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Or how about just, "None of them. Ever again. Please....For the Love of God."
Of all the hyper-partisan leftist blowhards afflicting American political life one would be hard pressed to find a smug, obnoxious demagogue who better epitomizes the vicious, hate-filled degeneracy and deceit of America's political far left than the odious Alan Grayson.
The latest Sunshine State/VSS poll shows controversial Democratic incumbent Alan Grayson trailing former state Senator Dan Webster by seven points, 43 percent to 36 percent. A majority of respondents -- 51 percent -- disapprove of the job that Grayson is doing. Independents have an unfavorable view of him as well, by a 36/47 margin.
Grayson has ignored the conventional wisdom that a freshman should be a quiet member who carefully tends to the home fires.
The latest controversy involves his "Taliban Dan" advertisement, where he explicitly compares his opponent to the Taliban, and shows a clip of Webster paraphrasing Ephesians 5:22 -- "wives, submit to your husbands."
An unedited version of the clip shows that Webster was actually suggesting that husbands ought not concentrate on that verse, but rather should look at what the Bible tells them to do. Politico reports that the advertisement has been condemned by FactCheck.org and the Orlando Sentinel.
Regardless, an incumbent Congressman polling at 36 percent is in very deep trouble, especially in a swing district like this one. RCP currently rates the race as Leans Republican.
Personally I'll take the soft-spoken churchie caught redhanded on camera actually giving a shit about his family and daring share this with others over the angry militant bombast who can think of nothing more important in life than how he and his thieving fellow travelers should be running everyone's life.
Florida's 8th can't do the country a fast enough favor by jettisoning this lunatic darling of the delusional statist control freaks currently in charge of the asylum in DC.
Clearly the screaching left is as oblivious as Grayson is to how arrogant megalomania and shameless earth-scorching aren't so constructive in advancing their tyrannical ideology, much less in imposing their incredibly-destructive policies on an unwilling nation.....loddy doddy everybody, as we used to say in the Army.
Fortunately it only took the country a bare election cycle's worth of pummeling by these ruthless soul-crushing, freedom-killing national socialist bullies to finally provoke the unyielding wrath of the nation's vast bulk of heretofore-silent citizens who actually produce the fruits on which these statist parasites can never ever engorge themselves enough.
Buh-Bye then there, Fred McMurray's Secret Mistake.


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Over 10 minutes of gameplay action featuring the Phillies, who lost to eventual World Series champs the San Francisco Giants and the Rockies.
A visual journey through 2011 through the eyes of a gamer.
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Roy Halladay breaks down what it takes to pitch a perfect game and win a million dollars in the Major League Baseball 2K11 contest.
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Economic unrest is at the heart of social movements taking place around the country. But in San Francisco, that wasn't enough to shake up the political establishment. When voters went to the polls last week, political incumbents carried the day, with George Gascon taking the race for district attorney, and appointed Mayor Ed Lee winning four more years in office.
While those top offices won't change, the runner up to Lee, City Supervisor John Avalos, isn't satisfied with the status quo. The popular progressive politician wants San Francisco to take control of its own finances, in part, by creating city-run municipal banks.
But there's a problem: They're not allowable by state law.
Supervisor Avalos joined KALW's Holly Kernan in studio to discuss today's radical idea.
JOHN AVALOS: My radical idea is to create a municipal bank, a public bank, here in San Francisco, much like the state of North Dakota has their own state bank in North Dakota.
HOLLY KERNAN: And so how would it work?
AVALOS: Well, the North Dakota model is one where the bank, the state bank, provides what are called "partnership loans" to small financial institutions. It's not like a retail bank, where you have your ATM card with the State Bank of North Dakota. It's a bank that provides the support for these other institutions to do loans for small businesses and small property owners and parts of the local economies around the state of North Dakota.
KERNAN: And you have a big stumbling block, which is that the state of California prohibits this...
AVALOS: That's right. The state of California requires that local municipalities and counties are prudent with their public dollars, which is totally understandable. But is there a way for us to be prudent and still allow us to leverage our public dollars to support our local economies? That's what we're going to be exploring with the state of California in the next year or so.
KERNAN: And how much money are we talking about here? How much money does San Francisco have invested in Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and...
AVALOS: And Union Bank. Our city budget is $6.8 billion, but then we have other investments that we have that on a yearly basis. I think are about $11 billion all together. Most of those dollars are in Bank of America, and part by Wells Fargo. We have many, many accounts in all these different banks, but the way that the city runs its financial transactions – a lot of that money is cleared out from these banks on a daily basis. The banks get the money and do transactions to pay our bills, to pay employees, they do all the contract work where money exchanges hands for the city, and then the money is cleared out to other institutions, where the money is invested – very low rate-of-return, but very stable investments.
So, you know, there's a lot of research we're going to have to do to crack the nut about how we create our own municipal bank. It's not something that we're going to be able to do in a few months time. And so given the fact that we have to change state law to be able to do it, we have a lot of time, a lot of room, to make sure that we do something right, we do it effective, we take steps to do it incrementally. It's a radical idea, but one that will take a lot of effort and work to create.
KERNAN: And would the city make revenue off of this? I read that the bank of North Dakota made $300 billion in the past decade.
AVALOS: Yeah, the idea is that… is there a way that we could actually build or create a revenue stream through our local bank? That is certainly what we would like to achieve with this idea in San Francisco. North Dakota actually has a surplus where other states do not have surplus with their state budgets. And North Dakota also has a really low unemployment rate. People think North Dakota is just a very rural state, just a farming industry, but it actually has a lot of high tech and has a lot of other industries there as well.
KERNAN: Are there other risks to getting into the banking business?
AVALOS: Well, if you talk to the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce says, "If you pull your money out of these financial institutions then you're going to force these institutions to go elsewhere, you're going to lose jobs here in San Francisco." And right now, that's the biggest threat of creating any change in this city, is that you're jeopardizing jobs. And it's something that, as an elected official and a politician, I have to listen to that all the time and weigh how real that is, or not.
KERNAN: So even though this idea is a long way off, even if it were to be realized, I would imagine just floating is going to have the large banks begin lobbying against this idea. Is there a middle ground here where you could have some clout with the banks and their lending practices?
AVALOS: I have not yet reached out to the banks. I expect that we'll start that process soon. I know that a lot of the banks feel somewhat put upon by the changes that are coming, that are being proposed, or the ideas that are being generated by the Occupy Wall Street movement and the idea that these banks have benefited from a federal bailout with our tax dollars. And a lot of people, the 99%, don't feel that these banks have done enough to really support our local economy, to help support households from defaults and foreclosures, are not being flexible enough to support the 99%. That's part of the dialogue.
So I think that gives me some ability and power to be able to come to the table with a lot of the banks and for the banks to start thinking about they could be more flexible. I understand there are huge constraints that the banks have as well about how they're going to do their loans and about the whole loan crisis we have right now. We're not doing a lot of lending right now with these banks. But certainly these banks have to respond to the pressure that's coming up. They have to respond also to their responsibility, about how they use our public dollars to support people all over the country.


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Flutist Meg Griffith has received several awards and honors as a modern and Baroque performer, including first prize at the Chicago Flute Club National Chamber Competition, placement as a semi-finalist in the National Flute Association's Baroque Young Artist Competition, Honorable Mention in the Respighi Prize Music Competition and a winner of the Texas Tech University Concerto Competition with the Jolivet Concerto. Her passion for new music and support of new composers through commissioning projects has led to five World Premieres.
Her Carnegie Hall debut, on April 16th, 2011, received critical acclaim from the New York Concert Review: "…an excellent flutist…playing at breakneck speed…facility with total control;" Griffith "radiated calm serenity and impressionistic colors, giving…a fine opportunity to exhibit her beautiful, singing tone."
She is a featured traverso soloist on Texas Christian University's Faculty and Collegium Series and tours regularly in the United States and Canada as a soloist and pedagogue on modern and Baroque flute. Her chamber groups, including the flute duo, Esperanto, featuring Amanda Chavis, are featured on the Coker Arts Series in San Antonio, TX, the Dolce Chamber Music Players Concert Series in Dallas, TX, and the Mu Phi Epsilon Concert Series in Dallas, TX. Esperanto supports and performs new music and is working to create a bridge connecting the music, dance, and art worlds that will provide new artists in each discipline opportunities for growth and development.
Griffith is a founding member and partner of Whole Musician, a collective of five uniquely experienced flutists collaborating to offer unparalleled intensive retreats addressing the mental, physical, and musical demands placed on the 21st century performer.
She has presented workshops and performed at the Canadian Flute Festival, the British Flute Society's Convention, and the National Flute Association's Annual Convention. In addition to performing, Griffith has been actively involved in service as Assistant Program Chair of the National Flute Association's 2011 Convention and the President and Industry/Commercial Liaison of the Texas Flute Society. She now serves on the Archives and Oral History Committee of the NFA.
Past teachers include Dr. Mary Karen Clardy (University of North Texas; B.M.), Professor John Heiss (Boston University; M.M.), and Dr. Lisa Garner Santa (Texas Tech University; D.M.A.). On traverso, she has worked with Dr. Jed Wentz of Amsterdam, Dr. Na'ama Lion of Harvard and the Longy Institute, and Dr. Lee Lattimore of the University of North Texas.
She currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Flute at Texas Wesleyan and Southwestern Adventist Universities. Outside of her work at the universities, she performs and teaches in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex and works with the Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestra.
In addition, Griffith has her 200-hour certification in Hatha and Ashtanga yogas which she incorporates into her musical and pedagogical life. She offers Yoga for Musicians classes geared toward simplifying and solidifying the physical and mental practices of artists. Her approach reflects our need for awareness, compassion, and love for ourselves and others, especially within our musical community. She helps each individual build their personal foundation for calm and clear problem solving and full appreciation and focus on the moment, both within the asana itself and within musical workshops in connection with movement.


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I needed a little pick-me-up and this does the trick. How beautiful is this kitchen? I could do without the red and the heavy wood table feels like too much but then I see the bedroom and this place totally redeems itself.
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i am moving in.ReplyDelete
Amazing! I love the blue blanket in the white room.ReplyDelete
gorgeous...and those stairs! i hear you i could do with a pick me up too...anyone...?? weekend away might help!ReplyDelete
Ooo this is a pick-me-up! I love the bedroom ALOT! That kitchen is gorgeous! I love the organization haha I wish I had that!ReplyDelete
beautiful kitchen!ReplyDelete
The bedroom is AMAZING! You've 100% right :)ReplyDelete
My love goes specially to the small wooden desk...such a beauty.
Thanks for sharing and...keep going on with the blog; it will help you for sure.
Really is beautiful, and I love the desk in that first shot. So many great curved lines going on in that house.ReplyDelete
Your blog is always a joy to read and browse which is why I want to pass this Liebsten Blog Award to you! Glad i discovered you :)ReplyDelete
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Great, especially the stairs!ReplyDelete
oh jen, i can understand why, because these are amazing! i actually loved the kitchen as well.. but yes, that bedroom is stunning!!! hugs, twiggsReplyDelete
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Anyone thinking a medieval town with a 2,000-year-old history might be slightly on the quiet side is greatly mistaken: Regensburg is anything but dull. World heritage comes to life in the individual historical buildings and squares but, above all, in the town that they form. What's more, this is a town for fun-lovers with the highest concentration of bars in Germany.
The people of Regensburg only found true appreciation for their town's old quarter at a relatively late stage. As recently as the 1960s there were plans to tear down the historical buildings and replace them with new ones. Nowadays, everyone is delighted that this didn't happen and, since the 1970s, locals have been carefully restoring and preserving their heritage in the old quarter. Few other towns in central Europe can offer legacies of more than 2,000 years of history whichever way you look. Regensburg has 1,500 listed buildings; 984 of them make up the UNESCO World Heritage 'Old Town with Stadtamhof' ensemble. The old stone bridge over the Danube, the cathedral and Krauterermarkt square with the Collegiate Church of St. John, the Cathedral Treasury Museum, the castle-like patrician town house 'Heuport' and the historic Adler Pharmacy count among Regensburg's most significant architectural monuments, but represent just a few of the vast number of outstanding sights. Further up the river, next to the old Amberger Stadel warehouse, is Fischmarkt square with its Roland fountain. Beyond that is a museum dedicated to the astronomer Johannes Kepler. Other fascinating places to visit are St. Ulrich's Church and Diocesan Museum, the former Cathedral deanery, the squares Dachauplatz, Neupfarrplatz, Alter Kornmarkt, Kohlenmarkt, Zieroldsplatz, Rathausplatz and Haidplatz, Porta Praetoria and the patrician towers – including the 28m Golden Tower, the highest medieval residential tower north of the Alps.
Regensburg's cultural scene is just as diverse as the treasures of its old quarter, combining traditional and modern elements with influences from around the globe. It includes countless theatre and dance shows, concerts, festivals, exhibitions and other cultural attractions.There is sure to be something for everyone, whether you prefer sophisticated or traditional entertainment, classical or eminently German. The choice of venues is endless too, ranging from hip and modern locations to historical settings or even outdoors on the town's squares. Any number of restaurants, bars, pubs and clubs tucked in among the narrow lanes and alleyways are a great place to spend the evening. Regensburg is also one of only a handful of towns that offers a modern shopping experience in amongst its architectural heritage. A multitude of shops of all sizes sell a wide range of goods. The beautiful pedestrian area in the old quarter is perfect, whether you are looking for international specialities or regional handcrafted products. Excellent shopping opportunities are also available outside the town centre: nearly every district has at least one large shopping mall. The famous sweet mustard is on sale everywhere, but the best place to buy it is the Händlmaier shop in Untere Bachgasse, central Regensburg. There is absolutely no doubt – at least for fans of this time-honoured family brand – that Luise Händlmaier's mustard is the best to be had in the world. No less doubtful is the fact that Regensburg is one of the best places to visit in the world, if not the best, but you should come and decide that for yourself.
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Psalm 46:10. Be still and know that I am God (NIV). The key verse that any parent needs to read and quote more than any other.
There have been a number of times that, between the hours of 1:00 am and 6:00 am, I have found myself on the couch in the living room rocking a certain young man back to sleep. Or, more often than not, TRYING to rock him back to sleep. And, on more than one occasion, I have found myself constructing my own paraphrase of this verse: "Kid, if you're not still, you may come to know God firsthand as you meet Him in heaven." (No, I wouldn't actually do anything to harm the little dickens; but find me ONE parent who hasn't, in a moment of exasperation, at least comically entertained the notion of wanting to take their kid back to the hospital, with birth certificate in hand, and treat it like a Best Buy and ask to exchange for a newer modal, as this one is clearly broken…and you even have the original receipt to show proof of purchase.)
As with many things, when God slams a verse or passage like this into my noggin and won't let it get out, I find that there is a greater reason for it. …more than just to saddle me with the refrain of an old Kim Hill song. And today, I think I've found two reasons:
REASON #1 – the "be still" bit. I told Ashley this morning that the reason I've been so on edge and agitated as of late is that I've not had any still moments. That every day (using today as a template) consists of me going at full-steam once I get out of bed. Between taking care of Kai, taking care of Maggie, trying to find time for the two of us as a couple to remember what each others' face looks like…the fleeting moments of "me" time are so few and far between, and I will readily admit that I need those moments of alone time in order to recalibrate myself. It's just that (a) when I find them, they're eaten up by other needed activities, and (b) sometimes, I'm just so stinkin' worn out, that my "being still" winds up "being comatose" in front of the television. I need to breathe, and stop being the earthquake, the rushing wind, and the uber-husband/father sometimes and just..be…and let that still, small voice echo loudly into my soul.
REASON #2 – the "know that he is God" bit. Sometimes I have to ask myself: do I know? Do I trust? Do I inherently believe and have faith and God knows the plans for my life? Or do I spend too much mental energy conceiving of every possible scenario for my life, worrying about the path my life will go down. If I have the faith claim to have, why do I doubt? Worry? Question? Get angry? Get frustrated? Get depressed? Why can I not simply think about the future without getting all antsy or "yeah, well – no one will ever hire me for [fill in the blank] because [fill in the blank with my own sense of self-defeatist anxiety]." What do I know (and just for kicks, try saying that out loud, inflecting each word separately, just like I do)? Will I bear fruit in my season?
Maybe I should just take the "advice" I give to Kai and give it to myself: be still. And know. Be still and stop racing about as if the fate of the world rested on your shoulders. Be still and allow yourself to catch your breath. Be still and focus on something other than what just came in from Netflix. Be still. And liten.
Know that He is God. Know that there is a plan for your life, and that if you've learned ANYTHING from the past two decades, that plan will take a shape that it completely in a different form from anything you planned or thought out. Know that what you're supposed to do with your life – you will do it. It may not seem fair or even just when breaks come to others. It may not be that your career (so to speak) should, in fact, look like anyone else's. It may not be that you are supposed to do what you keep throwing yourself at like so much Silly Putty, hoping to stick against something.
And maybe – just maybe – you should go beyond putting these words down on paper, and act in faith on what they say, knowing that you didn't really write them in the first place, but that God used them to speak a lesson to you.
Be still and know.
But first: go refill your coffee cup.


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Monday, February 02, 2009
Unsuggester my eye
Have you heard of the Unsuggester? It works like this: you enter the name of a book you've read or own, and it comes up with a list of books you're least likely to have on your shelves alongside it.
Out of curiosity, I tried my own first novel, breaking the spirit of my 'don't Google for yourself' rule. And I'm a bit fed up.
This is why. The books purportedly least likely to be next to mine are largely books I admire, and include quite a few that I actually do own - and I probably own more copies of Bareback than anyone. (Most of them are in a box under the stairs rather than on my shelves, but I think that should count.)
Let's take the top twenty, and you'll see what I mean.
1. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Don't own a copy, but my fiance does, and I've read it. More than once.
2. Love in The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don't own it, but have read about half of it.
3. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Own it. Read it at least twice. Like it a lot.
4. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
First fair cop: I haven't read that, nor would I care to. I've read a few of his essays here and there, though.
5. Atonement by Ian McEwan
Don't own it, but have read it.
6. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Own it. Read it. Love it. I've got almost all David Sedaris's books, including one I queued for him to sign.
7. The Trial by Franz Kafka
I haven't read it, but I've read some of his short stories.
8. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Second totally fair cop: I haven't heard of this.
9. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Okay, I haven't read this, but on the other hand I reject this as a fair cop: I've actually been anthologised alongside Zadie Smith, in a published collection of Oxbridge student short stories. Never mind being on the same shelf, I've been in the same volume.
10. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Fair cop number three.
11. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Own it. Own more than one copy, in fact.
12. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Fair cop four.
13. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Now that really hurts my feelings, as it's one of my favourite books. There are two copies in the house, one pristine copy my fiance owns and one beat-up one that I'm too sentimentally attached to part with. I've got a copy of The Little Friend, too, and I've read that three times.
14. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
I used to own a copy of this, though I admit I didn't get round to reading it; it finally fell prey to my 'If you haven't read it within a year of buying it, it goes to a charity shop' rule. But it's been in my library. And I've read Hell's Angels.
15. About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Haven't read it, but I have read other Nick Hornbys, and I own a copy of Fever Pitch.
16. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Fair cop five. I keep meaning to read it, though.
17. Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
Well, no, but I've read Catcher in the Rye.
18. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Fairish cop; I've tried Palahniuk and he wasn't my cup of tea, no disrespect to the man. I'll give that half a point.
19. White Noise by Don DeLillo
Fair cop six and a half.
20. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Don't own it, but have read it.
I'm stretching a point in cases where I've read other books by the same author, and if I didn't do that my list of fair cops would be longer than six and a half out of twenty - but considering that these are supposed to be the least likely books in the world you'd find me near, even with my flexible cop-system I'd expect a higher success rate on their part. I've read at least something by fifteen of the authors on the list.
By way of comparison, take a look at my Suggester list. Its cop-rate is much more like what my Unsuggester list would aspire to. Of the books on Suggester, I haven't heard of most of them; the only one I own is Bitten by Kelley Armstrong, and that's because somebody gave me a copy which I can't give to charity because its first chapter's missing. Given that the main thing in common with the Suggester books Bareback has is that it features werewolves, I rather suspect we're being judged by our covers here.
I don't know how they're calculating this thing, but either I'm being read entirely by people who like my books but don't like any of the books I like, or else there's a kink in the system somewhere. Given my experiences with the Gender Genie, I am growing suspicious of technology. I'm prepared to have a computer program tell me I'm a man, but if it tells me you'll never see my books alongside Donna Tartt or David Sedaris I take exception.
The program, incidentally, is one I heard about in this article from this weekend's Guardian, talking about the concept of 'homophily', or the ignorance-inducing tendency people have to seek out and remain in the company of those who agree with them. Based on the evidence of LibraryThing, frankly I'm not that worried.
I am torn between being amused and offended ("haha-..WHAT?!")by that thing. I first tried Bareback, to see the complete list you got, and while the top twenty didnt have more than 25% I have/have read(or have the something of the same author), it continued with alot of my favourite books.
I then tried several of said favourite books and it kept coming up with a 20/80 mix of other favourites and books about the bible, interpreting the bible and evangelism. Which in all honesty made it 80% right for the ones I tried, but the thing was obviously cheating, just sticking to one topic/genre.
But then, if you had not written your book, would you read it? You've been fairly clear that you don't read science fiction or fantasy. The group of books which you are suggested with is a fairly standard set of modern/urban fantasy novels and is not really a surprising grouping for your book to have been in.
Also, recall this is books people claim to own -- the types of books I own are a specific subset of the types of books I read.
Though I have no statistics to back this up, I would bet that the group of people who use Librarything regularly are not a representative sample.
In any case, all the unsuggester says is that of the 117 people who use librarything and say they own your book, none of them own these 74 books. It's accurate, for librarything users (I am not one): I own one, arguably two of the books on that list (I own 'The Annotated Alice' and 'Godel Escher Bach'), though I have read over 20 of them (on a brief skimming). It can be fun but it's not particularly meaningful, unless you sold only around the 100 books listed on that site.
I tried it using my absolutely-favoritest book of all time, William Gibson's Neuromancer. My returns were almost all evangelical diatribes, most of them by a guy named John Piper (sample title: Reclaiming Christian Manhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism. Yikes). While it is in fact true that none of these books will find a home on my bookshelf, it felt a bit like cheating.
Oh, and one Mary Higgins Clark novel. Also a fair cop.
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I tried Pride and Prejudice, both in the UnSuggester and the Suggester. It felt quite a bit like cheating. Most of the books the UnSuggester came up with were books on coding and other such non-fiction stuff. The Suggester came up with other Jane Austen books (duh), Charlotte and Emily Bronte (pretty obvious also), and modern books based on Pride and Prejudice.
Incidentally, have you read any of those types? Where modern authors write a "sequel" or retelling of a classic like Pride and Prejudice? I've never read any of them, so I have no idea whether they're any good, but it's always seemed incredibly presumptuous, to me.
Verification word is "emovel": a combination movie/novel for the web.
Kara: The one I'm really looking forward to is PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES by Seth Grahame-Smith.
Like SNAKES ON A PLANE, the concept sorta sells itself.
(Verification word: "theyer", one who makes a habit of referring to "What *they* say...")
To give a comparison, I read (and love) your book, and I have also read and fairly liked-to-loved ten of the books in your suggester list. So, the books in that list do really appeal to a someone who read your book.
Well, I tried the UnSuggester and *that* was interesting.
I deliberately put in books as diverse as I could think of -- a romantic suspense title, a religious fantasy, and book of straight up social history -- that were in fact three of my favorite titles ever, re-read until they were in tatters.
Every list came up with other books I owned and loved among the top 20.
I think the fatal flaw of their algorithm is that it doesn't acknowledge that people can be *diverse*. Sometimes I'm in the mood for one thing, sometimes another, and I don't care so much about genre or style or subject as that whatever the author does, s/he does WELL.
(Word verification: "flyzedl" -- It goes ZZZZIPPP when it moves, and BOP! when it stops, and VRRRRR when it stands still...)
It looks like it goes just based on data of what people own - so I'd complain about people judging your book by its cover, not the algorithm. Inability to account for diversity, on the other hand, could well be an inherent problem - after all, it's just looking for the ones you're least likely to own alongside it, and what's that going to be affected by? I would think that truly diverse readers are simply going to average out and have little effect on the calculation. But then it's not really so much a problem as it is something that's outside the scope of what it's doing in the first place.
But then, if you had not written your book, would you read it? You've been fairly clear that you don't read science fiction or fantasy.
Actually, that's not quite fair. I have nothing against science fiction and fantasy - I'd list Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell as another favourite, for example. Given the right recommendation for my book, I would indeed have read it; I'll try more or less anything.
What I've said is that I don't particularly read science fiction and fantasy, which is something different. I read some of it, the same way I read some crime or some chick lit, but in none of these cases am I an expert on or a devotee of the genre in itself; I just happen to like some books that could be classified thus.
The reason I occasionally mention science fiction in particular is simple: it's not the biggest genre on my shelves, but because I wrote a book about werewolves people sometimes assume it must be, and I don't like to give a false impression. If people assumed I must be a major romance or war stories reader, I'd be talking about that instead; it's just a question of what gets assumed. When I mention it on this blog, it's usually for one of two reasons:
1. Someone seems to have assumed I've been influenced by books I haven't read, and I'm trying to set the record straight.
2. I'm asking for recommendations, and know that the Internet generally has a lot of people who would, given a free choice, mostly recommend science fiction or fantasy because that's their favourite genre. If someone's a fan of science fiction or fantasy as a genre, which a lot of people are, it's been my experience that they'll often be looking for slightly different things in a book - say, good world-building or an entertaining relationship with other words of SFF, or other things that are naturally interesting to a fantasy fan but don't particularly hit my yay!-buttons. One of my best friends absolutely loves SFF, for instance, and there are some books we both love because they hit buttons we share, some books she loves and I don't click with because they hit her buttons but not mine (and those buttons of hers are often SFF ones), and some books I love that she doesn't like because they hit my buttons but not hers. Everyone's button pattern is slightly different. If I was asking her to recommend a book, I'd ask for one that fell into the former category, and I figured that saying 'not science fiction, please' would be a short-handed way of expressing that wish. Possibly it was too short-handed.
But as to whether I'd read my own book, that's kind of the point: the thought that someone who had a similar sensibility to mine, and would in result probably like my book, would end up not reading it because it was classed in a genre that appealed to the wrong yay!-buttons - even though those aren't the buttons the book aims to hit - makes me sad. Being so classed makes me worry it'll put off people I'd consider at least a section of my natural audience, which is to say, people who share my tastes. Of course, not everyone who likes my book will like everything I like - that would be silly - but it saddened me a bit to see me presented as opposite from so many books I really like. The fact that this list suggests even I wouldn't read my own book kind of tends towards the conclusion that it's not a very good classification system.
I don't know how it works, of course. I was worrying it was sales-influenced, but I'm getting the impression it's actually a membership recommendations site, in which case it's not representative and there's no point fretting about it.
Incidentally, have you read any of those types? Where modern authors write a "sequel" or retelling of a classic like Pride and Prejudice?
Not my cup of tea. The reason Pride and Prejudice is good is not because it has a heroine called Elizabeth Bennet, it's because it's written by Jane Austen, and a modern 'sequel' cannot supply that. The USP's gone, to use a marketing phrase. I've read books that engaged critically with the works they're spinning off - Wide Sargasso Sea, The Wind Done Gone - but that's a different matter. I think I've checked a couple of the more straight 'sequels' out of the library in my time, mostly from curiosity, but on the whole, nah. I'd rather read something new.
Word: besesonm. A dialectal word denoting a sweeping brush.
I deliberately put in books as diverse as I could think of -- a romantic suspense title, a religious fantasy, and book of straight up social history -- that were in fact three of my favorite titles ever, re-read until they were in tatters.
Ooh, what were they? (If you don't mind telling me.) That sounds like recommendations...
Sometimes I'm in the mood for one thing, sometimes another, and I don't care so much about genre or style or subject as that whatever the author does, s/he does WELL.
I'm with you! (Well, I almost always care about style, but in every other respect, totally with you - and if we're agreeing that it just has to be done well, I assume we're agreeing that the style has to be at least reasonable.) :-)
Ooh, what were they? (If you don't mind telling me.)
Eep! It's sort of like showing pictures of one's college crushes, but sure:
CROOKED HEARTS by Patricia Gaffney -- The only one of her books I've ever liked, a completely over-the-top farce about two criminal tricksters in an Tinseltown version of nineteenth century San Francisco, who scheme and con and deceive each other into falling in love
TILL WE HAVE FACES by C.S. Lewis -- Lewis's most mature and maddening work, a retelling of the myth of Psyche and Cupid from the perspective of her loving, jealous, wise, selfish, heroic, clueless, and very very human elder sister
WILLIAM MARSHALL, FLOWER OF CHIVALRY by Georges Duby
The thirteenth century from the inside out, through the reconstruction of the life of one man, who rose from the son of a humble knight to the most influential advisor of the Plantagenet kings
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Kit, I would take this list with a shaker of salt. I agree that it doesn't take into account diversity. Yes, the Suggester might pull up a bunch of things that would be found on a bookstore shelf next to B/B, and might even be found to cohabitate with B/B in the home of a lover of alt. historical fiction. However, the principle of the Unsuggester strikes me a dubious. I bet the bookshelves of the commentariat here are pretty colorful and wide-ranging. Some algorithm purports to tell you what's *not* on your personal, overstuffed bookshelf? In the words of Napoleon Dynamite's brother Kip, "Like anyone could even know that!" :)
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OK.. I just typed in Godel Escher Bach, as it is a book on your list that I have on my Primary Bookshelf. (I have a system for my books, but do not ask about The System).
It seems that the books I am least likely to read are mostly Christian books. Of the kind we all know and love from LB Fridays! Of the 73, I have two on my shelves and none on my Primary Bookshelf.
That really is a terrible list of unsuggestions, I loved Bareback and I've read/enjoyed just over half of the books listed.
Delurking because I'm a bit of a nerd who sometimes works designing algorithms like this, and I can take some educated guesses as to why it's not working for you. It's not super clear from the UnSuggester website how exactly it works, but if I were to design it this is what I'd do, ranked in order of plausibility:
1. If I had access to all the members' lists of books owned or read, then I'd simply see which books it never occurred with. Then I'd return the most popular books that never occurred on the same shelf as it. This approach is likely to "break" if the book you're asking about is not very common on LibraryThing users bookshelves: being uncommon, it will likely not occur with MANY books, and thus they won't be very representative of much of anything. I'm not saying your book is unpopular; probably most books published in the last five years would have that problem, and if LibraryThing is an American-based site and you did the search on "Bareback" rather than "Benighted", that wouldn't help. Out of curiosity, do you get the same type of results if you do the search on the other name of your novel? If the results are qualitatively the same (i.e., a bunch of books you like) but the specific titles are all different, that's a pretty good indication that the algorithm doesn't have enough info to do anything other than something that is essentially nearly random.
2. Another possibility is that the algorithm works by comparing the words that tend to be in both books. Which means that the algorithm will be kind of dumb, and will rank books about werewolves and the like as being somewhat similar, and books with unique low-frequency words (as are found in Godel Escher Bach, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, etc) as rather unlike. I doubt this is what their algorithm does, because there are more intelligent ways to do it, but there are a lot of dumb things in the world.
Anyway, #1 is probably what is going on.
And FYI, I think your writing (and imagination) is fantastic, and I've also read most of the things on that list. :)
Word: nonsfi -- the word for people who hate reading Science Fiction with Imagination.
... Ah. I just tried it with both Bareback and Benighted; the same, because it realised they were the same book. So it's not a completely idiotic algorithm, but that doesn't tell us much about how it's working.
Another thing to keep in mind is that, although you may not be a genre reader, many of your readers probably are (just because many SFF readers are). So if your book tends to appear on the bookshelves of SFF readers then it's reasonable to suppose the the UnSuggester could come back with any comprehensive list of non-SFF titles.
Okay, this will be the last one, I promise - but I fiddled a bit more with the site and am now virtually certain that guess #1 is something like how it works, and is the reason that it returns screwy result for your book.
Your book sold 117 copies on their site, and you'll notice that if you do a search for books that have sold fewer than that, as often as not it doesn't return anything; the data are just too sparse.
I did some searches on things that sold around the same number, and in every case the results were much like yours: lots of interesting books from a variety of genres, with no discernable pattern.
Only once you start looking at books that sold at least 500-1000 copies does it start doing anything intelligent, and then it has the problem others have pointed out, which is an overreliance on one genre.
So -- really, don't worry about it. The algorithm is breaking on your book, so it's revealing nothing valid at all.
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I put down the Iliad and chose the Fagles translation (I own several). It decided the things I am least likely to own are books about knitting. But in fact I'm quite an enthusiastic knitter. It also added a few books on religion.
I then tried Sexism and God-Talk (Ruether) and the algorithm bet (not real money, alas!) that I didn't have Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as well as anything by Gaiman OR Pratchett, and it added a bunch of other books that appear on my shelves.
It are an ass.
(Possibly because it sensed I needed to calm down a bit and stop dealing with head-exploders like the Unsuggester, Blogger offered me the quiet, pleasant verification word "rains" meaning, presumably, "fails to be clear." Kind of like UnSuggester.)
I tried "The Princess Bride" and "Holes", two of my favorite books, and got back a whole bunch of Christian texts. I think Forza is right: we need to enter a whole lot more entries for Bareback/Benighted so it can generate a proper search.
Word is "chropo" -- Not enough money for the back re-alignment.
I tried the Unsuggester on Seamus Heaney's Beowulf (over 700 copies in their files) and I got back a list of books and authors that I'd never heard of. So what does that tell me -- not much.
Then I tried T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and among the returns were several that I've read and liked, but also several entries from the "Left Behind" series. So they got that much right, at least!
It doesn't seems to work at all for children's books. I entered Half Magic and The Stinky Cheese Man (don't know why those were the first two that occurred to me, but so it was) and got back a whole bunch of Unsuggestions of heavy-duty works of religion and philosophy, a few gory-sounding novels, and Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father. Possibly true, but certainly unhelpful.
"Books I've read" and "Books I've liked" and "Books I own" are three distinct concepts, with some overlaps in the actual sets. The whole thing makes me think of those Venn diagrams of intersecting circles. Tiny circles, compared to the vast undefined space of unknown books in which they float.
So who are these LibraryThing members, anyway? A sort of on-line book club, apparently, but who signs up for it? According to their "Groups" list, librarians are by far the most represented (at least among LibraryThing members who join subgroups, I suppose). Followed by Science Fiction Fans, What Are You Reading Now? and Fantasy Fans - which explains why the Suggestions might have tended toward those genres. "Christian" was way down the list, which is probably why all the religious books keep coming up as least-likely Unsuggestions.
And I wonder how many people really take the time to enter their whole collections, or if they bog down after a few favorites or recent purchases.
*pauses to visualize bookshelves lining at least one wall in every room in the house, shakes head*
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Doesn't everybody own that?
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Amaryllis, quite a number of librarians are on LibraryThing (not me) because librarians tend to be the sort of people who want to catalog their own collections of books, and LibraryThing is about the only free and easy software out there for doing that.
In fact, I know of a few (small) libraries that use LibraryThing for their institutional catalog.
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Well, that makes sense.
My daughter had an after-school job as a library page for a while. After her first month, she came home and re-organized her own books neatly by topic and author because she couldn't stand to see a bookshelf out of order any more.
It's a source of endless puzzlement to me that people don't alphabetise their books. I mean, how do they find them? I suppose if you've only got about a shelf's worth it's not that big a deal - and if two rounds of househunting in the last five years have taught me anything, it's that not everybody owns books (that plus textured wallpaper was invented by somebody who hates humanity), but my fiance has about three floor-to-ceiling cases' worth and he navigates them entirely by memory. He swears he knows where everything is, but what about when I want to borrow something of his and don't know where to look, eh? And I'm sure I can cite a few times where he didn't know where one of his books was either.
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I bet your fiance DID know where to look, he was just saying he didn't. After all, sharing the rest of your life with someone is one thing, but sharing a bookcase?
As for how to organise a bookcase, how do you do it? Do you alphabetise by title? By author? By subject? I will now look at the Primary Bookcase for an example..
If I had them in alphabetical order, then Godel Escher Bach an investigation into maths and science and music (but mainly maths) would have to go next to either Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (fictional history) or Ghengis Khan by John Mann.
I think we can all agree that both would be crazy ideas, can't we?
Well, I put in Clive Barker's _Cabal_ and Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett's _Good Omens_, and in both cases got back a list of Christian diatribes, evangelism, and biblical study guides. So, on the one hand, yes, granted; but on the other, it feels like cheating and it's not terribly informative, is it?
I'm afraid our bookshelves are a horrible jumble, but that's more a failure of space and Will To Clean than it is an organizational system. On the other hand, it does have some advantages; I keep discovering things that I haven't read in positively ages, which is always pleasant...
Non fiction is grouped by subject (by my own iconoclastic system), fiction by genre and then alphabetically by author.
Anne Fadiman has a wonderful essay on "Marrying Libraries" in her book EX LIBRIS.
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As for how to organise a bookcase, how do you do it? Do you alphabetise by title? By author? By subject?
By the author's surname, except in the case of biographies, where they go under the subject's name - hence, for example, my biography of Jane Austen is next to the Austen novels under A rather than under S for Carol Shields, who wrote it. (It's very good, recommended.) That mixes fiction and non-fiction together, but that hardly matters; it's not as if different genres catch fire in the presence of each other. To my mind, the simpler the system the less confusing.
I put 1984 into the UnSuggester, and got 1984 back as the number one book I'm least likely to own. Animal Farm was number 2. Presumably Orwell's readers were so depressed by his vision of the future they foreswore all his other books.
Highly recommend Godel Escher Bach, actually. I found it a surprisingly entertaining read and I really don't understand math at all, and think I may be dysnumeric. It's not meant to be read all in one bite, mind.
Highly recommend Godel Escher Bach, actually. I found it a surprisingly entertaining read and I really don't understand math at all, and think I may be dysnumeric.
If you read it and understood it, doesn't that falsify "I don't really understand math at all"? :)
This is like a zillion years too late, but my god, that suggester is *horrific*. To be honest, though, Bareback took one concept and faked the other way. Really, I'm not sure if there is anything other than Octavia Butler's ouvre that is really comparable to either of your books. Bareback made me think quite fondly of Bloodchild, actually, and chewing the fat about the differences was fun.Post a comment
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Auto Italia South East is no stranger to precarity. The inaugural event for this artist-run project's new space located on York Way in King's Cross was a conference titled "Immaterial Labour Isn't Working" (20th April—12th May 2013, organized in collaboration with Huw Lemmey), which built on and extended a growing international discourse surrounding art and labor. The title was suggestively open-ended. It could be taken to mean that immaterial labor—the post-Fordist condition in which work is based on knowledge, and may not even be recognizable as work in a traditional sense—leads to untenable and precarious situations for workers. Or, it could be taken to mean that immaterial labor isn't work at all, because it is so close to leisure.


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Wet Seal Names CEO
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Foothill Ranch-based teen retailer Wet Seal Inc. named John D. Goodman chief executive, effective Monday.
Goodman's appointment ends the company's search for a new leader that began in July following the ouster of former Chief Executive Susan McGalla.
The former executive of Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based Sears Holdings Corp. and Charlotte Russe Inc. of San Diego takes the helm as Wet Seal continues a years-long bid for a turnaround.
The company operates a chain of 475 Wet Seal stores for teens and 80 Arden B stores for young women.
Goodman most recently joined the company's board of directors in September, at the same time former Wet Seal Chief Executive Kathy Bronstein also was appointed to the board.
He is the former executive vice president and chief apparel and home officer of Sears Holdings, where he worked with both the Sears and Kmart brands.
Goodman also is credited with helping turn around the juniors retailer Charlotte Russe, which currently counts more than 500 stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
"The committee conducted an extensive search since assuming control of the process after installation of the new board in October," said Board Chair Lynda Davey in a statement. "We found John's energy and passion for the fashion industry and, in particular, his understanding of the junior customer perfectly aligned with the attributes we were seeking in a chief executive officer. As an active Wet Seal Director, John has already developed a strong working relationship with the executive team. We feel certain that this will expedite the improvement in operating performance and the prospects for profitable growth."
Goodman's hiring caps a rugged stretch for the company that followed McGalla's firing, which heard calls from major shareholder Clinton Group Inc. of New York for the removal and replacement of four Wet Seal board members. Former Board Chairman Hal Kahn along with three directors ultimately resigned in October as part of a resolution between Wet Seal and Clinton Group.
Meantime, the company has been reworking its turnaround strategy with fast-fashion merchandising, reversing a previous plan set into motion under McGalla, who set out to cut down on discounting.
Wet Seal has narrowed its monthly same-store sales losses since September. A setback was seen in December with a 9.7% fall in same-store sales.
Goodman's employment contract with the company runs through Jan. 30, 2016.


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Wayland to host mini-preview day
PLAINVIEW - Wayland Baptist University will host prospective students for Gold Rush, a one-day preview event planned for Saturday, Nov. 15 on the Plainview campus.
The event is held annually in the fall and allows high school juniors and seniors and prospective transfer students to visit the campus and learn more about Wayland. Gold Rush kicks off at 8:30 a.m. with registration and continental breakfast.
The day continues with welcome, performances by Spirit and door prizes. Students will be introduced to Wayland administrators and student leaders, and will participate in a division fair allowing them to visit with faculty from each academic division.
Information about financial aid, student activities and student services will be presented as well. Participants will also have opportunities to ask questions of various school officials. Mock classes will be held to give prospects an idea of college courses, followed by lunch featuring a concert by Rejoice and an organizational fair with scholarship drawings.
Participants may enjoy a conference tournament volleyball game at 1 p.m. in Hutcherson Center, and tours will be available at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Auditions for music, theatre and art will be scheduled throughout the afternoon for interested students.
Evening choices include the final game of the Sooner Athletic Conference volleyball tournament at 5 p.m. or the 8 p.m. performance of Wayland University Theatre's play Fools by Neil Simon.
Cost for the day is $6 per person, which includes breakfast, lunch and admission to the volleyball game. Tickets to the play are $8 for adults and $4 for students. Parents are welcome to attend any or all of the event.
For information on Gold Rush, contact the Office of Admissions at 291-3500.


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Maryland's high school graduation rate has been climbing steadily for the past four years and reached nearly 85 percent — far above the national average — this past June, according to data released Tuesday.
More students from every corner of the state are staying in school to earn a diploma, but the increases were most pronounced among Hispanic and African-American students.
State education officials credited the passage of Maryland's Dream Act, which gave hope to Hispanic students who want to attend college in the state, as one of the factors for the 2.5 percentage point increase in the graduation rate for Hispanics.
The Dream Act, which offers in-state tuition to undocumented college students, "has given a level of hope and possibilities for the future," said state school Superintendent Lillian Lowery.
The use of technology and online classes in helping students catch up as well as a general sense among parents that a high school diploma is necessary for any job have also helped boost the graduation rates, officials said.
Statewide, the graduation rate is up 1 percentage point from last year, to 84.97. In addition, the dropout rate has fallen to 9.3 percent, the lowest on record.
"The challenge now is: What is it going to take to get everyone to 90 percent or higher, and can we do that any quicker than 1 point a year," said Robert Balfanz, co-director of the Everyone Graduates Center, which researches and analyzes national graduation and dropout trends. "There is no job to support a family in the 21st century without a high school diploma. We need to be preparing at least 9 out of 10 of our students for that reality."
Balfanz said Maryland's upward trend in the last three to four years mirrors the nation's.
The national graduation rate for the class of 2010 was 78 percent, the latest data available. Vermont graduated 91.4 percent of students, the highest rate in the country.
Balfanz said Maryland's increases in the rates for minority and special education graduates were particularly encouraging.
The graduation rate for African-Americans rose nearly 2 percentage points to 78.3 percent, and the rate for students who are economically disadvantaged was 75.8 percent.
Baltimore, Baltimore County and Howard County had some of the largest increases in the graduation rate. Howard County increased its four-year graduation rate to 93.25 percent, up nearly 3 percentage points. Baltimore and Baltimore County rose 2 percentage points and 2.5 percentage points, respectively.
After he arrived 18 months ago, Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance made a strategic plan to help students catch up who were just a few credits shy of graduation and to address the dropout rate. City officials said they have spent the past two years focused on improving instruction, adding a more demanding curriculum and encouraging more students to go to college.
At Overlea High School in Baltimore County, which has a high percentage of minority students, the graduation rate rose from 75.4 percent to 81.2 percent in one year.
Overlea Principal Marquis Dwarte said the district made sure every school had a committee that met regularly to focus on how to help students who were in danger of dropping out and "engage families and students in a conversation saying they are not on track to graduate."
Baltimore County's graduation rate increase was the largest single-year gain in four years and a jump of nearly 5 percentage points in three years. Only three of the county's 24 high schools didn't see gains, and two of those already have rates over 98 percent.
Nearly every demographic group saw increases in the county, and the gap between the percentage of white and black graduates narrowed to less than 3 percentage points. There were large jumps for students whose second language is English, as well as special education students.
Mark T. Bedell, assistant superintendent for high schools in Baltimore County, has taken the charge personally, going to schools to tell students his own story of growing up the eldest of eight children among "a lot of poverty, neglect and abuse."
He has encouraged students to stay in school and said he hopes to make a home visit to a student who dropped out just one credit shy of graduation to support a new baby. He would like to persuade the student to come back and finish.
Bedell said the school system has successfully spread its use of online classes to students who have fallen behind. For example, a student who enters senior year having failed some classes can catch up by taking online classes during school hours. In addition, teachers have worked in small classes after school and on Saturdays to teach students concepts they were lacking so they could catch up.
"You have to care to give up your afternoons and Saturdays to work with kids to make sure they have a high school diploma," he said.
Baltimore City noted improvements as well. The percentage of students who graduated in four years rose to 68.5 percent in 2013. And the percentage of students who dropped out declined by 2 percentage points to 12 percent.
The city data represented a significant improvement compared to three years ago, when 23 percent of the class of 2010 dropped out and about 61 percent of students graduated.
Interim city schools CEO Tisha Edwards said in a statement that the progress was encouraging amid increased rigor in the school district with the implementation of the Common Core standards. "Our students are posting gains that are promising," she said. "The tools we need are in place."
Other Baltimore area counties saw mixed results. About 94 percent of Carroll County's Class of 2013 graduated, down from more than 95 percent the previous year, while graduation rates for Hispanic and black students saw significant increases. Harford County's graduation rate reached 89.5 in 2013, a 1 percentage point increase from the year before. Anne Arundel County's graduation rate remained steady at about 85.5 percent.
Balfanz said he believed the state's improved rates reflect that the students started high school during poor economic times and may have been more motived to stay in school.
Bill Reinhard, a spokesman for the state Department of Education, agreed that the economy was a factor.
"Students and their parents understand more and more each day that a high school diploma is the bare minimum requirement for a job," Reinhard said.
Changes in the way that federal and state governments calculate graduation rates and the emphasis on reporting more accurate data may also have contributed to the increase.
Balfanz said he believed the federal government alerting states in 2008 that they would soon be held accountable for graduation made a difference. For the first time this past school year, Maryland began to put more pressure on schools to improve their graduation and dropout rates by giving that data more weight in the state accountability system.
That, Lowery said, may have made high schools focus more intently. "I am a firm believer in what gets measured gets done," she said.


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The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories72
What's better than a lost treasure? Seven lost treasures! These rarely seen Dr. Seuss stories were published in magazines in the early 1950s and are finally available in book form. They include "The Bippolo Seed" (in which a scheming feline leads a duck toward a bad decision), "The Rabbit, the Bear, and the Zinniga-Zanniga" (about a rabbit who is saved from a bear by a single eyelash), "Gustav, the Goldfish" (an early rhymed version of the Beginner Book A Fish Out of Water), "Tadd and Todd" (about a twin who is striving to be an individual), "Steak for Supper" (in which fantastic creatures follow a boy home in anticipation of a steak dinner), "The Strange Shirt Spot" (the inspiration for the bathtub-ring scene in The Cat in the Hat Comes Back), and "The Great Henry McBride" (about a boy whose far-flung career fantasies are bested only by those of Dr. Seuss himself). An introduction by Seuss scholar Charles D. Cohen traces the history of the stories, which demonstrate an intentional move toward the writing style we now associate with Dr. Seuss. Cohen also explores the themes that recur in well-known Seuss stories (like the importance of the imagination or the perils of greed). With a color palette enhanced beyond the limitations of the original magazines, this is a collection that no Seuss fan (whether scholar or second grader) will want to miss.
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About the Author
Theodor Seuss Geisel—aka Dr. Seuss—is, quite simply, one of the most beloved children's book authors of all time. The forty-four books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr. Seuss (and others that he wrote but did not illustrate, including some under the pseudonyms Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone) have been translated into thirty languages. Hundreds of millions of copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. Dr. Seuss's long list of awards includes Caldecott Honors for McElligot's Pool, If I Ran the Zoo, and Bartholomew and the Oobleck; the Pulitzer Prize; and eight honorary doctorates. Works based on his original stories have won three Oscars, three Emmys, three Grammys, and a Peabody.
Date of Birth:March 2, 1904
Date of Death:September 4, 1991
Place of Birth:Springfield, Massachusetts
Place of Death:La Jolla, California
Education:B.A., Dartmouth College, 1925; Oxford University (no degree)
What People are Saying About This
Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, August 19, 2011:
"The stories' rhymed couplets are pitch-perfect, the verse's rhythm as snappy as in any of Seuss's better-known works...[F]ans old and young will deem these 'lost' stories a tremendous find."
Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2011:
"The buffed-up illustrations look brand new, and...the writing is as fresh, silly and exhilarating as it must have been when first seen. The good Doctor may be dead these 20 years, but he's still good for splendid surprises."
ChildrensBooksGuide.com, 2011's Best Children's Books
"…Everything you'd expect from this master… Chock full of rhyming, goofy characters and whimsical illustrations."
San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 2011
"...A treasure trove from one of the greats of children's literature...an unexpected treat... The collection sings with Geisel's trademark rhyme, rhythm, wordplay and serious silly streak. A must-have addition to your Seuss collection."
BoingBoing.net, October 27, 2011
"...A new Seuss collection is reason to celebrate...and Bippolo Seed is more than a curiosity or a completist's collection of offcuts much of the material in this book stands with Seuss's best-loved work. The illustrations are classic Seuss and full of wit and irreverence…"
The Atlantic, September 27, 2011
"...A fantastic new collection...More than just a literary gem, which it certainly is…"
The Baltimore Examiner, September 28, 2011
"Truly a great piece of treasure for your family's library!"
USA Today, October 5, 2011
"Did you know a bunch of 'lost' Dr. Seuss stories were unearthed recently?...As one would expect with Seuss, they're incredibly clever."
Wired.com, September 28, 2011
"The stories are pure Seuss — you cannot mistake the artwork or the made up words...my son...enjoyed them for what they are— little stories that teach some sort of lesson."
The Mac Observer, October 18, 2011
"If you or someone you know, whether large or small, is a Seuss fan, go get a copy of The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories...it's excellent stuff."
Cracking the Cover (blog), October 13, 2011
"Books by Dr. Seuss are classic...passed on from generation to generation… When he died in 1991…no one expected to see new work from him again… Each of these tales is a rhythmical delight with the tongue-twisting text we've come to expect from Dr. Seuss. The illustrations are wacky, playful and colorful...and each of these tales is sure to spark imagination."
Readings.com, September 26, 2011
"...Clever, witty and engaging, with pitch-perfect rhyming couplets and his distinctive illustrations…they will provide...readers with the sheer delight of enjoying more Seuss-isms."
Apptudes.com, October 5, 2011
"Little imaginations will be delighted with more nonsensical Seussish characters to love and entertaining stories with which to sharpen their reading skills…Each story is chock full of Dr Seuss genius and inventive use of words…"
Giggleapps.com, October 17, 2011
"A wonderful anthology of stories…, each full of the wondrous Dr. Seuss style of imaginative...characters, beautifully odd illustrations, and fantastical rhyming prose… They are important works of early Dr. Seuss."
BestAppsforKids.com, October 19, 2011
"Fans of Dr. Seuss will especially love this addition to the collection...and [it] will surely become a bedtime favorite…Dr. Seuss is always great and these "lost stories" are bound to delight."
Digital-Storytime.com, September 27, 2011
"…A wonderful collection of seven stories… They are exceptional and will enchant both young readers and older ones alike… the illustrations are also exceptional, capturing the familiar whimsy of Seuss…"
Excelsiorfile, October 11, 2011
"A collection of tales featuring…that cadence…that is as distinctly Seuss as iambic pantamenter is to Shakespeare. To read the book…it is almost impossible to not begin by reading aloud…and to do so…reveals some interesting information about…the development of that cadence we know by heart and memory... And for those older Seuss fans its an even better reminder of what can and should be expected in terms of books for young readers."
Hooray for Books! Indepedent Bookstore, October 14, 2011
"Fans of Seuss will know to expect outlandish creatures, exuberant rhyme, funny adventures, and even a little food for thought. You'll find all that and more in 'Bippolo Seed.' This book is a fantastic find for Seuss fans of all ages...!"
Barnes and Noble, September 2011
"Children, their parents, and their grandparents will all treasure this singular batch of rarely seen…stories…these tales exude the sprightliness that we have all come to associate with the…master."
Lunch.com, September 30, 2011
"I tip my hat to Dr. Cohen for his love of Dr. Seuss' vision and the work that went into tracking down these tales. If not for him, future generations might never have been able to experience this amazing collection."


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Learning Index >> The Life and Work of Bernard Leach
In addition to his personal papers, Leach bequeathed his reference collection of historical ceramics and some ninety pots following the whole of his career as a potter since 1912. The wide-ranging historical ceramics are eclectic and diverse, ranging from a quiet but beautifully formed medieval pitcher from England to an exquisite porcelain bowl from Arita in Japan. All possess what Leach saw as the vital ingredients of ceramics - an awareness of material, an understanding of making and the ability to transcend the ordinary to have some extra quality. His own pots relate his own development, from early pieces made in Tokyo in 1912, including cups and saucers, magnificent earthenware slip-decorated dishes to the fine pieces made during the peak of his career in the late 1950s and 60s in stoneware and porcelain. They form a unique testament to his interests and his increasing sensitivity to his chosen material. Both the historical collection and Leach's own pots are subjects that merit study.


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I have found as I get better; Several people turning on me! I do not think they were ever with me; on my side! I never knew, I was not present!
So, low level recovery processes! dealing with street people and the equivalent! nOt everyone! More, new people to recover process!
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Problem; In between all this is loneliness and disconnection! Technically, Im still alone! and I have few friends!
But the recovery process is working! I was destroyed by sociopaths when young, and Im winning the fight to come back to life! and for that I am grateful! However, I am nowhere near up to speed or connected into the present! There is a jump factor! a bridge must be built from the past to the present for me to jump or walk into the present! I must walk in as the sunny child I once was before I was destroyed! And this might be possible! probable! it will take time!
To be able to walk or jump into the present, I must have my own life back; not stolen by those of the past! I must work my way into a new way of thinking and a new life! I am still very insecure! and stolen! It will take time; I must have my independent memories of my past! they must be back with me!
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DebiePerfect Expression of SympathyMarch 1, 2020
Loved by the family
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Sent to a college student for his birthday. He loved the idea that it came with fruit and many more goodies. College students always can use food.
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We recently sent this basket as a sympathy gift. The recipient was very pleased with the presentation. The fruit was fresh and ironically, the treats enclosed by the local florist included items that the deceased loved.
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I am very happy with the quality and appearance of this gift basket. I ordered it for a coworkers family for the death of his father. They absolutely loved it, said it was beautiful and delicious.
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I did not get to see the basket but the recipients said that
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My mom raved to me about this fruit basket. She loved it for the holidays!
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Customer really enjoyed this over abundance of fruit!!!
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I sent it to a friend who lost a love one.
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excellent service---gift delivered on time as requested. the fruit was fresh and delicious; i do wish a pineapple was included though. also ordered and charged extra for was a box of chocolates that were never received. however, i would order again, but without extras. thank you.
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