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How dominant is trainer Wesley Ward in Keeneland spring juvenile races?
When it comes to early season maiden races, Ward's record is pretty close to off the charts. Since 2009, there have been 47 2-year-old maiden events at the Keeneland spring meet. Ward has had starters in 45 of them. He won 22 of them or 48.9 percent.
Incredible. I didn't know until I read @DougieSal today, though, that trainer John Shirreffs was once a debut runner win machine:
… in the late 1990's John Shirreffs was the most brilliant debut trainer in the land. In 1998 and 1999 he trained 24 first-time starters and a mind-boggling 14 of them won their debut and another four finished second. In those days, the Southern California circuit was unquestionably the toughest year-round circuit in horse racing, and Shirreffs won at a 58.3% clip with first-time starters and 75% of his debuters finished first or second.
His takeaway: Bet Cozmic One with caution, if you insist on doing it all.
Our Amazing Rose gets a Beyer speed figure of 91 for winning the fifth race on Thursday at Saratoga by 7 3/4 lengths. She went the five furlongs in :57.68, or .59 seconds faster than stablemate Corfu did winning the second. Both making their career debuts for trainer Todd Pletcher, of course. Watch the replay.
Everyone knows that trainer Todd Pletcher is dominant is Saratoga juvenile races, but he's profitable, too, in certain scenarios: His five-year win stat for first-time starters in dirt sprint maiden special weights is 32%, with an ROI of $2.57. In the same conditions, restricted to state-breds, he's 46%, with an ROI of $3.25. "Perhaps the time to take down a Pletcher juvenile firster is in maiden special weight turf routes," writes Dan Illman, who pulled the preceding numbers from DRF Formulator. Good luck getting a big price in any circumstance, though: The longest juvenile shot Pletcher has won at Saratoga with in the past five years is Interactif, in the 2009 With Anticipation. He was 16-1 at post time. The only other Pletcher winner with double-digit odds was Lawn Man, in a 2012 six-furlong MSW. He was 10-1 going into the gate.
What happens to all the 2-year-old maiden winners? Not long ago, Churchill had three stakes for 2-year-old colts in the spring. Now there's only the Bashford Manor (plus the Debutante for fillies). And there's virtually no such thing as an allowance race for 2-year-olds. How is this, with so many 2-year-olds on the grounds?
Two items from the DRF story on the Breeders' Cup juvenile race Lasix ban:
At Saratoga, the biggest East Coast summer meeting for 2-year-olds, 137 of 694 starters (19.7 percent) in 90 juvenile races raced without Lasix. The Lasix-free horses won only half as frequently as Lasix users … but other factors drove the disparity in win rate. Principally, trainer Todd Pletcher, the strongest 2-year-old trainer in New York, sent all his winners out with Lasix.
"We can talk about it the day after the race, but I can guarantee you right now," [trainer Christophe Clement] said. "The better horse will win …"
Re: the first, Pletcher's all-Lasix Spa baby squad is definitely one of the factors that must be taken into account looking at this summer's Lasix-free winner stats. And for the second, that there's no Lasix in the juvenile races tilted trainer Richard Hannon toward sending Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Sky Lantern to the Breeders' Cup because, "[it's] a level playing field for all of us." It can only be for the good if trainers here and abroad perceive the Breeders' Cup as letting the best horses shine through drug-free.
As the rubric for Eric Mitchell's Blood-Horse column asks, what's going on here? In his latest, Mitchell surveys the trainers of the Lasix-free juvenile starters owned by those who pledged to run their 2-year-olds without raceday drugs and finds promise in their results. He also offers some stats:
A chart on this page shows how the non-Salix horses have been performing. Between July 20 and Sept. 5, a total of 749 2-year-old races were run in the U.S. and Canada. Among the winners of those races, 660 (88.1%) ran on Salix and 89 (11.9%) did not.
Among horses that finished in the money, 87.4% raced on Salix and 12.6% ran without the medication.
Interesting. But what do the numbers mean? Very little, without knowing in which, of the 749 juvenile races surveyed, all the starters were on Lasix (those races should be excluded from analysis*; as should, on the off-chance any such event occurred, any race in which no starter was on Lasix), or without knowing the breakdown between the total number of starters on Lasix and not on Lasix. A second chart accompanying the column, focusing on the 2012 Saratoga juvenile races, gives that information, but crucially leaves out the percentages: 20.4% of starts were Lasix-free; 11.2% of winners were.
Not to draw conclusions from the above — there are too many factors in play. As trainer Kiaran McLaughlin told Mitchell, "I just don't win first time out." But the numbers hint at a possible answer for the question of whether or not Lasix is performance enhancing, and what its role should be in training and racing. Another potentially illuminating angle on that question would be to look at the 2-year-old earnings for the Lasix-free owners — are their accounts depressed as a group? As compared to previous years? What's the cost of eschewing raceday medications so long as Lasix remains legal?
A few weeks ago, Tyler Hamilton excited attention with the release of his book, "The Secret Race," and its revelations about cycling's doping culture:
The book is the holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans in search of answers. In a taut 268 pages, Hamilton confidently and systematically destroys any sense that there was ever any chance of cleaning up cycling in the early 2000s, revealing the sport's powerful and elaborate doping infrastructure. He's like a retiring magician who has decided to let the public in on the profession's most guarded techniques.
(Before I go any further: Yes, Hamilton's book is about illegal drug use in cycling, and Lasix is a legal drug in horse racing. I do not conflate the illegal and legal except in considering how decisions to use a drug or not may be distorted by perceptions of advantages employed by others to win.)
For Michael Shermer, the book highlights "the hidden price" of doping:
This is the real harm to those athletes who did not want to dope, who were given the choice to dope and opted out, who pulled over to the curb on the boulevard of broken dreams, stripped off their race number, and packed it in to go home, in most cases back to menial jobs or to finish high school or start college. Who are these cyclists? Tyler names a few in his book, but in most cases we have no idea who they are because they are the unseen ones, those whose potential was never realized because they never had the chance to compete cleanly against their peers.
Realizing potential is one of the arguments used to justify Lasix — stakes caliber horses who bleed abroad may be sent to the US to run, for instance, because their condition can be treated and their careers can continue. Lasix reveals these horses' full abilities, goes the thinking; to deny them a legal treatment is to make them the unseen ones. And that's really the question behind the raceday Lasix debate: Which horses should be unseen? Those who can run Lasix-free, or those who can't run without Lasix?
*Credit to @o_crunk for bringing this point up via DM.
Jeff Scott checks the stats on Saratoga's Lasix-free juvenile starters:
The 141 Lasix-free 2-year-olds were distributed over 71 races; only nine were post-time favorites. As a group, they accounted for 10 wins, 13 seconds and 14 thirds. With all the variables involved, it is difficult to assess the significance of these results. The sample is also a very small one. It can be said, though, that many 2-year-olds performed well without Lasix this summer at Saratoga. And that is good news for anyone who doesn't like to think American horses can't compete without this medication on race day.
Noted: "Bled" isn't a chart comment on any of those races.
Another call for reorganizing the Breeders' Cup schedule, from Steve Haskin:
How about if they keep the Juvenile Sprint on Friday, and, in fact, move all the juvenile races to Friday and promote it as "Future Friday?"
With the solid showings on this year's Derby trail of Juvenile Turf graduates Soldat, Master of Hounds, and Willcox Inn, and the early grass success of Animal Kingdom and Brilliant Speed, the Breeders' Cup can promo Future Friday as a potential spawning ground of Triple Crown horses …
Sure. It also creates a hook for promoting next year's Breeders' Cup (will we see the Juvenile or Juvenile Turf Fillies winner return in the Classic or the Filly and Mare Turf?) and another for invoking the past (last year's Juvenile Sprint winner returns). It would add a real sense of continuity from year to year.
Steven Crist on changing the Breeders' Cup two-day line-up with the addition of the Juvenile Sprint to this year's event:
There are several realignments that would work better, such as emphasizing juveniles or sprinters on Friday. My personal preference would be to run the seven newest races on Friday and the original eight on Saturday. Any of these schemes, or others, would work better than "Filly Friday Except for the Juvenile Sprint and Marathon and the Fillies Running Tomorrow Day."
I'm partial to a juveniles Friday, which not only makes for a good story but better fits the implicit stakes hierarchy Saturday races sit atop.
Dazzling praise for Zenyatta's 2-year-old half-sister by Bernardini:
"She has as much presence as any young horse I've ever been around," Robinson said. "It scares me. She's completely herself, very independent, but in a good way. She's sweet, but not sugary. Very businesslike. She was definitely the dominant one, but in a kind way, with the other yearlings. I watched Zenyatta at Lane's End several weeks ago when they first introduced her to the other maidens, and it's the same thing. It's not a kick-your-ass kind of dominance, but it's like they just knew who the boss was. Eblouissante is very much that way."
Here's a photo of Eblouissante from last summer, giving a look that's very like her Horse of the Year sibling. She'll go to trainer John Shirreffs later this year.
Uncle Mo is on Facebook and Twitter and owner Mike Repole credits Team Zenyatta. "I've always connected with products that connected with me."
3/1/11 Update: Eblouissante now has her own Facebook fan page.
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… In 1998, thirty thousand adults in the United States were asked how much stress they had experienced in the past year. They were also asked, Do you believe stress is harmful to your health? Eight years later, the researchers scoured public records to find out who among the thirty thousand participants had died. Let me deliver the bad news first. High levels of stress increased the risk of dying by 43 percent. But – and this is what got my attention – that increased risk applied only to people who also believed that stress was harming their health. People who reported high levels of stress but who did not view their stress as harmful were not more likely to die. In fact, they had the lowest risk of death of anyone in the study, even lower than those who reported experiencing very little stress. The researchers concluded that it wasn't stress alone that was killing people. It was the combination of stress and the belief that stress is harmful. The researchers estimated that over the eight years they conducted their study, 182,000 Americans may have died prematurely because they believed that stress was harming their health. That number stopped my in my tracks. We're talking over twenty thousand deaths a year! According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that would make "believing that stress is bad for you" the fifteenth-leading cause of death in the United States, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/AIDS, and homicide.
… The latest science reveals that stress can make you smarter, stronger, and more successful. It helps you learn and grow. It can even inspire courage and compassion. The new science also shows that changing your mind about stress can make you healthier and happier. How you think about stress affects everything from your cardiovascular health to your ability to find meaning in life. The best way to manage stress isn't to reduce or avoid it, but rather to rethink and even embrace it.
The defeat response is a biologically hardwired response to repeated victimization that leads to loss of appetite, social isolation, depression, and even suicide. Its main effect is to make you withdraw. You lose motivation, hope, and the desire to connect with others. It becomes impossible to see meaning in your life, or to imagine any action you could take to improve the situation. Not every loss or trauma leads to a defeat response – it kicks in only when you feel that you have been beaten by your circumstances or rejected by your community. In other words, when you think there is nothing left that you can do and nobody who cares.
Winkelman uses the concept of psychointegrator plants to refer to experiential, phenomenological, or psychological aspects of their physiological effects. He suggests that the resulting mentation (how you think) and emotion (how you feel) may produce a holistic state of psychological integration and emotional growth. … Psychointegrator plants are traditionally used across cultures in a religious, spiritual, and often therapeutic context and may enhance some of the innate capacities of consciousness, integrating various forms of information.
I refer here to the so-called "war on drugs" which is really better understood as a war on consciousness and which maintains, supposedly in the interests of society, that we as adults do not have the right or maturity to make sovereign decisions about our own consciousness and about the states of consciousness we wish to explore and embrace. This extraordinary imposition on adult cognitive liberty is justified by the idea that our brain activity, disturbed by drugs, will adversely impact our behavior toward others. Yet anyone who pauses to think seriously for even a moment must realize that we already have adequate laws that govern adverse behavior toward others and that the real purpose of the "war on drugs" must therefore be to bear down on consciousness itself.
Accomplishments alone could have warranted inclusion in a different kind of book, but to be here, narrative – a secret bedroom lab, an ocean-floor expedition, or a stolen photograph that helped solve the structure of DNA – needed to be the twin pillar of achievement. I didn't include scientists if I didn't feel like I could travel beyond the bullet points of a dazzling career.
The scientists in this book aren't included because they were women practicing science or math in a time when few women did – although by that criteria, many would fit. They're included because … their ideas, discoveries, and insights made earth-shaking changes to the way we see the world.
While she had a long career as a celebrated actress, Lamarr finally got the real recognition she deserved when she was awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award in 1996. Her response: "It's about time."
... that the security establishment's interest and investment in neuroscience, neuropharmacology (the study of the influence of drugs on the nervous system), and related areas was extensive and growing. However, no one had attempted a systematic overview of developments in neuroscience as they might affect national security, nor had anyone raised the many fascinating ethical and policy issues that might emerge from this relationship.
... matters moved more quickly than I had guessed. To my surprise, within two years after the first edition of Mind Wars I began to receive invitations to participate on intelligence community advisory committees that have provided important analyses of the state of the science and its future prospects.
It is ironic that discussions about national security often fail to involve the optimal means of ensuring that people are safe to live their lives: keeping the peace. The sad fact is that there is a specific marketplace for the material of war, not of peace. Even though we might like to think that military and intelligence assets ultimately keep the peace, the fact is that it's a lot easier to monetize and market firepower than peaceful easy feelings.
Interestingly, tactile feedback may not even be a necessary part of the equation. The Brookings Institution national security scholar Peter W. Singer observes that the "sixth sense" of feeling bodily connected to the tools we use emerges over time. He imagines that controlling a prosthetic arm could become as second nature as driving a car, wherein one develops an intimate knowledge of its maneuverability and size through repeated experience. In the words of philosopher Robin Zebrowski, "it has been shown that our brains actually allot neural space to those tools which we take up consistently. The tip of the cane actually does become part of the person's body, to a degree never before realized. Each of us is bound, bodily, to the tools that we use in a deeply neurological way." Thus, in a limited sense proprioception may naturally incorporate prosthetics or other neurally controlled robotics as an emergent property, without needing to be engineered from the get-go.
... For those who are deeply concerned about the exploitation of science for military purposes, an obvious answer seems to be that the scientific community should simply swear off cooperation with the national security agencies, including accepting research contracts. Call this the purist approach. Based on some historical experience I shall elaborate, I believe the purist answer is shortsighted. In the real world, this kind of research is going to continue and it's best that university researchers be those who do it, rather than building top secret science fortresses with researchers who are not answerable to anyone but their commanders. It is critical for the well-being of our democratic society that the civilian scientific community is kept in the loop and that the rest of us can have at least a general idea of the kind of work that is being done, even though for legitimate reasons many of the details may not be generally available. An important reason to keep the scientific process as normal as possible, including transparency in interactions among scientists, is that science sets an example for an open society in which secrecy is minimized. Secrecy makes it harder for our elected representatives to fulfill their constitutional responsibility of overseeing government-funded science, and for experts outside of government to contribute to sound policymaking. One way a democratic society can minimize secrecy is to keep national security agencies linked to the larger world of academic science. For the same reason, suggestions in Congress and elsewhere that DARPA should pull back on its external funding should be resisted. The link between the academic world and the national security establishment makes for a healthier society than if each were isolated from the other.
How do you find these people? Where do they come from? It's hard to tell. Likely they'll surprise you, appearing seemingly out of nowhere at just the right time. The whole thing will look like an accident or a mystery but, of course, it is far from it. As Paulo Coelho writes, "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." There's some truth to that. Fortune favors the motivated. When a person is determined to not just succeed but to do work that matters, the world makes room for such ambition. You won't be able to predict how this apprenticeship unfolds, but you can be prepared for it when it comes.
These experiences are impossible to engineer but easy to recognize once you know what to look for. … Sometimes the people who help us find our calling come from the least likely of places. It's our job to notice them.
{they} uprooted their family and moved to a remote part of the world because it was an opportunity to make a difference doing what they love. As it turns out, this is a great formula for moving in the direction of any calling: find what you love and what the world needs, then combine them.
This book is by turns a seeker's memoir, an introduction to the brain, a manual of contemplative instruction, and a philosophical unraveling of what most people consider to be the center of their inner lives: the feeling of self we call "I". I have not set out to describe all the traditional approaches to spirituality and to weigh their strengths and weaknesses. Rather, my goal is to pluck the diamond from the dunghill of esoteric religion. … Just as a modern treatise on weaponry would omit the casting of spells and would very likely ignore the slingshot and the boomerang, I will focus on what I consider the most promising lines of spiritual inquiry.
Devout Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe that theirs is the one true and complete revelation – because that is what their holy books say of themselves. Only secularists and New Age dabblers can mistake the modern tactic of "interfaith dialogue" for an underlying unity of all religions.I have long argued that confusion about the unity of religions is an artifact of language. Religion is a term like sports: Some sports are peaceful but spectacularly dangerous ("free solo" rock climbing); some are safer but synonymous with violence (mixed martial arts); and some entail little more risk than standing in the shower (bowling). To speak of sports as a generic activity makes it impossible to discuss what athletes actually do or the physical attributes required to do it. What do all sports have in common apart from breathing? Not much. The term religion is hardly more useful.The same could be said of spirituality. The esoteric doctrines found within every religious tradition are not all derived from the same insights. Nor are they equally empirical, logical, parsimonious, or wise. They don't always point to the same underlying reality – and when they do, they don't do it equally well. Nor are all these teachings equally suited for export beyond the cultures that first conceived them.
As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never best found there, and it is subverted, time and again, by ancient savagery and superstition.
Spirituality remains the great hole in secularism, humanism, rationalism, atheism, and all the other defensive postures that reasonable men and women strike in the presence of unreasonable faith. … Until we can talk about spirituality in rational terms – acknowledging the validity of self-transcendence – our world will remain shattered by dogmatism.
... you have to meet people where they are, with an attitude of benevolence and largesse, to help them find answers to the problems that they have. All of your content – your product pages, your landing pages, your customer support text, your About Us pages, and so on "need to use language to support people's needs and goals". {that quoted bit is from Facebook's Jonathon Coleman}
No one will ever complain that you've made things too simple to understand.
Assume the reader knows nothing. But don't assume the reader is stupid.
Simplicity comes primarily from approaching any writing with empathy and a reader-centric point of view to begin with – that is, it's the result of writing with clarity and brevity, and in human language ...
The Great Retreat broke the hierachy between Roach and Tibetan authorities. Now that he was under the direct guidance of angels, there was no need to appeal to the Dalai Lama. With Lama Christie by his side, he promised they would breathe new life into Tibetan Buddhism. They would forge a faith that shucked off anachronistic Tibetan traditions and make their interpretation of ancient Buddhist wisdom relevant for modern-day America.
I have no interest in a God that has to be believed in. If I am going to have God in my life, it has to be a God that cannot help but exist, in the same way that matter and gravity and culture exist. We don't need to believe in these things; they just exist.
The core of her bold challenge to the atheist position is that because emergent phenomena can be real in their own right, even if they depend on a lower-level substrate to instantiate them, a God that is the product of the human mind and human society can also be real. After all, life emerges from and is dependent on, the chemical substrate of organic matter, and life is not only real but has its own (emergent) agenda consistent with, but transcending, the chemical substrate that hosts it. So too can it be for an emergent God. … Her God is not even cosmic but planetary, being tied (until now at least) to our particular terrestrial species. … For those steeped in traditional monotheism, a God that springs solely from the collective human intellect seems like heresy. But for those who reject the idea of God entirely as ridiculous and superfluous, an emergent God holds many attractions.
...the idea of God has persisted through thousands of years and thousands of cultural changes neither because God is an independently existing being in control of the universe nor because it's a purely psychological need. God persists and always will because it's a fundamental characteristic of the connection between ourselves and the universe. That we're connected to the universe is inevitable and indisputable, but until we had a scientific understanding of the universe, we could not imagine how.
In each subset of these belief systems, a somewhat different version of God's character and expectations of us is held not only to be true for the believers but to be universally and eternally true.
I am going to focus on what Google wants. As mentioned in Chapter 2, it's all about Google. No egos, no distractions, just focus on exactly will appease Google, and you will be successful.
Every time you have one of your pages ranked for a search, it means another page (possibly a competitor) is ranked lower. You want your social profiles to rank for branded searches as well as unbranded searches. … The biggest mistake that so many businesses make is that they try to do too many social sites. … In fact, by focusing on the right ones, you'll be able to maintain the highest chance of dominating on search.
The North's zero-tolerance policy for a backward culture forced the white trash out of both the Irish and southern rednecks, leaving just enough of htem in their natural state to populate modern reality shows and the Kennedy family.
Next, liberal judges and academics decided it was a bad idea ot punish criminals. Instead, they suggested we try to understand the criminal, persuade him that the system is fair and give him 157 second chances.…Between 1960 and 1973, the number of FBI index crimes – which are serious offenses such as murder, rape, robbery, arson, assault, kidnapping, and burglary – nearly tripled from 2,019,600 offenses a year to 5,891,924. Hundreds of thousands of Americans had to die, be raped, or have their property destroy or stolen because liberals had some neat new ideas about crime.
When it comes to claims of racism, empirical evidence is irrelevant. It's not the number of racist Web sites {most of which "didn't even have enough visitors to register on Web site trackers"} that's important, but their mythopoetic resonance with the master political narrative of the day. If blacks murder more whites than whites murder blacks, it doesn't matter because that's not the story. As racism becomes less of a factor in American life than agoraphobia, the media work overtime to find illustrations – true or not – of their larger thesis.
As French philosopher Jean-François Revel said of the left, while most regimes are judged on their records, only communism is judged only by its promises. Similarly, modern liberals are judged on their motives; conservatives are judged on what liberals claim we really meant
The economics of the Internet created a twisted set of incentives that make traffic more important – and more profitable – than the truth. With the mass media – and today, mass culture – relying on the web for the next big thing, it is a set of incentives with massive implications. … Blogs need traffic, being first drives traffic, and so entire stories are created out of whole cloth to make that happen.
What's important is that the site is small and understaffed. This makes it possible to sell them a story that is only loosely connected to their core message but really sets you up to transition to the next level.
Legacy media outlets are critical turning points in building up momentum. The reality is that the bloggers at Forbes.com or the Chicago Tribune do not operate on the same editorial guidelines as their print counterparts. However, their final output can be made to look like they carry the same weight.
The sites that have already taken your bait are now on your side. They desperately want their articles to get as much traffic as possible, and being linked to or mentioned on national sites is how they do that. These sites will take care of submitting your articles to news aggregator sites like Digg, because making the front page will drive tens of thousands of visitors to their article. Mass media reporters monitor aggregators for story ideas, and often cover what is trending there … In today's world even these guys have to think like bloggers – they need to get as many pageviews as possible. … You just want to make sure that such reporters notice the story's gaining traction. Take the outlet where you'd ultimately like to receive coverage and observe it for patterns. You'll notice that they tend to get their story ideas from the same second-level sites, and by tailoring the story to those smaller sites (or site), it sets you up to be noticed by the larger one.
Katie Couric claims she gets many story ideas from her Twitter followers, which means that getting a few tweets out of the seven hundred or so people she follows is all it takes to get a shot at the nightly network news.
In the pay-per-pageview model, every post is a conflict of interest. It's why I've never bought influence directly. I've never had to. Bloggers have a direct incentive to write bigger, to write simpler, to write more controversially or, conversely, more favorably, to write without having to do any work, to write more often than is warranted. Their paycheck depends on it. It's no wonder they are vicious, irresponsible, inaccurate, and dishonest. … They call it a "digital sweatshop" for good reason.
... "if something is a total bummer, people don't share it". And since people wouldn't share it, blogs won't publish it.
According to {a Wharton School} study, "the most powerful predictor of virality is how much anger an article evokes" … The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
Navigating this quandary forces marketers and publishers to conspire to distort this information into something that will register on the emotional spectrum of the audience. To turn it into something that spreads and to drive clicks. … The press is in the evil position of needing to go negative and play tricks with your psyche in order to drive you to share their material on-line … the kind of stuff that will make you hit "share this". They push your buttons so you'll press theirs.
A click is a click and a pageview is a pageview. A blogger doesn't care how they get it. Their bosses don't care. They just want it.
Nobody online wants to point out how fake and insidious {this} is because it's too lucrative.…I never got over the shock of discovering that it was basically impossible to burn a blog. No matter how many times I've been caught leaking bad info, spinning, spamming, manufacturing news – it never changed anything. The same bloggers continued to cover my stories and bit when I created news. They don't mind being deceived, not at all.
When you see a blog begin with "According to a tipster ..." know that the tipster was someone like me tricking the blogger into writing what I wanted.When you see "We're hearing reports" know that reports could mean anything from random mentions on Twitter to message board posts, or worse.When you see "leaked" or "official documents" know that the leak really meant someone just e-mailed a blogger, and that the documents are almost certainly not official and are usually fake or fabricated for the purpose of making desired information public.
Just as the biosphere is the unified field of life and its support systems … so the noosphere is the unified field of the mind, the psychic reflection of the biosphere."
The conscious activation of the Noosphere is the next stage in the evolution of life on Earth, bringing with it a truly planetary consciousness. This transition to the Noosphere is the most significant change since the appearance of abundant complex life on Earth at the end of the Precambrian period some five hundred million years ago.
By the end of 2010, some 5.2 billion mobile phones were in operation. Probably no other technology in human history has attracted the attention of the individual human being, nor transformed so immediately the nature of his/her self-perception. The mobile phone personalizes the present moment into a synchronistic medium of instantaneous ego gratification. … Through this technology and its attendant social networks, each person finds his or her individual world compressed into an electronic instrument the size of the palm of the hand. This is the technological analogy or precursor of the noospheric concept of psychic compression and interiorization. … This new threshold of technological innovations also desensitizes and abstracts the individual from the surrounding world. It is the supreme "subjectivization of consciousness", where each being becomes surrounded in his/her own electro-ego bubble, virtually unaware of the world around them, much less the plain fact that the biosphere is necessary to sustain them.
Welcome to the New Kodak Moment – the moment when an exponential force puts a linear company out of business. As we shall see over and over again, these New Kodak Moments are not aberrations. Rather they are the inevitable result of the six Ds of exponential growth. And for those linear-thinking executives trying to hang on to their jobs, this leads us to the three final Ds: distraught, depressed, and departed. But for exponential entrepreneurs, these New Kodak Moments are rife with possibility.
... we are living in the most moral period in our species' history…For tens of millennia moral regress best described our species, and hundreds of millions of people suffered as a result. But then something happened half a millennium ago. The Scientific Revolution led to the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment, and that changed everything. As a result, we ought to understand what happened, how and why these changes reversed our species' historical trend downward, and that we can do more to elevate humanity, extend the arc, and bend it ever upward.
... the moral sense of right (…) and wrong (…) emerges as early as three to ten months of age – far too early to attribute to learning and culture. Young children who are exposed in a laboratory to an adult experiencing pain … typically respond by soothing the injured party. Toddlers who see adults struggling to open a door … or to pick up an out-of-reach object, will spontaneously help without any prompting from the adults in question.
The psychology behind the taboo against chemical and biological weapons transfers readily to that of nuclear weapons. Deadly heat and radiation – like poison gas and lethal diseases – are invisible killers that are indiscriminate in the carnage they wreak. … the revulsion people feel towards nuclear weapons may be linked in the brain to the emotion of disgust that psychologists have identified as being associated with invisible disease contagions, toxic poisons, and revolting materials … that carry them – reactions that evolved to direct organisms away from these substances for survival reasons.
But if your religion has convinced you that you're not really going to die, and that the next life is spectacularly better than this life, and that you'll be a hero among those you've left behind – it changes the calculation."
From an intellectual history perspective, I have described this shift [the move to a "Science of Man"] as the "battle of the books" - the book of authority vs. the book of nature. The book of authority – whether it was the Bible or Aristotle in the Western world – is grounded in the cognitive process called deduction, or making specific claims from generalized principles … by contrast, the book of nature is grounded in induction, or the cognitive process of drawing generalized principles from specific facts ...
Many of the founding fathers were, in fact, scientists who deliberately adapted the method of data gathering, hypothesis testing, and theory formulation to their nation building. Their understanding of the provisional nature of findings led them to develop a social system in which doubt and dispute were the centerpieces of a functional polity. Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, and the others thought of social governance as problem to be solved rather than as power to be grabbed. They thought of democracy in the same way that they thought of science – as a method, not an ideology.
The hypothesis that reason-based Enlightenment thinking leads to moral progress is one that can be tested through historical comparison and by examining what happens to countries that hold anti-Enlightenment values. Countries that quash free inquiry, distrust reason, and practice pseudoscience, such as Revolutionary France, Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, and, more recently, fundamentalist Islamic states, stagnate, regress, and often collapse. Theists and postmodernist critics of science and reason often label the disastrous Soviet and Nazi utopias as "scientific", but their science was a thin patina covering a deep layer of counter-Enlightenment, pastoral, paradisiacal fantasies of racial ideology grounded in ethnicity and geography ...
The left-right divide also depends heavily on the vision of human nature that you hold – as either constrained (right-wing) or unconstrained (left-wing) … or as utopian (left-wing) or tragic (right-wing) … Left-wingers lean towards believing that human nature is largely unconstrained by biology, and thus utopian-like social engineering schemes to overcome poverty, unemployment, and other social ills are appealing in their logic and feasibility. Right-wingers lean toward believing that human nature is largely constrained by biology and thus social, political, and economic policies must necessarily be limited in their scope and ambition.
... these factors are interactive and autocatalytic – that is, they feed on one another: dehumanization produces deindividuation, which then leads to compliance und the influence of obedience to authority, and in time that morphs into conformity to new group norms, and identification with the group, which leads to the actual performance of evil acts. No one of these components inexorably leads to evil acts, but together they form the machinery of evil that arises under certain social conditions.
... from the earliest stirrings of civilization 10,000 years ago to the year 2003, all of humankind created a grand total of about 5 exabytes of digital information [1 exabyte = 1 billion gigabytes] … from 2003 through 2010 humans created 5 exabytes of digital information every 2 days. By 2013 we were producing 5 exabytes every 10 minutes. … Make all that digital knowledge available to every person on the planet instantly through the Internet, and ideally all citizens of the world can become citizen-scientists capable of reasoning their way to solving personal, social, and moral problems.
But the bloggers and Twitterers and brands that I love do push the comfort zone. They say things that are surprising and controversial and personal. They apply the basics of good writing to the genre.So I'm forever bouncing in my mind between asking myself, "is this good, interesting writing?" and "Would I be embarrassed if my clients or in-laws were reading this in front of me right now?" If the answer is "yes" to the first question, I move to the second. If the answer to the second is "yes," I hit the "save as draft" button and wait a day. Ninety percent of the time, I've gotten over myself enough to remember that, as long as I remember the public-ness, being part of the conversation is also about entertaining my fellow dinner guests."
The transition we have seen over the last decade on the web, from static or even database driven content to social, pluralistic, real time conversations is marked not by its wavelength but by its amplitude. The digital flaneur is not interested in the spread of ideas but in their relevance. She seeks not the voices of many but the conversations of the passionate. This journey carries its destination in the heart of its interactions not in its logical end point.
... the existence of metrics does not change the basis of my concern. If the purpose of measuring is ultimately control, then there is a significant consequence that must be considered before adopting any metric (or measurement program). … [are we] seeking to manage conversations and social interaction? The fate of that has been revealed already (Cluetrain Manifesto anyone?). Be afraid, because I for one worry that metricfication, as currently practiced, has a limited place in a post industrial economy in which the hegemony of production is being supplanted by collaboration, co-creation and customer centricity. … Social media can easily go the same way as CRM. Be careful what you wish for.
There has never been such a wealth of new creations – and never such a volume of crap.…As always, the one who succeed will be the ones who resolve this creative tension.The ones making the remarkable things, not churning out "content".
With an increasingly exhausted public struggling to sift "what is real" in everything from reality shows to product placement (savvy consumers know buzz can be bought, viral can be "seeded" and vested interests can permeate citizen journalism as well as mainstream media) the open ended question we're all trying to grapple with is, "How do you monetize influence in a trust-based economy?"I won't use the hackneyed "a" word (authenticity) or even "b" words (brand-building) even though both are essential in earning trust via reputation. I'm going to hang my hat on the "c" words of creating credibility through content while curating a conversation that adds value to the readers without the perception of asking for something in return.…Influence is not a commodity to be brokered, but rather an intimacy to be earned.


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FCC Agrees to ANA Request for Extension for Comments on NOI
The FCC has granted the request for an extension filed by ANA, along with the 4A's, AAF, DMA, IAB, and PMA, in the NOI asking for comment on a range of issues related to children and media.
State Budget Pressures Could Lead to Ad Tax Fights
Many state governments are facing severe budget pressures that are expected to intensify for the foreseeable future. Unlike Congress, state governments must pass balanced budgets each year, so they must cut spending, raise taxes or do some combination of both. In this environment, we expect states to consider new taxes on business services, such as advertising, to raise needed revenues.
Online Marketing Bill Introduced in Maine
New legislation has been introduced in the Maine State Legislature that would prohibit certain pharmaceutical marketing to minors. LD 1677 would prohibit the collection and use of personal information collected online from a minor who is at least 13 and under 17 years old for the purposes of pharmaceutical marketing in violation of rules to be adopted by the Maine Attorney General.
Court Reaches Decision in Important Tobacco Advertising Case
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky has handed down a decision in a case challenging advertising restrictions in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
Sen. Begich Plans to Offer Amendment to Health Care Bill to Eliminate Ad Deduction
We have learned from several lobbying sources that Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) plans to offer his legislation (S. 2842) which would deny the deduction for direct-to-consumer advertising expenses as an amendment to the health care bill.
Proposed Standards for Food Marketing to Children Released at FTC Forum by Four Agency Working Group
ANA testified at the FTC's forum on food marketing and childhood obesity, at which standards for advertising to children were released by the four agency working group created in the 2009 Omnibus bill.
Sen. Franken Ad Tax Proposal May Be Offered as Senate Considers Health Care Bill
Five Senators plan to offer a bill to disallow the deduction for DTC prescription drug advertising and promotional expenses as an amendment to the health care bill currently being debated on the Senate floor.
Rep. Moran Introduces Bill to Restrict Children's Advertising
Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), joined by Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) has introduced the "Healthy Kids Act" which contains drastic provisions relating to advertising on children's programming.
CFPA Bill Would "Put the FTC on Steroids"
The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday approved the "Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act" (H.R.3126) by a party-line vote of 33-19. The bill would create a new federal agency with sweeping powers to regulate all consumer financial products and services, broadly defined. It would also radically transform the regulatory authority of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), impacting the advertising community in general.
Judiciary Committee Urges Repeal of Maine Children's Privacy Law
The Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary in the Maine Legislature will be recommending to the leadership of both houses that the legislature repeal the "Act to Prevent Predatory Marketing Practices Against Minors."
Ad Deductibility Under Threat from Kucinich, Franken Proposals
We have learned that Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans soon to introduce legislation to eliminate the tax deduction for certain food advertising directed to children. This comes on top of the legislation introduced on October 8th by Senators Al Franken (D-MN), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to disallow the deduction for DTC prescription drug advertising and promotion expenses.
ANA Writes to House Energy and Commerce Committee Ahead of CFPA Markup
A markup of the Consumer Financial Protection Act in the House Energy and Commerce Committee has been announced for Thursday. This bill, which creates a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) will cover many issues impacting the FTC as well.
FCC NOI Asks for Input on Advertising to Children
The FCC has released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) entitled "Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape" which asks for input on a sweeping range of issues relating to advertising.
CFPA Bill Passes House Financial Services Committee
On a largely party-line vote of 39-29, the House Financial Services Committee today approved the "Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act" (H.R.3126). That bill would create a new federal agency with sweeping new powers and could radically transform and impact the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Franken Proposal Threatens Ad Deductibility
On October 8th, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) and cosponsors Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced a bill (S.1763) entitled "Protecting Americans from Drug Marketing Act," which would disallow the deduction for DTC prescription drug advertising and promotional expenses. These Senators are pushing to convince the leadership to add their bill to the health care legislation now being developed or plan to offer the bill as an amendment on the Senate floor.
House Subcommittee Approves CALM Act
Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet favorably reported H.R. 1084, the CALM Act, to the full committee on a voice vote.
ANA Urges Repeal of Maine Children's Privacy Law
ANA has urged the Maine Legislature to repeal the "Act to Prevent Predatory Marketing Practices Against Minors."
ANA Says CFPA Bill Will Radically and Detrimentally Transform the FTC
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has told the House Financial Services Committee that the "Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act" (H.R. 3126) would create a new federal agency with sweeping new powers and radically transform and threaten the long-term health of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Judiciary Committee to Review Maine Children's Privacy Law
The Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary in the Maine Legislature will be meeting on October 15th and 16th to consider the constitutional issues raised by the "Act to Prevent Predatory Marketing Practices Against Minors."
FDA Announces Hearings on Promotion Using the Internet and Social Media
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a public hearing to discuss issues related to the promotion of prescription drug products and medical devices using the Internet and various social media tools.


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David Uspal is New Web Specialist for Library and Scholarly Applications
David Uspal recently joined Falvey as Web Specialist for Library and Scholarly Applications. Joe Lucia, University Librarian, commented, "Dave brings many exciting skills to the library, and he will be working to advance our open source applications on all fronts in the months ahead."
Dave works with the Technology Development team to update library web sites and to add new resources.
A native of Reading (Pa.), Dave has a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in management information systems from The Pennsylvania State University and two master's degrees from Penn State, Great Valley in software engineering and systems engineering.
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You can't make this stuff up. While Doc Rivers was still the coach of the Boston Celtics, Doc and new Celtics coach Brad Stevens had talked about another coaching vacancy in the NBA. In an interesting interview with USA Today, Rivers had this to say: "I'm a big Stevens fan, have always been," Rivers said. "It's funny, I talked to him about a month ago about another (NBA head coaching) job where somebody else was thinking about hiring him and the GM from there called me to talk to Brad to get a feel if he wanted to coach in the NBA." Pretty ironic that Doc was testing the waters on Stevens leap to the NBA, and eventually he ends up filling in Docs shoes as he bolts to LA. Stevens must've been on a few teams radars, which makes me feel better about the signing. Doc continued: "And then the way it works out," Rivers said, "four weeks later, he takes my job (laughs). It's funny. I told him that he'd be an excellent NBA coach, and he's ready for it. Whether you want to leave Butler or...
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Family sociodemographic characteristics as correlates of children's breakfast habits and weight status in eight European countries: the ENERGY (EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent excessive weight Gain among Youth) project
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Boone Logan
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Boone Logan should be at Joe Girardi's disposal on Friday, after missing two weeks due to injury.
Logan, who saw Dr. James Andrews on Monday, has been out since Sept. 6 with a bone spur in his left elbow.
"Yes -- I mean, as far as I know," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said, when asked whether Logan would be available. "I have not been told anything different today. He felt good yesterday so unless something has transpired between last night and today that I'm not aware of, he's available."
Girardi thinks Logan could pitch an inning, or even get four outs, if the situation calls for it.
Logan expects to need offseason surgery to repair his elbow. The 29-year-old is 5-2 with a 3.26 ERA in 60 relief appearances this season.
Ichiro Suzuki
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"I just tried to shake the lineup a little bit. We're struggling scoring runs," Girardi said. "Maybe (
Curtis Granderson
) has been hitting some home runs, so maybe you drop him in the order a little bit with some of the guys that have been on base and maybe they become two- or three-run homers instead of solo shots. That was my thought."
Suzuki is 1-for-3 in his career against Friday night's starter for the Giants, Tim Linceum.
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Sonnets Shakespeare Spenser Sidney Shakespeare 1609 – Elizabethan, but published after her death (Jacobean). A Shakespearian sonnet is a fourteen line poem with a couplet written in iambic pentameter. Distinguish: Petrarch wrote first sonnet in Italy (hence, Petrarchan sonnet) = lyric poem of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter. Types of Sonnets Italian (Petrarchan) = –Octave (first 8 lines) abba abba -- or – ab ab ab ab –Sestet (next 6 lines) cde cde – or – cd cd cd –Volta = turn – point of dramatic change, occurs between octave and sestet Types of Sonnets English (Shakespearean) = –3 quatrains, plus couplet 3 stanzas of four lines 1 stanza of two lines – abab cdcd efef gg –Volta = before the couplet More About Sonnets Sonnet cycle = series of sonnets with central theme of love for a beautiful, unattainable woman (or young man) Fashionable to write intricate, controlled verse as competition and challenge Sonnets reflect shape, emphasis, and order of topic. Sir Thomas Wyatt – "Whoso List To Hunt" abba abba cddc ee Iambic accents (stress) on: "Whoso-list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, alas, I may no more: The vain travail hath wearied me so sore. I am of them that farthest cometh behind;" Sir Thomas Wyatt – "Whoso List To Hunt" Volta@ "Who list her hunt," = changes from active hunter (suitor) to acknowledged defeat (she belongs to King Henry) Theme = unattainable love Images = – Deer; doe; hunter; prey; – a net to catch the wind – Diamonds engraved on her neck Wyatt – Whoso List To Hunt" Whoso-list to hunt, I know where is an hind, A But as for me, alas, I may no more: iambic pentameter B The vain travail hath wearied me so sore. B modified Petrarchan I am of them that farthest cometh behind; A Yet may I by no means my wearied mind A Draw from the deer: but as she fleeth afore, B slant rhyme Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, B Since in a net I seek to hold the wind. A Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, C volta As well as I may spend his time in vain: D And graven with diamonds, in letters plain *metaphors – D There is written her fair neck round about: *theme – C "Nolit me tangere, for Caesar's I am; unattainable love E And wild for to hold, though I seem tame." E Shakespeare – Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? conceit A Thou art more lovely and more temperate. iambic pentameter B Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A Shakespearean And summer's lease hath all too short a date. B Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, *theme – C And often is his gold complexion dimmed. immortality of fair D youth through verse And every fair from fair sometime declines, C Dispraise = By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed. opposition to D achieve praise E But thy eternal summer shall not fade, volta Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, F Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade E When in eternal lines time thou grow'st. F So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, eternizing G conceit So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (hyperbole) G
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