| Cyber bullying crackdown kicks off
The government has launched a campaign to help schools tackle cyber bullying. The campaign will cost 200,000 and features guidance and a short film to help schools deal with people who use the internet or mobiles to bully other children or abuse their teachers. The guidance includes tips on preventing cyber bullying, including: not responding to malicious text or emails, saving evidence of cyber bullying, reporting incidents, keeping passwords safe and not giving out personal details over the web. silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the PS newsletter today! Ed Balls, secretary of state for the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), said cyber bullying is a "particularly insidious type of bullying" because it can follow young people wherever they go while the perpetrator can remain anonymous, making it even more stressful for the victim.
Northwest Airlines 4Q Loss Narrows
His eight-month battle to survive captured the hearts of people across the globe. Fans set up Web sites, and well-wishers flooded the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa., and Churchill Downs with cards and gifts."His accomplishments as a racehorse are certainly rivaled by the courage and resolve he displayed after his injury," Churchill Downs president Steve Sexton said.Pictures of the colt from both his racing career and his eight-month rehabilitation at the large animal hospital at New Bolton flashed above a stage before the Jacksons spoke. The Jacksons smiled while watching a short film featuring local schoolchildren talking about Barbaro and showing pictures they drew of the horse following his injury.Barbaro will be the first Kentucky Derby winner to be buried on the grounds at Churchill Downs.
'Dawson's Creek' Phenomenon Continues in Wilmington
Wilmington — It's been 10 years since 15-year-old Joey Potter discussed her emerging hormones with best friend Dawson Leery in his second-story bedroom. Ten years since Pacey Witter, dressed as a sea monster for a role in Dawson's amateur movie, ogled new-girl-in-town Jen Lindley. Ten years since a certain teen drama became a national phenomenon and ushered Wilmington's film community into the national spotlight. On Jan. 20, 1998, "Dawson's Creek" premiered to wildly mixed reviews. Praised and reviled for its hyper-sexual, super-wordy dialogue, the show centered around four high school students in the small town of Capeside, Mass. – wannabe filmmaker Dawson (James Van Der Beek), sweet girl-next-door Joey (Katie Holmes), lovable scoundrel Pacey (Joshua Jackson) and new vixen in town Jen (Michelle Williams).
There will be blood: Festival slasher stage show takes on messy new ...
Last April, Rob Matsushita and Morey Burnard drew two phrases out of a hat for Mercury Players Theatre 's 24-hour play festival, where Madison-area playwrights write a show based on those brief snippets. Matsushita and Burnard randomly picked "Thug Passion #2 " and "Discordia 's Sunshine Death, " both names of mixed drinks. That short stage play, written in 12 hours, became a 45-minute feature film with 11 original songs. The result, "Massacre (The Musical)," will make its premiere tonight at the High Noon Saloon. The Madison film also has been submitted to the Wisconsin Film Festival in hopes of a spring screening. "Massacre " tells the story of Discordia Doren (Kelly Kiopes), a good Catholic schoolgirl driven to dispatch her less-than-moral friends in gruesome ways during a getaway trip to a friend 's cabin.
Barbee’s 'Wild West Country’ premiers
Local filmmaker Chuck Barbee unveiled the rough cut of his documentary 'Wild West Country,' last week to many of the people and organizations that helped make the long awaited project possible. The theater was completely full at each of the four showings, a testament to the community support the project has gathered since Barbee began it two and one-half years ago. 'Wild West Country,' which Barbee plans to be a six-episode series about the history of the Kern Valley based on the books of historian Bob Powers, has been a long time dream of Barbee's. As a child, he grew up coming to the Kern Valley with his family to hunt and fish, and in his teen years, his family moved to the area. Barbee graduated from Kern Valley High School in 1959, and then moved to pursue a career in Hollywood.
High School Musical on London stage
The Disney big hit High School Musical is being turned into a London stage show, it has been announced. The musical will be the latest new outing for the record-breaking global phenomenon, which first appeared as a children's TV film two years ago. The production will differ from the 31-date UK tour, which has its official opening on Monday night in Bromley, Kent, and is expected to be seen by 600,000 people. The London production will open with a 10-week season at the Hammersmith Apollo in June, with actors yet to be cast. It will be the latest Disney show in London following Mary Poppins, and The Lion King. The announcement comes as the box office opens for the High School Musical UK tour, following £9 million worth of advance sales.
New helicopter to help FWP with field research
Joe Rahn, staff pilot with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, stands beside the agency's OH-58 helicopter, which has been outfitted for wildlife field research. "This is my dream job - combining flying and wildlife" Rahn says.
Photo by LINDA THOMPSON/Missoulian .
Thinking About Tomorrow
Many other changes will be more subtle, as technology finds new ways into our daily routine. Commuters will still carry newspapers to work but will likely download them to a pocket-size computer that can also show TV news broadcasts. Shoppers will still be greeted at Wal-Mart, but a computer may be the one saying hello -- and reminding them of what they bought on their last visit. Friends will still send each other birth and wedding announcements, but the process will be virtually automated, thanks to alerts on social-networking sites. Most of these changes will spring from a couple of rapidly improving technologies. Mobile devices will get smaller and more powerful, and will connect to the Internet through high-speed links. The result: People will be able to do anything on a hand-held that they can now do on a desktop computer.
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