The Latest Trend in College Admissions: Parents Write Letters of Recommendation

Image Source / Getty Images We’re coming up on a super-stressful time of year for high school seniors: some already have learned via early admission which colleges accepted or rejected them, but many more will find out in April where they’ll be spending the next four years of their lives. Increasingly, their parents may have played a role in whether the news calls for celebration. In an era of helicopter parenting, perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that mom and dad may be penning letters of recommendation for Junior.

Vampire Academy Casts 8 Recurring Guest Stars (EXCLUSIVE) TV News Roundup

“Vampire Academy” has added eight recurring guest stars, Variety has learned exclusively. Angela Wynter (“This England,” “Responsible Child”), Lorna Brown (“The Devils,” “Soulmates”), Louisa Connolly-Burnham (“Wolfblood,” “Call The Midwife”), Cornelius Macarthy (“Torchwood,” “Father Brown”), Jason Diaz (“The 100,” “Charmed”), Jennifer Kirby (“Call The Midwife”), Joseph Ollman (“Domina,” “Knightfall”) and Pik-Sen Lim (“Johnny English Reborn,” “Maleficient”) will all appear in the series as recurring characters.

A Single Gay Man Adopted a Girl with Down Syndrome and Shes Blossomed Like a Rare Flower

This story started a while ago when a little girl with Down Syndrome was abandoned by her birth mother. She was then rejected by 20 different adoptive families, and her fate seemed very uncertain. Her life took a happy turn when a man by the name of Luca Trapanese entered her life. And here started the emotional journey of Alba and Luca, a little girl and her adoptive dad. Here at Bright Side, we’ve been following Alba and Luca’s story all the way through.

Ashley Graham Just Posted Her Hilarious Boob Workout Fail On Instagram

In the clip, Ashley is seen absolutely slaying a series of glute bridges with a weighted overhead reach and breaking a major sweat, per her dripping face and a growing wet stain under her boobs. Ah, yes, her boobs-the true star of this video as they, without fail, hit Ashley in the face with every. single. rep. "Casual when your tits and your chin meet. Very casual," she says.

Georgia Trooper Takes Newly Orphaned Kids Out on Halloween

November 5, 2015 12:30 AM EST Four siblings in Newborn, Ga. were orphaned on Halloween night, but a concerned police officer didn’t have the heart to break the news to them that evening, according to PEOPLE.com. Donald and Crystal Howard died in a car crash that day and Georgia State Trooper Nathan Bradley was tasked with sharing the tragic news with the children. “I thought, ‘Man, their Halloween is just going to be destroyed tonight,'” Bradley told PEOPLE.

un dcret actualise les modalits d'utilisation du "taser"

Publié le 8 novembre 2022par  M.T. / Localtis Sécurité Un décret du 7 novembre assouplit les caractéristiques des pistolets à impulsion électrique (de type "taser") utilisés par les policiers municipaux depuis plus de dix ans. Il s’agit de tenir compte des dernières évolutions technologiques. En effet, la règlementation à laquelle sont soumis les policiers municipaux est plus rigoureuse que celle des policiers et gendarmes. Toute utilisation d’un pistolet à impulsion électrique par un agent municipal doit faire l’objet d’un enregistrement visuel, via un dispositif associé au viseur du pistolet.

Un plan Grand Froid plus dconcentr

Publié le 22 octobre 2007 Logement social, Santé, médico-social, vieillissement, Social Alors que l'Assemblée nationale et le Sénat se préparent à adopter le projet de loi relatif à la maîtrise de l'immigration, à l'intégration et à l'asile - sans la disposition sur la limitation de la durée de l'hébergement des personnes sans papiers en structures d'urgence -, Christine Boutin, la ministre du Logement et de la Ville, a présenté le plan Grand Froid 2007-2008.

Une ordonnance simplifie les polices de l'environnement

Prise en application de la loi Grenelle 2, une ordonnance du 11 janvier 2012, présentée en Conseil des ministres du même jour, simplifie, réforme et harmonise les dispositifs répressifs administratifs et judiciaires du Code de l'environnement. Le Conseil d'Etat a en effet souligné à plusieurs reprises la nécessité de simplifier le droit de l'environnement, lequel prévoyait jusqu'à présent, pas moins de vingt-cinq polices spéciales (dont treize concernent l'eau) mobilisant plus de soixante-dix catégories d'agents.

Baltimore Protests: Meet the Amateur Photographer Capturing the Unrest

Devin Allen, a 26-year-old amateur photographer with aspirations to make a career out of his work, has become a viral sensation. This week, his images of protests in Baltimore have amassed thousands of likes and have been shared by international media organizations around the world. Read how Allen’s photographs ended up on the cover of TIME. Allen grew up in West Baltimore, just five minutes away from where Freddie Gray’s encounter with the police left him with a fatal spinal injury.

Charles Koch Jokes U.S. Can 'Bomb' Way to Prosperity

Conservative billionaire Charles Koch is predicting average American incomes of $100,000 annually in roughly a decade if government is scaled back and regulations are scrapped. One way to get there? Building and using more bombs, he jokingly told about 450 donors to the political network he backs. “I think we can have growth rates in excess of 4%. When I’m talking about growth rates, I’m not talking about that GDP, which counts poison gas the same as it counts penicillin,” the 79-year-old industrialist said, veering off his prepared remarks.