Celebrate the first day of 2012 with a dip in the Pacific at the popular annual Penguin Plunge. The event will be held at 11 a.m. on Jan. 1 at Powerhouse Park in Del Mar. Coffee and donuts will be served afterward.
Coast Waste/Waste Management customers may place trees curb side on their regular collection day at no extra charge — from now through Friday, Jan. 13. Trimmings/stand must be removed and large trees should be cut in half. Trees can also be dropped off at the recycling container at the Del Mar Public Works Yard (2240 [...]
In his best-selling book A Whole New Mind, author Dan Pink argues that, in order to effectively prepare today’s young people for the future – not as we once imagined it, but rather as it inevitably will be – educators must revise the way they teach children and, in the process, rethink their approach to arts in education. As Pink sees it, left-brain skills – those associated with logical, analytical thinking and precise, linear assessment – are undeniably essential to the ultimate pursuit of opportunity and success in the workplace. But at the same time, these capabilities alone are not enough to prepare students for the unpredictability of the future; and in our ever-changing society, the ability to balance sharp analysis with holistic vision, precision with big-picture thinking and factual details with empathy and creativity is increasingly in demand.
Independent schools have taken this balanced approach to heart, and are striving to educate the whole mind – right and left
Bought your tickets for the Olympics? Know what you are going to do with the rest of your time while in London?
As university acceptance rates decrease and college dropout rates increase, it is becoming more and more crucial for students to get started on the right academic and motivational path early in high school, and Elloise Bennett has dedicated her life to being a guide on that path.
One didn’t know what to do with her life, the other left his family half a world away in the Philippines, while a third never questioned his decision to be there. All three converged to work in one of the most dangerous places on earth – the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, where countless accidents are waiting to happen. It takes full-time professionalism just to survive.
He didn’t say so, but a “flanker” rugby player has to be fast, strong and tenaciousness or he won’t be playing for long — and that’s the position Dr. Salvatore Pacella played in that British-style version of football until he “retired” at 35 three years ago to referee college and high school matches in his spare time.
Workers installed story poles this week at a city-owned parking lot on South Sierra Avenue in Solana Beach, where a developer wants to build a 10-unit affordable housing project called The Pearl for low-income residents.
The nonprofit San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy has purchased a parcel with lagoon and ocean views — where developers in the past had proposed building a hotel or condos — and plans to designate it as permanent open space.
Residents of a home on Stratford Court in Del Mar received a late-night Christmas visit, but not from a jolly man in a red suit and white beard.
Rather, a thief or thieves stole a five-foot-long metal statue of a jaguar which weighed an estimated 120 to 150 pounds.
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