Friday, March 19, 2010

“Box Office: 'Bounty' sets sail amidst critical mutiny - New York Post” plus 3 more

“Box Office: 'Bounty' sets sail amidst critical mutiny - New York Post” plus 3 more

Box Office: 'Bounty' sets sail amidst critical mutiny - New York Post

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:15 AM PDT

Movies

LOU LUMENICK Lou Lumenick is The Post's chief film critic. He has been reviewing here since 1999, after a stint as metropolitan editor, and covered films for the Bergen Record going back to 1981. A native of Astoria, Queens, who attended the City College of New York, he lives in Manhattan and has attended the Sundance, Toronto and Cannes film festivals, as well as events closer to home. Lou co-created "Shadows of Russia,'' a film series for Turner Classic movies. Columnist Archives

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Librarian gets opportunity to help students soar - Star News Online

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 06:20 AM PDT


By Brenda C. Birmelin
StarNews Correspondent

When she was a child, Susan Angelow dreamed of being an astronaut when she grew up. She got sidetracked along the way and ended up being a librarian. Now, as the manager at Barbee Library on Oak Island, she has joined her love of space and her love of libraries to teach space science to others.


Angelow was selected to join other librarians from Eastern North Carolina at a two-day symposium at the state library in Raleigh last year. The symposium was sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas. The Lunar and Planetary Institute is a research institute that provides support services to NASA and the planetary science community, and conducts planetary science research under the leadership of staff scientists, visiting researchers, and postdoctoral fellows.

When Angelow returned home, she shared what she learned in Raleigh with the youth librarians of the Brunswick County Library system. She also held a four-week class for children at the Barbee Library as part of the summer reading program. The Friends of the Library supplied funds for materials used in the classes.

The Space Science program is a hands-on experience.

"It's a fun class," said Angelow.

During the class, the students make a model space station complete with solar energy, a sewer system and a climate system. Kids learn about the effects of weightlessness on the astronauts and devise ways for them to exercise in a weightless environment.

"Because we live near the ocean, our kids have had the experience of weightlessness when they swim," Angelow said.

Many of the topics in the class require creative thinking from the students.

"I like to open up kids' brains to new ideas," said Angelow.

There is also a black hole game with glow-in-the-dark pieces. The final project for the class is making a rocket and launching it.

The purpose of the class is to expose kids to space careers. Kids learn about all the support personnel that are needed for a moon shot or trip to Mars. Students in the fifth to eighth grades are targeted because they are potentially the age group that will explore Mars.

Last summer the kids had such a great time learning about space science that the Southport-Oak Island Friends of the Library have asked Angelow to hold a similar class for adults. Angelow is working on a curriculum for adults for a class to be held in August at Barbee Library.

Angelow hasn't forgotten her love of books.

"I'm an Isaac Asimov fan. All his science fiction is based on fact," said Angelow.

For more information about "Space Science at the Library," contact your neighborhood branch of the Brunswick County Library system. Branches are located in Leland, Southport, Oak Island, Shallotte and Hickmans Crossroads.


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Business book reviews - Dallas Morning News

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 05:35 AM PDT

Clever

Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones (Harvard Business Press, $26)

Clever workers don't just own their jobs. They apply entrepreneurial spirit. Clever workers can be "brilliant, difficult – and sometimes even dangerous," authors Rob Goffe and Gareth Jones say.

Making clever workers brilliant involves understanding their psyches. The authors identify a number of their traits: They do what they are and define themselves by their passion, not their employer. That passion makes them the go-to people. Their skills are not easily replicated.

"Clevers cultivate the internal resources they need and know the toes they shouldn't step on (but often do)."

Clever workers get the job done and function best when they aren't so much told what to do as shown what must be done – and then allowed to figure out how. They don't pay attention to people who can't help them execute.

Clever workers need to be steered, not led. If you want to ensure that clever workers display their brilliance, "convince them your company can help them succeed."

Switch

Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Broadway Books, $26)

The Heaths take the psycho-babble out of emotional intelligence. They characterize the brain as a two-party system that doesn't believe in a bipartisan approach to making decisions. When change enters the mental landscape, the logical side collides with the animal- emotional side.

They offer three principles:

1. Make sure the logical side knows why change must occur, what forms it may take and the results.

2. Motivate the animal brain by "finding the feeling." Find the trigger that allows the emotional side to agree with the logical side. Showing someone what they can do post-change becomes a motivator.

3. Shape the path for change by tweaking the environment. Build new habits that flow from existing ones. This allows people to expand their comfort zone without thinking they're entering the danger zone. Ask for input – and listen to it.

Jim Pawlak reviews business books for The Dallas Morning News.

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Book Reviews - News Slashdot

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 04:54 PM PDT

The ability to download albums and films in a matter of seconds is a harbinger of deep trouble for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which would prefer to turn the clock back, way back.

Consider that the MPAA, whose members include Disney and Universal, attacked the VCR in congressional hearings in the 1980s with a Darth Vader-like zeal, predicting box-office receipts would collapse if consumers were allowed to freely share and copy VHS tapes of Hollywood movies.

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