Google’s legal battle to create a digital library of the world’s books hit another snag April 7 when photographers and illustrators filed suit claiming the Mountain View, California, search giant was unlawfully scanning and posting their works online without permission or payment. The suit brought by the American Society of Media Photographers and others claims Google should compensate them because the company is violating their copyrights (.pdf). Photographers and illustrators largely have been shut out from participating in a pending $125 million court settlement between Google and writers over the same issue. Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/googlebooks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29#ixzz0kbMblnV8

There have been 47 Vice Presidents of the United States from John Adams to Joe Biden. Originally, the Vice President was the person who received the second most votes for President in the Electoral College. However, in the election of 1800 a tie in the electoral college between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr led to the selection of the President by the House of Representatives. To prevent such an event from happening again, the Twelfth Amendment was added to the Constitution, creating the current system where electors cast a separate ballot for the Vice Presidency. See list at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vice_Presidents_of_the_United_States

Q: How/why does the word "sanction" have two opposite meanings?
1 . to approve of, allow AND
2. to require that someone/something stop a particular activity
A: Autoantonyms
It's called an "autoantonym". There are a number of examples, including "cleave", meaning both "stuck to" and "separate". It often occurs when a word starts meaning something neutral but is later applied in two opposite contexts.

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Auto-antonym has Greek roots meaning a word that is the opposite of itself. They have variously been called contranyms, contronyms, antilogies, Janus words (after the two-faced Greek mythical figure, from which "January" also derives), and enantiodromes. See a list of many of these words at:
http://www.fun-with-words.com/nym_autoantonyms.html

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is making headlines by switching the font it uses in its emails. The school says that printing out documents in Century Gothic rather than its old font, Arial, uses 30% less ink. The move is part of the school's five-year plan to go green--and save money. Printer ink costs about $10,000 per gallon. But there's just one problem: Who prints emails from colleges? It's possible that if everyone in America were to start using Century Gothic instead of Arial for all correspondence that is printed, meaningful savings could be achieved. And perhaps this is a start to that. News websites could start by making all print versions of stories appear in a green-friendly font, and readers would appreciate the savings in ink. See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/aXm8FG Compare the 12-point Times New Roman in the preceding paragraph to the sentence within beginning "It's possible . . . " which is in 10-point Century Gothic.

Celebrate National Library Week April 11-17, 2010
Libraries are the heart of their communities. National Library Week 2010 (April 11-17) will be celebrated with the theme, "Communities thrive @ your library."

Blogs for librarians and library lovers
http://willmanley.com/
http://www.librarian.net/
http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/
Ten librarian blogs to read in 2010
http://www.lisnews.org/10_librarian_blogs_read_2010

desert (DEH-zurt) noun arid land with meager rainfall
In 1953, Peveril Meigs divided desert regions on Earth into three categories according to the amount of precipitation they received. In this now widely accepted system, extremely arid lands have at least 12 consecutive months without rainfall, arid lands have less than 250 millimeters of annual rainfall, and semiarid lands have a mean annual precipitation of between 250 and 500 millimeters. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/what/
desert (dee-ZURT) verb withdraw from or abandon
desert (dee-ZURT) noun reward that is deserved for something done--either good or bad example: getting your just deserts