Early this morning, Oscar nominations will be revealed in a live announcement at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Hollywood. Go to Island Life online, www.honolulu advertiser.com/islandlife, for the latest breaking news on the nominations. Look for the lowdown on the movies and film-related people and creations who are in the running for the 79th Annual Academy Awards in Island Life tomorrow.

HAPPENING

TALKING ABOUT TRANSLATION

With the global village getting ever interconnected, translation is a hot topic. The University of Hawai'i English Department holds an international symposium on translation roundtable from 7:30 to 9 p.m. today in the Art Auditorium. Speaking at "Translation: Theory, Practice, Trope" will be celebrated literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Arabic translator Hosam Aboul-Ela, Hawaiian translator Noelani Arista and UC-Santa Barbara professor Yunte Huang, who translated Ezra Pound's "The Pisan Cantos" into Chinese. For more information: 956-3077, subraman@hawaii.edu.

FINAL WORD

"Everybody hates their phone, and that's not a good thing. And there's an opportunity there."

Steve Jobs | Apple honcho, on why he had his company create the iPhone