![]() ![]() A hasty call to the airline confirms the worst. And besides, Daddy's been through this a few times before. Trixie didn't tell her daddy that Knuffle Bunny was gone. Finally Daddy and Opa settle down with cups of coffee to begin catching up, and Oma takes Trixie outside to the garden with a big glass of chocolate milk. ![]() It's very exciting as they make their way at last to Oma's and Opa's front door, where they are welcomed with open arms and her own WELCOME TRIXIE! sign. It's a long flight across the Big Pond Trixie plays with Knuffle Bunny, reads her Elephant and Piggie books, and snoozes until her parents shake her awake when the plane comes in for a landing. Of course, Trixie can't travel without Knuffle, and he's treated to a taxi ride, a trip down the airport security's conveyor belt and through the scanner, and finally Trixie climbs aboard the big transcontinental jet with him tucked under her arm. It's bon voyage for Knuffle Bunny, Trixie's beloved floppy stuffed pal. They were on their way to visit Trixie's "Oma" and "Opa" in Holland. ![]() One day, not so long ago, Trixie took a big trip with her family. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Norman’s book is most relevant because human nature is essentially unchanged. But don’t let the age or state of computer science at the time of writing lead to an assumption of irrelevancy. There are human-computer interface design references, but they are very quaint, by contemporary standards. Norman’s now famous book was copy-written in 1988. Those seeking user-interface/UI design solutions, or examples of perfect human-computer interaction, will be disappointed. It’s has stood the test of time, in a category of books where very few do. No interaction designer with a serious concern for usability (as is our want) should be allowed to graduate on to later readings on the topic of user-interface / UI design, UX / UE, human factors, or any related design field, without first reading Don Norman’s book, The Psychology of Everyday Things, cover to cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or should we say Afro-American music? For Bayles says that most of what is distinctive about Americas major genres is due to the imprint, however light or heavy, of the black idiom. So imprinted: spirituals, ragtime, New Orleans jazz, country, much of our folk-song, blues, swing jazz, ∺merican Songbook pop, modern jazz, jump, black gospel, rhythm and blues, rockabilly, soul, and funk.īayles is not unaware of the necessary qualifications one must make here, of mixtures that have nothing to do with black influence, or, of stereotypically purely black elements having other roots, such as the way black gospel is unthinkable without considering its historical origins in (bi-racial) Pentecostal doctrine/practice. ![]() How did that loss occur? Ill provide a sketch here, but buy the book for the full story-in telling it, Bayles provides what amounts to a pretty comprehensive history of American popular music. For its final chapter, she borrows the title of a William Bell song, You Dont Miss Your Water til the Well Runs Dry, so as to refer to the pop-music situation that has held from late 70s on. Martha Bayles is the author of the best book on pop music I know, Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music. ![]() ![]() ![]() but thought country life must be rife with intrigue and criminals. We’d endure days in the car while our parents drove us back east to the small community where our grandparents lived. In that case, we’d visit her during long school breaks in the late 50’s and 1960’s. When we went home for a visit she’d excuse herself for an hour to watch her “piece.” We understood this reference because our grandmother used the same word to explain a daily time out for a daytime soap opera. ![]() I remember my mother used to enjoy the BBC TV series, which featured an old lady with lace collars, hat and gloves. ![]() However, I was always afraid the Ms Marple stories would be tediously old fashioned. I’m an avid fan of mysteries, especially series in which the acquaintance with the protagonist is long and there are many volumes to look forward to. ![]() ![]() And they're planning much more than a high-school game. ![]() Head girl Chiamaka isn't afraid to get what she wants, but soon everyone will know the price she has paid for power. Talented musician Devon buries himself in rehearsals, but he can't escape the spotlight when his private photos go public. Because anonymous texter, Aces, is revealing the darkest secrets of two students. Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. All you need to know is.I'm here to divide and conquer. Buried secrets come to light when two students are targeted by an anonymous bully with an explosive agenda. "This summer's hottest YA debut." Entertainment WeeklyĪCE OF SPADES is Gossip Girl meets Get Out, with a shocking twist. WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS' AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT FICTION ![]() A SUMMER SPECIAL EDITION OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, WITH EXCLUSIVE COVER AND EXTRA CONTENT ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. ![]() The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reiner’s production company, Castle Rock, is working with Black on the script phase, which, according to Black, will expand the courtroom drama to include more personal information about the plaintiffs. Already picked up for a 12-episode second season in Canada, the six-episode first season will debut this fall on cable’s ReelzChannel.Ĩ, Dustin Lance Black’s all-star benefit stage play (George Clooney! Brad Pitt!) about the successful court battle against California’s Proposition 8, the law that repealed marriage equality in that state, is moving closer to a big screen adaptation thanks to director Rob Reiner ( When Harry Met Sally). ![]() Meanwhile, in keeping with the real social upheaval caused by the mass influx of women into the American wartime workforce, the series will indeed feature a lesbian character (played by Canadian TV star Ali Liebert) and her relationship with a co-worker (Charlotte Hegele). ![]() ![]() A Canadian TV drama that already aired there earlier this year, Bomb Girls tells the stories of a group of women who work in a munitions factory during the war and co-stars Academy Award nominee Meg Tilly ( Agnes of God). Bomb Girls looks to fill in a bit of that gap. Because while the heroism of those who served during World War II is the subject of countless movies, books and TV shows, there are simply fewer stories told about the courage of those on the home front. Sexy lesbians working in a World War II-era bomb factory? Yes, it happened, there just haven’t been a lot of Steven Spielberg movies made about the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that the sport is on the ascendancy means we get more sponsorship too and with all that, having 10 healthy teams is great for the sport. “We haven’t had that in recent years in Formula 1 and the cost cap has helped, better distribution of the income has helped. ![]() “If the entire sport can be better off by adding teams, that’s what we should be looking at doing,” says Alpine’s Otmar Szafnauer. That’s why it’s not surprising so many want to hitch their steering wheels, so to speak, to F1, including Ind圜ar team owner and former F1 driver Michael Andretti, who hopes to either be granted an expansion franchise by 2025, if he doesn’t buy into an existing team before then. The fan base in the United States is second only to NASCAR-and to hear many in F1 say it, the gap between it and the stock car boys is closing quickly and dramatically. There’s no question the series is enjoying its biggest growth spurt in history. That’s kind of the situation Formula 1 finds itself in. ![]() You’ve heard the expression “strike while the iron is hot,” right? But what happens if that iron comes back to burn you?
![]() ![]() No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness and ‘authenticity’ of Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas. Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note, and sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script, adding yet more life and humour to the stories. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining-room how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house! Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. ![]() Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien’s children. ![]() ![]() ![]() She talks about how your chakras affect how you attract, accumulate, and handle money. In today’s episode, Leisa and I go deep into why spirituality is aligned with financial success. A few years ago, I explored this very topic with Rabbi Daniel Lapin, and I remember him saying, “You need to understand the nature of money to bring it into your life.” Her book, The Mindful Millionaire, explores the psychological and spiritual side of money. As a coach, author, business growth strategist, and founder of WealthClinic, she helps people elevate their financial consciousness by realizing their true value and becoming financially empowered. Leisa Peterson is The Mindful Millionaire Maker. Through a lifetime of exploration and successes and failures, my guest today came to realize that when you come from a mindset of scarcity, you can’t embrace and accept abundance. I’ve always believed that money is energy and just a tool that amplifies who we already are. Money is an emotional subject, and all too often, that emotion is fear. ![]() |