Upon a little research, it turns out that the Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martias) is the name of March 15 in the Roman calendar. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the month for May, July, and October as well. The Ides of March was a festival day dedicated to the god Mars. A military parade was usually held. Mars, the Roman god of war, gives us our third day of the week, Tuesday. (Consider the French, Mardi.)

That sent me right into Mardi Gras, the festival before the season of sacrifice, Lent, from Ash Wednesday until Easter. Mardi Gras means, literally, Fat Tuesday, and is a wild festival of indulgence just prior to relinquishment. It used to be that serious observers of the Easter season gave up something for Lent, something they liked. This year I’m giving up the habit of fear about my health.

The content of the theme itself can vary greatly from episode to episode. The show can choose for its subject for one episode some current incident, while general social topics are regularly discussed, too. More than the choice of the subject, however, it is the approach that makes the show what it is.

The show can potentially include essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction, and found footage and can be an interesting collage of these different journalistic materials.

The host of the show, Ira Glass, was recently at Filene Ladd Music Hall in the Arthur Zankel Music Center to give a presentation on his journey as a journalist and a radio host.

To know more about the show, its history, previous and upcoming episodes you can visit the official website of the show at http://www.thisamericanlife.org/.

However, as last night’s show revealed, no one is safe on this season of American Idol as favorite Lily Scott was voted out and it is now clear that no one has a safe ride, not even Crystal Bowersox. Katelyn Epperly, Todrick Hall, and Alex Lambert were also voted off last night.

* Crystal Bowersox Sick in Hospital
* Crystal Bowersox Performance Video

Simon Cowell has clearly put his clout behind Crystal Bowersox however, as he told her that she is the one to beat and even Ellen DeGeneres keeps tellling her that she is amazing.

There was some doubt that Bowersox would even make it back to Idol however, after she had to be rushed to the hospital and the men had to perform with very short notice, but she returned to wow the audience and judges the next night and fans couldn’t be happier.

Bowersox’s struggle with diabetes has become part of her story on American Idol but MTV, among others, think that she has real potential to win:

Even President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who was fond of music, do not want to miss joining the Java Jazz Festival. According to the schedule, the President and his entourage will attend to the scene at around 20:00 pm. Up at 19:00 was the security officer had donor presence of Heads of State, among the thousands of jazz lovers Indonesia last night.

The presence of Indonesia President is certainly a special appreciation for the Java Jazz Festival committee. In the year sixth, more and more attention of various circles of the jazz event that brings our nation’s name.

Java Jazz held on Friday until Sunday this week (5 to 7 March 2010) involving about 1,300 musicians, 20 stage, 2000 organizers and 450 foreign and domestic journalists.

It’s really nothing lose if we watch the Java Jazz Festival 2010, visitors are not only in entertaining by the musicians for a day, even during this weekend they do. PRJ venue looked even more heated in the night and they were willing crowded to watch their idols . Lets enjoy the show then.

Marzuki Alie’s leadership in the plenary session of the Parliament regreted by the three vice-chairmans of the House of Representative: Pramono Anung, Priyo Budi Santoso, and Anis Matta. They evaluated that Marzzuki did not ccommodative. It was because Marzuki Alie did not ask for their opinion.

Pramono Anung said he is deeply regrets Marzuki Alie’s action who did not able to lead the plenary session. “The chairman of a plenary session function as facilitators of absorbing and harmonizing the growing aspirations of the members,” said Pramono, who is also the Secretary General of the PDIP’s. He added, the chairmen of the Council had agreed to lead the Council collectively collegial. This means that decisions are taken by the House of Representative will be based on the Council chairmen’s agreement.

Anis Matta said, Marzuki’s attitude has made the meeting closed unpleasantly. He is considered a plenary session as the highest decision that due to change the decision of the deliberative agency. “The court did not have to close the meeting immediately, it could be suspended, lobbying between fraction’s chairmen,” said Anis

Moreover, a plenary session on the determination of the Special Committee concluded that Century is very important and mostly awaited, added Pramono, a Chairman of the House of Representatives should ask and disscuss with the vice-chairmen before taking a decision to close the meeting. “But, Marzuki did not do that, and even he did not ask the three representatives,” he said.

First off, Evan Lysacek won his Olympic gold medal not just because he outskated the competition, but because he out-danced the competition. He used his artistry and elegance to defeat Evgeni Plushenko, the pre-event favorite, despite Plushenko’s powerful arsenal of jumps.

In addition, and perhaps more pointedly, there’s no other man included in the Dancing with the Stars 2010 lineup who boasts an Olympic gold medal in what essentially amounts to dancing on skates, so that’s a huge checkmark in Lysacek’s favor.

Secondly, by all accounts, Evan Lysacek is a serious workhorse. During the Olympic Games broadcasts, commentator Scott Hamilton repeatedly remaked on Lysacek’s strong work ethic, and on the number of hours the skater spends practicing his moves.

Fresh off an Olympic training regimen, he may be the best prepared of those included in the Dancing with the Stars 2010 lineup to deal with the rigors of ballroom and Latin dance training.

Thirdly, gold medal-winning Olympians have historically excelled on DWTS. Gymnast Shawn Johnson won Dancing with the Stars season 8 with partner Mark Ballas. Figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, also paired with Ballas, took the season 6 title.

Yamaguchi was, in fact, so dominant during her tenure on the DWTS that it was hard to imagine anyone else winning the title. The terms ‘Olympian’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars’ go together like peanut butter and jelly, and as the sole Olympian on the Dancing with the Stars 2010 lineup list, Lysacek has a leg up on the competition.

CR Johnson, 26, was reportedly taking a run down a steep chute on the signature Light Towers when he smashed his head against a rock outcropping.

Jim Rogers, a member of the Lake Tahoe-area resort’s ski patrol, told the Associated Press that Johnson was skiing with a group of friends when he fell at a “very, very tight, rocky area.” Ski patrol were on the scene within minutes, but efforts to revive Johnson failed.

Johnson fell face first, then spun around and struck the back of his head on rocks, according to the AP report. He was reportedly wearing a helmet, but Rogers said the helmet took a serious blow. Rogers said that Johnson was skiing for recreation with friends and not as part of a competition.

“He’s the defining person who put halfpipe skiing on the map,” two-time Winter X SuperPipe champion Simon Dumont told ESPN Action Sports. “He’s a huge part of how halfpipe skiing is right now.”

Johnson had competed in superpipe and halfpipe skiing at the X Games and won the US Open against Tanner Hall in 2002. He was the first skier to complete a 1440 — four complete 360 degree spins — which he performed at his home mountain of Squaw Valley.

Scott Gaffney, co-director of Matchstick Productions and a good friend of Johnson’s, told the Tahoe Daily Tribune that Johnson always had a smile on his face and a positive attitude.

“He was a pretty special person, especially after his [head] injury several years ago,” Gaffney told the Tribune. “He just had the greatest outlook on life and was happy to be doing what he was doing.”

In 2005, Johnson survived a life-threatening accident at Brighton resort in Utah when another skier accidentally landed on him. Johnson sustained a serious traumatic brain injury and was placed into a medically-induced coma for 10 days. Incredibly, Johnson was back in action by the end of that winter after spending several months in rehab, where he had to relearn even basic motor skills like swallowing and talking.

ESPN Action Sports reports Johnson had made steady progress in recent seasons and finished third in the prestigious Red Bull Linecatcher event in the French Alps.

Johnson was a two-time Winter X Games medalist, earning bronze in the 2001 Big Air and silver in the 2002 slopestyle.

Information from the Associated Press, ESPN Action Sports and Tahoe Daily Tribune was used in this report.

Nokia re leaked new flagship product that relies on the Linux platform N900 Internet tablet. Devices that use Linux Maemo will be available starting in October 2009 with an estimated price of 500 Euros, or about Rp 7.25 million.

The emergence of new products flagship Linux based Nokia is already a rumor in the last few days. Nokia’s been relying on the Symbian mobile devices is known to have developed a Linux Maemo devices primarily to support Internet-centric devices, specifically designed to access the Internet.

“With the Linux software, the Mozilla browser technology, and now with mobile connectivity, the Nokia N900 provides full mobility experience,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President Markets Nokia in the press release. According to him, pemanfaatna Linux will be able to walk along with the Symbian platform and complementary product lines Nokia. Included with Windows that will be used in the first netbook Nokia Booklet 3G will be released 2 September.

Nokia N900 to work with the software version of the Maemo 5. Processor used is the ARM Cortex-A8 with the support of 256 MB of RAM memory and 768 MB of virtual memory. Its hard disk capacity of 32 GB and can be expanded to 48 GB with microSD. Internet connection can be done through the internal modem or WiFi and HSPA mobile dual band GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G.

This device also features a QWERTY keyboard and touch screen. The screen supports graphics acceleration 3DOpenGL ES 2.0 and Adobe Flash 9.4 to run the animation. This device also features 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens and Assisted GPS.

Director of General Criminal Investigation Komisasir Besar Agus Sutisna said the investigation was stopped after the rapporteur pulled out his report. “I’ve received the report today, and the complaint withdrawn,” he said when contacted on Thursday (18 / 2).

According Priyo Wibowo, the rapporteur which representing the complainant infotainment workers have also made an agreement that this issue will be settled between themselves. “There is no prosecutor anymore,” he added.
Luna, whose boy friend is Ariel Peterpan, a star of Sang Pemimpi Movie, was being complaint because she happened to yammered the infotainment treatment toward her in her private Twitter Microblog, ‘Lunmay’. Due to the complaints, numbers of infotainment journalists took Luna to Article 27 paragraph 3 of Law Information and Electronic Transactions, which demanded penalty of six years in prison. Luna is also targeted by Article 310, 311, and 316 of Act Book of Criminal Law, which governs defamation and unpleasant actions.

So great was the curiosity of people about Marsha just because he’s writing some posts on twitter. Indeed, rather than ordinary post, it contains a mockery to one of the other twitter account. In fact, Marsha went to school in SMA Bakti Mulya 400, it is one of private senior high school in Pondok Indah Jakarta, she was harassing public/goverment schools and compare it with private schools.Anyway, the writing on the twitter invite controversy among owners twitter account. Some defend Marsha, others come to attack Marsha. Because of those controversy Twitter messages, both Marsha and @ worldloveforus got many of followers. Marsha’s follower reach to 3550 more people. Meanwhile @ Worldloveforus’s follower jumped to 13,848 people. In an hour more than a hundred people support her.