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Mary McFate and Mary Lou Sapone are one in the same. Gun Lobby espionage.

Privacy - security - crypto - censorship Senator Sam Brownback protesting China's warrantless spying on the email and telephone communications of foreigners, and lamenting that private companies feel unfairly pressured to cooperate with China's government spying out of fear of losing lucrative business opportunities, is so surreal that it's actually hard to believe. seeing it.

private health insurance companies in the state to provide diagnosis and treatment coverage of up to $36,000 per year for residents under age 21 with autism spectrum disorder.

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Goodby Google!! Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn’t disclose the size of their index, although they claim to know about a trillion unique web pages. It’s pronounced “cool.”

With honeybees threatened by a mysterious illness called colony collapse disorder, keeping pollinators healthy is more important than ever. Demonstration gardens teach ways to create pollinator habitats.

What Amber Alerts do create, its critics say, is a climate of fear around a tragic but extremely rare event, pumping up public anxiety. Griffin calls it "crime control theater," and his critique of Amber Alerts fits into a larger complaint on the part of some criminologists about crime-fighting measures - often passed in the wake of horrific, highly publicized crimes - that originate from strong emotions rather than research into what actually works.

The briefing will highlight how the traditional health policy world has embraced blogging and will feature a keynote address by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, the first cabinet officer to author an official blog, followed by a moderated discussion with a variety of health policy bloggers and a media analyst. Questions to be explored with the panelists include: Why do individuals and organizations blog? How does blogging impact the broader work of an organization? Are there different standards used when blogging versus other writing? Have blogs impacted the news business significantly? What kind of influence are blogs having on political and policy debates?

The mission of the Training Corps is to support district-level professional development efforts by providing demonstrations by expert teachers and practitioners of ways to improve academic performance through increased content knowledge and improved pedagogical skill. Participants in the trainings should leave sessions with ready-to-use strategies and an understanding of why and when those strategies are effective. The Training Corps will also support participants through regional workshops, e-mail mentoring, e-Learning presentations, web casts and follow-up visits.

ED REVIEW July 2, July 18, ...a bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders

Screw the DMCA: The chorus of voices criticizing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) has just gotten a bit louder with the addition of a new and authoritative voice: The Library of Congress.

Creole Dialect Speakers and Creole Culture. Learn about stigmatized varieties and much more. Administrators, Educators, Reporters, and the Public are invited to learn about the following topics from Academic Experts. Creole, Pidgin, Patois, Dialect AAVE, African American Venacular English, Ebonics Irish American Vernacular English.

EVERYONE on the East Coast can come to the Pennsylvania Convention Center: 1000's of $$$ Resources that empower you to afford any college, choose the right school, get accepted, succeed on campus, and transform your life along the way. FREE!

Since Care2.com is classroom-appropriate and kid-friendly, it’s also a great place to do some technology and writing lessons with ecards.

factcheck.org In this election year let me recommend this site run by the Annenberg School at UPenn

New York 50 Percent of Sequoia Voting Machines Flawed. Don't allow vendors hack the vote.

We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator. Moreover, the antenna and tuner are implemented in a radically different manner than traditional radios, receiving signals via high frequency mechanical vibrations of the nanotube rather than through traditional electrical means.

offbeat angle on the iPhone mania: "Talking to God on a Two Way Radio" in honor of the recently-passed George Carlin.

The FCC commissioners heard about privacy, fairness and commercial possibility. Rep Mike Doyle (D-PA) helped organize the event saying it was intended to address two major concerns -- the so- called "digital divide" between those who have broadband access and those who don't, and "Network Neutrality," or the openness of the Internet.

Amazing Animal True Story about two men who adoped a 35 pound lion cub from Harrod's dept. store, raised, then released, and reunited with him in the wild.

Letters, prose, poems, drawings mailed by soldiers and other servicemen and women during world war two.

What are your skills worth on the open market?

This is not a guide on how to plan a wedding, but rather on how to find information on the business of weddings.

FDA is updating healthcare professionals about recent changes made to the Boxed Warning, Warnings, and Contraindications sections of the prescribing information for micro-bubble contrast agents, a sterile suspension of perflutren gas microspheres, indicated for use in certain patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, to opacify the left ventricular chamber and to improve the delineation of the left ventricular endocardial border.

NASA's Spaceward Bound: Arctic 2008 Follow along as American, Canadian and Inuit teachers work side by side with NASA scientists studying remote and extreme environments in the Arctic July 25 through Aug. 2, 2008 and Space Kaleidoscope Science Institute in Baltimore. "It's an exciting time for the field of astrokaleidoscopics, or anyone interested in the vast, wacked-out nature of space."

"What Your Broadband Provider Knows About Your Web Use: Deep Packet Inspection and Communications Laws and Policies." Contact Congressman Ed Markey, John D. Dingell(chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce) and Joe Barton (ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce opt out of NebuAd, Frontporch, ContxtPlus, 121Media, Phorm and PeopleOnPage

School Teachers and other scholars Deadline for proposals: September 1, 2008 for October through December 2008. December 1 for January through August 2009.

U.S. 6th Circuit says there is no meaningful risk of hardship to the plaintiff! read more . . .

You are invited open to the public The Federal Communications Commission today announced a public en banc hearing to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Monday, July 21, 2008.

Bush brings us back to the dark ages: "The Department proposes to define abortion as 'any of the various procedures -- including the prescription and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action -- that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation,"' it said.

CAFOs Uncovered: The Untold Costs of Confined Animal Feeding Operations explains how misguided federal farm policies have encouraged the growth of massive CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) by shifting billions of dollars in environmental, health, and economic costs to taxpayers and communities. As a result, CAFOs now produce most of the nation's beef, pork, chicken, dairy and eggs, even though there are more sophisticated and efficient farms in operation.Instead of favoring CAFOs, the report recommends that government policies provide incentives for modern production methods that benefit the environment, public health, and rural communities. The report also shows that several smart alternative production methods can offer meat and dairy at costs comparable to CAFO products.

Text of Obama's speech: Remarks to the 80th Convention of the American Federation of Teachers Senator Barack Obama July 13, 2008

"I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen's ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc — outrageous and I will fight them," Representative John Culberson, Republican of Texas

Bank failures to surge in coming years.IndyBank Fails. There are 90 banks that may fail. No one tells you which bank. It could be your bank, but how would you know?

Jesse Jackson Says what he thinks about Obama "I want to cut his n-ts off" when the mike is turned off.

Related Labeling Changes for 56 Drugs Now Available on Web

Healthcare professionals should inspect cartons of the product for signs of leakage, cracks and other damage to the vials

Sen Obama would push for school systems to bring broadband Internet access into all K-12 schools. McCain doesn't have a position on broadband Internet access in schools, or his stance on classroom technology.

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McCain's security detail, police arrested Carol Kreck,a 61 year old librarian in Denver, for carrying a sign on public property.

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LOC Online Conference Wednesday, July 9 - Join Library of Congress librarians who will show the Declaration of Independence as it evolved from an idea to an event, looking, with participants, at a variety of drafts and editions of the Declaration and related documents.

While Bealle's research focuses on "folksong" as the root concept for interpreting Sacred Harp, Miller focuses on "diaspora." One of the advantages of speaking of Sacred Harp singing as a diaspora is that Miller can transcend well-worn notions of "tradition" and "revival."

NASA’s Office of Education is seeking input from college, university and potential industry officials and decision-makers with experience in university-level, student-led flight projects focusing on spaceflight satellite and/or payload development, payload integration, spacecraft and/or payload launch, mission operations or scientific data analysis.

Welcomes submission of manuscripts dealing with all aspects of librarianship as practiced on the World Wide Web, including both existing and emerging roles and activities of information professionals in the Web environment. New authors are welcome!

FDA notified healthcare professionals that a BOXED WARNING and Medication Guide are to be added to the prescribing information to strengthen existing warnings about the increased risk of developing tendinitis and tendon rupture in patients taking fluoroquinolones for systemic use.

We present new forensic tools that are capable of detecting traces of tampering in digital images without the use of watermarks or specialized hardware.

The EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee has released the results of its ninth annual survey of information technology (IT) issues that concern higher education.

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The U.S. Office of Human Research Protections is seeking advice on whether to issue guidance or require additional training for those who serve on institutional boards that review proposals for research with human subjects. The agency posted its request, which follows criticism that some of those serving on the campus-based boards lack adequate training, in the Federal Register.

It will be a free, non-profit, K-12 educational video contest, currently under planning and development. Imagine tens of thousands of excellent short videos explaining nearly every topic taught in U.S. public schools. WatchKnow will be a free (open content), non-profit beta project, to launch probably this fall, to see whether we can create that. We will set the topics and invite teachers—and everyone—to submit videos. Videos will be rated, and, at a certain point, we'll select a winner for each topic. We'll pay the winner(s) within each topic small prize(s),

Music Business Video. Terry Prince explains how he sold 15,000 music CDs in 18 Months by playing 30 hours a month on the Santa Monica Pier.

A subject that I believe will be critical to whoever is elected: the seemingly arcane (but in truth quite fascinating and dynamic ) subject of widespread, automated releases of government data combined with new Web 2.0-based tools to turn that data into informative, illustrative visualizations.

The question is not how do ISPs recover their costs -- the question is why we keep insisting on funding our infrastructure by charging for services instead of recognizing that the infrastructure is not a profit center. It’s a means by which we create value everywhere else in society.

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The court’s order grants Viacom's request and erroneously ignores the protections of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and threatens to expose deeply private information about what videos are watched by YouTube users. The VPPA passed after a newspaper disclosed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rental records. As Congress recognized, your selection of videos to watch is deeply personal and deserves the strongest protection.

And let me make clear, at the outset of this debate, that this is not about domestic surveillance itself. We all recognize the importance of domestic surveillance ­ in an age of unprecedented threats. This is about illegal, unwarranted, unchecked domestic surveillance. And that difference—the difference between surveillance that is lawful, warranted and that which is not—is everything.

Companies in charge of seemingly public spaces online wipe out content that's controversial but otherwise legal. Service providers write their own rules for users worldwide and set foreign policy when they cooperate with regimes like China. They serve as prosecutor, judge and jury in handling disputes behind closed doors.

Something for everyone: fiddlin', yodeling, double-double bass, drums by fireside and Tex Williams crooning 'Trouble With Me'.

Sage Products informed healthcare professionals of the voluntary recall of limited lots of 2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Cloth Patient Preoperative Skin Preparation product.

Reports Of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy In Patients Treated With CellCept

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Webology: Volume 5, Number 1, 2008 Broadband Dialup Google Fair Use Webology Science Open Access Academic dishonesty web 2.0 medical librarianship Folksonomies

The products were recalled because certain lots contained thiomethisosildenafil, an undeclared ingredient that is an analog of sildenafil, a FDA-approved drug used for Erectile Dysfunction.

life-threatening complications associated with recombinant human Bone Morphogenetic Protein (rhBMP) when used in the cervical spine.

Drink Green Tea for your Heart. July 2008 FDA Patient Safety News. April 2008 drug safety-related labeling changes for 47 drugs.

The show, Red, White and Blues: The Sounds of Patriotic Pluralism is not the same old Sousa. Hear guests from Merle Haggard to Joan Baez talk about patriotism and protest with host Nick Spitzer as well as blues and New Orleans jazz versions of classic freedom songs, American anthems from James Brown, the Staple Singers, the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Martin, and more. A brief history of the holiday also known as Independence Day, which observes the day in 1776 when "the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence." Includes speeches, music, photos, and links to related topics. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

One Web site, called Textbook Torrents, promises more than 5,000 textbooks for download in PDF format, complete with the original textbook layout and full-color illustrations. Users must simply set up a free account and download a free software program that uses a popular peer-to-peer system called BitTorrent. Other textbook-download sites are even easier to use, offering digital books at the click of a mouse.

If you were on your way to work and heard a musician in the subway play for free, would you stop when you didn't know this musician was paid $1000.00 a minute to play? Learn what happened.