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This map links the identity and politics of Mexican-Americans, that is, the Chicano people, with the art, rituals and philosophical practices of pre-Colombian Mexican.

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IP Intellectual property, ACTA sucks Protect the commons and your rights from corporations' corrupt copyright controls standards of practice. International treaties used to hijack your Fair Use rights.

Speakers will include Hall of Fame player Ernie Banks, All-Star pitcher, broadcaster, and manager Larry Dierker, baseball language expert Paul Dickson, and Negro Leagues pitcher Mamie "Peanut" Johnson, among many others.

K-12 Art Education Connecting Brain Research with Effective Teaching. The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model. ArtsEd Digest

GOOGLE BOOK LAWSUIT speakers sort through the controversy, identify common ground, and map out the future of book ditization. Culture

In order to make sure that we have a sweet year to come, we eat sweet things. Not just sweet desserts, our meat dishes are also sweet, and so are the sides. Honey is a prominent part of the menu. So are pomegranates, because they are supposed to have 613 seeds which is the number of commandments the Jews have to follow.

Webology OPEN ACCESS journal is published and available ONLINE now. Library we love librarians! Wikipedia; Popularity; Citation Analysis; Encyclopedia

Peter, Paul and Mary, Woody Guthrie, John Lomax, Folksongs, Folk Songs, folksong repository, sing and record your folksongs, this land is your land

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Jann Klose opens for Renaissance October 11th at the Keswick theater Pennsylvania.

I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and `found’ tools

Harvest Festivals: Chinese Goddess: Autumn Festival Houyi and Chang'e Israeli Harvest Festival Rosh Hashanna, Halloween Israeli Harvest Festival

2009 promises to be a historical and exciting year filled with lots of hope, change and community service.

In fact, there are but two essential reasons we maintain these increased controls on behalf of our community: to protect our participants so that images that violate their privacy are not displayed, and to prevent companies from using Burning Man to sell products.

What Is Burning Man? Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather to create Black Rock City in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. Learn more about this incredible experience, and read our mission statement and the Ten Principles.

As The Times' Dawn C. Chmielewski reported Friday, emissaries of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently approached the owners of this newspaper, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Hearst Corp. about joining a consortium that would charge for online news content.

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Senator Kennedy worked tirelessly to ensure that the highest quality public education was available to all, with special attention to poor children, children of color, children with disabilities, children learning English, homeless children, and young people who could not otherwise afford higher education.

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Each year, the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The prizes recognize superior work on women's traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.

Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc. K-12 School Directory allows you to Home School your child when living in China. Find online K-12 schools. Find Resources for Gifted Students. Baidu and google.com.cn

The thousand-year-old forest is home to the Pumi people, and has shaped the spirit of their unique musical tradition: The forest has been a blessing for the ancient Pumi tribes…but times are changing and now the Pumi people are urged to guard their roots in the forest, as well as their spiritual world. Today, these Pumi music ambassadors are with us here in Beijing. This summer, come and learn about the sounds of the Pumi forest…

Anyone who is censored on the Net either in America or in China needs a VPN.

Good for musicians who want to record the concert. There's 4GB of built-in memory, a Memory Stick Micro slot and a microSD compartment. Sony also tossed in a built-in speaker, a 5-second pre-recording buffer, digital limiter and the ability to record directly to MP3.

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?

Shainghai Film Festival

Footage of lemmings jumping off cliffs was later found out to be faked.

FIDDLE TUNES ILLUMINATED is a 120-page spiral-bound volume containing musical transcriptions for each of the 45 tunes contained on my two most recent CDs, A HENRY REED REUNION and SOUTHERN SUMMITS. The transcriptions – done with the able assistance of my fiddling colleague Liberty Rucker, who is skilled in managing the subtleties of the Finale transcription program – provide musical notation for both the tune and the performance style.

The Inspire USA Foundation is pleased to announce the 2009 Real to Reel National Film Competition for filmmakers who are teens and young adults aged 16 ­ 24. Films will need to address the types of emotionally tough times that teens and young adults face and be no more than 3 minutes in length. Our focus is not as much on the story of the tough time as it is on how someone navigated that tough time. The competition is now open. Films may be submitted until midnight Pacific Time on June 30, 2009. @NetHappenings #K12Newsletters #arts

Fayette County Public Schools • 701 East Main Street • Lexington, Kentucky 40502 • (859) 381-4100 Kindergarteners and first-graders at Dixie, who are learning to speak Chinese, have painted small ceramic tiles with bright colors and cheery rainbows, flowers and landscapes to help make a mural for the Xiang-E Elementary School, which will be rebuilt.

The Dan Crowley Award, offered by the Storytelling Section of the American Folklore Society, is a $200 prize for a graduate or undergraduate student essay dealing with some aspect of storytelling performance in formal or informal settings.

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Narikuravar - Anything I Catch: The Handfishing Story - The Pirogue Maker - Adirondack Minstrel - Why The Cowboy Sings - From Shore to Shore - The Amish: A People of Preservation

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Chinese Valentine's Day Story - is on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month in the Chinese calendar. A love story for this day is about the 7th daughter of Emperor of Heaven and an orphaned cowherd. The Emperor separated them.

China Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University shows off their digitized collection of eastern Asian photographs taken by plant explorers and collectors from the early 20th century. Some of the subcategories include "Boats" and "Farms" in "Landscapes"; "Food" and "Baskets" in "Daily Life"; and "Pagodas" and "Shrines" in "Buildings and Bridges".

the new music business, how can an artist make money.

A YouTube children’s grass mud horse song has become an icon of resistance to censorship in china.

Special Edition to Celebrate Women's History Month in March. K-12 Edu Online Curriculum Module. Changing Girls Attitudes Towards Computers in the Classroom. Websites for girls and Young Women to help them get interested in science and technology. Computer Wonder Women. Venture Capital for Women.

Amazon realized the magnitude of the contractual problem

RIAA Sued for Fraud, Abuse and Legal Sham. The music industry’s latest attack on technology and innovation. RIAA Staff Cuts Reported

Melemine in your milk? No worries, Jews clean house and promote a higher authority in China.

Music The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights on "The Ticketmaster/Live Nation Merger

The purpose of this website is to inform you of a proposed Settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights and those of other Rightsholders of Books and Inserts

China For the Chinese, it is a day to remember and honour one's ancestors at grave sites.

The 34-year-old screenwriter accepted the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay on Sunday. His acceptance speech was censored in fifty different Asian nations by pan-Asian satellite TV network STAR, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

ALA, ARL, ACRL To File Amicus Brief pending Google Book Search settlement

Tom Rush's music is as affirming as his words, as are the other authors of his songs. As with past albums this contains some of the tastiest side musicians and harmony singers one can find. Putting it together is Jim Rooney producer and man with the music. Rooney and Rush pull off a must hear, a must learn from musical experience. Good to watch, good to listen to, learned a lot from the show, a lot more from the recording.

Bail out Parody using a clip with Hitler as the real estate investor.

China Rare architecture from the Qing Dynasty has been found in Pujiang Town

The 2009 NE TIGER Hua Fu collection fashion show The National Beauty in China's national dress. Kesi has a history that goes back more than 4,000 years, Chief designer Zhang Zhifeng Kesi practitioners whose family made clothes for royalty in history, the other, Wang Yuxiang, the master who is above all responsible for the survival of the Kesi skills that were on the brink of extinction. Under the leadership and guidance of these two figures of national repute, the most splendid Kesi elements of the 2009 NE TIGER Hua Fu series were designed and completed. few alive artisans assure the continuity of its work. This skill has an incontestable right to its place on the list of the World's Intangible Cultural Heritage. Its distinctive techniques have earned it such titles as 'carving in silk' and 'the deity of weaving' - its products were long monopolized by the royal families of China's ancient dynasties.

Valentines Day Clip Art, Celebrate St. Modomnoc's Day February 13th, History, Games, Dance, [ECP] K-12 Newsletter

Florida's Official State Song by Stephen Foster, loved a century ago is highly offensive to USA citizens in the 21st century. Maybe it is time to bring back "Florida My Florida" which was the state song in 1913.

H-Folk -- in cooperation with The American Folklore Society, The Folklore Society of Great Britain, The Folklore Studies Association of Canada, the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, the National Folklore Support Centre [India], and the Socit internationale dethnologie et de folklore.

Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. It exists as masterful art pieces and amazingly useful analysis tools.

Mother of Modern Dance - Carl Orff / Gunild Keetman / Traude Schrattenecker / Karen Ellis

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China, Souzhou, silk, birthplace of silk, invented silk, coccoon, mulberry, mm, mummy, No 1 Silk Factory

Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford, according to Hillary Holland, a spokeswoman for the Brandywine River Museum.

FREE: Robert Burns at 250: Poetry, Politics, and Performance is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Advance registration is strongly suggested.

Obama to announce new position, Filter Plan -- And Words from the Smothers Brothers,Obama's CTO,RIAA Ditches MediaSentry,Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post

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Computer Lib/Dream Machines Retrospective

This astonishingly prescient book originally written and published by by Theodor H. Nelson in 1974

in a glorious oversized format is one of the "tap roots" of the soon to be born microcomputer and "cyber" cultures.

The following pages provide a retrospecitve of this work and Ted's current projects and vision. We will present excerpts
from the 1975 (second?) edition, kindly provided to us by Dan Croghan.

January 9 and 10 - Indigenous World Film Festival Presenting films from around the world including: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and more!

s Part of Inaugural Events The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will host “Out of Many: A Multicultural Festival of Music, Dance and Story” from Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009, through Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. The three-day program to commemorate the inauguration of Barack Obama

the documentary is such an engaging combination of history, art, science, and natural history footage that I think anyone who is interested in Caribbean and Atlantic studies, colonial America, and 18th century studies (not to mention birds, medicinal plants, Native Americans, exploration, nature, or the environment) would be excited by it.

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If you want to sell the complete download of your album at a lower price, the best thing to do is to send people to your CD Baby page to buy the download. You set the download price in your account, and since we only take 9%, you'll make far more money than you will from selling through iTunes.

Indie Artist - get your music heard on the radio.

Music Copyright Laws Information from the Educational CyberPlayGround. Music Contracts, Music Deals, Copyright Law, Music Downloads How to legally sell downloads of cover songs. Works for Hire, Agencies , Music Rights , License

Beyond swords (a story in themselves), Longquan offers even more pleasure, especially for lovers of Chinese porcelain.

Majel Barrett, widow of Gene Roddenberry and the voice of the Enterprise's computers, passed away today at 76.

China Folklore Since 1998, legislation work in the field of folklore protection has entered a new phase. The Committee on Education, Science, Culture and Public Health of the National People’s Congress has conducted a widespread and in-depth survey across the country, and the Ministry of Culture has also included in its agenda the formulation of the Law on the Protection of National Folklore.

Shanghai China - Carlton J. Smith Soul Brothers can be found at the Marriott in Hongqiao Champions Barr M - S has a New CD The SkinnyBone Tree.

China - dec 21 Ghost Festival -Winter Solstice Folk Customs. People visit ancestors' graves on the Winter Solstice festival this year,

China - CHINESE film makers are divided into six "generations," dating from 1905,

parent to the Federal Writers' Project, Civilian Conservation Corps

The Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage will begin interviewing in January for the a number of anticipated temporary salaried positions with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to be held in June 24-28 and July 1-5, 2009.

Congregations and groups interested in contributing to this once-in-a-lifetime documentary project are asked to record sermons and orations delivered during Inauguration Week 2009 and donate them to the Library of Congress. The donated recordings will be preserved at the AFC in order to enhance the nation’s historical record and preserve the voices of religious leaders other orators for researchers and scholars of the future. After being processed by archivists, the collection will be made available to scholars, students and the general public.

China While Hangzhou's history can be traced back more than 50,000 years to the Upper Paleolithic Period, "modern day" Hangzhou began around 2200 BC.

Largely unstudied until now, the religious festivals that attracted Chinese people from all walks of life provide the most instructive examples of the interaction between Chinese forms of social life and the Indian tradition of Buddhism. One of the most important of such annual celebrations is the Ghost Festival happening today the first day of winter in which laypeople presented offerings to Buddhist monks to gain salvation for their ancestors.

Vi Hilbert, considered by many to be the cultural leader of the Native American Northwest, died this morning. In 1994 Vi was the first Washington Native American recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.

A 1993 painting of Mao Zedong by China's most-expensive contemporary artist Zeng Fanzhi may fetch about HK$30 million ($3.9 million) at a Hong Kong art sale next month, according to Christie's International.

Xiantandi - where you find the night club Brown Sugar.

K-12 Holiday Multicultural Resources - AMERICA'S FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD, Krampus - Origin of Santa Claus, The First Christmas Tree

Released on Dec. 11, “Preschool Curriculum: What’s in It for Children and Teachers” synthesizes the best research on how young children learn in those academic domains and discusses the implications for improving preschool education. Healthy children demand jump rope Physical Fitness, a Healthy Diet, Brain Based Learning and Brain Development Resources.

Live from the BBC: UK Studies on Microform and Folklore

Ask about your Jury Rights. Pro Bono work for artists For artists, arts and cultural organizations, entertainment start-ups and the attorneys who represent them, WALA offers workshops to help navigate the complex convergence of arts and law. A volunteer faculty of some of the most accomplished attorneys in arts, entertainment and media law provide instruction at regularly scheduled courses each year.

We were once People of the Book but now we are becoming People of Screen. But to complete this transformation in full we need a set of tools which will allow us to manipulate, create, and process moving images with the same ease we have for words.

While these "gate-barring songs" are reserved mainly for tourists and official guests, the Dong song-style is a form of communication every child learns from the age of 5. "And they sing on key, on rhythm, perfectly a capella, in tune with one another," Tan says.

Bob Dylan. "The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta," Dyland said in a 1978 interview with Playboy magazine.

Dennis Marks sets out to discover what has become of Yiddish, a language which at its height is estimated to have been spoken by more than ten million people.

American Jewish leaders got the card which requested "the pleasure of your company at a Hanukkah reception," and bore an image of a Clydesdale horse drawn cart, carrying the White House Christmas tree, with a Christmas wreath-adorned White House in the background. Captain Smartypants sings Dreidel the Kosher Cowboys

Twenty years after its first publication, H. David Brumble III offers a revised American Indian Autobiography. He does this in light of two criticisms. First, critics have challenged his assertion that "it is possible to separate Indian from editor/amanuensis" in early preliterate as-told-to autobiographies (vi). Second, Brumble was accused of not giving enough credence to the preferences of American Indians in regards to the material they chose to present.

Writing a book subtitled "Southern Folk Culture" is an ambitious undertaking. Fortunately, John Burrison recognized the wide scope of the topic and narrowed his focus to a study of specific folk traditions found throughout the South in general by providing a specific focus on his own research on Georgia's traditional culture. Burrison's book is an interesting presentation of variations on the theme that folklife is a vibrant resource that profoundly shapes and expresses southern culture. Roots of a Region is not an exhaustive treatment of these topics. It is an accessible introduction to the study of southern folklore, written in an accessible style that presents academic research to readers with a non-specialized interest in folk culture.

Folk Tales from a Persian Tribe: Forty-Five Tales from Sisakht in Luri and English.

Educational Technology Curriculum Scope & Sequence: Video Curriculum Grades K-8

Sun Microsystems, Inc., is teaming up with Carnegie Mellon University to support the continuing development of Alice, the university’s innovative, Java technology-based computer programming environment that teaches students to program Java software while having fun creating 3D animations, stories and video games.

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My teacher Armand Mednick told us the real story behind The Secret Seder which is about a young boy who would grow up to become a beloved art teacher written and by Doreen Rappaport a Caldecott book award winner.

New Mailing List: H-Folk has been created to foster better international communication among folklorists and to increase scholarly dialogue in the field.

Lighting design is a complex and fundamental task in computer cinematography, involving adjustment of light parameters to define final scene appearance.

Developed out of a class on The kids from the Ron Clark Academy performing live "You Can Vote However You Like," a parody to TI's "Whatever You Like". Atlanta Georgia Ron Clark Academy.

Leonard Bernstein Collection - Creating the United States - U.S. Election and Voting Resources - Critical Foundations for Algebra - Einstein's Big Idea - Enduring Resources for Earth Sciences Education - Paleontology Portal - Teaching Boxes - How to Organize Your Teaching

Spielberg Jewish Film Archive has more than 10,000 film titles. Film: The Spielberg Archive has the world's largest collection of Jewish documentary films, spanning most of the years in which the motion picture medium has existed.

Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education journal's can be seen online. For librarians and teachers who give instruction in media literacy.

Where We’re Going! Queen Latifah is the vocalist getting ready for 4 Nov 2008 - President candidate Barack Obama 4 Hip-Hop Rap 2008 President Election

Copyfight Sarah Palin, Davy Crockett, Woody Guthrie, This Land is Your Land. Story Telling, The Oral Tradition, Ballads, Folkmusic, and Folktales used in the classroom.

BUSH SIGNS RIAA-BACKED INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY LAW President George Bush (R) on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position. Report on DMCA Law's Unintended Consequences. The Ten-Year Legacy of Harm to Fair Use, Free Speech.

Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix

This chart below, expertly crafted by George Ou at ZDNet provides a solid starting point for comparison, with average bitrates of most digital video available.

Deadline Jan. 16, 2009 The Texas Media Awards promote excellence in amateur media production and its importance in life-long learning. Since 1988, it has been an annual, statewide event open to school-aged Texas residents. Qualified, impartial volunteers judge entries on criteria for each individual contest division. Students with winning entries receive awards at the Texas Media Awards Program during the Texas Library Association Annual Conference.

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He had three ships and left from Spain; He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.

Film on Historic Meeting of Indigenous Grandmothers to Receive Premiere Screening on Oct. 10

Teacher Planbook: Integrating Folk Music, Folklore and Traditional Culture Instruction Into K-12 Education

Category: Education Tags: YouTube anthropology presentation ethnography digital ksudigg Music Copyright Laws, mashup, web 2.0 world Larry Lessig

Kudos to the NJEA Review for this fabulous techie article that we can all understand. The Toolbox Featured in the January, 2008 issue of the NJEA REVIEW Web widgets increase student engagement by Patricia Bruder, EIRC

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The briefing will highlight how the traditional health policy world has embraced blogging and will feature a keynote address by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, the first cabinet officer to author an official blog, followed by a moderated discussion with a variety of health policy bloggers and a media analyst. Questions to be explored with the panelists include: Why do individuals and organizations blog? How does blogging impact the broader work of an organization? Are there different standards used when blogging versus other writing? Have blogs impacted the news business significantly? What kind of influence are blogs having on political and policy debates?

Screw the DMCA: The chorus of voices criticizing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) has just gotten a bit louder with the addition of a new and authoritative voice: The Library of Congress.

Creole Dialect Speakers and Creole Culture. Learn about stigmatized varieties and much more. Administrators, Educators, Reporters, and the Public are invited to learn about the following topics from Academic Experts. Creole, Pidgin, Patois, Dialect AAVE, African American Venacular English, Ebonics Irish American Vernacular English.

EVERYONE on the East Coast can come to the Pennsylvania Convention Center: 1000's of $$$ Resources that empower you to afford any college, choose the right school, get accepted, succeed on campus, and transform your life along the way. FREE!

Letters, prose, poems, drawings mailed by soldiers and other servicemen and women during world war two.

hese Trends represent general directions regarding computing in libraries — short-term future directions where, from my perspective, things are or could be going.

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We present new forensic tools that are capable of detecting traces of tampering in digital images without the use of watermarks or specialized hardware.

It will be a free, non-profit, K-12 educational video contest, currently under planning and development. Imagine tens of thousands of excellent short videos explaining nearly every topic taught in U.S. public schools. WatchKnow will be a free (open content), non-profit beta project, to launch probably this fall, to see whether we can create that. We will set the topics and invite teachers—and everyone—to submit videos. Videos will be rated, and, at a certain point, we'll select a winner for each topic. We'll pay the winner(s) within each topic small prize(s),

On April 30, 2001, comedian Judy Gold interviewed Grammy Award-winning comic legend George Carlin, who passed away yesterday, at Congregation Rodeph Sholom as part of the 92nd Street Y's Funny People Series. You can listen to the whole program above for many of Carlin's stories about his life and comedy career, including an extended explanation of the "Seven Dirty Words."

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Georgia State University fired back this week at its accusers, three academic publishers that say the institution invites students to illegally download and print readings from thousands of works. The university asserts that its online distribution of course material is permitted under copyright law's fair-use exemption."

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The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act, S.2913,

Bomba is an Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance form that dates back to the 17th century

"hoochie-coochie" dance - Learn where the Snake Charmer Song came from. nursery rhymes, oral tradition, dr. knickerbocker number 9, playground rhymes, kiddy games, jumprope chants.

May 18, 2008 at William Grant Still Arts Center Queen Calafia: Ruler of California starring Ursaline Bryant. The idea of the name of California being derived from a saga of black women warriots was not taken seriously in historical circles.

Revision3's CEO Jim Louderback explained the SYN flood attack and MediaDefender's role in his blog.

Grants and Funding Information: Back to school grants. Grants for Education on Forest Stewardship. Grants for the welfare of American children.Award for Design and Educational Excellence in Schools.

This new Orphan Works legislation proposes a change in U.S. copyright that would (indirectly) require artists, illustrators, photographers, and any creative individual to actively maintain and defend their copyright by registering each and every work with privatized registrars. Failure to do so would leave everything you've ever created as an artist up for grabs by anyone who wanted to copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, or flat out steal your work since the act defines an "orphan work" as any work where the author is unidentifiable or unlocatable, and applies to both published and unpublished works, U.S. and foreign, regardless of age.

Proposed secret copyright deal takes aim at iPods, providers. I have a GREAT idea: Why don't we let the RIAA write our copyright laws? The Canadian government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make information on iPods, laptops and other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.

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Meet the Funk Brothers, Karen Ellis, Alan Slutsky, Carla Benson, Joe Messina, and read their personal messages to you. National Children's Folksong Repository - find Producer Alan Slutsky, Lead vocalist Carla Benson and Joe Messina.

www.firstnationsfilms.com Films For, By and About Native People For Classroom or Group 604-990-9337 FIRST NATIONS FILMS are now available to the public on important subjects from Spirituality to Land Claims to Traditional Music to Politics. These award-winning pro- fessional broadcast TV programs are some of the best in North America! Very suit- able for groups, libraries, classroom or individual.

Regional clothing from our locale includes "bling bling, ice ice, grills" and "hoochie hoops." Fashion - Dress Code - K-12 - Pull Your Pants Up Video by by the Do Right Rapper Ethan (Six 8) Birch.

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The Associated Audio Archivists Committee (AAA) of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) announces the launch the AAA Message Board.

Why the Orphan Works Act is Uncle Sam's Thieves' Charter. Two-tier nature of US copyright law.

Prom and Table Manners. Learn how to cut meat using the Continental style etiquette in this free online video lesson on table manners and dinner etiquette. How to Make a Good Impression at a Dinner Party: Table Manners & Etiquette Tips : Using the Right Silverware: Table Manners & Dining Etiquette Tips.

The Visual Arts Department at the American School of Bombay has been working on an internal project that outlines the integration of 21st century skills in our visual arts curriculum.

Neil Young, Java and Blu-ray DVD archive, Joel Bernstein

Folklorist Elaine Eff has been on a crusade for three decades to preserve the kitschy art -- landscapes painted on rowhouse window screens. The screens are for decoration, and privacy, too: The paintings allow residents to see out and prevent passersby from seeing in.

Music, Folkmusic, Iraq secular music

Tom Dula was hanged 140 years ago. The murder that sold 10,000 guitars. His guilt may be a matter of debate, but his legend -- and the song that cemented it -- are indisputable.

This is Sidney at his best. Great writing by William Rose. Classic scene. "Let me tell you something, I owe you nothing! because you brought me into this world - You Owe ME speech!! You and your whole lousy generation . . .

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No limits. That's the Net mantra. Enable free transferability. Just hope that you reach a ton of people, just hope that your project lives on.

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Miss Ellis is advising Karen how to look more glamorous.

Learn How to Make Ginger Beer

National Children's Folksong Repository Video Literacy, Music, Play, Reading, Games, Health, Fun, Alan Slutsky, Carla Benson, Alan Lomax, Funk Brothers

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Do you just want science info or do you want both K-12 Newsletter? Find the RSS feed that delivers the topic you want.

Popular Information found on the Educational CyberPlayGround on music, science, law, brain development, child development, teacher resources, evolution, presidents, plagiarism, reading, school uniforms, copyright, Karen Ellis, babies, intelligence, school uniforms, san diego quick assessment.

SlySoft has long sold a product called AnyDVD which is a utility that disables a DVD

How to use video to make money on your blog.

Open Content Alliance a massive amount of freely available content -- over 47,000 live concerts! Over 114,000 movies! Over 230,000 audio recordings! And over 350,000 texts.

We need a show of force. BRING YOUR INSTRUMENTS. We want a visual display of artists everywhere in the Capitol demonstrating that the Performance Rights Act is important to musicians. Big corporate radio is the only medium that refuses to pay performers royalties for their hard work. You do the work, you should be fairly paid. Bring your instruments. National Association of Broadcasters

Karen Ellis - Educational CyberPlayGround involved with this grammy winning documentary. Standing in the Shadows of Motown WebQuest - Find All the Funk Brothers - Carla Benson and Al Slutsky.

The first known recording of Ginsberg reading the poem was thought to be March 18, 1956, at a notorious performance in Berkeley, Calif. Until now. Also read and hear Howl 2 Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Howl, Reed College, Cordley Coit

An anti-indigenous propagand film that claims there are no traditional Indigenous cultures left in the world. Total Crap!

Lore's Labor's Lost: Archie Green's Restoration of Worlds of Labor. Tin Men. By Archie Green. 2006. Millwrights in Northern California 1901-2002. 2003. By Archie Green. Harry Lundeberg's Stetson & Other Nautical Treasures. 2006. By Archie Green. The Big Red Songbook. 2007. Edited by Archie Green, David Roediger,Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism.

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Designed to look just like Wikipedia's layout, albeit with a slogan that reads, "a wiki of dicks," Dickipedia gives you the type of insight you won't find on the former site. Big names that get the dick treatment include Lance Armstrong, Kanye West, and even Santa Claus.

egister Now for the 2008 Annual Convention in Philadelphia

HISTORY OF VALENTINE'S DAY, free clip art.

The beginning of Spring. Irish Goddess "Brigit's Day" Imbolc "in the belly" (of the mother) when plants start to grow. Kildare Ireland, priestess, druids, groundhog, candlemas, feb. 2, festival of lights.

ED Review (02/01/08)

we need to establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative consensus about what's fair and what isn't at the small-scale, hand-to-hand end of copying, display, performance and adaptation.

Follow the Drinking Gourd - This Song is not 'Authentic' It is not "traditional." The signature line in the chorus, "for the old man is awaitin' for to carry you to freedom," could not possibly have been sung by escaping slaves, because it was written by Lee Hays eighty years after the end of the Civil War!

who has to join bmi or ascap? when does a business need to pay bmi or ascap? HOW ONE INDEPENDENT MUSICIAN DEFEATED BMI

FAIR USE - USE IT OR LOSE IT - Media Literacy High School curriculum

MPAA has told education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.

The list is intended to serve as a forum in which individuals of any and all interests can discuss Any and All issues relating to Online Social Networks, most notably their current and potential use by libraries/librarians and/or their current/potential use within institutions of higher learning.

Make it so cheap it's not worth it to steal. Build a business that scales. So you can make money in the future.

On C-span 27th Annual American Book Awards Ceremony - Daniel Cassidy January 26, at 7:00 PM Sunday, January 27, at 1:00 AM Monday, January 28, at 6:00 AM

This site is dedicated to the Preservation of the Legacy handed down to us by our forefathers! The Library is working to preserve this historic heritage whether in written, photographic, printed or hand-written form.

You can't take a picture of the sistine chapel cause you are stealing art! Disgusting.

Sight See: Mummers Parade, Tradition and History in Philadelphia, PA. alive and well can still be seen every January 1ST. Learn more about the European-American masking traditions and community morality.

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amateur media production and its importance in life-long learning. Since 1988, it has been an annual, statewide event open to school-aged Texas residents.

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The In the Spirit Art show is open to all members of North American Indian tribes in the U.S. and Canada and to Native Hawaiian artists. Final works will be juried in for exhibition and then for awards.

sight see 2 cool new places on the net.

Sigmund Lubin pirated films and claimed them as his own. The program discusses Lubin's piracy and how it changed the world of film. He was brought into court by Thomas Edison and it is determined whether his piracy is considered legal or not.

Jerry Ricks Obit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,and began playing guitar in Philadelphia venues in the late 1950's. He had lessons from the legendary Lonnie Johnson. Research Education, State Department, Research Smithsonian Institute Folklife Division. Special Instructor for the University of Colorado, Folklore Division to teach Traditional American Guitar Styles of the Southern United States.

Community radio supporters have fought for years to not just stop media consolidation, but to roll it back -- bringing new voices to cities and towns, large and small. Don't miss your chance to stand up for diverse and accountable media in the United States! Take a stand now. You can file a comment at the FCC here: http://tinyurl.com/2yswbr Technology, Internet, K-12 Newsletters, NetHappenings, Network Newsletters, Arts, Music

Vista patch 3 secrutiy flaws, hacking competition, quarter million blood donors data stolen, Heritage Preservation Invitation, NeoAmericanist, an online multi-disciplinary journal ,

Northwest Folklife is seeking film and video submissions for "City Folk," a film series celebrating the creativity and adaptability of urban communities.

The West Virginia stringband, Gandydancer, performs spirited old-time mountain music on a variety of stringed instruments.

Fragmented Culture, Using music to motivate and engage students. Van Zandt - Teach History Through Music.

This is a collection of hand (literally) painted animals by Guido Daniele.


He was born in Soverato, Italy & now lives and works in Milan. Since 1964 until 1968 he attended Brera artistic High School and he graduated from Brera School of Arts (major in sculpturing) in 1972.

In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones, using the body painting technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions.

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Highlights of the symposium are featured in an executive summary by Editor Jane L. Polin and through panel excerpts.

With the help of KABOOM!, a national non-profit devoted to creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America, we are building a new playground at Stallings, Saturday, January 19, 2008!

Find all the job openings in D.C.and We all know what Home Schooled means but what is "Unschooling"?

Preservation of digital media. This world is going to loose a lot work.

IT'S ALL ABOUT INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE! Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937) is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words hypermedia, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and teledildonics. The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people. His motto is: A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. Ted Nelson promotes four maxims: "most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong". (see Chapter II, 3rd paragraph, 3rd and 4th sentences, of: Wolf, G. "The Curse of Xanadu" [1]).

NYU prof Jay Rosen, has a new project underway -- and they need beat reporters to help.

Here are some of the sources of inspiration behind Giselle. (Warning: Minor spoilers ahead.)

2 day symposium at Princeton.

Get the Widget for your website - Education, News, Law, Security, Literacy, K - 12, Internet, NetHappenings, Technology, Music, Science, Literacy, Arts,Books,

Bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the Intergovernmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders.On November 15, the non-partisan National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) released results of the 2007 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA), which provides comparable data on fourth- and eighth-grade reading and mathematics achievement in 11 of the nation's urban school districts.

Educational CyberPlayGround - Music Culture - Internet Technology - Copyright vs. Copyleft, The Creative Commons Larry Lessig- How Creativity is being strangled by the law 3 stories - vocal chords of the millions will be lost. Music Deals, Music Contracts, Copyright Law, Music Downloads, Works for Hire, Agencies , Music Rights , License, Open Audio License, Open Source.

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2007 American Book Award Winner and Author Dan Cassidy of How the Irish Invented Slang will be meeting Spike Slattery's grandson. Spike was the guy who first used the word jazz in front of Scoop Gleeson at a reading in Sonoma, CA where the old jazz and gin-i-ker came back to life.

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What is PhilaPlace? An online resource chronicling the history, culture, and architecture of two of Philadelphia’s oldest immigrant and African American neighborhoods: South Philadelphia and Northern Liberties/Kensington. PhilaPlace MP3 file posted at WHYY's 6th SQ.

From IATSE Local 470, the local section of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) labor union in Wisconsin.

November is National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Find: Thanksgiving, Native American Dance, Music, Language, The debate about mascots, The Oneida hymn tradition, Buffy Saint-Marie, Bureau of Archives and History Pennsylvania State Archives. First Nation Rights Activists, Law, Alaska People, Black First Nation People, Tainos, Carib First Nation People who lived in the U.S.Caribbean Islands, HAWAIIANS The first settlers of Hawai'i.

Historical Roots - In 16th-century Germany, cartoons in the form of broadsheets or broadsides (single cartoons printed on large pieces of paper) began to be posted in public places with the intent of swaying people's beliefs. It's a tentative move onto the Internet: Comics can only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded, and new issues will only go online at least six months after they first appear in print. Find out more about Cartoon Art.

The secret motivation that makes students read. Debates about improving student performance rarely take into consideration an important perspective of students, that is, how much they value an education and whether they see education as a path to success. Children who are emotionally involved by having fun and enjoying the activity. Test subjects are able to remember twice as many emotional words and pictures as neutral ones.

Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix The best-known "mashups" are astute combinations of artistic product -- vocals from a hip-hop album laid over Beatles tracks, for example, or a Sergio Leone film set to a new score. But as Brian Lamb points out in Educause Review, the world of mashups now incorporates not just art, but also online applications and other forms of digital media. Mr. Lamb, the manager of emerging technology and digital content at the University of British Columbia, makes a strong case that professors ought to take mashups seriously. That doesn't mean every educator should painstakingly edit Disney films into a treatise on copyright, but it does mean that professors should learn about "data mashups" and strive to make course content open and remixable. "We might ask if the content we presently lock down could be made public with a license specifying reasonable terms for reuse," Mr. Lamb writes. "When choosing a content management system, we might consider how well it supports RSS syndication."

The Ethnographic Thesaurus is a hierarchical listing of subject terms from folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and related fields. The Thesaurus will improve access to cultural materials and scholarship by affording researchers, archivists, indexers, librarians, and others a common language for description.

Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress Two first place World Hoop Dance Champions have joined together to model and dance a vision of male and female balance, harmony and respect as traditionally practiced by their ancestors. Dallas Chief Eagle, Rosebud Sioux tribal member, and Jasmine Pickner of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe are both world-traveled hoop dancers. They share with audiences an ancient hoop dance story outlining sacred hoop wisdom.

Library of Congress Symposium, March 13 & 14 National Archives & Records Administration Film Festival, March 15 On March 13 and 14, 2008, leading scholars from throughout the United States will join experts from the Library of Congress in a free public symposium produced by the Library’s American Folklife Center. The event will highlight new research and recent discoveries inspired by the Library’s unparalleled collections of documentary materials generated by the groundbreaking cultural programs of the New Deal.

"The Defense Department is being awarded the Chairman's Award by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, for their innovative program to teach deploying military personnel about cultural preservation. . . . The DoD program, entitled 'In Theater Heritage Training for Deploying Personnel' educates troops about the importance of heritage assets, and methods of protecting them."

Martha's Chicken Pot Pie and picture of the Apple Pie.

Background and news about the 2007 negotiation for a new contract for television and movie writers and the strike arising from the negotiations.

The Greenwood Library of American Folktales. 4 vols. Edited by Thomas A. Green. 2006. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. 1592 pages. ISBN: 0-313-33772-1 (hard cover). This story of the trickster trying to imitate another occurs in other variants in the Southwest (See, for example, the Jicarilla Apache, "Tales of Fox: Fox and Kingfisher," p. 116). As in the tale types designated by folklorist Stith Thompson as animal tales, "The Coyote and the Woodpecker" offers a moral lesson. The philosophy of acceptance and noncompetitiveness is consistent with general Pueblo worldview and morality. (3:109)

Meet my friends The Funk Brothers ~ Karen Ellis MORE #1 HITS THAN The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones and Elvis Combined HOW ALLAN SLUTSKY GET THE IDEA FOR THE MOVIE? This film is based on a book of the same title by Mr. Allan Slutsky that won the 1989 Rolling Stone/BMI Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Mr. Slutsky a New Jersey-based musician, author, and movie producer who worked for 14 years in putting together the movie, told me that after a theatrical run, the film will go to cable and then be released on tape and DVD. The documentary movie has already played in Los Angeles for a week in December 2001 in order to qualify for next year's Academy Awards, but that its official world premiere will be in Detroit in January or February of 2002. Produced by Paul Elliott and David Scott, Executive Producers Allan Slutsky, Paul Justman, Sandy Passman and Karen Ellis Founder and CEO of the Educational CyberPlayGround, Honorary Funk Sister

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We invite individual, commercial, nonprofit, government, and all other Internet users and stakeholders (including ISPs) to participate in the Network Neutrality Squad.

The Doig River First Nation, an Aboriginal Dane-zaa group from northeastern B.C., has officially launched their virtual exhibit Dane Wajich Dane-zaa Stories & Songs: Dreamers and the Land. The exhibit showcases Doig River First Nation oral traditions and teaches about Dane-zaa history and culture through an exciting mix of video and sound files, photographs, and text. This online exhibit was developed in partnership with the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) at virtualmuseum.ca, an initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The exhibit represents the work of many people over several years.

The framers of the US Constitution intended to "promote the progress of science and useful arts" by granting creative people temporary monopolies. But I feel that of greater benefit to society than copyright is that computers and the Internet enable digital media formats to be copied completely faithfully anywhere on Earth, and with near-zero cost.

True Colors of the "Mona Lisa" Revealed | IRS to Launch New National Research Program Study in October [2007]| general advice on the care and conservation of a range of different materials or objects | Nobel Prize Winners' Research Freely Available

Welcome to the new way of teaching kids music. As music classes are squeezed out of many schools in order to permit more time on math and reading, teachers are looking for new ways to integrate music into classrooms.

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The Killer Whale is on the Eagle side and Salmon is the Raven side, so they can get married.

Norman Jackson - Tlingit Carver Ketchikan Alaska is of the Tongass Tlingit of southeast Alaska and was born in Ketchikan, Alaska. His lineage is from his mother who is of the Tongass Tlingit Kaats Hit Bear House of southeast Alaska. His father is Kaagwaantaan Tlingit of Klukwan, Alaska.

I took this picture ~ Karen Ellis

The Killer Whale is on the Eagle side and Salmon is the Raven side, so they can get married.

Norman Jackson - Tlingit Carver Ketchikan Alaska is of the Tongass Tlingit of southeast Alaska and was born in Ketchikan, Alaska. His lineage is from his mother who is of the Tongass Tlingit Kaats Hit Bear House of southeast Alaska. His father is Kaagwaantaan Tlingit of Klukwan, Alaska.

Applications are accepted in two funding areas: Applications for grants in the following areas: VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM Exhibitions and Installations/Publications and Critical Writing EXPRESSIVE ARTS PROGRAM Expressive and Performing Arts

e-book acceptance his surprisingly positive experience using his Blackberry as an e-book reader. A book is, foremost, the arrangement of words in sequence, and they are, to borrow a buzz-phrase from the digital folk, platform agnostic.

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The epic battle of Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert will now be heard _ and sung _ in Chinese.

Cameron Mackintosh will co-present Chinese-language versions of classic Broadway and West End musicals such as 'Les Miserables' and 'The Phantom of the Opera' in China beginning next year, the British producer announced Monday in Beijing.

The productions are part of an agreement with the Chinese performing arts agency China Arts and Entertainment Group, which is affiliated with China's Ministry of Culture. Read more