Blaenau Gwent: Pupils at Willowtown Primary School, Ebbw Vale, design posters for National Adoption Week
icWales (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
“ADOPT a child and help to transform their life forever.”
Joe Williams
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Knowsley’s Bocking a double-treble star
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
THE Belle Vale League and friendly games had some eye-catching results and sterling performances over the weekend.
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DVD/VIDEO: On the Plus Side...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
After all of the angst and financial mess following the Festival Productions-Festival Network LLC transaction nearly three years ago, one positive has emerged. Ben Ratliff had the details this month in the New York Times in his article Historic Sounds of Newport, Newly Online.Before Festival Network...
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Graduation for All Act of 2009
Schools Matter (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Introduced today by House Democrats, the Graduation for All Act of 2009 would create a $2 billion grant program from middle and high school turnarounds. While the details are still vague, the website of the Committee on Education and Labor pushes the idea of school turnarounds by allowing a school district to choose from an appropriately mis-named "Model of Success" list, ranging from "...
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Reform Laws for Race to the Top - or Call Chuck?
The Chalkboard (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
When education reform -- particularly charter schools -- seems too high a mountain to climb, New York's policymakers may have convinced themselves they have a easier route to federal funds: call the powerful U.S. Senator from New York, Charles E. Schumer.The Democrats for Education Reform, in a statement last week, admonished the state not to get presumptuous about its chances by averting real
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November 16, 2009
breath of life (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
We start with prison work songs from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas; then we dive down to Jamrock to catch up to reggae songstress Cherine Anderson; and we end with an exploration of "Work Song" by lyricist Oscar Brown Jr., composer Nat Adderley, Joe Williams, Michael Wolff, Terry Callier, Cannonball Adderley, Nina Simone and Afro-German vocalist [...]
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VARIOUS ARTISTS / “Work Song Mixtape”
breath of life (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Nat Adderley's “Work Song” represents a conscious effort to acknowledge the debt modern jazz owes to an earlier form of music.
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Blues On Highway 49 – Big Joe Williams (1961)
Sir Charlie Palmer (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
http://www.mediafire.com/?ezmzjizxzzm Big Joe Williams, one of the original Mississippi Delta bluesmen. 'Blues On Highway 49' features Williams' unique nine-string guitar working out on a collection of road-weary gritty country blues. He was an incredible blues musician: a gifted songwriter, a powerhouse vocalist, and an exceptional idiosyncratic guitarist.
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Left Lane Cruiser: All You Can Eat (Capsule Reviews)
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The powerhouse duo assimilates the Mississippi Delta blues laid down by guys like Big Joe Williams and Son House and cultivates it into a country punk 'n' blues speedball. It doesn't get a lot better than this. From the greasy slide-guitar-and-drum-pummeling intro to opener "Crackalacka", you either jump in and let Left Lane Cruiser take you on a hell-raising hayride or plain get out of the...
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Digitiziation: Making Recordings from Newport Jazz Festivals Available Online
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
From the Article: It’s a complicated story. But if you want to know why the Newport Jazz Festival has been so important to American music, it’s easy: you just have to hear the recorded evidence. Bits and pieces have emerged over the years, in live recordings by Ellington, Coltrane and others. Now Wolfgang’s Vault, the online [...]
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Beware smoke screens masquerading as 'reforms'
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
“Guarded optimism” characterizes community reaction to Superintendent John Covington’s new administration. There are hopeful signs. He has brought in new top executives whose appointments seem to be based on merit, not connections. And a budget cutting process is under way.
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Education Forum at Hunter College; Tisch & Co. Speak Out
The Chalkboard (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
New York State is going to have an "aggressively bold agenda" in its application for federal Race-to-the-Top funds, Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch assured the standing room audience this week at Hunter College in Manhattan.Tisch, along with former City Council Education Chair, Eva Moskowitz; UFT President Michael Mulgrew; and Executive Director of Democrats for Education Reform, Joe Williams;...
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Megan Rae Rosia Sings “Ten Cents A Dance” - And Sells-Out The People Of The United States Of America
HIT THE BOBBY STURGELL "EJECT" BUTT (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/11/01/Critics-cite-FAA-revolving-door/UPI-65851257114948/ Google News Alert for: Federal Aviation Administration Critics cite FAA 'revolving door' United Press International1 (UPI) -- Former high-level Federal Aviation Administration officials are going through a revolving door into US airline industry posts, records indicate. ... See all stories on this topic This...
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Toadcast #93 – The Craigcast
Song, by Toad (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
I have a friend Craig who works in Waterstones and is an obsessive about old American folk music and, more specifically, blues. He has been making Neil Meursault mix CDs for ages, which I’ve heard and consistently found myself asking what the hell I was listening to. I usually hate the tedious collections of old [...]
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Manager looks for a cutting edge from his Chasetown FC side
The Lichfield Blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Manager Charlie Blakemore believes his Chasetown FC team need to take the goalscoring strain off his strikers. Former Walsall ace Gary Birch and strike partner Danny Smith have been two of the few regulars in an injury-hit Scholars side. And with attacking players Dean Perrow and Grant Ryan missing with long-term injuries and others periodically unavailable due [...]
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