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"Children Love the World God Has Given Them"
Kids of The World Love Miley "Destiny Hope" Cyrus of Disney's Hannah Montana.
Ratatouille has won the Best animated Film at the 80th Academy Awards. Congratulations to the little guy. All the rats must be very proud. Ratatouille beat out Persepolis and Surf's Up.
Ratatouille is theAcademy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA Award and Grammy Award winning animated feature filmproduced byPixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
The story is about Rémy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a rat living in Paris who wants to be a chef, but negative feedback from his family and the prejudice of humans threaten to hinder his dreams. Remy the rat longs to exercise his talents as a gourmet chef and gets the chance when he finds himself in a famous Parisian restaurant after becoming separated from his family during an escape through the sewers. Rémy does his best to live the life of a gourmet.
When his secret improvements to the restaurant's food are mistakenly attributed to Linguini, the garbage boy, the two team up to form an unlikely culinary partnership that will benefit them both. Rémy meets yet another obstacle in the form of a famous as well as antagonistic food critic named Anton Ego, "The Grim Eater."
The film was the eighth movie produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird,
The title is a pun on the French peasant dish ratatouille.
The New York Giants are the 2008 Super Bowl Champions. They defeated the New England Patriots 17-14. Lookout for Eli Manning at Disney World, the place where champions go.
The New York Giants, against all odds, will Sunday try to upset the Undefeated New England Patriots in the 42nd Super Bowl games on Sunday, February 3, 2008. The are the Underdogs going into Super Bowl XLII.
Super Bowl Sunday has become a national past times in the United States second only Thanksgivings when it comes to the comsumption of food. Everyone will be having their own Super Bowl party where people watch the game, make predictions and munch down large quantities of appetizers, snacks and their favorite liquid refreshment.
The Giants are led by quarterback Eli Manning. Good Luck to the Giants and sweet dreams!
Miley Cyrus, of Disney Channel’s hit television show Hannah Montana, and pop singer Chris Brown, the 2006 Billboard Music Artist of the Year, signed on as video hosts for St. Jude’s Math-A-Thon® program.
Math-A-Thon, now in its 29th year, is one of St. Jude’s most successful fundraising campaigns and one of America’s largest education-based fundraisers. The videos will be shown in thousands of schools across the country to help educate students about Math-A-Thon. In Cyrus’ video, Math-A-Thon Live, she encourages students to get excited about math and shows students how they use math in their everyday lives and how, even at a young age, they can help other kids. In his video, Brown encourages students to raise both awareness and funds for St. Jude. Each video will highlight the singers’ hits, Cyrus’ "Right Here" and Brown’s "Run It."
Cyrus, who is the youngest artist in recording history to have two No. 1 albums in less than a year, is committed to helping the kids at St. Jude. "It’s great to be able to encourage kids to learn and help other kids at the same time," she said.
Likewise, Brown understands the importance fundraising plays in helping the patients at St. Jude. "I want to show students that math and fundraising are still ‘cool,’" he said.
Miley Cyrus sure is a busy little bee. Her shows sell out in minutes and she shows no signs of slowing down by adding 14 more shows to her January 2008 schedule. Even celebrities like Nicole Richie and Steven Spielburg have gotten tickets for The Best of Both World's concerts. Last night, she did a pre-show interview in Canada much to the delight of her Canadian fans. Here is a synopsis of the interview as told by Victoria Ahearn of the Canadian Press.
Squeaky-clean Cyrus may have hottest tour of year, but still gets grounded By Victoria Ahearn, THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO - Miley Cyrus, star of the Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana" TV show, has trudged through a mess of controversy on her "Best of Both Worlds Tour," which lands in the city this weekend.
Shows have sold out in as little as four minutes, resulting in many disappointed tween admirers and their parents. Some members of the Miley Cyrus fan club even launched a class-action lawsuit, arguing they were supposed to get first dibs on tickets and didn't.
Then there was the pregnancy rumour and whispers of weight gain.
Through it all, the 15-year-old has remained remarkably down-to-earth. She still gets an allowance and has even been grounded by her father - "Achy Breaky Heart" singer Billy Ray Cyrus - while on tour.
"It was because I was being a smart aleck, I deserved it. I was smarting off," Cyrus said in an interview ahead of her Saturday show at the Air Canada Centre - her only Canadian stop.
Cyrus acknowledges that the hype surrounding the tour is "definitely stressful," but says she's surrounded by good people, including her famous dad.
"You know - you've got your manager, you've got your this, you've got your that, like, they all know so much more than you do and so I just try to stay out of it," she said in her trademark raspy voice.
The Nashville native with the big blue eyes and long chestnut hair became an overnight sensation a year and a half ago with the launch of the "Hannah Montana" show, which airs on Family Channel in Canada.
The popular series stars the spunky Cyrus as Miley Stewart, who leads a secret dual life as a high school student by day and the pop star Hannah Montana at night.
For the first half of her live shows, Cyrus is in character wearing the blond Hannah Montana wig and singing the breezy, sugary pop songs from the series' hit soundtracks.
She closes the show as herself, cranking out tunes from her own pop debut album "Meet Miley Cyrus," released with the "Hannah Montana 2" disc in June.
Her dad - who no longer sports his famous mullet - plays her father and manager on the show.
The tween queen, who has four siblings, said her parents have been very supportive of her decision to get into show biz.
"They basically just told me whatever I want to do, just to follow my dream," said Cyrus, who wore a purple sweater dress during the interview.
"My mom was super, super supportive and really was very into this, you know, me kind of finding my own thing to do."
Cyrus's squeaky-clean image is a refreshing contrast to some of the other scandal-plagued pop stars on the scene.
Her tour has been one of the hottest tickets of the year, attracting celebs including Nicole Richie, Heidi Klum, Steven Spielberg and Kobe Bryant.
And Cyrus, who was born Destiny Hope and now lives in Los Angeles, said she's doing what she can to help with the ticket demand.
She recently added more dates, but said it's impossible to make everyone happy, adding she'd have to tour "for months and months" to allow everyone to see her show.
The next series of posts are going to be about how children around the world celebrate Thanksgiving. In most countries Thanksgiving is most commonly known as a Harvest festival but the spirit behind each is basically the same. Children and their families come together to celebrate and give thanks for their blessings and life.
I will focus on the most popular festivals known around the world finishing with How children in America celebrate Thanksgiving. It is the best known Thanksgiving Festival in the World.
Korean Thanksgiving: Chusok
Chusuk is Korean Thanksgiving where families gather over a huge meal to talk about the good old times and to catch up. It’s also a time to see celebs all dressed up in gorgeous hanboks to spread the Chusuk spirit.
Korean celebrities spreading the Chusuk spirit
It is held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. Chusuk means a great day in the middle of August but it can happen in September or even October depending on the Chinese calendar. This year it took place on September24 - September 26. It occurs during the harvest season. Korean families take this time to thank their ancestors for providing them with rice and fruits.
Traditional Korean clothing, the hanbok, worn for Chusuk
The celebration starts on the night before Chusuk and ends on the day after the holiday. Korean families take three days off from work to get together with family and friends.
Traditonal Chuseok Food
The celebration starts with a family get-together where rice cakes called "Songphyun" are served.
Like the Chinese with their moon cakes, the Koreans havesongpyon (full-moon rice cakes stuffed with sesame, beans, chestnuts, or Chinese dates).
Then the family pays respect to ancestors by visiting their tombs and offering them rice and fruits.
Little doggie all dressed up for chuseok
In the evening, children wear their favorite hanbok (traditional Korean clothing) and dance under the bright moon in a large circle. They play games and sing songs. Like the American Thanksgiving, Chusuk is the time to celebrate the family and give thanks for their blessings.
During Chusok, Korean child love listen to their favorite Korean fairytale while gazing at the moon.
I have found three differentways of spelling Chusuk, Chusuk, Chuseok.
South Korean Kindergarten Pupils Plant Rice Seedlings
Flee from youthful passions, and persue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 2 Timothy 2:22 And child, you will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to perpare His ways, to give his people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins. Because of our God's merciful compassion, the Dawn from on high will visit us to shine on those who live in Darkness and the shadow of death, to guide their feet on the way of peace. Luke 1:76-79
