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The Death of Ted Kennedy: The Brother Who Mattered Most - TIME

The Death of Ted Kennedy: The Brother Who Mattered Most - TIME

There was a time 40 years ago, right after the assassination of his brother Robert, when it looked like Edward Kennedy would become President someday by right of succession. The Kennedy curse, the one that had seen all three of his brothers cut down in their prime, had created for him a sort of Kennedy prerogative, or at least the illusion of one, an inevitable claim on the White House. For years he seemed like a man simply waiting for the right moment to take what everybody knew was coming his way.

via www.time.com

Kennedy dead at 77 - The Boston Globe

Kennedy dead at 77

Liberal lion of the Senate, symbol of family dynasty succumbs to brain cancer.

via www.boston.com

End of an era, and a legacy of this family to America.. he shall be missed.. R.I.P. and thank you, Ted, for your service to your nation... Screen snapshot of Boston.com tribute and photos, see here for the full photo essay...

Reporter’s Notebook - Obama, a Little-Seen Visitor, Is the Talk of Martha’s Vineyard - NYTimes.com

Reporter’s Notebook

The Obamas Relax on Martha’s Vineyard

By JEFF ZELENY

Published: August 25, 2009

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. — President Obama is now three days into his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, a visit that has caused a considerable stir on this tiny island. Yet if it wasn’t for the outbreak of commercialism — T-shirts, cocktails and even dog treats bearing the Obama name — it would be difficult to know the first family was even here.

via www.nytimes.com

Tennant: Digital Libraries: Sony Edges Kindle on Library Integration

Posted by Roy Tennant on August 25, 2009

As seen in Engadget today, and reported by Macworld, Sony is moving to integrate access to library purchased ebook licenses. From Macworld:

On Tuesday Sony also announced the launch of Library Finder, a new feature of the eBook Store developed in cooperation with OverDrive, which helps users locate e-book content at their local library. Public libraries working in cooperation with OverDrive can offer e-books to be checked out onto a Sony Reader using a valid library card; the library sets the duration of the loan. When the checkout period expires, the book simply expires as well, so users aren't dinged late fees.

For an example of the range of content available to Sony ...Read More

via www.libraryjournal.com

Urban Libraries Council Calls for Major Changes in Google Settlement - 8/24/2009 - Library Journal

(For a set of links, go to http://www.LibraryJournal.com/GoogleBookSearchSettlement) The Urban Libraries Council (ULC), a member organization of medium and large public libraries -- important constituency affected by the Google Book Search settlement -- has called for major changes in Google'€™s announced plan to provide just one free terminal per public library building and in regulating a potential monopoly.

via www.libraryjournal.com

Book Review - 'Losing the News - The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy,' by Alex S. Jones - Review - NYTimes.com

There's Alex Jones and there's Jason Jones. The two unrelated Joneses offer competing commentaries on journalism in our times. Amid the hubbub about how we will get the news if newspapers keep drowning in the wrong color of ink, Alex offers a passionate but lucid analysis of where we are and where we might be going. Jason tells jokes on "The Daily Show."

via www.nytimes.com

LOSING THE NEWS - The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy, By Alex S. Jones, 234 pp. Oxford University Press. $24.95. By Harold Evans.

The National Parks: America's Best Idea | PBS

Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales - from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - The National Parks: America's Best Idea is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background - rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy. It is a story full of struggle and conflict, high ideals and crass opportunism, stirring adventure and enduring inspiration - set against the most breathtaking backdrops imaginable.

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Basics for Beginners: Getting Started with Social Media Tools

Basics for Beginners: Getting Started with Social Media Tools

This online seminar was recorded and can be accessed by clicking on the link to the right, along with the PowerPoint presentation. Please post additional questions to the TechSoup Community forums for a special day-long online asynchronous (not live) event.

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Let workers with flu stay home, U.S. tells businesses

Let workers with flu stay home, U.S. tells businesses
Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:02pm EDT
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businesses should encourage employees to stay home sick at the first symptom of swine flu and should drop requirements for doctor's excuses during flu season, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

Employers should also encourage vaccination against both seasonal and H1N1 swine flu, the officials said.

Real estate expert: S.D. at leading edge of recovery

The chief economist for the National Association of Realtors predicted yesterday that mortgage interest rates will rise to 6 percent next year but saw no evidence of a "double dip" in housing price declines.

via www3.signonsandiego.com

Some good economic news.. recovery in process...