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7+ min ago (162+ words) In addition to teaching, Long was also a celebrated Tallahassee musician and song writer. - On Air Now Playing 88.9 WFSU-FM (News and Information) - On Air Now Playing 89.1 WFSW-FM (News and Information) Generations of creative students will perform on the stage now named in honor of Kathryn Long The performing arts stage at Leon County's Swift Creek Middle School now bears the name of a beloved teacher. Kathryn Belle Long died from brain cancer two-and-a-half years ago. Monday evening, her friends and colleagues gathered to honor her memory. Southern Shakespeare's Laura Johnson says Long's artistic and personal legacy lives on. "It's all so bittersweet, isn't it? We lost such a light in this community and what she brought for our children and to the community, but most especially to the young ones there at Swift Creek." Long taught performing arts and music…...

17+ min ago (471+ words) The UK is set to rejoin the Erasmus scheme, the BBC understands, five years after announcing that it would end its participation as part of the Brexit deal with the European Union. The EU provides funding through the scheme for people to study, train or volunteer in other European countries for up to a year. The UK replaced it with its own Turing scheme in 2021, which funds similar placements worldwide. The government said it would not comment on ongoing talks. Prime Minister Keir Starmer had suggested in May that a youth mobility scheme could be part of a new deal with the EU. The Erasmus scheme was scrapped in the UK in December 2020, when the government announced its post-Brexit trade deal with the EU. Boris Johnson, prime minister at the time, said it was a "tough decision", but the scheme…...

26+ min ago (345+ words) Published - December 17, 2025 01:07 am IST - Chennai Internship programmes for four days or a week, leading to a paid summer internship, three months of immersive learning on social issues with NGOs, and integration of liberal arts subjects such as theatre, music, and storytelling to enhance communication skills " a new business school in Chennai is looking to do things differently to stay ahead of the curve. Still in its infancy, the MCC Boyd-Tandon School of Business boasts of 100 % placement of its first cohort in paid summer internships. P. David Jawahar, Director of the School, said: "This is not very normal, not something that you regularly achieve in 18 months of operation." The curriculum for the Post Graduate Diploma programme has been drawn up with added emphasis on subjects such as theatre skills, content writing, appreciation of music, and story telling. These, the management states, would…...

51+ min ago (179+ words) Published - December 16, 2025 07:42 pm IST - MYSURU A workshop organised as part of the National Puppetry Festival got off to a start at Hardwicke School campus on J.L.B. Road in Mysuru on December 16. Organised by the Indian Institute of Educational Theatre (IIET), Mysuru, in collaboration with Astikya Foundation, the national festival aims to celebrate, revive, and promote the diverse heritage of Indian puppetry through performances, workshops, and scholarly engagement. The festival began with the inauguration of a puppetry workshop. Noted theatre personality Prasanna, renowned theatre exponent Rameshwari Varma and puppet designer Shashidhar Adapa were present. The workshop will run until December 20. On the occasion, Mr. Prasanna shared his insights during an interaction with the audience. Mr. Adapa will guide participants on puppetry art at the workshop. Notably, IIET has joined hands with various educational institutions in Mysuru to introduce children to the creative…...

52+ min ago (960+ words) Madeline Lawrence, a married mother of three, including newborn twins Nico and Ash, is determined to fix a flat." The Utah native is working to remedy the flatness of her babies" skulls with $700 3D-printed head-shaping helmets " and she"s getting a whole lot of backlash. "The babies wear their helmets 23 hours a day because that"s just what [their pediatrician] recommended," Lawrence, 32, from Utah, told The Post. "To start, we did one hour on, one hour off to help acclimate them to the helmet." "My daughter started off with 14 millimeters of asymmetry, and she"s was down to 3.75 millimeters after six weeks of wearing the helmet." Lawrence"s twins are among the one in every eight healthy infants who suffer from grapple with plagiocephaly, also known as flat head syndrome, according to recent data from the University of Illinois Hospital…...

53+ min ago (1704+ words) Becoming somebody's wife isn't something New Yorker Karly B., 29, ever wanted for herself. Happily in love with her boyfriend of nine years? Check. Marrying him? Absolutely not. That's no reflection on Matt H., 30, according to Karly, who works for a PR and branding agency and asked that the couple's last names not be used. Before the pair met, the 29-year-old had always made it a point to avoid romantic involvements with the kind of men who wanted wedding bells and kids. "It was a very prominent ground rule for me before entering any sort of relationship," the East Village dweller told The Post. "I don't necessarily need a contract that tells me my status with my partner or tells me that I love him more than I would without one. I know exactly how we feel about each other, and I feel…...

55+ min ago (413+ words) Acclaimed children's book author Cynthia Kadohata recalls growing up Japanese-American and "a little feral" in Springdale, Arkansas Illustration by Harry Tennant Where I grew up in Springdale, Arkansas, there were no fences around houses, either in front or back. Neighbors" yards blended together, and when I walked outside, it was not unusual to see a dog or dogs I didn"t know, as well as a dog or two that I did. I would put out milk and water in my mother"s pots and sit and watch the dogs drink. I was a little feral. I had a very hot temper. I screamed a lot. I was rabidly competitive. I liked to eat raw eggs and carrots. I was outside every daylight hour during the summers. I spoke in a heavy Southern accent, because I"d learned to talk in…...

58+ min ago (573+ words) New research offers one possible reason why children who grow up in farming communities develop far fewer allergies than their urban peers. The study finds their immune systems may mature faster, and breast milk appears to play an important supporting role. In a longitudinal birth cohort comparing infants from Old Order Mennonite (OOM) farming families in New York's Finger Lakes region with urban and suburban families in Rochester, researchers found that farm-exposed babies had more "experienced" B cells and higher levels of protective antibodies during the first year of life. The study, published in Science Translational Medicine, was led by Kirsi J'rvinen-Seppo, chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at University of Rochester Medical Center's Golisano Children's Hospital. "We've known that Old Order Mennonite children are remarkably protected from allergies," says J'rvinen-Seppo. "What this study shows is that their B cell…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago (533+ words) LONDON & GLASGOW, Scotland, December 16, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glasgow Caledonian University has secured "2.6 million to lead a major new UK-wide doctoral training programme to spearhead research into oral health and dental disease prevention. Funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and delivered in partnership with Haleon, a consumer company focused on better everyday health, the six-year initiative will support 20 PhD students across five universities. Students will investigate some of the biggest challenges in oral health, including gum disease, and tooth decay and sensitivity, and will work closely with experts from academia, clinical practice and industry. The programme is led by Professor Gordon Ramage, Director of Glasgow Caledonian's School of Health and Life Sciences' Research Centre for Health (ReaCH), alongside colleagues Dr. William Johnston, Dr. John Butcher and Dr. Ryan Kean, with academic partners at King's College London, the University…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago (351+ words) Here's how I handled the situation. My daughter is shy. She's always had a hard time talking about her feelings, big or small, and as she's gotten older, her go-to coping mechanism is to shut down. So I've worked extra hard to try and make her feel safe and to let her know that she can come to me and talk about anything. After asking her some questions, I told her to make an appointment with her doctor and I offered to go with her. She was scared and nervous and wanted me to make the call for her, but also didn't want to tell me every detail, so she decided to do it herself and declined my invitation to go with her. Her doctor took some tests and then we waited. We talked a lot those next few days…...