- Tuscon: Loughner Indicted, Feds Will Seek Death Penalty | TPMMuckraker
- A conviction for the attempted assassination of a Member of Congress carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, a $250,000 fine or both, DOJ said, while a conviction for attempted murder of a federal employee carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both.
Six people were killed and 13 others wounded in the Jan. 8 attack.
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- Dems Press GOPers To Repeal Their Own Benefits Along With Health Care Law | TPMDC
- Using a procedural tool called the motion to recommit, Democrats forced Republicans to take a stand on whether or not members of Congress should receive federal health care benefits. The measure would have made repeal of the health care law contingent on more than half of all members of Congress opting out of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program.
- Plain Language: Improving Communications from the Federal Government to the Public
- What is Plain Language?
Why Plain Language?
Using Plain Language
Resources
How To/Tools
Planning a Plain-Language Website
- Grammar, Punctuation, Style, and Usage – UCLA Graduate Writing Center
- Loads of books and websites have been written on grammar, punctuation, style, usage, and how an understanding of these conventions can improve your writing. We’ve distilled the best of what’s online and in print…
- How to write multiple-choice questions that simulate the real world » Making Change
- Let’s say you’re writing materials for people who create custom pet hedgehogs using genetic engineering. You might be tempted to write a question like the one below….
First ask yourself, “Why does the learner need to know this fact?”
Then write a question that tests both the learner’s knowledge of the fact and their ability to apply it in the real world. “What if…” questions come in handy for this.
- Using Humor In The College Classroom To Enhance Teaching Effectiveness In "Dread Courses" | College Student Journal | Find Articles at BNET
- [College Student Journal, Sept, 1999 by Neelam Kher, Susan Molstad, Roberta Donahue]
The purpose of this article is to identify opportunities for humor in the college classroom, discuss how humor affects learning outcomes, and present guidelines for the appropriate use of humor, particularly in "dread courses."
- Arts Education Improves Problem-Solving Skills | Strollerderby
- “With this study of the Learning Through Art program, we are pleased to demonstrate that arts education helps develop the skills necessary to persistently and adaptively work through problems,” said Kim Kanatani, Director of Education at the Guggenheim Foundation. Hear that, public school administrators? If you want your students to excel at math and science, you need to expose them to art and music, too.
- HDMI, DVI, and HDCP
- The reason I refer to HDCP as the devil is because HDCP is quite possibly one of the worst TV technologies because it stands at the alter of controlling the way we watch digital programming. While the intent of HDCP is noble — to protect copyrighted material — the disruption it causes law-abiding TV watchers is far too significant to ignore.
…the motion picture industry is embracing HDCP through Blu-ray discs…
What is DVI?
What is HDMI?
HDCP Buying Advice
- How To Stop A Tantrum With Science
- [Strollerderby - Sierra Black]
- The Amazing Steam Engines Of The First Century – Technology Review
- …steam engines were in use at least 2000 years ago. Our knowledge of these devices is largely the result of a text called Pneumatica written in the first century by the Greek mathematician, engineer and inventor Hero of Alexandria.
Today, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, talks us through some of these devices as they are described in an online translation of Hero's work.
- Bullish Blue Dogs Oppose Health Care Repeal
- [FiveThirtyEight.com - Nate Silver]
Some moderate Democrats who voted against the health care bill opposed an attempt to repeal it.
- Health Care Repeal Passes, Now the De-Funding Strategy Begins
- [Firedoglake - David Dayen]
- Merkley to Obama: Address the Foreclosure Crisis at the State of the Union
- [Firedoglake - David Dayen]
- Viewer Trust In Fox News Plummets In Past Year
- [Crooks and Liars - Susie Madrak]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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