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  Cockburn, Bruce
Cockburn's subsequent Canadian itinerary included appearances at such major venues as Massey Hall, (where Circles in the Stream was recorded in 1977), the Ontario Place Forum (where Bruce Cockburn Live was made in 1989), the NAC, St-Denis Theatre, the Orpheum and Queen Elizabeth theatres, and at the 1984 FIJM and many folk festivals.
Cockburn made his debut in the USA at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1974 and began to perform there on a consistent basis after the Rumours of Glory tour in 1981.
Cockburn had won seven Juno Awards to 2003: as folk singer (or artist) of the year 1971-3 and in 1980-82, as male vocalist in 1981 and 1982, and for best 'roots' album in 2000.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?pgnm=tce¶ms=u1artu0000749   (1069 words)

  
 About the City of Cockburn Today
Cockburn is one of the major Coastal Cities found in the state of Western Australia.
Cockburn's population is just over 75,000 people and is expected to grow to more than 100,000 by the year 2010.
Cockburn is very much a developing City, with a good mix of residential and rural areas, and is at an exciting stage of its growth.
www.cockburn.wa.gov.au /About_Cockburn/Cockburn_Today/?c=1   (255 words)

  
 Catharine Trotter Cockburn (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Cockburn was mainly concerned with grappling with the defects and strengths of some of the predominating issues in moral theory at this time.
Cockburn objects to this view, arguing that it ignores the underlying fitness relations that serve to define what harms and benefits are significant or relevant for human beings in particular circumstances.
Cockburn's morality sought to establish a foundation for morality in human nature that sufficiently accounted for the type of natural and seemingly immediate human moral sensibility that Burnet believed was not accounted for by Locke and that Clarke's critics saw as lacking in his fitness view.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/cockburn   (2490 words)

  
 Bruce Cockburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
Cockburn was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and was a student at Broadview and Nepean High School.
Cockburn frequently refers to Heard as his favorite songwriter and was one of many artists who paid tribute to Heard on an album and video titled ''Strong Hand of Love''.
Cockburn was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1982 and was promoted to Officer in 2002.
www.artistopia.com /bruce-cockburn   (1341 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/cockburnbruce
Cockburn already had the words to "Trickle Down." But it was only when he jammed with Milne's band, an avant-garde jazz ensemble featuring harmonic player Gregoire Maret and rapper Kokayi, that the song's improvisational, free-form music took shape.
Cockburn describes the playing of musicians like Taylor, Hodges and especially Milne and Maret, whom he compares to Toots Thielman, as both inspiring and instructive.
A longtime activist, Cockburn got to know singer Sarah Harmer, who lends her mellifluous voice to "Open," "Don't Forget About Delight" and the epic "Postcards from Cambodia," during a benefit for people who had been arrested at the Quebec G8 Summit.
www.myspace.com /cockburnbruce   (1001 words)

  
 Bruce Cockburn - You've Never Seen Everything - Rounder / True North Records - CD
Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed a career of dispensing politically charged lyrical missiles, pointed and launched at whomever or whatever has displaced his trust and has sparked his ire.
Cockburn is a master at speaking his heart, the descriptions many of us have experienced thus the connection that Cockburn has with listeners of his songs.
Bruce Cockburn’s You’ve Never Seen Everything is a great album for the devoted fan and for the person who quests for the voice crying in the wildnerness.
www.musictap.net /Reviews/CockburnBruceYouveNeverSeenEverythingCD.html   (661 words)

  
 The Songs of Bruce Cockburn
Cockburn’s twenty gold and platinum records and ten Juno Awards are a testament to his significant presence on the landscape of popular culture.
Cockburn began his musical career traveling through Europe and performing in the streets and later enrolled at Boston's Berklee School of Music.
Cockburn's first decade of work (1970-1979) is largely literate, often with a strong Christian tone and mystical, devotional lyrics.
www.umusicpub.com /spotlight.aspx?id=208   (308 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Christmas - Bruce Cockburn at Epinions.com
In the liner notes, Cockburn mentions that some sources of the songs date back to a carol book his father had given him as a boy; others he stumbled upon in his travels.
Cockburn avoided making a repetitive album by interspersing different elements outside of the traditional trappings of the songs.
Bruce Cockburn made a name early in his career as a Christian artist so there's no mistaking his faith in the season or these songs.
www.epinions.com /content_164774514308   (561 words)

  
 CMT.com : Bruce Cockburn : Biography
Cockburn's first decade of work (1970-1979) is largely literate, singer/songwriter folk-rock, often with a strong Christian tone and mystical, devotional lyrics.
Cockburn toned down his Christian viewpoint for much of the 1980s, partially as a way of disconnecting himself from the American religious right, which he found antithetical to his own spiritual beliefs, and partially to concentrate on more humanitarian, political subject matter.
Cockburn's later 1980s work took on a more streamlined rock sound, and his political agenda was weighted toward environmental concerns, as well as oppression.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/cockburn_bruce/bio.jhtml   (320 words)

  
 Response to Alexander Cockburn
Cockburn's style demonstrates he'd rather preach to the converted than communicate with a broader public.
I'm also sort of horrified that Cockburn's distortion of my views will be the first thing thousands of people learn about me, and that my response will never catch up to the distortion.
I sent letters to Cockburn via two websites where his column appears, asking him to link his column to my response (as Z Magazine, Working for Change, and some other websites have done).
www.dennisfox.net /columns/cockburn.html   (1037 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Singer Cockburn still a vital, critical voice from the north
The folk-rock/jazz singer is clearly not a fan of cupidity: "The world situation is worsening in large part because of the unfettered wave of greed," Cockburn says by phone from his tour bus.
Cockburn, an activist who has joined benefits to ban land mines and nuclear power, has noticed how many American artists have become more timid in speaking out for fear of a backlash.
Cockburn, who attended Boston's Berklee College of Music in the '60s, also has some beautiful love songs on the new album, notably "Put It in Your Heart." And other guests such as Jackson Browne and fellow Canadian Sarah Harmer help make it one of the best, and most haunting, records of his 27-album career.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2003/10/24/singer_cockburn_still_a_vital_critical_voice_from_the_north   (862 words)

  
 Bruce Cockburn
Cockburn's political message rode the wave of anti-imperialist sentiment popularized by campus groups during the Vietnam war.
Now that most of Cockburn's left-leaning causes have evaporated with the demise of the Soviet Union, the corporate powers that be have finally seen it fit to release some of his most caustic back-catalog on CD.
Cockburn's past tendency to drift off into complex textures is held in check by a tight rhythm arrangement, highlighted by the master of understatement, Booker T. Jones.
members.tripod.com /sduraybito/cockburn.htm   (1102 words)

  
 Anglican Journal: Cockburn’s songs an antidote for troubled times
Cockburn is one of my favourite musical artists.
Cockburn and his music can make you do both on a very deep level - and that is his rarity and his great worth to humanity.
Of course, one would assume that Cockburn's politically charged work of the mid-1980s would be the catalyst to thinking about the current world climate.
www.anglicanjournal.com /issues/2003/129/may/05/article/cockburnas-songs-an-antidote-for-troubled-times   (708 words)

  
 House of Lords - Cockburn v. Chief Adjudication Officer and Another and Secretary of State for Social Services v. Fairey
Cockburn by her daughter was dealing with the laundry, generated by her mother's incontinence, after she had taken the laundry away from her mother's flat.
Cockburn, the question has to be asked whether the service in question is sufficiently personal to constitute part of "frequent attention throughout the day in connection with [Mrs.
Cockburn's] bodily functions," on the basis that her disability is arthritis, and her relevant bodily function is urination.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199798/ldjudgmt/jd970521/cock01.htm   (2531 words)

  
 History of the Cockburn Association
The Cockburn Association was founded in 1875, in part to continue the exertions of the late Lord Henry Cockburn (1779-1854) in campaigning to protect and enhance the beauty of Edinburgh.
Henry Cockburn was born on 26 October 1779, the son of the Sheriff of the County of Midlothian and later Judge Admiral and finally Baron of the Exchequer.
Lord Cockburn was a founder of guidelines for conservation and he recognised that much of the antiquated property in the city needed to be cared for.
www.cockburnassociation.org.uk /default.asp?page=36   (600 words)

  
 Portuguese Winery - Wine Tours Port, Portugal - Cockburn Port Winery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
Cockburn's is one of the classic Port Houses, established in 1815 in the beautiful Douro Valley Region.
Cockburn's is also linked to Martinez Gassiot, a famed ultra luxury Port firm founded in 1790 by an ambitious Spaniard, Sebastian Gonzales Martinez, who had gone to London to sell Port, Sherry and Cigars from Havana.
Cockburn's is also one of the thirteen members of the legendary Factory House, a private club in Oporto established for the "Gentleman" of the Port Trade, over 250 years ago.
www.cellartours.com /portugal/portuguese-wineries/cockburn-port-winery.html   (965 words)

  
 Cutter Consortium :: Alistair Cockburn
Cockburn was special advisor on project management and development issues to the Central Bank of Norway.
Cockburn has developed courses in project survival, methodology development, requirements writing, OO design, and project management strategies.
Cockburn describes his personal philosophy as: "Computers must support the way in which people naturally and comfortably work, for job satisfaction and for corporate survival.
www.cutter.com /consultants/cockburna.html   (1960 words)

  
 ::Cockburn City Soccer Club::
Cockburn City has a long history within the community and we are excited to begin a new phase in 2006 with a new development plan and 5 year vision for the juniors within the Cockburn area.
This season at Cockburn City we are proud to have on board the services of Gareth Naven (former Perth Glory) as our Director of Coaching and Alistair Edwards (former Perth Glory and Socceroos) as a technical consultant to implement our new Junior Development Program.
At Cockburn City we feel we have in place the required environment necessary to promote and develop our players to express their individual talents at the highest level available to them and to look to the future in soccer/football by providing them with a pathway to the Semi-Professional League and beyond……
www.cockburncity.org   (401 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : Bruce Cockburn: Humans : Music Reviews
Bruce Cockburn's eleventh album is a quirky, passionate account of this Canadian Christian mystic's struggle to reconcile his rage about a bad relationship with the intense spirituality that's long been the focal point of his writing.
Indeed, Cockburn's juxtaposition of lofty insights and a scorned lover's bile gives the new record an emotional immediacy that his earlier LPs lacked.
Though the album's style of synthesized folk-rock isn't conducive to the jazzy acoustic guitar playing that's earned Cockburn a reputation as an instrumental virtuoso, it nevertheless complements his singing, which, with its bold leaps from plaintive lyricism to punchy speech-song, is similar to Neil Young's.
www.rollingstone.com /artists/brucecockburn/albums/album/305383/review/6067314/humans   (296 words)

  
 The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Alexander Cockburn
Cockburn's areas of interest include the American political scene, economics, the environment, labor issues and international policy.
In 1987, Cockburn authored a highly successful collection of essays, some autobiographical, entitled "Corruptions of Empire" for which he was called "the most gifted polemicist now writing in English" by the Times Literary Supplement.
Cockburn also co-authored the acclaimed "The Fate of the Forest, Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon." He has appeared on numerous national television programs, including interviews with Ted Koppel and Phil Donohue.
www.freepress.org /columns/display/2   (267 words)

  
 Cockburn's -> Bar do Binho
Cockburn's is a company whis has valued family links and long standing friendships throughout its history.
Robert Cockburn directed his two sons Archibald and Alexander, to open an office in London in 1830 and from then on the Cockburn family concentrated their efforts on selling port in Britain, which in those days took almost the entire export of port.
Cockburn's mantain close relationship with the farmers who provide grapes and wine for the Cockburn blends of port.
www.bar-do-binho.com /go/indexcoc.htm   (265 words)

  
 The Cockburn Project
Cockburn's deeply-felt commitment to social justice, a theme that resurfaces in "Call It Democracy," and "Waiting For A Miracle," and others.
Bruce Cockburn's career has produced 27 albums, 20 gold and platinum records, and numerous awards both in North America and overseas, including the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and Italy's Tenco Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Bruce Cockburn received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, was appointed to the Order of Canada, and has received three honorary doctorate degrees.
www.notowar.com /cockburn.html   (3302 words)

  
 SMEARING ALEX COCKBURN
He largely ignores most of the content of the column in question: Cockburn's remarks on the Richard Nixon-Billy Graham tapes, recently released, wherein the two were confiding a mutual belief in a "Jewish stranglehold" over the media.
Cockburn is not even signing on to any of the particular stories he cites, he is merely averring that they merit further inquiry.
What Foer is after is that Cockburn should be shunned, ostracized from polite society, and relegated to a kind of ideological and literary Coventry.
www.antiwar.com /justin/j041702.html   (2592 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Writing Effective Use Cases: Books: Alistair Cockburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
Cockburn's approach to use cases will allow you to sidestep not only the more common problems associated with improper use cases, but hundreds more than will crop up unless the value and context of use cases in the development or project life cycle is understood.
Cockburn does a decent job of helping the reader to understand the issues at hand and alerting the reader of what to look out for.
Cockburn is not found of the way people try to use UML Use Cases.
www.amazon.com /Writing-Effective-Cases-Alistair-Cockburn/dp/0201702258   (2350 words)

  
 NPR : Bruce Cockburn, Going Beyond Words
Bruce Cockburn's new CD is instrumental, but he also sings his version of the Christmas story in a visit with Liane Hansen.
But Cockburn's new CD focues on his extraordinary talents as a guitarist and composer, rather than his political views.
Cockburn tells Liane Hansen how the recording came to be, and where his music is headed next.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5065208   (249 words)

  
 Claud Cockburn
In the book he accused Cockburn of being under the control of the Communist Party.
Cockburn was a strong opponent of appeasement and during the Second World War the government banned
In 1947 Cockburn moved to Ireland but continued to contribute to various newspapers and journals.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPcockburn.htm   (2505 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Creation Dream: The Songs Of Bruce Cockburn - Michael Occhipinti at Epinions.com
Unless the “cover” version is something unique, the novelty is over and you’re stuck with another album that you might not play more than a handful of times before tucking it away with other castoffs in your collection.
Longtime Cockburn fans may find themselves stumbling in trying to decipher the original tune from some of Occhipinti’s explorations.
Freddie and Chester are Bruce Cockburn devotees and as such, their mixed paw response has less to do with the work’s worthiness and more to do with the general finicky malaise inherent in the feline worldview.
www.epinions.com /content_143768915588   (857 words)

  
 Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749)
Cockburn refuses to take an oath of Abjuration (renouncing the Stuart claim to the throne through the Pretenders) and is fired.
The Cockburn family is reduced to extreme poverty.
Catharine Cockburn, Theological, Moral, Dramatic, and Poetical, several of them now first printed, revised and published with an account of the life of the author by Thomas Birch 2 vols.
www.oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/trotter.html   (560 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Agile Software Development: Books: Alistair Cockburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
Cockburn takes you along while describing and shaping his family of Crystal methodologies.
Cockburn acknowledges that the chosen methodology must fit issues such as the project and team size and environment.
Cockburn does a terrific job of blending experience, anecdotal evidence, cited references, interviews, figures, analogies, and humor.
www.amazon.com /Agile-Software-Development-Alistair-Cockburn/dp/0201699699   (1999 words)

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