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Anyway, thanks for your company and we'll be back tomorrow morning at 08:00 BST with more of the same.
Commonwealth Games
Judoka Euan Burton will carry Scotland's flag at Wednesday's Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at Celtic Park.
The 35-year-old, who missed out on a medal at London 2012, will compete in the -100kg category on Saturday 26 July and is also one of the team's coaches. His wife Gemma Gibbons will be representing England in the sport.
Judo returns to the Commonwealth Games programme in Glasgow for the first time in 12 years.
"It's a massive honour and a real privilege to lead your sport out," he said. "I'm very excited and proud.
"Representing Scotland in a home games is something that is so difficult to put into words. When it is at home it is a bigger deal and a home multi-sport event is the pinnacle."
Commonwealth Games
Nick Hope
BBC Sport in Glasgow
"Just witnessed a very un-Australian press conference delivered by some of the Aussie swim team, including world champions Cate Campbell & Christian Spenger, ahead of the Games.
"Usually there's a bit of upbeat, excitable chat about winning medals and 'smashing the Brits' - not today - it was all about 'processes' and swimming 'best performances'.
"The Australians, like the British, had a disappointing time in the pool at the London Olympics, but looked strong at last year's World Championships and will be expecting to top the medal standings in the pool."
It is perhaps not the most contrite riposte to a misconduct charge but Tyson Fury insists he is "not interested" in how the British Boxing Board of Control deal with his angry outburst at a press conference last week to promote his rematch with Dereck Chisora.
Speaking this morning, Fury said: "They can charge me with whatever they want, it doesn't mean anything to me.
"What do we suppose they are going to be doing - fining me or suspending me? I'm not interested. I pay the board their wages. Keep being mean to me, and I will look elsewhere to pay someone else some wages."
Will Steven Gerrard be missed? Not everyone thinks so...Barry Dixon: "To be fair, SG effectively retired as the ball sailed over his head in Brazil. Good player but not international level now."Mark Hampson: "Not so sad to see Gerrard retire from #ENG. Never truly delivered. Not alone in that category tho. Last #LFC hurrah 14/15 too."Alex Haworth: "Don't think anyone should retire from just internationals. You won't get called up if the country doesn't need you."
Get involved at #bbcsportsday, text 81111 (UK users only) or post on BBC Sport Facebook.
Britain's Matt Skelhon has clinched a silver medal in theIPC World Paralympic Shooting Championships in Germany.
Skelhon, who won silver in the event at the London Paralympics, shot a total of 211.3 in the R3 10m Air Rifle Prone Mixed event but was beaten by Korea's Jinho Park who managed 211.9.
It is Britain's third medal of the competition, which runs until Saturday.
Phil McNulty
BBC chief football writer
Steven Gerrard's retirement from international football is the right decision for England, Liverpool and most importantly for a player who had earned the right to choose his own time of departure.
Gerrard said he was "broken" by England's exit from the World Cup after only two games and he was never going to be involved in Euro 2016, should they qualify. He had, by his own standards, a disappointing campaign in Brazil and it was clear that the 34-year-old's influence at this level was waning, understandably with the passage of time, at this level.
He may not have touched the same heights for country as he did for club, but Gerrard still made a fine contribution to several eras and the influence of a man proud to captain and play for England will be very hard for manager Roy Hodgson to replace.
Rio Ferdinand
Former England defender
Next England captain??? Gerrard has been an incredible player. Surpassing 100 caps is some achievement.
England captain Steven Gerrard says he needed some time away from football after the World Cupbefore making the decision to end his international career.
"The most important thing for me was to not make an emotional or rash decision," he said. "I was asked questions before, during and after the World Cup to make a decision on my future but it wasn't the right time.
"The first time I have spoken to Roy [Hodgson] properly is this week. I tried to have an initial chat with him straight after the World Cup but I was too emotional to talk to him. I was still very upset with how the World Cup went."
More of your thoughts on who should replace Steven Gerrard as England captain. Keep them coming at #bbcsportsday, text 81111 (UK users only) or post on BBC Sport Facebook.Andrew Harvey: "Essential to find the man with the best leadership qualities with many years of national service to come, my money's on Hart"Sam Chapman: "Rooney will be the next England captain. I don't necessarily agree with it but he is the most likely and hyped player to get it."Simon MacRae: "New captain has to be Hart, Cahill or Wilshere - no one else has enough control and passion! And they are all long term players."
Patrice Evra says deciding to leave Manchester United is "the biggest decision of my career".
The Frenchman, who joined the club from Monaco in January 2006, made 379 appearances and scored 10 goals during nine seasons at Old Trafford.
"After a great deal of thought I have decided the time is right for me to leave Manchester United. It is the biggest decision of my career as this club is, and will always remain, in my heart."
Patrice Evra has completed his move from Manchester United to Juventus. The French left-back has been at Old Trafford since 2006.Manchester United tweeted: "Patrice Evra has left #mufc to join Juventus. Everyone at the club would like to thank him for his many years of excellent service."
BBC Sportsday live is asking who should replace Steven Gerrard as England captain. Here are some of your early Twitter responses:Lauren Sacha: "I can't (and don't want to) see anyone else as captain for England. All either too young or not good enough."Amber Sway: "It will be hard for England to appoint a new captain as there are very few English captains within the Premier League."John McEnerney: "G.Cahill, top player in his position, key player for Eng for the next few years, playing in a top club & growing in2 a leader."
Gary Lineker
BBC Sport
Steven Gerrard has retired from international football. He's been a wonderful servant to his country. A great player who always gave all.
Now that Steven Gerrard has retired from international duty, who do you think should replace him as England captain and why? Or does the identity of the captain even matter any more?
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Formula 1
Formula One's leading team principals have called on supremo Bernie Ecclestone to investigate why fans stayed away in their droves over the course of the German Grand Prix weekend.
History was made on Sunday as for the first time since the birth of the F1 world championship in 1950, a German driver in a German team won a race on home soil, withNico Rosberg claiming victory in his Mercedes at Hockenheim.
But after big crowds for the last three races at Canada, Austria and Silverstone, only 52,000 were at Sunday's race at a venue which has a capacity of 95,000.
"It is difficult to understand in Germany," said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. "The last three races have been absolutely packed - yet we come to Germany. Maybe they are all hungover from the World Cup."
It looks like Steven Gerrard will be the only England captain to stand down today, after Alastair Cook reiterated his desire to continue leading the national cricket team until the end of the summer.
Cook's sidecrumbled to a 95-run defeat by India in the second Test at Lord's to extend their winless run to 10 matches and increase the pressure on the captain.
Phil McNulty
BBC chief football writer
Steven Gerrard retires from international football. Great contribution to England & good timing too after the World Cup. Those who questioned Gerrard's contribution to England never, ever came up with a better alternative. Always worthy of his place.
Speaking on the FA website, England manager Roy Hodgson said:
"While I'm disappointed in the decision, I can entirely understand Steven's situation and can have no complaints given the incredible service he has given to his country.
"I must respect his wishes due to the discussions we have had and the amount of thought and consideration he himself has given it.
"He is an incredible man and a fantastic footballer who we have all been blessed to see in an England shirt so often. We shall miss his leadership qualities as we look ahead to the qualification campaign with a youthful group of players."
Speaking on the FA website, Steven Gerrard said:
"I have enjoyed every minute of representing my country and it is a sad day for me knowing that I won't pull on the England shirt again.
"However, I do look forward to continuing my strong relationship with the FA and helping out in any way I can going forward.
"This has been a very difficult decision, one of the toughest I've had to make in my career. I have agonised over this since coming back from Brazil and have spoken to family, friends and people close to me in the game before coming to this point."
Steven Gerrard has retired from England duty after 14 years representing his country.
Well, that's it all over as England collapse in spectacular style in the second Test at Lord's.
For all thereaction to India's 95-run win, follow our live text commentary.
Sporting trophies damaged in raucous celebrations, part 47...
The embarrassed president of the German football association, Wolfgang Niersbach, has confessed that the replica of the World Cup trophy presented to the team aftertheir victory over Argentina was damaged that evening in Rio.
"A small piece was chipped off during the celebrations," he said. "But don't worry. We have specialists who can repair this.
"We have investigated the incident thoroughly but we did not get a result from that investigation."
Dundee havesigned German duo Thomas Konrad and Luka Tankulic on two-year contracts.
Defender Konrad, 24, and striker Tankulic, 23, had been on trial at Dens Park, with the latter scoring in a 2-0 friendly win over Manchester City.
Commonwealth Games
Scottish swimmer and London 2012 silver medallist Michael Jamieson admits to feeling under some pressure ahead of his first race at Glasgow 2014 on Thursday.
"I'm still not used to seeing all of the photos and billboards of me around the place but I feel privileged to be in that position," one of the Games' poster-boys told BBC Sport. "I've taken a lot of stick from the other swimmers on the team over it.
"Everything has been building towards day one of the Games and I feel pressure but also a sense of responsibility being one of the seniors on the team. I want to take on that mantle and lead by example.
"We have to try to show the younger athletes that it is just another competition and for them to enjoy it."
Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods have both saluted Rory McIlroy's arrival into the pantheon of players to have won three of the sport's four majors.
The 25-year-old Northern Irishman became the third youngest golfer in the modern era, after the two American greats, to achieve the feat afterwinning the Open Championship at Hoylake on Sunday.
"I like his swagger," said Nicklaus. "I like the way he handles himself. I like his desire to be great. I like his desire to do the things he needs to do. I like that in a young guy. He's cocky in a nice way."
Woods, who finished 69th of the 72 players who made the cut at Royal Liverpool, added: "The way Rory plays is pretty aggressively. When he gets it going, he gets it going."
From being 172-4 just before lunch, chasing 319, England are now in big trouble on 201-8 in the second Test against India at Lord's.
Follow the lateston the BBC Sport website.
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games gets underway on Wednesday, with the opening ceremony at Celtic Park.
But which event are you most looking forward to? And which athlete are you most looking forward to watching?
Get involved at #bbcsportsday, text 81111 (UK users only) or post on BBC Sport Facebook.
Road Cycling
Mark Cavendish is keen to return to action before the end of the season after crashing out of the opening stage of the Tour de France two weeks ago.
The 29-year-old from the Isle of Man suffered a shoulder injury in the crash in Harrogate and has since had an operation but was back on his bike on Sunday.
"I wasn't pain free but I was OK," he said. "I'm just a bit weak on my right arm.
"I don't know how long I'm going to be before I start racing, Obviously I can't be competing seriously until I can be guaranteed there's no more shoulder damage."
BBC London 94.9's Kevin Hand:
"Yorkshire couldn't have dreamed of a better morning as they moved from 29-1 overnight to 146-1 -a second innings lead of 167.
"Alex Lees has 66, Kane Williamson 62 and, although batting has been easier today, Middlesex cannot afford for this lead to increase towards 300 in what has been a relatively low-scoring match to this stage."
You can follow thelatest commentary from Scarborough via the BBC Sport website.
Bristol Academyhave been awarded three points after Notts County Ladies allegedly failed to find a home venue for their Women's Super League game.
The fixture was due to take place on 29 June but their Meadow Lane ground was not fit for use.
The club claim they found an alternative venue at a non-league stadium in the area but it was not approved by the Football Association.
Notts County, who have also been fined £500, said they plan to appeal the decision.
At Lord's, England lose Moeen Ali to the last ball before lunch and are on 173-5, chasing 319 to win the second test against India with Joe Root on 52 not out.
You can follow the latest on theBBC Sport website.
Commonwealth Games
Nick Hope
BBC Olympic sports reporter
What is it about major events and pin collecting? Athletes go mad for it!
England's14-year-old diver Matthew Dixon has only been in the village for a few days but already has an impressive array of nations around his neck.
Glasgow 2014 is the teenager's first major event and says his biggest surprise so far has been discovering all of his food is free!
Katarina Johnson-Thompson on Twitterafter her Commonwealth Games withdrawal: "Just want to say a huge thanks to everyone that has tweeted me their support/wishes. I'm beyond gutted, but I know it's the right decision."
Midfielder Juan Mata thinks Manchester United will be challenging for silverware this year under Louis van Gaal.
"It's the start of a new era for the club, with a new manager and players coming in," said the club's record signing.
"I'm really happy with the manager's style of football and hopefully at the end of the season we can celebrate something, which would be amazing for him and for us.
"We're focused on improving and trying to learn from the manager, to play at our best level during the season. The main idea is to play as a team and compete for titles."
Commonwealth Games
2010 Commonwealth Games heptathlon champion Louise Hazel on Katarina Johnson-Thompson's withdrawal from the Glasgow Games: "I'm really shocked and I know she will be disappointed and frustrated.
"I question whether competing at the Diamond League in Glasgow a week ago was too much for her.
"The event is now wide open."
Norwegian club Rosenborg have sacked coach Per Joar Hansen afterlosing 2-1 at home to Irish outfit Sligo Rovers in their Europa League qualifying match.
Hansen, who also coached Norway's under-21 side, returned to Rosenborg in 2012, seven years after his first stint with the club ended following a string of poor results.
Road Cycling
Britain's Simon Yates has beenwithdrawn from the Tour de France after 15 stages of the 21-stage race.
Orica GreenEdge drafted in Yates on 1 July after Daryl Impey was suspended following a failed drugs test.
Team Sky's Geraint Thomas is the only British rider left in the race, which finishes on Sunday in Paris.


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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
It's Not How Long You Make It, Is It?
I compared fiction for ages 12 and up reviewed in the Magazine in the September issues of 2009, 1999, 1989 and 1979 (October issue; we were on a different schedule then).
Average number of pages in books for teens reviewed in 1979: 151
1989: 157
1999: 233
2009: 337
Now, part of this is the current preponderance of fantasy, which has always tended to run longer--the longest book reviewed in the '79 issue was Robert Westall's (fabulous) Devil on the Road, at 245pp. But when I took fantasy and sf out of the 2009 sample, I still came up with 280 pp. average for realistic YA fiction, almost twice as long as it was thirty years ago.
The success of Harry Potter must take some of the heat for this; another factor could be that YA has gotten older: there is much more published for older high school students than there was even ten years ago. Plus, realistic YA seems more character-driven than it used to be in the old problem novel days, and while this has given the genre undeniable depths, it may also have encouraged a certain amount of yammering on. And people are also blaming the nexus of word-processing, larger lists, and smaller editorial staffs combining to mean less pruning. What else? I suppose we have to consider the possibility that the current crop of Horn Book editors and reviewers likes longer books, but surely you know us better than that.
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Novels for younger kids, however, are getting much shorter. It seems that series books are replacing longer novels for kids. Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little, for instance, reads like a slightly stretched out chapter in a Ramona book.
- 12:02 PM, September 02, 2009
- kristin cashore said...
Also, doesn't the length of a book depend partly on the publisher's design decision? If a publisher wants a book to look like a big, meaty fantasy (and, post-Harry, some do, don't they?), they might go with a higher page number -- skewing your results slightly. Comparing word counts might be more scientific :o)
- 12:25 PM, September 02, 2009
- Roger Sutton said...
I feel like print has in general gotten smaller, but that could certainly be my eyes!
- 12:30 PM, September 02, 2009
- Katherine said...
I've also noticed more and more parents who refuse to buy short books. If a child approaches with a short book (especially a short hardcover) in hand, typically parents say it's not "worth it" because they will finish it too quickly. Often I find myself working harder to sell the book to Mom than to the kid.
- 12:59 PM, September 02, 2009
Does it seem to you that books explain things more than they used to? You don't have to think as you read-- the book tells you everything you need to know. Nothing happens without an explanation of why it happened. No one is angry, or sad, or upset without an explanation -- "Patty was sad because her mother had left her and because her foot hurt and because she wasn't going to be going to the prom after all." If the reader already knows that Patty is an orphan with a broken leg on the night of the big dance, isn't "Patty was sad" enough? There are no allusions or hints--or if there are hints-- they are always fully spelled out before the end. Maybe all those explanations make for higher page counts.
Maybe it's just me.
But I've seen children who are "good readers" read books 20-30 years old and they tell me, not that they don't like the books, but that they can't understand them. I wonder if they are just conditioned to having explanations and are uncomfortable without them.
- 1:22 PM, September 02, 2009
It isn't your eyes. I wish publishers would also consider that the smaller print is harder for young readers to "scan."
However, given the US literacy rate is pretty low, the fact that more children are willing to read a long book is encouraging. (remember the days when kids selected books at school based on how thin it was?)
But bloated is a problem. My kids were enamored with a certain "black book" series which could have been equally compelling with half the words. If I remember correctly, 50% of the word count comprised the words "dazzling" and "ice cold." :-) The fourth book in the series turned them off completely - not because of word count, but because of utter stupidity and a meandering text that sank in its own quicksand.
Seriously - longer doesn't mean better, and I do feel for book reviewers who have to wade through it all.
- 1:41 PM, September 02, 2009
- chelle said...
I've found that many of the kids I know like thicker books. The thicker, the better. When they borrow books from me, they are drawn to the bigger ones.
I'm the opposite: if it's thicker, it sure as heck better be written so well that I won't care.
- 1:46 PM, September 02, 2009
- sanctimommy said...
I'd say the biggest difference now is the sheer number of guilty pleasure series novels specifically targeted at teens and tweens.
It would be interesting to compare the page count of the modern YA series (The A List or whatever's trendy these days) with something like Sweet Valley High. True, it's been a very long time since I saw a SVH book, but I remember them being fairly long. Particularly the specials and spinoff books. Meanwhile, I've paged through a few of the current crop of teen series books, and it seems like most of them barely make it into triple digit page counts.
The popularity of these series books has to be influencing the publishers in how they market their other offerings. Ensuring a really long page count is probably one of the easiest ways to do this (not quite as easy as the artistic black and white slightly fuzzy photo on the cover, but close). I think readers are conditioned to think of longer books as being "better."
And so the length of the novel is appealing to parents, as an above commenter says, because they're tired of paying $10 for a book that will be read in 3 hours and never touched again. Spending $20 on the 500 page "literary" YA novel is much more appealing. The teenagers with literary pretensions probably also appreciate this marker: I distinctly remember lugging The Mists of Avalon into every restaurant, museum, and historic site on a vacation my family took in 7th grade just to make it clear that I read "real" books, and not little kid books. Schools are happy to encourage longer books, hoping that it will encourage more fluent reading and that more SAT words will pop up. I believe that it's fairly common for schools and libraries who do reading tracking count the pages read and not the books read, or have some sort of points system that takes length of book into account.
Either way, I think it's really cool that there's so much out there for teenagers. There was so little when I was a teen, and I think it really turned a lot of kids off reading.
- 2:51 PM, September 02, 2009
How nice to know that someone else besides me reads and appreciates Robert Westall!
- 4:42 PM, September 02, 2009
Either way, I think it's really cool that there's so much out there for teenagers. There was so little when I was a teen, and I think it really turned a lot of kids off reading.
Sanctimommy, please tell me you are seventy years old. If you say you are thirty and stand by that statement, I will weep.
I am forty and have fond memories of a wealth of great YA lit from my teen years. But I hear this "there was no YA when I was a teen," so often lately and it frustrates me.
- 4:50 PM, September 02, 2009
- Sandy D. said...
Interesting. I recently read a blog post that argued that romance novels were getting shorter in the last ten years or so: Does Size Matter?
- 5:56 PM, September 02, 2009
I agree with Santimommy,
I"Great wealth" of YA depends on perspective. I was bored by what was available and the sameness of it all. And the lack of diversity was inexcusable. I defaulted to adult books by the end of elementary school out of self defense.
I've noted that my daughters have access to a much broader range of titles than were available when I was their age. I envy them for it.
- 6:35 PM, September 02, 2009
- Beth Kephart said...
I've been told by editors that kids really do seek out the longer books; it's a bigger challenge and a greater achievement and hence a marketing advantage. I should learn from this; I should.
(maybe in the next writerly life)
- 8:10 PM, September 02, 2009
- stacy said...
Kristin Cashore is right about design, though--I'd be really interested to see a comparison of word counts. Maybe my opinion is skewed because I work in fantasy, but I really think that since the mid-90s we've been giving texts more leading between lines and slightly bigger font sizes (not to mention nicer fonts that may take up more kerning space than your old standards). This is something we actually studied at Simmons in my publishing class--we looked at a number of books and measured font size, kerning, and evaluated the design, and from that (very small sample size) I found that most newer books have much more generous design parameters.
Word count may have increased as well, on average--I can't be sure. But I think that would be a more accurate test than page count.
Regarding "great wealth" of YA available, I'm 35 and we only had one YA shelf in our tiny Carnegie library in my hometown library. It all depends on where you grew up and how much access you had. Even if I could have afforded to buy books back then, the nearest bookstore was 1/2 hour drive away, and I didn't have a car. So yeah, back then, I didn't have access to a "great wealth" of YA, and the renaissance we're now experiencing in YA didn't really start until the mid-90s--several years after I'd graduated high school. I didn't discover The Giver until about 1999 or 2000. So I think it depends on where you live and how aware your parents/teachers/librarians are of YA, as well.
- 8:19 PM, September 02, 2009
- kristin cashore said...
For what it's worth, the Graceling published by Harcourt Children's Books in the USA/Canada is 471 pages long. The Graceling published by Gollancz in the UK/Australia/NZ (for the adult market) is 340 pages long. Same word count. Big page number difference!
- 9:28 PM, September 02, 2009
- sanctimommy said...
Sorry Gina, but I am actually 30! And I still stand by my statement. Yes, there was YA but as Roger said and I agree, it was for younger kids. I'm Googling right now for the kinds of books that are considered YA novels, and basically if they were around when I was a teenager, I had read them by 6th grade. And that's not because I was particularly advanced: it was the age range they were written for, really. And once I was done with those, there was nowhere to go but to adult books. And most adult books just don't grab the interest of the average 13 year old: when I was 13, how was I supposed to relate to the themes of love and life and class and death that are written for adults? Yes, I wasn't the most mature 13 year old, I admit, but still: I didn't know about any of those things. For about 10 years I read only non-fiction.
The current crop of YA novels, I think, are far more likely to appeal to older teenagers. That's all I'm saying.
What books do you remember enjoying as a teen? There were obviously some out there, but I really do think they were mostly for younger kids, and there weren't nearly enough to keep a voracious reader in books.
- 10:48 PM, September 02, 2009
- Col said...
Ditto on the Robert Westall comment. Devil on the Road is forgotten but superb, and still scares and saddens me.
- 5:06 AM, September 03, 2009
Great YA books for older readers published before 1990:
The Pigman (1968)
The Chocolate War (1974)
Annie On My Mind (1982)
Forever (1975)
The President's Daughter (1984)--the first book in Ellen Emerson White's recently revived and now highly lauded Meg Powers series
Don't Look and It Won't Hurt (1972)
Are You In The House Alone (1976)
Hoops (1983)
Stotan (1986)
The Executioner (1982)
See Dave Run (1978)
Night Kites (1986)
The Moves Make the Man (1985)
The Changeover (1984)
Beauty (1978)
The Ruby in the Smoke (1987)
Killing Mr. Griffin (1978)
Norma Fox Mazer has been publishing YA fiction since the early seventies, too much to list.
Richard Peck, M. E. Kerr, Chris Crutcher, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Robin McKinley, etc. etc., all publishing for older teens before 1990.
- 8:48 AM, September 03, 2009
I think the definition of who counts as the YA audience is part of the question (though not part of Rodger's initial question). The books you mention, Gina, are ones I read in middle school. Is middle school YA? Hmm. It's a tough one. A lot that's labeled YA has some content I wouldn't give a 6th grader (unless I knew them well and knew they could handle it). I think in my youth, I turned to adult books after middle school because I always read "up". Thus, I missed some books like Forever because I was too young for the content when I was in middle school (at least my mother thought so), but by the time I reached high school, I thought of Judy Blume and other authors deemed "children's authors" beneath me. I read VC Andrews in high school instead (far more scandalous, unbeknownst to my poor, sheltering mother)!
- 9:54 AM, September 03, 2009
- sanctimommy said...
Gina: of those that I read, I read in junior high school. Add to that VC Andrews who was a summer camp staple between seventh and ninth grades (do they REALLY count as adult books?). Maybe I was just a book snob (it wouldn't surprise me), but also as ttelloow said I wouldn't have been caught dead with a Judy Blume by high school: those were kids books.
And you're right, that is sad. There are lots of wonderful YA novels, and who knows what I missed by reading them at 12 instead of at fifteen. But I may as well have been seen reading Dick and Jane in public (actually, Dick and Jane would have had some ironic value: a kids book would have just been lame).
Maybe a lasting effect of Harry Potter is that it made it okay for kids (albeit older, teenage kids) to read kids books.
- 10:16 AM, September 03, 2009
- Roger Sutton said...
I agree that an analysis of word count would be a better way to make a comparison, but I don't know where to find that information. SVH books (except for the "Specials") were short but it's hard to compare them to GG because the trim sizes are so different.
Traditionally, it has been received wisdom that a) kids don't like long books and b) kids don't want to read about characters younger than themselves, and I'm glad to see both prejudices being challenged by kid readers. But I wonder if Anon above is onto something with his/her query about books overexplaining themselves, a characteristic that is as responsible as anything else for the length of Rowling's books.
- 10:54 AM, September 03, 2009
I wonder if the seeming lack of YA material in the past isn't augmented somewhat by the superabundance of it today, when it has become a much more targeted market. The books might have been there, but that doesn't mean they were necessarily being readily pressed upon the consciousness of teens.
I'm about thirty, and because today I'm interested in literature for young people I'm going back and finding tons that I missed as a teen. When I actually was a teen, however, I was reading adult books. I read those books largely in secret at first, because I was reading the famous "dirty" books like 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Lolita.' I didn't even think of how "challenging" they were. (I don't claim this to be the norm, but we shouldn't forget that teens are often secretive, after all, and are perhaps reading things we don't see.)
Which leads me to wonder at the idea of what makes a book "challenging" at all. I'm not sure the endurance of reading 500 or 700 pages is really the kind of challenge we ought to laud. Our culture has historically been all too impressed by "largeness." Largeness isn't inherently bad, but of course it isn't inherently good either. (A teen who reads "Moby Dick" might impress me because its content is difficult, not simply because they "made it through.") Obviously a short story of a few pages might be far more complex and present far greater rewards than a huge novel.
I think saying, "At least they're reading a lot!" just because our literacy rate is poor is a rather pessimistic attitude. I wonder if our very notion of what "literacy" means isn't also impoverished.
It seems there are types of "challenging" that are appropriate for young readers and types that are inappropriate. For example, reading a big book is good (it's viscerally impressive). Reading an emotionally challenging book is a mixed bag (they win awards--and get banned!). Meanwhile, a brief experimental work (I know, I know--what does that even mean any more?) wouldn't really work on any level, because aside from being difficult to market it's challenging on a more fundamentally cerebral level (or that's the supposition, at least).
I'm reminded of the French adult authors who emerged in the 1980s, such as Marie Redonnet and Jean-Philippe Toussaint. In 100 pages they create these brilliant little worlds. These worlds largely come from a use of language and imagery that is often baffling and difficult (no, they don't explain things). Why not such books for young readers? Moreover, why not such books for the writers of books for young people (meaning, the writers ought to challenge themselves in other ways also).
Didn't Borges say something about pretending you already had the big book and writing about it briefly? I'm not going to argue with the man.
- 11:20 AM, September 03, 2009
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You wouldn't be able to source that Borges comment, would you? I could really use it.
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- 11:43 AM, September 03, 2009
It's in the prologue to "The Garden of Forking Paths." Round about page 15 in "Ficcones." I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't cite it properly.
I guess while I'm writing I'd also like to ask, couldn't a similar conversation be held about films for young people? I mean, whatever happened to "White Mane," "The Red Balloon," "Paddle to the Sea?" Short, masterful, magical films that just kind of showed you a story and was done? No pandering, ironic references, or flashiness. Sigh!
- 12:14 PM, September 03, 2009
Not so heavy handed with the environmentalism, thank goodness.
Thank you for the Borges info. I've got it on the library list.
As you said, traditionally kids don't like long books, but then again, traditionally long books were harder to read than short ones. Now we have the literary equivalent of the mile deep bag of potato chips.
Anon 1:22
- 4:12 PM, September 03, 2009
- Susan N. said...
Christine TB, and "liquid amber"/ "liquid onyx" added to that word count too!!
- 6:45 PM, September 03, 2009
- Brooke said...
I agree with the comments on book design. I have noticed that often reissues of books such as Howl's Moving Castle are given bigger fonts and wider page margins than before to produce nice fat volumes.
I don't know why, but I get the creeping sensation that there's a Master's thesis lurking somwhere in all this . . .
- 9:29 PM, September 03, 2009
- Ruth said...
I've been reading The Dark is Rising with my son and am struck by how small the print and leading, and how narrow the margins are. I think that it's not so much that publishers want to pump up the page counts artificially, as that publishers see the value of longer books in the marketplace and are more aware that spending money on the higher paper costs for longer books can result in considerable profit.
I'm so happy that there is room in the market now to publish these longer books. With that said, however, I do think this allows for a good deal of flabby writing. I'm always struck, when rereading backlist, by how much some authors could do with relatively few words. Treasure Island, for instance, is a masterpiece of economy. Cormier, Katherine Paterson at her best....
- 10:27 AM, September 04, 2009
- LaurieA-B said...
Gina, even if "Sanctimommy" was 70 years old, there were quite a lot of books for teens published in the 1950s. While many of them are quite dated when read today, they were popular at the time and included serious issues as well as light romance. See, for example, Janet Lambert.
- 3:58 PM, September 06, 2009
Do you wonder if twenty years from now, someone will be lauding some book and wishing there had been --a book about a kind of dorky kid that goes on a road trip with his Muslim friend and thinks over his obssession with girls named Katherine-- when SHE was a teen?
Sometimes I think there has to be a better way to connect books and readers.
- 10:27 AM, September 07, 2009
- kristin cashore said...
In some cases, the reason books aren't reaching readers is very simple. I'm 33, so there should have been a huge pile of great YA books for me to read when I was a teen -- and I was looking for them. But I grew up in the middle of nowhere, Abandoned Coal Country, PA. My local librarian was fantastic -- I will always remember her fondly -- but the library didn't have money and therefore didn't have the books. I still read voraciously, but mostly the classics or mysteries from the adult section. I doubt this is a unique story!
- 1:14 PM, September 07, 2009
- Rosanne Parry said...
I'd like to think the trend toward larger fonts and extra space between lines of text is due to a growing awareness of the needs of learning disabled readers. For many of them the problem is not decoding but tracking print. A little attention to detail from the publisher can make a huge difference in how welcoming the page is to a struggling reader. Roomier layout of the text also makes it easier to read a book aloud.
- 4:06 AM, September 08, 2009
- Jennifer Lawson said...
I could be wrong, but I don't remember having the same quality of teen literature available when I was a teen. I remember having access mostly to things like SVH, Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine. I know someone earlier listed some quality titles, but were there many more than this available? BTW - I'm 35, so I was reading teen lit in the 80s.
- 8:27 PM, September 09, 2009
- Jennifer Lawson said...
Sorry - meant to also say that I think that the lit I was reading was mostly light reading. There are so many fabulous books out there these days that just might need more pages to express themselves. I wish I had them when I was a teen (or that I had found the higher quality ones).
- 8:31 PM, September 09, 2009
- LaurieA-B said...
I was just looking up the novel The Last of Eden (mentioned by Liz Burns here http://yzocaet.blogspot.com/2009/08/shelf-discovery.html), which I have never read and would like to read. Teen novel, 1980, and I was startled to see that it's 153 pages long. The description sounds like it would have to be more. A lot of teen and juvenile novels I've read lately seemed bloated.
"During her sophomore and junior years at boarding school, Michelle must confront several painful situations which make her realize the place is not the "Eden" she once thought it was."
- 10:58 AM, September 12, 2009
I have been reading a lot of *flabby* YA books lately. I don't want to read 150 pages before the plot begins. Why aren't editors tightening things up more?
- 7:58 PM, September 14, 2009
But there's something in Roger's suggestion that smaller editorial teams could be driving longer books...there's a difference between reading Graceling and not wanting the book to end, and reading Rage: A Love Story, and wondering where in the heck the editor was. Or if there even was one.
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I joined guests at the launch of the local heritage association in Blackwood library, the event was also marking the centenary of the First World War.
During the event, books that included the names of the fallen from Blackwood, Oakdale and Pontllanfraith were presented to the Association.
The books will be on display across our area over the next year and were produced by Les Jones and Nick Hynes.
We will rightly hear a lot over the coming months about the outbreak of the war and the tremendous impact it had on communities across Wales.
Families deprived of fathers, brothers and husbands and the turmoil that the conflict caused for those back at home.
Seeing these books and the names listed in them really brought this home for me. I would urge all residents to take a look and to learn more about this conflict that so changed our world a hundred years ago.
Just under a week later I attended the parade of the 203 Welsh Field Hospital through Risca. The parade was tremendously well attended with residents lining the streets and I was joined by many colleagues, including the leader of CCBC Harry Andrews, mayor Michael Gray and fellow Assembly Member and Minister for tackling poverty Jeff Cuthbert who represents the neighbouring constituency of Caerphilly.
The parade came to a halt at the towns War Memorial where a wreath was laid.
While all this was taking place my mind drifted back to the event the week before and it really struck me the debt we owe to this new generation of soldiers and medics.
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Sutherland added that he was prepared to meet with Warne and discuss the 43-year-old's criticism of CA's player rotation policy and his claim that "rubbish" decisions were turning Australian cricket into a "big joke".
After venting his initial anger on Monday, Warne reiterated his views a day later.
"As I said last night we need cricket people running the team & who understand cricket & what's required at the top level, not muppets," he tweeted on Tuesday.
Warne questioned the logic of having former rugby union international Pat Howard as the board's high performance manager but Sutherland threw his weight behind the former Wallaby back.
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"Personally I find it a little bit disappointing to read about that (Warne's criticisms) in the fashion that I have.
"Ideally you'd like to be able to sit down with Shane and understand a little bit more deeply his opinions."
Australia won all three Tests in a recent series against Sri Lanka but were held 2-2 in the subsequent one-day internationals after resting skipper Michael Clarke for the first two matches.
The hosts, however, lost both Twenty20 internationals and were left debating the merits of a controversial rotation policy CA has introduced to manage injuries and the workload of their frontline players.
While Warne insisted Australia needed to field their best 11 players every time they stepped out, fast bowling great Dennis Lillee has backed CA's approach.
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"You've got Shane Warne saying one thing, Dennis Lillee saying another. It's not a black and white issue."
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Congress has passed an appropriations bill that declines to fund any attempts by the Department of Justice to prosecute state medicinal pot programs throughout the country. So in this specific area, the DOJ has adopted a "hand- off" approach. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer maintains that Trump understands the benefits of cannabis for people suffering from serious illnesses.
The problem is that during a press briefing last week Spicer drew a clear distinction between medicinal and recreational pot. He then went on to compare cannabis usage with addiction to opiates. Throwing those two substances into the same bag is a big mistake. He displayed a serious misunderstanding of the effects of THC.
Spicer's next statement caused a lot of consternation among pot enthusiasts. Referring to the U.S. Department of Justice, he said: "I believe they are going to continue to enforce of the laws that are on the books with respect to recreational marijuana."
Further statements by Jeff Sessions have also raised eyebrows: "I'm definitely not a fan of expanded use of marijuana. States, they can pass the laws they choose. I would just say it does remain a violation of federal law to distribute marijuana throughout any place in the United States, whether a state legalizes it or not."
There are currently seven states that have approved the legalization of recreational pot. Meanwhile, the DOJ still lists cannabis as a "Schedule 1" drug, making it equivalent in their eyes to heroin. The feds claim there are still no proven health benefits associated with the use of cannabis preparations.
This factual and legal disconnect is the problem we are now facing in the U.S. State and federal policies are neither cohesive nor consistent. The result may be a looming legal crisis if cooler heads do not prevail.
Upon consulting with several legal and political experts, I was told two things:
1) The U.S. Department of Justice will receive no assistance from law enforcement agencies in states where pot has been legalized for recreational use.
2) Local and state political representatives will oppose any efforts to dismantle legalization or decriminalization laws.
U.S. Supreme Court, are you listening? Will there be another landmark states' rights legal case to establish a clear precedent, or will the Trump administration simply utilize federal dollars and personnel to prosecute marijuana businesses and their customers? Federal officials could also threaten to stop funding programs for the states that have legalized cannabis, as they have already done in the case of sanctuary states refusing to cooperate with Trump's immigration policies.
Obviously a compromise will have to be reached, but there could be major court cases along the way. The DOJ could file complaints against those states, which would inevitably result in counter suits and long legal battles.
So the question remains, how is the U.S. government going to approach this issue under the Trump administration? What's the scoop? Are federal DEA agents going to be raiding local retail pot establishments? I do not want to sound a false alarm if there's no fire to go with all of this smoke, but the question has been raised, so I feel it must addressed.
The International Business Times has obtained an email through a public records request, which may be pertinent. The Drug Enforcement Agency has asked for information from Colorado's attorney general regarding the state's prosecution of cannabis related cases. If this is an indication of future plans by DOJ, local governments should be prepared for some pressure coming from Washington, D.C.
Given the current courageous stance of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and other local politicians against Trump's policy on immigration, I can't imagine our state legislators backing down on the legalization issue. There will also be strong opposition in Colorado, Oregon, California and other states.
Is this a constitutional crisis? At the very least it highlights once again just how divided our country is on many important social, political and scientific issues. If Washington state is to maintain its reputation as a highly innovative and independent region, we must find a way to preserve our state laws.


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The former star of 'Sonny with a Chance' admits that dealing with her emotional issues during treatment was challenging, but she finds motivation in her younger half-sister Madison De La Garza.
Madison De La Garza apparently takes part in Demi Lovato's road to recovery. In her first TV interview since leaving rehab, 18-year-old Demi told Robin Roberts of "Good Morning America" that she got through the challenging treatment for her emotional issues because she wants to set an example for her younger half-sister.
"A picture of my little sister [Madison], on my little bulletin board, was one of the main things that kept me going. I just kept thinking, 'OK, set this example for your little sister,' " explained the songstress. "The real reason why I'm sitting down with you is to open up the eyes of so many young girls, that it doesn't have to be this way."
In the interview that will air in its entirety on ABC's "20/20" on Friday, April 22, the former star of "Sonny with a Chance" also opened up that childhood bullying has played a part in her eating disorder. She explained, "I literally didn't know why they were being so mean to me. And when I would ask them why, they would just say, 'Well, you're fat.' "
"I was bullied because I was fat. And then a few months later I developed an eating disorder, and that's kind of what I've been dealing with every since," continued the Disney darling, who recently opened up that she also has bipolar disorder. "I was compulsively overeating when I was 8 years old. So, I guess for the past 10 years I've had a really unhealthy relationship with food."


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A nativity fancy dress parade will be one of the highlights at a carol-singing event in Horsforth on Saturday, December 8. Carols in the Park will take place from 4pm to 4.30pm, near Hall Park's bandstand, and will be accompanied by Horsforth and Leeds Brass Band. Those attending are asked to bring a torch or a lantern. Drinks, mince pies and glow sticks will be available. Those taking part in the parade should wear costumes over their winter clothing.
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Lindsay Lohan's Redhead Again
Just in time to host Saturday Night Live this weekend for the third time in three years, actress/singer Lindsay Lohan, 19, has dyed her hair back to her natural red roots. As promised, Lindsay returned to her red-hot head of hair after wrapping up her yet-to-be-released film projects Bobby and Chapter 27. Above is Lindsay at Los Angeles International Airport this past Sunday on her way back to New York City for SNL rehearsals. Saturday Night Live airs @ 11:29PM EST on NBC. Can we expect another Andy-Samberg-Chris-Parnell-inspired rap? Lindsay Lohan reppin' gangsta rap? Hollaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!


text: So I over the last week or so there has been a serious bout of group think describing his play in 2012 as 'okay.' Well, if you know me at all then you know that I hate generalizations, especially emotional ones. I get the tepid response to be just that. It really tells me absolutely nothing. It doesn't tell me how he deals with the power combo block on him. It doesn't tell me if he gets push. It doesn't tell me if he has any rush. That type of response, I can literally go either way on any guess and i might be right. It's lazy thinking. So in the pursuit of truth and with a highly recommended NFLRewind account, I decide to take a look for myself. Popped on the 2012 Game 1 @NYG. In case people are forgetting is what went on that season, I think of it as the beginning of the injury years that we are still in today. Ware was healthy for this game as were Lee and Carter but Ratliff was out for this game. Brent is going to get a lot of snaps this game and for much of the season. First drive was a three and out. He is a 2 gap NT so his job first job is to hit the center. He only played two plays but on both he got push both times and they ran away from him. the second was on a stretch play. He does to me what looks like a good job shuffling his feet to the side to not muck up the line and shoving the center backwards. They run away from him. This center cannot single block him at the point of attack. Giants try to move their linemen back and forth. 3rd down was nickel and he isn't in it. Second drive showed him taking on multiple blockers twice. On was another zone play where they doubled him on the move. He has very good feet and he got into position and got more push than they did. the other was the power combo, the OG had to stay home a tick before he disengaged and he managed hold his ground. On another play, he picks up the C and deposits him into Mannings lap. Manning throws it away. Manning is able to pick on Claiborne and Church on the right side for first downs but Wilson fumbles it away to us. As an aside, I now remember why we were so down on Doug Free. Third drive sees us in the second quarter, Marcus Spears and Sean Lissemore are getting snaps at NT. They get zero push but its a 3 and out nonetheless. I miss Demarcus Ware but i don't miss Kevin OIgletree. Remember he was our third WR. Offense is struggling with Cook being forced into duty. Romo does not like pressure in his face and he throws a bad interception in the middle of the secondary that the Giants return to our 2 yard line. This drive sees Brent defending the goal. First snap, he pushes the center a yard back on a run to the right side strung out for a two yard loss. Second, the center tries to submarine him but he just overwhelms it. When the run right tries to cut back, he is in the middle to make the tackle for a 2 yard loss. He is not in on 3rd and 6 but he helped get us there. Outstanding effort. Next drive, Ryan is doing some of his hybrid fronts on first down but second down he is back in. Does a nice job sloughing the block and chasing down the line to get in on a tackle. He isn't in on 3rd and 8. Bissacia puts out better ST than we had that year. Offense is just a comedy of errors. 6 penalties and Tyron is struggling to block JPP. Those days are hopefully over. Ogletree still sucks. Bryant can win on the 9 route. TD to Ogletree of all people. I see that I feel a visceral loathing when seeing John Mara. Interesting. Ryan is giving more weird looks and Brent isn't in them as time winds down. Only two plays and the half is over. Miles Austin seems cooked. What on Earth happened to Felix Jones? A skinny legged Bryant is making plays. Witten battling through a spleen. I get the disrespect for Ogletree but you have to at least try to cover him. Webster takes a play off and Ogletree gets his second TD. Giants are playing like poo poo. Coleman manning NT along with Spears and Lissemore to start the next drive. Replacement refs inexperience slowing the game down. in route on Claiborne gets first down. Brent is inserted while Collinsowrth talks about how defenses wear out and the running game can get going. That is not what i am seeing. Now one thing that stands out to me that Brent needs to do a better job with is use his hands. there have been a couple of snaps where he just doesn't use them. He has a great body, he is kinda high cut but he is so wide he can stay low. He is like Zach Martin in that respect. He has really long arms but sometimes he just doesnt use them. Now he is explosive and this center is not playing exceptionally well but he will get up into the center and it looks like sea lions fighting. Silva sucks at safety and a long completion on third down. Goal to go and the Giants run outside, the center cannot hold his block but Brent is not going to catch that and its a TD. The team lost focus and gave themselves a letdown. Claiborne is awful versus the run here. Have to make that tackle. Romo scrambles for the first down. Have to wonder if we see that again this year. Murray is having a good game. Witten cannot pass protect. Ogletree runs a weak route. Bailey is establishing his reputation. On first down, Brent fails to get off a block on an inside run. The center finally makes a play. Brent uses a very unrefined On third down Hatcher roughs the passer. Yay replacement refs!


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Greetings to all our Comrades and Satanic Forces!!
It occurs to anyone who is watching the global events, that the jews are forcing matters in a very obvious manner. Now that they are being exposed, that their conquest for Europe and wiping out the Europeans is getting in way, they are turning the attention of people towards the Turkish/Russian conflict. This is fairly evident what they want to do with all this and there are many reasons for this.
First of all, the ISIS is a jewish organization (Check the Forum History) and then, they want to cleanse the Syrian peoples and anyone else in the Middle East that is basically, non jewish. This solves problem one: Ground for Israel to expand, this is rooted in the bible and in the language of the enemy, this is the "Greater Israel".
This of course serves the jews to play their good cop-bad cop routine over the populace and keep up their lies, turning the hatred from their exposal to the "Bad Arabs" and other poor people who basically are forced by the radical Islam and the jewish leaders of ISIS (agents of the jews) to fall into the fangs of war.
The problems that occur from the actions of Israel and its warmongering, Europeans must pay with their extinction, economy collapsing, with destroyed cities and raped citizens. OF course, the jews always try to pass it out as being the good guy. They are the one causing all the problems, the disease and all that is to "come" as they were the ones who started the warfare in the Middle East and established themselves in a stolen Palestinian land.
The little jew started all this and now they are trying to sit back and watch the people devour themselves. This is a classic method of the jews. This is the same thing they did in WW2 and in all other historical times, such as the Roman Empire. The jewish ideas and brainwashing started up as a virus and shortly, the Romans started eating one another like animals. The jews don't want war for themselves, as they know wars cause victims and wars are just ways to weaken one's resources. OF COURSE, they also gamble their fortunes and everything at wars. Just like in a dog fight, let the "Goyim" fight and make your bets. The energies of all these bloody incidents of course are a big giant gifts to the evil and Human hating forces the jewish god and company are allied to. The more war, the better. The more suffering and misery, the better.
Yet the jews think of course that the masses of the people are stupid and since the media think for these people and not the people for themselves, the media are on a rampage to make everyone else guilty but the jews. Obviously, the jewish media are going to defend the jews. The jews are very good when it comes to causing wars, frail and afraid when its to carry them. So what do they have to do, is cause Gentiles and other States to fight for them. The jewish oligarchy is pushing Gentile Soldiers to actually do what the jews don't want to do.
The highest reason for this is to cause ethnic cleansing of the people in the Middle East, while destroying Europe and generally salvaging everything else they can for Israel. Israel and all the jews are in a race against time. With the exposal at this rate and what they are causing becoming so evident, economy going to crumble, the people will definitely revolt and they will find themselves again in the center like in the era of 1920.
This might have almost went out of hand, so others, over the excuse of "Terrorism" (Hollande is a Jew, Putin is a Jew) have gotten in too to solve things that Israel and America could not. Now since this started, things are on the brink of a war between Russia and Turkey. If these countries are involved in war, NATO will almost certainly get involed and everyone sane can imagine that Israel might try to get in too, trying to push Turkey on the weak side. We will keep a watch on how this escalates, but things aren't looking very good at this point. We are hoping for a peaceful solution, but the jews definitely in every historical occurrence when they are unveiled and discovered, they are causing major distractions to keep the people occupied. Its also stated and well known, that for any tyrannical order to exist in a good manner, rumors of wars and wars have to be on the table every day. This was the case of USSR and American in the Cold War, for instance.
If someone is new, then something must be reminded. I urge everyone to study and we all have for years upon years. The ability of the people to study, thanks to the jewish faiths in the Middle Ages and all these murderous ideas, has been robbed up to now. Now you can sit in your home and just delve into every subject, thanks to the "Evil" and Satanic (666). Go read who made Feminism (War of the sexes). Go read who forces people into multicultural societies (War of the Races). Then go learn who introduced Marxism (War of the Classes of the people of a Nation).Go read about Communism (Death of hundreds of millions). Go read who destroyed every Gentile empire (Decay of the people). Go read who created war on the Sexual Preferences of the people (Abrahamic Religions). Go read who created the dogmas and all the practices to attack, destroy and guillify all the creations of Gentiles in the Ancient times (War on the Gods and Civilization).
Go check the ancestry of those who, as such traitors "serve" the people nowadays. Go check who owns all you hear, and listen, who owns the newspapers, who owns the news and large corporations. You might as well open up the Bible, the otherwise Holy book which is the faith of most people in the world, which is just a text of jewish dominance, servitude and how you are to die or be judged under a jewish "god", who is supposedly the "Ruling faith" and the well accepted "Sanity". Go read and study. Don't just take it, study for yourself. Don't believe anybody, for Satan doesn't stand for this. HE stands for seeing matters as they are. Satan's name means TRUTH. Just keep the jews in mind, like a small point. Then if really want to know what's up, why don't you open the books of the enemy. Maybe this is the connecting point. Maybe what once was a mystery, will now start making sense. Maybe it will occur to you, even if you are of the hardest one's to believe. This is for those who yet don't know. But want to know, why the damn are things like they are. Why never anything made sense. Hear it from the Greatest and the most wrongly defamed man of all time, Adolf Hitler: The Jew. Don't take this word, evaluate it. It maybe useful to know what the "bad" guys have to say for once, isn't it. All the good and holy guys, everyone knows already, isn't this the case. We are living under the rule of the good guys for so many centuries, isn't this the case? What's so wrong?
But for back to those who do know what's up.
Our Rituals and works are unmasking this enemy and we must keep on the real source of all this. The works of the jews are exposing them like nothing has ever exposed them. Now the whole world knows. Even if its just a joke, something they heard or something else. Nobody sees "Russia" and "Countries" in this way anymore. When people see and discover the jew, and their magickal works, they will understand how its possible in Politics to cause economical misfortunes with the pressing of the button, get the world's superpowers in defense of the jews, eradicate whole Gentile Nations and people's like fleas. They will understand the common point of all this. And when the people do understand this, the problem will be mostly solved. With them on the line, this world will never know independence, peace and freedom. No other Race or idea has caused so much bloodshed and pain to Humanity, like the jewish spawns. This must be stopped.
I want to stay positive about a WW3 and that we will be able to prevent it, because, who doesn't, really. The enemy wants this war at all costs. What I know, a next major war is coming and cultivating, and this is the war of Gentiles VS Jews. Its already there, as it always was. For a better and more accurate statement, people are becoming AWARE of the war waged on them so furiously and unjustly. Those in slumber are waking up. All this was always here. It was always there. Now, this must be made evident.
We have to put a stop to this.
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With their distinctive, red, white, and blue candy-striped uniforms, the Harlem Globetrotters are instantly recognizable on most courts and maddeningly difficult to guard during pickup games in barber-pole factories. Witness basketball at its most colorful with this GrouponLive deal.
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- When: Saturday, December 28, at 2 p.m. or 7 p.m.
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- $37 for one game ticket with seating in sections 13–17, rows D–J; or sections 103–104 or 113–114, rows A–E (up to a $61.85 value)
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UK Employment Law
UK Employment Law Questions Answered by Verified Experts
Hello, my name is XXXXX XXXXX it is my pleasure to assist you with your question today. Is the employee acting within the policy you have in place?
In short, no. Emergency Leave is just that - time off to cover the emergency then back to work but they take the 'day' or days off to manage them i.e off to have the boiler fixed three weeks ago. The employee works part-time to accomodate schools and is home from the middle of afternoon each day, and off a full day a week too so this could have been managed round work in my opinion
ok there are a couple of policies that would cover them - one is your own policy and the other is the legal right to take time off for dependants.
You have an internal policy and if the employee wants to take time off in accordance with it then they must adhere to its terms so if you find that they are not sticking to the rights they have under it and are abusing it, then you may limit their reliance of such policy and make it clear that this is not what it is intended for.
The legal right to take time off applies only if they are dealing with an emergency with a dependant. This has to be an unexpected event, requiring their presence or assistance, and it must be to do with a dependant of theirs, someone who depends on them, not just any friend or relative. They do not have to provide any evidence but if there are reasonable grounds to suspect they are abusing this right, you may ask them for evidence to show that they are indeed taking the time off to deal with an emergency involving a dependant.
Thanks Ben, our policy is clear about what is and is not emergency leave. We have repeatedly addressed this with them as they were also booking non-emergency health appointments such as routine dentist checkups, eye tests etc in work time. We have even provided a further letter to specifically state that these appointments cannot be made unless it is for a genuine emergency for themselves or one of their children however again just before the most recent two weeks off they booked a nurse appointment for half an hour after they came to work to check on a whitlow in their finger. It seems every eventually has to been spelt out and then they still ignore it. We are keen to be a family friendly business, not just because the law says we should/must but because we are in the business with working with people in crisis. However this constant (almost weekly) issue is just pushing us to the limit. The communication tonight informed me I could 'sack' them but they will not be attending the appointment on Saturday even though this was a date they agreed with the client's family when they cancelled the other week. I really do not want to 'sack' them but if you have an employee with no regard to their work responsibilities what course(s) of action are open to me as an employer that are fair and reasonable? Sorry for the long reply.
How long have they worked there for?
a year as of the 6th September - the same day as they started their last two weeks off
you can easily sack them as they need 2 years' service to be protected against unfair dismissal, but if you want to send a message first then refuse their requests to take time off that do not fit into the policy's criteria and tell them that they either need to takr the time off as holidays or if they go off anyway it would be treated as unauthorised absence and can result in disciplinary action. If necessary you can discipline them - with a warning or two and can eventually dismiss if needed
Thank you. I think that is the course that I had concluded but wanted to have some independent advice. Unfortunately because of this continued issue they had used thier years worth of holiday by June so that's not an option either. I have exhausted that one for them in an effort to help them out. So far to acknowledge the text tonight with simply acknowledgment and I have informed that I am disppointed that the refuse to work their work commitments and I will be following up in writing to set a meeting with them on Monday. Your reply has just helped me consider the wording of my letter to them. Thank you Ben.
You are most welcome. Please take a second to leave a positive rating for the advice I have provided as that is an important part of our process. Thank you and all the best
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Back-to-School with Coteaching: Reading Comprehension Strategies and Instructional Partnerships
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All across the country the new school year is getting underway. As school librarians consider their unique contributions to learning and teaching in their schools this year, they can make time to review and recommit to their role in reading.
The American Association of School Librarian's published a position statement on the School Librarian's Role in Reading that notes: "Guiding learners to become engaged and effective users of ideas and information and to appreciate literature...
Continuing the Conversation: How to Improve Your Library Instruction
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Huron Street Press furthers ALA's mission to the public
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Carl's Jr LEGO Commercial
Carl's Jr. Uses LEGOs to Entice Hungry Customers
At first, this Rocky-inspired commercial looks awesome. Who can hate Lego-ized versions of movie characters? While the commercial is pretty awesome in its stop-motion depiction of famous scenes from the original Rocky movie, the end result leaves a bad taste in my mouth. (Pun intended!)
The commercial, which is for a menu item called the "Cheesesteak Burger" from Carl's Jr, features awesome Lego-ized versions of a boxing ring, busy city streets, and the Philadelphia Art Museum before it shows a photo of the over-the-top burger that FitSugar would not approve of — it contains 80 percent of your daily saturated fat intake! I think it's akin to KFC's famous Double Down, so watch at your own risk (it could make you hungry, it could make you sick) — but the first 1:15 of the video is pure Lego goodness! Check out the full spot after the break.


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Russian embassy damaged in Damascus blast: reports
The windows of Russia's embassy in Damascus were blown out by the deadly blast in the Syrian capital Thursday but none of its staff were hurt, Russian news agencies reported.
The windows of the embassy were broken and it is currently being assessed if there was further damage, the Interfax and RIA-Novosti news agencies reported, quoting diplomats at the embassy which continued to work normally.
Russia is one of the few big powers to keep ties with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad amid the conflict with rebels and retains a diplomatic presence in the centre of the Syrian capital.