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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
13/12 Aid for Child Care Drops When It Is Needed Most
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/us/child-care-subsidies-drop-when-families-need-them-most.html?ref=us
Published: December 13, 2011
BALTIMORE — With states under pressure to cut their budgets and federal stimulus money gone, low-income working parents are facing a paradox. Just when they have to work longer hours to make ends meet, they are losing access to the thing they need most to stay on the job: a government subsidy that helps pay for child care.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
05/08 Hơn 29.000 trẻ em Somalia thiệt mạng vì nạn đói
Trẻ em Somalia đang phải đấu tranh với nạn đói. (Nguồn: Reuters)
Các tổ chức nhân đạo quốc tế hoạt động tại Somalia cho biết ít nhất 29.000 trẻ em Somalia đã bị chết trong nạn đói tại khu vực Sừng châu Phi vừa qua và nhận định đây là cuộc khủng hoảng nhân đạo tồi tệ nhất hiện nay.
Liên hợp quốc ước tính hiện có 3,2 triệu người dân Somalia cần được cứu trợ khẩn cấp. Ngoài ra, hơn 400.000 người Somalia, sống tại các khu vực do các nhóm phiến quân Hồi giáo Al Shabab kiểm soát, cũng đang trong hoàn cảnh thiếu lương thực trầm trọng và cần được cứu trợ lương thực.
Đợt hạn hán và nạn đói chưa từng thấy đang hoành hành tại khu vực Sừng châu Phi, trong đó Somalia là quốc gia bị ảnh hưởng nặng nhất. Ngoài Somalia, một số khu vực thuộc các nước Djibuti, Ethiopia, Kenya và Uganda cũng bị ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng về lương thực và nước uống hàng này.
Liên hợp quốc đã tiến hành một số chuyến bay chuyên chở lương thực khẩn cấp đến các nước này nhằm trợ giúp người dân khỏi nạn đói.
Mặc dù được cảnh báo và thấy trước hậu quả của nạn đói, đặc biệt đối với trẻ em, song các hoạt động trợ giúp nhân đạo của cộng đồng quốc tế vẫn diễn ra chậm và gặp nhiều trở ngại tại quốc gia này.
Hiện ở Somalia vẫn diễn ra cuộc nội chiến tàn khốc kéo dài 20 năm qua và các nhóm phiến quân Hồi giáo Al Shabab, kiểm soát nhiều vùng đất rộng lớn của quốc gia này, liên tục tìm cách ngăn chặn hàng viện trợ từ các nước phương Tây cho người dân./.
Liên hợp quốc ước tính hiện có 3,2 triệu người dân Somalia cần được cứu trợ khẩn cấp. Ngoài ra, hơn 400.000 người Somalia, sống tại các khu vực do các nhóm phiến quân Hồi giáo Al Shabab kiểm soát, cũng đang trong hoàn cảnh thiếu lương thực trầm trọng và cần được cứu trợ lương thực.
Đợt hạn hán và nạn đói chưa từng thấy đang hoành hành tại khu vực Sừng châu Phi, trong đó Somalia là quốc gia bị ảnh hưởng nặng nhất. Ngoài Somalia, một số khu vực thuộc các nước Djibuti, Ethiopia, Kenya và Uganda cũng bị ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng về lương thực và nước uống hàng này.
Liên hợp quốc đã tiến hành một số chuyến bay chuyên chở lương thực khẩn cấp đến các nước này nhằm trợ giúp người dân khỏi nạn đói.
Mặc dù được cảnh báo và thấy trước hậu quả của nạn đói, đặc biệt đối với trẻ em, song các hoạt động trợ giúp nhân đạo của cộng đồng quốc tế vẫn diễn ra chậm và gặp nhiều trở ngại tại quốc gia này.
Hiện ở Somalia vẫn diễn ra cuộc nội chiến tàn khốc kéo dài 20 năm qua và các nhóm phiến quân Hồi giáo Al Shabab, kiểm soát nhiều vùng đất rộng lớn của quốc gia này, liên tục tìm cách ngăn chặn hàng viện trợ từ các nước phương Tây cho người dân./.
(TTXVN/Vietnam+)
Saturday, April 9, 2011
04/04 学校再開が心を癒やす 被災地に新学期
2011年4月4日
東日本大震災や福島第一原発事故で、避難所暮らしを強いられている子どもたちの学校教育の立て直しを急ぎたい。先生や友だちと触れ合える穏やかな日常こそ深手を負った心を癒やしてくれる。
被災地では教育現場が壊滅的な状況に追いやられ、新学期がいつ迎えられるのかほとんどめどが立っていない。避難所に使われ、被災者が暮らす学校は多い。校舎や体育館が傾いたり、水没したりといった被害は枚挙に暇（いとま）がない。
教科書や文房具、ランドセルやかばんも流失した。大切な家族や友だち、先生を亡くした子どもたちもたくさんいる。それでも、悲しんだり、悔やんだりしてばかりはいられない。
三月下旬、宮城県名取市で市立小中学校がいったん再開されたときの光景には心が和んだ。家屋や車などのがれきの山がまだ残る中で、久しぶりに再会した子どもたちは「生きてて良かった」と抱き合って喜んだ。
学びの場の再開に向けて着実に準備を進めたい。避難所の一角に教室をしつらえたり、校庭や公園に教室を仮設したりする。大事なのは、学校生活と避難所生活とをはっきりと切り分けて大震災前の日常を取り戻すことだという。
文部科学省は「子どもの学び支援ポータルサイト」を設けている。先生や専門スタッフなどの人材派遣や、学用品や図書、玩具などの物品提供、被災地の子どもの受け入れなどの情報が分かる。学校の立て直しに活用してほしい。
広島県教委は百六十人ほどの小学校一校を、熊本県人吉市は六十人ほどの中学校一校をそれぞれ丸ごと受け入れるという。子どもたちのホームステイを引き受ける自治体やＮＰＯ法人も出てきた。
学校が再開しても子どもたちの心のケアは欠かせない。住み慣れた故郷や家族と離れ、不安を募らせる子どもたちも多いはずだ。心身の不調を訴えたり、怖がったりするかもしれない。先生は小さな変化を見落とさず、きめ細かく向き合う必要がある。
スクールカウンセラーや養護の先生を充実させるべきだ。心的外傷後ストレス障害（ＰＴＳＤ）などの深刻な症状があれば、スムーズに専門家につなげる仕組みも確かめておきたい。
東日本大震災や福島第一原発事故で、避難所暮らしを強いられている子どもたちの学校教育の立て直しを急ぎたい。先生や友だちと触れ合える穏やかな日常こそ深手を負った心を癒やしてくれる。
被災地では教育現場が壊滅的な状況に追いやられ、新学期がいつ迎えられるのかほとんどめどが立っていない。避難所に使われ、被災者が暮らす学校は多い。校舎や体育館が傾いたり、水没したりといった被害は枚挙に暇（いとま）がない。
教科書や文房具、ランドセルやかばんも流失した。大切な家族や友だち、先生を亡くした子どもたちもたくさんいる。それでも、悲しんだり、悔やんだりしてばかりはいられない。
三月下旬、宮城県名取市で市立小中学校がいったん再開されたときの光景には心が和んだ。家屋や車などのがれきの山がまだ残る中で、久しぶりに再会した子どもたちは「生きてて良かった」と抱き合って喜んだ。
学校が生み出す子どもたちの大きな笑顔が、深く傷ついた心の癒やしにつながり、周りのみんなの生きる糧となる。阪神大震災から学んだ貴重な教訓だと、兵庫県教育委員会の担当者は言う。
学びの場の再開に向けて着実に準備を進めたい。避難所の一角に教室をしつらえたり、校庭や公園に教室を仮設したりする。大事なのは、学校生活と避難所生活とをはっきりと切り分けて大震災前の日常を取り戻すことだという。
文部科学省は「子どもの学び支援ポータルサイト」を設けている。先生や専門スタッフなどの人材派遣や、学用品や図書、玩具などの物品提供、被災地の子どもの受け入れなどの情報が分かる。学校の立て直しに活用してほしい。
広島県教委は百六十人ほどの小学校一校を、熊本県人吉市は六十人ほどの中学校一校をそれぞれ丸ごと受け入れるという。子どもたちのホームステイを引き受ける自治体やＮＰＯ法人も出てきた。
学校が再開しても子どもたちの心のケアは欠かせない。住み慣れた故郷や家族と離れ、不安を募らせる子どもたちも多いはずだ。心身の不調を訴えたり、怖がったりするかもしれない。先生は小さな変化を見落とさず、きめ細かく向き合う必要がある。
スクールカウンセラーや養護の先生を充実させるべきだ。心的外傷後ストレス障害（ＰＴＳＤ）などの深刻な症状があれば、スムーズに専門家につなげる仕組みも確かめておきたい。
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
23/03 Tips on caring for your child
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Parents of infants in the earthquake-ravaged areas of Tohoku and Kanto are faced with caring for their children without such necessities as disposable diapers and powdered milk, both of which are in short supply.
In light of this, a number of family-oriented organizations are offering much-needed advice on how to take care of babies during this stressful time.
Since the March 11 quake, a 34-year-old mother of a 3-month-old baby has spent her nights at an evacuation center near her home in Miyagino Ward, Sendai. Even if she were to try to buy diapers, she would have to wait in a long and winding line at the supermarket.
"I couldn't stand there holding my baby in the freezing cold," she said. She has stopped changing the diapers when the baby urinates.
Shizuoka-based nonprofit organization Dakko to Onbu no Kenkyujo recommends an alternative to the disposable diaper that can easily be made using a plastic shopping bag:
Cut the handles and sides of a bag. Spread it open [see illustration]. Place a cloth, such as a towel, at the center of the open bag. Place your baby on the bag as you would with a diaper and use the handles to tie the front and back together.
Carrying your baby on your back for long periods of time without a carrier can be a serious burden on your arms, legs and lower back. "If your child can hold up its head on its own, you can use a single rope to carry the child on your back," the organization says.
Here is how you do it:
-- Place a towel on the baby's back and pass a four- to five-meter rope around the baby's back and beneath the child's armpits.
-- Hoist the child onto your back.
-- Lean forward with the child on your back, making sure the rope is taut.
-- Bring the rope over your shoulders to the front of your chest and twist the rope ends a few times. Pass one end underneath the child's bottom and the other around the child's lower back, and bring both ends to your front.
-- Tie the two ends tightly at your stomach. Make sure your child is at a height where he or she can see over your shoulder.
This will work even without a bath towel, and also can be used to carry adults.
Tokyo-based Shizen Ikuji Tomo no Kai (Friends of natural child-rearing; http://shizen-ikuji.org) has a number of helpful suggestions. One is for feeding children who are in the midst of being weaned. The organization suggests crushing or dividing the adult food distributed at evacuation centers for use as baby food.
The group has another less-than-orthodox suggestion: "Though you normally shouldn't transfer food mouth to mouth for fear of causing cavities, a mother could soften food by chewing it a bit and then give it to her child," an organization member suggested.
Some people are worried about stress leading to a temporary inability to breast-feed, or a lack of nutrition in the breast milk resulting from an imbalance in the mother's diet. Showa University Hospital pediatrician Katsumi Mizuno offers some hope: "Just look at your baby and continue to breast-feed; you will eventually start lactating again."
As long as your baby seems healthy and continues to urinate and move his or her bowels, your child is getting enough breast milk, he says.
La Leche League Japan, a private organization that promotes breast feeding, offers counseling for breast-feeding mothers who have been affected by the quake at their mobile Web site (www.llljapan.org/i/).
(Mar. 23, 2011)
Parents of infants in the earthquake-ravaged areas of Tohoku and Kanto are faced with caring for their children without such necessities as disposable diapers and powdered milk, both of which are in short supply.
In light of this, a number of family-oriented organizations are offering much-needed advice on how to take care of babies during this stressful time.
Since the March 11 quake, a 34-year-old mother of a 3-month-old baby has spent her nights at an evacuation center near her home in Miyagino Ward, Sendai. Even if she were to try to buy diapers, she would have to wait in a long and winding line at the supermarket.
"I couldn't stand there holding my baby in the freezing cold," she said. She has stopped changing the diapers when the baby urinates.
Shizuoka-based nonprofit organization Dakko to Onbu no Kenkyujo recommends an alternative to the disposable diaper that can easily be made using a plastic shopping bag:
Cut the handles and sides of a bag. Spread it open [see illustration]. Place a cloth, such as a towel, at the center of the open bag. Place your baby on the bag as you would with a diaper and use the handles to tie the front and back together.
Carrying your baby on your back for long periods of time without a carrier can be a serious burden on your arms, legs and lower back. "If your child can hold up its head on its own, you can use a single rope to carry the child on your back," the organization says.
Here is how you do it:
-- Place a towel on the baby's back and pass a four- to five-meter rope around the baby's back and beneath the child's armpits.
-- Hoist the child onto your back.
-- Lean forward with the child on your back, making sure the rope is taut.
-- Bring the rope over your shoulders to the front of your chest and twist the rope ends a few times. Pass one end underneath the child's bottom and the other around the child's lower back, and bring both ends to your front.
-- Tie the two ends tightly at your stomach. Make sure your child is at a height where he or she can see over your shoulder.
This will work even without a bath towel, and also can be used to carry adults.
Tokyo-based Shizen Ikuji Tomo no Kai (Friends of natural child-rearing; http://shizen-ikuji.org) has a number of helpful suggestions. One is for feeding children who are in the midst of being weaned. The organization suggests crushing or dividing the adult food distributed at evacuation centers for use as baby food.
The group has another less-than-orthodox suggestion: "Though you normally shouldn't transfer food mouth to mouth for fear of causing cavities, a mother could soften food by chewing it a bit and then give it to her child," an organization member suggested.
Some people are worried about stress leading to a temporary inability to breast-feed, or a lack of nutrition in the breast milk resulting from an imbalance in the mother's diet. Showa University Hospital pediatrician Katsumi Mizuno offers some hope: "Just look at your baby and continue to breast-feed; you will eventually start lactating again."
As long as your baby seems healthy and continues to urinate and move his or her bowels, your child is getting enough breast milk, he says.
La Leche League Japan, a private organization that promotes breast feeding, offers counseling for breast-feeding mothers who have been affected by the quake at their mobile Web site (www.llljapan.org/i/).
(Mar. 23, 2011)
Monday, March 21, 2011
20/03 Church Sex Abuse
March 20, 2011
To the Editor:
Re “Avenging Altar Boy” (column, March 16):
Thank you, Maureen Dowd. For the first time since this sordid Catholic Church abuse scandal began, I have read what actually took place between these men and young boys. And it was disgusting and stomach-turning.
All we had heard was that they abused children, which is bad enough, but doesn’t come close to reading about what was actually done behind the altar and in the sacristy.
Perhaps now they will be put behind bars, where they would be if they weren’t priests.
Dick Briglia
New York, March 16, 2011
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To the Editor:
Re “Avenging Altar Boy” (column, March 16):
Thank you, Maureen Dowd. For the first time since this sordid Catholic Church abuse scandal began, I have read what actually took place between these men and young boys. And it was disgusting and stomach-turning.
All we had heard was that they abused children, which is bad enough, but doesn’t come close to reading about what was actually done behind the altar and in the sacristy.
Perhaps now they will be put behind bars, where they would be if they weren’t priests.
Dick Briglia
New York, March 16, 2011
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
11/03 Celestial Sales for Boy’s Tale of Heaven
March 11, 2011
By JULIE BOSMAN
Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix.
He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that “were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle,” Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.
Colton’s father, Todd, has turned the boy’s experience into a 163-page book, “Heaven Is for Real,” which has become a sleeper paperback hit of the winter, dominating best-seller lists and selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
Thomas Nelson, the book’s publisher, said it had broken company sales records. The publisher, based in Nashville, began with an initial print run of 40,000 copies. Since the book came out in November, it has gone back to press 22 times, with more than 1.5 million copies in print. On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, “Heaven Is for Real” was No. 1. The book remains in the top spot this coming Sunday.
Much of the book’s success has been fueled by word of mouth, since it did not begin with the usual best-seller channels: there has been no elaborate book tour, big-name publisher or brand-name author. But it has gained traction with a few well-placed appearances on the morning show “Fox & Friends,” “The 700 Club” and CNN.
The book has sold just as strongly in national chain bookstores like Barnes & Noble as it has in Christian specialty shops, said Matt Baugher, the vice president and publisher of Thomas Nelson. Mass merchants like Wal-Mart have pushed the book heavily in their stores, and large orders from churches and ministry groups are growing steadily.
“We all are perhaps desperate to know what is on the other side of the veil after we die,” Mr. Baugher said, adding that his initial skepticism about the Burpo family’s story was short-lived. “This was a very down-to-earth, conservative, quote-unquote normal Midwestern family. We became fully convinced that this story was valid. And also that it was a great story that would just take off.”
The book was an instant hit in Barnes & Noble outlets and was near the top of the best-seller list on its bn.com. The chain’s religion buyer was an early advocate for the book, ordering copies for every store, said Patricia Bostelman, the vice president for marketing at Barnes & Noble.
“When you buy the religion subject, you are presented with many stories about heaven, personal experiences about near-death and the afterlife,” Ms. Bostelman said, noting that several other books with “heaven” in the title have sold well recently. “But what was unusual about this book was that it was the story of a little boy. It deactivated some of the cynicism that can go along with adults capitalizing on their experiences.”
Todd Burpo wrote the book with Lynn Vincent, who collaborated with Sarah Palin on “Going Rogue.” Mr. Burpo, the pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, a farming community in southwest Nebraska, said in an interview that he had shouldered some criticism over it.
“People say we just did this to make money, and it’s not the truth,” Mr. Burpo said, referring to anonymous online comments about the book. “We were expecting nothing. We were just hoping the publisher would break even.” (He said he planned to give away much of the royalty income and spend some of it on home improvements.)
At first, he and his wife, Sonja, were not sure if they could believe their son’s story, which came out slowly, months and years after his sudden illness and operation in 2003. The details persuaded them, Mr. Burpo said. Colton told his parents that he had met his younger sister in heaven, describing her as a dark-haired girl who resembled his older sister, Cassie. When the Burpos questioned him, he asked his mother, “You had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?” While his wife had suffered a miscarriage years before, Mr. Burpo said, they had not told Colton about it. “There’s just no way he could have known,” Mr. Burpo said.
And the Burpos said that Colton painstakingly described images that he said he saw in heaven — like the bloody wounds on Jesus’ palms — that he had not been shown before.
Eventually the Burpos decided to tell their story beyond their town. Mr. Burpo, in his Sunday sermons, had already introduced some anecdotes to his congregation. Through a pastor friend, they met Joel Kneedler, an agent with Alive Communications, a Christian literary agency in Colorado Springs. Mr. Kneedler sold the book to Thomas Nelson, a publisher known for Christian titles like “40 Days With Jesus” by Sarah Young. The advance was in the low five figures.
The book’s list price is $16.99, but that is discounted to $9.34 on amazon.com.
At the outlets of Barbara’s Bookstore, an independent chain mostly in the Chicago area, the book is No. 1 on the store’s nonfiction best-seller list. Interest in it began to perk up around mid-February, said Greg Sato, a store manager.
“Of the nonfiction books lately that seems to be the one that people are asking about the most,” Mr. Sato said. “I have pegged it in the same vein as ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven’ or ‘The Shack.’ Like an Oprah book, but a little more religious or spiritual.”
Colton, who appears as a blond, round-faced little boy on the cover of the book, now plays the piano and trumpet, is fascinated by Greek mythology, listens to Christian rock and loves Nebraska football.
Telling his story matter-of-factly, Colton said he was pleased that people were finding the story inspirational.
“People are getting blessed, and they’re going to have healing from their hurts,” he said. “I’m happy for that.”
By JULIE BOSMAN
Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix.
He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that “were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle,” Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.
Colton’s father, Todd, has turned the boy’s experience into a 163-page book, “Heaven Is for Real,” which has become a sleeper paperback hit of the winter, dominating best-seller lists and selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
Thomas Nelson, the book’s publisher, said it had broken company sales records. The publisher, based in Nashville, began with an initial print run of 40,000 copies. Since the book came out in November, it has gone back to press 22 times, with more than 1.5 million copies in print. On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, “Heaven Is for Real” was No. 1. The book remains in the top spot this coming Sunday.
Much of the book’s success has been fueled by word of mouth, since it did not begin with the usual best-seller channels: there has been no elaborate book tour, big-name publisher or brand-name author. But it has gained traction with a few well-placed appearances on the morning show “Fox & Friends,” “The 700 Club” and CNN.
The book has sold just as strongly in national chain bookstores like Barnes & Noble as it has in Christian specialty shops, said Matt Baugher, the vice president and publisher of Thomas Nelson. Mass merchants like Wal-Mart have pushed the book heavily in their stores, and large orders from churches and ministry groups are growing steadily.
“We all are perhaps desperate to know what is on the other side of the veil after we die,” Mr. Baugher said, adding that his initial skepticism about the Burpo family’s story was short-lived. “This was a very down-to-earth, conservative, quote-unquote normal Midwestern family. We became fully convinced that this story was valid. And also that it was a great story that would just take off.”
The book was an instant hit in Barnes & Noble outlets and was near the top of the best-seller list on its bn.com. The chain’s religion buyer was an early advocate for the book, ordering copies for every store, said Patricia Bostelman, the vice president for marketing at Barnes & Noble.
“When you buy the religion subject, you are presented with many stories about heaven, personal experiences about near-death and the afterlife,” Ms. Bostelman said, noting that several other books with “heaven” in the title have sold well recently. “But what was unusual about this book was that it was the story of a little boy. It deactivated some of the cynicism that can go along with adults capitalizing on their experiences.”
Todd Burpo wrote the book with Lynn Vincent, who collaborated with Sarah Palin on “Going Rogue.” Mr. Burpo, the pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, a farming community in southwest Nebraska, said in an interview that he had shouldered some criticism over it.
“People say we just did this to make money, and it’s not the truth,” Mr. Burpo said, referring to anonymous online comments about the book. “We were expecting nothing. We were just hoping the publisher would break even.” (He said he planned to give away much of the royalty income and spend some of it on home improvements.)
At first, he and his wife, Sonja, were not sure if they could believe their son’s story, which came out slowly, months and years after his sudden illness and operation in 2003. The details persuaded them, Mr. Burpo said. Colton told his parents that he had met his younger sister in heaven, describing her as a dark-haired girl who resembled his older sister, Cassie. When the Burpos questioned him, he asked his mother, “You had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?” While his wife had suffered a miscarriage years before, Mr. Burpo said, they had not told Colton about it. “There’s just no way he could have known,” Mr. Burpo said.
And the Burpos said that Colton painstakingly described images that he said he saw in heaven — like the bloody wounds on Jesus’ palms — that he had not been shown before.
Eventually the Burpos decided to tell their story beyond their town. Mr. Burpo, in his Sunday sermons, had already introduced some anecdotes to his congregation. Through a pastor friend, they met Joel Kneedler, an agent with Alive Communications, a Christian literary agency in Colorado Springs. Mr. Kneedler sold the book to Thomas Nelson, a publisher known for Christian titles like “40 Days With Jesus” by Sarah Young. The advance was in the low five figures.
The book’s list price is $16.99, but that is discounted to $9.34 on amazon.com.
At the outlets of Barbara’s Bookstore, an independent chain mostly in the Chicago area, the book is No. 1 on the store’s nonfiction best-seller list. Interest in it began to perk up around mid-February, said Greg Sato, a store manager.
“Of the nonfiction books lately that seems to be the one that people are asking about the most,” Mr. Sato said. “I have pegged it in the same vein as ‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven’ or ‘The Shack.’ Like an Oprah book, but a little more religious or spiritual.”
Colton, who appears as a blond, round-faced little boy on the cover of the book, now plays the piano and trumpet, is fascinated by Greek mythology, listens to Christian rock and loves Nebraska football.
Telling his story matter-of-factly, Colton said he was pleased that people were finding the story inspirational.
“People are getting blessed, and they’re going to have healing from their hurts,” he said. “I’m happy for that.”
Monday, February 21, 2011
16/02 Trẻ em tìm kiếm gì nhiều nhất trên web?
16/02/2011 04:00:28 PM
ICTnews - Dịch vụ tìm kiếm của Norton Online Family cho thấy hơn 75% câu lệnh tìm kiếm của trẻ em trên mạng là về bài hát và nhạc sĩ.
Đây là kết quả thống kê dựa trên hơn 20 triệu truy vấn tìm kiếm vô danh của giới trẻ tại 20 quốc gia và vùng lãnh thổ trên thế giới.
Âm nhạc thống trị danh mục giải trí của lũ trẻ và nổi bật nhất chính là hiện tượng âm nhạc tuổi teen quốc tế Justin Bieber. Ở vị trí số một toàn cầu, Bieber đã giành được vị trí cao nhất trong các từ khóa được tìm kiếm nhiều nhất ở mọi quốc gia ngoại trừ Ấn Độ, Trung Quốc và Nhật Bản.
Các bài hát mà những người lớn từng yêu thích trước đây có thể vẫn rất phổ biến với lũ trẻ hơn nhiều với gì họ vẫn thường nghĩ. Đứng ở vị trí thứ hai toàn cầu, trẻ em khắp thế giới tỏ ra khá tò mò về John Lennon trong năm vừa qua.
Các bậc phụ huynh có thể bất ngờ nếu biết rằng John Lennon là thuật ngữ phổ biến ở Úc, Ấn Độ, Ireland, Ý, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore và Mỹ. Thần tượng nhạc rock cổ điển, người được tưởng nhớ với lễ kỷ niệm 30 năm ngày mất trong năm 2010 vừa qua này thậm chí còn đánh bại cả Lady Gaga, cô ca sĩ với những giai điệu và màn hóa trang khó quên (xếp vị trị thứ 3).
Những ca khúc nhạc Pop chiếm đến 13 vị trí trong số 25 từ khóa về giải trí trong danh sách trên. Tuy nhiên, những những bài hát được lũ trẻ tìm kiếm nhiều nhất lại thiên về dòng nhạc R&B, và ca khúc hit “Dynamite” của Taio Cruz là một điển hình.
Âm nhạc có lẽ chính là nguồn giải trí lớn nhất của lũ trẻ trên mạng Internet, nhưng truyền hình cũng tỏ ra không hề thua kém. Các chương trình truyền hình âm nhạc và chương trình truyền hình thực tế mang tính thi đấu như American Idol và X-Factor là hai trong số 10 show truyền hình được lũ trẻ yêu thích nhất trên Internet. Tiếp sau đó là các trò chơi tương tác trực tuyến, và Ben 10 là một trong những nội dung nổi bật nhất đối với trẻ em ở Malaysia và Hong Kong.
K.A
ICTnews - Dịch vụ tìm kiếm của Norton Online Family cho thấy hơn 75% câu lệnh tìm kiếm của trẻ em trên mạng là về bài hát và nhạc sĩ.
Đây là kết quả thống kê dựa trên hơn 20 triệu truy vấn tìm kiếm vô danh của giới trẻ tại 20 quốc gia và vùng lãnh thổ trên thế giới.
Âm nhạc thống trị danh mục giải trí của lũ trẻ và nổi bật nhất chính là hiện tượng âm nhạc tuổi teen quốc tế Justin Bieber. Ở vị trí số một toàn cầu, Bieber đã giành được vị trí cao nhất trong các từ khóa được tìm kiếm nhiều nhất ở mọi quốc gia ngoại trừ Ấn Độ, Trung Quốc và Nhật Bản.
Các bài hát mà những người lớn từng yêu thích trước đây có thể vẫn rất phổ biến với lũ trẻ hơn nhiều với gì họ vẫn thường nghĩ. Đứng ở vị trí thứ hai toàn cầu, trẻ em khắp thế giới tỏ ra khá tò mò về John Lennon trong năm vừa qua.
Các bậc phụ huynh có thể bất ngờ nếu biết rằng John Lennon là thuật ngữ phổ biến ở Úc, Ấn Độ, Ireland, Ý, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore và Mỹ. Thần tượng nhạc rock cổ điển, người được tưởng nhớ với lễ kỷ niệm 30 năm ngày mất trong năm 2010 vừa qua này thậm chí còn đánh bại cả Lady Gaga, cô ca sĩ với những giai điệu và màn hóa trang khó quên (xếp vị trị thứ 3).
Những ca khúc nhạc Pop chiếm đến 13 vị trí trong số 25 từ khóa về giải trí trong danh sách trên. Tuy nhiên, những những bài hát được lũ trẻ tìm kiếm nhiều nhất lại thiên về dòng nhạc R&B, và ca khúc hit “Dynamite” của Taio Cruz là một điển hình.
Âm nhạc có lẽ chính là nguồn giải trí lớn nhất của lũ trẻ trên mạng Internet, nhưng truyền hình cũng tỏ ra không hề thua kém. Các chương trình truyền hình âm nhạc và chương trình truyền hình thực tế mang tính thi đấu như American Idol và X-Factor là hai trong số 10 show truyền hình được lũ trẻ yêu thích nhất trên Internet. Tiếp sau đó là các trò chơi tương tác trực tuyến, và Ben 10 là một trong những nội dung nổi bật nhất đối với trẻ em ở Malaysia và Hong Kong.
K.A
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