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- Books make great holiday gifts: Regina Brett - Cleveland Plain Dealer
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| Verizon Communications Declares Quarterly Dividend - Earthtimes Posted: 03 Dec 2009 07:05 AM PST | 
NYSE Euronext to Announce Fourth-Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Host Conference Call on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 NEW YORK - NYSE Euronext (NYX) will announce earnings for the fourth-quarter 2009 before the market opens on Tuesday, February 9, 2010. A news release will be issued at approximately 2:30 a.m. (New York) / 8:30 a.m. (Paris) and a conference call with rem NI Technology Updates Outlooks for Intel, TriQuint Semiconductor, Anadigics, RF Micro Devices and Skyworks Solutions Boy Meets Girl® Uses Virtual Goods in Fashion Fantasy Game to Drive Real-World Holiday Retail Sales Tiscali Selects Infinera for Nationwide Italian Network Zoom/ClubCom and Urban Active Sign Exclusive Media Partnership Thousands of LinkedIn Professionals Boast Fake College Degrees on Resumes, Warns GetEducated.com Conduit Expands Operations to Europe to Support Excellent Year of Growth
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| Total Appoints Senior VP, Finance Economics Information Systems - Oilvoice.com Posted: 03 Dec 2009 02:47 AM PST
Olivier Cleret de Langavant has been appointed Senior Vice President, Finance Economics Information Systems in Total Exploration & Production. He succeeds Philippe Chalon, who has transferred to another position in Total. OilVoice Upstream 'Who's Who' Directory
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| Books make great holiday gifts: Regina Brett - Cleveland Plain Dealer Posted: 03 Dec 2009 04:41 AM PST By Regina Brett, The Plain DealerDecember 03, 2009, 5:01AM If you don't know what to give someone for the holidays, give the gift of reading. Why? The simple answer is this: There's a book to fit all the people on your list and you don't have to worry about getting the wrong size or ruining someone's diet. The more eloquent answer is found in this quote by author Clarence Day: "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man: nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead." If you aren't sure where to start, Plain Dealer book editor Karen Long offered some great picks on Sunday. She included "The Age of Wonder," by Richard Holmes; "A Day and A Night and A Day," by Glen Duncan, and local writer Dan Chaon's, "Await Your Reply." The love of reading can be passed down through generations like a good gene. I used to read to my daughter in bed. We covered Winnie the Pooh, Shel Silverstein, Anne Frank and the Bible. My grandson loves to read. At 8 months old, instead of grabbing toys he reaches for, "What's Wrong Little Pookie?" by Sandra Boynton. "Did a very large hippo try to borrow your shoes? Are there five lazy frogs in your bed for a snooze?" He loves, "'Is Your Mama a Llama?" and doesn't even try to eat the pages as I read, "'Is your mama a llama?' I asked my friend Rhonda. 'No she is not,' is how Rhonda responded." You can trick older kids into reading by buying them riddle and joke books, comic books and graphic novels. Or give classics that never age: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Stuart Little." The key is to make unwrapping a book not feel as boring as a new pair of pajamas. You have to create a connection to books. If you're not sure how, check out this book: "Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment" by Emma Walton Hamilton. She offers great tips for getting a child to turn off the electronic games and cuddle up with a book. Here are some of her tips: Create reading time free from electronic interruptions – parents included. Keep stacks and baskets of books everywhere, even in the bathroom and the car. Visit libraries and bookstores with your children. Read in front of them so they see you reading for pleasure. Create a special place to read with a throw rug, chair or blanket. Snuggle up with your kids and read so they connect reading and pleasure. Encourage reading in bed, even if it's with a flashlight. Start a parent/child book club in the neighborhood or with other parents at school. What to read? The easy answer is everything from fairy tales to biographies. The more eloquent answer comes from Ezra Pound: "The book should be a ball of light in one's hand." You really can give your child the sun and the moon and the stars by giving them books. "A book, too, can be a star," Madeleine L'Engle wrote, "a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." Join Regina Brett at 9 a.m. Friday on WCPN FM/90.3. She hosts the "The Sound of Ideas." This week: The best non-fiction books. To reach Regina Brett: rbrett@plaind.com, 216-999-6328 Previous columns online: cleveland.com/brett This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
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