| Happy trails | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 11:14:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | This past June, with a stage coach, several bales of hay, and a whip in tow, actor Jill Jackson and writer/director Kathy Deskin-Jacobs landed at Carmel Middle School and Salinas High School on the very last day of classes for each. Calling their timing a "test," they rolled out their one-person show "One-eyed Charley -- the Wildest Western Tale." It was a hit. "We wanted to see if it played for both ages, and it really does," said Deskin-Jacobs. The pair had been invited to bring "One-eyed Charley," starring Jackson as stagecoach driver Charley Parkhurst, by teachers who had seen the show at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel. It just closed in its return engagement there last month. There was so much attention from teachers and schools, in fact, that Deskin-Jacobs and Jackson have decided to start up the Happy Trails Touring Company, which will specialize in shows for schools featuring local historic figures.... | |
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| | | News and speeches: | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 10:59:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Im delighted to be here in Brighton for this conference. Last weeks Green Paper on Children in Care shone a spotlight on social services, and this conference provides a timely opportunity to pay tribute to you: for the dedicated way in which you serve the nations most vulnerable children and adults. We support and share your aspirations for a more equitable system in which children from disadvantaged backgrounds can have the same opportunities to succeed as their more fortunate peers. Education and social services are vital ways to attain this vision and, since 1997, we have made enormous progress. Weve invested 20 billion into early years and childcare, so that today there are over 1.25 million childcare places - twice the number in 1997; with every three and four year old having a right to free nursery education.... | |
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| | | Posted: 03-10-2006 , 18:40 GMT | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:05:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Egyptian singer Shireen Abdul Wahab has submitted an unusual and intriguing complaint to the police against her ex-fianc Ahmad Al Ghazali demanding he gives back official documents that belong to her. The singer also demanded that he returns all the photographs he had in his possessions. It is not known what is the exact nature of the documents or the photographs and why the singer would file an official complaint to authorities to get them back. Recently, Shireen verified that circulating rumors of her break up with second finance, Egyptian-Libyan businessman Ahmad are true. The two had only been engaged for a few weeks, and the singer stressed that things were not working out between them and so she preferred to break it off with Ahmad now rather than wait and get more involved in a relationship that would have led to no where.... | |
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| | | Emerald Cut or Princess Cut Diamond Engagement Ring-How do you ... | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 12:59:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Emerald Cut is a very bold and solid feeling cut. It can be absolutely stunning because of its long lines it tends to be less fiery than a round brilliant cut. It also tends to have broader, more dramatic flashes of light. The trim lines of emerald cut diamonds lend an elegant, sophisticated air to both the simplest and most elaborate ring settings. The Emerald Cut is rectangular with cut corners. It is a step cut as opposed to a brilliant cut. A step cut diamond has sloping, four sided facets that are cut below the table and run parallel to the diamonds girdle. There are fewer facets in a step cut diamond than in a brilliant cut diamond but they tend to have more facets than baguettes. The most preferred Emerald Cuts are those with the length-to-width ratio being 1.30-1.65:1.... | |
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| | | De Beers Begins 'Journey' For New Diamond Style | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 1:19:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Husbands and boyfriends, beware. The diamond industry has come up with a new style to entice your significant others. Diamond Trading Co., the marketing arm of diamond titan De Beers Group, is set to launch a major ad push for a new jewelry design -- dubbed "Journey" -- it hopes will be the next must-have item for women's jewelry boxes. Journey-themed necklaces, bracelets and earrings use four or more diamonds arranged in a graduated pattern from smallest to largest. Devised by Diamond Trading, working with the jewelry industry, the style is meant to symbolize how a person's love for another ... .... | |
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| | | Risky business | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 7:01:32 AM by Blog57 Team | | Blaming the actor's bizarre off-screen antics, Paramount Pictures will end its 14-year relationship with Tom Cruise after the disappointing performance of his latest film, "Mission: Impossible III." "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Sumner Redstone, chairman of Paramount's parent company, Viacom Inc., told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Tuesday. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount," Redstone said. The move comes after a number of highly criticized public appearances by Cruise, including a combative "Today Show" interview during which he criticized actress Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants to treat postpartum depression as well as a couch-jumping romp on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to proclaim his love for actress Katie Holmes, who recently gave birth to their baby daughter.... | |
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| | | Shireen breaks off second engagement | | Posted Saturday, August 12, 2006 8:59:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | Egyptian singer Shireen Abdul Wahab has verified that circulating rumors of her break up with second finance, Egyptian-Libyan businessman Ahmad Ghazali are true. The two had only been engaged for a few weeks, and the singer stressed that things were not working out between them and so she preferred to break it off with Ahmad now rather than wait and get more involved in a relationship that would have led to no where. According to the London based Elaph, at the premier screening of the film Halim Ahmad announced that he and Shireen had officially gotten engaged. We are both wearing our engagement rings, but have yet to decide on a wedding date, said Ahmad. Just three weeks before that, at the premier of the film Imarit Yaqoubain (Yaqoubains Building) Shireen said that her public appearances with Ahmad, of Egyptian origin, did not mean they were engaged.... | |
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| | | Crikey's coverage on Lateline and Mutitjulu | | Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:02:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | Lateline on ABC TV has been leading the way in recent coverage of Indigenous issues, with agenda-setting reporting on violence in Aboriginal communities that has made ministers look left behind.That can be a risky thing to do. For the past fortnight there have been stories circulating that raise the spectre of political manipulation of its reporting. Here's one tip Crikey received: I have a source close to Lateline who tells me that the program's producers are sh-tting themselves after it was revealed in the Sunday Territorian on July 2 that an “anonymous" person interviewed for its program on Mutitjulu was Greg Andrews – a senior bureaucrat in Brough's Office of Indigenous Affairs – he's one of the top dogs in the Indigenous Communities Liaison Office of Indigenous Policy Co-ordination. .... | |
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| | | No Diamonds in the Rough | | Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 12:58:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | Selling the family jewels is as important as guarding them for five suburban businesses. Despite a growing number of mall, discount, and stand-alone retailers and aggressive ad campaigns of larger, multi-store owners in the area, they are thriving in the hearts of communities they call home. Dave Petti, owner of Stones Jewelry in Wheaton, bought his then 69-year-old business 26 years ago from the Stone family. His staff of 10 includes three custom jewelers who set and polish stones, repair and replace parts, design, cast, and make new jewelry, as well as size rings and appraise pieces. Dave handles all buying and enjoys waiting on customers. Were in the business of making occasions special and making friends, said Petti. Paul Martin of P. Martin Jewelers in Lisle concurs.... | |
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| | | Hope Academy begins its year-round schedule | | Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 11:07:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | DECATUR - It was typical first-day-of-school chaos at Hope Academy on Friday morning as students returned to help initiate year-round school in Decatur.Girls squealed and hugged in the foyer, parents helped little ones lug loaded-down backpacks of new school supplies, and middle school students tried to figure out how to conquer combination locks for their lockers. One student tried to figure out why somebody else's stuff was in his locker.And new Superintendent Gloria Davis welcomed the kids back in person."It's only been two weeks (on the job), but it seems like it's been at least two years," Davis joked between greetings to students that often included warm hugs. "I'm settling right in."Her former district in Dodge City, Kan., didn't have a year-round school, she said."This'll be a first for me," she said.... | |
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