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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

the periodic table song, child development chart, music lesson plans, music educational websites, brain and music research, reading level assessment, public school dress code policy

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.

25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives

china - illiteracy rates - First Nation People

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.

Ramblin Jack Elliott cowboy git along little doggie irish traveller whoopie ti yi yo folksong

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

jazz, swing, gypsy jazz, guitar, jazz guitar, sinti gypsy roots, rand nephew Lulo Reinhardt omposer and player of gypsy jazz who carries the guitar gene, also find Doug Martin composer gypsy jazz guitar player.

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

Another Era  Whole Earth Catalog June 1971  Electronic Edition 

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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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