Artist Courtney Love issued a letter to the music industry explaining that until recently, Congress believed that the RIAA spoke for recording artists, and not a trade group that is paid for by record companies to represent their interests. Her letter calls for support over collective bargaining in negotiations with record companies because singers are served by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), and musicians are served by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and there is no single organization to negotiate health care and pension plans

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)

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Bush said $386 million of the new spending would be offset by reductions in previously requested funding and cancellation of unobligated balances, and $50 million would come from funds appropriated in U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans Care, Hurricane Katrina Recovery and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007.

Two men, one of whom worked on the computer help desk at the California State University at Fresno, could be sentenced to 20 years of jail time if convicted of breaking into the university system to change their grades.

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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This issue features Jim Leary's review of the CD set Folksongs of Illinois; Hilary Virtanen's review of The Rowan Tree: the Lifework of Marjory Edgar, Girl Scout Pioneer and Folklorist; details of a unique concert with folk singers Lou & Peter Berryman and Pete Morton, "Language and Songwriting: An Annotated Concert;" an interview with Mary Lou Nemanic, author of One Day for Democracy; an article by Anne Pryor about Here at Home, the Wisconsin Teachers of Local Culture 8-day tour around the state; and an update on CSUMC's archives program by Karen Baumann.

FIOS' delivered Actiontec router Remember that 1394 failed. MoCA (Multimedia over Cable) is a communications path.

It’s a 4-story coral reef exhibit featuring over 150 species. It’s accessible directly from the NEA (with feeding times listed) or via this Earthcam page.

HE WAS SWELL (PUN) Finally, I was at the Irish Arts Center in New York tonight to hear my pal Danny Cassidy talk about and read from his brilliant book on How the Irish Invented Slang—The Secret Language of the Crossroads (CounterPunch). He could and should turn his rap into stage show. He was mesmerizing. inspiring and inspired.

"Student researchers are keenly aware of the importance of effective time management," says John Law, ProQuest director of platform development, who led the study of student research habits. "They understand that their academic success depends upon their ability to find and synthesize a large volume of information, judge its relevance, and incorporate it into their academic experiences.

Registration is open for the 15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race. The Cassini Scientist for a Day contest challenges students to be a NASA scientist studying Saturn.

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

Mobile phones based on Google’s software are not expected to be available until the second half of next year. They will be manufactured by a variety of handset companies, including HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung and be available in the United States through T-Mobile and Sprint.

Now that the price of coal is at a historic low relative to oil, there's no stopping consumers and producers alike from embracing Al Gore's nightmare.

I commend Verizon Wireless for taking a big step in the right direction by acknowledging that there's a specific threshold for "too much," to wit, 5GB in any billing period. In addition, I am glad that Verizon Wireless is now specifying the throttling speed, 200 Kbps, max. It is a Very Good Thing that Verizon Wireless is acknowledging the specific parameters it is actually using!

The path from CISO to executive team may not be a well-tread one, but breaking out of the security box and into the board room can be achieved by thinking about business. Five things that CISOs should do less of:

A new blue-ribbon panel that will develop cybersecurity recommendations for the next president faces a compressed schedule and the challenge of agreeing on a cybersecurity agenda that it wants the next administration to address.

According to the indictment, Escalera worked at Fresno State's computer help desk and used his access to a PeopleSoft management system program to hack the password of a supervisor, then used that to obtain full administrative privileges. Armed with root rights, Escalera was able to access the usernames and passwords of several people authorized to change student grades, including the school's registrar and its academic records coordinator.

The path from CISO to executive team may not be a well-tread one, but breaking out of the security box and into the board room can be achieved by thinking about business.

Apparently the civil servants gained access using passwords and codes belonging to a former GPD employee and a journalist still working at the agency. For over a year, government staff were snooping around in the newsroom computers of GPD and its associated newspapers.

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 Library of Congress's American Folklife Center (AFC) announces the release of its online card catalog.. This tool will enhance access to the most heavily used recordings in the American Folklife Center*s collections -- field recordings made primarily in the 1930s and 40s. It will be available on the Library of Congress web site starting on November 1, 2007. This new resource, entitled Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog, will provide researchers the convenience of accessing AFC *s card catalog without traveling to the Library.

My friend often summarizes for me what he sees, firsthand, every day and every month, year in and year out, in his classroom. He speaks not merely of the sad decline in overall intellectual acumen among students over the years, not merely of the astonishing spread of lazy slackerhood, or the fact that cell phones and iPods and excess TV exposure are, absolutely and without reservation, short-circuiting the minds of the upcoming generations. Of this, he says, there is zero doubt.