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• Electoral reform and Parliament

  
  Quaequam Blog! — Authority: 92
  At some point I need to write a comprehensive blog post about where I stand on AV. Today it not the time. But what I will say in response to last night’s vote in Parliament is that I find it appalling that MPs can be so complacent about how we actually count our [...]
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• Iraq and Afghanistan wearing down the military, MPs warn

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  Army at full stretch, navy over-committed and RAF pilots short of planes for training, says defence committee Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are leaving the armed forces ill equipped to undertake any new operations, MPs have warned. Britains forces need a period of "effective recuperation" after operating at a ...
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• METC 2010 on Flickr

  
  The Wired Classroom — Authority: 126
  The Midwest Education Technology Conference has a Group Pool (of photos) on Flickr . As the 2010 conference progresses, more and more images and videos will be added. Take a moment to check out the Flickr pool and see what’s going on at this year’s METC! (Or, if you are attending METC, feel free to join ...
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• Unpacking

  
  Citizen Bezner — Authority: 125
  We had a fairly eventful weekend at the Bezner house. We sold our house a few weeks ago, and this was loading weekend. So Joy and I, along with my Dad and sis, loaded up our belongings into a POD. It was an exquisite packing job. Seriously. You couldnt have fit another box into that thing. We ...
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• Harman sets aside more time for Commons reform vote

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  Leader of the Commons announces that the government will set aside a day for debates and votes on the controversial changes Harriet Harman today moved to allay MPs fears they could be deprived of a vote on proposed Commons reforms designed to increase the influence of backbenchers. The leader of the Commons ...
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• News from the Government Press Office - Speech by Financial Services Secretary to the

  
  Politics Forum and Political Blog discussing and debating political and social issues. — Authority: 155
  At* the NAPF Corporate Governance Seminar, Cheapside, London EC2, Tuesday 09 February 2010 More...
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• Voting for Change?

  
  Jonathan Fryer — Authority: 104
  The British House of Commons will be voting later today on whether to hold a referendum on changing the country’s first-past-the-post system of electing Westminster MPs with the Alternative Vote (AV), which would give voters a slightly greater say in choosing their representative as they could order the preferences ...
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• New Media Literacies Project Announces Free Webinar Series

  
  Georgia Library Media Association — Authority: 126
  New Media Literacies via kwout Here is some exciting news from the New Media Literacies Project! You can also join the Ning and get engaged with the learning community by clicking here. Educators are exploring the urgent challenges that 21st Century learners face by expanding their own learning experiences ...
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• Free Music Download of New Dark Emo Pop Rock Song

  
  DanoSongs Free Music Downloads — Authority: 104
  New Creative Commons Song Hello. I finished a new track this week that has kind of a dark emo sound but is also still a bit pop rock style. There are some spacious arpeggio guitar riffs, electronic spheres and a chime like chorus. I call it “Today then Tomorrow”. Free Royalty Free Download: Today then ...
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• Renee Hobbs and Troy Hicks Discuss Fair Use - TTT 184 - 01.27.10

  
  Teachers Teaching Teachers — Authority: 104
  br/a href="http://edtechtalk.com/audio/download/4670/Teachers184-2010-01-27.mp3"Download Renee Hobbs and Troy Hicks Discuss Fair Use - TTT 184 - 01.27.10/abr/Our friend and colleague, Chris Sloan, from the Wasatch Range Writing Project in Utah invited Renee Hobbs and Troy Hicks to join us on this weeks Teachers ...
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• Teachers Teaching Teachers #184 - Renee Hobbs and Troy Hicks to Discuss Fair Use - 01.27.10

  
  EdTechTalk — Authority: 426
  Our friend and colleague, Chris Sloan , from the Wasatch Range Writing Project in Utah invited Renee Hobbs and Troy Hicks to join us on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers. (By the way, if you would like to plan and produce (and later edit) a TTT webcast like Chris did for this episode, please email Paul ...
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• Letters: Steps towards a more representative democracy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  Polly Toynbee criticises the Tories for opposing "peoples right to chose their voting system" yet sees Labours refusal to give the people the chance to vote for PR as "embracing electoral reform" ( Comment , 6 February). In truth, the conduct of both parties provides further evidence that our politicians should not be ...
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• David Cameron promises two-year lobbying ban and pension penalties for former ministers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  Tory leader said a Conservative government would amend the guidelines to limit the ability of retired ministers to influence government policy Former ministers will lose their pension rights if they fail to abide by rules planned by the Tories that will ban them from taking on lobbying jobs within two years of ...
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• Cameron accuses Brown of headlong retreat over MPs suspensions

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  David Chaytor, Jim Devine and Elliot Morely all suspended from party and whip as Cameron says news is a humiliating change The three MPs facing criminal charges over their expenses claims were today suspended from the Labour party, immediately sparking accusations from David Cameron that Gordon Brown had been ...
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• Open Education Curriculum Board Legislation in Virginia

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  eLobbyist VA has tweeted about legislation in the state of Virginia authorizing the creation of an Open Education Curriculum Board. From the summary: The purpose of the Board is to designate qualifying entities as Open Education Consortiums and set the standards for submission of education materials and subsequent ...
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• Python Textbook Remixed in 11 Days

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Timothy Vollmer writes about a professor at the University of Michigan who remixed a textbook on the Python programming language in 11 days. From the post: The book, Python for Informatics: Exploring Information, is currently being used in his winter semester Networked Computing course. The textbook is based on the ...
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• Copyright Posters – WWII Style

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Scott Leslie has a new post presenting several posters protesting copyright restrictions in the style of WWII posters. From the post: …I am getting tired of people blindly accepting the official line of copyright and intellectual “property” as some sort of eternal right, rather than the modern (and ...
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• GlaxoSmithKline Opens Dataset

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  David Bois is reporting that the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is releasing a dataset relating to Malaria. According to the article, the data will be released into the public domain with “no strings attached.”
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• NWO_News: Quero privacidade porque violo a lei

  
  O Vigia — Authority: 122
  O título desta entrada pode parecer algo estranho mas faz todo o sentido uma vez que a elite da Nova (Des)Ordem Mundial como todos sabemos anda há muito numa imensa histeria legislativa, todos os dias temos novas ‘leis’ que nos retiram a pouca liberdade e os poucos direitos que vamos tendo. Se pensarem um pouco ...
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• David Cameron vows to tackle secret corporate lobbying

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 989
  Tory leader says a Conservative government would force ex-ministers to wait two years before they are allowed to take jobs lobbying government David Cameron today claimed that "secret corporate lobbying" was undermining public confidence in the political system. In a speech at the University of East London, which ...
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