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Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS), the eighth-largest school system in the country, received a $100 million Gates Foundation Empowering Effective Teachers Grant in 2009. This grant recognized and enhanced the long history of collaboration and pay-for-performance programs in HCPS. According to Hillsborough County Teachers Association (HCTA) President Jean Clements, the HCPS teacher compensation plan will be regarded as "reliable, valid, fair, and easy to understand."
The HCTA, administration, and community have been recognized for their collaboration. In a Boston Consulting Group survey of more than 6,000 teachers and 500 school administrators, HCPS demonstrated extraordinary levels of employee engagement, with scores in the top quartile of all benchmark organizations. Both teachers and administrators attribute their success as a district to a high degree of trust, collaboration, and engagement.
HCPS is in the midst of a seven-year initiative focused and driven by a student outcome goal: 90 percent or more of students in HCPS will be ready for college or a career upon graduating. Recognizing that teachers are essential to this goal, HCPS has implemented:
- An intensive two-year induction program with expert mentors on full-release to mentor and evaluate new teachers;
- An evaluation, developed with educational consultant Charlotte Danielson, that is developmental in that it helps professionals continuously improve. Teachers are formally observed three to 12 times per year. Teachers' evaluations are based on multiple measures:
- 30 percent on a mentor/peer rating;
- 30 percent on a principal rating;
- 40 percent on student learning gains;
- A new value-added measure developed with the University of Wisconsin, based on state assessments and semester exams.
Performance based on student learning and multiple evaluations, in addition to advanced roles for teachers, will determine tenure decisions, compensation, and support. HCPS will frequently extend the non-tenured "apprentice" period for teachers from three to four years to establish at least three years of student learning data. Additionally, all teachers will have the ability to earn higher salaries much earlier in their careers. After three to five years, exceptional new teachers will be able to earn as much as teachers in their 20th year currently earn.
In a September 26, 2010, opinion piece in the Tampa Tribune, HCPS Superintendent MaryEllen Elia explained what her administration is attempting to do with teachers. "(We are) designing a comprehensive plan that makes increased student achievement the centerpiece of everything we do."
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Former California men's tennis player and team captain Tyler Browne is in his sixth season as the assistant coach for the Golden Bears. He was elevated from his duties as an undergraduate student assistant and hired on Aug. 11, 2008.
Browne joined the Golden Bears with a year of experience under his belt as an active undergraduate assistant with the team, helping Cal to a 13-11 overall record, and fourth place in the Pac-10 conference with a 4-3 mark. In 2008, the Bears received a bid to the NCAA tournament for the eighth consecutive season, and advanced to the second round.
As a player, Browne posted a 72-59 overall singles record and added 46 doubles victories in four years on the court. He was ranked as high as No. 56 in singles and No. 12 in doubles with partner Conor Niland. As a junior, he was selected to the 2006 All-Pac-10 team and received honorable mention in 2007. Browne served as the team captain during the 2006-07 season and was an active member of the Bear Student-Athlete Advisory Council.
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I absolutely loved this book. It was the first James Patterson book I've ever read and I<m really looking forward to reading all the other books in that series. Also, I'm so happy about the 12th one coming out this year!
I really liked how creepy the killer was, and I think this book is great if you don't pay too much attention to details. Throughout the book I found little plot holes and situation developments that didn't make a lot of sense, but that didn't bug me too much.The last little bit of it though, made entire chapters of the novel make no sense, that ruined it all for me.
First of the Women's Murder Club series with Lindsay Boxer, a kick-butt homicide inspector. Fast story, interesting characters, and a terrifying killer. All James Patterson's formula.
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I enjoyed this book. I am not a big fan of James Patterson, but I think I am going to enjoy this series. The book kept you guessing and I liked the ending.
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|Hi All,
I've been doing this and notice others are too. I'm pasting my new standardized posting so that I don't have to keep typing it...and so you can use it too (feel free to modify).
I'm including links to the member's original Rating Thread, and also instructions for how to do a search. Chemocurl, I noticed your rerouting posts sound less dry than mine... I'm thinking that if we add this "how to search" in addition to an original-ratings-found-here link, we might slowly be able "weed out" this duplication problem. It may be a longshot, but...
I've found that one member's rating post I had rerouted has alread gotten another new thread started again (now Ibartoo has 3)...so there are enough people who are not doing searches, and if gardenweb can't fix it maybe we can :)
The post I'm currently using is below, I know it's stiff, but I hope to keep it instructional/direct. Comments welcome, we can make a nice hybrid if we want to all us the same one:
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I did notice that when one does a search that the Original thread will be the first one listed, then followed by other threads with that member name in the subject line, then followed by others that the member has started or replied to, or that is mentioned in one of the generic group reviews.
I have felt like kind of a busy body (again) referring to the original thread, but have only done it with a few...mostly folks I know or that I have traded with myself...or a few baddies joining under numerous member names.
|Hi Sue!
I'd like to think of it as "administrative tendancies" instead of busy-body-ness :)
What if we used the one you have posted as the reroute on new threads, and come up with an instructional version too (like mine, but without the reroute parts). We can post it at the top of the main page -- with a request for no responses to it. we can route anyone who wants to help with the tweeking to come to this thread here to help discuss. And for any revision, we just add a post to get the earlier one bumped down....and if anyone posts there and bumps it anyway, we just repost.
Just to keep a "Hey, read this before you post!" guide right at the top of the page :) could help lots of people, and keep things more consolidated.
Watta ya (and everyone else) think?
|It seems that maybe the newer members are the ones not familiar with doing a search, so I posted to a few threads. Hopefully the OP will see my reply, and not be offended, but instead enlightened.
Here is what I used...but I really think lots of wording is fine...just so long as we get some rerouted sometimes.
Other great reviews for ddkcat can be found at the original review thread.
Per the instructions:
Please post new reviews to the link below to the original thread.
Then I included a link to the Original review thread for member JOHNDOE
Keeping a thread totally at the top just won't work...though hopefully 'near the top' as Remy's is will at least help some.
Regeardless of what is posted where, there will still be some members who either won't see it or read it.
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|Sue, I think those posts are great. Nice wording to boot.
I have to admit, I've rerouted a bunch of new threads recently for my screenname, but have less steam for rerouting the others. Will keep an eye on Remys help thread and, as you said, hopefully it'll stay near the top.
It might never be perfect, but at least this forum is a great thing overall.
Lol! You've cut your name down to just bb Sue! I love you being the resident busy body : )
|Well, am I over the top on this? I saw a new thread started. The member (Janedoe we'll say) already had one or more threads under her name.
I did copying of the instructions thingy, and then asked that all future reviews be posted to the 'original' review thread....and provided the link.
Then I went to the 'original' one and copied and pasted the review from the new thread, that can then be deleted, or drop off at page 67 sometime in the future...whatever.
I know it might not matter too much what drops off, as the very oldest ones I'm guessing are no longer active traders, but for those that are active, I hate to see some of their reviews drop off because of them being spread over 2,3, 5, or 10 threads.
Speaking of numerous review threads, I wonder just who have the most threads started for them. Anyone?
Also...I think it best to direct them to the 'original' thread unless the name is mispelled (as Remy found one to be the other day) or unless the original one has a lot fewer reviews than a more recent one. Clear as mud? Thoughts?
Sue...who may be going over the top...think?
|WOW! I wish I had read this a couple months ago.... LOL.... Oooops...
I didn't even know that there was a conversation side to this forum as well. I had figured it out at the Seed Exchange, but not here until just recently. They really should make that link different and bigger so you realize it's another related forum...
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MGM goes forward on 'Cabin in Woods' and 'Red Dawn' redo
Parent also is pushing forward MGM's "Red Dawn" remake. The studio has just hired screenwriter Carl Ellsworth to recraft the ultimate homeland invasion story for a new generation of besieged high schoolers. Dan Bradley, a second unit director and/or stunt coordinator on "The Bourne Ultimatum," "Spider-Man 3" and the forthcoming "Quantum of Solace," is moving into the director's chair on the update. Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson of Contrafilm, whose "Journey to the Center of the Earth" opens Friday, will produce.
Much of the industry has been tracking the Lion's moves with anticipation as Parent, former vice chairman of Universal Pictures, began acquiring executives and material at an accelerated clip during the past few months. While such projects as "Fame," "The Thomas Crown Affair 2," "The Zookeeper" and "RoboCop" have been whispering on the trade winds, the Whedon-Goddard project suddenly became Project No. 1.
"It feels great," said Parent, talking excitedly about a possible fall start date. "It feels really good. It just came in and it was ready to go.
"It was just very fateful," she added. "I couldn't have coordinated it. It just happened. There's other stuff that's percolating, but this just felt great. Honestly, it's one of the most clever and original scripts I've ever read. And I love them. You put the two of them together and it's kind of a dream come true."
Goddard, repped by UTA, and Whedon, repped by CAA, first worked together on Whedon's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" TV series. Goddard has since written for "Angel," "Alias" and "Lost," on which he also is a producer.
"This has to be considered the dream scenario for a first-time director," Goddard said. "I get to make a movie with my best friend at a studio that's shown us nothing but aggressive love from the start. This script is very near and dear to my heart — I can't wait to step behind the camera and mess up all the parts Joss wrote."
Said Whedon: "The new MGM is the perfect place for Drew to do the kind of work I know he can do. Except for when I'm subtly sabotaging him because I'm jealous of his talent and height."
Whedon and Parent have their own history. They worked together on "Serenity," which Whedon wrote and directed for Universal. And Parent is the producer on "Goners," a secretive Whedon script that Universal bought in 2005.
The "Cabin in the Woods" plot line remains equally murky, and efforts to provoke a description from Parent were met with resistance.
"Yeah, right," Parent deadpanned. "I'll be shot. I've got like 12,000 online people outside. They've got me under pain or punishment, I'm not allowed to discuss. It's an intense visceral thrill ride and I'll leave it at that. It was everything you would have hoped with the two of them."
Parent and MGM chairman and CEO Harry Sloan announced the "Red Dawn" remake — along with a big-budget rebuild of "RoboCop," which director Darren Aronofsky among others has recently been in to discuss — in May at the Festival de Cannes. As the studio regroups, its executives have realized that they also can exploit the numerous classic and cult properties in the strong MGM library for a new audience. (Parent seems equally willing to take risks on such freshman directors as Goddard and Bradley.)
The original "Dawn" was the Cold War brainchild of writer-director John Milius, who devised a World War III invasion of America by the Soviets and Cubans.
"The tone is going to be very intense, very much keeping in mind the post-9/11 world that we're in," Ellsworth said. "As 'Red Dawn' scared the heck out of people in 1984, we feel that the world is kind of already filled with a lot of paranoia and unease, so why not scare the hell out of people again?"
Ellsworth is repped by ICM and the Shuman Co. Bradley also is with ICM.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post4786485779742191332..comments2014-12-20T16:00:57.132-05:00Comments on The Kill Zone: Don't Belabor Your ProseJoe Moorehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-73857767582993284932014-09-04T10:20:11.310-04:002014-09-04T10:20:11.310-04:00A normal writer would be too embarrassed to admit ...A normal writer would be too embarrassed to admit this, but this was my biggest mistake when I started out as a writer!
My first romance novel Mr. Mysterious in Black is the epitome of what you described. I didn't have a lot of guidance starting out, and the "belaboring" of my prose was a result from one, overediting (not thinking my work was good enough) and two bad literary advice from an editor/author who told me my prose was too "common-speak" . (<--i paid close to $1000 for that, because back then I knew nothing about beta readers.)

Her advice had me doctering every single sentence in that book to make it less "common-speak". Even more overediting. The result was a book loaded with pretentious words as I was lead to believe that's what was "acceptable" in the literary world.

It's the biggest complaint from readers who got their hands on that book. They love the story, but the writing a big turn off. The Goodreads page from that book is a disaster!

Ironically, even though this book of mine is the one with most flaws, one stars and DNFs, it IS my best selling book. Crazy, right? None of my other books sells half as good as that faulty one.

 Therefore, I am in the processing of revamping it, going back the original "common-speak".

I have learned. I have grown. I am not ashamed to admit to my mistakes and failures.

Great article! Wish I has this advice back then!

S. Ann Colehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-40143137646403336322014-09-02T12:23:43.788-04:002014-09-02T12:23:43.788-04:00LOL! I love that, Diane! :)LOL! I love that, Diane! :)Jodie Rennerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-51591728333382494242014-09-02T11:13:32.536-04:002014-09-02T11:13:32.536-04:00PJ--please ask your friend why the upper classes a...PJ--please ask your friend why the upper classes are so attached to the following: actually, quite, brilliant, keen on, jolly, splendid--that's enough. I envy you your Brit friend, and yes, it's much different "over there." For years, I read the London Review of Books and The Observer, but it can be truly "another language" when you listen to working-class dialects--there's where your friend is crucial.Barry Knisterhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-12997937574883758842014-09-02T09:30:28.216-04:002014-09-02T09:30:28.216-04:00Sometimes when I'm reading, my internal though...Sometimes when I'm reading, my internal thoughts kick in, "Look, I don't care how smart you are. I'm trying to read your story."Diane Carlislehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-19499612761501404302014-09-01T23:59:40.422-04:002014-09-01T23:59:40.422-04:00"Unnecessary" or "Is this (word or ..."Unnecessary" or "Is this (word or information) necessary?" is a great editing question to pose at every turn. Extra "stuff" is a drag on the reader. Next thing you know, you're dragging out your old pet peeves and throwing in annoying little wisecracks and witticisms, a la Donald Rumsfeld. You just get carried away with yourself. I've been editing and deleting all day long today and am still wondering how all these gems got into my WIP.Adam Jameshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-11633165572866136992014-09-01T20:06:29.829-04:002014-09-01T20:06:29.829-04:00Thanks Jodie! I think sometimes it's way to ea...Thanks Jodie! I think sometimes it's way to easy to lose sight of the story and to get so hung up on affecting a particular style that it starts to overwhelm what would otherwise be a pretty simple premise! I try very hard not to fall into this trap myself - but I probably only succeed 50% of the time:) It's a constant learning process!Clarehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-80522904257789488762014-09-01T20:03:51.470-04:002014-09-01T20:03:51.470-04:00Can't go wrong with the KISS method!Can't go wrong with the KISS method!Clarehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-72017672051206427932014-09-01T20:03:26.577-04:002014-09-01T20:03:26.577-04:00Totally agree - and look at Orwell. He is simple a...Totally agree - and look at Orwell. He is simple and precise and his prose is all the more amazing for it.Clarehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-78272674438997528762014-09-01T20:02:50.718-04:002014-09-01T20:02:50.718-04:00Exactly - once or twice maybe but more than that a...Exactly - once or twice maybe but more than that and it gets tiresome looking a word up!Clarehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-67196699256026631102014-09-01T18:20:34.145-04:002014-09-01T18:20:34.145-04:00Barry, I have a running email dialogue with a Brit...Barry, I have a running email dialogue with a Brit friend of mine...every time I run across one of those weird Brit-isms, I get him to explain it to me. It is truly like reading another language at time. PJ Parrishhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-45012936520849476312014-09-01T18:15:23.907-04:002014-09-01T18:15:23.907-04:00Excellent post, Clare, and I love how your title w...Excellent post, Clare, and I love how your title works with Labor Day - so clever! Like Jim with his mastodons and tar pits yesterday! And you both had similar messages - don't clutter up your story unnecessarily. Don't get in the way of the story. Some authors forget that it's all about the reader - or should be!

I would add the same message on the level of sentences and paragraphs. So many of my clients use long, convoluted sentences which I help them simplify so their message is more powerful. And others clutter up their paragraphs with extra, repetitive sentences that need to be cut out. Many of the chapters in my Fire up Your Fiction focus on ways to streamline sentences to write tighter, for an easier, smoother flow of ideas - and to let the message shine through clearly, with more power.Jodie Rennerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-4475216484856469282014-09-01T16:28:44.427-04:002014-09-01T16:28:44.427-04:00Sheryl-- Any teacher who improved your grade for t...Sheryl--
Any teacher who improved your grade for tarting up your essays with thesaurus "enhancements" is a loser. Please go back to your school and say just that. Barry Knisterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-60522811049402221552014-09-01T16:19:39.135-04:002014-09-01T16:19:39.135-04:00In public school, I got high marks for my essays b...In public school, I got high marks for my essays because once I'd written them, I pulled out the thesaurus and replaced the simple words with fancier ones. ( groan now!)

That doesn't work in fiction, and I think one reason is that by using words you don't use in your every day language (oral or written), you're actually not allowing your own voice to shine.

A second reason words gleaned from a thesaurus often don't work is that the writer is focused too much on a single word, rather than the other elements of the sentence...rhythm, for example. Often the solution is not the word but the whole sentence. By searching for a single word, you've got blinders on, and you don't think outside of the box to find a better way to express the idea.
Sherylhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-44779161256478695112014-09-01T16:10:13.707-04:002014-09-01T16:10:13.707-04:00James Scott Bell is right in reminding us that fai...James Scott Bell is right in reminding us that failure to know your reader, in particular his/her language skills is probably disastrous. If I set out to write genre fiction for the widest possible audience, I better come to terms with that audience's basic makeup.
I have to be careful about this: I want to be read by the general reader, but my background is academic. I also happen to fancy (there's a giveaway usage if ever there was one) certain British writers who are in the habit of using fancy lingo for satirical purposes. Say for instance a deadpan, high-culture discussion of a Sly Stallone movie. But this style is not going to fly for the audience I'm trying to reach. The challenge is to develop stories that are accessible, and that I'm proud of.Barry Knisterhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-52816936658404986132014-09-01T15:17:36.886-04:002014-09-01T15:17:36.886-04:00I'm a newbie fiction writer. I dislike long, f...I'm a newbie fiction writer. I dislike long, flowery, poetic, stuffed shirt descriptions. Guess that is what 'literary' means. If the first paragraph doesn't pull me into the story, I'm gone and cursing the money I spent. Writers who write like that should stick to poetry, not prose.

I like writing that uses the KISS method -- keep it simple stupid. Perhaps that is because I am a slow reader, I relish every word. donageneralhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-40450766787925148912014-09-01T15:16:05.388-04:002014-09-01T15:16:05.388-04:00Ooops. Macdonald. As in, Ross.Ooops. Macdonald. As in, Ross.Jim Thomsenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-34696667797125356202014-09-01T15:00:31.121-04:002014-09-01T15:00:31.121-04:00This is doubly obnoxious because there are so many...This is doubly obnoxious because there are so many ways to demonstrate style without demonstrating the stretch of your vocabulary. The greatest crime-fiction stylists — Chandler, Jim Thompson, Westlake, Donald Parker, Paretsky, Child, MacDonald, Mcadonald, etc. — establish distinctive voices within plain prose.

Like they say, it ain't so much what you got as how you use what you got.Jim Thomsenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-35997323751393254492014-09-01T13:51:02.539-04:002014-09-01T13:51:02.539-04:00I love this post because I always feel like I need...I love this post because I always feel like I need to raise the level of vocabulary, when in fact, my characters don't use big 'pretentious' words, so why should I. I want to be off the page, and let my characters tell the story. I will admit to liking that my e-reader has a built-in dictionary so I can press a word and get the definition, but if I'm doing that more than once or twice in a book, then it's losing me. Terry Odellhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-45022238223148596892014-09-01T13:14:17.658-04:002014-09-01T13:14:17.658-04:00I'm also an offender on word usage and rely on...I'm also an offender on word usage and rely on my beta readers and agent to tell me when I'm being too self indulgent or appearing to be (as you say) a smarty pants:)Clarehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-78937193105162529482014-09-01T13:11:28.991-04:002014-09-01T13:11:28.991-04:00Love that review! And yes, I think it is all about...Love that review! And yes, I think it is all about the story - rather than some kind of attempt to impress that can certainly leave a 'sour taste'!
Clarehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-86957984798679695752014-09-01T13:09:07.147-04:002014-09-01T13:09:07.147-04:00Good question Steve. I think you just have to achi...Good question Steve. I think you just have to achieve a balance, so it sounds like an era but isn't so stiff or alienating that modern readers find it a slog. I think it's also a question of style - you can evoke a past era and yet still have a flow/style that doesn't seem old-fashioned or dull:) Using certain words or phrases sparingly can keep the period feel without stopping a reader in their tracks.Clarehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-77247323935590512372014-09-01T13:06:49.318-04:002014-09-01T13:06:49.318-04:00Good point - an occasional choice word that makes ...Good point - an occasional choice word that makes a reader ponder is one thing but a vocal lesson requiring a dictionary beside the bed is quite another!
Clarehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-23934155743114622652014-09-01T13:05:54.896-04:002014-09-01T13:05:54.896-04:00I don't mind a book that taxes my brain vocal ...I don't mind a book that taxes my brain vocal wise but only if it's worth it in terms of progressing and enhancing the story. It's when it's just there for some kind of pretension that I get irritated! Clarehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-19856869065455629012014-09-01T12:02:09.571-04:002014-09-01T12:02:09.571-04:00We all recall what Sir Aurthur Quiller-Couch said ...We all recall what Sir Aurthur Quiller-Couch said about style. I have to admit I am guilty of using the six-bit words when a two-bit word would work as well. I really talkk like that. I shouldn't, but I do. A reporter once changed my quote, substituting a shorter word for a phrase I'd used. When I complained, she said, "Oh, nobody really talks like that." It's my wife's biggest complaint when reading my WIP. She keeps me from being too smarty pants. John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baurhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430862590333307596.post-48292290703100953022014-09-01T09:30:58.727-04:002014-09-01T09:30:58.727-04:00I won't name names, but I recently put aside a...I won't name names, but I recently put aside a book because I kept hearing the writer instead of the story. I don't mean "voice" -- that is something subtle and powerful from a great writer. What I mean is that this writer, who is a darling of the critics in our genre, was trying hard to impress with what I suspect she/he figured were sophisticated narrative skills and structure. But it was all flash and gas, written in neon: "Look at me!"

Yesterday, I read an excellent review of David Mitchell's "The Bone Clocks" in the NYT book review. The reviewer called Mitchell (who wrote "Cloud Atlas") a "maximalist." A great turn of phrase to describe a writer whose novels are dense with words and strange and challenging structures. But the reviewer noted that despite Mitchell's gymnastics, he never loses sight of his commitment to grand storytelling.

The reviewer wrote that his books, "never give off the sour taste or intellectualism of a lot of virtuoso fiction."

Bingo. "Virtuoso fiction." Lord save us all from it.
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Historically, scientists believed methyl groups could only stick to a particular DNA sequence: a cytosine followed by a guanine, called CpG. But in recent years, they have been found on other sequences, and so-called non-CpG methylation has been found in stem cells, and in neurons in the brain.
Now, a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins has discovered that non-CpG methylation occurs later and more dynamically in neurons than previously appreciated, and that it acts as a system of gene regulation, which can be independent of traditional CpG methylation.
In a study described in the January 28 issue of Nature Neuroscience, the Hopkins team describes this new gene control mechanism and how it may contribute to Rett Syndrome, a nervous system disorder affecting mostly girls that causes problems with movement and communication.
The team, led by Hongjun Song, Ph.D., professor of neurology and director of Johns Hopkins Medicine's Institute for Cell Engineering's Stem Cell Program, had found non-CpG methylation prevalent in neurons, a finding that surprised them, since this wasn't found in any other cells besides stem cells.
By looking at what genes were being transcribed in neurons, he and his colleagues found that, like the form of methylation scientists had seen in stem cells, non-CpG methylation stops genes from being expressed. They also mapped the genome to find where non-CpG methylation happens, and found that it carves out its own niche, and are distributed in regions without CpG methlyation. "That was the first hint that maybe it can function independently of CpG methylation," Song says.
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Thank you.
My name is Rico. When I was in college I was designing for a lot strippers and it actually have paid my way through school. I've turned with my hustle into a profession into a career.
All I know this was a red tag suit and a long feather shooting out.
Merlin, do you know any magic tricks?
At least up here people want my wands.
Hi everybody. I'm Johnny Dei. I design men suits. Today I'm wearing a tuxedo based after the King, Elvis.
And you are?
Laura, I'm Rico.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too.
Hi guys. What's going on?
I'm Keith. Hey.
Hey Keith what's up?
Keith. Hey.
Hey guys. My name is Shawny. I'm 26 years old. I went to fashion school and dropped out and started developing my own 2 lines of app. I definitely think that I'm different than the other designers because I'm hell better. Seriously.
I'm Haven.
Right here darling.
Thank you.
Now it's great.
I'm going over here.
You are?
I'm Rico.
I went to Central Saint Martins in London, the best fashion school in the world.
Hi. I'm Angel.
I'm a little bit of designer. I worked with heat-sensitive inks and UV activated inks at a pier and the sunlight.
I'm Daniella.
Hi Daniella.
And I went to the London College of Fashion. I've just graduated. I design what I would love to see myself becoming, the strong edgy men's wear inspired but still really sexy woman.
I'm Andrew.
Hi Andrew.
I'm an underwear designer.
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Bridhaven nursing home in Mallow, County Cork, became the only nursing homes in Europe to be awarded a prestigious accreditation in recent weeks. This acknowledged the level of care and innovation at the home. We'll be joined shortly by owner Paul Rochford, Brian O'Connell visited the home in recent days and met some of the residents and staff. Sean spoke to Brian O'Connell and Paul Rochford, Managing Director and owner Bridhaven Nursing Home.http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-sean-o-rourke/programmes/2013/0930/477291-today-with-sean-o-rourke-monday-30-september-2013/?clipid=1321660


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Open Black History Month Thread
Some starter links for positive discussions on outstanding people and events, and thoughts on the annual "bbbbut wheeeen is White History Month?!?" tantrum-throwers....read more
Today in racist body policing
Many of you will have already read about Orlando student Vanessa VanDyke being threatened with expulsion from her private Christian school for wearing her hair exactly as it grows out of her head. There is the predictable pushback in online forums about how the school's way of (not) dealing with racist bullying in their student body by body-policing the natural features of an African-American girl is not really any sort of racially discriminatory double standard – please use this thread to expound upon exactly how insulting that nonsense is....read more
On defending (and failing to defend) Quvenzhané Wallis
Numerous blogs have noted the silence among many white, mainstream feminist sites about the horrible treatment of Quvenzhané Wallis at the Oscars. And they're right. I had stuff planned out, and then I looked at so many other posts going up that said Holy shit, can you believe that happened? That's not okay at all in ways far more eloquent than I, and then went on to say far more poignant and intelligent stuff than I'd think to say, and I felt mine was redundant. That's a seriously fucked up way of thinking.
Here's what I should have said....read more
What Racism Looks Like
As usual, Ta-Nehisi Coates is correct, and cuts right through the standard rhetoric to truth:
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In modern America we believe racism to be the property of the uniquely villainous and morally deformed, the ideology of trolls, gorgons and orcs. We believe this even when we are actually being racist. In 1957, neighbors in Levittown, Pa., uniting under the flag of segregation, wrote: "As moral, religious and law-abiding citizens, we feel that we are unprejudiced and undiscriminating in our wish to keep our community a closed community."
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It's the bungalow with the begging door. The one with the wooden Adirondack chairs out front, the chairs strewn with cushions swimming in a fish print. You know the house, or its type: cozy, easy, relaxed. The one with the door that's always open or, if closed, fairly begs you to knock on it to ask permission to sit, for just a minute maybe, to feel the porch love.
But the problem here is obvious. It's not just that door. The county abounds with doors that beg to be opened, porches that beg to be sat on. Houses that beg to be invited into.
It's that time of year, of course. The time when almost everybody is having someone else or a slew of someone elses over for drinks, brunch, football food, holiday dinner, dessert, before-that-thing-we-have-to-do breakfast and Thanksgiving leftovers.
And the door is the first thing that greets visitors to our homes. Aside from the invitation you sent, it's your howdy and your first impression. It counts.
We sent a photographer out to scour Orange County for beautiful doors. He found a gregarious Georgian, a come-on-in Craftsman, a flirty farmhouse, a touchable Tuscan and a pleasant post-modern.
So welcome to the season of open doors and open hearts. Here's hoping you get a few ideas to make your own door a little more you, your porch a little more sit-worthy and your first impression a little more what you want it to be.
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Is there such a thing as a good luck prayer? Looking to God to bring us luck in our lives is actually a common thing. We turn to God with prayers of guidance and love and strength, should we not turn to God for good luck?
Now the good luck prayer we are talking about here is not the one to win the lottery! This type of prayer is to bring good luck for ourselves or others in a new venture or opportunity in our lives. It is the type of luck we are looking for once we've taken action to better our lives.
Again like with most things in prayer, we need to be grateful for what we have in life already. Being thankful to God for providing us with what we already have will help our good luck prayer. Gratitude and acceptance is the first step to changing our lives.
A prayer for good luck is very similar to a prayer for hope or a prayer for change. It is asking God to intercede and change our fortunes. Usually we are asking for this at a time of great change in our lives.
When we go through great changes in our lives, or take on new responsibilities, we sometimes need guidance and luck from God. Looking for guidance and for good luck from God in a new adventure is not an uncommon thing.
When I am praying for good luck, I like to talk to God about what I've done and to try and make my new venture succeed. For example, when I created this blog and the one at http://prayersofthefaithful.net, I said a good luck prayer to God. I explained what I was doing and what I was trying to achieve. In the prayer I identified the things I had done in preparation, as well as what I was going to do. I asked God to bring me good luck with my new blog.
In looking to get good luck with new ventures, I like to think that God looks favourably on those ventures that help and serve people. Websites like http://prayerforprotection.net/ and this fantastic Prayer to St Jude site are example of this. Helping and serving others is one of the foundation principles of Christianity. God will look with favour on a good luck prayer when it's helping others.
Good luck prayer for a new venture
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Glad it is working!
I think the silver anti-bacterial ointment is doing the trick! My toes feel TONS better this morning, and look quite a bit better as well. I slathered on more before donning my socks and will put on more after work and after my shower tonight! So glad I got it. I usually Google "natural remedies" for whatever issue I'm having to see how legitimate they seem, based on my accumulated Primal know-how. Wrapping in clean bandages with tea tree oil and using ointment with silver (which has anti-microbial properties) were recommended. Seemed worth a shot. Maybe I'll do another epsom salt soak with tea tree oil this evening and put the ointment on after.
I was at work last night until almost 8PM after coming back from Boyfriend's appointment. 2 hrs of overtime FTW. I'll do my full update in a bit, just wanted to mention this now because we ordered pizza last night. It's no help to my gut, but I needed a break. While waiting at CVS for Boyfriend's prescription on my way home, I realized I just couldn't deal with food. We got some 3-topping meaty pizza from Dominos. It was salty, which was nice, but otherwise meh. Whatever, it was fuel, and that's all I wanted. I'd rather save my sushi for a GOOD night. Chicken is ready and waiting if Boyfriend doesn't want to order out again tonight and I think, being Friday, I'll have the energy to deal with it.
Glad it is working!
Okay, update time.
sleeeepppyyy but adrenaline is keeping me going. Don't know if that's good or bad.
Gut is kinda fucked. I need a week of good eats to get this bitch back in line. Resolve is kind of weak right now. I feel pretty good about most things (this very moment), but really like, "What's the fucking use?" about my gut problems. Why can't I poop regularly without intervention?!!??! No idea when the SIBO test results will be back. It hasn't even been a week yet.
The ring is ready!!! <3 <3 <3 Boyfriend said he'll come with me to pick it up tomorrow. I have been thinking more about all the stress I'm under at work, his broken foot, mortality (specifically, my grandmother's) and I need to talk to him about all that. I feel right now that I don't want to wait more than a month or two for official engagement. Life is too precious and I am impatient. I may just need a week to wind down from all this work crap, but I'll let him know where my head is at, anyway.
BTW, the doc he saw for his foot yesterday called his foot doc, and the foot doc said there's basically no way he re-broke it (he was just sitting when it started to hurt really badly). It's feeling better today. So, we'll keep babying it and pray that 3 weeks from now, he can take off the cast .
I didn't bring lunch today. The adrenaline from keeping busy and stress is keeping me from getting very hungry, though I was around 11 AM (had eggs and a bowl of cereal this morning, probably too much sugar). I've had almost 27 oz of water today (from my Klean Kanteen) and should really aim for another full bottle.
My day is over in about 2.5 hrs. I don't think the printer issues I'm dealing with at work are going to get fixed in that time frame, so things are winding down to a reasonable roar and I can relax a little. But not too much or I might fall asleep or collapse.
TMI/Body: My boobs, guys, my boobs! I will stop talking about them when they either go back to normal or I get used to them being bigger. Actually fitting into a 34A (but not most, just the smaller brands) is crazzzyyy. This sudden change coincides with me taking the EC, but we're also both (me and Boyfriend, not me and my boobs) a little worried that it could be pregnancy. He keeps forgetting that he's already asked me if I've taken a test yet. I was going to wait until next week, when I was originally supposed to start shark week, but I might take one this weekend and take another next week, if I need to, to be absolutely sure =\. Hate stressing about this.
There's no harm in taking one now. The wondering is hard.
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It took more time than just a few days after I got pregnant for my boobs to expand. It could just be because the vitex has fixed your hormones. How long ago did you take the EC?
I might look into Vitex. Maca isn't help my libido... do you take vitex everyday or only on certain days of your cycle?
Unless you're dead set (or he is) on a special proposal, why can't he do it tonight? It doesn't have to be mind-blowingly romantic. It's not like you don't know it's coming... and it's not like it's a story that comes up in every day conversation, you know? if you didn't know it was going to happen, it would be different - like if he was surprising you with a ring and all, but you know what it looks like and you know he has it, so no surprise there!
Glad the new treatment for your foot is working. I hope boyfriend's foot starts to feel better soon.
Oh, and from experience, pregnancy tests work within 10 days of ovulation... so if you know how long your cycle is, you can be relatively sure when you ovulate - usually 10-12 days before the start of shark week. I learned about both of my pregnancies within 10 and 7 days after ovulation (I was a tracker - tracking temps, cervical mucous, etc - that's how we got pregnant in the first month both times we tried to get pregnant. I can tell you the date and time of when we got pregnant... obsess much? lol)
The EC was taken the evening of 1/14. If for whatever reason I'd gotten knocked up 72 hrs prior to taking it (incident in question was 24 hrs prior to taking it), still could've gotten pregnant since it's not effective after 72 hrs, or not as effective. I'm sure I'll track ovulation when we start planning/trying for offspring, so I don't actually know when I ovulate now. If I ovulate 7-10 days before shark week, that would've been in the middle of this week, but the soreness and size has been increasing for the past couple of weeks.
I think I will take the test tomorrow AM.
Maybe I don't need the Vitex anymore, but I didn't have soreness or anything like this when I tried the higher dose.
My doc told me to take Vitex everyday for my low progesterone. She said to re-test in a few months, so I'll probably wait until I have a full cycle after the EC so that doesn't throw things off (a couple more months, then).
Proposal: I think I'd like him to do something special, so I'm okay with tightening in the time frame (because it was anywhere up to 6 months when he mentioned he had a few ideas that need significant planning), but not making it too soon so that he can't arrange/afford something. Baba is not in the best of health, she gets worse every year and practically every month now. I think we could risk a few months, but anything beyond that and I worry that she won't be with us anymore. She's still living at home, at least, but I don't think she'd let anyone put her anywhere else.
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I might look into the vitex. Do you think it would be a bad idea to take it without getting tested?
Hmm.... I don't know. I've definitely taken plenty of supplements without any test to say whether I should or not. I am erring more on the side of caution nowadays, but I still take chances plenty.
For $5-10, I think it's worth trying for a month or two. I'd suggest just taking one capsule daily for the first month, try two if that doesn't seem to do anything. I increased by one capsule every week or two after the first month and hit the high libido point about 2-3 weeks in, at 3 or 4 capsules daily. I backed off over the course of another 2 weeks down to one again, and that seems to be a good level for me, in terms of energy, and not wanting to throw caution to the wind and make babies now haha.


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On Thursday, February 13th around 8:15a.m. officers with the Henry County Sheriff's Office, Henry County/Abbeville Criminal Investigative Unit, Headland Police Department, and the Alabama State Troopers responded to a report of a robbery on County Road 20 near Headland, AL.
Upon officers arrival they found that a 62-year-old female had been attacked by two male suspects identified as 30-year-old Russel Dee of Taylor who was armed with a 9mm handgun and 29-year-old Christopher Lee McWhorter aka "Smiley", of Dothan who was armed with a stun gun. McWhorter is reported to have discharged the stun gun in his pocket striking himself before attacking the victim.
The investigation was led off by a call from a concerned citizen who observed a suspicious vehicle driving in the area and called in the tag number. Additional tips from the community led to the location of the suspects who had fled to Dothan and were ultimately located by officers with the Dothan Police Department and the Houston County Sheriff's Office. Weaver was located at the Knights Inn and McWhorter was located at the Quality Inn on the Ross Clark Circle.
During the investigation the suspects were also linked to a burglary that had occurred on Highway 134 East near County Road 15. This burglary occurred shortly before the County Road 20 Incident. This burglary is being investigated by the Headland Police Department with the assistance of the Henry County/Abbeville Criminal Investigative Unit.
31-year-old Sarah Melia West, of Rehobeth was also arrested and charged with her involvement in the planning and assistance in the Burglaries as well as the Robbery. She is charged with Conspiracy to commit Robbery 1st Degree, Conspiracy to commit Burglary in the 1st and Conspiracy to commit Burglary in the 2nd Degree. During the search for the suspects involved three other individuals were taken into custody but were later released after it was determined that they had no direct involvement in the incidents in Henry County.
Currently all the suspects are being held in the Henry County Jail without bond pending a bond hearing on Tuesday, February at 2 p.m.
McWorther and Weaver's bonds were set today totaling 1.8 million. Sarah West bonds were set totaling 750 thousand
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The destructive Beet Army Worm pest outbreak took place periodically from 2009 – 2011 in the Flagaman, Pispah and surrounding districts of St. South Elizabeth affecting both onion and escallion farmers. Despite numerous attempts to control the outbreak, there was
Advisory to the Farming Community: The Beet Armyworm in St. Elizabeth
This serves as an advisory specifically for onion and escallion farmers in South St. Elizabeth. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and RADA in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations have implemented a project targeting
In recognition of the need to achieve self-sufficiency in the production of Irish Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum), the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has spearheaded a National Irish Potato Production Programme to ensure that there is increased production which will directly


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Carhartt have a strong reputation of producing quality workwear inspired pieces, adapted to suit a casual everyday look. This size? Exclusive soft cotton mix sweatshirt from the brand comes in navy blue and features a soft fleece backing for extra comfort and warmth, a ribbed crew neck, hem and cuffs, plus large printed Carhartt Academy branding on the front. DUE TO BRAND RESTRICTIONS WE ARE UNABLE TO SHIP CARHARTT ITEMS TO AUSTRALIA, GREECE AND ITALY.
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Classic Auto Air New Evaporator Coil Assembly for 1969-1969-1/2 Mustangs.This new evaporator coil assembly from Classic Auto Air fits early 1969 Mustangs that use the rectangular evaporator coil to heater box case grommet, part number CAA19131.
Late 1969-1/2 Mustangs have a triangular evaporator coil to heater box case grommet and need to use CAA1106.
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