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As The New York Times' Julie Bosman first reported, Jonah Lehrer has resigned from The New Yorker, soon after new allegations that he fabricated quotes. Michael C. Moynihan says he's uncovered something worse than Lehrer recycling his own material for New Yorker blog posts, which came to light in June. Moynihan says he couldn't find evidence that Bob Dylan said some of the things Lehrer quotes him as saying in "Imagine: How Creativity Works." Worse, he writes, Lehrer admitted lying to him about where he got some of the material because he "panicked." Moynihan confirmed Lehrer's resignation in a tweet: "Jonah Lehrer has resigned from the New Yorker and apologized to me."
New Yorker Editor David Remnick tells the Times' Julie Bosman, "This is a terrifically sad situation, but, in the end, what is most important is the integrity of what we publish and what we stand for."
In a note provided by his publisher, Lehrer said:
"Three weeks ago, I received an email from journalist Michael Moynihan asking about Bob Dylan quotes in my book IMAGINE. The quotes in question either did not exist, were unintentional misquotations, or represented improper combinations of previously existing quotes. But I told Mr. Moynihan that they were from archival interview footage provided to me by Dylan's representatives. This was a lie spoken in a moment of panic. When Mr. Moynihan followed up, I continued to lie, and say things I should not have said.
The lies are over now. I understand the gravity of my position. I want to apologize to everyone I have let down, especially my editors and readers. I also owe a sincere apology to Mr. Moynihan. I will do my best to correct the record and ensure that my misquotations and mistakes are fixed.
I have resigned my position as staff writer at The New Yorker."
— Jonah Lehrer
There was also an additional Publisher's Note: "In light of the serious misuse of quotations admitted above, we are exploring all options available to us. We are taking the e-book of IMAGINE off-sale, and halting shipment of physical copies."
Moynihan, a Tablet magazine contributor, explains how he discovered the fabrication:
I'm something of the Dylan obsessive — piles of live bootlegs, outtakes, books — and I read the first chapter of Imagine with keen interest. But when I looked for sources to a handful of Dylan quotations offered by Lehrer — the chapter is sparsely and erratically footnoted — I came up empty, and in one case found two fragments of quotes, from different years and on different topics, welded together to create something that happily complimented Lehrer's argument. Other quotes I couldn't locate at all.
Here's his description of what happened with one supposed Dylan quotation:
In another quote mined from Dont Look Back, in which Dylan is asked by a pestering Time magazine journalist about the inspiration for his songs, Lehrer quotes Dylan as saying: "I just write them. There's no great message. Stop asking me to explain." The last sentence sharpens and simplifies Lehrer's point — that Dylan's brilliance isn't easily explicable. But it doesn't appear in Dont Look Back.
When I questioned Lehrer about where this added sentence came from, he claimed it was a hybrid quote, with the first two sentences appearing in Dont Look Back and the admonition to "stop asking me to explain" from a 1995 radio interview included in a rare — and nearly impossible to find — collection of Dylan interviews called The Fiddler Now Upspoke. According to Lehrer, in 1995 Dylan told an interviewer, "Stop asking me to explain. Those songs weren't about anybody." But I couldn't find this either, and the only radio interview Dylan gave in 1995 doesn't include these lines. When asked for a more specific citation — a page number, a photo of the passage, more information about who conducted the interview– Lehrer ignored the request.
And here's what transpired when Moynihan tried to get Lehrer to explain where these quotations came from:
When contacted, Lehrer provided an explanation for some of my archival failures: He claimed to have been given access, by Dylan's manager Jeff Rosen, to an extended — and unreleased — interview shot for Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home. Two of the quotes confounding me, he explained, could be found in a more complete version of that interview, that is not publically available. As corroboration, he offered details of the context in which the comments were delivered, and brought up other topics he claimed Dylan discussed in this unreleased footage.
Over the next three weeks, Lehrer stonewalled, misled and, eventually, outright lied to me. Yesterday, Lehrer finally confessed that he has never met or corresponded with Jeff Rosen, Dylan's manager; he has never seen an unexpurgated version of Dylan's interview for No Direction Home, something he offered up to stymie my search; that a missing quote he claimed could be found in an episode of Dylan's "Theme Time Radio Hour" cannot, in fact, be found there; and that a 1995 radio interview, supposedly available in a printed collection of Dylan interviews called The Fiddler Now Upspoke, also didn't exist. When, three weeks after our first contact, I asked Lehrer to explain his deceptions, he responded, for the first time in our communication, forthrightly: "I couldn't find the original sources," he said. "I panicked. And I'm deeply sorry for lying."
In a statement quoted by New York Times' Bosman, Lehrer said "The lies are over now. I understand the gravity of my position. I want to apologize to everyone I have let down."
Last month, Jim Romenesko revealed that a New Yorker blog post by Lehrer borrowed material from something Lehrer had previously published in The Wall Street Journal. The New Yorker eventually added Editor's Notes to five stories and other self-plagiarism discoveries soon followed.
At the time, New Yorker editor David Remnick told Jon Friedman, "There are all kinds of crimes and misdemeanors in this business, and if he were making things up or appropriating other people's work that's one level of crime."
A month after he revealed that a portion of one of Lehrer's New Yorker blog posts contained previously published material, Jim Romenesko asked the magazine why hadn't seen Lehrer's byline since. He was told that Lehrer was working on a story for the magazine. Lehrer's byline hasn't appeared on a story since June 13.
Remnick, by the way, said recently that he's glad he never profiled Dylan:
For the few profiles he has time to write, Remnick tends to pick subjects he's personally intrigued by — musicians, writers, politicians, even tyrants. But he's acutely conscious of the potential for failure or misdirected ambition. "I used to think that I wanted to profile Bob Dylan," he says by way of example, "and I think now that would be a terrible mistake. First of all, there's enough written about Bob Dylan to last us twenty-seven lifetimes, and I think he would be the most elusive of subjects, and I've seen everyone else do it and I think it would be a disaster."
New Yorker senior PR director Alexa Cassanos said by email that Lehrer's posts "will stay on the site, and there are no plans to add further [editor's] notes unless necessary." The Wall Street Journal, where Lehrer wrote a biweekly column from October 2, 2010 through the beginning of last month, tells its Speakeasy blog, "We are currently reviewing Mr. Lehrer's work for the Journal."
Related: Lehrer on creativity: 'You fall in love with something and then you steal it' | Journalist feels 'horrible' about revealing Jonah Lehrer's fabrications
Earlier: How Edward Champion catalogued Jonah Lehrer's sins | Jonah Lehrer is sorry for whatever you call what he did | Under the microscope, Lehrer's work shows bigger problems than self-plagiarism

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Videos are a powerful means of marketing. This is why commercials have stuck around even when conventional television has changed in the past decade. Using videos, particularly on YouTube, as a direct online marketing tool can greatly boost traffic and generate leads for any online business.
The more views a video gets, the more likely it can drive traffic to a landing page.
Of course, one of the main concerns is that YouTube is quite crowded. According to a 2013 survey done by YouTube, roughly 100 hours of video content are uploaded per minute. This means that quality alone will not guarantee page clicks; video SEO is a must to boost traffic.
Use Long Video Descriptions
It is important to note that YouTube and Google do not actually watch or listen to the content of the uploaded videos, purpleclick.com explains. The only way they can identify the content is through the written context: meta tags and video descriptions.
Brief video descriptions won't get any traffic going. Longer descriptions with proper use of keywords will help YouTube rank the videos according to user searches. By writing longer descriptions, you will be giving YouTube more material to use in its ranking procedure.
Always Ask for Viewers to Link and Subscribe
YouTube's algorithm for ranking videos per search does not rely on backlinks. This means it is entirely up to the uploader to get more people to subscribe and share the video to generate more visits.
Every time a person subscribes after viewing a video, YouTube reads that action as a positive signal. The next time people do a YouTube search your videos will be prioritised more because of this.
The only way to get more subscriptions, likes, and shares is to proactively ask the viewer audience. This is why the most prominent YouTube users tend to end their videos with a call to action.


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We were very happy to have our first Search Innovation Seminar in Birmingham on 17th May. We had great presentations on What Google Might do Next, Local Search and Performance Display, and Incorporating Social Media into your Marketing.
You can find the presentations below, and if you've got any questions, let us know in the comments or tweet @BrummieSEO!
What Will Google do Next?
In this presentation, we're discussing what Google is trying to do, how they do it, and the reasons why they've made the recent changes like Penguin to their algorithm. Most importantly, Google seems to be demonstrating the importance of ethical linkbuilding.
Tactical Social Media: How to Incorporate Social Media into your Marketing
In this presentation, we're discussing the various ways to engage with your audience, expand your brand presence and market share, and grow your sales using a variety of social media platforms. Discussing Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Youtube, the presentation demonstrates the importance of creating shareable content that you can incorporate in to your offline marketing that will demonstrate your brand.
IP Targeting: Local Search and Performance Display
In this presentation, best practice local search strategies are discussed alongside Performance Display. Both of these engage with an audience based on their location, what they've recently looked, with the ultimate goal being to ensure that the most accurate results are presented.


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Courtesy of New England College Sports Information
KINGSTON, R.I.—The Thomas College baseball team spilt a North Atlantic Conference (NAC) doubleheader with New England College, falling 4-3 in extra innings in game one followed by a 7-6 victory in game two.
With today's results, NEC brings its record to 8-10 overall and 1-3 in NAC play, while Thomas is now 2-15 overall and 2-4 in the league.
NEC 4, Thomas 3 – 9 innings
Pinch-hitter Garrett Waldron hit a bases-loaded walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning to push the game-winning run across the plate as the Pilgrims downed Thomas 4-3 in extra innings.
Vincent Backert earned the complete-game win, scattering seven hits, three earned runs, a walk and nine strikeouts over the nine innings for the Pilgrims.
The first three innings were scoreless as Thomas plated the first two runs in the game in the top of the fourth as Alex Curtis (Monmouth, Maine) and Riley Simonetti (Minneapolis, Minn.) picked up RBI. The damage could have been worse, as Jordan Gibson (Marietta, Ga.) singled to center field with two outs to load the bases, but Hank Vinall (Blue Hill, Maine) struck out to strand three runners on.
NEC answered with two of their own runs in the bottom of the fourth as a one-out single by Jeam Castillo drove in two runs.
The Pilgrims tacked on a third run in the bottom of the sixth as a double down the left field line scored Delaney from first base. The Pilgrims looked poised to win in the scheduled seven innings, but a three-hit inning for Thomas allowed them to plate a run on a tough-to-handle infield single by Derek LeBlanc (Madison, Maine).
NEC left a runner on in the bottom of the seventh and both teams stranded runners in the eighth.
The Pilgrims tallied seven hits in the day. Evan Delaney batted 1-for-2 with two walks and a stolen base.
For Thomas, Gibson was 2-for-4 at the plate while Grant Corbett (Manchester, N.H) batted 1-for-4 with a double.
Thomas 7, NEC 6
The Pilgrims opened game two strong, as designated hitter, Conor Crouse opened the bottom of the first with a lead-off triple and came around to score on a single by Vargas. Vargas would then steal second and third and scored on a double by Jameson Carey for the early 2-0 lead.
NEC's starting pitcher Selah Dalomba pitched a 1-2-3 inning in the first but struggled in the second as he hit the lead-off batter, who eventually came around to score one of Thomas's three runs in the inning. Dalomba was pulled after one-and-two-thirds for Joseph Pascucci, who tossed 1.1 innings before Carey took over on the mound.
The Pilgrims took the lead briefly in the bottom of the fifth. Aneury Lara and Luis Atiles reached on a bunt single and a sac-bunt error, respectively, to put runners on first and second with no outs. Lara scored from second on a single up the middle by Delaney, and Atiles came around to score on a one-out groundout to by Backert.
Thomas would tie it up at 4-4 in the top of the sixth as lead-off batter Antonio Martinez (Coral Springs, Fla.) was hit by a pitch, advanced to second on a sac-bunt, and came around to score on an infield single by Tristan Pena (Portland, Texas). The Terriers held NEC scoreless in the bottom of the sixth, sending the game into the seventh inning tied for the second time on the day.
Thomas capitalized on an NEC fielding error and a walk before rattling off back-to-back doubles by Vinall and Pena to plate three runs in the top of the seventh for a 7-4 advantage.
NEC's lead-off batter Lara walked and moved to second on a groundout to third by Atiles, but attempted to move up on a passed ball and was thrown out at third for the second out of the inning.
Vargas singled to shortstop and came around to score as Delaney tripled to right-center, who also trotted across the plate on a single by Backert. NEC put two runners on as Carey drew a walk, forcing Thomas to bring in Taylor Bacon (Skowhegan, Maine) to pitch, who pitched Castillo into a groundout to end the game.
NEC tallied 10 hits on the day as Crouse, Vargas, Delaney and Carey all had two-hit days.
Carey took the loss on the mound, scattering four hits, four runs (one earned), two walks and five strikeouts over four innings.
Thomas's Matt Rutherford (Saco, Maine) earned the win, scattering 10 runs, six runs (five earned), three walks and three strikeouts over 6.2 innings.
The two teams continue their four-game series tomorrow at the University of Rhode Island's Bill Beck Field. First pitch is slated for noon.


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The Atlas Moth performs Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence live at the 2010 South By Southwest.
Love And Leave by Scattered Trees
Music video for Love And Leave by Scattered Trees.
Throwback Thursday: September by Earth Wind & Fire
Earth Wind & Fire preform September during a 1990 tour of Japan.
Jazz Sunday: Honeysuckle Rose by Frankie Trumbauer
Studio recording of Honeysuckle Rose by Frankie Trumbauer.
Today by Smashing Pumpkins
Smashing Pumpkins perform their song Today at Live Earth.
Coffee On The Rocks by Carl Hauck
Carl Hauck plays his song Coffee On The Rocks.
Power by Kanye West
A fan-made music video for POWER by Kanye West, complete with a sample from King Crimson.
That's My Bitch by Kanye West & Jay-Z
That's My Bitch by Kanye West & Jay-Z (Featuring Elly Jackson of La Roux).
Take Off Your Sunglasses by Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Music video for Take Off Your Sunglasses by Ezra Furman & The Harpoons.
The Clincher by Chevelle
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The story that pegs the Irony Meter takes place in Lincoln, Nebraska, where NOTHING good ever happens, unless it's the annual ass-kickin' that the Texas Longhorns put on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. That's another thing about Lincoln, they call themselves Cornhuskers. What the fuck is a Cornhusker other than a guy who can husk corn? Do they have degrees in cornhusking at NU? Is the mere mention of the word "cornhusker" supposed to strike fear into the hearts of your athletic opponent? The only way the word "cornhusker" would scare the hell out of anybody is if all "cornhuskers" were women from Nebraska. But, I digress.
Back to our dumbass, Matthew, and his 15 minutes of infamy. Matthew goes to this party where alcoholic beverages are being served. (Since our story takes place in Lincoln, NE, the drinks served at this party probably have little umbrellas in them, but, again, I digress) The party in question is a Halloween party. So far, so good. (except for the drinks with tiny umbrellas in them) Matthew, who you'll remember is only 19, goes to the Halloween party and has two drinks with little umbrellas in them and gets el drunk-o. I'd like to note for the record here, that the women Cornhuskers polished off two kegs of Pabst Blue Ribbon, while the boys had the drinks with little umbrellas in them. This is Nebraska, remember. Anyway, my main man, Matt, gets hammered and makes the foolish decision to drive home while being wasted on drinks with little umbrellas in them. While Matthew is operating his motor vehicle under diminished capacity, he gets pulled over by the Lincoln Police, who hate pansies like Matthew who drive drunk, especially when they are tanked on... you guessed it, drinks with little umbrellas in them.
The law then administers road side sobriety tests (which in Nebraska involved husking corn) to Matthew, which he fails miserably. He was, however, alert enough to present the arresting officer a keepsake little umbrella from one of his drinks he had earlier. The cop was not amused. (I just made that part up for dramatic dumbass effect).
IRONY ALERT! Guess what our man Matt was wearing when he got busted? A breathalyser costume! I. Kid.You. Not. This is almost as funny as a green turd in a punch bowl. Those Nebraskans, God bless 'em have the misfortune of being cornhuskers, then Earl, the God of Irony steps in like James Brown throwing a fourth and 2 pass from deep inside his own territory to his tight end and ends up with a 62 yard gain. Remember that, Cornhuskers? Earl, the God of Dumbass Irony could not have more cruel to our man Matthew than if he put one more second on the clock and your opponent kicks the field goal that costs you the Conference Championship. Doggone that Earl, he's trickster, ain't he? A breathalyser costume! bwahahahaha Life must be hell being a Cornhusker and life must really suck if you're Matthew - drunk, in jail and out one little umbrella from a foo foo drink. Dumbass. PIC BELOW**
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**Photo courtesy of The Smoking Gun.com


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New iPro(TM)2 myLog App Collects Data from Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) and Fitbit Activity Trackers, Provides Meaningful Insights on How Exercise Impacts Glucose Levels
DUBLIN and SAN FRANCISCO - Dec. 7, 2016 - Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), the global leader in medical technology, and Fitbit (NYSE: FIT), the leader in the connected health and fitness market, announced a partnership to integrate health and activity tracking for patients living with diabetes and their physicians and care teams. The iPro(TM)2 myLog mobile app will allow patients living with type 2 diabetes to see their glucose levels and physical activity data in one streamlined application. The new integration and partnership brings together Medtronic's sophisticated medical technology with the convenience of automatic activity tracking from Fitbit, which provides meaningful insights into how exercise impacts glucose levels for more effective diabetes care management.
"We believe monitoring glucose is a critical element in the management of diabetes and therefore, glucose should be included among other vital signs. As such, it has never been more important to increase the collaboration between healthcare and technology to simplify daily diabetes management for the 29 million patients living with type 2 diabetes in the United States," said Laura Stoltenberg, vice president and general manager of Non-Intensive Diabetes Therapies at Medtronic. "By creating a connection between physical activity and glucose levels, our iPro2 myLog mobile app solution provides new tools and insights, so that physicians can optimize therapy and patients can better understand how to manage their diabetes. By helping people with diabetes implement lasting lifestyle changes, this partnership underscores our commitment to transforming diabetes care, together, for greater freedom and better health."
Maintaining and tracking glucose levels is critical to effectively managing diabetes. For people living with type 2 diabetes, understanding how exercise affects glucose levels is a critical element to proper glucose management and long-term health. Additionally, many patients are manually tracking and recording their physical activity, requiring them to recall and communicate that information to their physician from memory. The iPro2 myLog mobile app will allow type 2 diabetes patients to easily combine data generated by their Fitbit activity tracker and Medtronic's iPro2 professional CGM system, eliminating the need to enter physical activity data manually, and providing a clear understanding of how exercise impacts glucose levels. MyLog will simplify the sharing of information with a patient's healthcare team, facilitating productive discussions about care and the benefits of exercise on diabetes management.
"We believe the integration of wearable technology with professional diagnostic tools can provide a more accurate and actionable view of a patient's physical activity," said Adam Pellegrini, vice president of Digital Health for Fitbit. "By partnering with Medtronic, we are able to bring the power of Fitbit's automatic activity tracking together with continuous glucose monitoring, allowing patients and providers to have a more informed conversation."
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MyLog is currently available for Android and iOS smartphones for patients undergoing evaluation with Medtronic's iPro2 professional CGM system.
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On my first trip to France, in my early twenties, I found myself overcome with nostalgia upon the discovery of a fountain pen embossed with a golden-haired, moon-eyed child in slouchy bell-bottom trousers and a dashing aviator ascot. My companion at the time, a native Manhattanite who'd had Tin Tin in the nursery and trips to Paris since elementary school, found my discovery about as riveting as an Eiffel Tower keychain. To me, as well as many other suburban-born American would-be Francophiles, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince was my first French chapter book, encountered as a teenager around the same time as cigarettes, crêpe pans, and Camus's The Stranger (alas, in English). To him, and any actual French person, the lovestruck space child is embroidered into the fabric of French childhood kitsch every bit as firmly as Mickey Mouse is to American children: as thoroughly Gallic in its philosophical posturing as the Disney empire is indebted to American capitalism, Le Petit Prince (or The Little Prince, as it's known to Anglophone readers) is an international blockbuster, each of its watercolor illustrations — the prince, his home on Asteroid B-612, his friend the fox, his troublesome love, the rose — replicated on generations of coffee mugs, sheet sets, plush toys, wristwatches, music boxes, and bath towels with matching robe.
The seventieth anniversary of the American publication is nigh, and it has brought that kitsch Stateside. One can buy a Limited Edition gift set, with a hardcover copy of the book and a CD of the audiobook read by the actor Viggo Mortensen. Moleskine, in keeping with their well-known fetish for all things that might possibly invoke midcentury writers in Parisian cafés, offers a Le Petit Prince Limited Edition Day Planner, available in two sizes and two colors, dark gold and Prussian blue, and a gift box with notebooks, postcards, and stickers suitable for decoration (for nostalgia-comparison purposes, other pop cultural artifacts deemed worthy for embossing on Limited Edition Moleskine sets include Pac Man, Star Wars, Peanuts, and audiocassette tapes). There is an iPhone app and a something called the Little Prince 4D ride, the details of which I can't quite parse from the publicity video, but apparently it may be enjoyed at a French theme park (not necessarily so) near you.
All of which seems much merchandising about nothing when one considers that, while the exact boundaries that defines those singled out for the prince's disdain can be murky, the vulgar villains of the novella — those who seek to own the stars, or judge the beauty of a house not by the doves on its roof or the geraniums in its windows but by its price tag — may all be fairly accurately described as capitalists, or, in Exupéry's terms, "grown-ups."
Those looking to explain the enduring appeal of a story about a pilot transformed by a wise child he encounters while marooned for eight days in the desert might hazard a few guesses: There is the midcentury romantic appeal of air travel (Beryl Markham's midcentury aviation memoir West of the Night was also reissued this year). Exupéry himself was a globe-trotting aviator who was once stranded for four days in the Sahara Desert, and mysteriously disappeared and was presumed dead at age forty-four after flying a mission south of Marseille in 1944. The prince's story borrows well-worn tropes from Christian parables: Besides the desert-exile motif, there is a garden filled with good seeds and bad seeds, which must be sorted and separated from one another; a flower of a female persuasion, which may or may not cause the prince to fall from innocence; and a snake. At the end of his time in the desert, the prince volunteers for his own death then, Christ-like, is risen. Gregory Maguire, the author of Wicked, explains in his introduction to the seventieth anniversary edition, that once, after first knocking back a few glasses of rosé, he asked a native Frenchman to explain the novel's "starry magic." The Frenchman reacted with a Gallic shrug and the non-explanation," 'It is full of truth.' He would not elaborate," writes Maguire. "He is French."
Fables, allegories, fairy tales, and world religions all take their beauty from the promise that universal truths lie in simply told stories. But the most plainly spoken belief to come from Exupéry's novel is also its most dismal: he glorifies childhood innocence and pays the cost with a radical distrust of adulthood. Human maturity, if Exupéry is to be believed, is the process by which an entire race of creatures is transformed from golden-haired children tilling their soil, guarding their flowers, and waiting for sunsets (the latter a sure sign of beautiful dreamers when used by S. E. Hinton in to describe greasers in Oklahoma in The Outsiders two decades later) into a race comprising solely accountants who would turn the very stars into notes on a ledger.
The dividing line between these two separate species is illustrated in a drawing that opens the novel: Children, he says, will know that it is a drawing of a boa constrictor who has swallowed an elephant. Grown-ups, he says, will see only a hat. Grown-ups are people who understand only "serious," subjects such as "geography, history, grammar and arithmetic," and to whom one may only speak of "reasonable things" such as "bridge and golf and politics and neckties" (as possible evidence that the grown-ups have since won, one may purchase a Le Petit Prince necktie in red, navy, or forest green silk from the official online boutique).
This elephant in the, ah, hat is the theme of the novel: the stark line that divides literature and math, art and science, body and soul, things that can be measured and things that must be imagined. The elephant is metaphor, the building block of art, and to speak of it to the grown-ups is, to invoke Mayakovsky (reprised by Billy Bragg), like "talking to the taxman about poetry." (The exact opposite of Exupéry's pastoral innocence may well be another midcentury children's book for grown-ups, or "precocious adults," written by an American woman. In Kay Thompson's arch, hilarious Eloise, the joy and humor come directly out of seeing a six-year-old girl engage with all the worldly pleasures of urban adulthood — charge cards, room service, boxing matches, mother's feathered mules — at her disposal).
This horror of the adult world seems cruel when inflicted upon children and teens just at the verge of crossing its threshold (not to mention generations of practicing artists, who, in Exupéry's terms, encounter the dubious choice between remaining a lifelong child or switching to the MBA track). Like many others who romanticize the purity of childhood, the boundary for Exupéry seems to be adolescence.
His "grown-ups," especially in midcentury terms, seem to be of a single gender as well: The grown-up is the person who pays the bills, the put-upon patriarch who labors without any particular love to support a family to whom he feels little more than obligated. One wonders if it is unkind to point out that this preoccupation with materialism was required more of the French petite bourgeoisie, whereas those of Exupéry's aristocratic class tended to be encouraged to pursue more enlightened pursuits. Those inclined towards psychoanalysis — another popular midcentury pastime — might also point out that while Exupéry, the child, was raised to believe in his enlightened future, Exupéry, the young adult, discovered that his family's status was more material in name than in fortune, and thus was strongly encouraged to rustle up a few beans of his own to count.
There is no doubt whatsoever that love for a young lady is the thorn in our little boy's side. He is driven off his home planet when made half mad over the love of a flower, a rose described as vain, weak, emotionally manipulative, "contradictory," and given to "silly pretensions," and who often coughs to hide her lies. "You must never listen to flowers," confides the prince. "You must look at them and smell them."
This unflattering portrayal of romantic love seems even less appealing when one considers that the prince's rose is widely considered to be a stand-in for Exupéry's wife, Consuelo Sunsin, a tempestuous beauty from El Salvador (like the prince's planet, home to three volcanoes), whom he often left alone during his travels, while he engaged in frequent adultery — the sin so singular to adulthood it shares its name. Consuelo was no shy flower herself, but the portrait she created of their marriage in her posthumous memoir The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind the Little Prince, published days before the centennial celebration of Exupéry's birth in 2000, was damning enough to put quite a damper on the festivities.
Despite the devout love it has inspired in generations of impressionable teenagers about to cross over into courtships of their own, Le Petit Prince is not a particularly convincing love story. It is better at describing the platonic friendship between equals that sustain men wandering away from their women: the prince and the fox; the pilot and the prince. The prince protects his rose, shields her behind glass, but never understands her. In a grisly twist, the souvenir he brings back to his planet to commemorate his travels — the sheep in the box — may or may not kill her. Even the book itself was never dedicated to the rose. Instead, it was dedicated to Exupéry's friend, the art critic and anarchist Leon Werth. Even that veered too close to the grown-ups for the prince of boyhood, so it was revised: "To Leon Werth, when he was a little boy." But those of us who are not — or have never been — little boys can still buy our place at the table. The "Little Prince T-shirt for Grown-ups," in black and Prussian blue, is available now at the online boutique for men up to XL. Women, too.


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Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2011
Oracle released JRE 6 Update 29 and Java 7 Update 1 today. Along with fixing six very serious vulnerabilities (CVSS 10.0), these updates include a fix for CVE-2011-3389 as well.
Beyond the fact that some of those CVSS 10.0 vulnerabilities will end up in exploit kits quickly, the CVE-2011-3389 fix addresses the Same Origin Policy (SOP) bypass used by Rizzo/Duong in their chosen plain text attack on SSL/TLS 1.0, also known as "BEAST".
Of couse, this fix by Oracle does not totally fix weakness in the SSL/TLS 1.0 protocol...therefore it is important for the security industry to keep pushing toward wider adoption of TLS v1.1+.


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Edison Announces Contractor For $4.4B Decommissioning Of San Onofre
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
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A joint venture between Los Angeles-based AECOM and Energy Solutions Inc. of Salt Lake City will serve as the general contractor for the $4.4 billion decommissioning of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Southern California Edison announced Tuesday.
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AECOM, a multinational engineering firm with an active presence in San Diego, and Energy Solutions, the largest handler of nuclear waste in the U.S., were selected after 10 months of competitive bidding, according to Edison, the operator and majority owner of the plant on the northern San Diego County coastline.
The joint venture will be known as SONGS Decommissioning Solutions.
The plant has been dormant since a small, non-injury leak in one of the reactors took place in January 2012. More than a year later, Edison announced that it would shut down the facility instead of following a costly restart process.
"We are pleased to announce the selection of the AECOM/Energy Solutions team, a global joint venture with extensive commercial and government decommissioning experience around the world, as the prime contractor to safely and efficiently dismantle the San Onofre nuclear plant," Southern California Edison President Ron Nichols said.
"SCE will maintain strict oversight of the contractor and will continue to engage with the community and all stakeholders during decommissioning," he said.
The decommissioning plan is undergoing an environmental review. Significant work to dismantle the facility isn't expected to begin before 2018, and will take about a decade, according to the utility.
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Words matter. They matter in all aspects of life, especially when we are talking about how to define a school. Of course, brick and mortar are only a small part of the story.
Words matter. They matter in all aspects of life, especially when we are talking about how to define a school. Of course, brick and mortar are only a small part of the story.
Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) has confirmed that President Barack Obama signed proposed legislation Thursday that includes his own proposal, dubbed the Zeldin Amendment, which will allow states to opt out of Common Core without sacrificing federal funding.
It seems that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has heard the complaints of many superintendents and principals: Common Core, in its current form, has some problems, and it's time to make some changes. READ
School districts whose leaders have been most outspoken in opposing New York's direction with public education saw more students refuse last week's assessments, a Riverhead News-Review analysis has found.
A mere four years ago, and for decades prior, one could not find any substantial evidence of students opting-out of standardized testing. At first glance, the current, heated, conflict over state testing and the "opt-out" movement appears to be a dispute between those who believe in and those who dispute the value of state tests. But this conflict goes deeper. It is a conflict about what is good for children and adolescents, about how children learn and thrive, and about how to raise young people to enter into and contribute to their communities as mature members of a democratic society. (more…)
"They couldn't have made a worse decision than what we have in our hands right now."
For someone who has been a vocal critic of New York State's public education system's high-stakes testing model, which has been enacted for the past few years, Greenport and Southold Superintendent David Gamberg's comments Tuesday about next year's state education budget came as especially critical.
While the budget adopted April 1 increases education funding by over 6 percent statewide, it has been met with heavy pushback from educators near and far as Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues attempting to overhaul education accountability throughout the state. (more…)
The rushed rollout of the Common Core State Standards under Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the 2012-13 school year set off alarm bells in school hallways and living rooms across the state. All of a sudden, teachers and parents in New York were being told that well over half of the student population had failed to make the grade based on the new Common Core-aligned math and ELA state assessments. (more…)
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Southold School District Superintendent David Gamberg has been an outspoken critic of the Common Core Learning Standards implementation and its testing requirements. So his expressed desire to apply "common sense" to education is not surprising.
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Arvind Swamy to make a comeback in Bollywood?
Mumbai: Popular southern actor Arvind Swamy is likely to make a comeback in Bollywood with filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar's next project.
The southern actor, who is known for starring in films like 'Roja' and 'Bombay', has been approached by Nambiar's for his film, where Swamy has a prominent role.
"We met him and are in talks with him regarding a project that I am going to produce. He has liked it. But it is all too early to talk about," Nambiar told PTI.
Though the actor has liked the script, he is yet to sign on the dotted line.
The actor also starred in Priyadarshan's Hindi film 'Saat Rang Ke Sapne' opposite Juhi Chawla. The film was produced by Amitabh Bachchan and it did not do well at box office.
His last Hindi was 'Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya' (2000), which failed to garner much attention.


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I've found painting my nails to be a fail-safe option to make a bad day better. I felt under the weather yesterday, and so I decided to stay home. I grabbed a can of diet 7 Up to quell a queasy stomach, put on the blind auditions of this season's The Voice (a guilty pleasure), and decided to paint my nails.
p.s. how beautiful does Sandra Bullock look?!
I'm always drawn to moody greys (it is my favorite color) and more vampy colors for the fall, so it's no surprise that I included OPI's Peace, Love & OPI and Essie's Mind Your Mittens as two of the three colors I was deciding between. Peace, Love & OPI is one of the two nail polishes I picked up from OPI's San Francisco collection. It's such a fun color – it has a grey base that has a holographic effect where the color changes to shades of green and purple depending on the angle and the light. It applies beautifully, with semi-opague color in one shade, and full-out gorgeousness in two. Mind Your Mittens continues the grey theme, but with a really lovely touch of teal. I love that it's moody yet soft at the same time. Again, application was really nice and the formula was really easy to work with. I ended up picking Mind Your Mittens for my toes. As for my tips? I surprised my grey-loving self and went with a lovely berry shade from Chanel, April. This color actually came out as a summer release, but there's something about the berry tone to it that I think makes it fall appropriate, even if its name says otherwise. I think of it as a classy, sexy color that would work well with fall's rich tones.
There are so many other bloggers who do such an amazing job with nail polish application, photography, and blogging that I'll leave that to them. I'll just take pictures of the pretty bottles. ;)
Of course, every good mani starts out with good prep and base products. My nail polish remover of choice is ZOYA remove+. It gets my polish off quick and easy, including my glitter ones with just a little more effort. Plus, it smells amazing. Seriously. It smells so good and less abrasive than other nail polish removers that it's the only one James doesn't complain about. I love it so much that my poor bottle is almost empty.
I round out my mani prep products with CND stickey as base coat, Seche Vite as top coat, and Essie's apricot cuticle oil as the icing on the cake.
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Larry Crowne: the feel-absolutely-nothing film of the decade!
Tuesday June 28th 2011
I watched Sleepless in Seattle again the other night, and as well as remembering how much better it is than When Harry Met Sally (feel free to disagree but also know that you are categorically wrong), I suddenly realised how long it's been since Tom Hanks has been properly charming in anything. It seems like every character he's played in the last ten years has either been a boring plank, a cartoon, or a romantic lead clearly written for somebody twenty years his junior.
With Larry Crowne, his second stab at directing, it's time for Hanksy to finally own up to not being 25 any more, as he steps into the shoes of the titular Mr. Crowne, a Navy veteran who loses his job at a supermarket due to TOPICAL DOWNSIZING THAT IS TOPICAL. And if you think that sounds distressing and emotional, never fear: the scene in which Crowne gets fired occurs less than five minutes into a movie that is otherwise entirely devoid of any conflict whatsoever.
Instead, Hanks's film is an insanely tedious series of increasingly saccharine 'feel-good' moments, in which Boring Old Man Larry Crowne goes to community college, becomes inexplicably popular with a group of attractive young students, has a makeover, falls in love with Julia Roberts and generally has everything go right for him all the time. All of which might be great fun for Larry Crowne, but carries about as much dramatic weight as a baby eating a Jaffa Cake.
Julia Roberts cements her apparent disdain for challenging work with the role of Mercedes Tainot (that's Mercedes Tainot), a college professor who may or may not have distinguishable character traits. Equally wasted are Bryan Cranston, as her 'professional blogger' husband (get ready for plenty of 'Ha! Blogs! Aren't they worthless!' business) and Taraji P. Henson, whose transformation from talented actress to permanently sceptical chipmunk is nearly complete:
In a way it's quite sweet that Tom Hanks is so reluctant to introduce any kind of bad vibes into the equation. He's like a friendly teddy bear wobbling around entertaining the elderly and infirm with big happy stories full of big happy people, and is that really such a crime?
I mean, whatever you think of his movies, you can't deny that he's one of the cuddliest directors in Hollywood. CAN YOU?
And Larry Crowne is exactly that: the cinematic equivalent of a big friendly cuddle, albeit one that makes you want to vomit up your own soul at the sheer awfulness of it all.


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Dig the Big Pig Gig
Reading the last post warrants some update from where I was then to where I am now. After that rant, I took a step back from my training and evaluated. First thing I did was get some needed rest. I took two full days off and then went to our club's Wednesday Open Water Swim (WOWS) to get in an easy open water swim. This was just the ticket to get me back on track. The second thing I did was to re-evaluate my training schedule. I've been doing the same structured schedule for three years. OMG! I needed a change to freshen things up. I suppose the slip in training focus was from my mind rejecting that same old schedule day after day.
I worked out three different training weeks that work with what my schedule. This way I have options. I kept the same basic volume/frequency, just mixed up the days. It's the old philosophy of doing the same thing over and over will not allow your body to progress. Add change and your body will have to adjust therefore forcing a progression. It's working so far. I feel a new "tired" I haven't felt in awhile.
The last thing I will do is to schedule my long run with a day of rest beforehand. I have always done a long bike on Saturday then long run on Sunday. For me at age 42, the body has a hard time recovering to be able to do those 13+ mile long runs. Granted I can do them but it's been a struggle. Put a day of rest in between and I can run longer with more focus. Seems to work.
OK, now what has the above change in training given me? A PR at the 1/2 IM distance. I signed up for Pigman as an A-race to prepare for Kona. It's typically very hot for this race and it delivered with mid to upper 80's but not so much humidity. That's ok, I'll take what I can get. This summer has been very strange with mild temps.
The swim start for this year was changed to a time trial format. Not sure why. Kind of reminded me of Memphis in May. We did however line up by wave and my wave was last (wave 9!). This meant a lot of swimming through people. The water was 77 degrees and Keith decided to wear his wetsuit so he graciously lent me his Point Zero Three skin suit. Not sure it made much difference as I swam the same 33 minute 1.2miles I always do. Conditions were a bit tough through the center section. Water was very choppy. The buoys were also kind of small so sighting was a bit of a struggle. Anyway, I was happy with my swim. 0:33min
The bike course was up down, up down, up down, up down.....very rolly the whole way. I tried to keep a pretty consistent pace and not go out too strong. Since I was in wave 9, again I was passing people endlessly. I think this kept my pace pretty brisk and by mile 50 I was feeling it a bit in the legs. Wind was starting to pick up and the last few miles back to transition were into a head wind. I thought I was on pace for about a 2:21 split but ended up a little slower. Course might have been 1/2 mile long since the computer said 56.6. My nutrition for the bike was a 200 cal bottle of HEED and one flask of Orange/Raspberry Hammer Gel or 500 cal. In addition to that I drank about one and 1/4 bottles of water. Probably not enough to stay hydrated. Seems like at that effort, I have a hard time keeping the water flowing. I'll have to work on that for sure. As I came in to T2, I saw a familiar red and white striped bike jersey ahead of me. Sure enough it was John Collet from Verona, IL. He is in my age group and a very good runner. I made it out of T2 ahead of him and hoped to hold him off for awhile. Good bike split for this course. 2:28 @ 22.7mph
I tried out my new Saucony Grid A4 tri shoes for this race to see how they might feel for a full marathon in Kona. Needless to say they're more of a race flat so I'll probably leave them home an pick up a pair of DS trainers or another pair of Kayanos. At mile one here comes Collet (running flat footed and not grunting with every breath surprisingly). I said hey and asked how he was doing. He looked at me like he didn't really know me (which he may not) and said good, starting to cramp a bit. Under my breath I said "good". Ha! I was hoping he would crack. By mile 2 I noticed I was running a pretty fast 7:20 pace which blew my whole strategy out the door. I was planning to build slowly out to mile 6 and then push hard for the finish. I also noticed my quads were beginning to twinge with that cramping feeling. I was certainly dehydrated and needed to increase my water intake with some Endurolytes which I did with success.
After mile 2 the run course followed a road with absolutely no cover but relatively flat. I was with a pack of 4 guys who I drafted for, for about 2 miles. At mile 5 they dropped me and I was all alone. I slowed a bit from there and at the turnaround my split was 50 minutes. I thought that was pretty awesome so I was feeling good about my finish time. I was shooting for a 4:45 overall time and if I matched the first half I could do it. The temp got to be in the upper 80's and I was feeling hot. Started to pour ice in my shirt/pants. This helped a lot. I surged from mile 9 to 10 and thought I was running great. 8 minutes. Wow, must be fatigue setting in. Between 10 and 11 that surge went straight to my stomach and I thought maybe I'd start having some GI problems. I slowed a bit more to hold that feeling off. I pretty much gutted the last 2 miles out and finished strong. 1:41
I didn't break my 4:45 goal but felt pretty good after the race. Total time ended up being 4:47:12 which beats my Muncie Endurathon 1/2 IM PR by about 30 seconds. I'll take the Pigman PR any day. That course is much more challenging. I was surprised to find out I got 2nd in my age group. I thought I had seen other guys in my age group pass me on the run. They must have been relay guys.
And by the way, my sports hernia didn't bother me at all. That's a good sign.
I took a couple days off and I'm back on track with my training. One last push for Kona. I'm trying to do more of a run focus to build up to 16-18miles "comfortably". I also need to do my long rides without the harder efforts. Just need to get some long mileage in. Today was a 5hr ride in the heat and humidity. I got through it but it was a character builder.
7 weeks and counting...
2 comments:
- P-Dawg said...
Hey Dude--Never gotr to congratulate you on your great Pigman...Mighty, mighty stuff. The whole day was a struggle for me but I got through it. Nice one man!
Phil Shils
- August 31, 2008 at 2:24 PM
- Sweet said...
Yes, back-to-back long rides and runs is a silly, silly idea that doesn't help anyone. Intentionally training on tired legs -if avoidable- is a myth that needs to go away.
- September 23, 2008 at 4:29 PM
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Doctors say that more than 7,000 children have been affected by the highly contagious virus since it resurfaced in Vietnam late last year, while at least 127 have died—nearly all of whom were located in the capital Hanoi and other nearby localities.
And while authorities have launched an intensive inoculation campaign to combat the outbreak, WHO representative Takeshi Kasai said Wednesday that the government could have done more to prevent the crisis.
"We see children are dying and any death of children is a tragedy, particularly if we know those children's deaths could have been prevented with an effective tool—vaccine," Kasai told RFA's Vietnamese Service in an interview.
"The most important thing [to prevent measles] is vaccinations. If the vaccination coverage was high enough, [the situation in Vietnam] could have been prevented," he said.
"And that's the reason why when the ministry got this information, they swiftly switched from an intensive surveillance system and also communication with the public, to starting … an intensified vaccine campaign."
In Vietnam, children are recommended to have a first measles vaccination dose at 9 months old and a second after 12 months.
The WHO says two doses of the vaccine are needed to ensure immunity and prevent outbreaks, as about 15 percent of vaccinated children fail to develop immunity from the first dose, but experts have suggested that many have not received their second shot.
Kasai said that in addition to government efforts to ensure children are vaccinated, local communities must be made more aware of the need for the treatment.
Several countries in the region—including China, the Philippines and Japan—are also battling measles outbreaks, he said, adding that "the situation [Vietnam is] facing is similar to the challenges that even a developed country faces" and that authorities are "putting all of their measures [into place] that they can."
Those measures include providing guidance, extra personnel and equipment to hospitals and health care facilities to tackle the disease, he said.
Social media postings have recently accused authorities of downplaying the severity of the crisis by under-reporting numbers of deaths and refusing to label it an "epidemic" because acknowledging the problem would reflect a lack of efforts to eradicate measles in Vietnam by 2017.
Kasai said that the definition of an epidemic varies by country, with some declaring one after only a single case, others after a cluster of connected cases, and still others waiting until they see "an unusually high number of cases compared to their usual years."
He did not say whether the situation in Vietnam was considered an epidemic by WHO standards.
But he said that the recent outbreak "redoubles all our [the WHO and the Vietnamese government] efforts to ensure that Vietnam will reach this goal" of eliminating the disease within three years.
Kasai said it was "very difficult to speculate" whether the government was likely to contain the current outbreak in the near future.
"But what I can say is that the Ministry of Health … has experienced so many [disease] events and every time they strengthen their capacity."
In the meantime, he said, the WHO and other agencies of the United Nations, including UNICEF, would continue to work closely with the government to end the threat.
Kasai said that, as a technical agency, the WHO had largely been providing the Vietnamese government with advice on how to monitor the situation and how to organize its response campaign, as well as guidance on infection control within hospitals.
Lack of vaccinations
A report by the Ministry of Health confirmed 3,430 confirmed cases and more than 5,800 suspected ones as of last Sunday, in what doctors have called the country's worst-ever measles outbreak.
On April 4, the ministry issued an urgent order urging cities and provinces to step up their efforts in coping with measles outbreak and vaccinating children.
At that time, the outbreak had spread to 59 provinces and cities in the country, it said, saying a main factor in the spread of the disease was that many children had not been properly vaccinated.
A previous outbreak of measles in 2009-2010 prompted UNICEF and WHO to launch a vaccination campaign in an effort to eradicate it by 2012, but the current crisis has raised concerns that not enough children in the country were treated.
Earlier this month, former vice director of Ho Chi Minh Hospital for Tropical Diseases Tran Tinh Hien said that during the last outbreak, the government was only calling for children to receive one dose of vaccine, while they are currently calling for two.
He said that parents are also concerned about complications from the vaccination, so fewer are bringing their children to receive the injection.
Ministry criticized
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has come under criticism for being slow to declare an outbreak and under-representing the number of children who have died as a result of the virus.
Last week, Tien rejected claims that she had covered up the true number of deaths in the outbreak by reporting to the public that only 25 deaths were directly attributable to measles, while doctors at hospitals in Hanoi reported scores of young children dying from measles-linked infections.
After the doctors in the Vietnamese capital reported more than 100 deaths linked to measles, the Ministry of Health issued a statement acknowledging the higher figure but maintaining that its original, lower one was more precise, according to reports.
Measles deaths are usually a result of complications from the disease, according to the WHO.
Vietnam's health ministry has said it will only declare an epidemic if it detects mutations in the measles virus, according to the Thanh Nien newspaper.
However, the paper reported on Tuesday that the virus now appears to be attacking patients' respiratory system, rather than the brain as it did in previous years, leading to fatality rates higher than usual, citing doctors speaking during a conference held by the Ministry of Health.
Reported by RFA's Vietnamese Service. Written in English by Joshua Lipes.