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

November 30 Annual event "to remind people to protect their computers and information." Features a list of over 50 suggestions. Headlines: Insecure Servers, Security Breach Costs Jump 30%, Global hackers threaten net security in cyber warfare aimed at top targets, Security risks of temp workers being ignored, Hacker steals non-profits' data from marketing firm, Security central to Parliament WiFi, U.S.-China company merger deemed 'threat', FBI Cracks Down (Again) on Zombie Computer Armies, Russia Okays Blackberry Use, Cyberwarfare Now 'Business as Usual', Electrical supe charged with damaging California canal system

Network Newsletter: USING STORAGE ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGIES TO PROTECT END USER DEVICES

This week: 55 advisories

Published out of England.

Scout Report Network Tools

Science - Nasa Announces Teacher Challenge - Space Weather News Solar Wind Dries Venus. Chandra Discovers a Cosmic Cannonball. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making freely available to high-school students and teachers a collection of material in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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"?

Top 10 Debuts, Top 25 Vinyl for last week, Top 200 for Week Ending 11-25-07

Learn about Naomi Klein. Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman allows Naomi Klein to ask former Federal Reserve Chairman about his statement that the occupation in Iraq is all about the oil and those missing billions from Iraq.

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

Secure desktops not just for Vista. Al Gore's Web site hacked. Flaw leaves Microsoft looking like a turkey.

Get an up-close view of nuthatch similarities and difference. As always we include lists of birds banded and recaptured, plus some miscellaneous nature notes and a mug shot of a Fox Sparrow

All application materials must be received on or before February 1, 2008.

ISN'T IT CHEAPER JUST TO TEACH SOMEONE TO READ. Failing Reading Scores and Building Prison Cells is Big Busine$$

Book Review: In this illuminating book, Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners.

Domain name disputes and resolution faq's. Complainant accuses Respondents of "typosquatting," intentionally registering a domain name that is identical to its mark but for a simple typographical error.

"It's in your blood," Mr. Dallas said. "You hear people say that kind of thing, but now you know it really is."

Science about empathy and Bullies and Antisocial Behavior. Samson, the celebrated Biblical strongman, suffered from the earliest recorded case of antisocial personality disorder.

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]).

What a total load of Deep Doo Doo!

A new model for conservation Yet for the first time, the program is facing resistance on Capitol Hill from budget hawks and property-rights advocates. The National Park Service has called for a freeze on new designations until lawmakers approve more formal guidelines for the program.

Bring Safe, Self-x and Organic Computing Systems into Reality.

NetHappenings News Headlines - ESU's Code Breakers, Steganography. Security expert's data alert went unheeded. Comps stolen from Kanpur DRDO lab. Germany seeks malware 'specialists' to bug terrorists. Hushmail To Warn Users of Law Enforcement Backdoor.

The district is so confident in its security, it has dared students and hackers to crack it, offering a free wireless router for anyone who could.

Linux Advisory Watch Network Newsletters

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This presentation of The Franklin Institute's Case Files highlights individuals from the history of science and technology.

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

If I can read 100 blogs, which should I read to be most up to date?

Let’s get something straight here: technology is complicated, and it’s unreasonable to expect every professor to understand the nuances of digital projectors, editing software, classroom response devices, PowerPoint lectures or even — God help you if this is true — Internet browsers.

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

Stop the NSBA who made no mention of the fact that it has become glaringly obvious that their primary purpose is to generate advertising revenue.

2 day symposium at Princeton.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES - by and FOR WOMEN - MUSIC QUOTES - COMPUTER QUOTES - TEACHER QUOTES AND BUSINESS QUOTES

Badges? We ain't got no badges.

Sight See: SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES - Learn how to find and use the Invisible Web and Meta Search Engines at the Educational CyberPlayGround. Find a Guide to Online Research A visual mapping of Complex Networks and all the Free E-books you can eat.

Contains details of slave holders in Barbados and Antigua who received compensation under the terms of the 1833 slave emancipation act.

Interesting collection of images of earth from space.

sight see the unusual pie and chips, eat the press, get off the bus, freedom's watch, center for media and democracy falsie awards, and camtasia studio software free download for screencasting for pc users.

"To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence" "We've got a public culture which is almost entirely commercial- and novelty-driven," says NEA chairman Dana Gioia. "I think it's letting the nation down."

Linked in is the largest professional Networking site. Its biggest global competitor is Facebook.

Attention Teens and adults Sign up, to "legally download music" and avoid getting sued by the music industry, not true.

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.

Children And The Internet, Internet, Internet Governance Forum, Internet Security, Law Of The Internet, Breaking Media News, Media Literacy only about 1 billion, or 20% of the world's population have Net access

More than 150 friends?!

The Wall Street Journal's "numbers guy," Carl Bialik <http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119518271549595364.html>, zoomed in on that number - 150 - which many reporters have cited as the limit to the number of personal contacts any human being could possibly sustain. This is when they're writing stories about the lengthy friends lists some teens have amassed in social sites. The 150 comes from the research of Robin Dunbar at Oxford University, "extrapolating from social groups in nonhuman primates and then crediting people with greater capacity because of our larger neocortex, the part of the brain used for conscious thought and language." Ah, got it. So we definitely can sustain more friendships than primates. But, actually, Dunbar himself, Bialik reports, believes that social sites "could 'in principle' allow users to push past the limit." To the professor, the real question is "whether those who keep ties to hundreds of people do so to the detriment of their closest
relationships - defined by Prof. Dunbar as those formed with people you turn to when in severe distress." Bialik cites another recent UK survey that found - no huge surprise - friendships really start offline, but "less-close friendships and acquaintanceships, however, also die offline, while the Web can help sustain them" [read the article for examples].

A massive security breach involving the personal information of "virtually every child in Britain" has occurred in the United Kingdom. This is a clear illustration of risky it would be to have a national database of children's personal information in the US, which is what would be required in order to establish children's age verification online.

Google buys and collects everything - it's frightening!

Over the past several years I've been playing with Linux to get an idea of what it's all about and how it can be used. It wasn't until recently that I felt comfortable telling my non-techie friends to jump in.

* Japan is now fingerprinting all foreigners. Fingerprinted foreigners now will have the distinction of having the same status as former Korean slaves.

Comments, thoughts, and suggestions requested. Botnets (also called zombie armies or drone armies) are networks of compromised computers infected with viruses or malware to turn them into “zombies” or “robots” – computers that can be controlled without the owners’ knowledge. Criminals use the collective computing power and connected bandwidth of these externally-controlled networks for malicious purposes and criminal activities, including, inter alia, generation of spam e-mails, launching of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, alteration or destruction of data, and identity theft.

Bunhill Cemetery is just down the road from my flat in London. It’s a handsome old boneyard, a former plague pit (“Bone hill” -- as in, there are so many bones under there that the ground is actually kind of humped up into a hill). There are plenty of luminaries buried there -- John “Pilgrim’s Progress” Bunyan, William Blake, Daniel Defoe, and assorted Cromwells. But my favorite tomb is that of Thomas Bayes, the 18th-century statistician for whom Bayesian filtering is named.

Brett Glass computer journalist and founder of LARIAT.NET a local Internet service provider based in Laramie, Wyoming. Founded in 1993 as a community network and relaunched as a private ISP in 2003, we were the world's first wireless broadband provider and have more than 15 years of wireless Internet experience -- more than anyone else!

Last month, I resigned as a five-year veteran teacher of Broward County schools. Letter to the editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Fort Lauderdale, Florida. FCAT equals Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

Try to imagine a person engaged in any activity. Now list the objects that are included in this scene. There are always things. The clothes we wear, the surfaces we touch, what we can see, our own body, the smells, the sounds. Even in philosophies that try to keep to only the bare essentials, let us say for example Zen Buddhism, a great concern with objects, in Zen the simplicity and crudeness of artifacts used for tea ceremony, has taken much attention and work. Material culture is everywhere, but not enough in academic work, say the authors of the volume reviewed here.

Teaching Intelligent Design vs Evolution in the classroom. Is intelligent design religion or science? The appearance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the agenda of the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting gives a kind of scholarly imprimatur to a phenomenon that first emerged in 2005, during the debate in Kansas over whether intelligent design should be taught in public school sciences classes.

Steven Van Zandt starts Middle School and High School Music Education Curriculum.T hat's guitarist/singer Steve Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band -- a.k.a. Little Stevie, a.k.a. Miami Steve, a.k.a. Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano's consigliere -- at a sit down in the Capitol yesterday with Sens. Bob Menendez and Frank Lautenberg.

Known as the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time. Early Twentieth Century Afro-Caribbean Activist/Intellectual in Harlem.

The state of Pennsylvania is telling those who sell other people's stuff on eBay that it's time to get a state-issued auctioneer's license.

Award-winning correspondent, David Faber examines the rapid advance of technology which allows companies to monitor our every move and record our most private personal information. Driving habits are being recorded; employees are monitored; shoppers and diners are observed and analyzed; internet searches are saved and used as evidence in court. It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it is the government that’s using it. The documentary takes viewers inside the FBI, the Border Patrol, police departments and schools to see how they are using biometric technologies to establish identity. There is also a rare look inside a little-known division of AOL that works solely with law enforcement requests for information about AOL’s members.Faber also examines some of the downsides of the new surveillance society: a man whose cell phone records were stolen by his former employer; a women who lost her job due to mistaken identity; a man who discovered his rental car company was tracking his every move.BIG BROTHER, BIG BUSINESS takes an enlightening and sometimes disturbing look at how the growth of the information society may be eroding the freedoms many people take for granted.

Your right to have your own radio station. Protect your rights! "In recent weeks, the Federal Communications Commission, and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, have made strong public statements about supporting the low power FM radio service, and the vital work that it does nationwide. As the commission works at its November 27th meeting to make decisions about the future of LPFM, they must lay the groundwork to ensure that LPFM will not only be available in rural areas in the future. They must also protect the low power stations from losing their frequencies to full power stations that encroach upon their signals. No matter what happens in Congress, LPFM will only be available in America's cities if the FCC acts to make room for it. threaten to knock them off the air. NetHappenings

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.

Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Best for Enterprise Use and Congress Moves Forward With Required University Subsidies To Napster, Ruckus. MPAA Explains Why It's Okay To Tie Federal Funds To Blocking File Sharing.

NetHappenings Headlines and Resources - Internet + Happenings = NetHappenings going strong for 18 Years!

This week, advisories were released for zope-cmfplone, horde3, gallery2, phpmyadmin, glib2, gpdf, xpdf, mono, libpng, cups, flac, pcre, net-snmp, samba, util-linux, openssl, pam, httpd, mailman, tcpdump, xterm, wireshark, ruby, kdegraphics, tetex, php, vmware, poppler, emacs, flac, pidgin, and ImageMagick. The distributors include Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Ubuntu, and Forsight.

This week: 76 advisories

Best resources for both reading games, traditional Language Arts and interactive Childrens Books Online that integrate technology into the classroom. Best resources for both traditional Language Arts and modern communications sites and applications on the web.Online stories and activities - Explore this site, you'll find lots of resources such as songs, simple texts, audio files and educational games for beginners.

Video games are very effective teaching tools for teaching aggression.

Learn How to Handle CyberBullies. A 13 year old girl who was bullied at school struck up an online MySpace relationship with a 13 year old boy that went sour and turned to bullying. She committed suicide. It turns out that the 13 year old boy who taunted her was actually the mother of another 13 year old girl in the neighborhood.

Michelle Malkin our student’s test scores on a major international reading exam have been rendered invalid because the contractor who printed the tests misnumbered the pages–and the Department of Education failed to proofread the booklets! Comments anyone?

There's no cost to teachers or schools to participate. Public school educators propose ideas for needed resources. A nonprofit website that provides students with the books, technology, and supplies that they need to learn.

The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education Conference is happening now. Education Vendor Directory.

K-12 Newsletters - Music Education and Dance Movement Education Resources for Music Teachers - Classroom Teachers - Phys. Ed Teachers

In a nutshell, this is what I think about and publish.

Live Search Maps are so INCREDIBLE if you haven't seen it you MUST.

The seasonal change is the topic for "This Week at Hilton Pond" for 1-7 November 2007. To view this latest photo essay, please visit Hilton Pond.

Aeronautics Competitions for High School and College Students and 21st Century Explorer Podcast Competition

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.

The future of the music business lays in a simple formula: 1 Artist + 1 Mgr = 1 Enterprise. ~ John Hartmann

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Use freeware called "Eulalyzer" to give a quick analysis of a EULA before you finish the installation.

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.

Book Review: Basile's Tale of Tales, also called the Pentamerone, is a collection of fifty stories--chiefly complex tales of magic, popularly known as fairy tales--published in Naples in 1634-1636.

Book Review

The federal government is inviting comments (at http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/documents/20071026.htm) on policies that lead to the intrusion of institutional review boards (IRBs) into oral history research. This provides a rare opportunity for members of our profession to register their objections. I urge every historian who conducts oral history, or is responsible for students who use oral history methods, to respond to this request and express their concerns about the inappropriate and often arbitrary way this policy has been applied to history research in many colleges and universities. You have until December 26, 2007 (send comments to the mailing and email addresses listed at the end of this post).

DOS commands

Apparently the Ohio Education Association has sent a memo discouraging teachers from using social networking sites. I think this is the wrong message. How about: "Never post anything online you would not want to see on the front page of your state's largest newspaper."

New Word Womenomics - Women 'Becoming Valued' by Businesses, Think Tank Says

Databases for Educators: NY Times Lesson Plan Archive; Gateway to Educational Materials; ASN State Standards Viewer. The ASN provides tools and databases that enable access to and interaction with the authoritative collection of learning and content standards from states and national content groups.

FAQ and Oil Spill Training opportunities and action alerts, and links to background about the spill and cleanup and restoration efforts.

"the sole national point of contact for reporting all oil, chemical, radiological, biological, and etiological discharges into the environment anywhere in the United States and its territories."

WOW - first one onto the BLOG! Congratulations to the Goodpasture Christian School from the great state of Tennessee. Does your K-12 School or School District have a website? Can you find it in the Educational CyberPlayGround K-12 Directory?

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

E-Loan co-founder Chris Larsen's online marketplace matches lenders and borrowers. Banks and "payday" outfits alike will be watching closely

Norman Mailer, died in November 2007.

Two consumer advocacy groups, the Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, say the social- networking sites should offer consumers the chance to have their data excluded from the advertising plans, and should fully inform consumers how their personal information will be used. The groups wrote a letter to the FTC Monday asking the agency to look into the matter.

The hack required little more than tools freely available on the internet, and Egerstad maintains he broke no laws. In fact, he is confident the email accounts he gained access to were already compromised by other hackers, so his efforts in fact prevented them from continuing their spying.

Experts have said 80 percent of successful intrusion into our government computer systems can be attributed to software errors or poor software quality. Many software products have poorly written or have poorly configured security features. Computers and networks without operating firewalls, up-to-date virus and password protection are invitations for disasters. DHS computers were subjected to penetration by Chinese hackers because we failed to install and monitor the necessary "intrusion-detection systems."

As temperatures at the underground site will stay at 15 degrees Celsius all year, air conditioning systems will not be necessary while groundwater can be used to cool the servers.

"This reserve reflects [TJX's] estimation of probable losses in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles based on information available to [TJX] and includes an estimation of total potential cash liabilities, from pending litigation, proceedings, investigations and other claims, as well as legal and other costs and expenses, arising from the computer intrusion," TJX said in its SEC filing.

End-to-End Network Security: Defense-in-Depth [1] provides an in-depth look at the various issues around defense in depth.

This is not the first time that Litchfield has conducted this type of research. Two years ago, he released his first Database Exposure Survey, estimating that there were about 350,000 Microsoft and Oracle databases exposed.

GIANT COMET and ROSETTA FLYBY

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.

November 15, 2007 Issue 181 FIRST NATION - OPPORTUNITIES HIGHLIGHTS

traveler anti-terror scan airport inquisition.

Check it out and read between the lines.

California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws, their user contracts and anti-fraudulent advertising statutes.

³Granting retroactive immunity for companies that allegedly went along with this illegal program is unjustified and undermines the rule of law,² Feingold said in a statement.

Commentary by Bruce Schneier Why you should worry about a new random-number standard that includes an algorithm that is slow, badly designed and just might contain a backdoor for the National Security Agency.

The four winners of the 2007 National Book Awards, announced at a dinner and ceremony in New York City on November 14, are:

What Do You THINK? Please Leave Your Comments Every hear What happened to the CIO joke?

Network Engineer wanted

Grants & Scholarships feed seems to have a BUG. You can search the blog using the word GRANTS and find everything OR you can use Grants Scholarships as the correct feed. It's the "&" sign that is causing the problem in "Grants & Scholarships". Sorry, but this is a work in progress.

M.J. McDermott explains the current state of math education in 4th and 5th grades. Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth How to integrate Math and Computers + Applied Math and Science Education Repository. .

Mr. Stevenson, 54, does not deny using a .22-caliber rifle fitted with a scope to kill the cat, which lived under the San Luis Pass toll bridge, linking Galveston to the mainland. He also admits killing many other cats on his own property, where he operates a bed and breakfast for some of the estimated 500,000 birders who come to the island every year. Jurors heard opening arguments on Tuesday in the trial of a bird-watching enthusiast who fatally shot a cat that he said was stalking endangered shorebirds. James M. Stevenson says he was protecting piping plovers. FYI: A Billion Birds Die in Plate Glass.

More about Student Use of Technology and How it Impacts the Classroom. It’s time that teachers wake up and realize that the only way to reach today’s student is to meet them on their own playing field. The fact is, that many of those working in education, in politics, in the civil service are the equivalent of modern day illiterates. Without understanding how to read and write on the web, there is no other way, really, to describe this state of being. This is why media literacy teaching and learning need to be the top of every school's literacy strategy. Reading and writing is about more than pen and paper these days.

Student Use of Technology and how it impacts the classroom. Let’s be clear about another thing. The episode in his classroom had been plotted and scripted ahead of time, with Neil Noland part of the charade all along. The phone was an extra of his mother’s, its service contract long expired.

Educational CyberPlayGround Directory was is the first one ever created. Is your K-12 School in the directory? It started in the U.S. circa 1993. Can you imagine that it's built by people like you? If you submit the neighborhood school or school district it will go in the directory. We build it! It's a national folklore project. And we get to see the what our schools can do - and what they aren't doing! If you've got it FLAUNT IT.

Washington post article reports unique threats women bloggers face. The article highlights the poor treatment of women on-line often happens offline. Women are being intimidated - they include ACADEMICS, PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS [emphasis added other women normally UNAFRAID to speak their minds.]

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.

10,000 links that can drive up test scores in all areas, and more specific needs such as motivation. The Educational CyberPlayGround™ has it all. From the simple beginning steps up to the most sophisticated technology you need to know.

The author of the blog post, Matt Hickey of Seattle, says that using paper as a shim to put pressure on the hard drive has worked on about 70 percent of the failed iPods he has encountered — even though he is not sure why it works.

SlideShare now has private sharing! Get full control on what, where and how to share! Keep it private, share with contacts, send business presentations to clients & colleagues, embed on company intranets etc.

Sight See

A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and publish links about nonprofit technology, educational technology, adoption challenges, information design, visual thinking, creativity, ICT in the developing world, and much more.

Yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer detailed the archival work on Chew family documents regarding slaves that is has been undertaken at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

The public radio station in Harrisburg, PA will feature our new 31-track CD "Where the Coal Trains Load: World Music from Eastern Pennsylvania" in their weekly "Artbeat" segment that highlights arts and cultural events in central PA on Friday, November 23 on WITF-FM 89.5. Where the Coal Trains Load is chock full of the sounds of home, 31-tracks of music from around the world, recorded in the coal region, where singers and musicians can trace their roots to every continent.