DOVER, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ashley McNeill, 18, of Wilmington and Philip Moore, 13, of Dover today were named Delaware's top two youth volunteers for 2010 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism. The awards program, now in its 15th year, is conducted by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association...
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I stole that title from the late Bob Talbert, an everyman columnist from the late, or possibly undead, Detroit Free Press. He would use that title whenever he had a column to write but didn’t have sufficient time to put enough similarly themed words together to make 800. It also allowed him to insert pet [...]
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Singer and actress Lena Horne helped break the color barrier in mainstream popular culture in the mid-twentieth century, beginning her stage career in the chorus at Harlem's Cotton Club in 1933, where Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway mentored her. In...
In the 1960s raves where held called “Acid Tests.” For a price a person could get in and listen to a group, such as the Grateful Dead and have access to all the LSD they would want. That wasn’t the beginning of drug inspired music. History if full of folk music, jazz, even classical music that has references to drug use. Here are two examples: Cab Calloway - The Reefer Man (Original)...
Finale to "Stormy Weather" 1943 with Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers Any performer will tell you, the way you leave the audience is the way they'll remember your act. There's no finale like the one in Stormy Weather. As I said at the beginning of this program, I'm constantly amazed at the "pop culture amnesia" that seems to...
Finale to "Stormy Weather" 1943 with Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers Any performer will tell you, the way you leave the audience is the way they will remember your act. There's no finale like the one in Stormy Weather. As I said at the beginning of this program, I'm constantly amazed at the "pop culture amnesia" that seems...
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 19th 2010 Microsoft readies emergency IE patch to counter public exploits – Microsoft has started dropping broad hints that an emergency patch for Internet Explorer will be released very soon to counter targeted attacks and the publication of exploit code for a “browse and you’re owned” [...] Web curation for January 19th...
The following were the words I spoke at my mother’s funeral. More or less. I say “more of less”, because I never write speeches. I don’t know how. Instead, I jot down fragments and they somehow, almost magically, grow together into a speech. The fragments were assembled as we traveled from Hawaii to Toronto. The results went something like this. From the moment I got the word,...
The TTAB issued fifty-one (51) precedential opinions in 2009, a slight drop-off from last year's total of 55. Its post- Bose fraud decisions in Enbridge and Asian and Western (Nos. 40 and 42) and its finding of a lack of bona fide intent on the part of the Section 44(e) applicant in Honda v. Winkelmann (No. 15) were among the most noteworthy. And in a dozen or so procedural rulings, it dealt with various...
From Blanche Calloway and her Joy Boys, 1931. Blanche was the sister of Cab Calloway and the first woman to successfully lead an all-male orchestra. (via Metafilter ) Send messages to radiofox@gmail.com
Creative Arts by Calloway, LLC has filed a complaint ( here ) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking review under 15 U.S.C. Section 1071(b) of the TTAB's October 30, 2009 ruling in Christopher Brooks v. Creative Arts By Calloway, LLC , Opposition No. 91169266 (October 30, 2009) [precedential] [ TTABlogged here ]. Cab Calloway The Board ruled that the late...
This quarter saw the fifth anniversary of the TTABlog and its one-millionth hit. More significantly, November 1st brought the retirement of Chief Judge J. David Sams. The Board has begun populating the new post-Bose fraud landscape as trademark practitioners re-calibrate their thinking. And the CAFC overturned two TTAB rulings, one concerning the acceptability of website specimens of use, and the other...
Social Media Updates for 2009-12-27 is a post from Chris Pirillo Sorry for the lack of posting fr the past 12 hours. I have a life. # What Did You Get for the Holidays? – http://bit.ly/79EQ7X # I'm turning in to Subservient Chris again this year on NY Eve. Help us raise money for the MDA in memory of @ krippl http://bit.ly/7McMFc # Raising Money for MDA with Subservient Chris – http://bit.ly/7McMFc...
Ever wonder about the history of: Christmas, the holiday ? Santa Claus ? Christmas trees ? Christmas cards ? Or about the famous people born or who died on this hallowed day, such as Charlie Chaplin , W.C. Fields , Sir Isaac Newton , Humphrey Bogart , Clara Barton , Cab Calloway , Rod Serling , James Brown , Conrad Hilton , and Anwar Sadat ? Follow these links to britannica.com for information on these...
Cab Calloway Minnie the Moocher >>>> Download Minnie the Moocher <<<< artist: Cab Calloway album: Minnie the Moocher Tracklist: 1 Virginia Georgia and Caroline mp3 2 I See A Million People mp3 3 Blues in the Night mp3 4 The Mermaid Song mp3 5 Tappin Off mp3 6 I Get the Neck of the Chicken mp3 7 Lordy mp3 8 Conchita mp3 9 Hey Doc mp3 10 The Moment I Laid Eyes on You mp3 11 I Want to Rock mp3 12 Says...
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