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  HDLNS.com is the easiest to use aggregated content RSS Reader on the net. No need to sign up, nothing to remember. Just browse and read. (read)

• Banks

  Banks really create value: probably $58 billion in overdraft fees & credit card penalties in 2009. (fp) (read)

• Privacy Rights in Death Photos: Catsuouras Case Decided

  Last year, I wrote about a case involving a lawsuit by a family against the California Highway Patrol (CHP) for improperly disseminating the accident-scene photos of their daughter (Nikki Catsouras), who perished in a gruesome automobile accident.  (read)

• The New Math on Campus

  When women outnumber men at a college, dating culture is skewed. (read)

• yOUr Library Week in Review

  It’s midterms this week and we can tell – the library is getting busier, especially in the middle of the week.    Here’s a look at what’s been going on around the library this week. The Alden Library Sustainability Group co (read)

• Warren Beatty Biography, 'Star'

  Sounds like a good beach/vacation read. Vanessa Grigoriadis reviews Peter Biskind's biography of Warren Beatty-- 'Star; How Warren Beatty Seduced America' in Sunday's New York Times. Presumably Beatty first agreed to cooperate in the creation of t (read)

• Dept. of Justice Still Unhappy With Revised Google Book Search Settlement

  It appears that there are at least couple of companies in the book biz that are too big for their britches as the saying goes. Publishers Weekly reports: The Department of Justice dealt a serious blow Thursday evening to the chances that the Google B (read)

• Q: How big was the rise in pupils caught cheating in exams last year? A:

  THE number of pupils caught using mobile phones to cheat in exams more than doubled last year, according to new figures. The total number caught cheating by any method rose by 22 per cent in 2008-9, according to the Scottish Qualifications Authority (read)

• Chupaeng

  noun. A straight guy who receives blowjobs from gays or cougars in exchange for cash or sometimes just for kicks. (read)

• The Hartt School presents An Evening of Concerto Winners 2/5

  The Hartt School presents An Evening of Concerto Winners on Friday, February 5, at 7:30 PM in Lincoln Theater on the University of Hartford campus. This wonderful event features the four Paranov Concerto Competition winners from the 2009-2010 season. (read)

• Leeds parents in court over their three sons' school truancy

  The parents of three boys have appeared in court charged with allowing them to skip school. Amanda Battensby and Jason Hardisty, of Manor Road, Rothwell, Leeds, faced a total of eight charges at Leeds Magistrates Court ' and denied all of them. Leeds (read)

• Obituary - Bill McLaren

  Bill McLaren, CBE, rugby union broadcaster and former Hawick Learning Community PE teacher, died on January 19, aged 86. The death of the man known as 'the voice of rugby' drew tributes from Rugby Union supporters around the world. His meticulous (read)

• council's concern over primary schools

  Oliver PughSouthwark Council is concerned about five primary schools in the borough, one of which has been described as 'inadequate' after a recent inspection. Crawford Primary is now in 'special measures' and receives extra help to improve standards (read)

• Books, Readers and Teachers: A Wrap-Up

  Students and teachers weigh in with passionate and personal picks for their favorite titles and authors to read and teach. (read)

• SC's Sanford seeks federal grant money for schools

  Extract not available. (read)

• Western Pa. teacher's Facebook suspension lifted

  Extract not available. (read)

• Obama and Education: Pork You Can Believe In

  It's been a tough year for President Obama's legislative agenda. His centerpiece proposals have likely died while generating intense ideological rancor. Almost predictably, he now falls back on the apple pie and motherhood issue of education to elici (read)

• Education Expenses: An Analysis of the New American Opportunity Credit

  Annual Tax Update Strategies for Protecting Wealth • Minimizing AMT Liability • IRS Guidance for Ponzi Losses • New College Tax Credits ■ How much do I know? ■ How many hours will it take to study for the exam? ■ How many hours do I have (read)

• Boy, 15, shot in head at Ala. middle school

  MADISON, Ala. A school official says a 15-year-old boy was shot in the head by another student inside an Alabama middle school and is in critical condition. Madison City Schools Superintendent Dee Fowler said no one else at Discovery Middle School w (read)

• Immigration helps boost relative wages of U.S.-born workers at all levels o

  There is broad agreement among economists that immigration has a small but positive impact on the average wages of workers born in the United States: while new immigrant workers add to the labor supply, they also consume goods and services, which cre (read)

• Waddesdon pupils' lesson in life with some of India's poorest

  An Aylesbury Vale school has been selected to partner with a school in India. Pupils from Waddesdon CofE School recently visited Trichy in South India as part of a three-year campaign being led by the Diocese of Oxford's education department to help (read)

• University of Oklahoma President David Boren Announces Plans to Strengthen

  University of Oklahoma President David Boren today announced he will work to launch a national campaign in partnership with the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence (OFE), the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate an (read)

• University of Oklahoma President David Boren Announces Plans to Strengthen

  University of Oklahoma President David Boren today announced he will work to launch a national campaign in partnership with the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence (OFE), the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate an (read)

• Education minister encourages forging ties, studying in US

  Extract not available. (read)

• King County Judge Rules State Failing Education

  Extract not available. (read)

• Saffron Walden school pupils raise money for people in Haiti

  A WEEK of charitable activities at Friends' School in Saffron Walden has raised more than 1500 to help people in Haiti. Students had a busy yet rewarding week with a different fundraising event planned for each day and an opportunity for all pupils (read)

• British delegation in high praise of Oman's education policies

  Dr Rawya bint Saud al Busaidiya, Minister of Higher Education, received here yesterday a delegation from the Community Exchange Programme between Oman and the UK. The visit came in the context of a venture initiated by the British Council in Muscat a (read)

• Lecturer jailed for sex with girl, 13

  A shamed university lecturer who had sex with a 13-year-old schoolgirl was today jailed.Biomedicine lecturer Trevor Jackson used the internet to seduce the teenager, who he then went on to meet several times for sex in a luxury hotel on Jersey. The (read)

• Lecturer jailed for sex with girl, 13

  Extract not available. (read)

• Lecturer jailed for sex with girl, 13

  A shamed university lecturer from Newcastle who had sex with a 13-year-old schoolgirl has been jailed.Biomedicine lecturer Trevor Jackson used the internet to seduce the teenager, who he then went on to meet several times for sex in a luxury hotel on (read)

• Pope confirms visit to Scotland, praises Scottish Catholic education

  L-R: Bishop Joseph Toal, Bishop Mone (Emeritus), Bishop Cunningham, Bishop Devine, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, His Holiness Pope Benedict, Archbishop Mario Conti, Bishop Logan, Bishop Murray (Emeritus), Bishop Moran, Bishop Philip Tartaglia Addressing (read)

• Ethnic minorities well-represented in UK universities

  Ethnic minorities in Britain are now better represented in higher education than their share of the general population, according to a study by Race for Opportunity.However, they are still under-represented at top quality institutions and are less li (read)

• Priorities and Limited Resources

  The world is a large and wonderful place filled with numerous opportunities. It is often said that if we work hard enough we can do anything. While I like that can-do attitude, the fact is it is a bit of a hyperbole. Even with all that we have, we si (read)

• library legislative day 2010: not too late to be involved

  Library Legislative DayTuesday, February 16 2010Best Western Inn on the ParkIs your library the heart of your community? Let your legislator know that!As librarians we know that we are having to do more with less. In these tough economic times, the l (read)

• Library Jobs Need to be in the Jobs Bill!

  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced yesterday that he will bring the Senate's $80 billion version of the Jobs for Main Street Act or the 'jobs bill' to the Senate floor sometime next week.Libraries are not in this bill, and it is more (read)

• St Agatha healing GLanfranco [Flickr]

  elliemom posted a photo: (read)

• Computer realities and sorrows

  My beautiful iMac G-5 was sitting in its sculptural glory at the genius bar at the Apple store yesterday. I thought I was taking it for a tweak and would take it home good as new. I described its problem; probably minor, I thought. The tech opene (read)

• Hey Ontario, the new Economic Dev Mapping Site is Wanting

  That's the point of James Murray's article in the Thunder Bay paper taking aim at a Bing Maps based tool aimed at helping those looking to open businesses in the province find possible locations. The app is called SelectOntario and the provincial we (read)

• Parmigiani Fleurier Restoration Collection at SIHH 2010

  Parmigiani Fleurier introduced the Restoration collection at SIHH 2010. Below is the official press release and lots of interesting images. 'It is a rare pleasure to restore a timepiece. Setting it free from the ravages of time and man e (read)

• Tina Brown's digital-first book venture is a great idea -- but a little con

  Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperback (read)

• Obama Could Dump Biden for Clinton as VP in 2012

  Democratic strategists say Obama doesn't need Biden for foreign policy issues anymore. (read)

• Why the Tea Party Convention Hurts the Tea Party Movement

  Right now they have more power as a grassroots movement, that's bigger than any panel discussion. (read)

• Obama's Big Budget

  We're spending $3.8 trillion next year ['Breaking Down Obama's Budget,' usnews.com]! (read)

• Questions for the Self-Righteous, Hypocritical Republicans

  Republicans pork up while screaming about Democrats' spending. (read)

• Lecturer jailed for sex with girl, 13

  A shamed university lecturer from Newcastle who had sex with a 13-year-old schoolgirl has been jailed.Biomedicine lecturer Trevor Jackson used the internet to seduce the teenager, who he then went on to meet several times for sex in a luxury hotel on (read)

• The tall tale of how teacher Taffy Thomas turned storytelling laureate

  'when I left teaching,' said Taffy Thomas, who was appointed this week as the UK's first storytelling laureate, 'my headteacher told me, 'You are leaving teaching to work in education.' He was right - what I do as a storyteller is educational. You ca (read)

• In Which Your Humble Correspondent Takes the Initiative

  On February 1st we had a PD day. I looked at the menu of offerings. Do I want to go to Smartboard training for the fourth time? I mean, it's not like they're ever going to put expensive hardware in the trailer, so I'm never getting one. Should I s (read)

• Mature Students' Reception

  Start: 09/02/2010 - 18:30 End: 09/02/2010 - 20:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT Description: Following our very popular lunch event last term, the GSU will be holding an evening reception for mature postgrads in the GSU Common Room in House 7 at 6.30pm next T (read)

• No Title

  mapping the fourth dimension (a ten year retrospective)how to make a heatmap - a quick and easy solutionthe meme lifecyclethe dangers of a high-information dietthe journal of serendipitous and unexpected results (jsur) is an open-access forum for res (read)

• Does abstinence-only sex ed work? | Jill Filipovic

  If there is one thing that has proven true throughout human history, it's that people like ? scratch that, love ? to have sex. It's one of the most natural things a person can do, and pretty soon after hitting puberty our bodies start encouraging us (read)

• NYC student arrested for doodling on school desk

  NEW YORK A New York City junior high student has been arrested for doodling on her desk. Twelve-year-old Alexa Gonzalez scribbled 'Lex was here 2/1/10' on her desk Monday at Junior High School 190 in Queens. She also wrote 'I love my friends Abby an (read)

• Dallas teachers say poor leadership is to blame for low morale

  There are times that I find it difficult to get up in the morning and go to work to teach to the test, what's painful for me is painstaking for my students...the low morale that the teachers feel trickles down to them. It is not good to focus too muc (read)

• Unruly pupils spark community meeting

  SECURITY guards could be used at a Hendon school to curb antisocial behaviour by pupils. Plans for reducing the number of rebellious students on the streets during and after school were discussed last night at a meeting with teachers, police and (read)

• Pupils' behaviour creating crime 'hotspot'

  SHOP owners in Hendon have hit back at pupils who they claim terrorise the streets outside of school hours. Scores of school children descend on Church Road and Brent Street from about 3pm, with many lingering in large groups outside take-aways and (read)

• Newport pupils show off Narnia artwork

  BUDDING artists at a Newport primary school opened their very own exhibition at Newport's Riverfront Arts Centre this week. As part of their art curriculum, the five and six-year-olds at Gaer Infant School studied C.S Lewis' The Lion, The Witch and T (read)

• Child sex offence lecturer jailed

  Child sex offence Newcastle University lecturer jailed A former Newcastle University lecturer has been jailed for child sex offences. Dr Trevor Jackson had pleaded guilty in November to sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl during trips to Jersey (read)

• View from here - Snow given the cold shoulder

  Think the frosty winter that shut UK schools nationwide was bad? Not even metres of the white stuff can close Canadian doors, writes Nathan Greenfield Canadian school kids have watched the news reports of British schools closed by snow and ice with e (read)

• Turning the clock back to subject slavery

  The Conservatives' views on the kind of education that will hold pupils in good stead are too narrow The Conservatives talked tough about the school curriculum in their recently launched draft education manifesto. But does their case stand up? The (read)

• Prison librarian sentenced for smuggling drugs

  Prison librarian sentenced for smuggling drugs A Stillwater prison librarian was sentenced to seven years of probation for helping inmates check out more than library books. According to a criminal complaint filed in Washington County District Court (read)

• School Library makeover voting

  https://usspringpromo.acer.com/Campaign/SchoolLibraryMakeover/index.htm?LS=Intel 'Vote for your favorite school by March 31, 2010 and see what a difference you can make. Schools from throughout the U.S. are finalists. The winner will be chosen by pub (read)

• Plea for apprentices

  Section: News Newcastle-under-Lyme College celebrated National Apprenticeship Week by encouraging more local employers to consider hiring an apprentice The college is urging businesses to contact them to discuss the Government's new Apprentice Grant (read)

• FE survival is far from simple

  News While the latest news coming out of Brooklands College (''Closure' campus to stay open despite debt', January 29) is perhaps less worrying than could at first have been feared, the college's situation is still serious with a number of (read)

• Planned pay hike put on ice

  Regional settlements and premiums for teachers in urban schools ruled out as ministers hold back on salary review Tens of thousands of teachers working in London and other cities are likely to miss out on a large pay rise after the Government put pla (read)

• The road less travelled

  In precarious economic times, asking your employer for six months off may seem little short of professional suicide. But as Friederike Heine reports, sabbaticals can enhance your professional development - and save your school precious funds Teaching (read)

• Peter Pan passes with flying colours

  A pre-school is celebrating after being named among the best in the country. Peter Pan Pre-School in Rushden received Ofsted's highest grade of 'outstanding' during its latest inspection. Joint supervisors, Lyn Reynolds and Claire Craft, were delight (read)

• Former head reveals pressures that drive some teachers to commit suicide

  Caroline Barnes (right) during her time at PRU, March Exclusive FORMER head teacher Caroline Barnes says she can understand the pressure that drives teachers to commit suicide following her own experience with OfSTED which led her to quit. Following (read)

• Lecturer to be sentenced for child sex offences

  A shamed Newcastle University lecturer is due to be sentenced for having sex with an under-age girl as well as making and possessing indecent images of children. Biomedicine lecturer Trevor Jackson, 46, of Lyndhurst Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle, admitt (read)

• Trail of recession leaves dent in apprenticeship recruitment

  Number of places down by 6 per cent on back of financial squeeze in key industries Recession-hit science, engineering and manufacturing industries are behind the decline in apprenticeship recruitment, new figures reveal. As Apprenticeship Week comes (read)

• Pupils chuck paper planes for science

  Extract not available. (read)

• Ex BMS pupil wins Euro short film prize

  A Former Bedford Modern School student has won the Grand Prix du Jury in the European Short Film Competition at the prestigious Angers Film Festival in France. Film producer, Michael Berliner's award-winning 10 minute film, Whore, directed by Fyzal (read)

• All eyes on skills

  News UK Skills knows the crucial role that apprenticeships can play as a means of developing exceptional performance, and the vital importance of this both for individual and organisational success. However, there is a widespread problem in the UK o (read)

• Seattle Public Library holding 'community conversations'

  'Members of the public are invited to attend 'community conversations' in March to help The Seattle Public Library plan for evolving Library patron needs and to prioritize limited resources' (read)

• David Shumaker receives The Rose L. Vormelker Award for 2009

  'David Shumaker, associate professor at the Catholic University of America, has received the 2009 Rose Vormelker Award for excellence in guiding and mentoring future information professionals and librarians awarded by the Special Libraries Associatio (read)

• Third annual Sparky Awards winners (USA)

  'Three new student films on information sharing have been voted the best by a panel of new media experts, students, and librarians in the third annual Sparky Awards. Organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and a (read)

• What Are Your 'Food Rules'?

  Student Opinion | Tell us about your own personal rules for eating, or the rules with which you were raised. (read)

• News Quiz | February 5, 2010

  See what you know about the news of the day. (read)

• BRIEF: Scotland High Schools to hold dinner fundraiser

  The Bagpiper Restaurant at Scotland County High Schools will hold special Valentine's dinners on Feb. 11 and 12 to raise money for two student programs. The five-course menu will feature a choice of entrees that include hand-cut beef tenderloin filet (read)

• Prestwich Arts College's delight at Ofsted report

  PRESTWICH Arts College is a good school with some outstanding features. That was the overall verdict of Ofsted inspectors, who have published their report based on a two-day visit in November. Ofsted singled out for praise the 'excellent teaching tha (read)

• Prestwich Arts College's delight at Ofsted report

  PRESTWICH Arts College is a good school with some outstanding features. That was the overall verdict of Ofsted inspectors, who have published their report based on a two-day visit in November. Ofsted singled out for praise the 'excellent teaching tha (read)

• Filmclub offers Welsh pupils 'reel education'

  Schoolchildren in Wales are being offered the chance to boost their education through the study of classic films. Filmclub is an initiative funded by the Film Agency for Wales, Skillset Screen Academy and ContinYou Cymru, and has so far been employed (read)

• A Committee's Bad Choice

  What does an administrator do when a faculty advisory panel offers lousy recommendations? C.K. Gunsalus considers the options. (read)

• Responsibilities: A College and Triplets

  Carmen Twillie Ambar is president of a small college in Pennsylvania -- and the mother of three toddlers. (read)

• 'Modest Revolt' Against British Research Funding Rules

  Some academics in Britain are refusing to say on their grant applications how their proposals will help the economy or society, and some of them are still getting funding from agencies that theoretically require this information, Times Higher Educati (read)

• La. Panel Endorses Single Board for Public Universities

  A committee studying the future of higher education in Louisiana voted narrowly Thursday to recommend a restructuring that would create a single governing board for four-year public colleges and universities, down from the current three, and another (read)

• Video Projects, not Video Viewing

  Joshua Kim (read)

• Sequestration reality check

  G. Rendell (read)

• UK visa denial leaves 4000 students in lurch

  The U.K. government's decision to stop accepting student visa applications temporarily under Points Based System -- Tier 4 has affected the education of 4,000 students and put their tuition fees amounting to Rs. 2 billion at risk. The Educational (read)

• Measuring the iPad's Potential for Education - Bridget McCrea, Educational

  No Abstract (read)

• Halbrook on the Second Amendment & Reconstruction

  Stephen P. Halbrook has posted Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen? (Santa Clara Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: 'In the aftermath of the Civil War, there was an outpour (read)

• Online Learning: The Web Way to Learn a Language - ERIC A. TAUB, New York T

  Online courses are either fee-based, free or a combination. Starter kits of fee-based programs may cost just a few hundred dollars, but the cost to reach higher levels of comprehension and speaking can easily be $1,000. While that may sound expensive (read)

• Gays in the military and other hot, hot issues

  Some of my views aren't shared with other Conservatives; that's because we don't have to march lock step like the Liberals. For instance, I think Ohio's drug sentencing laws are too harsh; I think there is an advantage to medical marijuana over more (read)

• Russell Muirhead

  I think about fitting work in the same way we might think about other practices, often drawn from arts, games, or sports, like piano playing or baseball. The first thing to ask is whether we have the right aptitudes. No aptitude, no fit. If you're t (read)

• EPub, First Attempt

  So…being a sometimes-advocate of open and all that, and since Lulu now supports ePub, The Standard Ebook Format… I thought I’d see whether using it makes any sense for the huge (513pp. 6×9, 191K words) collection of OA articles (read)

• Unemployment Insurance and Hiring

  Here's a very interesting article on how it works in Illinois, and how the laws act as disincentive for hiring. I can tell you that the unemployment insurance laws in this state do, indeed, discourage at least some hiring.  My husband is the re (read)

• Palin Denounces Limbaugh Over 'Retard' Cracks, Glenn Beck Next?

  Palin spokeswoman: Rush was 'crude and demeaning.' (read)

• Going Back to Bird's Beginnings

  Jurassic dinosaur fossil sorts out an old enigma. (read)

• Mexico Starts Planting Genetically Modified Corn

  Opponents warn that modified genes could contaminate valuable native varieties. (read)

• Lost Your Job? There's Still Time to Get the COBRA Subsidy

  Here's what you need to know about getting the subsidy before time's up this month (unless it's not). (read)

• Obama's Presidency Lacks a Strong Narrative

  Strategists say the president needs to clarify his vision and explain his rationale. (read)

• Penn State Panel Clears 'Climategate' Prof of Three Claims

  After investigation, the school says there's no evidence that professor tampered with data. (read)

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