Category: literacy

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    East Bay Area Author Event, March 2nd, 2013

    Fifteen published authors will be talking throughout the day about the subject of their books, about their works, and about the process of writing and getting published.

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    In Defense of Authors Perceived as Behaving Badly – Part 3/3

    How do you earn reviews from reputable sources?

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    In Defense of Authors Perceived as Behaving Badly – Part 2/3

    “If the conversation is going on and you are not part of it, it is more than likely that you will be painted inaccurately.”

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    In Defense of Authors Perceived as Behaving Badly – Part 1/3

    It may be the duty of an author to defend his or her work against negative reviews.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Originally posted on InsideTimsHead: As the election drew near, many political and stats junkies (like me) became fans of Nate Silver, aka @fivethirtyeight, the shrewd political number-cruncher and blogger for the New York Times. His way of aggregating the most reliable presidential polls into megapolls, and factoring in those polls’ historical accuracies, was considered by some to be as revolutionary…

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    Sexiest Woman Alive – Really?

    I often see women that beat Mila Kunis as the sexiest woman alive.

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    Jobs: Digging for FACTS – Part 3/3

    No matter the reason, dropping out of high school is a decision made by the individual. No president, G. W. Bush or Obama, forces anyone to drop out of high school or to avoid college. If a child grows up and cannot read, it is not the president’s fault.

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    Jobs: Digging for FACTS – Part 2/3

    A little known cause of illiteracy is cultural influences, children learn a lot from their environment at a young age and are known to mimic the behavior of the people around them …

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    Jobs: Digging for FACTS – Part 1/3

    What about the people that quit a job or retired and are being replaced—replacing people that quit or retire does not show as an increase in jobs because that job already existed and it isn’t a new job—it is an old job.