Author Brittany Johnson Creates Unique Children's 'Back To School' Fall Shopping Book

ALBANY, N.Y., - Despite what the fashionistas say, choosing back-to-school clothes should be more than just picking the latest trend. Brittany Johnson, creator of "Color 4 Kids," says the colors your children wear can have a direct impact on their self-esteem and how they do in school. Brittany says children can wear any color, but the shade and intensity can make all the difference in making them feel special. She'll explain how to use your kids' hair and eye colors along with their skin tones to determine which tones look best on them and make them shine. This easy concept also makes dressing kids easier when mornings are hectic, and it saves money as well, since clothes will be easier to mix and match. Johnson is an image consultant, color-analysis expert and author. She is a color and wardrobe consultant for TV production and catalogs


Brittany Johnson, launched her debut work, "Color 4 Kids" at the New York Book Expo America, held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. Published by Ace of Diamonds Publishing, "Color 4 Kids" went on sale in bookstores and at Amazon.com. Nationally, New York-headquartered Barnes & Noble's web site features "Color 4 Kids" in their parenting section. Several national radio and talk shows will be featuring "Color 4 Kids".

According to the United States Census bureau, nearly one-quarter of U.S. preschoolers are attending some organized child care facility, resulting in children spending an inordinate amount of time away from their parents. "Color 4 Kids" affords families an opportunity to spend time together preparing their children for the world. Through the proper use of color, light and textures, "Color 4 Kids" enhances children's natural beauty while simultaneously teaching Moms (and even Dads) how to adorn and enhance their children's lives with color.

In "Color 4 Kids" Ms. Johnson describes how colors can be utilized to enhance a child's life. Brittany explains that each child's unique coloring is seen as an individual palette, on which colors can be used to help the child further realize their individual potential. By discovering if your child is Spicy, Bold, Delicious or Playful, then implementing the "Color 4 Kids" plan, children can be helped to understand to accept who they are.

"Color 4 Kids" celebrates each child's unique palette and essence.

CONTACT: Brittany Johnson, +1-518-859-2116, color4kids09@gmail.com

Multiple Award Winning Science Fiction Author, Mike Resnick, Named as Judge for Worldwide Writers Contest

International award winning science fiction and fantasy author and senior editor for Jim Baen's Universe, Mike Resnick has been named as a judge in the highly acclaimed L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, it was announced by Author Services, Inc., the literary agency and administrator of the Contest.

Now in its 25th year, the Writers of the Future Contest awards annual cash prizes totaling $30,000 for writers and illustrators of never-before-published works of science fiction and fantasy. It includes annual publication of the year's winning stories in the anthology titled L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future. (Galaxy Press).

When approached to be judge for the contest, Resnick simply stated, "I really will love doing this. I am a firm believer in paying forward. Count me in." He had been aware of the contest since its inception 25 years ago. "Over the years it has become and remains the leading venue for the recognition of talented new writers. It has had competition from time to time, which is always healthy and beneficial, but Writers of the Future alone endures, which bespeaks its value to the field."

Resnick has been writing science fiction for over 40 years and has authored over 50 novels and over 200 stories. According to Locus magazine, he is the all-time leading award winner for short fiction. He is the winner of 5 Hugo awards, 2 Prix Ozone (France) awards, a Seiun-sho (Japanese Hugo), a Prix Tour Eiffel (France), 2 Sfinx awards (Poland), a Golden Pagoda, A Hayakawa (Japan), 5 Asimov polls, 6 Science Fiction Chronicle polls, a Locus Award, a Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement and many more.

And so he is warmly welcomed into the ranks of contest judges for Writers of the Future that includes other notable science fiction authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Sean Williams and Dave Wolverton.

The Writers of the Future Contest was established by L. Ron Hubbard in 1983 to discover and provide talented new and aspiring writers of science fiction and fantasy a chance to have their work seen and acknowledged.


Web Site: http://www.writersofthefuture.com/

British Queen's instruction to end Ranjit Singh's dynasty:book

Queen Victoria instructed the wife of the grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh not to have children in a bid to maintain the hold of the British Raj over the Sikh kingdom in Punjab, a new book has claimed.

Queen Victoria instructed Lady Anne Alice Blanche, the aristocratic English wife of Duleep Singh's eldest son Prince Victor Albert Jay not to have children, Peter Bance, a British author claimed in his book Sovereign, Squire & Rebel.

The book is a biography of Duleep Singh, son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. It claimed that the Queen gave the instruction 12 years after the British army physically stopped a disgruntled and rebellious Duleep Singh from returning to India from England, where he had been taken as a 12-year-old boy-king.
Like his father, Prince Victor also made a futile bid to visit India in 1898 to spend honeymoon with Lady Anne, but they were stopped by the British in Colombo.

On their return, they attended a ball thrown by Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace on July 8, 1898, where among the invitees was Prince Victor's sister Princess Sophia, younger brother Prince Frederick and several other royals visiting from India.

It was after the ball, Queen Victoria gave the instruction to Princess Anne not to have children.
The book also refers to a second claim about an alleged British plot to stem the royal Sikh bloodline.

According to it, Princess Bamba, Duleep Singh's youngest daughter from his first marriage, had told members of the Fakir family, who were former ministers in her father's court, that when they were children their English cooks would put Òcertain substancesÓ into their food so as to make them infertile.
None of Duleep Singh's children had any issue.

When Lutyens' wife wanted home rule for India!

New Delhi- Even as he was preparing plans to build a new city to house imperial offices in Delhi, Master architect Edwin Lutyens' wife Emily was for home rule for India and was quite vocal about it. Mrs Lutyens was restrained from speaking in public by none other than legendary Annie Besant who feared it would jeopardise her husband's prestigious commission of erecting important buildings in New Delhi, says a new book. In New Delhi: Making of a Capital, authors Malvika Singh and Rudrangshu Mukherjee piece together the story of the eighth reincarnation of the historic city. Edwin and South African architect Herbert Baker were, in 1913, entrusted by the British government to build the Government House (Rashtrapati Bhavan) and other important monuments in the new imperial capital of New Delhi. The book, published by Roli, also says that Emily was very much drawn towards theosophists. ÒThe headquarters of the Theosophical Society was at Adyar, on the outskirts of Madras. She adored Annie Besant and became very close to J Krishnamurti and his brother Nitya when they were young boys; she travelled with them to many countries and was totally committed to the theosophical movement,Ó it says. According to the authors, the British were very clear that the building of the new city was an imperial stamp meant to strengthen the Empire's claim over India and more than merely an administrative manoeuvre. Numerous newspaper reports, articles and editorials about the extravagant city, including vigorous debates in the House of Lords have been featured in the book. Exclusive pictures of the earliest stages of levelling the massive Raisina Hill are followed by the block-by-block construction of what are today the Rashtrapati Bhavan (then Government House), the Parliament House (known as Council House) and North and South Blocks (or the Secretariat buildings).A range of aerial shots capture the growth of the new city from a barren landscape into a bustling metropolis.

New Book : The Big Lie Released

"The Social Security trust fund is empty," says economist Allen W. Smith, Ph.D. in a new book to be released August 1 by Ironwood Publications. "THE BIG LIE" chronicles the economic policies of the past 28 years, with special emphasis on the period between the presidential election of 2000 and the great economic collapse of 2008. The book focuses heavily on government economic malpractice. Smith says that mainstream professional economists were ignored, and shut out of economic policy-making, during 20 of the past 28 years, and policy was based more on ideology than on sound economic principles.
Despite the fact that Social Security has been running budget surpluses ever since the payroll tax increase of 1983, the government has not saved or invested any of that surplus revenue, Smith reports. Instead, the Social Security surplus has been used as a giant slush fund to pay for tax cuts, wars, and other government programs. "Every dollar of the approximately $2.5 trillion that is supposed to be in the trust fund today has been 'borrowed,' 'embezzled,' or 'stolen' by the government and spent on other programs," Smith writes. According to Smith, the money should have been used to buy public-issue, marketable U.S. Treasury bonds, in the open market, which could then have been resold whenever needed to raise cash for benefit payments. However, Smith says that none of the surplus money was used to buy marketable, public-issue bonds, or any other type of real asset. It was all spent, and thus none of it is invested in anything. "You can spend money or save and invest it," Smith says. "But, once you have spent it, there is nothing left to invest."


Smith says that, in order to make the public think the trust fund held "bonds," the government created a special type of IOU called "special issues of the Treasury" to replace the money it spent. "These so-called 'bonds' are not real bonds at all," Smith says. "They are a gimmick, created exclusively for, and held only by, the trust funds. They are not marketable, and could not be sold to anyone, even for a penny on the dollar. They serve only as an accounting device to keep track of how much the government owes to the Social Security fund."


Because all the Social Security surplus revenue has been spent on other things, Smith contends that the government will not be able to pay full Social Security benefits after 2016 without raising taxes or finding some other source of supplemental funding. "These surpluses were supposed to be saved and invested in order to build up a large reserve fund that could be tapped into to supplement the inadequate payroll tax revenue during the years after 2016," Smith reports. "Since the Social Security surplus revenue was not saved, and since no provisions have been made for repaying the looted Social Security money," Smith says, "after 2016, there will not be sufficient Social Security revenue to pay full benefits." Smith argues that the misuse of Social Security revenue, over the past quarter-century, is probably "the greatest fraud ever perpetrated against the American people by their government."


Allen W. Smith, who holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from Indiana University, is the author of seven books and was a college economics professor for 30 years. He has appeared on CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, and more than 170 radio talk shows. Dr. Smith has waged a personal campaign against economic illiteracy and government economic malpractice for more than 30 years. For the past decade, he has been screaming out the warning that our economy was headed toward the type of calamity that finally struck in 2008.