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Greetings all,

Sad to send the following:
My friend Joe Hunter passed away Feb. 03, 2007

Black History Month All Year long Celebrates Joe Hunter and The Funk Brothers
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/bhm/bhm.html

The Funk Brothers
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/Stars/funkbrothers2.html


Mr. Hunter was an extraordinary man with many talents.
The world has lost one of our best friends and I mourn his passing.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/Stars/funkbroJoeHunter.html


<Karen>



1)
Trade group gives Feds low cybersecurity grade
http://tinyurl.com/32krk8
The Cyber Security Industry Alliance has given the U.S. government D
grades on its cybersecurity efforts in 2006, and renewed its call for
Congress to pass a comprehensive data protection law in 2007.
The CSIA, a trade group representing cybersecurity vendors, gave the
U.S. government D grades in three areas: security of sensitive
information, security and reliability of critical infrastructure, and
federal government information assurance.

2)
Tracking the Russian Scammers
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72605-0.html
Dmitry Ivanovich Golubov, a 22-year-old Ukrainian who went by the
nickname "Script," was considered one of the godfathers of Eastern
European carding rings. As one of the leaders of CarderPlanet,
authorities say Golubov facilitated the theft and international trading
of millions of credit and debit card numbers that resulted in
multimillion-dollar losses to banks and merchants over several years.

3)
EVALUATE DISTANCE LEARNING
http://tinyurl.com/y7l847
PROTECT YOURSELF How do you know if you are getting what you pay for?
2007 Trends in Distance Learning
"Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006"
The Complete report is the fourth annual report on the state of online
learning in U.S. higher education conducted by the Babson Survey
Research Group and the Sloan Consortium. The , based on responses
from over 2,200 colleges and universities, addresses these questions:
-- Has the growth of online enrollments begun to plateau?
-- Who is learning online?
-- What types of institutions have online offerings?
-- Have perceptions of quality changed for online offerings?
-- What are the barriers to widespread adoption of online education?

4)
Literacy and Government
State Takeover, School Restructuring, Private Management,
and Student Achievement in Philadelphia
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/research.asp
Cut to the chase: It didn't help
"Schools in Philadelphia have shown strong improvement that has
been reflected widely across the district," said Jolley Christman,
a co-author of the report. "But our findings show the investment
in private management of schools has not paid the expected dividends."

5)
Why High-flying hacker who 'fed' new employer goes free
http://tinyurl.com/3bzbmf

6)
Diversity Data Explores how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S.
perform on a diverse range of social measures that comprise a
well-rounded life experience.
http://tinyurl.com/2xzaa8
These data call attention to the equality of opportunity and diversity
of experiences for different racial and ethnic groups in America.
It reveals a consistently bleak picture for black and Hispanic
children compared to white and Asian children and suggests
approaches to address some of the factors behind whether or not a child thrives. 

7)
Don J. Wyatt: Explains why Middlebury is stopping history
students from citing Wiki as primary source.
http://hnn.us/roundup/14.html#34884


8)
Making Valentines - Find Free Valentine Clip art
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Valentine_Clip_Art.html
find Valentine cards from before 1850.


9)
Crime Boards come Crashing down
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72585-0.html
There's a touch of self-destruction to his decision to talk now. He
wants to leave the boards behind but lacks the willpower to do so. He
knows that once this story is public, he'll have to close the chapter on
"El Mariachi" and just be David Thomas again. "And maybe that's what I
want," he says. "I want to get on with my life."

10)
In Clue to Addiction, a Brain Injury Halts Smoking
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/science/26brain.html
Scientists studying stroke patients are reporting today that an
injury to a specific part of the brain, near the ear, can instantly
and permanently break a smoking habit. People with the injury who
stopped smoking found that their bodies, as one man put it, forgot
the urge to smoke.

11)
U.S. Issues Guidelines in Case of Flu Pandemic
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/birdflu.html
What should the school do about Bird Flue? Find the Directions
We have to be prepared for a Category 5 pandemic.

12)
Skype to partner for security in the workplace
http://news.com.com/Skype+to+partner+for+security+in+the+workplace/2100-7355_3-6155228.html
Skype plans to announce a partnership next week with a security company
to help organizations gain control over usage of the Net telephony tool
at work.
The partnership is with Foster City, Calif.-based FaceTime
Communications, a maker of software and appliances that let businesses
monitor and secure use of instant message tools on their networks,
people familiar with the announcement told CNET News.com.
The announcement fits with Skype's efforts to position its Internet
telephony application as a business tool. The company, part of online
auctioneer eBay, has been drumming up the advantages of Skype for
businesses. Skype already counts over 30 percent of its 171 million
users as business users.

13)
Banks, ISPs 'should meet cyber police'
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,61986321,00.htm

14)
Hard drive that may contain personal data on veterans missing
 in Birmingham, Ala.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070202-2112-securitybreach.html
A portable hard drive that may contain the personal
information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen, the
Department of Veterans Affairs and a lawmaker said Friday.

15)
Super Bowl stadium site packed Trojan horse
http://tinyurl.com/2ufnxa
Cybercrooks broke in to the Dolphin Stadium Web site and rigged it to
load malicious software onto unpatched Windows PCs, security experts
warned Friday.
Hackers reprogrammed the Web site for the Super Bowl stadium so it would
automatically load a malicious script, Web security firm Websense said.
This script would attempt to exploit a pair of known Windows security
holes and install programs that would put the PC under the attacker's
control.

16)
Want you own educational radio station? Here is your chance.
http://tinyurl.com/7st5b
"The Federal Communications Commission will accept applications
for new full power non-commercial educational (NCE) FM radio station
licenses sometime this year, perhaps in late spring,"
 The process will end a six-year FCC freeze on new
full-power licenses. "The window is a rare opportunity for
non-profits and educational institutions,"

17)
Scientific publishing Scared enough to fight dirty:
The free E Journal being discredited by the PR man
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/ejournal.html
Now, Nature has learned, a group of big scientific publishers
has hired the pit bull to take on the free-information movement,
which campaigns for scientific results to be made freely available.
Some traditional journals, which depend on subscription charges,
say that open-access journals and public databases of scientific
papers such as the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's)
PubMed Central, threaten their livelihoods.
Media messaging is not the same as intellectual debate.


18)
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2004230,00.html
by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil
companies to undermine a major
climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an
ExxonMobil-funded think tank with close links to the Bush administration,
offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a
report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
[...]

19)
Internet groups respond to China critics
http://tinyurl.com/2gnslm
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Vodafone have announced an agreement
with human rights groups, internet freedom activists and others to establish
a set of principles covering how they deal with censorship and other restrictions 
that could harm human rights in China and elsewhere.
The move comes in the wake of public criticism of big US online
companies last year over their activities in China.
The four companies have agreed to work with non-governmental
organisations to "seek solutions to the free expression and privacy
challenges faced by technology and communications companies
doing business internationally", according to a statement on Thursday.
The  discussions have been organized jointly by Business for Social
Responsibility and the Center for Democracy & Technology, and are on- going.
http://www.cdt.org





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