| Teen fashionistas try industry for size
While many US students enrolled in sports or music camps this summer, a rising number of girls invested their time instead in a new type of program centered on catwalks and haute couture - fashion camp. Enrollment in fashion-related majors at schools like New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons The New School of Design has risen in recent years, partly due to the popularity of reality television series based on fashion such as "Project Runway" and the hit movie "The Devil Wears Prada". So fashion camps held in New York, Ohio, California, Alabama and Canada were seen as giving teenage girls with a passion for fashion the chance to see whether they wanted to seriously pursue a job in the highly competitive industry. In New York, where about 169,000 people work in the fashion business, a group of 35 girls aged between 13 and 16 paid $1,095 each to join the first season of Fashion Camp NYC, comprised of five days of lectures, seminars and store visits.
Teen fashionistas try industry for size at summer camp
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - While many U.S. students enrolled in sports or music camps this summer, a rising number of girls invested their time instead in a new type of program centered on catwalks and haute couture -- fashion camp. Enrollment in fashion-related majors at schools like New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons The New School of Design has risen in recent years, partly due to the popularity of reality television series based on fashion such as "Project Runway" and the hit movie "The Devil Wears Prada". So fashion camps held in New York, Ohio, California, Alabama and Canada were seen as giving teenage girls with a passion for fashion the chance to see whether they wanted to seriously pursue a job in the highly competitive industry. In New York, where about 169,000 people work in the fashion business, a group of 35 girls aged between 13 and 16 paid $1,095 each to join the first season of Fashion Camp NYC, comprised of five days of lectures, seminars and store visits.
Fairfield County Scene: Beachy fundraiser
The Parents' Association of Convent of the Sacred Heart raised $1.1 million at its biennial auction, the Sand Pebble Ball.
The May 5 event, attended by 532 people in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, was co-chaired by Deborah Peeler, Eileen Rooney and Margaret Shouvlin, all of Greenwich. Guests also raised $178,000 to fund the school's Summer Outreach Program, which will enroll 239 youngsters from low-income families.
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Turkey's likely first lady takes fashion route
An Austrian couturier of Turkish heritage has been asked to redesign the politically charged headscarves of Turkey's likely future first lady, Hayrunisa Gul. Her Muslim headscarf has symbolised a dispute pitting Turkey's secular elite and the military against her husband Abdullah Gul's bid to become Turkey's president. The headscarf, seen by secular Turks as a threat to the separation of state and religion, is banned from public offices and schools, although more than half of Turkish women wear it. But in an apparent effort to show her ideas about fashion reach beyond the controversial scarf, she has asked a designer, whose collections adorn women ranging from Catherine Zeta-Jones to Naomi Campbell, to update her appearance for her expected new role.
It won't be same for Clark at Capital High
Last week, Capital High School Principal Clinton Giles was doing some "yard work" at the Greenbrier Street school. Giles was using a brush hog to clear weeds from his cross country team's course on school property. "I began to reclaim that," said Giles, who wasn't going to wait for the county to take care of it. "Within Kanawha County Schools there is a system that does maintenance, but the system is too large, so you can't depend on them to get to you in a timely fashion." His impatience and displeasure with some of the state school board's policies are what led Giles not to following the plan of improvement policy with his boys basketball Coach Carl Clark. When he asked Clark to resign in April, the 13-year coach refused, eventually filing a grievance against Giles.
Off on the right foot
With 24 minutes and 12 seconds left in the second half of Free State High's boys soccer opener, the game came to an abrupt stop. Tyler Hatesohl had just scored to make it 10-0, and that spread signaled the official end of the match against Spring Hill. On a hot and breezy afternoon, the Firebirds blew out the Broncos, playing their inaugural varsity soccer match, thanks in part to three goals by senior forward Alex Clayton and two more off the boot of senior midfielder Andrew Heck. It wasn't until after the game that the Firebirds learned they had played against a program in its infancy. “I had no idea what to expect," Clayton said. “I didn't know if these guys were going to be total pushovers or a real good team." The fourth-year Firebird starter said it was a good thing coach Jason Pendleton kept that tidbit from his players because the Firebirds, in the past, sometimes played down to their competition.
Gold's Turn In the Sun
The recent sub prime crisis marked a very significant shift in global markets. This shift has been expected by the gold community for several years now. We have spoken of systemic imbalances and also warned about the property sector / bubble for years now. The first major crack in the mainstream investment world has come at last and it was heard around the globe. It may not have been recognized as such as yet however that is what it was. This is the real beginning of the precious metals era especially in Australia. I am not shy to state that I predicted, back in January, a strong rise to begin in gold and silver this year. However I thought it would not begin until the second half and now as we approach the end of the gold pennant formation on the gold chart I favor an upside break.
COVER STORY
Thomas Jefferson never could have seen it coming.
With his strict division between Virginias cities and counties, he intended to preserve the bucolic, agrarian society he loved not cause a train wreck.
He meant to preserve counties, not to choke off and strangle landlocked cities, sending their affluent citizens just beyond the city lines to build prosperous, urbanized counties and take tax revenue with them
Had Jefferson observed the conditions of inner-city Richmond and its floundering schools, social services and public transportation, he might have been inspired to write a letter of declaration calling for change.
Would he have demanded an appointed school board rather than an elected one, as was the urgent call to action in a letter sent to the mayor and City Council Aug.
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