I saw this guy and his band play during the French Quarter Festival last year in New Orleans. They were a lot fun. A unique and exciting style of fun and funky jazz.
He’s getting some exposure in HBO’s new series, Treme. He’s also got a new record out, and it looks pretty good. I’m going to check it out now.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
SAR ACADEMIC FREEDOM MEDIA REVIEW
Academic Freedom Media Review
April 3 – 9, 2010
Compiled by Scholars at Risk
Tariq Ramadan Gets the American Debate He Says He Craved
Peter Schmidt, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/9
UCSD prof turns meeting into protest rally
Eleanor Yang Su, The Union Tribune, 4/9
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Apple's iPad, the Review that Isn't
Yes, I have and iPad and yes, I got it on the day of it’s release. There are lots and lots of reviews out there, so consult one of them and any of the links in this sentence. The think I am most impressed with is the battery life, the things I am most disappointed in are those I new and was prepared for; the fact that sites that use Adobe Flash don’t work, for example.
There is one thing I hadn’t realized and am not happy with, however, is the percentage of applications that you have to purchase again it you want the iPad version. It just seems unfair. Take for example, the app, “Things,” I already have the desktop program and the iPhone version. The iPhone version works on the iPad, just in tiny size and small. I’ll continue to use that. I will not pay another $19.99 for another version.
Higher Education, Collaboration, and Education for the 21st Century
TALIM
In a few days I am off to Morocco for a seminar at TALIM on higher education and employment in Morocco. But the job market in the United States is also very challenging of college graduates right now, and American educators may well be asking themselves if higher education in this country is adequately preparing students to enter the work force of the global era.
We still function in terms of national economies, but those economies are increasingly connected so that a crisis in one affects many others. We also live in a world in which graduating students in America compete for employment, directly or indirectly, with their peers in Mexico, Morocco, India and Taiwan. And the whole lot of them are also competing with graduating students in Pakistan, Costa Rica, Tunisia, Israel and Poland. Continue reading