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Do you ever dream along to the radio? I have recently started doing so, one of the many new-found benefits (the first being that the sun-up day can only, frankly, get better) of savage scouring insomnia. It does make dreams more interesting, this falling asleep finally, shattered, around dawn or later. I managed two whole books the other night (a Jeffery Deaver and a Robert Harris, five bottles of pop, 24 cigs, seven trips to the potty, one very numb elbow, eyes like thrashed oysters) before drifting off to the Today programme, which twitched my subconscious in various delightful ways - dwarves and baby dinosaurs arguing in surprisingly articulate fashion over autonomy for schools; a Great White shark with (somehow, worryingly) the face of Hazel Blears negotiating, with mild high-pitched menace; the flooded lanes of Tewkesbury - and, also, I thought I had dreamt something bizarre about microwave ovens.
Two-day UN, Express workshop on drug prevention from Aug 9
THE United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) in collaboration with The Indian Express is organising a workshop for school teachers on media literacy as a tool for drug prevention. The aim of the programme is to to equip students with the skills to question and discern. The workshop will train teachers in various modules like journalism, advertisements, music, marketing and films to conduct workshops for students in their respective schools. Media messages, whether an advertisement, film, radio, fashion etc., do not portray reality but an idea. Somebody else's idea. This process of distinguishing between the 'real' message and what the person behind the message actually wants them to believe, will help them form their 'own' opinions, the organisers said. It will inculcate in them the ability to question; accept or discard only what agrees with their sensibilities, the organisers added.
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.
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.
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.
Short, but sweet Lightning halts game early; Tebow has 300 yards in air
Only lightning could stop Tim Tebow and No. 6 Florida on Saturday afternoon. With 8:23 left in the fourth quarter, the Gators season opener against Western Kentucky was terminated after a 1-hour, six-minute lightning delay with Florida leading 49-3. First time Ive had to deal with this, Florida coach Urban Meyer said after the game was called. Administrators and coaches from both schools were involved in the decision to end the game, he said. Before the skies turned dark, Meyer handed Tebow the Gators offense and the sophomore quarterback returned the favor in blowout fashion. On the stat sheet, Tebow was nearly perfect in his debut as Floridas starter. He threw for 300 yards and three touchdowns on 13 for 17 passing and rushed for another score.
Drew 6th best college for theater
Drew University, recently named the 63rd best liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report, received another top nod -- thousands of students nation-wide ranked it No. 6 for best college theater.
The Princeton Reviews annual survey asks 120,000 students at the top 366 colleges to rate their schools in dozens of categories and report on their campus experiences. The report, released Monday, found Drew's theater program is popular among students.
The guide described the Madison college as a small school with university resources and as a suburban school with easy access to big cities, according to Princeton Reviews Web site. Drew successfully straddles divergent universes to fashion a unique undergraduate experience. With fewer than 2000 students, Drew can offer perfect class sizes that really allow professors to teach their material well and students to get immediate feedback.
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