| Teenager lost in the rainforest survived on TV bushcraft tips
A SCOTS teenager relied on TV bushcraft techniques to survive two nights in an Australian rainforest after becoming lost while trekking. William Bliss, 19, from Plockton, ate watercress and kept warm using bracken fronds while waiting to be rescued in Otway Ranges national park in Victoria, South Australia. .
New program aims to help students learning English
MENIFEE ---- Teaching students who come from non-English backgrounds the ABCs of, well, ABCs has always been a challenge for educators.But a new program recently begun by the Menifee Union School District aims to help teachers make major gains in educating students who are still learning English. The program provides teachers with chants, books, posters and colorful pictures, as well as suggested hand movements to go with songs, all meant to teach students the basics of English. .
Digsound & SESAC Announce Formal Service Agreement At NAB
Under the terms of the agreement, DigSound will begin watermarking music tracks marketed to television broadcasters for select SESAC publisher affiliates. SESAC will utilize DigSound's proprietary platform, VR24/7, to monitor public performances of those tracks across broadcast outlets in the top 75 television markets covering approximately 80% of the television viewing audience. In addition, SESAC plans to offer existing and new affiliates watermarking services and near real-time analysis of their performed music through password-protected access to the platform. "It has been clearly apparent in our industry that music creators can benefit greatly from the accuracy and efficiency made possible by digital tracking technologies such as watermarking," said Paul Martin, President of DigSound.
Waukee woman helps others speak clearly
Dawn Philbin has returned home to Iowa from travels abroad, ready and willing to put her skills to work helping others with speech, language, reading and spelling difficulties.
Philbin, whose husband works for the U.S. State Department, moved back in December 2005 to establish a permanent home. After one year of working for other people and getting ready to establish her career here, she said she is ready to ramp up her client base.
Philbin, a speech/language pathologist, works with children and adults. Her specialty is working with individuals and small groups with language learning disabilities. She also works with adults on accent reduction and modification, and she does speech and language therapy for adults and children with lisps and other language problems.
Global Languages continues to grow
In its second year of existence, Global Languages has gone from a humble student group to a nonprofit organization that has captured the attention of the national government and non-governmental organizations alike, local business groups and the GW community. Expansion in terms of geographic location, members, languages, contacts, and cultural events has emerged, and yet Global Languages has only been a student organization since September 2005. Graduate student Andrew Brown 08, executive director of Global Languages, attributes the success to the dedication of the groups volunteer instructors and members of the executive board. We get at least five new teachers every week, because people hear about it and theyre excited to share their language and their culture, said Brown.
Guardsmen learn new language from Afghan expatriate
The Daily Astorian's reporter Tom Bennett is in Afghanistan to report on the National Guard and other soldiers with North Coast and Oregon connections serving there. This is his seventh dispatch. More will appear next week.
"Shanbe, Yakshanbe, Dooshanbe, Seshanbe, Cheharshanbe, Pangeshanbe, Joma."
"One more time."
In a makeshift classroom in a worn-out building on the American base at Camp Phoenix, eight students, mostly U.S. military, one by one repeat the days of the week under the guidance of Kazem Rezayi, an Afghan expatriate who returned to his homeland last January after more than 15 years living abroad.
Kazem is teaching Dari, the primary language of Afghanistan, to members of Task Force Phoenix, the National Guard-led mission helping rebuild the war-torn country.
Manson ballerina will dance
Manson 16-year-old Gwynedd Vetter-Drusch hopes to add ballet to the list. She hopes for more than that, really, but knows her dream will take time.
Vetter-Drusch wants to become a professional ballerina, a ballerina so well respected and sought after that shell never again have to buy her own ballet slippers.
Toe shoes cost about $75 a pair. They can wear down in a week.
Its a strenuous calling, but for Vetter-Drusch, nothing else holds her dreams.
Well, she has thought of becoming a veterinarian if the ballet doesnt go well, but shes put her heart into dance for so long that all else pales.
At a regional Youth America Grand Prix competition in February, she earned the right to attend a dance competition in New York City, and to help raise money for the trip but more for the love of dancing shell perform in an afternoon program April 22 in the auditorium of the Barnum Middle School.
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