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BookMoot
The word moot is an archaic term meaning "argue, debate, discuss." In early English history, a moot was a meeting to discuss local affairs. Moot comes from the Old English gemot, meaning "meeting."
Moot Points
Movie: Stormbreaker
Tip from Achokablog:
News.Scotsman.com--15-year-old Alex Pettyfer will play Alex Rider in the movie version of Anthony Horowitz's book, Stormbreaker. If the movie is a hit, count on more movie sequels from the popular series.
I cannot quite see Alicia Silverstone as Starbright...but Ewan McGregor as Uncle Ian is a nice idea.
I daresay, photos of Pettyfer will not be so difficult to find in the future.
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Graphic novels and comic books
I love watching first graders walk into the building in the fall. They are so excited that they are going to learn to read. By the end of the year, most of them ARE reading. What an amazing accomplishment! They have learned to translate the ink markings and squiggles on a page into a word on their lips and a picture in their mind.
I have watched all kinds of readers and non readers choose library books. I prefer to be in the middle of them, pointing out a title here, a series there, steering them to the car, bat, skateboarding, dog, disaster, (insert nonfiction interest here) books.
Often the books of choice for my struggling readers are the drawing books and the I Spy series--Calvin and Hobbes too of course. On the other hand, have you ever noticed how "reluctant" readers can RECITE multiple volumes of Garfield to you from memory?
Why do some kids catch the reading bug and others do not? That is the question that makes being a school librarian so interesting. What can I give this student to make reading easier and more fun? It is always a matter of the right book at the right time and the right child but timing is everything.
I see students who can read the words but the movie and pictures the words paint do not "play" in their imaginations as they read. Getting that movie to play takes lots of listening and reading practice...which is why I love comic books and graphic novels. I think they support and bridge that gap between the imagination and the words on the page.
Reaction to graphic novels has been huge. Here is a great article discussing this trend.
"There's such a stigma against comics but we're endorsed by Reading is Fundamental," said Liza Coppola, vice president for sales at Viz Media, referring to the organization that promotes children's literacy in the United States.
"They picked up this category because they found that they can get the kids with Dr Seuss, but at a certain point they lose them to video games. But this is such a visual medium, it draws them in," she said in an interview at Book Expo America...
Finding books that fit in an elementary collection is challenging because many of them trend towards YA. Sidekicks has an excellent list of graphic novels that will fit AOK with elementary grade folks.
It is part of No Flying No Tights for Teens.
Book Biz
The Narnia displays are coming...
HarperCollins, which owns the rights, has 145 Narnia-related books to choose from. Some have been available for years, but with Hollywood coming into play, an additional 24 movie tie-ins have been added to the lineup.
At Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, Ill., the front window is all about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (due July 16), but a life-size blowup of Narnia's lion king, Aslan, has already taken pride of place in the store near a table filled with Narnia books. Every person who buys Harry Potter will receive a Narnia bookmark.
Owner Becky Anderson says that soon after the Potter book goes on sale, she'll waste no time transforming store windows into a winter-like "Narnia world."
Interesting fact: 27 million copies of J.R.R. Tolkien books were sold as the result of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. HarperCollins is hoping for a similar effect on their sales.
Soul Making
Maurice Sendak's talk, Descent into Limbo, from April 5, 2003 is online.
Sendak discusses his childhood and family. Beginning his career under the eye of Ursula Nordstrom and Ruth Krauss he describes the exuberant atmosphere of their "weirdo little kiddie book department" where his creativity flourished.
Mantegne's Descent into Limbo.
He says music is his passion and he cannot live or work without it. When he had an opportunity to design the opera The Magic Flute he found inspriation in Mantegne's painting Descent into Limbo.
It is always so interesting to hear authors and artists talk about their work. Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are changed the world of children's publishing.
You will need an hour plus...
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This will make a great graphic novel. The trailer for Peter Jackson's King Kong is out.
Listen to Kong's roar!!
KongisKing.net has very interesting production diaries by Jackson. Our boyo has really slimmed down.
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Sound search
NPR has a very interesting interview with Randy Thom who is a "sound designer" for the film industry. He describes the art of sound and is asking for the public's help to identify new sounds for the movies.
Worth a listen.
Author: Rick Riordan
Interesting coincidences:
I have been hearing a lot about Rick Riodan's books recently and it turns out he will be in town at Blue Willow Bookshop tomorrow at 4 p.m. I am going to round up my reading entlings and head over there. I am very intrigued with the premise of his books. From his website:
What if the gods of Olympus were alive in the 21st Century? What if they still fell in love with mortals and had children who might become great heroes -- like Theseus, Jason and Hercules?
What if you were one of those children?
Music is well said to be the speech of angels -- Thomas Carlyle
Thank goodness for young musicians who perfect their embouchures, relax their jaws, curl their fingers over the piano keys, improve their pitches and rhythms, practice countless scales and intervals and put in h-o-u-r-s of practice and rehearsal.
We attended a young artist performance at The International Festival-Institute at Round Top on Saturday. The musical performances were fresh and full of life. I have not attended many chamber music concerts so the pieces were new to my ears.
It has been several years since my last visit so I was amazed at the on-going enhancement of the concert hall. I saw the crystal plate that inspired the wooden lattice design on the ceiling and learned it takes 36 saw cuts to produce one of the countless diamonds that line the walls. The whole day was a treat for the senses.
It put me in mind of children's fiction that focuses on young musicians and their passion and commitment.
The bat boy & his violin by Gavin Curtis ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis, c1998
A young boy's love for his violin is a concern for his father who manages a team in the National Negro League and would prefer that his son focus on baseball. Lewis's fragile water colors lend poignancy and an exquisite beauty to the story.
The gorillas of Gill Park by Amy Gordon, c2003
Music in a park, an amazing tree house, gorilla costumes and baseball. More
Lookin' for Bird in the big city by Robert Burleigh ; illustrated by Marek Los, c2001
What if...teenagerMiles Davis went on a search for Charlie "Bird" Parker in NYC?
The Mozart season by Virginia Euwer Wolff, c1991
A book that inspired at least one musician I know. A young violinist prepares for a music competition.
Zin! zin! zin! a violin by Lloyd Moss ; illustrated by Marjorie Priceman, c1995
A classic about the orchestra and the joy of playing music together.
Play to the angel by Maurine F. Dahlberg, c2000
WWII, a brother's death, a young girl's talent and love for the piano. More
Handel, who knew what he liked by M.T. Anderson ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, c2001
Music teachers' favorite, delightful story, lively illustrations from the incomperable Kevin Hawkes
Book Moot is one year old this month
Well, we've been so busy, I forgot that Book Moot is a year old this month.
Time flies when you are having fun!
Narrator: Jim Dale
Our copy of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, cover gone, taped spine, well thumbed pages...loved.
We just finished listening to the audiobook of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. Unlike my daughters I have not reread the series multiple times but with book 6 soon to arrive, it seemed like a good opportunity to review.
Listening to Jim Dale bringing the character and stories to life is M-A-G-I-C-A-L. I have been struck by Rowling's wonderful descriptions, character names and humor. Dale is a brilliant narrator. He gives different voicings to the characters but it is never forced or artificial sounding. I can hardly wait to listen to the next one.
Janis Campbell at FortWayne.com has an interview with Jim Dale. The audiobook of The Half Blood Prince will be available on July 16 along with the hardcover. It is an excellent interview. Dale describes how he works and the secrecy surrounding the next book.
He did it 100 pages at a time. Because the audiobook has to hit stores when the book is released, Dale had to record the book in a hurry back in April. Dale says he got the book to start reading over a weekend, and on Monday he recorded the first 100 pages. On Monday night, after leaving the studio, he read the next 100 pages and practiced the voices or invented new ones if the section he was working on had new characters. On Tuesday, he was back in the studio, working on the next big section of the book. Dale said he didn't have time to read the book through before he started recording it, so it was fun each day to see how the story was unfolding.
Dale says most days he was in the studio from 9:30 a.m. until 4 or 4:30 p.m., or "as long as my voice held out." As a trained actor, Dale knows how to take care of his voice. One of his tricks for soothing this throat is tea with honey. Dale even raises his own bees at his second home to make honey, which he enjoys, and gives as gifts to friends.
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Movie: Guardians of Ga'Hoole
My young reading friends will be very pleased that one of their favorite series is coming to the big screen. This series is a favorite with my Redwall readers. Sounds like author Kathryn Lasky will be doing the screenplay.
From Monsters & Critics:
Warner Bros. has acquired film rights to Kathryn Lasky's fantasy series Guardians of Ga'Hoole.
Variety reports the studio plans to make a CG-animated movie from the books with Donald De Line producing.
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Charlie Bone series
Kelly at Big A little a is intrigued by the Charlie Bone books by Jenny Nimmo. Today in the Dallas Morning News, Nancy Churnin has an article about this series (Children of the Red King) and the author. Because Charlie goes to a special school for talented kids, comparisons to Harry Potter are inevitable. I think the school is more like Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters -- only dark and malevolent.
Ms. Nimmo has made it a point not to read or be influenced by Harry Potter. (She looks forward to reading the Potter books when her own series is done.) She relies on her editor to tell her if she has written anything that will remind readers too much of Harry.
Once, she had to rewrite her first choice for Charlie's birthday – her son, Ianto's, birthday – because it was too close to Harry's July date. Instead, she made Charlie's birthday Dec. 31.
I love these books. Kids who enjoy fantasy, like these stories and I think they are more accessible to kids than HP. Charlie has a special ability to hear what people in pictures are saying. There is also an ongoing mystery about the disappearance of his father and the question my nephew asks, "Why are his aunts so mean?"
There is a great deal of Jenny Nimmo in this series. She identifies with many of the characters in the books.
Charlie's tall, quiet Uncle Paton – her favorite character – was modeled on the kind, reserved guardian who helped raise her. But the character she identifies most with is Billy Raven, who yearns for a home.
"I had no home," she says. "My mother moved 12 times. And every time she moved, she threw my things away."
Charlie's father is a pianist, because Ms. Nimmo loves the piano. Her love of animals is also evident throughout the books. Like Gabriel Silk with his hordes of gerbils, she and her family have kept as many as 26 gerbils at one time in addition to hamsters, goats, cats, rabbits and birds. She dreamed up Pets' Cafe because she wished for a restaurant where you have to bring a pet to be served.
Ms. Nimmo lives in an old, converted watermill in Wales. Thanks to Charlie, they finally had central heating put in last year.
Charlie Bone Website
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer, 2005
When we last saw our heroes, at the end of The Eternity Code, Artemis and Butler had submitted to a fairy mind wipe and had no memory of their adventures with the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance.
Now, arch criminal Opal Koboi has escaped but no one except the elf, Captain Holly Short knows it. LEP Recon thinks Holly has lost her mind and killed her commanding officer and they are trying to capture her. Holly knows she has one chance to capture Koboi but it means saving Artemis and restoring his memories.
Opal has set the human world and the fairy world on a collision course. The very existence of the Haven (the fairy realm) is threatened. Artemis's very cool bodyguard, Butler as well as the dwarf felon, Mulch Diggums are part of the team again. The Lower Elements have their share of bureaucrats and administrative incompetants which frustrate the centaur, Foley who is LEP's technology guru. His technological wonder gadgets give these stories an extra dimension.
One passage in the book made me laugh out loud knowing something about the Colfer's TV preferences.
Holly walked rapidly into the cockpit and strapped herself into the pilot's chair, "Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get at least twenty-four?"
Artemis strapped himself into the copilot's chair. "I don't think Opal bothers with laws," he said.
When Colfer visited Houston recently for a book signing, he shared that one of his favorite T.V. shows is "24."
The story has plenty of action and humor. Trolls REALLY are scary. Colfer described his Artemis Fowl books as "Die Hard with Fairies." I would agree. This is a fast paced and fun summer read.
Toy Theaters
Being a collector of Lord of the Rings "action" figures, I can understand the enthusiasm for spin-off merchandise. It dates back to the Regency period.
An exhibit of Regency toy theatre characters and items will tour several museums in the UK. What beautiful things!
William Palin, Assistant Curator, Sir John Soane's Museum (and son of Monty Python and travel documentarian, Michael Palin) discusses the background of these beautiful "toys" in this Guardian article.
"They were the invention of an extraordinary London shopkeeper, William West, who wore a paper hat of his own design and did a separate line in Bawdy Songster prints - pornography which he sold under the counter."
West toured London's flourishing theatres between 1811 and 1840, commissioning artists to draw the scenery and characters from 146 plays which he then reproduced in miniature.
Young customers poured into his shop to buy characters such as arch-criminal the Black Vulture or Black-Eyed Susan, the feisty farm girl invented by John Gay, author of the Beggars' Opera. "Then they went home and put on their own elaborate plays, often with accessories like gunpowder," said Mr Palin, whose father is the comedian and TV traveller Michael Palin. "One of the lasting favourites was The Miller and his Men, which ends dramatically with an entire windmill exploding."
Toy Theater at Kannik's Korner
Cannon Hall
Magic Treehouses
Kids are not the only ones with a yearning to take to the trees. Time Europe has an article about the luxury pads that grown-ups are constructing amidst the limbs of their backyard trees.
The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating and electricity. The circular cedarwood dining lodge the company erected in an ash in West Sussex, England, for instance, has all that plus a telephone connection, a spiral staircase, 13 windows and a peaked roof. No wonder the private, $185,000 retreat outdoes any earthbound first-class dining hall. "Forty years ago, nobody envisioned things like jacuzzis and log stoves up in the trees," says John Harris, the firm's founder. "But today, nothing is impossible."
Here in Texas my treehouse would have to be air conditioned.
The Reading Record
Nevada librarians are going for a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. They hope to earn the record for reading aloud for 100 consecutive hours.
It took the group 72 hours to read five Harry Potter novels. The rest of the time was spent reading westerns, romances and mysteries.
Napoleon Dynamite Festival 2005
NPR has a story on Preston, Idaho's first Napoleon Dynamite Festival. This movie just makes me smile. The schedule of events is available here.
It includes:
Pop-n-Pins Open Bowling
Tater Tot Eating Contest
Moon Boot Dance Contest
Happy Hands Club
Rex Kwon Dojo Tour
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares, 2001
I know that this series is immensely popular with my friends in junior high school. When I heard the movie was coming out I borrowed my daughter's copy to read.
Shopping for a swimsuit is the ultimate fashion terror but jeans shopping is a close second. Ann Brashare's has cleverly tapped into the female psyche by creating a magical pair of thrift store jeans that look fabulous on four friends who are different sizes and body types. The four girls are separating for their summer activities and decide the jeans are a talisman of luck that they will share during the coming months.
Tibby is working at the fictional Wallman's (think Walmart) for the summer and working on her documentary. Lena is traveling to Greece to stay with her grandparents. Carmen's parents are divorced so she is off to South Carolina for what she hopes will be some personal time with her father. Bridget is an athlete who is attending a soccer camp in Baja California and missing her deceased mother.
Each girl keeps the pants for a week before they mail them off to next "sister." Things go wrong for all four girls but their letters and support for each other help them through their disappointments. It becomes a summer where the girls learn about themselves. The stories of Tibby and Carmen were very touching.
The magical pants are amazing but the book's success is due to junior high girls' yearnings to have a group of friends as kind, helpful and supportive. Hey, most folks would be happy with one dear friend like this. (Most of the girls I know like the 1st and third books the best.)
We saw the movie yesterday and really enjoyed it. There have been some modifications to the storyline for the big screen but the spirit of the book has translated well. The young actresses are excellent. My daughter has read all the books but her friend had not read any and enjoyed the movie equally. A good mother daughter outing, take a tissue or two.
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards 2005
One of the most original novels I have read this year is the winner of the Fiction andPoetry catagory. Hooray for Schwa!
From The Horn Book:
Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey (Knopf)
Fiction and Poetry:
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman (Dutton)
Nonfiction:
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose (Kroupa/Farrar)
How to pick a winner
Tip from Achockablog:
Barry Cunningham. founding publisher of Bloomsbury Children's Books discusses the decision to publish Harry Potter and what he looks for in children's literature.
From the Fortune article "How I Make Decisions"--
I didn't know that a dozen publishers had turned it down or that the author, J.K. Rowling, had become utterly discouraged. I think everybody else passed on it for all the wrong reasons: It was long, the title was unusual, and the story is pretty dark. Rowling needed someone to see what it was, a story of bravery and danger and adventure but with great humor—as opposed to what it wasn't, a traditional children's book.
I choose books purely based on what I believe children will react to. If you carry the child within you, that's what works. You need a real ability to feel the hope, wonder, burning sense of injustice, fear, or rage of childhood—an unfettered mind that still dreams, that goes with the truth of story. I absolutely bet on my confidence in what children will like.
The Independent Online has a detailed article about the new Roald Dahl museum.
...what would also have pleased him are the many opportunities for the young to create something themselves. A shadow puppet theatre is available for made-up plays, and an Ideas Table is there for writing stories. Animation technology is also at hand, and there are ingenious bottles for recording those extra special dreams. With writer-in-residence Val Rutt there to give advice to visiting groups, it seems certain that this brilliantly interactive museum will be well patronised by children as well as by scholars attracted to what is already one of the largest literary archives in the world. And with the new film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, due to be released this summer, life in Great Missenden High Street seems set to become even busier in the months to come.
Batman is awesome!
Great movie. I really really really liked it. Gary Oldman is a chameleon actor, I didn't even realize it was him. Christian Bale is a terrific Bruce Wayne and it is always fun to watch Morgen Freeman and Liam Neeson. Michael Caine is a fabulous Alfred, spot on-perfect. The story is so familiar but it seemed new and fresh in this incarnation.
My only quibble with the show was Katie Holmes who was has an every-girl charm but I've just seen too much of her on TV the past week and everytime she was on screen I kept thinking, "she doesn't like Bruce Wayne, she's stuck on that old geezer, Tom Cruise."
"Does 'Lotsa de Casha' for Madonna Mean Lessa for Other Children's Authors?"
Anna Weinberg of the Book Standard examines both sides of the publishing phenomenon of actors/sports figures/politicians/and other celebrities writing children's books.
Do the sales from these books allow publishers to find and support new authors? Do celebrity books bring attention to important issues? Are they poorly written public relations stunts to bring attention to a publisher's back list and a celebrity's vanity?
... access isn't the only thing that celebrities get. Jane Yolen, an award-winner many times over, who's published more than 200 children's and YA books since 1961, points out that "celebrity-authored books get high advances—usually about ten to twenty times higher than the average children's book author" (which is often about $5,000 for a debut novelist). "[They get] enormous ad budgets—about 100 to 500 times the average children's book author's—and eat up all the available oxygen at the publisher's."
Weingberg fairly addresses both sides of the issue in this excellent article.
The question that has been debated on the Child_Lit listserv is why children's books? Celebrities could write cookbooks, decorating books, novels, self-help tomes but they are all choosing 32 page picture books. I doubt many of them see themselves as the next JK Rowling but Harry has proven that there is serious money, respect and fame to be had writing for children. Children's books must be serious business. Also, 32 pages isn't so long, how hard can it be to write one?
Child_Lit Archives
Good for them!
The founders of the two leading Harry Potter fan sites received an amazing call from JKRowling recently according to the Times.
Emerson Spartz, an 18-year-old student from Indiana, was asleep at 9am when his telephone rang.
A Scottish voice asked "Hello, Emerson? This is Jo. You believe me, don't you?" Rowling, who has become increasingly reclusive, handpicked Mr Spartz and Melissa Anelli, a 24-year-old reporter from a local New York City newspaper, to be the only people to interview her individually for the publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, because of her admiration for their fan websites.
Mr Spartz runs Mugglenet, a website named after Rowling's term for non-magical people, and Ms Anelli is the editorial director of The Leaky Cauldron, another highly-regarded source of Harry Potter gossip.
Mugglenet
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, 2002, Chad Lowe (Narrator)
I was leery of Hiaasen's venture into the children's / YA realm because his previous writing has been for "grown-ups." I am amused by mainstream authors who think they can write for kids yet do not understand their audience. Ultimately most of them are unsuccessful (James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell.)
I listened to this book and really enjoyed it. It is a 2003 Newbery Honor book. It has comedy, drama and an environmental message.
I do wonder how many teens really endorse this book as much of the humor comes from three rather hapless adult characters in the book. They may enjoy the ribbing the characters receive. Ultimately, I think Hiaasen is successful in recounting the adventures of Roy Eberhardt, the new kid from Montana who has arrived at Trace Middle School in Coconut Grove, Florida.
He is the target of an oafish bully and is trying to avoid being killed on the school bus when he sees a boy his own age running barefoot alongside the bus. The image of the kid stays in his head and after lots of investigation he determines that the boy is homeless by choice and the step-brother of a school mate, Beatrice.
Through his new acquaintences he becomes embroiled in an effort to save a group of burrowing owls whose habitat is threatened by the construction of a Mother Paula's Pancake house. The construction site has suffered a series of pranks and light hearted sabotage which has delayed the bulldozing of the construction zone.
As an adult I appreciated that Roy has two loving and supportive parents to contrast the rather bleak homelife of Beatrice and her step-brother, nicknamed Mullet Fingers. The interactions between Roy and the bully Dana Matherson are hilarious. Hiaasen's descriptions of the Everglades and natural places are mystical.
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
Weekend Edition Saturday had an interview with writer Michael Lewis whose book Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life explores the profound impact his high school mentor/coach had on his life.
Lewis is very engaging. He describes his high school coach, Billy Fitzgerald, as a genius for getting the best out of his players on and off the field. Coach Fitz's take on the changing perception of self esteem was right on target.
In the "old" days, a young person started with zero self-esteem and earned it through his actions and accomplishments. Today's parents have the idea that a child is born with only a fixed quantity of self esteem and any criticism or failure from a teacher or coach will reduce that fixed quantity and with it their child's chance for success.
"...tough teachers and tough coaches are finding that in their attempts to hold kids to higher standards, they are encountering resistance, a new kind of resistance from the parents..."
This is a MUST listen.
Sounds like an excellent read for anyone who works with kids and hopes to get the very best out of them.
Hayao Miyazaki and Diana Wynne Jones
NPR has a page and feature devoted to Hayao Miyazaki and Diana Wynne Jones.
Roald Dahl Museum to open
Chocolate-scented doors will open tomorrow, Saturday June 11 2005 and the public will have their first look at the Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
Sue Davies, director of the centre, said: "There are very few places which present reading, writing and creativity in a fun way. Our venue will rectify that, building on Roald Dahl's work and using that as the beginning of a magical journey into further reading and writing."
After passing under a shadow of the BFG (the Big Friendly Giant), guests walk through the museum's chocolate-coated doors into the main building, being careful to avoid the crocodile cunningly disguised as a bench.
Visitors can also expect to be dazzled by a spectacular array of displays and shows highlighting the life and work of one of Britain's favourite authors.
Guardian Roald Dahl author page
Official Roald Dahl Website
Mail-Guardian
Bucks Free Press
Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata
The North America premier of Howl no ugoku shiro (Howl's Moving Castle)
MoMA Film and Media Exhibitions
We would be attending all of these if we lived in NY.
Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata: Masters of Animation
June 3–30, 2005
More Sendak
USA Today is serving up some interesting articles related to children's books these days. Bob Minzesheimer interviews Sendak at his home in today's article.
Max, resurrected in the new, edgier edition of Bears published this month, "is still a rotten kid," his creator says. Some kids may be cute — sometimes. But "cute" is not an adjective to pin on Sendak, the celebrated children's author and illustrator whose work is rarely innocent or sweet.
Children, he says, "have ferocious fantasies."
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko, Johnny Heller (Narrator), 2004
Listening to this book I could hear the sea gulls and feel the chop of the waves beneath the hull of the boat that carried me across the water and back in time. The characters and story begged to be listened to but the real star of this tale is the setting, Alcatraz Island in the year 1935.
Moose Flanagan's family moves to Alcatraz when his father gets a job as an electrician/guard at the famous prison. Moose is homesick and lonely. He must take the boat to the mainland for school each day. His passion is baseball and the game helps him make new friends.
His home life is more problematic. His father works around the clock. His sister Natalie is autistic (although that condition is not identified) and subject to tantrums and unexplainable behaviors. His mother is so driven to get Natalie enrolled in a special school in San Francisco that she is blind to her son's needs.
The unseen presence in the story is the gangster Al Capone who is imprisoned in Alcatraz. The children of the island are fascinated, thrilled and terrified by the convicts. They are obsessed with catching a glimpse of Capone. The warden's gorgeous daughter, Piper is the same age as Moose and seems to have a gift for getting him in trouble.
Choldenko writes with great compassion of the challenges of living with an autistic family member. You admire and ache for Moose as he shoulders the responsibility of watching over his sister when he could be playing baseball in the afternoons. His kindness and love for his sister give the story extra depth.
Johnny Heller's narration is excellent. His voicing of Moose and Natalie are beautifully done. Moose's voice answering "Yes Sir!" to the Warden has lingered in my mind.
Interesting characters, the Great Depression and Alcatraz Island make this one of the most original works of historical fiction I have ever experienced. I loved the ending.
Reviews soon
Just finished listening to and reading 3 very good books: Hoot, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Al Capone does My Shirts.
Reviews to follow soon.
Author/Illustrator: David Macaulay
Cynsations notices that the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature in Abilene, Texas is opening an exhibit, Building Books: the art of David Macaulay on June 16th.
Macaulay's books are so amazing. They include these and many more:
I've have wanted to visit there...if we plan a trip to Colorado...hmmm...
David Macaulay's website at Houghton Mifflin
Author: Maurice Sendak
Max, in his white wolf suit, is back in Maurice Sendak's new book. He has reworked Ruth Krauss's 1948 book, Bears.
NPR has an interview with Sendak where he discusses his life and work. He lauds Ruth Krauss and her husband Crockett Johnson for their friendship and mentoring which gave him his first break with A Hole Is to Dig.
Reminiscing about his childhood and life he recalls the the reaction to his books. Grown-ups did not "get" Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are but kids did immediately. If you ever read the book to a group of kids you see it. No matter how old they are, when you pull the book out, a happy cheer goes up and everyone settles in for a listen.
Sendak talks about his love for Mickey Mouse and Mozart. He does not like the word "illustrating" but prefers "picture making."
So many good bits, great listening!
American Masters: Maurice Sendak
Wild Things: the art of Maurice Sendak
Labels: abbot and costello, Indefatigable Kelly
From NPR:
Lovely tribute to Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. Maurice Sendak says the charm of the book comes from fun.
Harold is just immense fun, that's all, just fun. But also Harold does exactly as he pleases...there are no adults to demonstrate or remonstrate...it comes out of the same theory, let the kid do his own thing. Let him have fun, fun-- not to teach--there are no lessons in Harold. You have fun, you do what you like and no one's going to punish you. You're just a kid.
Author: Tomie dePaola
Maine Today has an interview with Tomie DePaola. He has written another "autobiographical" children's book called Stagestruck. I recall hearing him say that he began writing these books when he heard from a young reader who was not allowed to use one a Tomie DePaola book for a book report because it was not a "chapter book." He discusses Strega Nona, trolls and the imagination -- a good interview.
Q: What do people ask you about most when you speak at bookstores and libraries?
A: Kids ask me where my ideas come from. Children today really aren't encouraged to come up with ideas as much. They're too programmed, no time to daydream or doodle or waste time.
Tomie DePaola's website
Undiscovered children's authors take heart
Waterstone's book chain along with Faber and Faber publishers is sponsoring a national (UK) competition called The Wow Factor to discover new writing talent.
They need a synopsis and the first three chapters delivered to any Waterstone's branch between July 15 and 31. Then a full manuscript must be available by September 30.
The winner will receive a publishing deal with Faber and Faber, and their book will be prominently displayed at the front of every Waterstone's store in the UK.
Since I don't live in the UK, the fun part of the Telegraph article is the writing advice from children's/YA authors Philip Pullman, Eoin Colfer, Anthony Horowitz, Louise Rennison, and others.
--Lose the parents, invent swear words, bond with your readers and make your character slightly older than your target age group.--
Pullman put it eloquently:
"...How many kids pestered bookshops and libraries, saying "We wish someone would write a book about Harry Potter! Why doesn't someone write the first Harry Potter book? We can't wait for it!"? Answer: none. It came out of nowhere, and no-one expected it at all.
"The moral is - Don't write what people tell you they want to read, because the truth is that people don't know what they want to read until someone writes it. Instead, write exactly what you want to write. It's not their job to think what books there ought to be, it's yours.
Lord of the Rings Exhibit
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The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy: the exhibition opens here this weekend!
For an overview of the exhibit click here.
We have our tickets for the symphony in July too!
Exhibition review from the Houston Chronicle
This will be my family--
"When we opened the doors in London, we had people crying in front of Frodo," said Az James, the touring exhibition manager.
Extreme? Not for those who watched and rewatched the nine-plus hours of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and read and reread the book before that. To the Tolkien faithful, standing at a dramatic display of the Shards of Narsil — the shattered blade that hewed the Ring of Power from evil's hand, bringing an era of peace to Middle-earth — can be a religious experience.
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How many people read The Monthly?
November 23, 2006 ~ Andrew Norton	~ 24 Comments
If you are still reading The Monthly, you're part of a pretty exclusive group – just 42,000 people, or 0.2% of the population, according to the Roy Morgan Readership Survey. Admittedly, Morgan's call centre would have to ring a lot of people before they found any readers of the magazine I edit, but then again Policy never set out to be an antipodean Atlantic Monthly.
Apart from lacking the Atlantic Monthly's circulation, this month's Monthly was lacking The New Yorker's famous fact checkers. Crikey had a go at them for publishing Mungo MacCullum's claim that Robert Menzies had an affair with Elizabeth Fairfax, wife of media proprietor Warwick Fairfax. There is no evidence that such an affair ever took place.
Several people (including me) have criticised Kevin Rudd's article 'Howard's Brutopia: The Battle of Ideas in Australian Politics'. But none of us have yet challenged the claimed origins of the term 'brutopia':
Contemporary British conservatives such as Michael Oakeshott have starkly warned against a 'brutopia' of unchecked market forces.
It is some years since I have read Oakeshott in detail, but I doubt this is true. Oakeshott wrote little on economics, but what he did – such as 'The Political Economy of Freedom' in Rationalism in Politics – is generally sympathetic to markets, though in a non-ideological way. More to the point, it is hard to imagine an elegant writer like Oakeshott using an ugly neologism like 'brutopia'. And he wasn't really the type to quote from Donald Duck comics, where the term originated in the late 1950s, in a clear reference not to market dystopias but a dystopia lacking markets, the Soviet Union. Putting pop culture references into academic writing did not start until decades after Oakeshott did his main work.
If it wasn't Oakeshott, who was it? The closest I can get via Google to a 'British' reference is a 2000 article by an academic in Belfast. Rudd clearly defines 'contemporary' rather broadly (Oakeshott died in 1990) so perhaps it was a print only usage. But like Mungo's Menzies affair, Rudd's conservatives warning of market brutopias sounds like something New Yorker-style fact checkers wouldn't have allowed into print.

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City of Houston facing civil rights lawsuit in connection to deadly police chases in Black neighborhoods
HOUSTON, TX (KTRK) — The City of Houston is facing a civil rights law suit. Three families impacted by deadly police chases argue that Houston police have a pattern and practice of pursuing Black drivers through Black neighborhoods putting innocent civilians at risk.
The families' attorney has compiled internal data from the Houston Police Department. An example from the East Side in 2020 showed what he said is a direct correlation between where these chases happened and Houston's Black neighborhoods.
ABC13 has not independently verified the numbers, but did cover the deadly chases in this case involving HPD, non-violent suspects, and the innocent bystanders who were killed.
The three families are dealing with the deaths of their loved ones who were all innocent bystanders or drivers in three separate deadly police chases. However, the cases are combining into one where attorney Mike Doyle of Doyle Dennis LLP is attempting to prove that the Houston Police Department engages in a pattern and practice that violates the constitution.
"For these families, they're never getting their loved one back. What this includes, and really any civil rights case includes, is a hope that decision makers don't just see this going on and bless it and let it keep going on , but actually take steps to stop the conduct and behavior," Doyle said. "For these families, that's a huge part of it."
The suit alleges that Black drivers are targeted more often than whites, and high-speed chases occur in Black neighborhoods more often than in other areas. Doyle said this puts people in Houston's Black communities at risk.
"Innocent citizens are getting killed and injured again and again because there's police chases that shouldn't be happening that keep happening, and they're continuously approved instead of stopped," Doyle said.
Doyle said he will use data from the Houston Police Department to argue the city is liable for these deaths in court. Reached by phone, City Attorney Arturo Michel questioned whether the deaths are similar enough to prove a pattern.
"The City of Houston has no evidence that any policies or procedures are unconstitutional," Michel said. Both sides may have an opportunity to make their case before a judge as soon as next fall.
"It takes a long time and hard fighting to get to the bottom of it, but that's what these families are ready for," Doyle said.
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3 Reasons Delayed Cord Clamping Can Benefit All Newborns
Giving birth soon? Ask your doctor about this life-saving practice.
by Kitty Elicay . Jul 16, 2020
If allowed, one way to include dad in childbirth is to make him the one to cut your child's umbilical cord. (Click here for the full story.)
PHOTO BY Courtesy of Joy Celeste
Moms who are pregnant might be feeling anxious about giving birth in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's important to keep calm and have an open communication with your OB-GYN so you are better prepared for the arrival of your baby. One of the things you can ask is whether your birth plan can still be prioritized — especially life-saving practices like delayed cord clamping.
What is delayed cord clamping?
Delayed cord clamping is the extension of the time between the delivery of a newborn and the cutting of the umbilical cord. According to the American Pregnancy Association (APA), "this allows more blood to transfer from the placenta to the baby, sometimes increasing the child's blood volume by up to a third." The blood contains essential nutrients like iron and antibodies, which is essential for healthy brain development.
Delayed cord clamping may be done whether a mother gives birth via normal or cesarean delivery. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that delayed clamping is just as important for cesarean births.
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How long can you wait before cutting the umbilical cord?
There is no set waiting time before cutting the umbilical cord. But according to the APA, findings by the WHO suggest that waiting one to three minutes after delivery or longer can be recommended for all births. These are the guidelines followed by the Philippine Pediatric Society (PPS).
What are the benefits of delayed cord clamping?
Several studies have proven that delayed cord clamping can have a positive effect on both preterm and full-term babies. Here are some of the reasons:
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1. It can help save preemies' lives.
A 2017 study, which looked into nearly 3,000 Australian babies born before 37 weeks, found that delaying cord clamping by up to 60 seconds dramatically reduced by a third the number of premature infant deaths in hospitals.
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the extra blood that babies get from the placenta has been associated to help improve transitional circulation, better establishment of red blood cell volume, and decreased need for blood transfusion in premature babies. It also lessens the chances of the premature infant from suffering from brain hemorrhage and necrotizing enterocolitis, an intestinal disease common in preemies wherein the intestinal tissue becomes damaged and begins to deteriorate.
David Osborn, an associate professor at the University of Sydney and lead author of the study mentioned above, estimated that for every one thousand preterm babies born more than 10 weeks early, delayed cord clamping could save up to 100 more lives. "This means that, worldwide, using delayed clamping instead of immediate clamping can be expected to save between 11,000 and 100,000 additional lives every year," he said.
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Delaying Cord Clamping by 60 Seconds Can Save Preemies' Lives
2. It provides long-term neuro-developmental benefits.
Preemies are not the only ones who reap benefits from delayed cord clamping — full-term infants also get neuro-developmental benefits from it. A 2015 study found that children whose cords were cut more than three minutes after birth had slightly higher social skills and fine motor skills than those whose umbilical cords were cut within 10 seconds.
The additional blood flow from the placenta has been linked to increased hemoglobin levels at birth and improved iron levels in full-term infants. The iron in the blood increases the newborn's iron storage, which is crucial for healthy brain development, according to the APA.
In 2019, a study published in The Journal of Pediatrics suggested that waiting for five minutes before cutting the cord can also improve early brain development. According to researchers, waiting "while infants are held skin-to-skin with the mother, leads to more myelin development." The regions of the brain affected by this increased myelination are those associated with motor, sensory-processing and function, and visual development.
"These are all important for early phase development," said Debra A. Erickson-Owens, co-author of the study, a certified nurse-midwife and a University of Rhode Island professor of nursing.
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3. Decreased risk of iron deficiency anemia.
According to the APA, delayed cord clamping transfers an additional 40 to 50 mg/kg of iron to newborns. This prevents iron deficiency during baby's first year, including severe side effects associated with it. Common side effects are cognitive impairment and central nervous system problems.
Are there risks associated with delayed cord clamping?
According to the ACOG, there is a small increase in the incidence of jaundice in infants undergoing delayed cord clamping. But the benefits may outweigh the risk, so long as phototherapy is immediately available.
If, however, there is increased risk of postpartum hemorrhage (e.g. placenta previa or placental abruption), the ACOG says that "the benefits of delayed umbilical cord clamping need to be balanced with the need for timely hemodynamic stabilization of the woman."
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Glitz, glam and showbiz style – is it a dream you can never reach? A quick glance in the mirror – bedhead and all – and you'll probably think the answer is no. But look a little harder and you'll see the potential for a makeover that could make Christina Hendricks proud.
Indeed, the glamorous actresses who parade up and down red carpets don't perfect their beauty regime on their own. A crack team of beauty specialists swarm around them before every outing, pruning and preening their hair, makeup and skin to perfection.
Unless you've got a few million pounds to spare, it's unlikely that you'll be able to attain the same levels of finely honed beauty. But you're no lost cause.
Stop staring into the mirror and eyeballing beauty magazines – it's time to try a few of these tips to find out just how glamorous you can look & how to get showbiz glam.
Your hair lies at the root of every bad photo you've ever had taken of you. It's the millstone around some people's neck, a dodgy barnet that never seems to look right. Amy Winehouse was able to balance an entire beehive on her head and look fabulous – why can't you manage the same?
Yet a decent set of styling products is all you need to remove the frizz and bad vibes from your hair.
For our money, Wen styling creme is the best choice for those searching for well-styled and frizz-free hair. It's specifically designed to promote style without overdoing it on hair gels or mousses, while avoiding split ends and an abundance of frizz.
Combine this with a few of Wen's other products and you'll have a stonking set of curls that even Nicky Clarke could appreciate.
Facial contouring has become the 'in' thing across the globe. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, have been made dedicated to the art, in which a simple process of a base foundation and makeup pencils are used to shape your face in exactly the way you desire.
Like a game of chess, the rules of contouring are easy to learn but difficult to master. It's a skill for those with a steady hand and a swish wrist to get the perfect contour.
Finding your preferred shape of face is a trial and error operation, so keep tying and eventually you'll master this art.
Nutritional advice might not seem very stylish – but it's the key to a great figure and celeb-healthy skin. Stick to superfoods, ensuring you consume your eight portions of fruit and veg a day. Try this consistently for a few months and you'll look great before you realize it.
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Breaking City News
April 25, 2019 / 12:30 PM / 3 months ago
CRH sees interest in potential sale of European distribution arm
DUBLIN, April 25 (Reuters) - Irish building materials group CRH has had a lot of interest in its European distribution arm ahead of a decision in the next two to three months on whether to trigger a sale, Chief Executive Albert Manifold said on Thursday.
Reuters reported on April 12 that CRH had hired Bank of America to launch the sale of the unit as soon as next month and that a potential 2 billion euro deal had already drawn interest from a series of buyout funds including Advent, Lone Star and CVC.
"We've had a lot of people (interested)... It's an area that there has been a lot of interest in, the distribution space. Private equity have been involved in this space for a decade," Manifold told a news conference following the company's annual shareholder meeting. (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; editing by Jason Neely)


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TO form a just conception of the state of darkness in which so many minds are involved as are comprised in the heathen population of India, a person had need become an inhabitant of the country, that he may read and see the productions of these minds, and witness the effects of the institutions they have formed, as displayed in the manners, customs, and moral circumstances of the inhabitants.
A correct knowledge of this people appears to be neces. sary when we consider, that their philosophy and religion still prevails over the greater portion of the globe, and that it is Hindooism which regulates the forms of worship, and the modes of thinking, and feeling, and acting, throughout China, Japan, Tartary, Hindoost'han, the Burman empire, Siam, Ceylon, &c., that is, amongst more than 400,000,000 of the human race! Here then we have the extraordinary fact, that the greater part of the human family are still Hindoos; or, in other words, that they are under the transforming influence of the philosophy and superstition which may be denominated Hindooism ; regulated by systems invented by the Indian bramhun. The opinions embraced by the more philosophical part of the Hindoo nation, are quite distinct from the popular superstition. In this philosophical system the one God is considered as pure spirit, divested of all attributes ; and every thing besides God is declared to be inert matter. This Being is contemplated either as dwelling in his own eternal solitude, in a state of infinite blessedness or repose, or as individuated in every form of life, animal or vegetable.
There is another part of the Hindoo system, viz. devotion, and this is said to lead to wisdom and abstraction, and finally, to absorption ; but as no Hindoos are now found to attain abstraction, we must suppose that the merit of their devotion is very deficient. Amongst the great-body of Hindoos are a few more remarkable than the rest for devotion : these are mostly found amongst persons tired of the bustle of the world, who sit for hours and days together, repeating the name of some deity, using their bead-roll. Others retire to Benares or some sacred place, and spend their time in religious ceremonies : and these are promised the heaven of the god Shivu. Many persons spend all their days in visiting holy places, and in devotion there, seeking celestial happiness,
for a time, or the birth of a yogee. Among devotees who seek the same objects must be placed the persons who drown themselves, in a state of perfect health, at Allahabad, and in other places; and the widow who ascends the funeral pile, also seeks this higher happiness, and is promised by the shastru, that, by the merit of this act, she shall take her deceased husband and seven generations of his family and seven generations of her family with her to the heaven of Indru, the king of the gods, where they shall reside during thirty millions of years.
The Hindoo is unquestionably as susceptible of that improvement which is purely intellectual as the inhabitant of Europe. He may not be capable of forming plans which require great and original powers, nor fitted for bold and daring enterprizes. Reverence for the gods is produced in his mind by observing around him innumerable temples erected to their honour, where they are daily worshipped by persons next in rank to the gods. He is led to adore the priests of his native land, for he is told that the sacred books have been committed to their guardian care ; that these sacred persons came forth from the head of Brumhu; that religion in all its offices and benefits must proceed from them ; that they are the mouths of the gods; and that they hold the destinies of men at their disposal. As he passes through the streets, he sees every hand raised to do them homage ; he observes people running after them with cups of water in their hands, soliciting the honour of drinking this water after they have condescended to dip their foot in it.
It will excite no astonishment, that a superstition thus appealing to the senses, administered by a priesthood receiving divine honours, connected with splendid and fascinating ceremonies, including music and dancing, and gratifying every voluptuous passion, should captivate the heart, and overpower the judgment of youth. There is nothing in the ceremonies of this system of a moral nature, or which can produce moral effects. That system must be essentially vicious which dooms the great mass of society to ignorance, and treats rational beings as though they possessed no powers, except those of the animal. The education of all, except the Bramhuns, is confined to a few rudiments, qualifying them to write a letter on business, and initiating them into the first rules of arithmetic. The culture of the mind is never contemplated in these seminaries. Not a single Hindoo school for girls exists throughout India ; the laws and customs of the Hindoos are inimical to the culture of the female mind,
CHAPTER I.
A VIEW OF THE IDOLATRY OF THE HINDOOS, Their History, Literature, Religion, Man
ners and Customs, &c.
WITH ENGRAVINGS, EXHIBITING THEIR POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS-CEREMONIES--THEIR VARIOUS MODES OF WOR
SHIP-IMAGINARY DEITIES, &c.
HINDOOSTAN, both in respect to territory and popula-, tion, includes the most important portion of southern Asia. It is bounded S. E. by the Coromandel coast and Bay of Bengal, and extends north to the boundary of Cashmire, beginning in lat. 8, and running to 35 N. near 2000 miles in length.
From east to west, it extends from the mountains which divide it from the Burman empire to the river Araha, making more than 1600 miles in breadth ; viz. from long. 66 to 92 E. The total population of this vast country is estimated at more than one hundred millions, more than one half of which, viz. seventy-one millions, were, in 1815, under British jurisdiction and influence.
History.--The History of this country is involved in the darkest mystioal obscurity. The Hindoo historians pretend to commence their accounts with the creation of the world, which they place at a vast distance of time anterior to the real era. They also give an account of the creation itself, of which the following is an abtract.
Creation. --Vishnoo, the preserver, was sleeping on the waters of the deluge, and from his navel had grown a lotus or water-lily : from this flower sprang Brumha (the Creator) who created by his word four persons, but these living a life of austerity, did not propagate ; in consequence of which, Brumba applied himself to severe austerities to obtain the blessings of the god« on the work of Creation, till at length he burst into a flood of tears : from these tears a number of titans, or giants arose, after which Brumha's sighs gave birth
to the god Roodru (another name for Shivu.) Roodru, at the request of his father continued the work of creation, but in his hands it proceeded so slowly that Brumba was obliged to resume it; and he created water, fire, æther, the heavens, wind, the simple earth, rivers, seas, mountains, trees, climbing plants, divisions of time, day, night, months, years, &c. He then created several gods ; one was formed out of his breath ; another by his eyes; another from his head; another from his heart, &c. After this Brumha assumed a body possessing the quality of darkness, and created the giants; then assuming a body possessing the quality of truth, he ereated other certain gods, and in the evening the progenitors of mankind; he next assumed a body possessed of the quality which stimulates to activity, and created man. To the crea
er substances, both animate and inanimate.
The form and size of the earth is described thus :-The earth is circular and flat like the flower of the water-lily, in which the petals project beyond each other: its circumference is four thousand millions of miles. In its centre is mount.Soomeroo, ascending six hundred thousand miles from the surface, and descending 128 thousand below it. This mountain is 128 thousand miles in circumference at its base, and 256 thousand wide at the top. On this mountain are the heavens of Vishnoo, Shivu, Indru, Aguee, Yumas, &c. The kings who first gave laws to mankind were of celestial origin, and were endowed with power, and length of days, in proportion to the grandeur and extent of such a world. Thus Swayumbhoovu, from the Vedus or sacred books, found in a boat, compiled the institutes of Munoo, by which laws the world was governed. His son, who succeeded him reigned one billion two hundred millions of years, and then abandoning the world, by the power of devotion, obtained celestial happiness. The fourth king reigned 36 thousand years, and then had a separate heaven assigned him, as a reward of his virtues. Ther follows a genealogical list of kings, for an account of whom we must refer the curious reader to those who have written more largely on this subject.
In what the Hindoo historians call the second age of the world, the first king, whose name was Suguru, had by one of his wives 60 thousand children. They were all sons, born in a pumpkin, and nourished in pans of milk, but when grown up were all reduced to ashes by the sage Kupilu. Several ages after, one of the descendants of Suguru being king, by his religious austerities obtained the descent of the Ganges, by the efficacy of whose waters, his 60,000 aneestors were brought to life. · Such is the history of the creation as given by the Hindoo philosophers. There is however among them a variety of opinions on this subject. Some of them affirm that the world is eternal, and that it is in vain to seek for the birth of creation. Others agree to give the world a beginning, and add that it is destroyed at the end of a Kulpu which consists of four hundred and thirty-two millions of years; that it remains in a state of chaos during a period as long, and is then récreated. Thirty of these kulpus form the reign of a being, called Munos, of whom there are thirty who reigned in succession. These Munoos, as well as most of the gods, have ascended to their present state of eminence as a reward for their actions. When they have enjoyed the whole amount of happiness their works have merited, they ascend or de scend to the state proper for them. Notwithstanding the fact that the Hindoos have never produced a wise and honest historian who recorded facts, or described what he saw, they have many books among them which show they were written by learned natives. The Hindoo courts were filled with men who could boast of being authors of works on every science then known.
Law.--The science of jurisprudence, particularly, appears to have been studied with great attention, as will be seen by the following extract from the table of contents prefixed to the work of Munoo, one of the most celebrated among the Hindoo sages.
Of the duties of kings.— A king is fire and air ; he, both sun and moon; he, the god of criminal justice ; he, the genius of wealth ; he, the regent of water ; be, the lord of the firmament; he is a powerful divinity, who appears in a human shape.'-On the necessity of a king's inflicting punishments; the dreadful consequences to a kingdom of neglecting punishment ; a king must act in his own dominions with justice ; chastise his foreign enemies with rigour; he must form a council of Bramhups; and appoint eight ministers, having one confidential counsellor, a brambun ;-other officers to be appointed ; their proper qualifications ;-qualities of an ambassador ;-the commander in chief must regulate the forces; ---the proper situation for a capital ; necessity of a fortress near the capital ; if possible, a fortress of mountains ;--of a king's marriage ; of his domestic priest, and domestic religion ;--of collectors of the revenue ;-a king's duty in time of war, and when engaged in battle ; he must bever recede


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Igor Levkanič (22. ledna 1909 Renčišov – 18. ledna 1962) byl slovenský a československý politik ukrajinské národnosti (respektive rusínské národnosti), aktivista Ukrajinské národní rady Prjaševčiny, poválečný poslanec Ústavodárného Národního shromáždění za Demokratickou stranu, po únorovém převratu přestoupil do Komunistické strany Slovenska.

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Vystudoval práva v Praze. V letech 1939–1940 byl soudcem v Prešov a pracoval zde expozituře Hospodářské kontrolní služby. Angažoval se politicky a veřejně. Překládal z ruštiny.

Po osvobození se angažoval v činnosti Ukrajinské národní rady Prjaševčiny, za kterou zasedal v letech 1945–1946 v Slovenské národní radě. Později utvořil skupinu členů Ukrajinské národní rady navázanou na Demokratickou stranu. Slib poslance Slovenské národní rady složil 6. listopadu 1945.

V parlamentních volbách v roce 1946 se stal členem Ústavodárného Národního shromáždění za Demokratickou stranu. V roce 1947 zasedal v předsednictvu Ukrajinské národní rady. V parlamentu setrval do konce funkčního období, tedy do voleb do Národního shromáždění 1948, přičemž po únorovém převratu přestoupil v březnu 1948 do poslaneckého klubu KSS. Už 22. února 1948 patřil mezi signatáře telegramu Ukrajinské národní rady, adresovaného Klementu Gottwaldovi, v němž podpořili komunistickou pozici během vládní krize.

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NextThe Herald Podcast with Professor Bob Prichard
From Lament to Praise: New Music for the Broken-hearted
There is much to lament in our world, and, if we can learn to lament and then rejoice together, we have an invaluable resource to share. We are learning to lament together, not to dismiss the pains of others, but to hear them and regard them as inseparable from our own. There is no way truly forward except the way we go together.
Eileen O'Brien	on July 13, 2018
You think you're smart
You broke my heart
Left me to cry here alone
But you'll return
One day you'll learn
The heart you break may be your own.
In Austin, Texas, the "live music capital of the world," lyrics from the best classic country singers are still sung every night of the week. Many of these country songs of old, like Patsy Cline's "The heart you break may be your own," sing of heartbreak and the low points in life, and many have wisdom sewn in as they turn the heartache of life into melody.
At this year's General Convention, the Episcopal Church began trying to figure out the the new music that emerges from its most recent heartbreak—division about marriage. It will take a bit to work out what this new music sounds like, but it's encouraging to be reminded that we, like musicians, don't stop playing. Instead, we are always growing, learning, and playing, even through rough spots. Willie Nelson, the Austin legend, is still singing and playing guitar at ninety. In those ninety years he's experienced and seen a lot of the pain that comes with life. And he keeps making music. At this General Convention, we decided together to keep making music, too.
It has not been an easy two decades for Episcopalians. We have been wracked with controversy, deeply hurt feelings, disrespect, and misunderstandings on every side. There have been disagreements resulting in the sense that there is no way to agree again. Hearts have been broken, and lamenting voices remain to be heard speaking haltingly of their pain. But, I hope, we have chosen to turn heartbreak into music, rather than let it defeat us.
It has not been an easy two decades for Episcopalians, but we have all the resources we need to continue—heartbreak, unfortunately, is not new for the church.
Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly;
the faithful have disappeared from humankind.
They utter lies to each other;
with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. (Psalm 12:1-2)
The communal lament psalms* give words to the pain that our church has felt in different ways over the centuries. As the people of God, we are a community that laments together. This General Convention we experienced the need to hear and feel the lament in our church around issues of race, gender, and creation care. These are laments that individuals cannot carry alone. Patsy Cline is onto something when she describes the pain of one person being felt by another. When we bear our pains together, we have the most hope and strength to heal deeply and find an honest way forward. By being in the Church, we chose long ago to make our way forward together.
Thankfully, lament psalms are not the only kind in our psalter, and even the lament often resolves into praise prior to the full resolution of its cause. At this General Convention, there was lament alongside praise, laughter, welcome, celebration, and conversation. This togetherness may seem stronger than ever because we are improving at naming and listening to our divisions and heartache. People love the Episcopal Church but they are also hurt by it. We must know the pain of division in order to have real communion and reconciliation—hurt cannot just be covered up. We return to lament psalms because they are valuable to authentic praise. In the midst of this General Convention, desires for a deep kind of healing and coming together again were evident and gave hope of what we can be together.
The Holy Spirit is powerful, and we are meant to share that Spirit with one another and the world. There is much to lament in our world, and, if we can learn to lament and then rejoice together, we have an invaluable resource to share. We are learning to lament together, not to dismiss the pains of others but to hear them and regard them as inseparable from our own. There is no way truly forward except the way we go together.
Country singers sometimes have more wisdom than I expect: "The heart you break may be your own." Our brother's and sister's pain is our own to carry in our hearts, and we as the church can be an example to the world of what it looks like when we walk the journey from lament to praise with honesty. Together we can turn our heartbreak into music—which makes for some very good dancing.
*Psalms 12, 44, 58, 60, 74, 79, 80, 83, 85, 90, 94, 123, 126, 129
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Rams' GM Les Snead: Fitting NFC championship was 'somewhat of a defensive grind'
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The Los Angeles Rams and New Orleans Saints had two of the better offenses in the NFL during the regular season.
'I give John Johnson (credit) … that's a fade-away interception this guy just made'
But when it came to overtime of the NFC Championship Game, it was a defensive play that made the difference in the Rams' 26-23 victory that sent them to Super Bowl LIII to face the New England Patriots. It began when, on second-and-16 from the Saints' 34, Dante Fowler Jr., hit Drew Brees as he let go of a pass for Michael Thomas. The ball hung in the air and safety John Johnson was able to make the interception that set up Greg Zuerlein's winning 57-yard field goal.
"Well, the cliches, one play at a time, it's a boring answer, but that's truly the definition of that."
"It's fitting that two of the top offenses in the NFL, it ends up being somewhat of a defensive grind," Rams General Manager Les Snead told Jim Miller of SiriusXM NFL Radio. "But that's playoff football and the defense had to make a play there. They got the ball first. And you know what, Dante made a play. And I give John Johnson (credit) … that's a fade-away interception this guy just made."
'You've got to win more downs than they do and you don't ever know which order they're going to come'
The Rams showed plenty of mental toughness throughout, something that Snead was quick to praise.
"Well, the cliches, one play at a time, it's a boring answer, but that's truly the definition of that because you've got to win more downs than they do and you don't ever know which order they're going to come into," Snead said. "If they win the first 10, you got to recover. We talked about it Sean (McVay) talks about it all the time. He talked about it (Saturday) night at the team meeting, he talked about it before the game and a halftime."
Les Snead on Rams' second-round pick Taylor Rapp: 'We loved his instincts'
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HomeBlogCryptocurrencyAdam Tracy Examines Alternative Trading Systems & Cryptocurrency
Adam Tracy Examines Alternative Trading Systems & Cryptocurrency
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So now everybody is wondering or wanting to go the direction of the security token, which makes a lot of sense, if only because in the United States you're in a bit of a gray area. You know? Are there such things as utility tokens? And a lot of ICO issuers are taking what you consider to be the safe route and saying well, okay, we're just going to call it a security. And I've talked about reggae and ICOs and security token offerings in the past, and why those do and don't make sense, but the biggest issue is the secondary market, right? Any of the prevailing crypto exchanges, especially the ones the United States — Binance, Bittrex, Coinbase, etc. — aren't going to list for trading a security token. And the reason why they're not going to is that they're not licensed National Securities Exchanges. So to the extent that any of them did list a security token for trading, they could conceivably run afoul of the exchange act because they would be facilitating the exchange of Securities without the proper licensure. So the question becomes can one become a licensed National Securities Exchange? And that's difficult, right? That's difficult. There's only a few of them in the United States, and you've heard of them — Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, and so forth.
So the question becomes are there alternatives, and the primary, if not only alternative, is what's called an alternative trading system. Or, you know, what's called a multilateral trading facility in Europe or a call network or a electronic communication network in different places. But the requirements to become an alternative trading system, which is exempt from the requirement that you become a license National Securities Exchange, is that you become a broker-dealer first, right? So typically in the traditional securities world, ATS's operate sort of in the dark pool type market, where you have large institutional investors trading large blocks between other institutional investors. But that requires you to become a broker-dealer and to become a licensed broker dealer, you have to go through Finrun — you can buy broker-dealers, and obtain the licensure, and operate and so on and so forth, but it's not an easy road to hoe, right? It's much more likely that you would be able to become an alternative trading system for crypto than you would a licensed National Securities Exchange, but it's still fraught with risk, expense, and obviously time to do these sort of things. And, the other thing to think about is, you know, I've seen and you've coinbased it, and you'll see others that are trying to become these alternative trading systems. Those aren't retail platforms, right? Those are institutional platforms. Those are platforms for large block trades to effectively clear. And the reason that a lot of them exist is because they want to clear large trades without the general market knowing because those show off market. So in the traditional securities world, Apple computer can be trading back and forth, but on an ATS, I could go sell, you know, 25 million worth of Apple stock and it won't necessarily affect the price as its quoted on Nasdaq, right? That's because it's off the books. So, you know, the solution for a security token for liquidity is that it has to be either a licensed National Securities Exchange or an ATS, but the reality is that ATS may not provide access for retail investors. So, if you're going to be an ICO issuer, and you're issuing a security token, you can't necessarily make the promise that any of these ATS's that are coming on board will — one, ever come on board because they have to go through the process of becoming a broker-dealer, and then file a form ATS with the SEC, but you can never guarantee that a retail investor would gain access to it. So, you kind of go back to what I've, you know, opined here before is that reality is with the security token, you're really kind of limited to certain like offshore exchanges because, you know, then the SEC sort of opined on that in the in the Dow Token decision. But these offshore exchanges are probably the only venue that you may have for liquidity, right? And so, I go back to my point like with filing a reggae or an S1 with a security token, yeah you have, you know, the legal ability for resale — meaning the token can be legally resold as opposed to being a restricted security, but you have no market. You actually have less market than you would for one, a share of common stock and two, certainly for utility token.
So, you know, an ATS is a great concept, and I think there should be more, but the reality is it doesn't necessarily guarantee access to retail investors. And it's definitely plausible that you could start one, and there's procedures for that. And I'm happy to discuss that with anybody who's interested, but it doesn't necessarily mean that your security token is going to have liquidity when these start coming on board which again, I think, you know, with most ICOs the real the value of anything was the liquidity. Right? And if you took an STO, security token offering, and you took a share of stock, a stock offering, and they were the exact same deal, right, and this is just today, if they were the exact same deal promising the exact same returns — one was selling a restricted share of stock, one was selling a restricted security token — in almost every instance, I would advise my clients at least to purchase the shares of stock. Because at least the share of stock has some exit mechanism, right? You can do an IPO, you could list on one of multiple securities exchanges. Whereas, the security token right now doesn't have that exit. So, it's actually more liquid than the share of stock, and that sort of goes against what I think has been driving, to a large degree, these ICOs for, you know, now about two years. So it's an interesting thing to consider if you're going down the security token road. Not to say that one, you shouldn't necessarily go down that road or do it the United States could always do it off shore, and two or three rather, you know, you have to consider what the implications of selling what's an illiquid security really is and how that affects valuation, how that affects your ability to, you know, sort of sell your offering out, right? So if you have any questions, you know informing ATS's, broker-dealer formation, or security token offerings, hit me up — Email is at the bottom of this video. Great talking to you, and I will see you soon.
A former professional rugby player, Adam S. Tracy brings over twenty years' experience as an attorney, consultant and dealmaker with a particular focus on cryptocurrency, digital products, payments and immersive corporate structures. As an accomplished executive and advisor to high risk merchants and stakeholders, Adam has proven himself as a results oriented, decisive leader with proven success advising early market entrants, technology adapters, as well as established participants across a wide range of verticals. Adam Tracy's attack-first personality allows him to excel in dynamic, demanding environments including complex corporate negotiations, distressed environments and regulatory investigations.
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With the first edition taking place in 2018, Porto Femme is a women's film festival. A place of exhibition and dissemination of multiple and diverse universes that put women in the center.
One of the festival's goals is to give visibility to the work of women filmmakers around the world, intending to have a diversified program with competitive cinema sessions, thematic screenings, debates, art exhibitions, among others.
The festival has two distinct International Competitions: one for works by women in various cinematographic genres, and the other for works in which at least one woman plays a key role as scriptwriter, producer, animator or leading actress. Being the cinema a collaborative and multi-authoral art, it is intended to be an inclusive festival and give visibility to all those who participate in these works.
Giving visibility to Portuguese filmmakers is another goal of the festival. The National Competition intends to be a showcase for the exhibition of the national production made in the feminine, as well as to encourage the production of new works by women.
We believe that with our project we will be able to take steps to achieve gender equality in the arts, focusing on the cinema, and for this, PORTO FEMME begins its activity in 2017 through PORTO FEMME SESSIONS in Maus Hábitos, in Porto.


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¶ … adult characters serve novels? How
One of the principle points of commonality existing in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Feed, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is that class figures prominently in all three stories. Specifically, what a person's socio-economic status is plays a powerful role in determining how others treat him or her. In Harry Potter, the principle sort of class associations varies between those that are pure wizards, part wizards, and those that have no magical ability whatsoever. In The Absolutely True Diary, class distinctions pertain to money and the typical trappings of luxury, In Feed, class distinctions pertain to one's consumer profile. As such, the various characters in each of these novels incur certain problems that are directly related to their class. Therefore, it greatly appears as though the authors of these works, Anderson, Rowling and Alexie, are subtly implying that class distinctions play a profound role in one's social standing.
This thesis is demonstrated most prominently in The Absolutely True Diary. The protagonist of this novel, Arnold, is a social pariah on many fronts: he is a Native American, he is poor, and he is born with an unusual condition affecting his brain so that his head is large and he has difficulty with his fine-motor skills. Perhaps even more revealing about the author's intention to make a commentary on the state of society is the fact that he is extremely poor. It is significant, for instance, that one of the turning points in the novel occurs when Arnold becomes exasperated with the immense penury in which he finds himself and throws his mother's former textbook at his teacher. Forced to transfer to another
Whereas he was frequently teased at his former school, he finds a girlfriend and makes friends with smart students at his newer, wealthy school. He personally begins to thrive as well, making the varsity basketball team and maintaining -- with some difficulty -- his friendship with one of his friends from his previous school. In this novel, a change in socio-economic status (which Arnold was able to do simply by switching schools, despite the fact that he is still poor) from a lower class to a higher class is definitely perceived as advantageous.
Similarly, the author of Feed indicates that it is more beneficial to belong to a higher social class than a lower one. The class distinctions in this novel, however, are not as clear cut as they were in The Absolutely True Diary. For the most part, all of the main characters are in an upwardly mobile consumer class. The chief point of distinction in class, then, occurs when Violet persuades Titus to obfuscate their consumer profiles by spending erratically on an assortment of times that belies their current profiles. This fact, combined with unfortunate circumstances in which Violet's feed ceases to work properly, effectively makes her a cripple. Without her feed functioning properly she is not able to maintain her health; because her consumer profile is no longer accurate and does not reflect her true tendencies, she cannot obtain the proper assistance for her feed. In effect, she has gone from the upwardly mobile, well to do consumer class to an anomalous class of a crippled people. These facts greatly impact her relationship with Titus, who no longer is as closer to her once she is markedly different than him and the majority of people in his class. As such, the fate of Violet and her physical and emotional distancing from Titus due to a shift in the former's class indicates that it is more advantageous to remain in a higher social class than a lower social class.
The issue of class produces ramifications for the myriad characters in the aforementioned Harry Potter story by Rowling in a number of different ways. There are a couple of different distinctions between Harry and his friend's based on their statuses as wizards. Still, the most prominent instance in which a distinction between class is evinced and the author indicates that it is more beneficial to be a part of a higher class than a lower one is when Harry encounters Peter…
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