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5 STARS Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building Christy Hale Lee and Low Books January 2013 32 Pages     Ages: 4 to 8 ……………….. Children building— Concrete poetry— Inside Jacket:  Pair them with notable structures from around the world and see children’s constructions taken to the level of architectural treasures. Here is a unique celebration of [...]

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President Barack Obama‘s picture book, Of Thee I Sing, arrived in bookstores and eBook format today. Random House has also released a promotional video about the book.

Here’s more about the book, from the release: “Obama’s poignant words and Loren Long’s stunning images together capture the promise of childhood and the personalities and achievements of the following Americans: Georgia O’Keeffe, Albert Einstein, Jackie Robinson, Sitting Bull, Billie Holiday, Helen Keller, Maya Lin, Jane Addams, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Neil Armstrong, Cesar Chavez, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.”

President Obama’s attorney, Robert B. Barnett, handled the negotiations for the manuscript back in 2009. Knopf executive editor Michelle Frey edited the book. Children’s book artist Loren Long provided the illustrations.

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What would I do without the NY Times?

The Fall Children's Book Review is out.

This page has a list with articles, as well as a slideshow of the top picks. The choices are all over the place, style-wise, which I guess is a good thing. I have my favorites but of course I'm not telling.


The other cool thing I wanted to share is the piece about May Lin and her newest work, "Wave Field". (Be sure to scroll down and watch the video.)
Ms. Lin is best known for designing the Vietnam Memorial. She has done many other brilliant pieces over the years. Her work is very minimalist and elegant and I love it.



The sun is out today, drying out last night's downpour. So far we're having one day rain, one day to dry out, which is nice. I moved my potted plants indoors for the Winter and have the down comforter back on the bed. I feel like I should be making a hearty stew or baking pies or something.

But instead, I have a new colored pencil piece I want to start working on today. Its a departure for me, and I'm excited about it. I've been wanting to take my work in some new directions, and here I go. Its more "fine-arty"; not so illustrative. Yes, I'll share when its done.

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"I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20's, and into my 30's, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character."

"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."

"How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now."

                                   ~ Maya Lin, American Artist, Sculptor, Architect

  

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Dictionaries, for all their virtues, can sometimes be troublemakers. Ever since the dawn of word processing, dictionaries have been mined to create wordlists for automated spellcheckers. (OUP, for example, offers its own spellchecker on CD-ROM in addition to licensing its dictionary data for various handheld devices and software add-ons.) These dictionary-derived inventories are used to detect and correct spelling errors, by checking to see if the words in a user’s text match what’s found in the wordlist. If an error is detected, algorithms help decide what the user might have meant to type and alternatives are suggested from the accepted list of words. Of course, a spellchecker is only as good as its wordlist and its correction algorithms. Anyone who has spellchecked a document is familiar with the laughably incongruous suggestions that are sometimes provided. And every once in a while incautious users allow these laughers to get through to their final text.

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