Rupert Grint terrified of locking lips with Emma
The News Review:
- Rupert Grint terrified of locking lips with Emma
- The mind-set of the incoming college freshmen
- Finding The Right Boarding School
- New facial animation techniques make fake look real
- The Mindset List
- Books waiting for a comeback
- In Memory of NPR Journalist Leroy Sievers
Rupert Grint terrified of locking lips with Emma
Oneindia, India
The reason that Grint is terrified is, he feels that kissing Watson will make him feel like he is snogging his own sister. Both Grint and Watson have been acting together in the ‘Harry Potter’ series, with the first having been filmed seven years ago. The kiss that they have to share is in the final flick of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. “The kiss will be quite uncomfortable,” the Sun quoted him as saying. “Emma’’s like a sister to me so it’’s going to be, like, really, really weird,” he added.
The mind-set of the incoming college freshmen
Los Angeles Times, CA
A lifetime of images and ideas has come and gone in the last 20 years. Who’s Harry Potter? A world-class wizard, or a student in your history class? What’s the big deal about GPS navigation systems in the car? Whatever: a word that means something, or an all-purpose expression?Almost 2 million young people are heading to college for the first time during the next few weeks. Many of them were born in 1990, and their mind-set is markedly different than that of many of the people who will be their professors. Each August for 11 years, Beloit College in Wisconsin has released its "Mindset List," looking at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students. The list is created by Tom McBride, Keefer professor of the humanities, and Ron Nief, public affairs director. Below are some of the points on the list, or read the.
Finding The Right Boarding School
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Boarding Schools The first thing about boarding schools that most kids think of these days is Hogwarts from the Harry Potter movies. But in fact, most boarding schools today are nothing like the caricatures in the movies. Instead, they provide safe, nurturing, personalized learning communities with strong residential support systems in place. Boarding school faculty and staff today understand that the entire boarding school experience should be designed to bring out the potential in every student. When working with families, the conversation about boarding schools often begins with a parental request for a list of schools where other students have gone.
New facial animation techniques make fake look real
Detroit Free Press, United States
The possibilities of this new animation technique are amazing. For starters, animated characters could replace TV commercial pitchpeople. They’ll do it in one take, with no lunch breaks, makeup people or makeup needs. These amped up animations will certainly be dropped more and more into video games, making them so lifelike you’ll swear you’re watching a movie instead of an animated game.
The Mindset List
Boston Globe, United States
This is not a “kids these days” Abe Simpson-y screed, it’s an objective list of the cultural world that today’s freshmen–an 18-year-old freshman in the class of 2012 was born in 1990–have grown up with. It’s easy when you’re teaching to lose touch with the world your students live in, and that’s the reason the Beloit list is so valuable. Some items: Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team. Since they were in diapers, karaoke machines have been annoying people at parties. Gas stations have never fixed flats, but most serve cappuccino. Girls in head scarves have always been part of the school fashion scene. All have had a relative–or known about a friend’s relative–who died comfortably at home with Hospice.
Books waiting for a comeback
Merinews, India
We usually try and solve all our economic troubles right at that time! I can bet that most of us have spent our childhoods with books, outdoor games and a world of fairy tales, stars, snow whites and so many adorable things. That love of one time, i believe, gets lost somewhere in this chaotic life. Sad part of the entire story is that many of us don’t even know anything about books beyond a Harry Potter or a Chetan Bhagat (thanks to Bollywood!). Bur certainly, books have a separate world of their own. The buzz around the literary circuit is that regional and Hindi literature in India is dying because we don’t have enough literary persons (both readers and writers). That is indeed sad. We are so ashamed when we lose in cricket, when a Sachin or a Dhoni or a Ganguly doesn’t perform well, we are overwhelmed when we get an individual gold for the first time in Olympics.
In Memory of NPR Journalist Leroy Sievers
NewsMax.com, FL
His description of “cancer world,” his love of chocolate chip cookies, his commitment to Harry Potter, his debates about whether he would wear the new shoes and pants long enough to make their purchase worthwhile evidenced a level of openness, honesty, and integrity that you don’t find in many places. In my experience, cancer is something no one wants to talk about. Dying is something we pretend isn’t happening. People who are diagnosed with cancer usually find themselves losing friends the ones who don’t know what to say and secretly fear it’s contagious or at least depressing not making them. For Leroy, it was just the opposite.