It says values were "a distinct part of the curriculum during the late 19th and early 20th centuries", but since then "values education has been largely neglected", and "teachers appear not to have received adequate preparation, to reflect critically, on their role as values educators".

Other than these earlier attempts to incorporate the specific teaching of values, in Australia values education has been largely neglected, or seen to form a limited part of other subjects, notably social education (Johnson 2002).

A course listed in Indiana University’s Health, Physical Education and Recreation Department entitled “Threats, Violence & Work Safety,” is being offered for the third time this semester at the university.
However, instead of it being a course on workplace safety--and how to prevent and avoid violence on the job--much of the course material last semester covered a history of the Middle East.

Dr Harry said that low-frequency noise - which was used as an instrument of torture by the Germans during the Second World War because it induced headaches and anxiety attacks - could disturb rest and sleep at even very low levels.

"We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he said. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved."

David Kay said in his interim report he had uncovered a network of clandestine biological warfare programmes which Saddam had gone to huge efforts to keep secret.

Iraq's WMD programs spanned more than two decades, involved thousands of people, billions of dollars, and were elaborately shielded by security and deception operations that continued even beyond the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

• $US1200 buys you a terabyte external disk with both kinds of Firewire and USB: The LaCie Bigger Disk. I wish mine was that big.
• Yesterday DB was talking (not blogging) about the killer app for his Pocket PC. This would do me if I had a little dough... a dynamic Melways!
• Jim Gray's 1998 Turing Award winning lecture: What Next? A few remaining IT problems. Not surprisingly for a Turing Award recipient, it remains quite relevant. It's a shame it's SO Powerpoint. 2.8MB PDF WARNING!.

No doubt about it, Howard is genius. Once the mainstream left works itself into a froth in defence of the status quo, Latham's hopes of reclaiming the aspirational electorate will vanish.

• Robert Duvall
• John Rhys-Davies
• James Woods (WARNING! You may need to watch a sickening moveon.org advertisment to get a day pass but the article is worth it.)
• Clint Eastwood

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Q. Where does the name “little green footballs” come from?
A. Charles ain’t telling…

WinExposé allows you to immediately view and select from all the windows running on your computer, just those of the active application, or to minimise all windows and display a clear desktop.

Clinton also said Tuesday night that at the end of his term, there was "a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for " in Iraq.
"So I thought it was prudent for the president to go to the U.N. and for the U.N. to say, 'You got to let these inspectors in, and this time if you don't cooperate the penalty could be regime change, not just continued sanctions."

Officials said he would set a goal of returning to the moon by the middle of the next decade and establishing a human presence there as a stepping stone to an eventual manned mission to Mars.

My guess is he will promise the moon and then hint at Mars

Despite the great advances in neuroscience, we are still at the alchemist's phase when it comes to the essential question: what are the first principles which makes it necessary that our subjective experiences accompany the physical processes in the brain? We may laugh at the alchemists' ignorance with the benefit of the hindsight, but our future descendants might laugh at the ignorance of our present time on the origin of consciousness as well.

The concept of qualia describes the unique properties that accompany our senses. It is an essential concept when we try to understand the principle that bridges the neural firings in our brain and our perception. The idea of qualia is also of crucial importance when we try to study the functions of the brain from an objective point of view. Qualia must be part of the mathematical formulation of information we use to understand the function of the brain.

• Just getting back to the moon will cost so much it will scare future presidents
• The technological capabilities will be strained because the length of the trip means all risks are amplified many fold
• There is no-one to "beat" to Mars as there was to the moon
• Accidents on the ISS and the moon in the next ten years will put the public offside
• The length of the trip dilutes propaganda (and related upside) opportunities substantially
• The scientific opportunities of having humans there are simply not compelling given current droid technology
• Current movie making technology makes films that look much better than the real thing, again diluting propaganda opportunities
• The pressure on the US to kick-start ailing economies around the world (by various means, including war) will divert attention and funds from any martian escapades
• Dubya hasn't even spoken yet! My guess is he will promise the moon and then hint at Mars

Essentially, Room on Fire has bombed: it's languishing at number 80 on the ARIA charts. The Strokes might find it hard to regain their confidence.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
Schlimiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer, incorporated

Less music in a device marginally smaller at about the same price. Get it? I didn't, and few others will, either. In fact, while I was watching Jobs give his spiel, my mind replayed the infamous scene from the cult classic mockumentary Spinal Tap where the dim rock band tries to explain that dials on their amplifiers go to 11 -- and that's what makes them louder. I was left with the same sense of befuddlement after watching Jobs show off the smaller but much wimpier miniPod.

Indeed, the miniPod is likely to win some design awards and deservedly so -- just like the Cube. But shrinking the form factor and the capacity without a corresponding shrinkage in price will put Apple's fetish product street cred to the test. That could lead to disappointing sales.

But it was not until yesterday - after inquiries from The Age - that the gallery released a statement detailing what had happened and confirming the closure of seven of its 30 gallery spaces.

Officials only revealed the problem to the public after inquiries by the Herald Sun on Monday.

Also closed is a multi-media survey of the career of Italian architect and designer Mario Bellini, the principal architect for the building's $168 million redevelopment.

BallDroppings uses physics simulation of elastic masses to make a controlled metaphysical musical system with simple rules that mimic nature.