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1)
New York Times documents folk dancing in Iraq is
considered an act of courage.
On Dangerous Footing in Iraq, Where Dancing Is a Courageous
Act http://tinyurl.com/uncgv
The members of the national dance troupe of Iraq are hoping
one day to thrive again as a troupe. But the religiosity
sweeping Iraq does not bode well for their future.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 29 ­ The members of the national dance troupe of Iraq
are performers without an audience. They rehearse daily, but hardly
ever put on a show.
et each turn of the hip and dip at the waist in their choreographed
pieces has become weighted with a dangerous new reality, even as they
wait for the chaos around them to subside so they can perform again.
In today?s Iraq, with conservative religious parties and radical
militias exerting growing influence over every aspect of life, even
dancing is an act of bravery.
?Society is overwhelmed by these religious ideologies,? said Tariq
Ibrahim, a male dancer in the Baghdad troupe, the Iraqi National
Folklore Group. ?Now a woman on the street without a head scarf
attracts attention. What about a woman onstage dancing??

RESOURCES for the Performing Arts such as dance, acting,
drama, theater, costuems, circus, playground amusement,
special events, and festivals.
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Other Artists Who Change the World
Woody Guthrie linked folklore with good citizenship.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/woodieguthrie.html
Pete Seeger
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2)

Gilder Lehrman Summer Institutes Announced:  The Gilder
Lehrman Institute has announced the 2007 Summer Seminars schedule.
These seminars afford educators an opportunity to study an
important topic in American history with an eminent scholar in the
field at major institutions including Harvard, Columbia, Stanford,
Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia. These week-long
seminars provide educators with intellectual stimulation and a
collaborative context for developing practical resources and
strategies to take back to the classroom. Six new seminars are
available this year. To see the schedule and apply online, visit:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/seminars1.html

3)
Children's Hospital computer system breached
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/15864333.htm
Akron Children's Hospital has notified federal authorities following the
discovery of two unauthorized breaches into separate computer databases
at the hospital.
According to the hospital's web site, www.akronchildrens.org, the first
database contained personal information about hospital patients and the
parents or guardians who provide their health insurance. That personal
information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and
patient birth dates.

4)
"The Nutty Professors" Rreviewed in New Yorker magazine
http://tinyurl.com/vt4b5
Anthony Grafton reviews William Clark's "Academic Charisma and the
Origins of the Research University" -- a new book that traces the
origins and development of the modern university and all its
twisted charms.  "The lecture, like the sermon, had a liturgical
cast and aura...one must be authorized to perform the rite, and
must do it in an authorized manner"  writes Clark.   Anyone
associated with a university will find this posting amusing and
insightful.

5)
Nothing is secret
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2006/10/29/2165335-sun.html
On a typical evening, a man in Edmonton gets a phone call from a man in
Karachi, Pakistan.
The call is relayed through a series of stations via fibre optic cable
before bouncing off a satellite and back to the phone carrier's
ground-based network. Near the man's home in Pakistan - or perhaps near
the phone company relay station - a small but powerful antenna array
picks up the call. It streams the content to a second array, which then
bounces it back to another satellite, this time operated not by the
company, but by a branch of the Australian government.
They'll probably never know it, but the two have just been caught in the
web of information gathering known as Signals Intelligence. Since 1947,
a year before George Orwell penned his cautionary novel 1984 and warned
that Big Brother Is Watching, that's what has happened across the globe,
to calls and messages of all sorts. If you've communicated over distance
with anyone, ever, there's a chance someone listened in.

6)
Million-PC botnet threatens consumers
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2167474/million-pc-botnet-threatens
Cyber criminals are assembling the biggest botnet for over two years
already close to a million PCs online security experts have told
vnunet.com.
No one knows yet exactly what nefarious activity the army of captive PCs
will be used for. But the chances are it will be a massive onslaught of
phishing aimed at defrauding web consumers in the run up to Christmas.
Botnets are distributed networks of zombie computers, usually
broadband-connected home PCs, recruited into criminal service, unbeknown
to their owners, by infection with a Trojan virus.

7)
Flaw exploited in RFID-enabled passports
http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6130396.html
Security researchers have released proof-of-contact code that they say
enables an attacker to read the passport number, date of birth, and
passport expiration date from passports with RFID tags enabled.
Researcher Adam Laurie, known for his proof-of-concept attacks on
Bluetooth-enabled devices, reported the new code on the Bugtraq mailing
list Friday afternoon.

8)
Web Site Lets Anyone Create Fake Boarding Passes
<http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/web-site-lets-anyone-create-fake
/20061027231809990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001>
Web Site Lets Anyone Create Fake Boarding Passes
Student Says Site's Meant to Show Loopholes, Feds Don't See It That Way
A 24-year-old computer security student working on his
doctorate at Indiana University Bloomington has created a Web site
that allows anyone with an Internet connection and a printer to
create and print fake boarding passes for Northwest Airlines flights.


9)
NJ State Identification Number for all K-12 students
The NJ Commissioner of Education made a presentation yesterday about
the state's plans to create a state-issued student id number for
every K-12 student in all NJ public schools before the end of this
year.  The Commissioner claimed that every state was creating the
same state-issued student identifier.    From the presentation, there
does not appear to be any thought given to security, restrictions on
the use of the identifier when the students are no longer enrolled in
public schools (ie this becomes a de facto national id number),
restrictions on data access (e.g. how does the state plan to keep its
felons away from the data), and restrictions on illegitimate uses of
the data.  Unless I am missing something, the purported
justification, the federal No Child Left Behind Act reporting
requirements, does not make any sense.
To give you an idea of the scope of data tracking, the NJ program
will require each school district throughout the state to report the
following personal information to set up the database:

"? Local Student Identification Number
? First Name
? Middle Name
? Last Name
? Generation Suffix (if applicable)
? Date of Birth
? Gender
? City, Country of Birth
? County Code of Residence
? District Code of Residence
? Attending District Code
? Attending School Code
? Program Entry Date (referring to ?Program? as it applies to the NJ
School Register
? Attending School Entry Date
? School Code of Residence
http://www.nj.gov/njded/njsmart/082906memo.pdf

Once the database is established, the state plans to require
reporting of individual student performance.
If all states are indeed creating these tracking databases, the
intrusiveness and risks to student privacy are staggering.  Looks
ripe for litigation!

Joel R. Reidenberg
Professor of Law and Founding Director
Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy
Fordham University School of Law


10)
New e-discovery rules go into effect in December
Failure to comply could be costly
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBas
ic&articleId=9001219>
June 15, 2006 (Computerworld) -- New rules for electronic discovery of
documents in civil cases go into effect in December -- and they could
cost users millions or even billions of dollars if they fail to comply.
Last September, the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Supreme Court's
Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure recommended
changes that force companies involved in a civil lawsuit to sit down and hammer out what records are fair game for electronic discovery.
In general, the resulting 300-plus page document describing the new e-discovery criteria says that companies involved in civil litigation must meet within the first 30 days of a case's filing to discuss how to handle electronic data. The discussion must encompass retention practices, the types of records required and their electronic format, as well as what is considered "accessible" data, said John Bace, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn.
Failure to comply with the new rules could be costly.


11)
Public radio seeks recall of FM devices used in cars
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.radio26oct26,1,1438693,print.story>
Public radio seeks recall of FM devices used in cars
Citing widespread interference on broadcast frequencies
used by its member stations, National Public Radio has
asked the Federal Communications Commission to order
recalls of millions of FM modulators that drivers use to
play satellite radios and iPods through their car stereos.
A field study by NPR Labs found that nearly 40 percent of
those devices have signal strengths that exceed FCC limits,
enabling them to break into FM broadcasts in nearby cars
with unwanted programming. A separate investigation by
the National Association of Broadcasters found that more
than 75 percent of the devices it tested violated the
power limits.



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