with privatized registrars. Failure to do so would leave everything you've ever created as an artist up for grabs by anyone who wanted to copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, or flat out steal your work since the act defines an "orphan work" as any work where the author is unidentifiable or unlocatable, and applies to both published and unpublished works, U.S. and foreign, regardless of age.

Google Fights for the Right to Hide Its Privacy Policy. Science Fair New York City. Online Americans use different search and purchase strategies for different goods. Space Science: 50 Years and Counting. Linking to movies leads to $4 million in fines. Advanced tactic targeted grocer 'Malware' stole Hannaford data. Microsoft's Masters: Whose Rules Does Your Media Center Play By?

Proposed secret copyright deal takes aim at iPods, providers. I have a GREAT idea: Why don't we let the RIAA write our copyright laws? The Canadian government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make information on iPods, laptops and other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.

DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR USA SONGWRITING COMPETITION! 2008 USA Songwriting Competition's deadline is fast approaching. Winning songs will receive radio airplay in United States and Canada along with great prizes such as a Top Prize of over $50,000.

Zappos fire people, Webmonkey, million dollar women entrepreneurs, gmail protocol, Acrobat 9, Designer Salary Survey 2008, websmart color, Lori Drew indictment, google news google earth, touch windows, Nielsen usability report,Protoversy

FDA MedWatch- Xiadafil VIP Tablets-Consumers who have used the product should discontinue use immediately and consult their healthcare professional if they have experienced any adverse events that they believe may be related to the use of this product.

Sustainable Wealth - Fistula Foundation - Fistula Foundation an oasis of healing for the most devastating of all childbirth injuries. Women's issues, economic policy, worth program, community economics model in the U.S. Raise the status of women - bring them out from under the domination of men. The WHO has called fistula “the single most dramatic aftermath of neglected childbirth”.

TELL ALL SENATORS - OBMAMA, CLINTON TO CLOSE THE LOOP HOLE in Commodity Futures Trade Commision rules NOW! Paul Foldes of interhelp.com writes: Documentation by Business Week shows speculators in oil futures are able to swing the market because of a loophole in the Commodity Futures Trade Commision rules, which is not being closed, regulatorily.

larry page talks about googles vision

Most Spam Sites Tied to a Handful of Registrars including register.com, godaddy, and tucows.

AP Classes, Online High School, Windows on OLPC, Schools don't restructure, private school vouchers, roots of rap, science teacher pay. [-] Learn Spanish easily with new E-book: Ahora Hablo! $9.90 Educator Edition, "Simple Steps to Communicate with Spanish-speaking Students" This book teaches "maximum communication with minimal grammar"Award winning author and veteran Spanish teacher, Meg Graham, offers easy strategies to authentic Spanish for better communication with students and their families. For accurate pronunciation, each word has a phonetic key. Try the book and the free practice links at Graham's website: http://www.ahorahablo.com

[ECP] K-12 Newsletters - The National Indian Education Study" (NIES)RGK Foundation Grants for Education" "Mitsubishi Grants for Youth with Disabilities" "Motorola Grants to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth" "NWA Grants to Improve Education in Meteorology" "Verizon Grants for Literacy" * Training and Advisory Services Program -- Equity Assistance Centers (EACs) -- CFDA# 84.004D * Promoting Rigorous Career and Technical Education Programs of Study Through Statewide or Multi-State Articulation Agreements -- CFDA# 84.051C

[NOVA Teachers] "Master of the Killer Ants" NASA. The moon is a strange place. Place your name on a rocket in space! Send Your Name Into Space on the NASA Kepler Mission

[ECP] K-12 Newsletters Opportunities and websites

These robotic jelly fish were built by the "automating technics" company.

CEO Tony Hsieh and his colleagues keep raising the size of the quit-now bonus. It started at $100, went to $500, and may well go higher than $1,000

Junior Kelsey Hunstad and other students in teacher John Redelsheimer’s anatomy and physiology class at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School watched via Internet video conference Wednesday as a surgeon in Columbus, Ohio, made the first incision in a knee-replacement operation.

First Sale Doctrine - eBay Vendor Claims Right to Resell Used Copies of Products from Software Company. Fed Judge upholds First Sale Doctrine. Federal Judge Upholds Right of Vendor to Sue Against Anti-Consumer Copyright Claim

Wikileaks has revealed that the United States is plotting a "Pirate Bay killing" multi-lateral trade agreement with the EU, Japan,Canada, Mexico, Switzerland and New Zealand.

1 in 4 data breaches involves schools. 1/2 of high school classes could be online by 2019. Top web application vulnerabilities remain unfixed. Security in a small school district.

Hey, this is another really good effort from Sunlight Foundation.

This title has been carefully sanitized for your convenience and protection - protection - protection. Read at your own risk.

The InCommon Federation is a non-profit initiative of Internet2 which serves the U.S. higher education sector. In this case, students interested in downloading software available through the DreamSpark program, which includes Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, Microsoft Expression Studio, Windows Server Standard Edition, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, will have their student status verified by participating InCommon universities. Microsoft's DreamSpark will confirm the students' enrollment status by redirecting students to log into their home university, which will, in turn, pass the "student" attribute on to DreamSpark. "Microsoft's participation in the InCommon Federation represents a major step forward in helping to realize the vision of federated identity management.

AMERICAN AIRLINES: Updated Checked Bag Policies

FAA Bans Pilots' and Air Controllers' Use of Chantix

Meet the Funk Brothers, Karen Ellis, Alan Slutsky, Carla Benson, Joe Messina, and read their personal messages to you. National Children's Folksong Repository - find Producer Alan Slutsky, Lead vocalist Carla Benson and Joe Messina.

The PhlashDance approach relies on exploiting frequently unpatched vulnerabilities in embedded systems, such as flaws in remote management interfaces, to get access to a system. That alone wouldn't be enough, but because firmware updates are seldom secured, the possibility exists of making an update that effectively trashes a system.

YouTube refuses Lieberman request (re removing content attributed to "Islamust terrorist organizations". The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies. Charter tracks user activity even if users opt out. 'Big Brother' database for phones and e-mails

China 200,000 surveillance cameras have been installed. PDF REDACTION -- Mozilla phancies doing a Phorm Firefox - your friendly data snooper -- Remember: DRM isn't about fighting piracy. It's about the ability to strictly control how we consume content. Users who are interested in pirating TV shows and movies aren't going to do so with a DVR or buy them through PPV. They've already skipped the middle-man and gone straight to BitTorrent with its decent-quality, commercial-less, and DRM-free offerings. Boneheaded mistakes like the one apparently made by NBC and Microsoft Monday night will only serve to make alternative means of obtaining content more attractive.

[ECP] Networking Newsletters The mission of the National LambdaRail is to support experimental and production networks that make possible advances in networking research and next-generation applications.

www.firstnationsfilms.com Films For, By and About Native People For Classroom or Group 604-990-9337 FIRST NATIONS FILMS are now available to the public on important subjects from Spirituality to Land Claims to Traditional Music to Politics. These award-winning pro- fessional broadcast TV programs are some of the best in North America! Very suit- able for groups, libraries, classroom or individual.

Regional clothing from our locale includes "bling bling, ice ice, grills" and "hoochie hoops." Fashion - Dress Code - K-12 - Pull Your Pants Up Video by by the Do Right Rapper Ethan (Six 8) Birch.

element song, periodic table song, president song, free music download. mp3 music, music video, music copyright laws, music contract, brain music, health, baby timeline, plagiarism checker, plagiarism detection,san diego quick assessment, child development chart, what is art.

I will possess your Heart. Crank up the speakers - don't watch the video - let the music take you away back to the sound of 1972. Have an adventure: remember when you used to just listen and let your mind wander?

Read more ...

[ECP] Network Newsletters -- We are pleased to announce to you that the National LambdaRail and Darkstrand, Inc. have formed a strategic business alliance.

how much in writedowns and credit losses firms have written off per wholesale banking employee

The Associated Audio Archivists Committee (AAA) of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) announces the launch the AAA Message Board.

Contributions to this Special Issue (Volume 5, Number 3) should address Folksonomies, Taxonomies, Knowledge Organizartion, the Web and Search Engines. Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

OPEN SOURCE content Open Social Networking

Why the Orphan Works Act is Uncle Sam's Thieves' Charter. Two-tier nature of US copyright law.

William Lane violated the FTC orders by claiming that AdvaCAL, a calcium supplement also sold as AAACa, is superior to other calcium products and on par with or superior to prescription drugs used to fight osteoporosis.

FTC consumer education campaign targeting false and unsubstantiated health claims on the Internet. Unsubstantiated Claims for Shark Cartilage And Skin Cream as Cancer Treatments Settlement Includes One Million Dollar Judgment

Prom and Table Manners. Learn how to cut meat using the Continental style etiquette in this free online video lesson on table manners and dinner etiquette. How to Make a Good Impression at a Dinner Party: Table Manners & Etiquette Tips : Using the Right Silverware: Table Manners & Dining Etiquette Tips.

Sheet issued for Mycophenolate Mofetil (CellCept) and Mycophenolic Acid

Sheet issued for Mycophenolate Mofetil (CellCept) and Mycophenolic Acid

'Law seen as logical step in carving up family rights'

"Project Unfound Artist" to help find artists that are due royalties but not registered at SoundExchange.

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York today made public a decision in the proceeding to determine reasonable license fees to be paid to the American Society of Composers, Authors and FEDERAL COURT DECIDES LICENSE FEES TO BE PAID TO ASCAP Publishers (ASCAP) by AOL (Time Warner Inc.) , RealNetworks Inc., and Yahoo! Inc. for their online performance of musical works.

End of the Year Activities in the K-12 Classroom.

Students planning to become English teachers in California are eligible for up to $19,000 in APLE student loan pay-back by the state.

The Visual Arts Department at the American School of Bombay has been working on an internal project that outlines the integration of 21st century skills in our visual arts curriculum.

Trasylol (aprotinin injection) Audience: Cardiovascular healthcare professionals, pharmacists, hospital surgical service managers

Part 1 and Part 2.

The scholarship is open to female university students in Australia or New Zealand who are studying computer science, or closely related technical fields. Scholars are selected on the basis of academic strength, demonstrated leadership and community involvement. TechLeaders: Strategic Persuasion and Change Leadership

A woman in White Plains, N.Y., had thousands of electronic gadgets stolen from her apartment. When the burglar turned on the stolen Macintosh laptop, the woman jumped onto another computer and remotely turned on the video camera, snapped a photo and turned it over to police — who arrested two men.

Sex offenders listed by state.

Science Weather Web Cams

Please forward this email to 10 friends today. The fate of the polar bear and all other species -- including ourselves -- threatened by global warming hangs in the balance. Your friends will thank you for the opportunity to weigh in.

ECP K-12 School Directory welcomes Notre Dame High School from Illinois. The have a great website.

Powerset is gonna get Google but Good! On Monday, a story on Powerset launched a new semantic search engine that allows users to input natural language queries to find items. So far, Powerset simply indexes Wikipedia, but the speculation is that the site may branch out to the Web at large.

WE LOVE LIBRARIANS!!! He was allowed to speak publicly Wednesday under a rare settlement in which the FBI agreed to withdraw its letter and lift the gag order. That should show other librarians, and members of the public who receive any of the nearly 50,000 national security letters the government issues each year, that "you can push back on these," Kahle said.

National Indian Education Study Part I The National Indian Education Study (NIES) is a two-part study designed to describe the condition of education for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students in the United States. The first part, providing in-depth information on the academic performance of fourth- and eighth-grade AI/AN students on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics and reading, will be released May 14. The results will be available online at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard on the day of release.

LinuxSecurity.com This week security advisories were issued for CUPS, Emacs, KDE, LTSP, OpenOffice.org, b2evolution, blender, cacti, cpio, gpdf, kazehakase, kdelibs, kernel, mozilla-thunderbird, openssh, php, roundup, wordpress, and multiple X11 terminals. The distributors included Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, Red Hat, Slackware, and Ubuntu.

The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2008-05-01 - 2008-05-08

GRANTS - After-School Music Programs, Musical Instruments for Existing K-12 Music Programs, Tolerance Programs,Nature of Learning,Children's Dental Health, Private Enterprise Education, interdisciplinary environmental lessons, professional development teaching science,school's parent groups, pediatric residents to plan community-based child health initiatives,schools free educational equipment in exchange for labels from Campbell products.

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. 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.

ED REVIEW

[EDInfo] Notices Inviting Applications (May 2, 2008) Recent grant opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) include...* Emergency Management for Higher Education Grants -- CFDA# 84.184T * Center on Postsecondary Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities -- CFDA# 84.133A-12 * Centers for Independent Living -- CFDA# 84.132A

Try the Secunia Network Software Inspector (NSI) 2.0 for free! The Secunia NSI 2.0 is available as a 7-day trial download and can be used to scan up to 3 hosts within your network.

Linux Security JRockit, KDE, SILC, dbmail, gstreamer-plugins-good, iceape, java-1.4.2-bea, java-1.5.0-bea, java-1.6.0-bea, kronolith2, ldm, libpng, perl, phpgedview, phpmyadmin, speex, thunderbird, tomcat, vorbis-tools, wireshark, wml, wordpress, and xulrunner. The distributors included Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Red Hat, Slackware safety, databases, multimedia, scientific tools, entertainment, programming, e-mail, news and desktop environments.

Scout Report

Neil Young, Java and Blu-ray DVD archive, Joel Bernstein

Important K-12 Library and Education Professional Development Information and Technology Skills Instruction - Technology - Collaboration - Information Literacy JULY 27 - JULY 28, 2008

k-12 NEWSLETTERS: SCIENCE - Native Plants Class for Children, HILTON POND,NASA EDUCATION,SPACE WEATHER,NOVA

Join NASA and NSTA for a series of free Web seminars focusing on a wide range of topics. All Web seminars will include information and resources for educators available from NASA Web sites. During the live Web seminars, presenters will share their expertise and answer questions live from the participants. U.S. Department of Education's Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative Summer Workshops

military gratitude thanks government grassroots outreach local nonprofit public service announcements

Cars that run on water. We have the technology. Alternative power solutions.

Networking,Circuits vs, Datagrams, Security, mobility, ubiquitous computing, wireless, autonomous sensors, content...

Philadelphia Regional Foody Folk cheese steak, hoagie, hokey-pokey man, hog island, south philly, italian, irish american vernaular english

Colbert interviews astronaut Garrett Reisman -Are you saying your a janitor with a PhD? You run the video arm and use the arm to fire lazer cannons!

ECP RSS CODE Blog

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Encyclopedia of Play, a new 2-volume reference to be published in 2009 by Sage Publications. This comprehensive work will be marketed and sold to college, public, and academic libraries and includes some 450 articles, covering all aspects of a social science perspective on playing, including psychology, gender studies, sociology, education, human development, history, and other fields. We are now making assignments with a deadline of August 1, 2008.

Teapot, Creamer, Sugar, Cookie Plates, Cake Plate, Silver, Linens, Crystal and Flowers.

Rsvp, Hostess Gift, Dress Code, Be On Time

Emily Post (1873–1960). Elementary Table Manners and Etiquette. 1922 - 2008

Testicular Cancer - Ilia S. Zeltser, MD , Urologic Surgeon with Bryn Mawr Urology Group, a division of Academic Urology of Pennsylvania is among an elite group of physicians nationwide and the only in the Philadelphia region performing laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection.

The Mosquito, which targets loiterers, projects a shrill noise audible only to teens and young adults.

Folklorist Elaine Eff has been on a crusade for three decades to preserve the kitschy art -- landscapes painted on rowhouse window screens. The screens are for decoration, and privacy, too: The paintings allow residents to see out and prevent passersby from seeing in.

Music, Folkmusic, Iraq secular music

The epic here edited and translated was recorded from a Karakalpak epic singer, Jumabay-jïraw Bazarov, in Shomanay in Karakalpakistan in 1993. Karakalpakistan is a province in Uzbekistan" (15). Thus begins Karl Reichl's masterful presentation of Edige and his important contribution to the ever-increasing number of modern-day oral epics textualized by Western scholars for Western audiences in accordance with the most rigorous and up-to-date criteria for such a project.

Tom Dula was hanged 140 years ago. The murder that sold 10,000 guitars. His guilt may be a matter of debate, but his legend -- and the song that cemented it -- are indisputable.

This has been going on for almost two decades both in Europe and the USA. Some of us have been researching, writing, and talking about the heritage industry for 15+ years.

[ECP] K-12 Newsletters - SCIENCE - The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their information at http://www.nasa.gov/lro, print a certificate and have their name entered into a database. The database will be placed on a microchip that will be integrated onto the spacecraft. The deadline for submitting names is June 27, 2008.

Philly

Font Game, Kentucky Derby SUCKS Eight Bells DIES on TRACK, Pew Internet Releases Writing, Technology and Teens Report, seo, acrobat 9, CAPTCHAs and Spam

Vinyl Madness - I just wanted to report that, during the past month, it seems almost EVERY project I do will have a vinyl release. I don't know how to explain this, it is amazing. AUXOUT great sound system.

On May 4, 1970, four students at Kent State University in Ohio were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen at an on-campus march to protest Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia five days earlier.

This is Sidney at his best. Great writing by William Rose. Classic scene. "Let me tell you something, I owe you nothing! because you brought me into this world - You Owe ME speech!! You and your whole lousy generation . . .

Countdown’s Bushed!: You Gotta Be Kidding Me Edition: Next is an update on the Orwellian No Child Left Behind program, which has resulted in graduation ratios going down and schools hurting for funding country-wide. Turns out that the cornerstone of the program, Reading First, a program emphasizing literacy administered by the president’s brother, Neil Bush, has not proven to be effective whatsoever. So the reality is that NCLB is actually leaving children behind in favor of lining the pocket of the Bush family.

'Turn on, tune in, drop out' 1943 Discovered the first acid trip! I saw lights and beautiful colors that lasted for hours! Albert Hofmann discovered the substance while working for a pharmaceutical company in 1938. Hofmann was also the first scientist to synthesize psilocybin, the active ingredient in psilocybin mushrooms, in 1958.

Virus writers selling software with a detailed licensing agreement. The CHUTZBA is hilarious.

Discovery Channel Canada is scouting for new, sexy, cool science or technology that's in the works -- not products already available - and (sorry folks) not internet-based.

fonolo is a new way to call large companies.Use Deep Dialing to avoid dealing with phone menus.Use Intelligent call history to track your calls like never before.

One commentator calls today's decision 'Another bad day for the RIAA.'"

After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters now says she had a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant."

Amgen and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals informed healthcare professionals of revisions to prescribing information for Enbrel.FDA MedWatch- Enbrel (etanercept)-Prescribing Information Revised To Include A Boxed Warning Regarding The Risk Of Infection, Including Tuberculosis

Generation YES is proud to announce TechYES Science, a new technology literacy certification program based on science projects for students in grades 6-9. TechYES Science Student Technology Literacy Certification Through Science Projects Meet STEM And NCL also Generation YES.

Dresscode Etiquette for Proms and Weddings. Learn why a cummerbund is worn the pleats up.

From Stolen Life starring Betty Davis Apple Jack - the natives call it Jersey Lightning - Heritage Tradition. Pennsylvania Taxes