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There's just one catch to this energy conservation story: Each CFL contains a small amount (3 to 5 milligrams) of mercury, a neurotoxin that can be released as vapor when a bulb is broken. The gas can pose a minor risk to certain groups, such as infants, small children and pregnant women. Mercury can escape from plastic bags containing discarded bulbs, which makes long-term storage, disposal or recycling tricky.

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The Voice of Democracy (VOD) scholarship program.

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Software collects the activity patterns of babies. The damaging effects of child protection policies. NJ expands familycare program. Kids need more DHA. Motivate kids to be fit.

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On April 30, 2001, comedian Judy Gold interviewed Grammy Award-winning comic legend George Carlin, who passed away yesterday, at Congregation Rodeph Sholom as part of the 92nd Street Y's Funny People Series. You can listen to the whole program above for many of Carlin's stories about his life and comedy career, including an extended explanation of the "Seven Dirty Words."

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A far better solution would be for Google to remove the narrative and treat Israel as it treats every other country on the globe. Both the Palestinian narrative and promotion of Israel can have their place, but this should be in optional layers. The core layer of Google Earth should be ideology free and not serve as a platform for indoctrination or a campaign to wipe Israel off the virtual map.

It is somewhat discouraging to see that publishers have to check the articles submitted by academics and researchers for possible plagiarism.

"Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have built a test extension called WikiTrust that evaluates every word on Wikipedia and highlights text that was added by authors with a less than stellar reputation."

Obama now says he'll vote in favor of the new FISA bill that gives the telecom companies blanket immunity for post-Sept. 11 eavesdropping.

Georgia State University fired back this week at its accusers, three academic publishers that say the institution invites students to illegally download and print readings from thousands of works. The university asserts that its online distribution of course material is permitted under copyright law's fair-use exemption."

The court found that even though the department had a policy that "reserves the right to monitor and log all activity," in practice it didn't, and the officers knew it. As a result, there was a legitimate 4th Amendment expectation of privacy.

The poor phone companies claimed massive internet congestion because of "internet telephony" --- it was just a ruse to charge VOIP companies more money or block them. Today's let's charge by the byte is just another iteration of the problem -- they don't want any video that they can't control and get paid for.

In a noteworthy contrast with the secrecy that prevails in much of government and often within its own ranks, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is soliciting public comment on revisions to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), which is the framework for defending essential infrastructure, ranging from agriculture to transportation, against attack or natural disaster.

"The use of radio frequency identification devices appears to have the potential to cause critical care medical equipment to malfunction, according to a study in the June 25 issue of JAMA...."

providers must filter out all the porn...and, if the filters don't work, then the providers have to use 'other means,'

The net's regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed.

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LOC summer newsletter. There are three new exhibits available both at the Library and online: Creating the United States, Exploring the Early Americas and Thomas Jefferson’s Library and much more.

In a noteworthy contrast with the secrecy that prevails in much of government and often within its own ranks, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is soliciting public comment on revisions to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), which is the framework for defending essential infrastructure, ranging from agriculture to transportation, against attack or natural disaster.

It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.

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FDA MedWatch- Antipsychotics Associated With An Increased Risk Of Mortality In Elderly Patients Treated For Dementia-Related Psychosis

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What a bunch of lies. The poor phone companies claimed massive internet congestion because of "internet telephony" --- it was just a ruse to charge VOIP companies more money or block them. Today's let's charge by the byte is just another iteration of the problem -- they don't want any video that they can't control and get paid for.

The legacy of one of technology’s lost pioneers: Paul Otlet

"Michelle answered the question by going to Harvard," Ogletree said. "And she came with no ambiguity about her race or gender. She would navigate corporate America, but she would never forget her father's values and where she came from."

According to Reuters, "the energy package would revoke $17 billion in tax breaks extended to big oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp and slap a 25 percent windfall profits tax on firms that don't invest in new energy sources." Oil producers gave an average of $134,821 to each of the 43 senators that voted no and an average of $37,373 to each of the 51 senators that voted yes. This is why we need the political reforms pushed by Senator Obama, and opposed by Senator McCain.

I am writing to let you know that as of August 31, 2008, Microsoft will change the level of support to be offered for music purchased directly from MSN Music prior to November 14, 2006. As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers. License keys already obtained as of August 31, 2008 will continue to allow you to listen to songs on all the computers that you previously authorized for service. We wanted to send out this notification well in advance to remind you to backup your music and to provide you sufficient time to confirm license keys for the songs you've purchased from MSN Music.

So we get to this question: how should the public react to bit-moving providers who gerrymander the service offering to the benefit of their Media Masters? If there were any real competitive alternatives, they could vote with their feet. without that alternative, however, are they simply at the mercy of the media giants to bend everything to their will?

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It isn't just voting machines. Yes, the terminal in question was made by Diebold, and yes, their subsidiary, Premier Election Systems, has faced criticism for problems and vulnerabilities in its voting products. But that's not an entirely fair brush with which to paint this problem, since without knowing the details, it could just as easily have been caused entirely by the bank's software or configuration.

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The news is better, and worse, than early coverage suggested. It's worse in that although New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo found child porn on just 88 Usenet newsgroups, the ISPs are pulling the plug on tens of thousands as a response. This is a little like burning down a library because you don't like one book in it.

The o­nly thing left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat which is about enough wheat to make ½ of a loaf of bread for each of the 300 million people in America.

In fact, every ISP we have talked with about this very much is *against* this practice, and we know that the unauthorized use of their logos is being looked at by their legal departments.

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Facebook fanatics who have covered their profiles on the popular social networking site with silly games and quirky trivia quizzes may be unknowingly giving a host of strangers an intimate peek at their lives.

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Indian Folklore Research Journal publishes original and unpublished research papers, book reviews, resource reviews and announcements in the discipline of Folklore. Indian Folklore Research Journal is published annually by India's National Folklore Support Centre.

Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for All Teachers and Students. Refreshing the NETS for the Digital Age.

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As geeks become chic in all levels of society, an unlikely subset is starting to roar. Meet the Nerd Girls: they're smart, they're techie and they're hot.

GRAMMY Foundation Announces 2008 GRAMMY Signature Schools. Artists House Music has entered into a special partnership with the GRAMMY Foundation that will make free online educational opportunities available to musicians worldwide.

From the point of view of the teacher, gaze aversion is a positive sign. A child who is doing it is likely to be developing their understanding and is what Dr Doherty-Sneddon terms an "improver". By contrast, children who are not improving their performance, or who are regressing, use gaze aversion less often.

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The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) invites you to consider submitting a presentation proposal for CoSN's 14th Annual K-12 School Networking Conference to be held March 11 & 12, 2009 at the Hilton Austin Hotel in Austin, TX. This event is the premier event for education technology leaders, attracting over 1,000 district, state, and national education technology professionals. We are soliciting educational presentations around the conference theme: "Leadership, Policy, and Innovation in A Collaborative World."

One Laptop Per Child, G1G1, There has been much speculation regarding the recent departure of Walter Bender from the One Laptop Per Child project. While many sites have focused on his departure from OLPC, at OpenEducation.net we spent some time talking with Professor Bender about his latest endeavor, Sugarlabs.org:

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Learn about Obama's grandparents and his mom Stanley.

AT&T Class Action settlement reached over unauthorized third-party bill add-ons.

Five IRS Employees Charged With Snooping on Tax Returns
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UCLA snooping
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Media Sentry sends Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice use a software program sold by Audible Magic. limewire,arin.net or samspade.org, Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice. The RIAA only identifies when a music file is being made available by a college user, not whether it was actually downloaded.

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