These one day institutes invite educators from across the country to learn about Abraham Lincoln through the Library’s primary and web based materials.

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STOP PALM OIL PROFITS There are only an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 90 percent of them in Indonesia, said Serge Wich, a scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa. Most live in small, scattered populations that cannot take the onslaught on the forests much longer. Trees are being cut at a rate of 300 football fields every hour. And massive land-clearing fires have turned the country into one of the top emitters of carbon.

Tell Congress to Stop Advertising on Bus Radio and Channel One. wo companies that advertise to captive audiences of school children.

I Have Always Loved the Washington Mall by Bonnie Bracey

K-12 Network Newsletters - Education Sorting, they say, is a new form of the old racism but subtler and in some ways harder to resist.

Obama promises to build high-speed Internet connections as an engine of growth.

January 27 Alex Eckelberry and Rick Green with teacher Julie Amero will explain all.

China - Happy New Year Xin Nian Kuai Le and gong xi fa cai.

I know this isn't anything earthshattering, but the change in the atmosphere at the Department over the last week has been really astounding. I

Disruptive innovation aka creative destruction. Recent research suggests the stock market is not good at valuing intangibles, uncertain innovation or technological change.

A legal view of taking photographs in public. The general rule in the United States is that anyone may take photographs of whatever they want when they are in a public place or places where they have permission to take photographs. Absent a specific legal prohibition such as a statute or ordinance, you are legally entitled to take photographs. Examples of places that are traditionally considered public are streets, sidewalks, and public parks.

Thanks to President Barack Obama - Women can be in charge of their own lives.

China - Thailand - Chinese New Year is the most important event of the traditional Chinese holidays. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month and this year, it falls on 26 January, 2009. In Bangkok, the Samphanthawong District, is the largest China Town in Thailand. It’s also well–known as the street of goldsmith shops and various tasteful dishes. Its people still preserve their ways of life, tradition and culture. That’s why, the Chinese New Year celebration in this square is a major festival and well organized every year.

Every visitor to the white house blog receives a YouTube cookie, not just those who actually click play to view the embedded YouTube video.

The Obama White House has quietly granted YouTube an exemption from strict federal rules that prohibit the use of cookies to collect information from visitors to federal agency Web sites.

Over 100 Million biggest redit Card Security Breach and they waited to inagauration day to tell us.

The intellectual ideas that influenced him while he was at Harvard and how that will impact the presidency.

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The agency is investigating concerns that Comcast's new network management practices degrade the sound quality of VOIP (voice over IP) services such as Vonage and Skype that compete with Comcast's own VOIP service.

Profound change in the technology realm for the US thanks to Obama.

Native Village First Nation Resources, libraries, archives, editorials

Dept. of Ed Grants - ECP K12 Newsletters

Grants and Scholarships K-12

The Digital Reference Section (DRS) conducts a free, one-hour orientation monthly, on the second Wednesday at 11 a.m. - noon, Eastern time, via Web conference. Throughout the program, DRS staff provide opportunities to ask questions, learn strategies for online access of the materials, and sample the collections and resources provided to facilitate your research.

Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford, according to Hillary Holland, a spokeswoman for the Brandywine River Museum.

TECHNOLOGY CONNECTS KIDS WITH NATURE The online portion of Raptors in the City guides children through nesting season (roughly late February to June) as they watch the still rare falcons live via cameras mounted on a skyscraper.

FREE: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Advance registration is strongly suggested.

SUMMARY: AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT from the House Democrat leadership. Conservative economist Mark Zandi was blunt: “the economy is shutting down.” The economy is in a crisis not seen since the Great Depression.In the next two weeks, the Congress will be considering the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009. This package is the first crucial step in a concerted effort to create and save 3 to 4 million jobs, jumpstart our economy, and begin the process of transforming it for the 21st century with $275 billion in economic recovery tax cuts and $550 billion in thoughtful and carefully targeted priority investments with unprecedented accountability measures built in.

On FreeYourPhone.org, people can sign EFF's petition to the Copyright Office and share their stories about cell phone frustrations. EFF will also help people officially submit those stories to the Copyright Office before the February 2 deadline. The Copyright Office will hold public hearings on the DMCA exemption requests in Washington, DC, and California in the spring, and the final rulemaking order will be issued in October.

Risks of global warming and its effects was provided by Bell Labs in 1958. Genachowski to head FCC. EFF's Network Neutrality testing tool.

With the arrival of 2009, we begin our tenth year. Hilton Pond 12-22-08 2008 Banding Totals and Pine Siskins

Educational CyberPlayground K-12 Newsletters - Partnerships in Character Education Program, Safe Schools/Healthy Students Program and much more.

solicit proposals to administer the Education Associates Program

K-12 Newsletters and Resources: Zwaggle.com, the online community that connects financially and socially responsible parents with other families across the country to swap goods, save money and clear clutter.NASA has a Facebook page designed for students in grades 9-12 and higher education.

Obama to announce new position, Filter Plan -- And Words from the Smothers Brothers,Obama's CTO,RIAA Ditches MediaSentry,Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post

Another Era  Whole Earth Catalog June 1971  Electronic Edition 

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Computer Lib/Dream Machines Retrospective

This astonishingly prescient book originally written and published by by Theodor H. Nelson in 1974

in a glorious oversized format is one of the "tap roots" of the soon to be born microcomputer and "cyber" cultures.

The following pages provide a retrospecitve of this work and Ted's current projects and vision. We will present excerpts
from the 1975 (second?) edition, kindly provided to us by Dan Croghan.

January 9 and 10 - Indigenous World Film Festival Presenting films from around the world including: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and more!

s Part of Inaugural Events The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will host “Out of Many: A Multicultural Festival of Music, Dance and Story” from Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009, through Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. The three-day program to commemorate the inauguration of Barack Obama

access an online sample copy of the journal

the documentary is such an engaging combination of history, art, science, and natural history footage that I think anyone who is interested in Caribbean and Atlantic studies, colonial America, and 18th century studies (not to mention birds, medicinal plants, Native Americans, exploration, nature, or the environment) would be excited by it.

A distinguished group of experts will discuss important legislative initiatives affecting women and families. Legislation in the upcoming sessions of the Maryland General Assembly and the U.S. Congress will be covered.

Barack Obama Black Irish Irish American Vernacular English - The Sanas (Irish Etymology) of Hoodoo By DANIEL CASSIDY

The Mess We Are In 2008 - - Or Some Relevant History. Current Solutions - Or How To Avoid A Marxist Outcome.Is any of this realistic? Some. Will any of it be done? Let us hope so. Lots of good articles to complete the argument.

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If you want to sell the complete download of your album at a lower price, the best thing to do is to send people to your CD Baby page to buy the download. You set the download price in your account, and since we only take 9%, you'll make far more money than you will from selling through iTunes.

Google, Library Information Science, Arfircan Fractals, Year End Google Zeitgeist, Social tagging; Folksonomy; Tag gardening; Emergent semantics; Power tags; Tagcare; Knowledge organization system; Knowledge representation; PersonomyDigital Scholarship,Online Enrollment, e-society conference,Categories; Classification; Design; Folksonomy; Mapping; Social inclusion; Tags; Web directories; Portal, Consumer generated media; Buzz; Text mining; Sentiment analysis; Recommending agent; Self-organizing map,

figuring out how to surf the web over an encrypted system isn't a bad idea if you want to keep your surfing habits private.

VR, Virtual Librarian, Stop reading, Start ASKING, virtual librarian. Libraries are built on a distributed local model with over 120,000 libraries in the US alone to identify unique local resources, conversations, and thinking, and then bring that to a network scale.

Indie Artist - get your music heard on the radio.

Music Copyright Laws Information from the Educational CyberPlayGround. Music Contracts, Music Deals, Copyright Law, Music Downloads How to legally sell downloads of cover songs. Works for Hire, Agencies , Music Rights , License

Beyond swords (a story in themselves), Longquan offers even more pleasure, especially for lovers of Chinese porcelain.

Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Mailing List - Oldest American - The technology sector, already rocked by the credit crunch and slowing global economies, is facing a bleak 2009 - Gmap pedometer online mapping services. Laba porridge Chinese new year.

People often ask whether I am concerned about inflation, deflation,peak oil, or a global financial meltdown. My answer is as follows.

Majel Barrett, widow of Gene Roddenberry and the voice of the Enterprise's computers, passed away today at 76.

China - there will be a solar eclipse January 26 2009. Global Circumstances and Animation. Diagrams showing the configuration of the eclipse including the local circumstances are available for the 234 locations.

China Folklore Since 1998, legislation work in the field of folklore protection has entered a new phase. The Committee on Education, Science, Culture and Public Health of the National People’s Congress has conducted a widespread and in-depth survey across the country, and the Ministry of Culture has also included in its agenda the formulation of the Law on the Protection of National Folklore.

Federal Reserve - 700 Billion Bail Out - Under the TALF, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) will lend up to $200 billion on a non-recourse basis to holders of certain AAA-rated ABS backed by newly and recently originated consumer and small business loans.

Shanghai China - Carlton J. Smith Soul Brothers can be found at the Marriott in Hongqiao Champions Barr M - S has a New CD The SkinnyBone Tree.

China - Chinese food and a movie dot com

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China - PRIZE winning Shanghai products at World Expos

China - China offers free education to teachers of the future. Reform for teachers' pay system. More highly qualified teachers attracted to work in China's rural areas. China's college teachers to be graded on results.

China - dec 21 Ghost Festival -Winter Solstice Folk Customs. People visit ancestors' graves on the Winter Solstice festival this year,

Israel going green with electric car - Every subscriber will get a car, a battery and access to a national network of recharging outlets across Israel, as well as stations that will swap a dead battery for a fresh one, or even another car, whenever needed.

China - CHINESE film makers are divided into six "generations," dating from 1905,