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American reporter Marie Colvin and French photojournalist Remi Ochlik were killed by President Bashar Assad’s regime in the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday. The journalists had been working on the front lines of uprisings in the Arab world for months.  55-year-old Ms. Colvin, who worked for The Sunday Times of Britain, lost an eye to [...]

As counties struggle to meet their education funding requirements under the state’s maintenance of effort program, legislators wonder if shifting teacher pension costs under Gov. Martin O’Malley’s budget plan would make a difference. The topic came up during a briefing on maintenance of effort funds and K-12 education held Friday afternoon jointly by the House [...]

A posting yesterday on the social networking web site Twitter by the Pennsylvania State University’s student blog Onward State, which incorrectly reported the death of formerPenn State football coach Joe Paterno, has led to the resignation of one of its managing editors. Paterno died today. Paterno had been hospitalized over the weekend due to complications from lung cancer, and was in serious condition. The [...]

The meaning ˜health education’ is to educate someone about theHealth and health related issues. The health education does not always mean the physical health; here the health relates to social health, economical health, emotional health and some time also the spiritual health. According to the world health organization, or known as WHO , any kind of learning related to health, including [...]

A man was shot and killed by police officers in East New York, Brooklyn, New York who were responding to a 9-1-1 call reporting a home invasion late Thursday night. The deceased, 26-year-old Duane Browne, was carrying a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver. Police believe he was responding to armed men who had entered his home. According to police reconstruction of events, [...]

Why You Should Use Social Media to Build Your Opt-In Email Lists By now, everyone knows that social media is a key component to any marketing campaign. At least if you’ve been reading these newsletters you do. But aside from the obvious benefits of outreach and awareness, there is something else you can be doing [...]

Maryland will receive a $28 million performance bonus from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for fiscal year 2011 for its consistent efforts to identify and enroll eligible children in Medicaid and CHIP coverage. “Since 2007, we have expanded coverage to more than 300,000 Marylanders, almost half of them children, and this bonus [...]

Feeling entrapped by the grasp of social media?  Facebook keeping you in the house for too long?  Why not use the power of networked communities, your check-ins, friends and stated interests to suggest events for you to attend with the newly implemented Suggested Events. The new feature replaces the ‘Friends Events’ down to where you’d [...]

The Holiday season is almost here and it makes you think about family, friends and for me, humanity. Technology is a wonderful thing, my fear is that sometimes technology develops faster than humans can learn to adapt their….well, their souls. I know that sounds a bit weird, but I want to challenge us all to [...]

Android app now has 58.8 million daily active users, while the iPhone version has 57.6 million Facebook for Android has more daily active users than its iPhone counterpart for the first time. The iPhone app launched in July 2008, while its Android cousin rolled out in September 2009 and has been closing the lead ever [...]