California first lady Maria Shriver is among 32 celebrities and high-profile patients that had their confidential records breached at UCLA Medical Center. That worker was fired in May 2007 after UCLA learned of the widespread breaches. The secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, Kim Belshe, said Sunday that her agency is "very concerned about what appears to be a pattern of repeated violations." The state will be taking action against UCLA, she said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_8836841

Johns Hopkins officials restores full access to a reproductive health Web site after learning that searches containing the word "abortion" were being intentionally restricted and that thousands of studies were being hidden from easy view. A California research librarian prompted Johns Hopkins officials to change the site dealing with population issues and funded by the U.S. government, so that the word "abortion" was restored as an option in the site's search engine.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.popline05apr05,0,6737683.story

On April 4, we heard the Toledo Symphony start its concert with Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene. The conductor then turned to the audience and said: “You only love what you know—and by your applause, you don’t know that—so we’ll play it again.”
http://www.rhapsody.com/arnoldschoenberg
Hear music at above link.

The NBC chimes comprise a broken major chord (SO going up to MI going down to DO). In some public places, a broken chord is used to get the attention of the people using DO up to MI up to SO.
Examples of broken major chords in familiar tunes:
SO down to MI down to DO “Oh say” (can you see). By the way, the original Star Spangled Banner began SO down to DO, and now has an extra note between.
DO up to MI up to SO “Morning has” (broken like the first morning).
Every note in the song is part of one major broken chord in Taps.
http://www.usmemorialday.org/taps.html

Book or scroll? IT professional helps a user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmTTzCAALc

The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC, area, regional archives, and presidential libraries.
ARC contains many descriptions of records of interest to genealogists and family historians, including:
applications for enrollment in Native American tribes
court records
fugitive slave cases
land records
military personnel records
naturalization records

Because of a ruling in Tafas v. Dudas, patent attorneys are now free to file long, complicated patent applications. A court shot down a PTO rule that attempted to streamline applications by limiting the number of claims to 25.
WSJ Law Blog April 4, 2008

On April 7, 1927 an audience in New York City saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television. At the time, there were several competing versions of television, and this version was a mechanical process that used a metal disc, punched with holes in a spiral pattern, which transformed light into electrical impulses. It had been invented in Europe, and it was called "Radio Vision." "Radio Vision" never really caught on. Instead, the TV as we know today was an entirely different technology, invented by a high school student in rural Utah named Philo Farnsworth.
The Writer’s Almanac

blimey (BLY-mee) interjection
An expression of surprise, dismay, etc.
[Contraction of "blind me" or "blame me", from "God blind/blame me"; sometimes heard in the form gorblimey or corblimey.]
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