| Redesign, day 2
The syndicate that provided the feature to us, decided rather abruptly a week or so ago to stop carrying it, and unable to find an alternative source, features editor Pia Hansen opted to drop it. Amid the uproar, Hansen looked more closely and discovered that one of our other syndicate services does carry the Jumble, and we'll resume publication tomorrow. Oh, and we also redesigned the whole newspaper What we haven't heard this morning is complaints about the newly redesigned Spokesman-Review. There was some talk on the Mark Fuhrman show about it this morning, including a complaint from Fuhrman himself that we "never" have Iraq news in the paper. There were some issues with the press run - some readers reported "bleedthrough" (when wet ink from one page blots onto another, making the page unreadable) and other legibility issues.
Data show decline in adolescent tobacco use
An apparent decline in student tobacco use has Missoula authorities encouraged that their Tobacco Free Missoula County campaign is working.Data in the 2005 Youth Behavior Risk Survey released last month show drops in the number of local young people smoking or using chewing tobacco. However, it also showed a spike in the number of high school teens who chewed compared to two years ago.The 2005 study looked at about 2,000 adolescents throughout Montana. Of those, 234 were in Missoula County. .
Summary of Findings
With more young people going online for campaign information, the age gap in campaign news sources has widened. As was the case in 2004, older Americans are more likely than younger people to learn about the campaign from many traditional news sources, particularly local TV news, Sunday TV political programs, nightly network news, and newspapers. The internet is the only major news source that young people use for campaign news at higher rates than older Americans � and this gap has more than doubled since 2004. People who rely on the internet for campaign news turn to a wide array of websites. The most frequently mentioned online news outlets are MSNBC (at 26%), CNN (23%) and Yahoo News (22%). However, numerous other outlets also receive mentions, including non-traditional sources of campaign information; 3% each say they go to the Drudge Report or MySpace, while 2% specifically mention YouTube as a site where they get campaign news.
Casting call for new Jack Black movie held today in Minden
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The bronze sorcerer
In Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea (1938), the hero Roquentin is working in a small French provincial town when he comes across the pollution-stained bronze statue of a local school inspector, who had died in 1902. Roquentin, a historical researcher, is both mesmerised and appalled by this effigy, which has become "guardian" of the local people: "This square may have been a cheerful place about 1800, with its pink bricks and its houses. Now there is something dry and evil about it, a delicate touch of horror. This is due to that fellow up there on his pedestal. When they cast that scholar in bronze, they turned him into a sorcerer . . . He has no eyes, scarcely any nose, a beard eaten away by that strange leprosy which sometimes descends, like an epidemic, on all the statues of a particular district." .
Sub-prime takes shine off Tiffany
Analysts believe the sub-prime mortgage crisis has prompted people to cut back discretionary spending and "trade down" to cut-price shops. Among the few chains which enjoyed a healthy Christmas were Wal-Mart and Costco. Immortalised by the Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's, the 170-year-old firm has 68 shops in America and just over 100 elsewhere in the world, including five in London. With 8,900 staff, it made profits of $253m (£129m) from sales of $2.6bn in 2006. Contact us | Print | Email Share .
UC Berkeley seeks public's views to plan new path for People's Park
Those are among the suggestions a San Francisco consulting firm has drawn up as ways to revitalize the embattled Berkeley landmark, which for 40 years has been a sacred symbol of Berkeley in the 1960s but these days is a forlorn and sometimes menacing hub for drug users and the homeless. The University of California, which owns the 2.8-acre park off Telegraph Avenue, is holding a community meeting Feb. 4 to respond to the 35-page report by MKThink Inc., which spent six months and held more than 40 community meetings to come up with a plan to make the park safer and more accessible to a wider range of people. "The university is committed to improving the park," said Irene Hegarty, UC Berkeley director of community relations. "A lot of people's attitudes about the park have changed, and we wanted to take a fresh, comprehensive look at the issue." To address the homelessness, crime and drug use that currently pervades the park, the report recommends that UC work with the city of Berkeley on social services and homeless outreach programs.
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