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El Presidente y la Directora Ejecutiva de la Fundación San Marcos para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Cultura de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, tienen el agrado de invitar a usted a la presentación del libro "La imagen el Felino en el Arte del Antiguo Perú", cuya autora es la Licenciada Alba Choque Porras, historiadora de arte egresada de esta casa de estudios. En este acto participarán como comentaristas el doctor Federico Kauffman Doig, arqueólogo e historiador; y la magister Adela Pino Jordán, Directora de la Escuela Académico Profesional de Arte de la UNMSM.
Fecha: 26 de noviembre del 2009. Hora: 7.00 p.m. Lugar: Salón de Recepciones del Centro Cultural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Casona) Av. Nicolás de Piérola 1222, Parque Universitario, Lima.
Dr. Fernando Quevedo Ganoza, Presidente. Mg. Elizabeth Canales Aybar, Directora ejecutiva,
Agradecen su gentil asistencia.
Vino de honor.
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Australia's NineMSN has a new contest online for the Road to Hogwarts activities surrounding the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD release. This contest, which is open exclusively to Australian residents, offers as a grand prize: a family trip for four to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park at Universal Studios Orlando. Through December 10th, Australian residents may enter...
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"Perhaps ... I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself -- a Black woman warrior poet doing my work -- come to ask you, are you doing yours?" This is how [ ] introduces herself in a paper entitled "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." Name the collection of essays this is taken from and name the writer.
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Every so often I come back to reviewing my priorities and how I can put my waking hours to best use. Is there a way to wisely parse out time and energy to those areas I consider my first priorities? How can I balance teaching which, by it’s very nature, gets the lion’s share of time, with my before-and-after-day-job as a writer?
” What if we replaced time focus with energy? Instead of looking at the day as a block of time, look at it as a finite amount of energy.
Then ask yourself, where do you spend your energy?
The answer to this question will tell you where your priorities lie.”
When I look at it this way, it’s clear that the bulk of both my time and energy goes into teaching. And truth be told, most of *that* time and energy involves paperwork, district obligations, even things as mundane, but necessary, as cleaning up the mess I’ve left behind after a full day of teaching.
Very little time goes into actual lesson planning. A sad but true statement, which might be explained by the fact that I’ve been able to internalize so much of the “how-to’s” of teaching, that I’m now able to get by using the on-the-job-expertise I’ve acquired over the years.
I know I’m not alone in this. Most of my colleagues are like me. We all spend more time on the incidentals surrounding running a classroom than the actual hard-core lesson planning time that a new or pre-service teacher spends.
And yet… there’s always more that I *could* do (maybe *should* be doing??) that I choose not to simply because of the amount of time required.
And while it’s true that I have an obligation to devote a huge and important chunk of each day to my students, it’s also true that a HUGE part of me wants to shift that energy to my writing.
Is there a way to do this? Perhaps that’s the question so many of us who work full-time and try to write on the side will always struggle with.
The best I can come up with is to write first thing in the morning, early, before the sun has come up, before I must get ready for work. And yet sometimes, like this past week when I’ve been working on report cards and putting in late hours, it seems those early hours are impossible to manage.
At these moments, I must be reminded, again, to extend myself a little grace. Lower my expectations. Remember that all weeks are not this week. And once those report cards are truly finished and conferences are over, I’ll be back at the keyboard, working on the middle grade revision and that cat/mouse picture book I still need to puzzle out.
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Pienso que el trabajo de Renato es de una alegría salvaje, brusca. La relación de estos dos elementos connaturales a la vida produce en el espectador esa sensación de unión de puntos paralelos emotivos. La historia que encierra cada trabajo sugiere un análisis coléctivo centrífugo y sus imágenes estimulan en el espectador un recuerdo posterior, prolongado por el mismo reconocimiento que como seres sociales guardamos del simple hecho de interrelacionarnos y de vivir en sociedad. "Mi ciudad su ciedad" es una recopilación de su trabajo como artista visual y músico.
About the book: Randy Kazandy! Where Are Your Glasses? is a sweet story set to rhyming verse that would make a wonderful gift for a child who is about to visit the eye doctor for the first time, or just getting a first pair of glasses. The storyline, though simple and easy to understand, holds a profound, positive message for children. The illustrations are colorful and extremely pleasing to the eye – they make the story come to life.
For many children, getting the news that “you need glasses” can be traumatizing. But adorable Randy Kazandy reminds kids (and parents) that putting on your first pair of specs is not only an adventure, it opens up a whole new world. Beautifully illustrated and wonderfully told, this book is a must-read for any child—bespectacled or not.
Jennifer Cho Salaff - Editor, Parenting OC Magazine
The newest book in the Women of the Underworld series, Frostbitten once again takes up the tale of Elena Michaels. This time she is tracking a man-eating werewolf and it is up to her and her mate, Clay, to catch him. But there is more to the tale than meets the eye and soon they are traveling to Alaska where Elena and Clay will both have to confront demons from their past. This is a great book in the series. Armstrong continues to develop the characters and introduces new challenges while still keeping the stories believable. I loved it! However, I don’t get the cover. Why the heck is she wearing lace when she spends almost the entire book in Alaska where it is freezing? But it is a beautiful cover.
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From the first paragraph of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue. "I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier”
"rugged splashes"???
and can you even start to imagine smelling that? What does "everything small town American" smell like? How about "Last Frontier"?
I thought this was an interesting article. It reminds me of a case I once heard about from a copyright lawyer:
A publishing company decided to republish a book that was on their backlist. The original contract of course stipulated that the author had to be paid royalties, something they hadn't had to worry about for some time because the book wasn't in print. Most contracts say that if the book goes out of print for a certain amount of time (usually 5-10 years), the rights revert entirely to the author and the author can republish the book with a new company if he/she chooses to, or can negotiate a new contract with the old company if it wants to keep the rights to the book. In this case I don't remember if the publishing company still had partial rights or not; the point was they wanted to publish the book and they had to alert the author.
The problem was they couldn't find him.
The author had vanished without a trace, leaving no living relatives in charge of an estate that would manage the book rights. Living relatives can only get book rights if the will stipulates it; in this case the author had no will and couldn't even be proven to be dead. The publishing company hired the contract lawyer, who went to the judge with all of the documentation. The judge ruled that they had to do a certain amount of regular attempts to find the author - hiring private investigators, posting in newspapers, etc - and if nothing came up, they could republish the book without the author's permission. If, however, the author then reappeared or the author was proven dead and a will surfaced granting rights to living relatives, the publisher would then have to pay back-royalties to the author/author's estate.
I thought this was a very interesting case. A week after I heard him speak, I got my first offer from a publisher. It's been a few years now and I have two books published and a couple in the can. On the way home from shul on Yom Kippur my family happened to walk home with our lawyer/accountant, and I mentioned to him that I should write a will soon because I now have a literary estate that will last for 70 years after my death. It might be a minuscule or nonexistent estate, but it will be there. In fact it will probably be longer than 70 years, as they keep extending that number whenever Mickey Mouse is about to go into public domain, and books I publish in the future may fall into a later time-period extension.
I'm actually against the extension of copyright laws to the point that it has now reached for the written word. Works in the public domain are more published and better-read as a result, and if an estate is large then children are likely to squabble over it, sometimes preventing a book from being republished long enough for it to disappear entirely. Do my potential, currently non-existent heirs need to benefit that badly? If I were to live another forty years, which is extremely possible, my current books won't go into public domain until 2119. Does that sound ridiculous to anyone else?
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First, a quick update. I'm proud to announce that I finished the first draft of MUTED on Sept. 27th. A birthday gift to myself. I then spent a month catching up on reading, telling myself I was just letting the manuscript rest before I tackled it again. Truth? I was scared to death of it. It's huge. Monstrous! Where to start in the mountain of revisions?
So, about the time everyone was gearing up for NaNoWriMo, I began gearing up for my revisions. I even printed it out. Two pages per page. Yet it was still nearly two inches thick. Much cutting ahead I fear. I carried it around for over a week. Probably two. I kept making excuses. "Not enough time to start it." "If I start working on it here, someone will want to talk to me." "It's too late. If I start it now, I'll oversleep in the morning." Yada, yada, yada.
Finally, I took my manuscript with me to the public library. The plan? Force myself to work on it till it was time to pick up my daughter at play practice. It worked! There was only one thing keeping me from working on my revisions. Me. I'm now about fifteen chapters in, and have cut an entire chapter. It seems the more I fix, the more questions I jot down. But I can feel it getting tighter. Better. But I have a long way to go. I want this ready to go out the door by the end of Christmas break. That gives me weekends, the week of Thanksgiving, and two weeks at Christmas.
Meanwhile, I will continue to be absent from LJ. I do loiter on FB, so you can look me up there. But for now, I will focus on the book.
Hola a tod@s y perdonad esta larga ausencia. Os agradezco de corazón todos los mensajes que me habéis dejado y los email recibidos. Muchísimas muchísimas gracias!
Durante estos meses he tenido tiempo de recuperarme de la fractura y volver a integrarme a la vida bípeda, cambiar de trabajo dos veces, una de piso, hacer un viajecito por los Alpes y otro por UK y pensar bastante, y si bien las heridillas aún escuecen de cuando en cuando, tampoco son lo que eran. El libro que ilustré ya salió de imprenta este verano y podéis ver el resultado final aquí. Me han vuelto a comisionar para otra portada y cabeceras, que tengo que entregar para fin de mes y, por supuesto, aún no he empezado. Mañana, de mañana no pasa...
También tuve un encargo de tarjetas navideñas, que podéis ver aquí. En las próximas semanas me pasaré a visitar vuestros blogs y ponerme al día, creo que tengo bastante tarea atrasada... Retomamos el contacto! Besotes
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Hi everyone and apologies for my long absence. Thanks a million for all your support comments and email. Thank you so much.
During these months, I've recovered from my foot fracture, changed jobs twice, flats once, travelled through the Alps and UK and had time to think through past issues. And although sometimes still hurts, it's not what it used to be.
The book I illustrated is already on the shelves and you can see the final result here. I've also done the Christmas cards you see below.
In the next few weeks I will visit your blogs to see what have you been up to... I think I have some catch up to do. We are back in business!
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In an effort to keep this great good thing we know and love as Poetry Friday running as smoothly as possible until such time as its founder, Kelly Herold, is able to take the reins again, and under the advisement of Greg (GottaBook), Tricia (Miss Rumphius), Susan (Chicken Spaghetti), and Diane (Random Noodling), I am putting out a call for Poetry Friday Round Up Hosts for the next three months.
I will post the schedule on our blog, on the calendar of the Kidlitosphere Yahoo group, and on the Kidlitosphere website. In addition, I will make the code for the schedule available to whoever requests it so that you, too, can have the schedule in your blog's sidebar if you so desire!
Here are the dates with a few filled in. If you made arrangements with Kelly for one of these dates and you are planning to host, speak up. If you want to join in the fun, pick your Friday and email me at mlhahn at earthlink dot net.
It is my pleasure to announce the winner of Carolyn Howard-Johnson's ebook, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success!
And the winner is.... MAUREEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you all for all your comments!
Maureen, the moderator of VBT will get in touch with you soon to send you your prize.
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November is National Adoption Month. Celebrate with children's books about adoption. There are not a great many children's books about adoption for beginning readers. However, Canadian author Jean Little has written an excellent series of chapter books for beginning readers that focus on a young girl, Emma, and her adopted younger brother, Max. Emma's Yucky Brother, the first book in the series, tells the story of how four-year-old Max joins Emma's family and how the children begin to care for, and trust, one another. For additional books about adoption, see Adoption Guide Carrie Craft's adoption book reviews.
With the time change and winter approaching, (I have to laugh here, because I am in South Florida) I feel different. It happens to me every year. I want to eat dinner earlier, get into bed earlier and stay home more often. And what about mornings? I wake up to early, and that is why I want to go to bed earlier. I just plain feel like I have a lot less time to get things done. But it’s really not true. I’ve got to snap out of it.
This got me thinking about the Americans who work during the night hours and sleep during the day. Just how do they do it? I would be totally depressed not seeing the sun – especially after living here! Just think about how a night job would change your life. You could not really socialize or attend daytime events. You’d be home sleeping while everyone else is living. I’ve read how many people doing this need to be treated with florescent light exposure to simulate the sun and get them out of their depression.
I don’t think we were meant to stay up all night. I’ll stick to “normal” hours.
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In my imaginary spectrum of picture books that appeal to children I place Chicken Butt and Skippyjon on one end, and Georgia Rises, A Day in the Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, on the other. Georgia Rises is beautifully written by Kathryn Lasky and beautifully illustrated by Ora Eitan. How appealing it is to kids, I don't know. It could be quiet and poetic enough to tip it off the kid-appeal spectrum. But as I write this I realize that looking at, and talking about color is very satisfying to just about everyone. Maybe that's why there are at least two other picture books about O'Keeffe: My Name is Georgia by Jeanette Winter, and Through Georgia's Eyes by Rachel Victoria Rodriguez, illustrated by the marvelous Julie Paschkis.
Chunkster Challenge Dana Now - November 15, 2009 Your Choice: Morbookly Obese
I committed to the Mor-book-ly Obese option. (A chunkster is 450 pages or more of ADULT literature (fiction or nonfiction) The challenge ends November 15, 2009.
For this level of challenge you must commit to 6 or more chunksters OR three tomes of 750 pages or more. You know you want to.....go on and give in to your cravings.
The Book of Nonsense has been made into an audio book (and not by me)!
A while back, I sold the Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air the audio rights for this work, and now, the long awaited (by me and the author) audio book is now available for pre-release download. Technically, the audio book hasn't been released yet so you won't find it on itunes or amazon or the like for now. But, if you are as impatient as me, you'll be glad to know that it is up on lulu.com.
And if you would like to hear a preview in all its coolness, click here. When I did it just automatically played on quicktime. I had nothing to do with it, so I don't know if that's just because my computer already had it or if it requires it.
I ended up catching swine flu too... but I knew the symptoms, so I got myself to the doctor in time to get Tamiflu. =)
I've been resting all week, but I'm well on the road to recovery right now. Mostly just fatigued, which is good.
I cannot emphasize enough how glad I am that I got Tamiflu; I had one of the cases with almost no fever. If I had gone by the traditional definition of flu being with a high fever, I wouldn't have realized that I was truly sick, soon enough. My doctor trusted my instincts and the fact that my husband had just had swine flu--I am very grateful.
I'm back to work next week, as there's lots to catch up on!
I'm going to be putting together another annual holiday gift suggestion list to help everyone buy all books, all the time. Wouldn't it be nice if they could fill all their gift needs while supporting the Mischief?
To this end, please let me know (or remind me!) if you published a book in 2009. I want to include our whole community. If you're shy, you can email me at moonratty@gmail.com. Here's my ideal format:
Author Name/TITLE (Genre, Press Name, Month): One very brief sentence of description about the story (twenty words tops! no cheating or I'll cut them myself! I'm an editor; we're vicious with that delete button)
Thanks and kisses.
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La Lic. Alba G. Choque en plena conferencia.
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The newest book in the Women of the Underworld series, Frostbitten once again takes up the tale of Elena Michaels. This time she is tracking a man-eating werewolf and it is up to her and her mate, Clay, to catch him. But there is more to the tale than meets the eye and soon they are traveling to Alaska where Elena and Clay will both have to confront demons from their past. This is a great book in the series. Armstrong continues to develop the characters and introduces new challenges while still keeping the stories believable. I loved it! However, I don’t get the cover. Why the heck is she wearing lace when she spends almost the entire book in Alaska where it is freezing? But it is a beautiful cover.
