JTA wants national focus on nutrition
Nadisha Hunter, Staff Reporter
THE JAMAICA Teachers Association (JTA) is calling for a national campaign focusing on the health and nutrition of students.
President of the JTA, Paul Adams, said that poor nutrition was having a severe impact on students ability to learn.
His comments come against the background of a recent report that revealed that some 10,000 children in Jamaica were suffering from diabetes.
University of Technology president, Professor Errol Morrison, in a recent Gleaner article, stated that surveys by the Government and non-governmental organisations had unveiled startling findings.
Adams told The Gleaner that many students turn up at school...
Festival of Books: Grahame-Smith explains why we need zombies
According to Seth Grahame-Smith, author of three insanely popular historical-fiction-meets-genre-thriller novels, zombies are good at two things: separating us from our delicious cranial tissue, and serving as a metaphor for whatever a culture fears.
“Zombies have represented everything from communism to consumerism,” he said of his first smash novel “Pride amp; Prejudice amp; Zombies.” “All I wanted to do was take Jane Austen’s themes and humor and put them in an even more absurd landscape. It’s the same thing in “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” The vampires are slavery. They steal your life force to enrich themselves. That’s...
Festival of Books: Documenting high-profile scandals and failures
The works of the authors at the Sunday afternoon Festival of Books session American Breakdown had little in common except for one thing: failure. Failure of institutions, failures of a family, failures of a society.
The session moderated by LA Times senior editor Scott Kraft included authors John Nichols (Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, From Madison to Wall Street), Laurie Sandell (Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family), David Willman (The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks, and Americas Rush to War) and Tom Zoellner (A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us about the Grand Canyon State and Life in Arizona)....
Hobbies, entertainment top topics of Web searches
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Hobbies, entertainment top topics of Web searches
NEW YORK — Well over half of people globally use the Internet to search for information on entertainment and hobbies, according to a new survey.
Focal Press Launches New Books Featuring Photoshop CS6 Tips, Tutorials
WALTHAM, Mass., Apr 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Focal
Press, a leading publisher of media technology books, today
announced the availability of several new photography titles that
include tutorials and how-tos to help photographers and designers
navigate the newly-released Adobe(R)
Photoshop(R) CS6 digital image editing software.
Adobe
Photoshop CS6 for Photographers, written by renowned
photographer and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Martin
...
Erie-area residents turn sustainable agriculture into hobbies
The little brown hen made a big fuss as she flew the coop.
From inside the little gray shed, where a small gathering of hens sat in their nest boxes, they could see Fred Dunn, 51, coming. The little brown hen didnt stick around to greet him — she hopped out of her box and scuttled out the door and into the afternoon sunshine, clucking madly as she went.
Dunn didnt seem to mind. As he stepped inside the coop, he carefully peeked into the vacated nest boxes and picked out two creamy-white eggs.
It goes all the way back to childhood memories, said Dunn, whos raised poultry for 12 years. When I was a little kid, I was interested in the idea that...
Discovery Sparks Interest In Forgotten Black Scholar
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Three years ago, Rufus McDonald found historic documents in an abandoned house and took them to a rare-books dealer. The papers and books belonged to Richard T. Greener, a 19th century intellectual who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University.
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Three years ago, Rufus McDonald found historic documents in an abandoned house and took...
Building activity ‘starting off a little slowly’
By STEVE HUSZAI
Staff Writer
WOOSTER — A warmer than usual winter season did not translate to an increase in building activity over the first quarter of 2012.
Commercial activity continues to be the driver of Woosters economy, but is down from 2011, specifically projects within the medical community.
But in a sign of a still-depressed economy, miscellaneous activity outpaced actual building projects.
Miscellaneous activity encompasses permits issued for electrical, heating, plumbing, fire protection, moving/demolition/floodplain and sidewalk/driveway projects.
While 2012 is starting off a little slowly, we are currently seeing a lot of activity...
Amazon’s Fight Against Content Middlemen: Books, TV, Movies, Games
The publishing industry was rocked last year when Amazon.com, long the most important retailer in books, got serious about becoming a publisher. No longer content to control a few niche imprints, Amazon took aim at the big publishing houses’ cash cows by directly signing up best-selling authors and hiring an industry insider to run the show.
The war of words surrounding that competitive assault has been pretty brutal, with Amazon accused of trying to destroy a valuable cultural institution. And now that Amazon’s drive to sell books at lower prices appears to be winning a legal fight over the publishers’ price-fixing with Apple, blood will probably start boiling...
Catholic cardinal calls on Christians to wear their crosses every day
Britains most senior Catholic cleric has called on Christians to wear a cross every day as a symbol of their beliefs and to combat the marginalisation of religion in modern society.
The plea by Cardinal Keith OBrien, head of the Catholic church in Scotland, to be made in his Easter sermon, comes as the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, appealed for more people to attend church this Sunday – even if they are a bit vague about religion.
Williams, who is marking his final Easter as leader of the Church of England, said he does not lose sleep over the fact many people only attend church at Easter and Christmas.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4, he said that...