| American Idol Buzz
Some of the regulars in the know are aware that this myajc.com/idolblog social networking site, which launched a year ago, was an experiment. Not to say the experiment is over but due to some management decisions beyond my control, we are having to move this back to the old blog template used by the other blogs on this site (including my radio/tv blog.) This means your avatars, comments and personal pages will disappear in a few weeks. All my old blog entries from 2007 were mirrored on the old site and will survive the transition. The change will occur at 9:30 p.m. EST Tuesday, January 9. From that moment, if you type in www.myajc.com/idolblog, it will move you to an even simpler site called www.ajc.com/idolblog. So easy you can tell your friends and bookmark it! The bosses tell me a new social networking site will be back, possibly midseason but definitely by midyear, no later.
Cape & Islands News
While moderate to high level nutrient-related impacts were reported in systems from all coasts, the Mid-Atlantic region, stretching south from Cape Cod to the Chesapeake Bay, is the most impairedThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today released a comprehensive assessment of estuarine eutrophication, or nutrient pollution, that clearly indicates linkages between upstream activities and coastal ecosystem health. The report shows that the majority of U.S. estuaries assessed are highly influenced by human-related activities and points out that eutrophication is a widespread problem globally. "Observations have confirmed that our nation’s coastal waters are stressed," said retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.
It's a Wonderful Con
You can see her Tube Tops column for the Culture Blog and The Chronicle's TV Week listings guide every Sunday, her Streets of San Fauxcisco post here every Thursday, and her entire Culture Blog body of work here. Posted By: Rain Jokinen (Email) | February 25 2008 at 12:10 PM .
MOVIE REVIEW: 'Vantage Point' is diverting but ludicrous
The assassination of an American president is examined from multiple angles in "Vantage Point," a fast-paced thriller whose gimmicky narrative helps disguise the foolishness at its center. Still, audiences looking for rapid-fire thrills could do worse than this star-heavy debut from first-time feature director Pete Travis and first-time screenwriter Barry Levy. President Ashton (William Hurt) is attending an anti-terrorist summit in Spain when he's gunned down by a hidden sniper. Minutes later the platform from which he was to have addressed a vast throng explodes. "Vantage Point" examines the same 12 minutes of chaos from eight different points of view. By fracturing the narrative, breaking it down into a jigsaw puzzle, the filmmakers hope to deliver an added dimension of suspense.
Conversations With the Deaf
Cheering splashed from Downtowns street corners and blended into one sound. The owners of scattered ahwas, local coffee shops, were calling out orders, already sensing the sweet taste of profits. Even Cairos omnipresent street vendors had abandoned their usual posts and collected around streetside TV sets to shout encouragement to their favorite players. One place remained quiet. On 26 of July Street, five stories up, 20 people gathered around a television, Zamalek supporters in a small cluster on one side of the room, Ahly supporters, by far the bigger group, on the other side. The fans waved in chopping motions through the heavy smoke in the air, their excitement at every goal punctuated with a moan, a jump and rapid sign language. .
A blog about technology from BBC News
Right or wrong? And Mr Jobs is much higher in the list than his Apple partner Steve Wozniak, the engineering brains behind the first Apple computers. Tim Berners-Lee is top of the pile – but was this more a reflection of a British voting panel? Certainly, he was the favoured candidate among dot.life readers when I first blogged about the poll. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is out. So what? Well, he made the long list. There's no Clive Sinclair, the British home computer pioneer. George Boole, the father of modern computer arithmetic, is in. How many people would have thought of him immediately? The inventor of the transistor, William Shockley, is at number 9 while Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit is at number 5.
Rethinking Tenure — and Much More
Young scholars need to publish books to get jobs and tenure. University presses can’t afford to publish books any more and are raising the bar for publication. Libraries don’t have money to buy the books the presses do publish, forcing the presses to make more cuts, making it still more difficult for young scholars to win tenure. While the MLA task force found plenty of problems in the system, one thing it did not find was the feared "lost generation" of scholars who had been denied tenure. The association conducted a survey of 1,339 departments on their tenure policies and processes. A key finding was that the actual rates of tenure denials in these departments are quite low — around 10 percent. But while junior professors in English and foreign languages were apparently incorrect in thinking that many were being rejected for tenure, they weren’t incorrect that the rules and system had changed.
Open Thread
Is her radio show on Syrius or something? I've never heard that she has one. I'd be interested to read about this tho if you have a better link. Update: you had a word missing. Here is the link (I think it's the same one): Oprah I got this far in the description of the course: Lesson #70 teaches the student to say and believe "My salvation comes from me." and the whole thing went right into the toilet. .
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