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Friday, November 4, 2011
This Week in Books 11/4/11
Actually it's a few weeks of links so be prepared for a full-on link deluge.
Remember back in January when I said the tablets were coming? Well, they definitely are coming fast. Not only does Amazon have the Kindle Fire tablet coming soon, rumors say B&N will debut a new Nook tablet in just a few weeks (disclosure: link is to CNET, I work at CNET). The e-book options, they abound.
And, um, not exactly a coincidence that adult hardcover and paperback sales are down 18% this year. Perhaps even more noteworthy, e-book revenue has surpassed hardcover revenue so far this year.
Speaking of which, CNET next door neighbors GigaOM had a really interesting post about the perils faced by middlemen in publishing. As Amazon executive Russell Grandinetti said, "[T]he only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader. Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity." What do publishers need to do per GigaOM? Give authors what they want and need.
And along those lines, as you may have heard, a while back Amazon gave authors access to Bookscan sales data, one small step to open up some real-time transparency. Now some traditional publishers are finally starting to follow suit.
Meanwhile, do people want interactive e-books? Dueling posts about that topic. Australian author and agent Xavier Waterkeyn talks about transmedia and the interactive project THE CHIMERA VECTOR, while Melville House ripostes that the old fashioned way of reading a book isn't in need of revision.
Oh, and the Wall Street Journal is starting an e-book bestseller list.
Agent Jane Dystel (aka President Obama's agent) had a fantastic post lamenting the publishing industry's fixation on only publishing "sure things." There is, of course, nothing sure about a "sure thing" in publishing, and when publishers do have a sure thing they often end up overypaying and not making a profit anyway.
On the other hand, Salon has a feature on imprint Harper Perennial and wonders aloud whether it can reinvent publishing. How? Cool writers, low advances, smart design. Sounds kind of like the old days of publishing. What's new is old, what's old is new.
A few months back I had a post on writing and striving and THE GREAT GATSBY, and writer Gretchen Brugman used it as a jumping off point for an awesome post about running, literally and figuratively, and hoping and dreaming and the process of becoming. Really great stuff.
In serious Nathan Bransford bait, Nathaniel Philbrick has written a book called WHY READ MOBY-DICK? Yes, you heard right. A book about why you should read MOBY-DICK. Oh hell yes.
Congrats to Julian Barnes, who won the very prestigious Man Booker Prize.
And in other award news, columnist Laura Miller at Salon had some harsh words for the National Book Awards, saying they're like the Newbery - books someone thinks is good for you whether or not you particularly them very much. One of this year's NBA judges, Victor LaValle, fired back at Miller, arguing that judges nominate the books they fall in love with. (via John Ochwat)
Oh, and you may heard something about a certain National Book Award debacle in the young adult category.
In Life of the Writer news, From the Write Angle has an awesome survey of writing superstitions, agent Jane Dystel notes that author promotion ain't what it used to be, agent Rachelle Gardner discusses when to leave your agent, agent Kristin Nelson writes about contract clauses that should scare you, and the New Yorker's book blog The Book Bench has a really fascinating post on the limits of self-knowledge and the tenuousness of rationality.
Alvina Ling, Executive Editor of Little Brown Children's Books, wrote a fantastic post on how she edits.
Agent Rachelle Gardner had a contest based on the starting prompt "How many agents does it take to screw in a lightbulb," and the winning responses were pretty hilarious.
HarperCollins is buying Christian publishing Thomas Nelson.
John Corwin has two posts on how authors can utilize GoodReads (first, second).
And many writers have lent their support to the Occupy movement, adding to the tally at OccupyWriters.
This week in the Forums, a self-published author finds himself on the wrong side of Amazon, seeking advice on the all-important launch party, the notion of a "dream" agent, how do you interact with your favorite writers online?, discussing GAME OF THRONES (which I am now reading), the most efficient way of outlining, and, of course, NaNoWriMo! And specifically amazing daily encouragement from Sommer Leigh.
And finally, as I mentioned I just got back from some travels and along the way I discovered a really cool web series called Sonia's Travels by Sonia Gil. If you love traveling you'll be jealous of all the amazing places she's been. The latest episode is on Valladolid, Mexico. I want to go to there!
Have a great weekend!
32 comments:
- Ava Jae said...
Awesome roundup as usual, Nathan! Thanks for all the great links!
- November 4, 2011 at 10:33 AM
- Mr. D said...
Publishers overpaying and then don't make a profit. Interesting...
- November 4, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Jennifer R. Hubbard said...
Technically, the only people who have ever been necessary are the reader and the writer. Every other job sprang up in a practical effort to facilitate that relationship: the agents, editors, book designers, publishers, distributors, publicists and marketers, reviewers, booksellers. And we're still going to need most of those jobs because there are millions and millions of books out there, and thousands and thousands of writers. Getting the book from the writer to the reader has to involve some sort of searching and filtering process. It's not possible for a reader to read--or even glance at--or even find--every book in the world.
- November 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- Josin L. McQuein said...
Tablets? So behind the times...
Have you seen the guy from Carnegie Mellon who's developed the no keyboard / no screen interface? It's an ultra-light, wearable projector system that turns any surface (hands, clothes, wall, desk, etc.) into a touch screen.
He calls it the OmniTouch
- November 4, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Just bought a new tablet, Nextbook, from HSN.com, and absolutely love it. I can't stop playing with it.
But, I will say, I still prefer reading books on my dedicated e-reader.
- November 4, 2011 at 11:53 AM
- Jacqueline Howett said...
Thanks for the links Nathan-that was quite a list! Have a great weekend!
- November 4, 2011 at 11:57 AM
- Seabrooke said...
Up here in Canada, our major book retailer, Chapters-Indigo, has already released their Kindle Fire competitor, the Kobo Vox, retailing for CA$199. I've heard reviews are good.
- November 4, 2011 at 12:21 PM
- Matthew MacNish said...
If anything could get you to say hell online Nathan, I should have known it would be Moby Dick.
And we must discuss ASoIaF (GRRM). What book are you on? And are you weighing in on it in the forums?
- November 4, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- Mira said...
This is an amazing assortment of links.
I'll be back after I've read them, but I just needed to weigh in with: Wow.
- November 4, 2011 at 12:41 PM
- Robena Grant said...
Thanks for all of the links. That's got the weekend covered. ; )
- November 4, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- Rick Daley said...
Thanks for the link to the Gigaom post. It's in the same spirit as this post on The History of E-Books and The Future of Self-Publishing (disclosure: link is to My Daley Rant, I write My Daley Rant ;-)
The Sure Thing: Oh sweet irony, with publishers only willing to gamble on a sure thing and then turning it into a losing deal.
In most business cases there is a risk / reward quotient, and in most cases, the bigger the risk, the bigger the potential reward. It's like a monetary investment in bonds, where you may get a 1.5% return but are 99% certain not to lose money, or investing in a high-growth international fund, which may yield 10%-20%, but may also end up at -100%.
Which leads me to the:
WORD VERIFICATION: shese. An exasperated sigh, like the one you make when you see how far your 401(k) has sunk.
- November 4, 2011 at 2:18 PM
- Anne R. Allen said...
I've missed a lot of these because I've been in revision hell, so thanks so much for these Nathan!
Jane Dystel's plea for sanity is something everyone should read, so they can understand what agents are up against these days.
- November 4, 2011 at 2:39 PM
- Diana said...
If there are any publishers out there reading your blog, I hope they read this. I stopped buying new books in the bookstore a year ago, because the quality of the content editing of my favorite bestselling authors has deteriorated to the point of being too frustrating and disappointing to read. A few others are on now on my beware of list. This is significant because I am a heavy reader. I buy anywhere from two hundred to five hundred books in a year. My home is like a live in library.
I never thought there would be a time when I wouldn't snatch a new Nora Roberts book off the shelf, but her bride series was published in trade paperback with no plans for mass market and I just couldn't bring myself to shell out that much
money when her previous two series were disappointing. I borrowed them from the library and I am now glad that I did NOT buy them. I would be supremely pissed off if I had. Where the hell were her agent and content editor that they didn't pick up on the things that made the stories almost unreadable? Her stand alone stories aren't like that, so it's got to be a failure with the editor.
I have to wonder how much of their declining booksales are from people like me who sick and tired of spending money and being disappointed. If the editors would do their job and edit those books properly, they wouldn't be losing sure sales to people like me.
When a heavy reader such as myself stops buying new books, there is a problem in the publishing industry. Someone needs to get their act together and start looking at what the editors aren't doing. If it were up to me, I'd fire the lot and hire people who were willing to carefully edit a bestselling author not blow them off. If they get their knickers in a twist, then show them this post. Seriously.
Sorry, Nathan, I went on a tear there, but I am really frustrated and angry about this. I've thoroughly analyzed the situation and it's not the author's fault; it is the editor's.
- November 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM
"full on link deluge" LmAO .. it is raining in L.A. so bring on the links, I say, hot links, pub links, train links. nice to see you back.
- November 4, 2011 at 3:36 PM
- Kristin Laughtin said...
So does Nathaniel Philbrick's book just say, "Because it's Moby-Dick"? That and possibly, "It's got a giant, angry whale" should be all anyone needs. Everyone else needs to learn!
Wow, I'm really not a superstitious writer! I've never even heard of most of these, but that list was entertaining. I need to examine my own habits to see if I've got anything like this.
- November 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM
- Sommer Leigh said...
You're already behind the times, Nathan! Tablets are soooo yesterday. The OmniTouch and Skinput are the future.
And then I'm going to be first in line to receive the internet in my head. Multitasking for the win!
- November 4, 2011 at 5:24 PM
- The English Teacher said...
The writing superstitions article made me laugh. I had no idea that people were this crazy about writing...... Funny stuff.
- November 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- Joanna said...
I live just 2 hours from Valladolid... in Merida. We have several strong writers' groups here who would be thrilled to have you come for a visit. Just say the word and we'll take you to Valladolid.
- November 4, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Susan Kaye Quinn said...
So interesting, the WSJ e-book bestseller list. My mom actually pointed it out, while she was visiting this week. I looked at it and pointed to two titles. "Those are self-published," I said. She was shocked, went and checked the price (99cents). Amazing, the changes.
- November 4, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- Susan Kaye Quinn said...
p.s. Thanks so much for the Goodreads links!! Off to read...
- November 4, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- marion said...
Interesting links.
Superstitions: I don't think a word (at least) a day is a superstition. It's a good tactic. When you can't get anything down, that one word or phrase could help nudge your subconscious processes along.
Scary contract clauses: Shouldn't a good agent help you avoid these pitfalls?
- November 4, 2011 at 8:23 PM
- Marilyn Peake said...
Two weeks of links in one? Huzzah! Awesome!
I love this: "As Amazon executive Russell Grandinetti said, '[T]he only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader. Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.' What do publishers need to do per GigaOM? Give authors what they want and need." Publishers giving authors what they want and need? Is that even allowed? HaHa. What an awesome idea! It really is a great time to be a writer!
I hadn't heard of WHY READ MOBY-DICK? before seeing it mentioned here in your blog post. Thank you! I, too, love Herman Melville's MOBY DICK – one of my favorite books, actually.
Have a great weekend!
- November 4, 2011 at 11:06 PM
- Jaimie said...
Okay so it's confirmed Rachelle took the "When to leave your agent" post down. I didn't imagine it! I'm not sure why she did. I thought it was a good post.
Steve Jobs really was brilliant. I remember thinking "Who needs a tablet, we have laptops." But there is clearly a developing market. Wow.
- November 4, 2011 at 11:16 PM
- Marilyn Peake said...
Oh, and congrats on reading A GAME OF THRONES. What an awesome book! George R. R. Martin's history is really interesting. In his collection of short stories DREAMSONGS, he talks about his struggle to become published, and how he almost gave up. What a great loss that would have been for readers!
- November 4, 2011 at 11:17 PM
- Gretchen said...
Thanks so much, Nathan, for the link and for the kind words about my blog post. Glad you liked it, and thanks for the inspiration!
Definitely going to have to look into the "why read Moby Dick." Just had a conversation about that with my school librarian and we both confessed we'd never read it.
- November 5, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- Daniel McNeet said...
I want to thank you for the encouragement. When you were an agent you passed on my political thriller, Operation Downfall. You said, you liked it and thought I should be tenacious. I took your advice and the publisher has placed the print and Kindle version on Amazon with the ibook and Nook to follow.
With respect,
Daniel McNeet
- November 5, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- Daniel McNeet said...
I want to thank you for the encouragement. When you were an agent you passed on my political thriller, Operation Downfall. You said, you liked it and thought I should be tenacious. I took your advice and the publisher has placed the print and Kindle version on Amazon with the ibook and Nook to follow.
With respect,
Daniel McNeet
- November 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM
- Mira said...
Well, I was hoping to comment after I'd read the links, but I'm not even halfway through.
I get all of my information from these posts, Nathan, how would I find out about anything without them??!!
- November 6, 2011 at 10:13 PM
- Glenn Ingersoll said...
I had a room in a hotel on the plaza in Valladolid - 12 years ago? The place looks about the same, I guess. Had some very nice chicken soup with lime just up the block. I liked the vultures in the parking lot. That was cool. There's a cenote around the corner, right in the middle of town. You can swim in it. We didn't see anybody swimming in it. There was an amateur zoo in the park above the cenote, a monkey in a cage and so on. The animals looked sad.
- November 7, 2011 at 11:01 PM
- Aubrie said...
I'm excited about the changes with ebooks. It's great to see a bestseller list.
Thanks for the links.
- November 8, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- Heidi said...
I work as a merchandiser for a publishing distributor, which means I put the books (and magazines) on the shelf at the grocery store.
My biggest account has a huge library wall of "Bestsellers," and the usual cookbooks, inspirational, health, etc. And a table of current bestsellers and new releases. Our sales do quite well, especially for a grocery store.
But a lot of my customers come in, browsing the latest hardcovers (at $20.00 and up) lamenting the e-book phenomenon and feel sorry for me because I have that competition and soon, they believe, I will be out of a job.
I tell them that it's a very exciting time for publishing. Things will change, there may be fewer hard copies printed - as I think SHOULD be the case - this week we got so many copies of Christopher Paolini's INHERITANCE that they won't all sell, and it's only because the publisher wants to say they have so many books on the ground, publicizing this "huge release." (PW article here: http://bit.ly/u50wSp)
But I tell my customers - 1) People are not going to stop reading books. Many customers come in and buy a title even if they have a kindle. But for whatever reason, they want this one in a hard copy - to pass it on to friends, and some even say they miss curling up with a book.
2) Books are still going to be published. It's just the way in which we read and enjoy them that will change.
If you talk to Kristen or Tracy over at Bookigee (www.Bookigee.com) They are taking what everyone thinks of as lemons, and making it into AWESOME lemonade. The way you enjoy a book, and everything to do with that book, will be networked. Like a book that was made into a movie? Well, here's the soundtrack. Like an author? Well here's what SHE likes to read...the connections are endless.
I think the readers and writers who are afraid of the new way books are being published, read and enjoyed are just going to have to get their head around the fact that it's not a bad thing, it's just different.
Do I miss listening to vinyl records or making mix tapes on my old boom box? A little. But do I love my iPhone? A LOT.
Change will never stop. And right now, its prey is the book industry. You can either fight it or embrace it.
- November 8, 2011 at 12:03 PM
- Cora said...
Really great post. Thanks so much for linking to Sonia's Travels and her piece on Valladolid. Been there and lo-o-o-o-ved it.
- November 9, 2011 at 5:13 PM


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Manager Scooter Braun shows support following Justin Bieber's DUI arrest
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(Yahoo!) - Seth Rogen's tweet about Justin Bieber's DUI arrest wasn't representative of all of Hollywood. The troubled Canadian singer is getting support, too.
It's not exactly a shock that the star's talent manager, Scooter Braun, is offering words of support following the Miami Beach debacle, during which the 19-year-old allegedly told cops he had been drinking, smoking pot, and taking prescription pills prior to being pulled over for drag racing.
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CNN's Candy Crowley to forecast elections
Candy Crowley, chief political correspondent for CNN, is the speaker for the University of South Carolina's annual Buchheit Family Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 6.
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The lecture, titled "What Happened to the Politics of Hope? A Forecast for 2010 and 2012," will take place at 7 p.m. in Belk Auditorium of the Darla Moore School of Business. It is free and open to the public.
Based in CNN's Washington, D.C., bureau, Crowley anchors "State of the Union with Candy Crowley." Crowley, who earned a Gracie Allen Award in 2009 for coverage of Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House, covers presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races and major legislative developments on Capitol Hill.
A graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Crowley began her journalism career in Washington in radio for Metromedia's station WASH. She became a White House correspondent for the Associated Press and later was a general assignment correspondent for NBC before joining CNN's political reporting team in 1987.
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BREAKING UPDATE: Personal information of 7,000 MUSC patients possibly compromised
On August 22, MUSC was notified by a third party credit card processing vendor, Blackhawk Consulting Group, that we were victims of a cyber-theft of personal information involving approximately 7,000 individuals who used a credit card online or the telephone to pay for health care services.
Forensic discovery of this kind typically takes multiple days in order to provide a thorough and accurate assessment of what happened and to complete system repairs.
Based on the information made available now, no patient medical record information was accessed during the theft.
It seems the goal of the intrusion was to steal financial information which included names, billing addresses, credit card numbers and expirations dates, credit card authorization numbers and email addresses. The group affected by the theft made payments via the MUSC Physicians online payment portal or for an MUSC Physicians or MUSCHealth account by credit card, over the telephone between the dates of June 30, 2013 and August 21, 2013.
MUSC recommends that anyone who believes they may have been affected should contact their credit card company or bank immediately. It is MUSC's understanding that Blackhawk has reported the theft to the FBI.
When MUSC learned of the event on August 22, the online payment option was immediately suspended and Blackhawk began to investigate the intrusion. As always, safe and secure information remains a top priority and MUSC implemented a notification process for affected individuals to share the details of this crime and advise them on what steps they need to take now.
For anyone who thinks they may have been affected, MUSC recommends contacting credit card companies or banks immediately. Affected individuals will receive a pre-recorded phone message providing more about the theft, and MUSC is working with Blackhawk and Experian's fraud protection program to launch a support system that will provide free credit monitoring through a customized call center designed to walk all concerned persons through the steps they should take to further protect their personal information.
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Just a Thought -- Scotland is the New Sweden?
When we visited the Book Expo America conference last week, one thing we heard over and over is that publishers think that "Scotland is the new Sweden." Anyone who's been paying attention to trends in mystery novel publishing probably knows what that means, but in case you don't, mysteries set in Sweden have been hot properties ever since the break-out success of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. That trend may finally be waning slightly, and publishers have turned their eyes toward another cold, bleak country as the setting for mystery stories…Scotland! If you'd like to get ahead of the trend, here are some authors who've been publishing mysteries set in Scotland already.
Bolton, S. J. Sacrifice.
Jardine, Quintin. Skinner's Rules.
MacBride, Stuart. Cold Granite.
McClean, Russel. The Good Son.
McDermid, Val. The Distant Echo.
Mina, Denise. Garnethill.
Rankin, Ian. Knots and Crosses.


text: I looked at the current 53 man roster with today's moves and decided to see what the All time 53 man roster might look like. By my count here is the breakdown by position followed by my choices. OFFENSE QB...3 (Roger Staubach, Troy Aikman, Danny White) RB...3 (Emmitt Smith, Tony Dorsett, Herschel Walker) FB...2 (Daryl Johnston, Don Perkins) WR...6 (Michael Irvin, Drew Pearson, Bob Hayes, Tony Hill, Lance Rentzel, Butch Johnson) TE...2 (Jay Novacek, Billy Joe DuPree) OT...4 (Rayfield Wright, Erik Williams, Mark Tuinei, Flozell Adams) OG...4 (Larry Allen, Nate Newton, Blaine Nye, John Niland) C...2 (Mark Stepnoski, Dave Manders) 26 players assigned to Offense right now. DEFENSE DE...4 (Ed Jones, Harvey Martin, Charles Haley, George Andrie) DT...3 (Bob Lilly, Randy White, Leon Lett) MLB...2 (Lee Roy Jordan, Bob Breunig) OLB...5 (Chuck Howley, DD Lewis, Thomas Henderson, Dexter Coakley, Ken Norton) S...4 (Roy Williams, Cliff Harris, Charlie Waters, Darren Woodson) CB...5 (Deion Sanders, Mel Renfro, Everson Walls, Kevin Smith, Cornell Green) 24 players assigned to Defense right now. SPECIAL TEAMS K...1 (Efren Herrera) P...1 (Danny White) LS...1 (Dale Hellestrae) 3 players assigned to Special Teams right now. Head Coach... (Tom Landry) Offensive Cordinator... (Jimmy Johnson) Defensive Coordinator... (Bill Parcells) Obviously Danny White's ability to play 2 positions opens a hole. I'd add Jethro Pugh at DT so we had 4. I'd also consider going with only 5 WRs. Drop Butch Johnson and add Preston Pearson at RB for his 3rd down ability. I'd reduce the OLBs to 4 and add Jason Witten as a 3rd TE. Deion would be the PR, Herschel Walker the KR. My seats would be on the Cowboys side line row 1, 50 yard line. I probably missed someone really important. If you notice something glaringly wrong let me know. I'd like your thoughts and comments. Something to kill the time.


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Late last month we wrote a column - typed one, more accurately - full of readers' responses to our call-out for places in Long Beach's past that they miss the most. It caused a huge wave of nostalgia, with more than 200 places dredged up from Long Beachers' memories. And in the days and weeks that followed, more readers came up with more memories, most prefaced with the remark: "You forgot to mention ..."
No, you forgot to mention. Our job was merely to collect memories, not bring up our own.
Because we are a loving columnist, not a vengeful, Old Testament one, and because we can relate to blown deadlines, we are sharing those leftovers and latecomers with you today.
One of our favorite tardy responses comes from What's Hot! Chief Mobility Officer Scott McDonnell, who sent a lengthy printout of email exchanges from about a dozen family members recalling their favorite "Lost Places" in town. Among them, Brownie's Toys (in Belmont Shore, Bixby Knolls and Los Altos), Phillip's Chicken Pies (in the Shore and downtown on Pine Avenue), Big John's (the pizza/pool place by the Pier; now Yankee Doodles). Mr. C's and the Hawaiian restaurants, Pierpoint Landing (one of our personal faves, because of the seals you could feed), Naples Market, Iowa Pork Shops in Los Altos, McCoy's Markets all over town, Apple Annie's (now Avenue 3 Pizza) on Palo Verde Avenue, a bunch of head shops whose names nobody could remember (we could go on and on about 1970s-era head shops, but we can't remember their names, either, except ABC Toys on Anaheim Street, three blocks from Wilson High; there was another one across Seventh from Wilson, but its name isn't as easy to remember as ABC), and the slot-car-racing place on Anaheim.
McDonnell joined us in recalling the Foremost (in our case) and Adohr (in his) dairies sending photo studio trailers around the neighborhood to take pictures of the kids, which they would print on calendars.
Those days were the darkest days of our youth, when the rigs would pull up and all the kids' moms would haul them in for a Saturday afternoon bath and then get them all dolled up in things made out of scratchy wool so we'd look nice in the calendar that would hang by the kitchen phone for a year. When we tell that to people who have survived the horrors of Sudan, they weep.
An older-timer, James Shoemaker, declares, "hands down," the greatest loss in the city's history was that of the Spit and Argue Club on Rainbow Pier, where people could soap-box it all day long, ranting about their views and the idiocy of others' - in public! Using their real names and showing their faces! Face-to-face bickering: Another industry crushed by the Internet.
Rod Barken, who has created a "If you grew up in Long Beach, California, you remember ..." page on Facebook, reminds us of Grissinger's Drive-In on San Antonio Drive (now George's 50's Diner), Woodie's Goodies at Alamitos Bay (now Alfredo's) and Kenady's men's wear on Second Street, where we used to buy all our cruisewear.
Longtime Long Beacher Doug Volding, who now lives on the wrong side of the Orange Curtain, also throws in with the Pierpoint Landing folks, along with such other water-related landmarks as the pontoon bridge in the harbor, the Plunge at the Pike and the fishing barge off the Belmont Pier. Volding, along with others, also has happy memories of the old Beanie and Cecil's Drive-Thru at the Traffic Circle.
Cindy Koch recalls a couple of memories from Long Beach's rock and roll past: the Rumbleseat Garage rock club on the Traffic Circle (about where Staples is now) and KNAC Rock & Rhythm Radio, especially Norm McBride.
Musician, author and our go-to guy on matters of things (musically) we don't understand, Gary Meyers, recalls a ton of places he's played over the decades, including George's Roundup on PCH, the Panama Club on Long Beach Boulevard downtown, the Kopa Room in Bixby Knolls and the venerable Hollywood on the Pike.
Karen and Merlen Kearney, came up with more than 50 great places from the past. We've narrowed their list down to Ray & Eddie's Market in Bixby Knolls, Russell's hamburgers in Bixby Knolls and Naples, Desmond's in downtown, Newberry's in Belmont Shore, Boulevard Bowl alleys on Long Beach Boulevard near 16th Street, the Book Emporium in Los Altos, the freshly closed Fisherman's Hardware next to Joe Jost's on Anaheim Street, El Patio Restaurant on Atlantic Avenue and the ultra-memorable, if you had to attend it, Call's Dance Studio and Cotillion in Bixby Knolls where, writes Karen, "not only did we learn to dance, feel squirmy about touching the hand of a member of the opposite sex, learn real manners and socialize a lot (shopping, too, for a special party/dance dress at Luan's (Dress Shop in Bixby Knolls) - thankfully still in business.)"
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The LA Times' Andrew Malcolm might want to monitor his readers' hate comments
After posting one his of signature moronic items [1] about black journalist celebrating Obama at a closed-door White House event, and after the item got picked up by Drudge and right-wing blogs, Malcolm's Times blog was rewarded with lots of reader comments.
According to the Times' policy, comments will be erased if they [2]:
contains vulgar, profane, abusive, racist or hateful language or expressions, epithets or slurs, text, photographs or illustrations in poor taste, inflammatory attacks of a personal, racial or religious nature
You mean like these?
The fried chicken and watermelon lunch was enjoyed by all.
Posted by: Max | March 20, 2009 at 08:54 PM [3]
No white interlopers allowed!
Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton | March 20, 2009 at 09:23 PM [4]
WHO is he recieving his 'award' from? The Federation of 'BLACK' Community Newspapers? Is there a WHITE Federation of Newspapers? And if there was, do you think that this IDIOT would be ACCEPTING AN AWARD FROM THEM? For someone who 'CLAIMS' to be 'bi-racial', he sure goes to a lot of " 'BLACK' things. You say the 'PRESS' isn't going to be allowed. Are you sure that it isn't THE WHITE PRESS, that isn't invited. This IDIOT makes my stomach sick.
Posted by: Timothy L. Pennell | March 20, 2009 at 05:22 AM [5]
So the racist black president allows only some racist black representative of the press to present the award.
Posted by: rollinson | March 20, 2009 at 06:07 AM [6]
Ha! Ha! Let me get this straight. Obama is receiveng an award from a "Federation of Black Community Newspapers" and bans the rest of the media outlets from attending.Sounds like the first official "Blackout" of the White house! I would like to be a fly on the wall at that ceremony, and wonder if Biden was invited? Kill Whitey!!!!
Posted by: Micah Lomas | March 20, 2009 at 08:18 AM [7]
Stay classy LA Times.


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Racing to insignificance
Bruce Byfield wrote a long and detailed piece recently about his take on the state of GNOME, and while long it does go into great detail what direction GNOME is taking — not an entirely healthy one, in his opinion — and what they might want to look at to right what Bruce thinks is a listing, if not a sinking, ship.
Stop me if you've heard this one: When Bruce and I disagree, fur usually flies and a knock-down-drag-out ensues, usually for the entire 15 rounds before it's normally called a draw. But this is not one of those times, because on the whole Bruce's assessment seems to be pretty much right on the mark.
Until a couple of days ago, I would have thought that folks at GNOME — especially those in the marketing group — would have read this piece and said, "Hmmm, let's take a look at this to see what's right and what's wrong about it."
But apparently that's not the case. Instead, we have borderline hysteria in the marketing group's exchanges on the mailing list about how to address "trolls" like Bruce Byfield writing for online publications like Datamation which, according to contributors on the list, exist — like Phoronix — only for the sole purpose of bringing down GNOME.
Until yesterday I was a member of that mailing list — it was a holdover to the days when, as a Fedora Ambassador Mentor and keeper of the Fedora event box, I also kept the GNOME event box for an extended period of time and sent it along with the Fedora box to various events. When I was unable to keep using GNOME with the introduction of GNOME 3, I stopped using GNOME but never left the mailing list for a variety of reasons.
For having the unmitigated gall of offering some observations about Bruce's article on the marketing mailing list, along with some of my own opinions about how GNOME is fostering a separate-but-(un)equal culture with its "Fallback Mode" — and note to GNOME marketing: Seriously, "Fallback Mode?" This is the best name you could come up with? — apparently I've been ushered out the door.
I'm OK with that, actually, because the last thing I need is more to read, especially when it's whiny hand-wringing by some on a mailing list who wouldn't know objective and rational thinking if it were dropped on them, let alone understanding historical comparisons when presented to them.
But I'll bring up what I raised in that discussion, and it's nothing you haven't read on this blog before. It is this:
POINT: GNOME needs to have a better strategy in addressing people in the tech press who criticize it than calling them trolls, let alone being under the childishly misguided impression that on-line publications are out to get them. To be fair, I think some of the more thoughtful members of the GNOME marketing group understand this, though apparently some don't. I would like to think some of the smarter, more rational people here will prevail in forming some sort of
POINT: I've said this before and I'll say it again: Having GNOME 3 and a "Fallback Mode" for those whose hardware cannot run GNOME 3 invites and forms a caste system, digitally speaking — providing benefits to a higher class of computer user and not offering the same to others. It is the digital equivalent of making some users sit in the back of the bus. Rational people understand this comparison: GNOME did not outwardly intend to make a desktop environment with the sole purpose of digital inequality, but arguably that's how it ended up. It is a case of the best intentions backfiring; while it's nice that GNOME is offering users of older hardware at least something, it's still far too little in comparison to what others have. Some people find this comparison to a caste system or to "separate but equal" offensive, and if it offends your sensibilities, my apologies. However, the truth is still the truth.
I offered what I thought were some helpful observations to the GNOME marketing list, and I was shown the door. Again, I'm OK with that because as much as I'd like to see GNOME succeed, I can just as easily watch from trackside as they race toward the checkered flag of insignificance. Bear in mind that while once GNOME was all there was for the Linux desktop, today there are a healthy variety of desktop alternatives — many of which have surpassed GNOME in usability across a wide range of hardware.
This my-way-or-highway mentality encountered on this mailing list is the kind of behavior I expect from others, like the Ubuntu Apocalypse for example; where any remote deviation from the Ubuntu/Canonical party line is met with a kick to the curb by zombies marching, hands in front of them, toward a future dictated to them by corporate masters.
I expect better from GNOME, but that may be asking too much. Rather than making any further comparisons, let me just leave you with the final paragraph of Bruce's article, which I hope thoughtful GNOME advocates will keep from being prophetic:
"Probably, at some point, something called GNOME 4 will be released. But if the early indications are accurate, by the time it appears, nobody will be left to care."
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(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
August 20, 2012 at 8:57 am
You know…..I am not privy to the wizardry behind it, but Ikey Doherty, the founder and lead (read only) Dev for SolusOS has found a way to make Gnome 3 behave EXACTLY like Gnome 2 sans the shell, WITHOUT the need for hardware acceleration. Now, this is one Irishman with sub-standard equipment who gains his internet from a tethered 3G phone. He has the most primitive tools with which to work, yet wonder of wonders, he's providing exactly what Gnome users want.
Currently, his most up-to-date release is SolusOS 1.2 which is still running Gnome 2.30 but if the Alpha of SolusOS 2 is any indication of things to come, I am swallow-my-tongue impressed. Yes, I said Alpha. As reported on his forums, many are using the alpha as a production system. I can hardly wait for the Beta…..which by all accounts will be more stable and bug-free than the current release of Gnome 3. Unlike Mint Mate or Cinnamon, SolusOS 2 will be able to utilize GTK 3 technology and theming while still remaining comparable with GTK 2 stuff. I find that bit of magic amazing.
Again, one guy working in what could be equaled to a cave, by comparison to the Gnome labs, has shown them how it is supposed to be done.
Reglue, previously The HeliOS Project, will adapt a special respin of SolusOS as our default distro for thousands of computers over the next few years.
Personally, I have taken a perverse pleasure of late in watching the Gnome train wreck in extreme slowmo. Not nice I know, but I was able to get great seats……
August 20, 2012 at 9:15 am
I've been a user of Cinnamon since it was announced. It's using Gnome's backend, but with the UI "done right". Gnome Devs would do themselves a favor if they looked at what Cinnamon does, and why so many are using it, rather than continue blindly digging that hole they're in right now.
August 20, 2012 at 9:16 am
Seriously? They banned you from the list? That's unacceptable.
August 20, 2012 at 9:41 am
I disagree violently with you on this one. This Byfield person is obviously a troll hired by a sinister cabal of KDE and Xfce developers to bring GNOME down. It's obvious that anybody who agrees with GNOME's own developers that there's a problem is an enemy of the people, and no doubt in the pay of Microsoft and Apple as well.
August 20, 2012 at 10:05 am
I notice that there are still zero comments on the datamation article. I didn't find it very trollish.
FACT: many have been complaining about GNOME 3, and the "Staring into the Abyss" post, and the way it was rapidly shared around and discussed, is a fair indicator that there's something worth discussing here.
Then, Bruce gives a bunch of possible solutions, which are all pretty straightforward.
Bottom line, GNOME changed a bunch of people's desktops in a big way, and they didn't do a very good job explaining WHY. I use GNOME 3, I've gotten to like it, but I was put off by the way the changes came down.
That's my take as a GNOME user since 1.4 or so — and I really liked 2.0 when it arrived.
August 20, 2012 at 10:12 am
Seriously, Larry: Thanks for having my back. I'm only sorry that people started attacking you because of me.
August 20, 2012 at 10:13 am
YearOfTheFracturedCommunity™ – The community has run off anyone with an opinion and the technical background to challenge things like this. You wouldn't have ever have seen this a few years ago. Now, when you speak out against something that you can see is being done wrong you get called names like troll and $hill and / or banned – because it is easier to eliminate the "problem" than it is to admit fault.
I'm sorry you were banned Larry, but I'm really not surprised. That's what our greater "community" has become.
In just trying to defend my own work in the free software realm, it has been nothing but an uphill battle for me personally, so I can definitely relate. Whenever we reach out beyond our little "bubble" we receive nothing but hatred and disdain from the larger population.
I have even been banned from a few FOSS sites – one of which you frequent, just for speaking my mind, and holding my ground.
To tell you the truth, it is tiring. Don't let them bring you down though, if you get tired of whatever it is our "community" has become, come find us at Fuduntu. We won't treat you like that.
August 20, 2012 at 10:26 am
"This my-way-or-highway mentality encountered on this mailing list is the kind of behavior I expect from others, like the Ubuntu Apocalypse for example"
Stay classy!
August 20, 2012 at 11:06 am
Cha Cha Cha Changes.
Or "Don't Ban Me Bro"?
GNOME 3.0 was released on April 6, 2011. That is a year and a bunch ago. Sigh,
more old news dressed in new hyperbole.
KDE 4.0 January 11, 2008. OMG alien zombie drug dealers have taken control.
38 jillion users leave KDE and take up, well, whatever it was. (lol, KDE never had
even 1 jillion users) Today? I guess KDE is chugging along okay, I even know some
users. How many NEW users did KDE pickup on all the "he said, she said" churn that
lasted for a couple of months? So far in the past that half of the FOSS crowd was in
grade school. Let's all talk merits of our buggy whips, eh?
The whole GNOME thing and the KDE thing were people problems, not software
problems. There are always work-a-rounds for software problems. People are
trickier than software, have to reboot more often.
Soon there will be some other software that changes the color of an icon and the
tech writers will mount their steeds (nice picture?) and ride to the confusion.
Life will continue.
The Colonel uses the best distro, other than yours of course.
The Colonel uses the best desktop, other than yours.
The Colonel uses the best browser, other than yours.
Best Audio program. Best office suite Best editor Terminal.
From Wikipedia:
The term community has two distinct meanings: 1) A group of interacting people, living in some proximity (i.e., in space, time, or relationship). Community usually refers to a social unit larger than a household that shares common values and has social cohesion. The term can also refer to the national community or international community, and, 2) in biology, a community is a group of interacting living organisms sharing a populated environment. A community is a group or society, helping each other.
In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.
Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community has less geographical limitation, as people can now gather virtually in an online community and share common interests regardless of physical location. Prior to the internet, virtual communities (like social or academic organizations) were far more limited by the constraints of available communication and transportation technologies.
The word "community" is derived from the Old French communité which is derived from the Latin communitas (cum, "with/together" + munus, "gift"), a broad term for fellowship or organized society.[1] Some examples of community service is to help in church, tutoring, hospitals, etc.
August 20, 2012 at 11:36 am
Something to note here, and I hope it's taken with a bit of solace as well. Starting with Gnome 3.4 (iirc, the versions get mixed up in my head) most people with a computer get the same interface, whether they are using a newer system or not. Ideally, this was the plan all along and so the debate may continue for some who are unwilling or unable to update to the newer version, but at least 'Fallback Mode' really shouldn't be a debate any longer.
August 20, 2012 at 2:43 pm
As a Linux user of about 10 years who has always used KDE and has only the most passing acquaintance with Gnome, I would like to address the KDE kerfuffle from a kouple of years ago.
What KDE did was redesign their desktop from the ground up. Implementing this new infrastructure required that functions be stripped out and radically redesigned, but the basic concept of KDE stayed the same. The kommunity reacted poorly when KDE chose to release what was essentially a final beta version of the desktop as a production version. It took KDE another release or two to "get it right" at the time. For my money, the last several releases have been quite good, and their applications have been katching up pretty well.
I may be wrong, but I don't think Gnome did that. It seems to me that Gnome simply tried to unilaterally shift the paradigm. As is often done in business, someone offered up an idea that got adopted into the culture as a value and developers where told this is how it's going to be. Rather than stripping down the desktop and starting from a fresh foundation, Gnome simply changed the rules of the game and didn't hold much regard for technological constraints. As a consequence, many users find themselves in a "transition" bounced by "legacy" hardware.
Users have accepted that sort of thing for far too long. Look at what Windows 95 did for the price of RAM. It would be tantamount to something criminal were there not, as Larry points out, the large number of desktop options available to users today. But that's not Larry's point, is it?
Larry is making another reference (I've seen a lot of such references since Gnome3 hit the platters) to the fact that the Gnome folks aren't brooking much criticism these days. The same thing happened when KDE decided to do what it did. The differences are that KDE seemed to have better rationale for what they were doing, and possibly because of this, they let a lot of the criticism roll off their backs and proceeded with the project. Very few were injured and even fewer killed over it.
I don't know what's going on at Gnome. They seem terribly defensive about it.
I'm just saying.
August 21, 2012 at 7:18 am
The problem with KDE and GNOME is the developers basically acted unilaterally without really considering the impact of their actions on the user community. In the case of KDE, the distros helped that along a bit in some cases by switching to 4.x prematurely even though KDE 3.5.x was still being maintained. However, when KDE did stop maintaining 3.5.x the 4.x branch was still not at par (at least in many users' eyes) with the 3.5.x branch.
The really surprising thing is that GNOME had watched KDE go through this just a few years before and *still* handled things the way that they did – then acted shocked when the user base got upset.
August 20, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Hey there, it was an unfortunate incident that we are taking care of internally. The action was regrettable and as I was saying in the mailing list, we are listening. The person who did it also issued and apology.
I'd like to apologize to Larry for this incident. It shouldn't have happened. Thanks guys. I do appreciate all the feedback. I don't always agree with it but I will do listen. The thread that I started was really more about how to talk about what we are doing more positively. The irony does not escape me in the end result.
Thanks again.
August 23, 2012 at 7:03 am
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September 2, 2012 at 12:23 pm
And the beat goes on. I think there was a kids movie called the Never Ending Story?
This could be the never ending debate in the Linux word.
September 3, 2012 at 6:09 pm


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Featured this Month: Creators of the National Parks
John Muir was one of the earliest advocates of the national park idea, and its most eloquent spokesman. Born in Dunbar, Scotland, he moved with his family to a Wisconsin farm in 1849. Muir's father, an itinerant Presbyterian minister, treated him harshly and insisted that he memorize the Bible. By age 11, he was able to recite three-quarters of the Old Testament by heart, and all of the New Testament.
As a sickly young boy in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt learned taxidermy and started his own collection of stuffed specimens. At age 12, he donated some of them – a dozen mice, a bat, a turtle, four birds' eggs and the skull of a red squirrel – to the American Museum of Natural History. Eleven years later, he presented 622 carefully preserved bird skins to the Smithsonian.
Stephen Mather was the first director of the National Park Service. He used his wealth and political connections to take the national park idea in important new directions Mather's love of the parks was highly personal: he had found that time in nature helped him ward off the bouts of depression to which he was prone. Born in California to a family with deep, patrician roots in New England, Mather graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, worked as a reporter for the New York Sun, and then served as sales manager for the Pacific Coast Borax Company, where he demonstrated his special genius for promotion.
Horace Albright served as the first assistant director of the National Park Service under Stephen Mather. A Berkeley graduate, he had arrived in Washington so poor he wore a borrowed suit and took a room at the local YMCA. Like his boss, Albright had become enthusiastic about national parks because of a personal encounter with John Muir. But he was already planning to return home to California to practice law when Mather arrived in Washington; his new boss persuaded him to stay on.
George Melendez Wright was born into a wealthy San Francisco family. His father was a ship's captain and his mother was from one of El Salvador's most prominent dynasties. He exhibited an early interest in the natural world, hiking from San Francisco to California's northern border in his mid-teens, and earning a degree in forestry and zoology from the University of California, Berkeley. During a field trip to Alaska, he was credited with being the first scientist to locate and describe the nest and eggs of the rare surfbird.


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Woman Sues Boss Over Rush-Hour Traffic
(NEWSER) – Rush-hour traffic is a pain, but can it qualify you for a disability? A New Jersey woman is trying to make her case in court against a former employer, reports the Courier-Post. Andrea DeGerolamo worked for Fulton Financial in 2012 when, according to her lawsuit, she "began to feel great anxiety and depression, which was especially aggravated by crowded roadways experienced during the heavy traffic of rush hour." The anxiety was so severe that it qualified her as being disabled, says the suit, as per the Star-Ledger.
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Hundreds of jobs to be cut at Hopkins Airport
(Cleveland) - United Airlines says it will drop its money-losing flight hub in Cleveland, slashing its daily flights and eliminating 470 jobs.
The company's CEO Jeff Smisek says in a letter to employees that the Cleveland hub has not been profitable in over a decade and has lost the company tens of millions of dollars in recent years.
Beginning in April, Chicago-based United will begin phasing out Cleveland as a connection for fliers coming from other airports around the country.
United employees contacted by Newsradio WTAM 1100 say they are not allowed to talk to the media.
Greater Cleveland Partnership President and CEO issued a statement regarding the decision by United Airlines.
Joe Roman says the Partnership will be working with the City of Cleveland, the State of Ohio, and other partners over the coming months and years to attract additional air service to Hopkins Airport.
Roman contends they have a very strong case for that. While he admits the decision by United is unfortunate, they knew it was one of the possible consequences of the United-Continental merger.
Roman contends airport is improved, costs are down, and has more traffic-generating assets, plus the business community is mobilized and committed.
Roman maintains their goal is to minimize the impact on travelers and to ensure convenient and affordable air service.
With billions of dollars in new development throughout the region, Roman says there will be increased demand for air travel in Cleveland.
By 2016, he expects tourism to dramatically increase, with new hotels, and attractions like the Horseshoe Casino, the Cleveland Convention Center, and the global center for health innovation.
Roman maintains the Partnership will be working with city, state, and business leaders over the coming months and years to attract additional air service to Hopkins Airport.
In interviews with Newsradio WTAM 1100, former Cleveland Mayoral candidate Ken Lanci claims the layoffs could have been avoided if the current administration had worked closer with United.
Lanci also feels money from the Cuyahoga County Sin Tax could have been used to help the struggling airline instead of being given to Cleveland's three major sports teams.
Councilman Zack Reed who sits on the Transportation Committee partly blames federal regulations for making the United hub unprofitable. Reed contends Mayor Frank Jackson has done his best keep the hub in operation.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is to hold a press conference Monday morning at 11. You can hear it live on Newsradio WTAM 1100.
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Just as many people are breaking society's mold for education and taking full responsibility for their children's schooling by teaching their children at home, many are also beginning to question accepted ideas about their children in other areas. One of those areas is dating.
They began by questioning whether public education was best for their children and are now questioning whether dating is the best way just because "everyone is doing it." Many people are spending a great amount of time and effort to raise up godly children, but they remember what it was like for them when they were dating. Even though they had the best intentions, some of them did things in dating relationships that they wish they had not – things that drew them away from their parents and their Heavenly Father. Now they are asking if there is any way that they can help their children avoid some of those same pitfalls.
A recent survey showed that among evangelical church youth, forty-three percent had lost their chastity before the age of eighteen. Sixty-five percent had engaged in sexual behavior that should be reserved for marriage. The divorce rate among the church is one out of every two marriages – the same as society at large. Does it have to be like that?
It has not always been this way. Even forty years ago, it was not socially acceptable to engage in premarital sex; however, with dating in cars, going steady, and the like, the temptations have compounded while there is little supervision to help overcome them. Was resisting the temptation ever the norm for this country?
Looking back through history, it seems that dating is a new idea that started around the turn of the 20th century and gained momentum with the coming of the automobile. Before that, the accepted model was courtship. Did that work? Could it work in these modem times? What is courtship exactly, and how is it different from dating?
Dating vs Courtship
The Webster's 1828 Dictionary defines courtship as "the act of soliciting favor. The act of wooing in love; solicitation of a woman to marriage." In other words, the goal of courtship is marriage and marriage only. The definition of a date in the Webster 3rd International Unabridged Dictionary [1976] is "an appointment between two persons of the opposite sex for the mutual enjoyment of some form of social activity." The goal is personal pleasure.
Courtship is attractive to many home schoolers because it provides a safe atmosphere for cultivating a godly relationship and helps a couple "avoid all appearance of evil." (I Thessalonians 5:22) It allows a couple to get to know each other under the supervision of their parents. A courtship does not take place until the couple is ready for marriage and they have the permission of both sets of parents to consider one another as potential marriage partners.
In most dating relationships, parents have abdicated their responsibility to protect and direct their young people. The young people decide whom they want to date based on looks, popularity, or whatever reason strikes their fancy. Dating takes place with the couple mostly alone, with little or no supervision, and away from the protection of family. Romans 13:14 says "make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts." Dating, in its typical form, makes "provision for the flesh" and maximizes disastrous temptations.
Before 1900, it was common not to touch before marriage. A national speaker tells the true story that a week before his grandparents' wedding, they encountered each other in the woods and were alone. His grandfather tried to steal a kiss, but his grandmother told him that if he kissed her that day, there would be no wedding on Saturday. The rest is history.
In contrast, dating often escalates physical intimacy outside of marriage from holding hands to intercourse. That brings up the question – how far is too far? Matthew 5:28 says, "Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Many a young man is participating in activities that cause him, at the very least, to be lustful. Many young women are defrauding young men by arousing desires in them that cannot be righteously satisfied. The evidence of this problem is that this society has seen an alarming increase in the number of pregnancies outside of marriage.
Can it be that young people are also establishing habits that encourage a divorce pattern? The typical dating pattern is that people date and fall in love, then they fall out of love so they break up. They date others and fall in love; they fall out of love, so they break up, and on and on. What is going to happen in a marriage when the going gets tough and there is an established pattern of breaking up and moving on? Many believe dating is one of the causes of today's high divorce rate.
Preparing for Courtship
Young people often have the same kinds of reactions to the idea of courtship as they do when introduced to home schooling. Some embrace it, others do not want anything to do with it, and others will have reactions of all ranges between the two extremes. Should parents keep young adults from dating and force them to court? The parents must decide at what age a young person can make those decisions for himself. The goal is for the young person to make his own commitment to courtship.
If possible, parents should start discussing the precepts that are the foundation of courtship with their children at an early age, teaching them the principle of being under the God-given protection and authority of their parents. They should talk to them about how important it is to listen to their parents in all areas and particularly in the area of choosing spouses. Many couples that have experienced severe marital problems admit they could have avoided a lot of heartache if they had listened to their parents when making this important decision.
Parents should teach young people to avoid pornography. They should recognize that reading romance books may be as harmful to young ladies and their expectations as pornography can be to men. Young adults can learn to control their emotions and to not spend time dwelling on people who may or may not become their spouses.
People who teach these ideas to their children may be accused of indoctrination. Nevertheless, either the parents will be the ones to teach their children about godly standards, or they will pick up their ideas from somewhere else in society – the television, billboards, books, magazines, or their peers.
As parents are making this decision, they should think about their goals for their young people. Society says, "You are young; have fun!" Adolescence is considered the age of irresponsibility; however, adolescence should be a time of preparation for adulthood and marriage. This is a time to develop one's relationship with God and to work on the skills and character necessary to survive in the adult world.
So, do parents lock their adolescents in closets? Do they make them work all the time? How do young people ever get to know someone they might want to marry?
For their young people, many parents schedule group activities with the goal of service rather than entertainment. They teach them to serve others rather than themselves during planned, supervised group activities. Teens will socialize in a group no matter what they are doing. They can learn, however, to avoid flirting. The definition of flirting is "to play at courtship, to act the lover without serious intent; to trifle amorously especially in discourse; to evince superficial interest or liking." Flirting is a type of defrauding.
The teen years are a time for parents to discern areas in which their young people are not developed and to disciple and train them to work on those areas. A teen's goal should be to "flee also youthful lust; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart." (II Timothy 2:22)
Proceeding with Courtship
The older generations did not pass down to this generation the principles or the practical how-tos of courtship. Many families are trying to discern what works best for them. Each family's experiences will probably be different as this generation tries to regain lost ground in this life-impacting area. The following are some general ideas that some have followed in implementing courtship in their families.
When a young man believes he is ready for marriage, with his parents' permission, he goes first to the girl's father to obtain permission to win the daughter's heart, for it is the father's job is to protect his daughter. Usually at this point, the father discusses the possibility with his daughter, or he may want more time to get to know the young man and to see if he would be suitable for his daughter.
Courtship is a time for the couple to get to know one another and one another's families. It is a time of spiritual bonding – a time to share goals, concerns, likes, dislikes, and values. Courtship should not be entered into lightly. Unless something unforeseen happens, the goal and end result should be marriage. Otherwise, the young people are just "courting around" or going steady. Prayer for wisdom and guidance before and during the courtship is the key element.
The courtship takes place particularly under the supervision of the girl's father. He oversees the courtship and meetings and sets the rules as he sees fit. The young adults, who are probably old enough to be doing anything they want to do, will need to understand that there is profit learning from experience and wisdom of parents, and they must be willing to place themselves under the father's authority.
The courtship is not a time for developing a physical relationship. The amount of time (if any) the young couple gets to spend alone needs to be determined by the girl's father. When the couple is more mature, there can be more freedom. Perhaps they can run daytime errands together or sit on the porch alone. Chaperoning is still a large part of the relationship.
Once a young man feels that he has won his girl's heart, he goes first to her father to ask for her hand in marriage. When all lights are green, the father continues to give guidance to the couple as they plan and execute a wedding with the blessing of all the parents.
As the world turns further and further from God, more people are pulling back because they do not want to follow the direction our society is leading, and they are looking for alternatives. Courtship can be one of the major answers to the questions, "How do we raise godly children in this ungodly world?" and "How do we help them get through their teen years and ready to marry with their purity intact?" It provides the protection and guidance that they need when the world has so many ways to draw them into evil.
Some Helpful Books on Courtship
- It's a Life Style by Andrew and Nathaniel Ryan (Silver Clarion Press)
- I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Josh Harris (Multnomah Books)
- Dating vs. Courtship by Paul Jehle (Plymouth Rock Foundation)
- Old-Fashioned Courtship & How It Works Today by Jeff Barth (Parable Publishing House) (See pages 6-6,7 for ordering information.)
- Passion and Purity and Quest for Love by Elisabeth Elliot (Fleming H. Revell)
- Her Hand in Marriage by Douglas Wilson
- Of Knights and Fair Maidens by Jeff and Danielle Myers (self-published: PO Box 88191, Colorado Springs, CO 80908)
- Best Friends for Life by Michael and Judy Phillips (Bethany House Publishers)
- Hands and Heart; a History of Courtship by Ellen K. Rottman
- From the Front Porch to the Back Seat by Beth L. Bailey (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- Courtship – One Family's Perspective by Tim and Lyndsay Lambert with their son Peter and his wife Rita.
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Taxpayers foot the bill for school buses to charter schools
(Akron) — A newspaper is reporting that taxpayers are largely footing the bill for public school buses that have to drive farther to transport students attending charter schools.
State officials have forced traditional public schools to traverse their cities to pick up and deliver kids to privately run charter schools, often while cutting transportation to their own kids.
The Akron Beacon-Journal analyzed statewide data and determined that it costs about 44 percent more per child to deliver the charter school attendees door to door.
A child attending a traditional public school and transported on a district bus cost on average $4.30 per day in 2012. For a charter-school student, it was $6.18 — or $1.88 more per day.
Since then, 22,000 more kids have been enrolled at the state's charter schools.
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2005 - present
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*Somerset Community College: Laurel Campus - London, KY
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I grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and obtained my B.S. in
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Hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are rolling out the music video to their latest single "White Walls" featuring Schoolboy Q and Hollis.
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Singer Hollis - who performs the song's hook - is also featured in the video. Keeping with the old school theme, Macklemore even enlists Sir Mix-A-Lot for the video.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (PST)
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One of the most important roles of a startup founder is fundraising. In this 1.5 hour Coloft Academy class, LA's very own Dan Gould will share his experience with Startup Fundraising. Should you raise financing? Who should you approach and how should you do it? What are common mistakes and how can you avoid them?
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Pvt. Lopez funeral held in Cleveland
(Cleveland) - Army Specialist Angel Lopez was buried Wednesday.
The 27-year-old was killed Oct. 5 while serving in Afghanistan; he was to return home in 30 days.
Lopez had been stationed in Kentucky where he lived with his wife and children.
Services were held at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church with interment at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery.
In a touching scene, the casket was taken by hand from the funeral home and carried to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church one block away with the Lopez Family and others following behind. A Lone Cleveland Police bagpiper led the way into the church.
The family was escorted from the church by Cleveland Police motorcycle officers, members of the Rolling Thunder Chapter 8 and others.
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I read several articles regarding css as it relates to printing, but several of the articles were contradicting. The following is what I gathered to be important:
Alright, these are things I more or less understand, but when it comes to measurements most of the articles were very much contradictory. Some articles says to use pt, others px, em, then absolute measurements such as inches etc.
So could anyone suggest some best practices for printing?
On a side note...I was looking over compatibility charts and found that page-break-before and page-break-after properties are even supported by IE6. Should I be bothered to make use of these?
Thanks in advance.
Most of the above is true.
When it comes to text size then paper can't be scaled so pts are more appropriate for text but it doesn't really matter as no one will really know the difference and I would leave them at an appropriate pixel size. You can use absolute measurements because on the printed paper they can be rendered accurately unlike a monitor which has relative sizes and an inch doesn't really compute.
You can use the page-break properties on simple structures and they should work ok but printing is something that is not well supported even by the best browsers.
Keep it simple and don't try to be too clever. Remove all floats and all positioning and set auto widths where possible. Most browsers have trouble with tables so keep them narrow and use table headers and footers for printing so that they get printed on each page.
The best method is trial and error as I rarely find that anything works out of the box and varies between browsers considerably. It seems the web wasn't meant to be printed
Yes to pretty much all of that.
Definitely remove background images and colours - a lot of browsers or setups won't print them anyway, and those that do will annoy people by using up all their colour ink and generally making a mess of the page. If you have blocks that you want to highlight, you can use borders instead.
I would agree with setting the general foreground colour to black, but that doesn't mean to say you can't use other colours to pick out headings or other key elements, as long as it isn't too over the top.
Serif fonts are generally thought to be better for blocks of text in print. However, some people prefer to keep the visual consistency for the site by using the same sans-serif font on screen and in print. It's up to you. Personally, I do different things on different sites, depending on the feel of the site, the 'tone' of the fonts, and how much the content is formed of 'large blocks of text'. Where the content is primarily graphic or tabular, I am less likely to use a serif font than when it consists of long paragraphs.
Get rid of as much positioning and dimensioning as possible. Generally you only need dimensions when you are positioning elements with anything other than 'static', so if you are making everything static you generally won't need dimensions. Certainly don't set a width on the main content (or if you do, make it 100%), as different countries use different sized paper (A4 vs Letter) and everyone has different default margins on their printers.
Print stylesheets are the one time you should use pt to size text. If you are setting any dimensions, you may find it easiest to use cm/in (1in = 72pt), it's just easier to visualise the numbers than pt but no different in nature. You can use em any time you would use it on screen. Don't ever use px for printing, it's a screen measurement and doesn't make any sense for print.
Definitely. I would always put page-break-after:avoid; on all <h*> that you are using. You don't necessarily want to be slapping page-break-before around too freely though, you might just end up wasting lots of your visitors' paper if you use it where it isn't necessary. (Note, the only browser I've found that respects table {page-break-inside:avoid;} is Opera).
Other things you can do are to put the title tip of any <abbr> or <acronym> elements you've used after them, and likewise the destination URL of any links, using :after. (You might want to only do that for external links). This doesn't work in IE6 but is a useful extra for everyone else.
In addition to the above, I would say that the idea way of examining how your website will look upon printing is to use the Print Preview component included with most browsers. I'm not sure that I would entirely agree with avoiding the use of color in text because users can override those and choose a black and white print if they so wish too (quite easily), as long as the contrast is done tastefully you should be fine. Regarding font's, you should use PT's, you should ensure the font size used is readable (no tiny text) but as for the debate surrounding serifs vs sans, I think you can use any typeface you like as long as it's readable. Arguably Times New Roman and Georgia are the two which most people default too for printing, but don't feel like you can't be creative with print design - that's not the case at all!
PS: One thing you seem to have omitted which is VERY important... anything non-essential to the page should be hidden entirely (using display:none), the biggest issue with printing documents is the amount of wasted paper and ink, by hiding junk like advertisements, navigation or non-content essential components which are useless on the printed page you can help your visitors be more eco friendly and save them a bundle in printing costs - a very important consideration.
Thanks guys!
However, I have a new doubt now. Should I link main stylesheet as media="screen" and print style as media="print"? But I want other devices to use the main style too. When I link the main style as media="all", most of the things are not following print styles e.g. opera doesn't remove background image even though background was set to none etc..
So what's the best way to link print style?
Well you could just list all the media with comma separated values that you want. However, I usually just prefer to cancel things out with the print stylesheet otherwise you have to re-style it again.
opera doesn't remove background image even though background was set to none etc..
It only does this for the body element because the image is propagated to html so you need to set a background color on the html element.
Also rather saying background:none for the elements just set it to white
That will clear images at the same time and make sure the background is white.
Another doubt! I placed a h* tag right where the page would end to experiment. When I was using page-break-after: avoid; for h* tags, it seems that it only works in opera. In firefox the h* tag is in the last line of the page, but in opera (it was in last line of the page originally) it's next page when used page-break-after: avoid.
Any suggestions? Or firefox doesn't fully supports it?
No I believe avoid is only supported by Opera at the moment (unless it's been added in the very latest releases which I haven't checked yet).
There's something worth mentioning that Paul hasn't yet (which may be useful in aiding your choice). All mobile devices while inconsistent with the handheld media type DO distinguish between print and screen effectively. Every web browser as per the CSS specification will automatically default to "screen" as the primary media type if none is declared or if no appropriate alternative exists. In the case of mobile devices, they will not use your print media sheet or references in preference of screen and will ultimately default to the screen main type you want to display (the print only exists for browsers which support the ability to send pages to a printer - which mobile devices don't tend too). As such, there's no point worrying about the impact of screen + print, it'll work fine on handheld devices.
The page you've linked to implies that it is supported by IE8 as well. A shame it isn't more widely deployed, it's such a useful feature to have.
Sorry - well spotted
Yes a lot of the print stylesheet rules are pretty buggy which is a great shame.
I create a lot of forms that are used in a document imaging system. Some of these forms are quite lengthy. I have to put page breaks in specific locations, as well as adjust print or line size.
I differentiate my print styles with "pr"class="line" and class="prLine"As I read my code, I can quickly tell which styles are used only for print.


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Come cheer on the Rebels as they play the Utah State Aggies!
The Rebels, under second-year head coach Michael Coll, bring back seven starters from last year's team that posted a 12-4-4 mark, including 3-1-3 in league play. The roster boasts three returning all-conference players in senior forward Jenn Wolfe (also an all-region pick in 2012), senior midfielder Courtney Botelho and senior goalkeeper Kylie Wassell.