Child Heatstroke

Summer heat combined with hectic summer schedules can sometimes lead to child heatstroke and tragic results. This site from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides some tips to ensure that your child doesn't accidentally get forgotten in the back seat of a hot car:

http://www.safercar.gov/parents/InandAroundtheCar/heatstroke.htm

Even the best parents are only human. (Though some "children" are not. Four-footed furry children can get heatstroke too.)

Copyright

Events at the Republican National Convention, being held this week in Cleveland, have made some people curious about copyright, plagiarism, and whether or not musical artists have complete control over who can and cannot use their music. One place to start researching these topics is at the U.S. Copyright Office, which is part of the Library of Congress:

http://copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html

Other places worth checking are the sites of the Copyright Clearance Center, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and BMI. For really complicated questions you can consult a lawyer who specializes in copyright (but I'm not sure even they understand it completely).