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- Send Free International Text Messages with Jaxtr
- A few days ago, the folks over at Gizmodo pointed out a new way to reach your international contacts. Using Jaxtr, which is primarily a free phone-to-web-to-phone international calling service, you can now send free text messages to cellphones all over the world. While Giz rightly points out some limitations—no...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- ExpressJet Holdings, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Bob McAdoo from Avondale Partners. Bob McAdoo – Avondale Partners Thanks. Question, obviously the real challenge here is to try to figure out how long it takes you to get to breakeven. As we look at the expenses...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-22
- Don't Be a Blowhard: Listen and Learn
- Some bloggers lob ludicrously one-sided rants into the blogosphere and let their readers fight it out. Some call these folks provocative. I call them blowhards. Here are the qualities that distinguish folks with a unique ability to reason, inform, and offer considered viewpoints from blowhards. Mostly, they listen and learn....
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Keep Your Career Moving Up and to the Right
- The most common career mistake managers make is taking a lesser job than they should. Personal issues aside, too many folks pull the trigger on that critical decision sooner than they should. So what makes folks like you so risk averse? And how do you know if you've already reached...
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
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- The Cultural Properties Protection Law and Japan's folk performing arts.
- Japan's Cultural Properties Protection Law has succeeded in rekindling local and national interest in folk performing arts, but may stifle the development of folk life. By making folk performing arts a cultural property the law has led people to take national folk surveys and develop local preservation efforts. Unfortunately, folklore...
- Research articles 1994-10-01
- Post-communist folk. (folk art in Poland)(Arts, Books and Sport)
- The production and appreciation of folk art continues to be a viable part of Polish culture, but it is threatened by commercial pressures in the society. Older wooden houses, also, are disappearing, but many are being preserved in the country's 30 open-aiThe production and appreciation of folk art continues to...
- Research articles 1994-08-20
- Scots folk stars top award list after complaint of English bias
- A SCOTTISH singer-songwriter has been nominated for five categories in the prestigious BBC Radio 2 folk awards, bucking a trend that critics claimed revealed an anti-Scottish bias. Stirlingshire-born Karine Polwart, a founder member of folk band Malinky who leaves the group this month to focus on her solo...
- Research articles 2005-02-06
- Estonia.(Reports)(International Society for Folk Narrative Research)
- RE: THE 14TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR FOLK NARRATIVE RESEARCH ISFNR Established in 1959 in Copenhagen, the International Society for Folk Narrative Research ISFNR is a scientific organization whose objectives are to foster scholarly work in the field of folk narrative ...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Plain folk reconsidered: historiographical ambiguity in search of definition
- STUDENTS OF SOUTHERN HISTORY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE TERMS PLANTER, plain folk, and poor white. Most will acknowledge an understanding of who enjoyed status as a planter and who was a poor white, but the characteristics of plain folk are neither as clearly defined nor as well understood. This article...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- 'Queer' merchandise spins onto the Web. (Marketing & Advertising).(Queer as Folk, Showtime Networks)(Brief Article)
- Introducing what's being touted as the first gay-themed merchandise centered around a television series, Showtime Networks Inc. last week unveiled the licensing strategy for Queer as Folk. In partnership with Los Angeles-based consumer-product Introducing what's being touted as the...
- Research articles 2002-05-27
- Talk Radio News Service Hosts American Olympians, Folk Music Legend, Political Leaders at Annual White House Correspondents Gala
- WASHINGTON, May 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Talk Radio News Service, home to some of the country's most provocative talk-radio news and hosts, will bring the glitter of Olympic medal pride and a golden-tongued folk-music artist to this year's White House CorrespWASHINGTON, May 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Talk Radio News Service,...
- Research articles 2002-05-03
- So Ole Says to Lena: Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest
- So Ole Says to Lena: Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest Compiled and edited by James P Leary The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisc., 2001 258 pages, paperback, $19.95 This second-edition collection includes jokes, humorous anecdotes and tall tales from ethnic groups (Woodland Indians, French, Cornish, Germans, Irish and...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- -U.S. POSTAL SERVICE: Postal Service salutes America's folk music heritage
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 June 1998-U.S. POSTAL SERVICE: Postal Service salutes America's folk music heritage C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:110698 -- Stamps honoring Guthrie, Leadbelly, Terry and White Legendary folk musicians whose songs reflected the heart and soul of America will be honored by the U.S. Postal Service...
- Research articles 1998-06-12
- US singer brings hip-hop cool to Japanese folk songs
- TOKYO AFP — With a do-rag, some bling and hip-hop moves, a young American singer is spreading a craze in Japan for the country's traditional folk songs which until recently had been considered a dying art. Jerome White Junior, better known in Japan as "Jero," has smashed through the...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- Top BBC award for folk singer Kate
- top act Folk singer Kate Rusby plays live FOLK singer Kate Rusby achieved another career milestone when she was named best live act in the BBC Radio 2 Awards. Radio 2 DJ, singer and comedian Mike Harding presented the awards at a London cere- mony. Kate is...
- Research articles 2006-02-08
- Applebee's International Announces Lawrence M. Folk Named Chief Executive Officer of Rio Bravo International Inc
- OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 2, 1998--Applebee's International, Inc. (Nasdaq:APPB) announced today that Lawrence M. Folk, a 16-year veteran in the Mexican food restaurant segment, has been appointed president and chief executive officer of its Rio Bravo International, Inc. division, and will be joining the company on October first.Rio Bravo International,...
- Research articles 1998-09-02
- "While there is Still Time...": J. Murray Gibbon and the Spectacle of Difference in Three CPR Folk Festivals, 1928-1931
- Between 1928 and 1931, a series of 16 Folk music and handicraft festivals were staged across Canada under the auspices of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The principal architect of the festivals, John Murray Gibbon, would later popularize the now-ubiquitous and immeasurably influential phrase "Canadian Mosaic" to explain his vision of...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition
- Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition. By Simon J. Bronner. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2002. Pp. xiv + 283, preface and acknowledgments, notes, suggestions for further reading. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper)Folk Nation is Volume Six of a series called American Visions: Readings in American Culture. The...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- FOLK MASTER DESIGN WINS BEST PRODUCT AWARD AT NEW YORK HOME TEXTILES SHOW.(Brief Article)
- NEW YORK-The rug exhibitors recognized in the Best New Products competition at this fall's New York Home Textiles Show are terrific examples of the kind of variety and design excellence that is driving the growth in the rug business. Folk Master Designs, a...
- Research articles 1998-11-23
- Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 International Folk Alliance Music and Business Awards presented during the organization's annual February conference held in Memphis, Tennessee
- Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 International Folk Alliance Music and Business Awards presented during the organization's annual February conference held in Memphis, Tennessee. The winners are Uncle Earl Album; Tom Russell Song; Levou Helm Trad Artist; Susan Werner Contemporary Artist; Carolina Chocolate Drops Emerging Artist; Woody Guthrie (Legacy...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
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