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1. Educational Resources
A. For Teachers / Educators
B. For Students
C. For the General Public
D. Maps, Images
2. Government Entities Resources
A. Local / Area Specific
B. State
C. Federal
3. Environmental Organizations / Associations
A. Local / Area Specific
B. State
C. National
[An Excel spreadsheet of these resources is available to download below.]
Audubon Nature Institute: www.auduboninstitute.org/educators
As an educator, you have a vital role to play in developing your students' interest in, knowledge about, and attitudes toward the natural world. Audubon is pleased to support this important work with the tips, strategies, projects, activities, games, and resources you'll find here. Check back often for updates and new ideas.
CalSky Celestial Observer: http://www.calsky.com/cs.cgi
Middle &high school educators will find data about the sky & the objects in it at the CalSky website. Visitors create a user profile according to their level of astronomy knowledge, then click on a tab at the top of the page to access data about the celestial object of their choice, including the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, asteroids, meteors, deep sky, or satellites.
Canopy in the Clouds: http://www.canopyintheclouds.com/
Examine a tropical montane cloud forest via this immersive video experience. Access video clips and facts describing each different forest environment. The site includes background information for teachers and standards-aligned lessons for students in grades 6–8 on such topics as water, weather, soils, ecology, and the science processes.
Center for Environmental Education: http://www.ceeonline.org
CEE works with K-12 schools to address climate change issues & to cultivate healthy lifestyles. Children learn best through experience. If their schools are green, children will learn to live that way.
Center for Global Environmental Education: http://www.hamline.edu/education/environmental/cgee/index.html
CGCC fosters environmental literacy and stewardship in citizens of all ages. CGCC accomplishes its purpose through four cornerstones - Graduate Education & Professional Development, Community Outreach, K-12 & Youth Resources, & Educational Multimedia Production.
Center for Green Schools - U.S. Green Building Council: http://www.buildgreenschools.org
Children & Nature Network (C&NN): http://www.childrenandnature.org/
The Children & Nature Network (C&NN) was created to encourage & support the people & organizations working nationally & internationally to reconnect children with nature. The network provides a critical link between researchers & individuals, educators & organizations dedicated to children's health & well-being.
Classroom Earth: http://www.classroomearth.org
An online resource designed to help high school teachers include environmental content into their daily lesson plans.
Earth and Environmental Science Virtual Courseware: http://www.sciencecourseware.org/eecindex.php
Covers earthquakes, global warming, biology labs, geologic time, interactive river exercise, and more.
Earth Guide from Scripps Institute of Oceanography: http://www.earthguide.ucsd.edu
You will find a wealth of information here - current events, brain teasers, imagery, Earth conditions, on & on.
Eco-Schools - NWF: http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/School-Solutions/Eco-Schools-USA/Become-an-Eco-School.aspx
Through school-based action teams of students, administrators, educators and community volunteers, Eco-Schools combines effective "green" management of the school grounds, facilities and the curriculum.
Education Resources - LA Dept. of Environmental Quality: http://www.deq.louisiana.gov/portal/tabid/298/Default.aspx
Endangered Species Podcasts - USFWS: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/about/multimedia.html
Hear podcasts about featured species, such as the whooping crane, Gila trout, piping plover, desert tortoise, Florida panther, & Jesup's milk-vetch. Most appropriate for use with middle and high school students, each 5- to 10-minute episode describes the species & reports on its status, updating listeners on the progress of any programs working to aid it protection. Teachers can download written transcripts.
Enviro-Tacklebox - LPB: http://www.lpb.org/education/classroom/itv/envirotacklebox
A video series, designed for middle school students that focuses on environmental education topics. The goals of the series are to stimulate student interest in environmental issues & develop critical thinking skills to support decision making.
Environmental Health Science Education: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/science-education
EHSE provides educators, students & scientists with easy access to reliable tools, resources & classroom materials. It seeks to invest in the future of environmental health science by increasing awareness of the link between the environment & human health.
Environmental News Network (ENN): http://www.enn.com
ENN has become a collection of resources, teachers, experts and tools that provide objective information and knowledge about the increasingly complex field of environmental science.
Energy Explained - U.S. Energy Information Administration: http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/
Energy fuels life, economies, & the entire solar system, yet few students understand the importance of energy &its role in our lives. Energy Explained clearly conveys the facts & latest data about energy. The site is full of graphs, data, & scientific information that can add depth to high school curricula in Science, Math, or Social Studies. The site explains where gasoline comes from, what determines the price of electricity, how much renewable energy the United States uses, & hundreds of other energy topics.
Energy Lesson Plans, K-12: http://www.gm.com/community-education
At General Motors education web page, teachers can access lesson plans, games, & information in 3 grade bands: K–4, 5–8, and 9–12. Students in grades 5–8 can build a model car from paper or explore electricity through The Power of the Plug lessons.
Estuaries: Where Rivers Meet the Sea: http://estuaries.noaa.gov/
Welcome to estuaries.noaa.gov where we aim to advance estuarine and coastal literacy. Explore these living classrooms and laboratories - our estuaries -, discover their importance and beauty, and learn what you can do to protect them.
Fragile Fringe - USGS: http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/fringe/ff_index.html
A guide for teaching about coastal wetlands.
Free Tech 4 Teachers Blog: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
Google-certified teacher and technology buff Richard Byrne writes this blog for K–12 technology resources. In addition to posts about new and exciting tech finds, the site contains lesson plans, teacher downloads, video creation resources, e-books, educational apps, Favorite resource Lists, and tips for setting up blogs and websites.
Gizmos Science and Math Simulations - Explore Learning: http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=514
Interactive online simulations in science and math topics for use with students in grades 3–12. Search by grade & topic, state standard & textbook correlation. Each includes information for how to use it in the classroom & an accompanying student worksheet.
Global Warming - Union of Concerned Scientists & Citizens: http://www.ucsusa.org/gulf/gcchallengeteachers.html
Confronting climate change in the Gulf Coast Region curriculum.
Globe Program: http://www.globe.gov
The Global Learning & Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a worldwide hands-on, primary & secondary school-based science &education program. GLOBE's vision promotes & supports students, teachers & scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment & the Earth system.
Green Education Foundation: http://www.greeneducationfoundation.org/
GEF provides curriculum and resources to K-12 students and teachers worldwide with the goal of challenging youth to think holistically and critically about global environmental concerns and solutions.
Green Revolution Videos - National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/greenrevolution/
The educational videos, each about five minutes long, feature scientists &engineers who are working to develop &improve the use of clean energy sources, new fuels, & other energy-related technologies. Each segment explores the research carried out by men & women at the forefront of discovery &innovation related to clean energy, as well as some of the basic science behind their work.
Growing Up WILD: http://www.projectwild.org/GrowingUpWILD.htm
An early childhood education program that builds on children's sense of wonder about nature & invites them to explore wildlife and the world around them. Through a wide range of activities & experiences, Growing Up WILD provides an early foundation for developing positive impressions about the natural world &lifelong social & academic skills.
Guidelines for Excellence (NAAEEP): http://www.naaee.org/npeee/materials.php
Gulf of Mexico Program - EPA: http://www.epa.gov/gmpo/education/index.html
Offers grade-specific lesson plans & other wetlands education materials.
Hazardous Waste, Understanding of - EPA: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/students/clas_act/haz-ed/hazindex.htm
Materials can be used as part of larger curriculum, as special stand-alone activities, or on an occasional basis to teach students about hazardous waste issues. Hazed is a compilation of interdisciplinary activities that focus on the often complicated & sometimes controversial scientific, technical, & policy issues related to hazardous waste sites & Superfund. It is designed to help students develop skills in critical thinking, problem solving, &decision making. It also increases environmental awareness & encourages an environmental ethic in students.
Insect Appreciation Digest: http://www.cipm.info/Insectdigest/cover.pdf
Everything that you ought to know about insects that your parents didn't teach you.
Journey North: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
Engages students in a global study of wildlife migration & seasonal change. K-12 students share field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through migration patterns; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; & other natural events. Find migration maps, pictures, standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations & fit them into a global context.
Learning Landscapes - Bureau of Land Management: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/res/Education_in_BLM/Learning_Landscapes.html
Showcases exciting events, opportunities, & resources on America's Public Lands. Discover what the BLM has to offer to educators, students, visitors, partners and volunteers.
Lessons on the Lake - Lake Pontchartrain Foundation: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/of98-805/lessons/
An Educator's Guide to the Pontchartrain Basin is to educate students, grades 5-12, about the environmental importance of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. It facilitates instruction for teachers, allows easy access to information on environmental issues surrounding the watershed, & captures the interests of students.
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR): http://www.dnr.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&pid=462&pnid=0&nid=20
DNR provides information dealing with an array of natural resources topics that may be of interest to teachers, researchers & students…& for the kids too!
Louisiana Marine Education Resources (LaMER) - LA Sea Grant: http://www.lamer.lsu.edu/
Provides a variety of formal & informal education materials on this Web site. Find accurate information about marine & aquatic ecosystems, as well as other topics, to help stimulate awareness of our close relationship to the environment.
Louisiana Public Broadcasting CyberChannel: www.lpb.org/education
Video service for Louisiana schools.
Louisiana Resource Center for Educators: http://www.lrce.org/
The LRCE is dedicated to supporting innovation in education for students, teachers, administrators, higher education & families. LRCE houses a resource library of 55,000+ items which can be searched online. We are a shared resource center for educators in the public, private, parochial, charter, & home school sectors. Additionally, we provide workshops & training for Louisiana's educators, an alternative certification program, & more.
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) Educational Programs: http://www.lumcon.edu/education/default.asp
LUMCON educational mission is concentrated within the Marine Education Program. It includes activities at the University, K-12 and Teacher, and Public Education levels to provide many audiences with field experiences & information about marine environments.
Louisiana Wetland Education Coalition (LaWEC) - CWPPRA: http://www.lacoast.gov/education/index.htm
Teacher resources, free stuff, videos, WaterMarks, Kid's CornerLunar and Planetary Institute: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/resources/news/
Workshops, events, resources, Earth &Space Science Newsletter, etc.
NASA for educators: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html
E-clips, space curriculum, STEM activities, teacher toolbox, career information, and much more.
National Geographic: http://www.education.nationalgeographic.com/education/
Teaching resources - multimedia, news, mapping, environmental literacy, etc.
National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/news/classroom/
Offers K–12 science lessons and web resources for teachers, students, and families. Choose from subject areas ranging from the Arctic to physics, and then use the materials to create lesson plans or At-home activities.
National Wildlife Foundation: http://www.nwf.org/Get-outside/~/media/PDFs/Be%20Out%20There/Back%20to%20School%20full%20report.ashx
Excellent report linking environmental education with psychological, cognitive, and educational outcomes.
NOAA Education Resources: http://www.education.noaa.gov/
Weather observations, watersheds, estuaries, ocean pollution, climate monitoring, and energy information
North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE): http://www.eelink.net/pages/Teachers
EE resources & links for teachers.
Nuclear Energy & Reactors - Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-energy-primer
Relays basic understanding of
Ocean for Life: One Ocean - National Marine Sanctuaries: http://www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov/education/welcome.html
Increases cultural understanding through ocean science by providing high quality, immersive ocean field studies & follow-on education programs to encourage students to discover common ground in marine science, conservation and how the ocean connects us all.
Project Learning Tree: http://www.plt.org/
PLT is an award-winning environmental education program designed for teachers and other educators, parents, and community leaders working with youth from preschool through grade 12.
Project Wet: http://www.projectwet.org/
The mission of Project WET is to reach children, parents, educators & communities of the world with water education. We invite you to join us in educating children about the most precious resource on the planet — water.
Project WILD: http://www.projectwild.org/
One of the most widely-used conservation & environmental education programs among educators of students in kindergarten through high school. It is based on the premise that young people and educators have a vital interest in learning about our natural world. Emphasizing wildlife because of its intrinsic value, Project WILD addresses the need for human beings to develop as responsible citizens of our planet.
Rand McNally Resources: http://education.randmcnally.com/education/resources/tips.jsp?page=science
K–12 teachers can access tips &activities to enhance their science, geography, social studies, reading, & math lessons. Students in grades 6–12 can conduct activities like Ocean Currents or Latitude: Climate and Seasons. Online maps and geography briefs with background information are also available.
Schoolyard Habitats - National Wildlife Federation: http://www.nwf.org/schoolyard
Garden for wildlife - assists schools in developing outdoor classrooms, where educators &students learn how to attract & support local wildlife. These wildlife habitats become places where students not only learn about wildlife species and ecosystems, but also outdoor classrooms where they hone their academic skills & nurture their innate curiosity and creativity.
Super Fund for Students & Teachers - EPA: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/students/index.htm
Designed to educate students & teachers about Superfund & hazardous waste. Included are classroom activities, frequently asked questions, information on environmental education and grants, and more!
Teachers' Domain: http://www.teachersdomain.org
Digital media for the classroom & professional development.
Temperate Forest Foundation's Teacher Resources: http://www.forestinfo.org/Teachers
Committed to educating the public about sustainable forest resources & their effect on people & quality of life. We feel that the most effective way to do that is to educate the teachers who will be teaching future generations of citizens, voters, and policy makers to make informed decisions about sustainable forestry issues.
Toxicology Testing Activity (PDF link): http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_p_z/blackworms-alcohol.pdf
This classroom experiment from the National Institute of Environmental Health Science presents a model for toxicity testing in organisms. Targeted for students in grades 6–12, the experiment introduces basic concepts of toxicology through observing the effects of a toxicant (ethanol) on the behavior of California blackworms. Background information, laboratory instructions, discussion questions, and experiment variations are included.
Tree Identification - University of Maryland & Smithsonian Institution: http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/computer-science-and-biology-come-together-make-tree-identification-snap
The world's first plant identification mobile app using visual search—Leafsnap. This electronic field guide allows users to identify tree species simply by taking a photograph of the tree's leaves. In addition to the species name, Leafsnap provides high-resolution photographs and information about the tree's flowers, fruit, seeds and bark—giving the user a comprehensive understanding of the species.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: http://www.fws.gov/educators/educators.html
For formal and non-formal educators, it includes links to Boy Scout and Girl Scout recognition certificates, curriculum resources and activities, community service projects, professional development opportunities, & background information.
Universe, Windows to: http://www.windows2universe.org
Brought to you by the National Earth Science Teachers Association
Virtual Field Trips - Science Companion: http://www.sciencecompanion.com/samples/virtual-field-trips-from-science-companion
Find extensive science lesson plans and virtual field trips for PreK-6 students.
Wetlands: Teaching Marsh - Center for Coastal Resources Management: http://www.ccrm.vims.edu/wetlands/teaching_marsh/index.html
The Teaching Marsh Website is part of the Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM) at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Gloucester Point, Virginia.
Audubon Nature Institute: www.auduboninstitute.org/educators
These pages are filled with activities about birds & other animals, and much more.
CalSky Celestial Observer: http://www.calsky.com/cs.cgi
Middle &high school educators will find data about the sky & the objects in it at the CalSky website. Visitors create a user profile according to their level of astronomy knowledge, and then click on a tab at the top of the page to access data about the celestial object of their choice, including the Sun, Moon, planets, comets, asteroids, meteors, deep sky, or satellites.
EEK! Environmental Education for Kids - LA Department of Natural Resources: http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/
Energy Kids - U.S. Energy Information Administration: http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=nuclear_home-basics
Basic understandings of nuclear energy and reactors
Environmental Inquiry: http://www.ei.cornell.edu
Authentic Scientific Research for High School Students
Environmental Protection Agency - new student website: http://www.epa.gov/students/
EPA has revamped their kids, teachers, students and high school websites into a one stop shop for our users.
Envirothon: http://www.envirothon.org
North America's largest high school environmental education competition.
Especially for Kids! - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: http://www.fws.gov/kids/
Estuary Live: http://www.earthlive.org/tv/index_tv.htm
Video clips educating students on topics related to estuaries - native & invasive species, habitat, pollutants, water quality, formation of, much, much more.
Famous US Landmarks Kid's Guide http://www.partsgeek.com/parts/famous_us_landmarks.html
Food Safety Website: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety-education
U.S. Department of Agriculture site features food safety information for K–college students & teachers. It includes booklets, puzzles and word searches, activity downloads, curriculum materials, articles, & other resources to introduce safe food practices.
Journey North: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/
Engages students in a global study of wildlife migration & seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— & other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; & other natural events.
Just for Kids - U.S. Department of the Interior: https://www.effectivestudy.org/
Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/
With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to science, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn whatever you want, whenever you want, at your own pace.
Kids Corner - CWPPRA: http://www.lacoast.gov/new/Ed/KidsCorner/Default.aspx
Kids for Saving Earth (Elementary): http://www.kidsforsavingearth.org
Maggie's Earth Adventures: http://www.missmaggie.org
Nab the Aquatic Invader – SIGNIS interactive game: http://www.iiseagrant.org/NabInvader/
NASA Station Spacewalk Game: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/station_spacewalk_game.html
Players in grades 5–8 are virtual astronauts on the International Space Station. Students earn "badges" for completing missions & exploring the station. They can learn how the station is assembled, take a spacewalk to bring station communications back online, or help tiny satellites on the station called Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) fly in formation so they can someday be used remotely to help astronauts handle tasks. The game incorporates graphics from real NASA missions and 3-D models.
NASA student page: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html
National Geographic: http://www.education.nationalgeographic.com/education/st/?ar_a=4
Make a contour map, watch videos, BioBlitz education,online library
NOAA Education Resources - Student Opportunities: www.oesd.noaa.gov/noaa_student_opps.html
NOAA's Sea Turtles & the Quest to Nest Game: http://www.games.noaa.gov/seaturtle/welcome.html
Loggerhead sea turtles are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The game's mission is to help students understand how they can help protect turtles and their habitat.
Podcasting Tutorial: http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/podcasting-tutorial.html
Learn how to create and publish your very own podcast quickly and easily!
Spigot Science Magazine on Sound: http://www.spigotsciencemag.com/
Aimed at students in grades 4–9, this online magazine develops connections between science & reading through theme-based issues. Membership is free and provides access to all issues.
Student Center - EPA http://www.epa.gov/students/index.html
Tox Mystery (Grades 2-6) chemical hazards in the home http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov/
Tox Town (Grades 7-adult) toxic chemical and environmental health http://www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov
USDA's Discover the Forest: http://www.fs.usda.gov/conservationeducation
Aims to inspire tweens (aged 8-12) & their parents to re-connect with nature, experiencing it first-hand. Brings to life the joy & excitement kids have when they discover the wonders of nature, helping create interest in their environment & a lifelong relationship with it.
Water Life Game - NOAA: http://www.games.noaa.gov/oscar/
A virtual game for students in grades 5–8 takes place in an unhealthy ecosystem in an estuary on the west coast of the United States. Students learn about food webs, the factors for producing healthy estuaries, & the reasons estuaries are essential to ocean life & humans. Information also presented about marine science careers & National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's role in protecting estuaries, & ideas for getting involved in estuary protection.
Which Microbe Are You? http://cmore.soest.hawaii.edu/education/kidskorner/microbe_quiz.htm
A series of quizzes introduces K–12 students to the microorganisms living in the sea. Students click on one of two grade-level quizzes (grades K–5 or grades six and higher) & answer question pairs to determine their microbe personality. Teachers can access the dichotomous key and relationship trees used in creating the microbe personality quiz.
Audubon Institute: http://www.auduboninstitute.org
Offers families tips, games, & opportunities to promote the enjoyment of the natural world.Aquatic Invasive Species - Minnesota Sea Grant: http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/ais/
BP Oil Spill – National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=120962&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc
For those following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, NSF released an update on the composition of the deep plume associated with the spill. Interesting technology and a compelling read.
Climate Change - EPA: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
Sea level rise reports and many other resources can be located here. This site provides an exhaustive list of publications on climate change sea level rise, particularly its effects on the United States.
Climate Connections - NPR & National Geographic: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/climateconnections
How we are shaping climate. How climate is shaping us. Information on ice melts, greenhouse gases, maps, temperature change, etc.
Climate Research - National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/research/climate
Coast 2050: http://www.coast2050.gov
A final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (FPEIS) &the final Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA), Louisiana - Ecosystem Restoration Study, which identifies the most critical natural & human ecological needs of coastal Louisiana and develops & recommends a near-term program of cost-effective projects to address these needs, are now available.
Earth Day Network: http://www.earthday.org/
Mission is to broaden, diversify & activate the environmental movement worldwide, driving action year-round through a combination of education, public policy, & consumer campaigns.
Eco-Friendlier Aerosol: http://www.aerosolproducts.org/capco-press-releases/23-capco-enhances-website.html
The Consumer Aerosol Products Council has updated its collection of resources to help teachers of grades 4–9 dispel misconceptions about aerosol product use, such as the idea that aerosol cans cannot be recycled. The Aerosol Adventure Kit contains 10 lesson plans and five labs about the topic. A 10-minute video, Another Awesome Aerosol Adventure, produced by the Beakman's World television series, describes how aerosol technology works. The site links to EcoAerosols.com, an interactive website that answers questions about aerosols and the environment.
Eco IQ (Aligning Economics & Ecology): http://www.ecoiq.com
An online journal dedicated to the creation of a future that works.
Endangered Species Program - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: http://www.fws.gov/endangered/
Envirolink: http://www.envirolink.org
A non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
Environment Directory: http://www.webdirectory.com
Environment of the U.S.: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/environment.html
Environmental Concern: http://www.wetland.org
Dedicated to working with all aspects of wetlands; the most productive and fascinating ecosystems in the world. Now in our 39th year of providing wetland services in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed & beyond, we continue to broaden our partnership efforts.
Environmental Diseases, A – Z - National Institute of Environmental Health Services: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/atoz/
Environmental Education Resources - EPA: http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/resources.html
Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Watch: http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/hypoxia/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): http://www.ipcc.ch
International Migratory Bird Day: http://www.birdday.org
Invasive Species Interactive Map - Tulane/Xavier Universities: http://is.cbr.tulane.edu/InvasiveSpecies.html
Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Study: http://www.lca.gov
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF): http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/category/page/education
Become a volunteer instructor.
Marsh Creation Video - CWPPRA: http://lacoast.gov/ocmc/MailContent.aspx?ID=1378
The video highlights the East Marsh Island Marsh Creation project while sharing basic information about using sediment in re-establishing & re-creating healthy wetland ecosystems. Through the use of sediments & hydrology, new marsh is being created where standing water once was. CWPPRA project managers &scientists explain & demonstrate the process of the rebirth of this once lost marsh.
Marsh Mission: http://www.marshmission.com/
An artistic educational journey into the vanishing wetlands of Louisiana. It will chronicle the activities of naturalist-photographer C.C. Lockwood & landscape artist Rhea Gary as they explore the coastal marshland to bring attention to an under recognized crisis affecting not only Louisiana but all of the United States.
Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin - EPA: http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/named/msbasin/marb.cfm
History, facts, relatedlinks.
National Geographic on Environment: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/?source=NavEnvHome
Energy, fresh water, global warming, habitats, natural disasters, the ocean, green guide, newsletters
National Hurricane Center - NOAA: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
For the latest on tropical disturbances, hurricane history,huricane preparedness, etc.
National Marine Sanctuaries: http://www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov
Here you'll discover the marine life & extradinary habitats that make up your nation's marine sanctuaries & our continuing efforts to conserve these ocean & coastal treasures.
National Science Foundation's Science Nation: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/marshescoasts.jsp
Article on Marshes and Sea Level Rise
Non-Point Source Pollution: http://www.protectingwater.com
PLANTS Database - USDA: http://www.plants.usda.gov/
Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
Reflections on Chandeleur: http://www.laseagrant.org/lighthouse/index.html
Smoke-free Homes: http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/
Provides information about childrens' health issues related to indoor air quality and tobacco smoke.
StormSmart Coasts Network: Louisiana: http://www.la.stormsmartcoasts.org
Tropical Weather: Weather Underground: http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/?index_region=at
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Sustainablity in Action: http://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/Sustainability/GoingGreenCampaign.aspx
U.S. Geological Survey: http://education.usgs.gov/
Provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, &issues that affect our quality of life. Discover selected online resources, including lessons, data, maps, & more, to support teaching, learning, education (K-12), & university-level inquiry and research.
U.S. Global Change Research Program: http://www.globalchange.gov
Integrating federal research & solutions for climate & global change.
Water News - EPA: http://water.epa.gov/
Water Shedss: http://www.water.ncsu.edu/watershedss
A Decision Support System for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control.
World in the Balance - NOVA: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance
Investigates the impact of forces that are radically changing populations in both rich & poor nations.
Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change (USGS): http://earthshots.usgs.gov/
Gulf Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS): http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/
Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas: http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/website/DataAtlas/atlas.htm
NASA – Visible Earth: http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/
U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: http://www.ucar.edu/news/features/climatechange/multimedia.jsp
WETMAAP: http://www.wetmaap.org
2. Government Entities Resources
LaCoast - Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, & Restoration Act (CWPPRA): http://www.lacoast.gov
Contains information and links relating to restoration projects in coastal Louisiana. The site is funded through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) and is hosted by the USGS National Wetlands Research Center.
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) - Atchafalaya Basin Program: http://www.dnr.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&pid=494&pnid=0&nid=273
Created to conserve, restore, and enhance the natural habitat of the basin. The Atchafalaya Basin is the nation's largest river swamp, containing almost one million acres of our nation's most significant bottomland hardwoods, swamps, bayous, and back-water lakes.
Louisiana Sea Grant: http://www.laseagrant.org
Louisiana Sea Grant College Program works to promote stewardship of the state's coastal resources through a combination of research, education and outreach programs critical to the cultural, economic and environmental health of Louisiana's coastal zone.
Louisiana Wetlands Education Program – Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences: http://www.pies.uno.edu/education/index.htm
Mississippi River Watershed http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/spatial-tech/images/lleake_5003539-map.gif
Department of Agriculture & Forestry (LDAF): http://www.ldaf.state.la.us
Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism: http://www.crt.louisiana.gov/
Department of Education (LDOE): http://www.louisianaschools.net
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ): http://www.deq.louisiana.gov
Department of Health & Hospitals (DHH): http://www.dhh.state.la.us
Department of Natural Resources (DNR): http://www.dnr.louisiana.gov
Department of Wildlife &Fisheries (LDWF): http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov
Governor's Office of Coastal Activities: http://www.goca.state.la.us
Louisiana State University AgCenter (LSU Ag): http://www.lsuagcenter.com/
Office of the Governor: http://www.gov.state.la.us/
Louisiana Workforce Commission (Green Economy Jobs): http://lwc.laworks.net/sites/lmi/GreenJobs/Pages/GreenEconomy.aspx
Council on Environmental Quality: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq
Coordinates Federal environmental efforts and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives. CEQ was established within the Executive Office of the President by Congress as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and additional responsibilities were provided by the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970.
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): http://www.noaa.gov
National Science Foundation (NSF): http://www.nsf.gov
National Wetlands Research Center (NWRL): http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov
Source and clearinghouse of science information about wetlands in the United States and the world for fellow agencies, private entities, academia, and the public at large.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - New Orleans District: http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome
U.S. Department of Interior - Minerals Management Service (MMS): http://www.mms.gov
U.S. Department of Interior: http://www.doi.gov
Protects America's natural resources and heritage, honors our cultures and tribal communities, & supplies the energy to power our future.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): http://www.epa.gov
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS): http://www.fws.gov
U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov/
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) – Louisiana: http://www.la.nrcs.usda.gov
3. Environmental Organizations / Associations
Acadiana Resource Conservation & Development Council: http://www.acadianarcd.com/
Audubon Nature Institute: http://www.auduboninstitute.org
New Orleans Zoo, Aquarium, Insectarium & Entergy IMAX Theater.
Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program: http://www.btnep.org/BTNEP/home.aspx
The program's charter is to develop a coalition of government, private, and commercial interests for the preservation of the Barataria & Terrebonne basins by: identifying problems, assessing trends, designing pollution control, developing resource management strategies, recommending corrective actions, & seeking implementation commitments. A variety of quality educational materials are located on this site.
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana: http://www.crcl.org
Lake Ponchartrain Foundation: http://www.saveourlake.org
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON): http://www.lumcon.edu
Restore or Retreat: http://www.restoreorretreat.org
Keep Louisiana Beautiful: http://www.keeplouisianabeautiful.org/
Louisiana Environmental Education Association: http://louisianaenvironmentaleducation.org/
Louisiana Science Teachers Association: http://www.lsta.info
Louisiana Wildlife Federation: http://www.lawildlifefed.org
American Rivers: http://www.americanrivers.org/
Is the leading conservation organization standing up for healthy rivers so communities can thrive. American Rivers protects and restores the nation's rivers and the clean water that sustains people, wildlife, and nature.
Bird Education Network: http://www.birdeducation.org
Provides educators working in the field of bird conservation with a variety of new tools and strategies they can employ to be more effective.
Environmental Education & Training Partnership http://www.eetap.org/
Gulf of Mexico Alliance: http://www.gulfofmexicoalliance.org
Partnership of the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, with the goal of significantly increasing regional collaboration to enhance the ecological and economic health of the Gulf of Mexico.
Gulf Restoration Network (GRN): http://www.healthygulf.org/
Network of environmental, social justice, and citizen's groups and individuals committed to restoring the Gulf of Mexico to an ecologically and biologically sustainable condition.
Keep America Beautiful: http://www.kab.org
Combines education with hands-on stewardship to make America's communities cleaner, greener, safer, and more livable.
National Environmental Education Advancement Project (NEEAP): http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/neeap
Supports the development and expansion of quality environmental education programs through a variety of state and local capacity building efforts. Many NEEAP efforts encourage the development and implementation of Comprehensive Environmental Education Programs at the state and local levels.
National Environmental Education Foundation: http://www.neefusa.org
National Marine Educators Association: http://www.marine-ed.org/
National Science Teachers Association: http://www.nsta.org
National Wildlife Federation (NWF): http://www.nwf.org
Nature Conservancy: http://www.nature.org
North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE): http://www.naaee.org
Sierra Club: http://www.sierraclub.org
Society of Environmental Journalists: http://www.sej.org
Southern Association of Marine Educators: http://www.lamer.lsu.edu/same/index.htm
Temperate Forest Foundation: http://www.forestinfo.org
The mission of the Temperate Forest Foundation is to empower the public with a better understanding of the issues and options surrounding the conservation and development of natural resources.
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Why Litter Stinks, a video by Keep Louisiana Beautiful


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The idea for Worldwide Booth Night came to Rajesh Krishnan, '01, about a year after he graduated.
Krishnan, now director of product marketing at San Francisco software company GroundWork Inc., thought it would be fun to put on multiple simultaneous happy hours around the world "to remember the great depth and breadth of the GSB worldwide community."
The first Worldwide Booth Night on September 4, 2003, reunited alumni in
17 cities, including 10 cities outside the United States.
Eleven years later, Worldwide Booth Night is a major event on the Booth calendar. On April 11, alumni in more than 80 cities in the United States and around the world will get together to make new connections, catch up with former classmates and revisit fond memories. They'll also host prospective and admitted students, providing an inside look at the journey to a Booth degree. Besides world capitals such as London, Rome, and Hong Kong, gatherings are scheduled for less traveled destinations such as Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Lima, Peru.
That first event in 2003 was called "Worldwide Pub Night." "The idea came fully formed instantly, not in dribs and drabs," Krishnan said in an interview.
With help from Alumni Affairs, which set up a web site, he and friend Iain Drummond, '01, managing partner at management consultancy Woodlawn Associates, persuaded alumni to sponsor events in their home cities.
At the first event in San Francisco, "I was amazed how many people showed up," Krishnan recalled, referring to the more than 10 alumni that attended. "I was standing on a chair with a Champagne flute, giving a St. Crispin's Day speech." Since then, the Bay Area Alumni Club has hosted Worldwide Booth Night events in Oakland and Palo Alto as well as San Francisco.
Since that first night, the event has mushroomed, to the point that last year 1,871 people joined in around the globe. Participants also have contributed $7,000 to the Annual Fund.
The biggest crowd, around 270, gathers in Chicago, and because of its location at home base, includes current students as well as prospects. New York usually gets around 150 to 200 who gather at a popular Irish pub, according to Michael Rosen, '05, who's attended every year since 2004.
"It's the easiest way to maintain contact with friends from school," Rosen said. "It's also a great avenue for recent graduates to get connected to the alumni club." Rosen's wife Adelina Oh, '04, also attends.
The Booth Alumni Club in Warsaw, Poland, has incorporated WWBN into part of its regular monthly meeting schedule, where invited subject matter experts lead a topical discussion, said Tomasz Marszalek, '10. Recent subjects have included trends in mobile technology and starting a cider business in Poland. The discussions are valuable, Marszalek said, "but it's more about the network."
For her first Worldwide Booth Night event two years ago, Christy Harris, '97, a member of the Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Atlanta, landed a major "get," Roman Weil, the V. Duane Rath professor emeritus of accounting. "I think people wanted to come to see if he had softened up any," she said of the demanding professor.
Weil, a wine expert, used the occasion to gather empirical data for a paper he was writing on wine preferences and pairings with food.
"You took a taste of wine, you ate a lemon or a cracker, then filled out some paper work," Harris recalled. "It was like we were back in school."— J. Duncan Moore, Jr.
To learn about a Worldwide Booth Night event in your area, go to
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And by worst I mean "What children's TV show makes you want to stracth your own eyes out because it would be less painful than watching that shit"?
For me it's Dora and Power Rangers. My boys were devistated when I banned them from the house. Seriously, they drive me insane and it's not like it's a very long trip to begin with. The mental (di)stress was becoming too much to handle
What's your children's cartoon vice or vices?


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Photos: Tea Party rallies at local IRS office | Tea Party members protest IRS in rallies nationwide
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Fuming over the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups with extra scrutiny, Tea Party sympathizers on Tuesday targeted the IRS with signs leaving no doubt as to their positions.
"End the IRS," said a sign held outside the San Bernardino IRS office by Anthony Rice, 29, of Fontana.
"Replace it with nothing," Rice said. "The federal government doesn't need that money. Those should be responsibilities of the states. The states, like (libertarian New Mexico Gov.) Gary Johnson says, should be allowed to try their own things without federal involvement. "
The national group Tea Party Patriots called for groups across the country to protest at IRS offices, drawing attention to what the group called the IRS' "extraordinary abuse of power" by asking for information about the content of meetings held by conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
A crowd packed the sidewalks in front of and across the street from a Cincinnati federal building housing the IRS offices that handles tax-exempt status applications.
"It's going to be up to the grass-roots movement to do something," said Paul Wheeler, dressed in Colonial-era attire with tri-cornered hat and holding a sign saying: "Internal 'Revenge' Service Stop." He said he came from Indianapolis, some 100 miles way, because Cincinnati is "the epicenter of some of the complaints. "
There were also rallies outside IRS offices in Atlanta; Louisville; Chicago; Cherry Hill, N.J.; Denver; Kansas City, Mo.; Helena, Mont.; Philadelphia; Phoenix, and Providence, R.I., among others.
IRS officials have acknowledged that some conservative groups received inappropriate attention.
A group of more than 70 protesters at the San Bernardino office said that action exemplified governmental overreach, and they took the opportunity to call for everything from a repeal of the Affordable Care Act - Obamacare - to a scaling down of nearly all governmental functions.
These messages are related, they said.
"If you talk to us, you'll find we're all consistent with our message," said Carol Houghton of Chino. "The government has gotten too big, and we need to rein in the beast. "
As with other Tea Party protests Tuesday, the San Bernardino group - gathering from throughout the Indland Empire - waved American flags and sang patriotic tunes.
At their heart, the protests are about a love of the United States, said Beth Travers, 52, of Chino Hills.
"We care about our country, and we want to take it back," Travers said. "It's not just about Obama, it's about probably 40 years of government getting too big. "
Travers said she was tired of Tea Party groups being misperceived.
"We're not anti-government, we're anti-big-government," she said. "We're not racist, I have lots of black and Mexican friends. ... We might be mostly white here, but I tell (minority friends) to come to a rally and they'll see no one is racist toward them. "
Marcell Thomas, 44, of Perris said he was doing business in the San Bernardino IRS office when the protest attracted him.
"Me, I figure there's a lot of racism in any group," said Thomas, who is black. "That's America. "
Thomas said he wasn't particularly familiar with the issues behind the protest, but he liked what he heard and had been inspired to research more.
"What they're saying makes sense," he said. "We need money for national defense, things like that, but it seems like they (the IRS) take way too much. "
In Cincinnati, some former IRS staffers said employees shouldn't be vilified. Former senior manager Bonnie Esrig said the office has a nonpolitical environment, and tax-exempt status workloads had soared because of court decisions and rules changes. Esrig, who said she wasn't involved in handling the conservative group applications, said she believed the workers were trying to streamline the research and avoid repetition.
"I don't believe anybody had a political agenda," said Esrig, who retired from the Cincinnati office in January, after 38 years, to go into consulting.
The NorCal Tea Party filed a class action lawsuit against the IRS in Cincinnati Monday for damages relating to the requests by the IRS, according to Ginny Rapini, NorCal Tea Party coordinator.
The lawsuit by the group located in Colfax says the IRS violated the Privacy Act of 1974 and their First and Fifth Amendment rights. It asks for damages to be awarded for the extensive work they performed to comply with the IRS additional requests for information, loss of membership, litigation costs, attorney fees and a multitude of other monies lost by the claimed intrusiveness of the IRS.
Republicans in Congress are pressing investigations exploring their suspicions that the targeting was politically motivated and involved higher-ups. President Barack Obama's administration has said no senior officials were involved in targeting conservative groups.
The former head of the IRS said Tuesday he first learned of the targeting in the spring of 2012, during the heat of the presidential campaign.
But, former Commissioner Douglas Shulman said Tuesday he didn't tell higher-ups in the Treasury Department and he didn't tell members of Congress. And he wouldn't apologize for it.
"I had a partial set of facts, and I knew that the inspector general was going to be looking into it, and I knew that it was being stopped," Shulman told the Senate Finance Committee in his first public comments on the matter. "Sitting there then and sitting here today, I think I made the right decision, which is to let the inspector general get to the bottom of it, chase down all the facts and then make his findings public. "
Shulman, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, left the IRS in November when his five-year term ended. His testimony makes him the top official to publicly acknowledge knowing before the presidential election that Tea Party groups had been targeted.
Even so, senators from both political parties said they were skeptical of the version of events portrayed by Shulman and Steven Miller, the man who later took his place as acting commissioner and was forced last week to resign.
Staff writer Greg Cappis and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


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For the first time, the Ministerial High Level Conference on eHealth and the World Health IT Conference and Exhibition are being held in the same week in a joint initiative called e-Health Week 2010, the most prestigious event in the European eHealth sector. Barcelona International Conventions Centre (CCIB) will open its doors from March 15 to 18 to receive the European meeting most attended by the healthcare sector interest groups.
March 15 will see the start of the High Level eHealth Conference, an E.U. event organised by the Spanish Presidency of the E.U., the European Commission, the Government of Catalonia and the TicSalut Foundation. The conference is presented under the motto of eHealth for sustainable healthcare: global changes through local actions
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Hundreds of tech volunteers spurred to action by Haiti's killer quake are adding a new dimension to disaster relief, developing new tools and services for first responders and the public in an unprecedented effort. "It really is amazing the change in the way crisis response can be done now," said Noel Dickover, a Washington, D.C.-based organizer of the CrisisCamp tech volunteer movement, which is central to the Haiti effort. "Developers, crisis mappers and even Internet-savvy folks can actually make a difference."
Another volunteer project forged in the quake's aftermath is a cell phone text-messaging system that has helped the U.N., Red Cross and other relief groups dispatch rescuers, food and water.
(Source: AP)
The World Economic Forum today released its study on Scaling Opportunity: Information and Communications Technology for Social Inclusion, an analysis of how ICT is evolving to address the social and economic needs of the poor. The study notes that, as 4 billion people have access to the global communications infrastructure, the opportunity to create innovative and inclusively tailored solutions for connecting the unconnected is extraordinary.
Along with highlighting the rapid adoption rate of mobile phone usage within emerging economies, the report focuses on the question: Whats next?
(Source: eGov Monitor)
eGov Monitor
Hackers are attacking consumers with an exploit of Internet Explorer (IE) that was allegedly used last month by the Chinese to break into Google's corporate network, a security company said Monday.
That news came on the heels of warnings by the information security agencies of the French and German governments, which recommended that IE users switch to an alternate browser, such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera, until Microsoft fixes the flaw. In a Monday alert Websense said it identified "limited public use" of the unpatched IE vulnerability in drive-by attacks against users who strayed onto malicious Web sites.
(Source: ComputerWorld)
A man who ran a music-sharing website with almost 200,000 members has been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud at Teesside Crown Court. Alan Ellis, 26, was the first person in the UK to be prosecuted for illegal file-sharing. He operated the site, called Oink, from his flat in Middlesbrough from 2004 until it was closed down in a police raid in October 2007. In that time Oink facilitated the download of 21 million music files.
(Source: BBC)
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is advising people to be careful when evaluating donation programs related to the earthquake in Haiti as one security firm is already seeing scam e-mails circulate. People should apply a "critical eye" to requests for financial donations following Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti, which caused an unknown number of deaths and severe damage to the country's infrastructure.
Scam e-mails are already emerging. Symantec noted a so-called 419-style e-mail that purported to come from the British Red Cross. A 419 scam, named after the number of a statute in Nigeria's criminal code banning the practice, is one in which an e-mail or a letter implores a person to send money for some bogus reason.
With communications in Haiti ravaged by an earthquake, tech-savvy residents turned to Twitter to send pictures and news of the destruction while others used the Web service to mobilize appeals for aid.
Harrowing personal accounts, heart-rending pictures and rallying cries for relief for quake-ravaged Haiti spread swiftly on Twitter as the microblogging platform once again became a key communications tool during disaster. Haiti solidarity groups sprang up on social network Facebook, meanwhile, including one that quickly attracted more than 142,000 members, and video of the aftermath of the 7.0-magnitude quake appeared on YouTube.
(Source: AFP)
Facebook is trying to strengthen security on its Web site with some outside help. Computer security company McAfee Inc. will now scan and repair the computers of Facebook users whose accounts have been compromised, the company said Wednesday. The scanning process will be added to the steps that Facebook already makes the users of such accounts go through if they want to reclaim their pages.
Facebook says spam and viruses affect a tiny percentage of its users. But hackers are increasingly targeting the social sites as they become a core part of the Web. Spokesman Barry Schnitt said Facebook spends a lot of time and resources to keep users' accounts secure.
The cyber threat environment is constantly changing and becoming more challenging with every day that passes. Malware grew last year at the highest rate in 20 years. Multiple security reports showed that more than 25 million new strains of malware were identified in 2009.
Forecasts suggest that 2010 will again see unprecedented growth in malware and the trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. Not only will the cyber attack volume escalated dramatically, but the sophistication of malware delivery modalities will also become much more sophisticated and dangerous. In addition, social networking sites will become major targets of choice for cyber criminals.
(Source: Defense Tech)
Defense Tech
Despite the prevalence and popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, almost a third of respondents said that they preferred to meet friends face-to-face, although 44 percent said the internet made it easier to keep in touch with them. More than seven in 10 children said their most common use of the Internet was for gaming, while 59 percent said that they used the worldwide web in the course of doing their homework. The youngsters from Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Poland also expressed a strong sense of social responsibility, with 90 percent saying it was important to look after the planet, and 74 percent saying they recycled regularly.
They've never known a world without the Internet, but they still prefer to meet their friends offline.
(Source: Reuters)
Violent video games have "a much bigger negative influence on kids" than pornography, a leading porn star has claimed. He said parents should be more worried about the harmful effects of such games. Mr Jeremy's comments were made at a session called the Great Porn Debate during the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas. His comments angered gamers, who accused him of "ignorance".
Mr Jeremy also urged parents to play their part in preventing children from accessing adult websites. He said the industry already does all it can to protect youngsters. "Parents can block this stuff and need to stop blaming porn for a bad case of parenting," Mr Jeremy told BBC News.
Hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army briefly hijacked the home page of China's top search engine, Baidu Inc, on Tuesday weeks after doing the same thing to Twitter.com.
Media carried screenshots of Baidu's home page showing a message: "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army" against a dark background and the flag of Iran. The group hacked popular microblogging website Twitter in December replacing Twitter's home page with the same headline and an anti-American message.
A wireless industry group said mobile phone conversations are safe from eavesdropping, even after a German security expert released the code for unscrambling calls made using most of the world's cell phones. Concerns spread last week that cell phone calls could easily be intercepted after encryption expert Karsten Nohl unveiled his research at Europe's largest hacking conference, in Berlin.
The London-based GSM Association said on Thursday that it has spent the past few years figuring out ways to thwart hackers who might try to tap into wireless calls using Nohl's research, which it first learned of in 2007.
People who post intimate details about their lives on the internet undermine everybody else's right to privacy, claims an academic. Dr Kieron O'Hara has called for people to be more aware of the impact on society of what they publish online. "If you look at privacy in law, one important concept is a reasonable expectation of privacy," he said. "As more private lives are exported online, reasonable expectations are diminishing."
The rise of social networking has blurred the boundaries of what can be considered private, he believes - making it less of a defence by law. We live in an era that he terms "intimacy 2.0" - where people routinely share extremely personal information online.
The new year will usher in some interesting new changes in the world of malware and cyber-attacks, according to one company's predictions for 2010. Watchful eyes will have to be kept on mobile phone apps, Google Wave accounts, file sharing and peer-to-peer networks -- cyber-criminals will target those in greater numbers, according to predictions released by Kaspersky Labs, a provider of Internet threat management solutions for combating malware.
"Given the growing sophistication of threats -- it's no longer just an e-mail saying, Please click on this attachment,' and you get infected with something -- the schemes are much more elaborate than that," said Roel Schouwenberg, the company's senior malware researcher.
(Source: Government Technology)
Government Technology
Got an e-mail list of customers or readers and want to know more about each such as their full name, friends, gender, age, interests, location, job and education level? Facebook has just the free feature you're looking for, thanks to its recent privacy changes. The hack, first publicized by blogger Max Klein, repurposes a Facebook feature that lets people find their friends on Facebook by scanning through e-mail addresses in their contact list.
Using a simple scraping tool, a marketer could then turn a list of e-mail addresses into a rich, full-fledged set of marketing profiles, with names, pictures, ages, locations, interests, photos, wall posts, affiliations and names of your friends, depending on how users have their profiles set.
(Source: CNN)
Last year, the Internet began to be seen as a basic human right and some countries have instituted legal means of guaranteeing that the vast majority of their citizens have access to a quality Internet connection. Other countries, though, are going the other way, hindering their citizen's web use and in some cases moving to disconnect them altogether. In France, the heavily criticized and disputed, so-called "three strikes" law has come into effect starting January 1st. Its backers are quick to boast the laws unabridged effectiveness, but common sense points the other way.
How exactly the agency will determine users' email addresses, or even harder, the address they are actively using remains to be seen.
(Source: Softpedia)
Chinese authorities caught nearly 5,400 suspects last year in a crackdown on online pornography and have vowed to strengthen Internet policing.
Beijing's pervasive policing of cyberspace and attempts to block the Internet are already among the world's most stringent. In a statement late Thursday, the Ministry of Public Security said the "purification of the Internet" and fighting of online crime are closely tied to the country's stability. "Lewd and pornographic content seriously pollutes the online environment, depraves social morals and poisons the physical and psychological health of the masses of young people," the statement said. "It must be firmly controlled."
Thanks to efforts from Microsoft Research, criminals involved in child-exploitation will have less places to hide, especially when it comes down to the nooks and crannies of the Internet. Ernie Allen, president and CEO of National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) notes that while the Internet has created new opportunities for pedophiles to access content in the privacy of their own homes, and to expose themselves less to the risks associated with their illegal activities, work has been done to identify them and bring them to justice. At the same time, PhotoDNA is designed to help stop the distribution of child-exploitation images across the web.
NCMEC will be using a technology donated by Microsoft in order to produce blueprints of known images of children abuse.
A court in east China has handed down jail sentences of up to three years to 11 people for their roles in online gaming scams that netted them around 140,000 dollars, state media said. Lu Yizhong and Zeng Yifu wrote malicious Trojan horse viruses to steal 5.3 million user names and passwords from online gamers, which were then used for "illegal gains", the Xinhua news agency reported late Wednesday. Defendants Yan Renhai, his girlfriend Chen Huiting and other accomplices sold or used the viruses to steal online credits, the Gulou District People's Court in Jiangsu province found, according to Xinhua.
The number of Internet gamers in China reached 217 million at the end of June, or 64.2 percent of the nation's total online population.
Internet users are being warned to watch out for a computer virus targeting popular social networking sites in the run up to Christmas.
Security experts say the new virus is "particularly nasty" and compels its victims to participate manually in creating a new Facebook account to help spread the worm. "The more people who use an application such as Facebook, or any other means of social networking, the more likely they are to be targeted by bad guys to send out malicious threats such as Koobface." The internet security company recommends that users do not reply to or follow links included in unsolicited Facebook messages and users should always carefully check that the URL they are entering is really that of the site they want to access.
(Source: FOX News)
FOX News
Thirty percent of 17-year-olds with cell phones have received sexting photos or videos, while eight percent have sent them, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. What's more, four percent of 12- to 17-year-olds admit they have texted sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of themselves to someone else. Another 15 percent said they have received such images.
Meanwhile, laws and law-enforcement practices have emerged around sexting. The Pew report notes that some law-enforcement officers and district attorneys have begun prosecuting teens who create and share such images under laws generally reserved for producers and distributors of child pornography.
(Source: News Factor)
News Factor
Australia said Tuesday it would push ahead with a mandatory China-style plan to filter the Internet, despite widespread criticism that it will strangle free speech and is doomed to fail.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said new laws would be introduced to ban access to "refused classification" (RC) sites featuring criminal content such as child sex abuse, bestiality, rape and detailed drug use. Blacklisted sites would be determined by an independent classification body via a "public complaint" process, said Conroy, admitting there was "no silver bullet solution to cyber-safety".
They're the scourge of the Internet right now and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says they've also raked in more than $150 million for scammers. Security experts call them rogue antivirus programs.
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center issued a warning over this fake antivirus software Friday, saying that Web surfers should be wary of sudden pop-up windows that report security problems on their computers. This software can appear almost anywhere on the Web. Typically, the scam starts with an aggressive pop-up advertisement that looks like some sort of virus scan. Often it's nearly impossible to get rid of the pop-up windows.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Rack Bauer, Jan 12, 2013.
I think we'll go DL too. I'm interested to see what we do with Ratliff.
Das funny. Sad, but funny.
From what I understand, there is no cap benefit to cutting him this year.
And honestly said, I think Kiffin's 4-3 would suit him very well.
My pet cat, Mike Iupati.
DC's tend to run a defense they know best, and find the personnel to do it. Lebeau does it. This is not surprising. However, I don't think any good to great DC fails to adjust and keeps plugging away with what doesn't work despite the results.
And if we draft OLine, and we still lose, what's the next excuse?
Yeah I remember you wanted him bad when he came out.
Yeah I remember that. I wasn't sold on Iupati as a Tackle. Kinda funny got moved to guard.
I wanted Earl Thomas in that draft. We ended up with Dez.
There was some other lineman I wanted but I can't rember who it was. I think I'll have a look.
Yeah Earl was my top pick that year as well. I knew we wouldn't get him though.
Warmack isn't a top 5 pick...
The niners intended him to be a guard when they drafted him. They already had Staley at LT and before they drafted Iupati at 17 they drafted Anthony Davis. They drafted him to be a guard from the start.
Pouncey was the other guy I wanted but couldn't think of.
Yeah I remember watching him and thinking he wouldn't be a very good Left Tackle. That is where he was projected to play.
I guess we'll never know but I didn't think he had the feet for it.
He's got exceptional feet for a guard.
I'd rather have a dominant guard then an average tackle tbh.
I REALLY want us to get back to having a dominant OL. That starts with the most dominant Offensive Lineman in the draft... Warmack.
i dont think there will be an excuse because we'd win with an OLine.
Lol..some people will never learn. Jerry is addicted to ego. He can't help himself.
Our safeties suck. Which they have for last 8 years or so.
Jerry will continue to try to be in the spotlight and make money. He would rather be GM Jerry doing it his way and losing than Owner Jerry handing GM duties to someone else and winning. His ego is more important to him than winning.
So no matter how many times we want Jerry to listen to logic and reason, he can't hear it. The mad little voice in his head won't allow it.
AS much as I Like Warmack and Cooper, I think this is was going to happen too, our one big FA signing will be a guy like Levitre or Slauson
Warmack should be available when we pick.
When the season ends, people always overrate guards and centers. But the reality of the draft is that more premium positions go first and interior OL are typically taken in the late teens. Early teens if they're elite.


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Situated near the ocean in the larger Santa Barbara district, the Santa Maria Valley appellation runs east to west. Pacific Ocean air funnels in to cool the vineyards, allowing the grapes to evenly ripen and reach their full potential. This unique climate paired with the region's well-drained soils helps create some sought-after grapes.
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Heart is looking to spread a little Christmas cheer. The rockers have a couple of holiday songs on the way. The group's rendition of "Please Come Home For Christmas" is a duet featuring Ann Wilson and Aaron Neville.
Heart's other holiday track features Nancy Wilson taking the lead. She sings a contemporary version of the traditional Welsh folk song "All Through The Night," with Richard Marx providing the backing vocals.
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text: Some anonymous internet jerk posted a picture of Morgan Freeman with a quote from someone else about the cause of the Newtown school shootings. There is a running joke that anything attributed to Morgan Freeman sounds true. This is the picture along with the quote. (picture caption mine)"You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why. It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter li … [Read more...]


text: Chris Brown was released this morning from jail. Shortly after midnight, Brown was released. On May 9, a judge ordered Brown to serve 131 days in jail and because of jail overcrowding he was released after serving a little over three weeks. Brown had been in jail since March when he was kicked out of rehab. Brown was then shuttled to Washington D.C. for a trial that was postponed and flown back to California. He admitted he was guilty of violating his probation which is the reason the judge ordered him to serve more jail time. Brown still faces charges in Washington D.C., but the only thing he has left to do in California is serve 800 hours of community service. Oh, and stay out of trouble which with him is probably unlikely.


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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- Kenjon Barner ran for 143 yards and three touchdowns, Marcus Mariota added 135 yards, and No. 2 Oregon manhandled Arizona State in a 43-21 victory Thursday night.
Facing its first true road test, Oregon (7-0, 4-0 Pac-12) turned what was supposed to be a duel in the desert into another we've-seen-this-before rout by running over the Sun Devils in the first half.
The Ducks had their way against what had been the Pac-12's best defense, racing to a 36-point halftime lead and rushing for 406 yards to win their nation-leading 12th straight road game.
Arizona State (5-2, 3-1) got the start it wanted, forcing a fumble on Oregon's second play and scoring a touchdown on its first.
The Sun Devils wilted after that, unable to make up for the early loss of star defensive tackle Will Sutton or find a way to slow down the Ducks as they raced past.
Taylor Kelly, the Pac-12's pass efficiency leader, threw two interceptions that set up Oregon touchdowns in the first half and had 93 yards on 10-of-18 passing while being chased by the Ducks most of the game.
Arizona State's defense, its anchor through the first six games, allowed 454 total yards, including 48 more rushing than it had the previous four games combined.
Mariota threw for one touchdown, ran for another and had one receiving in his first true road game.
Sun Devil Stadium hadn't been the stage for a game like this for some time, maybe back to 2005, when Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush and No. 1 Southern California beat the Sun Devils 38-28.
Oregon had become the standard for success in the West, winning three straight Pac-12 titles, last season's Rose Bowl and earning a trip to the BCS title game the year before that.
The Ducks may be even better this season, again scoring points quickly and in bunches, with an improved defense to go with it.
Arizona State was one of the surprises the first half of the season, winning five games and nearly pulling out a sixth under new coach Todd Graham.
To swat down the Ducks on national TV would be a big boost to the Sun Devils, a we-have-arrived moment that would turn the spotlight full blast toward the desert.
More than 70,000 fans showed up for this highly anticipated duel, creating a ''black out'' with their synchronized black shirts.
The Ducks quickly made it look like they were attending a funeral in the first half.
Arizona State at least got off to a good start, recovering a fumble by Mariota on Oregon's second play, scoring 7 seconds later on a 28-yard touchdown pass from Kelly to Kevin Ozier.
The game had barely started, but that was about it for the Sun Devils, who lost Sutton for the game and possibly longer to a right knee injury on Mariota's fumble.
Two plays later, Barner ran up the middle, hesitated for a second and raced 71 yards for a touchdown.
Then it was Mariota to Bralon Addison for a 6-yard touchdown. Mariota was on the receiving end for the next score, catching a 2-yard pass from backup Bryan Bennett, who wriggled the ball forward while in the grasp of two defenders.
The first of Kelly's two interceptions, by Boseko Lokombo, set up Barner for a 1-yard scoring run. Mariota then raced up the middle 86 yards for a touchdown. Barner scored again on a 1-yard run, again after an interception, this one by Avery Patterson.
Oregon led 43-7 at halftime and had 329 yards rushing, 29 fewer than Arizona State allowed against Colorado, California, Utah and Missouri combined.
The Ducks coasted through the second half, resting many of their starters as Arizona State scored two touchdowns.
It didn't matter at that point.
Oregon had done enough during its overpowering first half to beat the Sun Devils for the eighth straight time.


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Students investigate skeletal features of animals in the Skeletons: framework for survival exhibition.
Self-guided program
Students explore the Skeletons: framework for survival exhibition and use their observations of skeletal features to solve clues about predators and their prey. They pool their results on to a food web which can be used as a resource when they get back to school.
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- Maximum number of students: no limit
- Duration: one hour
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Great write up, thanks!
Now I've been reading on the Metasploit site and it seems to me that a lot of users have been having issues using db_autopwn. The most common problem would be that some exploits work manually but fail with autopwn or it fails to create a reverse shell or bind shell.
I've had that problem too but figured out how to solve it, seems like there's something wrong with the sqlite3. (Read this from the metasploit issue site) so now I will show you how to use PostgreSQL for autopwn.
Ok so after you install postgreSQL (it is installed by default in Backtrack) we need to configure it a little.
The first thing you will realise is that if you try to start it using:
it gives you an error:Code:/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start (8.3 is the vesrion might be different in your case)
To solve this issue all you have to do is disable SSL from the postgres.conf file:Code:The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output: 2008-03-24 18:46:11 CDT FATAL: could not load server certificate file "server.crt": No such file or directory [fail]
Just comment the line "ssl = true # (change requires restart)" like this:Code:kate /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/postgresql.conf
Now that we've done that let's connect to our postgreSQL and change the password:Code:# - Security and Authentication - #authentication_timeout = 1min # 1s-600s #ssl = true # (change requires restart) #ssl_ciphers = 'ALL:!ADH:!LOW:!EXP:!MD5:@STRENGTH' # allowed SSL ciphers # (change requires restart) #password_encryption = on #db_user_namespace = off
Now enter the same password that you used previously('your password').Code:sudo su postgres -c psql ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'your password'; \q sudo passwd -d postgres sudo su postgres -c passwd
After doing so we go to our framework folder:
Now you can go use autopwnCode:cd /pentest/exploits/framework3 ./msfconsole db_driver postgresql db_connect postgres:"postgreSQL password"@127.0.0.1/metasploit ("metasploit" being the name of the database).
Hope it helps someone.
P.S. Sorry if I have writing mistakes I wrote it very fast.
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Great write up, thanks!
I got 99 problems but the bits ain't one...
A+ worked for me! thank you sickness for the post
metasploit's msfconsole -- metasploit v3.4.1-dev [core:3.4 api:1.0] -- would output the following when attemtping to use sqlite3 ::
(bold+RED colored text is my emphasis)Code:msf > db_driver sqlite3 [*] Using database driver sqlite3 msf > db_connect [-] Note that sqlite is not supported due to numerous issues. [-] It may work, but don't count on it [*] Successfully connected to the database [*] File: /root/.msf3/sqlite3.db
using your directions above, has things looking good over here!
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Thanks for the writeup, but I have an issue:
msf> db_driver postgresql
[-] Invalid driver specified
it appears to only have sqlite. what do I have to do to add the postgres driver to msf?
did these already:
gem install pg
gem install postgres
gem install postgres-pr
do I have to recompile?
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Try reinstalling postgreSQL :P and do it again.
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I did a bunch of stuff:
rebuild the gems (this time from inside msf) <- got errors about ruby.h
drop include folder from the 1.9.1 sources in /opt/metasploit3/lib/ruby/
rebuild the gems
still didn't work, installed libpgsql-ruby
rebuild the gems
still failed:
exited all the terminals and restarted the console... <POOF> the postgres driver works.
Had to create the metasploit database from inside psql, but all seems fine now.
I'm having similar problems. I can gem install postgres by itself, but that's not gonna work
Here is the error I'm getting:
Code:[*] exec: gem install postgres Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing postgres: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /opt/metasploit3/bin/ruby extconf.rb extconf.rb:4:in `<main>': uninitialized constant PLATFORM (NameError) Gem files will remain installed in /opt/metasploit3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/postgres-0.7.9.2008.01.28 for inspection. Results logged to /opt/metasploit3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/postgres-0.7.9.2008.01.28/ext/gem_make.out
When trying to gem instal pg, I get this:
I've reinstalled postgresql and started from scratch, I've closed all my open shells and started with fresh ones, and I've restarted the system. I've googled a little bit and I've only found similar problems in OSX :|Code:[*] exec: gem install pg Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing pg: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /opt/metasploit3/bin/ruby extconf.rb mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /opt/metasploit3/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h Gem files will remain installed in /opt/metasploit3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pg-0.9.0 for inspection. Results logged to /opt/metasploit3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pg-0.9.0/ext/gem_make.out
Any ideas?
Can you enter postgreSQL ?
If you can make the database manually and try again with metasploit O_o
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Very weird. 18436572's magic must of rubbed off on me. I literally stopped what I was doing, left and went to Walmart, came back with MSF still open and everything worked. :|
Last edited by g3ksan; 06-11-2010 at 11:10 PM. Reason: clarification
Try the following...
Let us know if that helps with the issues you guys are seeing...apt-get remove postgresql-8.3
apt-get install postgresql-8.3
ln –s /etc/init.d/postgresql-8-3 /etc/init.d/postgresq
cd /etc/ssl/certs
make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil –force-overwrite
createuser –U postgres –P postgres
/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 restart
cd /pentest/exploits/framework3
db_connect postgres : postgres@localhost
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Each design has so much detail from the items on the top of Le Dresser to the cats driving the Beach Bus. I love the tiki torches outside the Surf Shack!
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Tues. Dec. 13, 2011 12- 12:30
Using a variety of videos, games and displays, Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think explores the evolutionary and cognitive links that humans share with animals. The new exhibition premieres October 1 at the Staten Island Zoo and the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), and will tour the country with stops planned in Oregon, California, Indiana and Ohio.
The Zoo will be closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years day. No program on those days.
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Paniolo of Maui
Cowboys probably aren't the first things that come to mind when you think of Hawaii. But since 1838, when King Kamehameha III invited Spanish-Mexican vaqueros from California to teach Hawaiians how to manage wild herds, horseback riding paniolo (Hawaiian cowboys) have been wrangling cattle in Hawaii's cool upland plains.
Although the cattle industry has declined, paniolo traditions continue to live on today in places like Makawao in Upcountry Maui. For more than 50 years the annual Makawao Rodeo has been held every Fourth of July, showcasing a fun family parade and traditional rodeo competitions. You can learn about paniolo hands-on by going on a horseback-riding excursion at Piiholo Ranch in Makawao or other ranches in Maui.


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1. Government by the few, 2. those making up such a faction, 3. a state governed by such a faction. An "oligarch" is a member of an oligarchy. Currently "oligarch" refers to an individual whose substantial funds allow that individual to influence governmental actions in a manner that increases those already substantial funds.
"Oligarchy" was first used in English at around 1600 and is derived from Greek "olig," "few, little" (from PIE "leig," "poor") + "-arch" referring to "ruler, leader" such seen in "matriarch" from Middle English "-arche" from Old French, from Late Latin "-arches" (the "e" has a macron over it), from Greek "-arkes" again with a macron on the "e"), from "arkhos" ruler, from "arkhein" "to rule" from PIE "arkhein" "to begin, rule, command." Seen in "archives," "autarchy" and perhaps "archiphoneme."
oligarchy, oligarch
Use this forum to suggest Good Words for Professor Beard.
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Re: oligarchy, oligarch
Rather coincidentally, Gail Collins at the NYT had a column on this just the other day.
It includes this line: "Oligarch" sounds more interesting than "superrich person with undue political influence." Much like bnjtokyo's definition.
It includes this line: "Oligarch" sounds more interesting than "superrich person with undue political influence." Much like bnjtokyo's definition.
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Gail Is frequently hilarious. From time to time she and David Brooks have a conversation separately marked in the New York Times. Informative and always funny.
Re: oligarchy, oligarch
Collins has an RSS feed available, so you never have to miss any of her work. I prefer her own columns to The Conversation, though. I've rather soured on Brooks lately.
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Not coincidentally. It was Ms Collin's column that got me wondering about the definition and etymology of "oligarch."
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Robert Michels said: "Historical evolution mocks all the prophylactic measures that have been adopted for the prevention of oligarchy." Whilst he later became some kind of fascist, I struggle to find a counter to his iron law of oligarchy, especially in bleaker moments. I hope society will eventually find a way.
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