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Minecraft: Freedom #025 [Deutsch] [HD] – Das Hexenfarm-Perimeter (mit Nicola) – Video

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Jojo Kinders,was geht ab und herzlich willkommen zu diesem Video! Dies ist bereits die 25. Episode "Minecraft Freedom". In der heutigen Folge machen Nicola und ich das Perimeter fertig bei...

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Picture books for children reviews

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Australian artist Sally Morgan's illustration for the Dalai Lama's quote in Dreams of Freedom in Words and Pictures. Illustration: Frances Lincoln publishers

This spring, the picture books are springing and they are aiming high. Dreams of Freedom in Words and Pictures (Frances Lincoln in association with Amnesty International 12.99) is high-risk because worthiness is not the same as worth. But this is a tremendous and moving book in which a dozen illustrators, including Chris Riddell, Ros Asquith, Roger Mello from Brazil, Jackie Morris and Australian Sally Morgan, accompany marvellously diverse and thought-provoking quotations about freedom.

It is a most inspiring read and what impresses one is the sense the book gives of there being many different versions of freedom it is not, ever, just another word for nothing left to lose. Jackie Morris has drawn a songbird in a gilded cage with a tigerish cat breathing through its golden bars to illustrate Nadia Anjumans cry: Oh, I will love the day when I break out of this cage, Escape this solitary exile and sing wildly. (Suitable for all ages and every household.)

Nobodys perfect. Thats what everybody says. And I guess they are right. Sam Zuppardi, from the opening page of Nobodys Perfect by David Elliott, illustrated by Sam Zuppardi (Walker 11.99), shows that the thinker, mulling this point over, is imperfect himself with a scribble of brown hair, dangling pencilled legs and a face like a rosy spud. Elliott has concocted, with lightness of touch, a story that gently makes the point that imperfection is part of life and may need to be embraced. The combination of simplicity and sophistication is rare, uplifting and (almost) perfect. (3+)

And now that the Easter chicks have flown, there are two marvellous books, including birds of every feather, to detain us. Beautiful Birds by Jean Roussen and Emmanuelle Walker(Flying Eye Books 14.99) is anelegant and unpatronising alphabetof birds. The language is sophisticated A is foralbatross, the admiral of the skies but children andparents will breezethrough the book because the rhymes have momentum and the illustrations have poise and wit and the colours are entrancing. F is for flamingos involves a shocking thrillingly fluorescent pink so we cansee how and why flamingos stick their necks out. (For high-fliers of all ages.)

Alexis Deacon has come up with a bird who would not settle comfortably in any alphabet: I Am Henry Finch, illustrated by Viviane Schwarz (Walker 11.99) is a fabulous story. The body of the bird is an orange thumbprint upon which beak, wings and eyes have been superimposed in thick black ink. The hero finch has never had a thought when it suddenly occurs to him: I AM HENRY FINCH. This existential moment comes to grief pages later when he is eaten by a passing blue beast with a snappy jaw. But neither Alexis Deacon nor Henry is defeatist in extremis and the ending is an entertaining and original tribute to the power of thought. (3+.)

One of the many remarkable things about Michael Rosens writingis that he knows when to underwrite, when to let a single sentence sing for itssupper, when to leave well alone. And in The Bus Is for Us!, illustrated by Gillian Tyler (Walker11.99), that sentence is The bus is for us, which might seem mundane but holds everything together. Other forms of transport are considered (and approved): bike, car, train, horse, boat, ship and an open sleigh. There are many opportunities for Gillian Tyler to transport us in triumphant detail (she even knows the intricacies of how a deer would be harnessed). And Id love to hitch a lift on her flying polar bear. The book, like the bus, is for everyone. (2+.)

Tell Me a Picture: Adventures in Looking At Art by Quentin Blake (Frances Lincoln 12.99) is the welcome return of a classic. It shows, on its cover, four ragged children with pointy boots and spiky hair, lugging Pietro Longhis enigmatic Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice as if they were the jolliest of art thieves. Using Blakes drawings as playful companion pieces to art is a formula that makes thisbook, published in cahoots with the National Gallery, a winner. The childrens art criticism is engagingly artless but encourages curiosity. Alongside a reproduction of Paolo Uccellos St George, a dragon-fancying little girl protests at the dragons lot while a sulky boys comment about the damsel supposed to be in distress is: The lady doesnt look very worried. (5+.)

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Holograms for Freedom Thousands join virtual demo against new protest law in Spain – Video

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Quick & Easy Bread Crumb Making Tip: Freedom Kitchen Mantra #19 – Video

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Quick Easy Bread Crumb Making Tip: Freedom Kitchen Mantra #19
Freedom Refined Sunflower Oil presents Freedom Kitchen Mantra with Chef Puneet Mehta! In this episode of Kitchen Mantra, Chef Puneet shows us how easy it is to dry slices of bread in a microwave...

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March to freedom, peace, development

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We were deeply honored and very proud indeed to have been invited to keynote yesterdays (11 April) Capas Freedom March to our National Shrine at the site of the World War II Concentration Camp in ODonnell, Capas, Tarlac for Bataan Death March survivors. This was made possible through the partnership of the Department of National Defense, Department of Tourism, and the Automobile Association of the Philippines to honor our Filipino heroes of World War II.

It was the first sizeable, national-level re-enactment of the northern end-portion of the 101 km-long Death March with the secondary purpose of raising funds for a future Capas POW Camp replica.

THE SPIRIT OF BATAAN

To emphasize the occasions importance, let us recall the stirring tribute to the Filipino-American defenders of Bataan composed by then Captain Salvador Lopez later UP President and secretary of foreign affairs and broadcast over the Voice of Freedom by Lieutenant Norman Reyes on 09 April 1942:

BATAAN HAS FALLEN.

WITH HEADS BLOODY BUT UNBOWED, WE YIELD TO THE ENEMY.

THE WORLD WILL LONG REMEMBER THE EPIC STRUGGLE.

WE HAVE STOOD UP UNCOMPLAINING.

BESIEGED ON LAND AND BLOCKADED BY SEA,

WE HAVE DONE ALL THAT HUMAN ENDURANCE COULD BEAR.

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Steve Nelson: Religious Freedom Claims Take the Cake

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The excitement over religious freedom in Indiana and Arkansas was near ecstatic. Such fervor over cakes, flowers and pizza! A fine phrase, albeit a bit trite, characterizes the various iterations of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: a solution desperately seeking a problem.

The solution sought by Indiana and Arkansas (and other states) legislators is clear: Protect the much-beleaguered faithful from the constant liberal assaults on their religion. The problem is that there is no problem. And therein lies the rub. Whether one believes any particular legislative solution wise, there first must be a religious freedom problem to correct.

And there is not. This issue has been a public relations triumph for the religious right. Even the name of the bill is pure politics: Religious Freedom Restoration Act implies a loss of religious freedom that must be legislatively restored. Such a loss never occurred. If anything, the principle under insidious attack in America is secularism.

I could understand legislation that protected religious freedom if: Christians were being prevented from going to church; stopped from crossing themselves before free throw attempts; fired for wearing a crucifix; or jailed for singing Christmas Carols on Main Street. I could also understand religious freedom legislation if the faithful were being constrained from doing actual Christian things: addressing poverty; loving thy neighbor as thyself; doing unto others as wishing would be done unto them.

I could really understand the need for religious freedom legislation if any religious folks were being compelled to do something prohibited in their faith tradition: orthodox Jews forced to eat bacon; Catholic women required to take birth control pills; Muslim women made to wear bikinis in public.

But how does baking a cake or delivering flowers or pizza prevent or inhibit religious expression? The baker might have a good argument if prevented from reciting the Lords Prayer while frosting the cake. The pizza maker might well object if told to remove her crucifix when delivering the pizza to Adam and Steves wedding reception. But I fail to see the repression of religious freedom in the expectation of a business providing service to everyone.

Even the Hobby Lobby decision makes more sense than this. While I find Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court position constitutionally untenable, there is at least the idea that indirectly providing birth control is to be vaguely complicit in an act that violates the conscience. Of course, this reasoning carried to a logical conclusion would relieve me of paying taxes, as I deeply object to the various wars waged on my dime, but logic has no place at this table.

The parallel to Hobby Lobby reasoning would be if the baker were expected to deliver condoms with the cake or the florist were expected to deflower the groom. But the connection between the provision of service and the violation of values in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is not even up to the Hobby Lobby standard, and that is a very low bar indeed.

This recent flurry of legislative and judicial activity has been the religious rights tactic all along. They complain and litigate when children cant pray every morning in public school, as though that is a repression of religious expression, notwithstanding the unfettered right of the child and family to spend nearly all waking hours, outside of school, in fervent prayer if they wish. They insist on placement of the Ten Commandments in public spaces as though there is simply no other location available for demonstration of fidelity to God. The religious already have God on currency and in the speeches of nearly every politician. Legislative sessions begin with prayer. The Pledge of Allegiance, under God and all, is mandatory in almost every school in America. Yet its not enough for them.

Heres the truth: Those behind the various religious freedom laws are bullies. They are not fighting desperately to preserve their own religious freedom. They have, and have always had, complete freedom to practice their faith as much as they wish, without interference from anyone.

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