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Wikipedia and several other major websites, blacked out their sites in protest against two bills being put to the United States House of Representatives. Known by their acronyms SOP (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) the US is trying to impose their laws across the world. The need for these arose after so many websites made it easy to access and download copyright material in the music and film world. But like other laws designed to police the Internet, small and innocent sites have no redress in a court of law.
It appears that such websites may be shut down on the word of a single complainant. There?s no system to argue and defend the site in a court of law.
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22 April 2014
If the Gmail new look is not to your taste, here is a way that you can re-create the old look even though Google have removed the option.
Open Gmail in a new tab or window and while it is loading, click on the Load Basic HTML link that you can find in the bottom-righthand corner of the screen.
If you like the look and want to keep it, click the | Set basic HTML as default view | link at the end of the orange bar that runs along the top of the screen.
This view lacks some of the features of the new look, but is does load a lot faster.
22 April 2014
Ken MacDonald of the BBC interviews Professor Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson.
19 April 2014
Tuesday 20 September - Moon?s Last Quarter 13:39 UT
Wednesday 21 September - UN International Day of Peace
Friday 23 September - Autumnal Equinox (Northern Hemisphere) 09:04 UT
Sunday 25 September - Daylight Saving Time begins (NZ)
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13 April 2014
A growing number of primary schools will have 1000 pupils or more - as extra classes are added to cope with a rapid increase in the birth rate.
The Department for Education says it is providing £4bn and relaxing building regulations so that new schools can occupy a smaller space - secondary schools by 15 per cent and primary schools by 5 per cent.
The rise of supersize primary schools reflects urgent efforts to find places for the surging numbers of pupils - with official figures showing that an extra 455,000 places will be needed in England by 2015.
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8 April 2014
Education is a succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief - George Bernard Shaw (1856?1950)
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7 April 2014
Billions of pounds are being pumped into an 'Education City' of 80 educational, research, science and community development organisations
4 April 2014
Our Gold Membership area has been restructured and has a new log-in page http://mwls.com/gold/
4 April 2014
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