| THE CORNER CUBE WEDNESDAY: Raw rating predictable, not encouraging
Just facing an issue of where the company was heading after TNA made several wrestlers exclusive to their roster, while ROH's attendance wasn't as strong compared to previous years. Actually, facing a tough dilemma worked in ROH's favor. Instead of depending on Joe, Daniels, Styles, and Homicide, they were faced with the task of developing their own crop of stars with a little help from Japan. Three excellent PPVs later, a feud of the year candidate established, Morishima signing on for 2008, and a national DVD distribution deal in place for April 2008, ROH is heading on the right track. They took adversity and turned it into an opportunity. Kevin Steen and El Generico were considered opening card acts when they first came to ROH. Now, they are legitimate stars. The Briscoes finally had their breakthrough year, this coming after I watched Mark Briscoe freefall through the air and nearly kill himself in Detroit.
Bloggers and Twitter
I started tweeting a couple of days ago and am quickly getting addicted. I thought I’d share some of my early impressions of Twitter. Twitter seemed rather pointless to me from the outside. I figured there would be a lot more noise than signal and perhaps if you’re following the general public there is going to be too much noise to wade through. On the other hand if you can use a little discretion when choosing who to follow you’ll find a lot more signal than you might think. I’ve seen a number of posts over the months about Twitter and had signed up sometime awhile back, but a few recent posts convinced me to start tweeting. A Quick Introduction to Twitter for Bloggers 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners 75+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter It was probably the weight of all the posts I’ve seen in recent months, but they all reached a tipping point within the last week.
Endorsing Ron Paul, and Why Progressive Dems Should Support Ron Paul
Like Petey Greene the old Wasington D.C. disc jockey would say, "Hey people wake up God-dammit!". I think what's throwing people off is the title header of your op-piece. Sometimes people will only read the header, then read the rest of the story with a certain frame of mind. .
Advertising giant Grey Global re-launches in Cairo by op...
Born in Aswan, Abdel Dhaher has both Nubian and Saeedi roots. Although he left Aswan as a child and came to settle in Cairo, Abdel Dhaher never really left Egypt's most magical city. “My painting style is social realism. I paint the reality of life in the South. I've loved to paint the daily life or the environment in the South ever since I was a student of Fine Arts," he says. Armed with a sketch pad at all times, Abdel Dhaher quickly draws everything he sees, a zir (water jar), a cousin feeding the chickens, another cousin feeding the ducks, his nephews' double wedding, or the belly dancer and zammar (flute player) at a wedding. Few people have heard of a Saeedi painter. It's not that Upper Egyptians aren't blessed with artistic talent. They are. It is just that those painters who originally come from Upper Egypt more often than not tend to stray away from their roots and try to become urbanized.
MyRichUncle’s Under-the-Radar Buy
The e-mail message last month from the president of Embark, a company whose software colleges use to process online applications from students, promised big changes for its customers. The company’s management team, said Adam Park, had, "with the help of outside funding," bought Embark from the Princeton Review, its owner since 2001. "The infusion of fresh capital," Park wrote, "will allow us to dramatically improve the products you are using, improve all of our services (including our accounting services), and provide the most stable and user friendly website in the business." .
Struggling to Keep Black Students
I think we're going to see change with these creative scholarships and matching grants," Carroll said. Gordon Chavis, assistant vice president for undergraduate admissions at the University of Central Florida and a member of the governor's Access and Diversity Commission, said that “our foundation people" have been very positive about the matching grants program. Chavis said that people usually donate to a general scholarship fund, so getting donations specifically for first generation students might require new fund raising tactics. But he added that universities could use the opportunity to court donors who want to know exactly how their money will be used. Rosenberg added that the matching grants are part of “a culture of incentives within the system that we'd like to preserve." In California, the number of black students has declined since the voter-approved Proposition 209 outlawed using race in admissions in 1996.
Fault Lines on Accreditation
Only proposals on which every negotiator agrees get forwarded to the education secretary for possible action, which means that any individual negotiator can sink any particular proposal. But if the negotiators fail to reach agreement, the Education Department has the latitude to propose its own rules. (The education secretary can also change regulatory language that the negotiators have agreed on, with a "written explanation" for doing so.) That dynamic has the tendency to put pressure on negotiators — fearful of what the department might do if left to its own devices — to compromise on a proposal that they can live with. That dynamic was clearly in play on Wednesday, as accrediting officials who were clearly uncomfortable with several of the department’s proposed agenda items threatened to withhold their support for keeping those items on the committee’s plate.
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