Who d'ya want to win as opposed to who d'ya think is gonna win
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Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Director
Feel free to include any other category that interests you (nod to Adam here for sound). Results will be posted prior to the ceremony... I wish I could make this a contest with prizes and all. But, hey, there's a recession going on, or haven't ya heard? So, just have some fun, eh?
zEN mAN (observing former Republican US Vice-Presidential Candidate and current Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin's unwed daughter Bristol (who just delivered her child) commenting to Greta Van Cistern that "abstinence is not realistic"....stomping her born again Christian mother's support of teen abstinence programs)
Bill Moyers Journal: "High Noon: Geithner v. The American Oligarchs" (pbs.org)
The battle is joined as they say - and here's the headline that framed it: "High Noon: Geithner v. The American Oligarchs." The headline is in one of the most informative new sites in the blogosphere called: baselinescenario.com. Here's the quote that grabbed me:
Laura Barton: "Peaches Geldof: a life in tattoos" (guardian.co.uk)
It wasn't so much that Peaches Geldof was cavorting topless on a south American beach that caught public attention yesterday, as the fact that her semi-clad state revealed an impressive collection of more than 20 tattoos, including ...
Gerardo Orlando: A Chat with Bill Maher (bullz-eye.com)
"They will tell you right to your face, you can live a horrible life and on your deathbed go, 'Okay, Jesus, I believe in you now,' and it's all cool; it's all forgiven. So it's just silly. Come on."
KATIE PEOPLES: "Coraline" Dazzles Audiences (curvemag.com)
I'm sure I'm not the first feminist to notice this, but as I was sitting in the theater, watching the latest film from Henry Selick, "Coraline," I couldn't help but think, When will adult women get their turn?
The blackboard was introduced into the US education system in 1801.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
That was
A 1801
And we have taken retrograde steps since then
A CAUTIONARY TALE
Albert A. Bartlett
Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 80309-0390
In a recent meeting, an architect went to the whiteboard, intending to draw some explanatory diagrams. He had designed the building and had specified a whiteboard instead of a conventional chalkboard in the room where the meeting was held. He picked up a pen from the tray, took off the cap and tried to write. The pen was dry. He picked up another pen and had the same experience. There were about half a dozen pens in the tray, and he quickly found that every one had expired. Someone in the group went to an office and brought back several more pens. These worked, but they did not seem to be writing at full strength.
A member of the audience spoke up and said that there were important lessons in this experience and that he hoped that everyone had all learned the lessons.
1) Has anyone ever seen a piece of chalk that would not write?
2) Every piece of chalk, by its size, tells at a glance how much more writing the piece can do.
3) A whiteboard pen costs much more, perhaps as much as an order of magnitude more, than does a piece of chalk.
So in new or remodeled buildings, the act of specifying white boards and pens instead of chalkboards and chalk is an action whose effect is to increase the client's operating costs while condemning the client to the perpetual frustration of inferior service.
Alan J said:
A 1801
Adam in NoHo replied:
A 1801
Marian the Teacher responded:
1801
Sally said:
The blackboard was introduced into the US education system in 1801 (A). Okay, I may not remember that, but, having attended a parochial elementary school in the 1940s and 1950s (actually for my entire 12 years of schooling) I do remember that only the boys were chosen to clean the erasers after each subject was concluded. That activity allowed the lucky young man to escape the classroom and go outside to vigorously clap the erasers together, thus removing the excess chalk build up contained in them. How the girls envied those boys as they proudly swaggered out, erasers in hand, looking vainly smug on their way outside to discharge their coveted duty. I do recollect that boy's who demonstrated an early vocation to the priesthood topped teacher's list - and each boy received a brief, "blessing" when they returned the clean eraser to the grateful nun's hand... The nuns, you see, were of the mind that "young ladies" did not ascribe to "man's work," just as no boy would ever grow up to help his wife inside the house by say, vacuuming... Well, that's another whole long story, isn't it now???
PS: Joe S the poet! Who'd have thought - and a pretty good one too! Good job, Mr S.
~ Tony In Philly. answered:
A 1801
I remember it well ...
MAM wrote:
Answer A 1801 while Thomas Jefferson was President!
When the blackboard was first introduced at WestPoint in 1801, it caused quite a stir. Mr. George Baron, a math instructor at West Point Military Academy used it to teach math lessons. Teachers all over the United States debated the usefulness of the blackboard. Many thought that using the blackboard in teaching should not be done! While individual slates were commonplace, blackboards on the walls were not. Books were written on how to effectively use the blackboard as a teaching tool and teachers attended training sessions on how to use it effectively. Expert "blackboard users" ran workshops for how to use this new technology.
Even single-room schoolhouses in far rural areas of the country began enjoying the use of this innovative teaching tool. By the mid-1800s, a blackboard was to be found in almost every school and had become the single most important educational tool. Chalk boards remained the primary all-around educational fixture in schoolrooms and businesses for almost 200 years.
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Cleveland, Ohio school house circa 1809 Slate writing tablet
And, Joe S ("But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
~ Frederick Pollock) answered:
A 1801. Over time it evolved into a greenboard
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Survivor: Brazil', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Eleventh Hour'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are David Spade and David Sanborn with Sam Moore.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Paula Abdul and Carl Edwards.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'My Name Is Earl', followed by a FRESH'Kath & Kim', then a FRESH'The Office', followed by a FRESH'30 Rock' then a FRESH'ER'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno (R-Enabler) are Dennis Miller (R-Humor Impaired), Freida Pinto, and A.R. Rahman.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan, his next-to-the-last-show-from-NYC, are Jerry Seinfeld and Craig Bierko.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Joey Fatone and Hollywood Undead.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Ugly Betty', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Private Practice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, and Anya Marina.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a FRESH'Bones', followed by a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen'.
MY fills the night with the movie 'River's Edge'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'The Beast'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Godfather', followed by the movie 'The Godfather, Part II'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 15
[12:30 PM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16
[1:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 11
[1:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 12
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 Sandgate
[3:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
[4:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 12
[4:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 12
[5:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 10 Dillons
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 1
[9:00 PM] My Husband Is Gay
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America
[11:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 1
[12:00 AM] My Husband Is Gay
[1:00 AM] Dragons' Den - Episode 1
[2:00 AM] My Husband Is Gay
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 8 Barbara Windsor and Robert Webb
[4:00 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 15
[4:30 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 16
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 3 Grey
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 4 Sweet
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Millionaire Matchmaker'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's old 'Jon Stewart', last night's old 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and another 'Futurama'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 2/10/09) is Thomas Ricks.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 2/10/09) is Robert Ballard.
FX has the movie 'Gridiron Gang', followed by the movie 'Coach Carter'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'Gangland', followed by a FRESH'Gangland', and 'Cities Of The Underworld'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Tsotsi
[7:35 AM] I Am David
[9:15 AM] Darkness
[11:00 AM] The Glass Shield
[1:00 PM] Tsotsi
[2:35 PM] I Am David
[4:15 PM] IFC News Special
[4:30 PM] Darkness
[6:15 PM] Victim
[8:00 PM] Monster's Ball
[10:00 PM] The Pianist
[12:30 AM] Body of Evidence
[12:30 AM] Body of Evidence
[2:15 AM] Monster's Ball
[4:15 AM] The Pianist (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[05:45 AM] Big Ideas for a Small Planet - Season 1: Cities
[06:15 AM] The Third Monday in October
[08:00 AM] Tickets
[10:00 AM] Pulling: Episode 2
[10:30 AM] Big Girl's Blouse: Episode 4
[11:00 AM] On the Road in America: Episode 12 - Indiana/Wisconsin
[11:30 AM] On the Road in America: Episode 6 - Los Angeles, Part 1
[12:00 PM] The Third Monday in October
[01:35 PM] I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK
[03:30 PM] Bittersweet Place
[05:00 PM] Tickets
[07:00 PM] Spectacle: Diana Krall & Elton John
[08:00 PM] Sin City Law: Gladys' Choice, Part One
[09:00 PM] Punishment Park
[10:30 PM] Sleeping Betty
[11:00 PM] Spectacle: Diana Krall & Elton John
[12:00 AM] Sin City Law: Gladys' Choice, Part One
[01:00 AM] Kurt Cobain: About a Son
[02:45 AM] The Beat That My Heart Skipped
[04:30 AM] Sleeping Betty
[05:00 AM] Terminal City: Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Geronimo's descendants have sued Skull and Bones - the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures - claiming that its members stole the remains of the legendary Apache leader decades ago and have kept them ever since.
The federal lawsuit filed in Washington on Tuesday - the 100th anniversary of Geronimo's death - also names the university and the federal government.
Geronimo's great-grandson Harlyn Geronimo said his family believes Skull and Bones members took some of the remains in 1918 from a burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to keep in its New Haven clubhouse, a crypt. The alleged graverobbing is a longstanding legend that gained some validity in recent years with the discovery of a letter from a club member that described the theft.
According to lore, members of Skull and Bones - including former resident George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush - dug up his grave when a group of Army volunteers from Yale were stationed at the fort during World War I, taking his skull and some of his bones.
British author Sir Terry Pratchett shows his knighthood award outside Buckingham Palace in London. Pratchett and the country's youngest-ever Paralympic or Olympic gold medallist have been honoured by the Queen for their achievement.
Photo by Ian Nicholson
The estate of rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix says it has won a trademark infringement lawsuit against a company that promoted Hendrix Electric vodka.
The Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix companies in Seattle say they won a $3.2 million federal court judgment that orders the vodka to be pulled from the market.
The family owned companies filed the lawsuit in 2007 against Seattle businessman Craig Dieffenbach, who packaged the vodka in purple-tinted bottles with Hendrix's face and signature above the label.
In an about-face following a torrent of online protests, Facebook is backing off a change in its user policies while it figures how best to resolve questions like who controls the information shared on the social networking site.
The site, which boasts 175 million users from around the world, had quietly updated its terms of use - its governing document - a couple of weeks ago. The changes sparked an uproar after popular consumer rights advocacy blog Consumerist.com pointed them out Sunday, in a post titled "Facebook's New Terms Of Service: 'We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.'"
Facebook has since sought to reassure its users - tens of thousands of whom had joined protest groups on the site - that this is not the case. And on Wednesday morning, users who logged on to Facebook were greeted by a message saying that the site is reverting to its previous terms of use policies while it resolves the issues raised.
Facebook spelled out, in plain English rather than the legalese that prompted the protests, that it "doesn't claim rights to any of your photos or other content. We need a license in order to help you share information with your friends, but we don't claim to own your information."
Props used by 1950s television comedian Ernie Kovacs, including a pair of eyeglasses with images of eyes on the lenses, are being sold this weekend by a Dallas collectibles auctioneer.
Kovacs wore the glasses when he was in character as drunken poet Percy Dovetonsils.
The three gorilla masks used in comedy bits involving the "Nairobi Trio" will also be part of the auction online and in Dallas at Heritage Auction Galleries. Doug Norwine, director of music and entertainment at Heritage, said in a news release that the items are consigned by the estate of Kovacs and his late widow, actress and singer Edie Adams.
Other items in the auction of music and entertainment memorabilia include items consigned by the daughter of "Frankenstein" actor Boris Karloff, Norwine said.
Director Steven Spielberg, left talks to producer Jeffrey "Sparky" Katzenberg in the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Atlanta Hawks, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, in Los Angeles. The Lakers won 96-83.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
The tumbledown farmhouse in Cumbria, England where Withnail and his hapless sidekick went on holiday in the cult movie "Withnail and I" has been sold for £265,000, reports said on Tuesday.
A Cumbrian publican fought off seven rivals at auction to buy the house known as "Uncle Monty's cottage" in the 1987 film starring Richard E. Grant, reports said.
"He is a fan of the film and has said that everyone will be welcome if they want to pass by for a cup of tea," a spokeswoman for the auctioneer said.
Although a flop at the box office, the movie, written and directed by Bruce Robinson and set in the 1960s, achieved cult status after it was released on video.
Marion "Suge" Knight has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery for beating a woman in a Las Vegas parking lot last year.
The 43-year-old rap producer entered the plea in Las Vegas Justice Court Tuesday in a deal that dismissed two felony drug charges and one felony coercion charge stemming from the August incident.
Police said officers witnessed the co-founder of Death Row Records striking Melissa Isaac while holding a knife in a parking lot near the Las Vegas Strip. They said Knight was carrying Ecstasy and hydrocodone when they arrested him.
Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman ordered Knight to receive counseling and pay a $340 fine. He's due back in court in August for a status check.
British singer Tom Jones arrives at the Brit Awards 2009 at Earls Court exhibition centre in London, England, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009.
Photo by Joel Ryan
"NBA on TNT" analyst Charles Barkley, on leave since January after a drunken driving arrest in Arizona, will return this week.
Turner Sports said Tuesday that Barkley would be in the studio for "Inside the NBA," which features Barkley as well as host Ernie Johnson and analyst Kevin Smith.
Barkley's leave of absence meant that he missed TNT's coverage of the NBA All-Star Game, where he would have had a key role. TNT averaged 6.8 million viewers for Sunday night's All-Star game, up 8% from the year before.
Earlier this week, Barkley picked up another TV appearance with the announcement that The Golf Channel would have Barkley as a guest on its new reality series "The Haney Project." Barkley will get his golf swing analyzed by Hank Haney, a noted golf instructor.
Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near the famous La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of the nation's second-largest city.
Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton, a skull of an American lion and bones of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, bison, horses, ground sloths and other mammals.
Researchers discovered 16 fossil deposits under an old parking lot next to the tar pits in 2006 and began sifting through them last summer. The mammoth remains, including 10-foot-long tusks, were in an ancient riverbed near the fossil cache.
The ballet of the Viennesse state opera with their young dancers rehearse their appearance for the opening traditional opera ball in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009.
Photo by Ronald Zak
The original "Star Trek" films and TV show are coming out on Blu-ray Disc for the first time in the spring, coinciding with the May 8 premiere of the latest movie in the franchise flies to screens.
The seven-disc set "Star Trek: The Original Series -- Season One," due April 28 via Paramount Home Entertainment, includes all 29 episodes from the 1966-67 season of the science fiction series, with the option for viewers to toggle between the original broadcast versions and the recent remastered versions that include enhanced visual effects.
Extras include the original previews for each episode, plus a variety of behind-the-scenes featurettes and retrospectives.
Prime-Time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Feb. 9-15. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (2) "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 24.94 million viewers.
2. (1) "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 24.82 million viewers.
3. (8) "The Mentalist" CBS, 19.7 million viewers.
4. (6) "NCIS," CBS, 18.03 million viewers.
5. (4) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 17.94 million viewers.
6. (13) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 15.16 million viewers.
7. (11) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 15 million viewers.
8. (19) "Without a Trace," CBS, 14.31 million viewers.
9. (45) "Private Practice," ABC, 14.1 million viewers.
10. (9) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 14.01 million viewers.
11. (15) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 13.81 million viewers.
12. (14) "Survivor: Tocantins," CBS, 13.63 million viewers.
13. (9) "60 Minutes," CBS, 13.11 million viewers.
14. (36) "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 12.72 million viewers.
15. (11) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.48 million viewers.
16. (17) "CSI: NY," CBS, 11.94 million viewers.
17. (30) "The Bachelor," ABC, 11.59 million viewers.
18. (X) "Dateline NBC" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.26 million viewers.
19. (64) "20/20" (Friday), ABC, 10.99 million viewers.
20. (23) "Eleventh Hour," CBS, 10.94 million viewers.
Mickey Rourke is headed to the Academy Awards both as a nominee and a grieving pet owner after the death of his 17-year-old Chihuahua, Loki.
A representative for Rourke, Judy Woloshen, said the actor's beloved dog died Monday night.
Says Rourke: "Loki is deeply missed but with me in spirit. I feel very blessed that she fell asleep peacefully in my arms."
Rourke, who's having a career comeback with his acclaimed performance in "The Wrestler," was especially close to Loki and is a longtime owner of chihuahuas.
Rourke thanked all his dogs - living and dead - after winning the Golden Globe for best actor last month, saying "sometimes when a man's alone, all you got is your dog."
A worker prepares a float for the Mangueira samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. Brazil will hold carnival celebrations Feb. 21-24.
Photo by Ricardo Moraes
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