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Watching how tightly the McCain campaign has controlled the media access to Sarah Palin, I thought: Where have I seen something like this before? Answer: the publicity campaign for A Long Way Gone, which Ishmael Beah continues to bill as a memoir of his years as a child soldier despite serious challenges to the credibility of many of his claims. Farrar, Straus & Giroux has done with Beah what McCain has done with Palin: Restrict speeches and interviews severely, offering them mainly to safe audiences and journalists. Beah has never been interviewed by an American broadcaster who has asked tough questions and followed up on them as directly as Charles Gibson and Katie Couric did with Palin. Cynthia McFadden – one of the few who had a chance to do it – wimped out unabashedly in her interview with Beah earlier this year on Nightline. blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2008/08/nightlines_bad.php.
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Sam Anderson won the 2007 Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle and shows again why he deserved it with a stylish pan of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice in the August 10–17 issue of New York. Don't miss this one if you admire the merciless wit that readers of the New Yorker used to get from Dorothy Parker, one of Anderson's favorite critics.
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An annual state-by-state survey says the country is making good progress in improving its overall health – including a flat obesity rate and a lower rate of smoking. But individual states, especially in the South, continue to lag.
The 2013 edition of 'America's Health Rankings' by United Health Foundation, the American Public Health Association and Partnership for Prevention says that, 'for the first time in decades,' the nation's obesity rate did not rise between 2012 and 2013. Americans are also becoming more physically active, the report says.
'We should certainly celebrate these gains,' said Dr. Reed Tuckson, external senior medical adviser to United Health Foundation. 'I am hopeful that the leveling off we see in America's obesity is a sign of further improvement to come.'
The report ranks Hawaii as the healthiest state, bumping Vermont, which held that spot in 2012, down to second place. Minnesota rounds out the top three. Nine of the states ranking in the top ten were in the Northeast or West.
Mississippi is lowest ranked, as it was in 2012. Contributing to its low rating were the high prevalence of obesity, physical inactivity and diabetes. Of the ten lowest-ranked states, only Indiana is not in the South. Numbers 47 through 49 are Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas, respectively.
Hawaii scored well for high childhood immunization rates, and low rates of people without health insurance, smoking and preventable hospitalizations. It lost points for high prevalence of binge drinking and low high school graduation rates.
Mississippi, which has ranked in the bottom three states since the report was first issued in 1990, is in the bottom five states in 15 of the report's 27 measures, but ranks well for childhood immunization and a small disparity in health status between social groups.
America's Health Rankings uses mostly federal data from sources including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Labor and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The study looks at 19 different determinants of health – factors including air pollution, public health spending and crime rates – and eight outcomes, including diabetes rates, infant mortality and cancer deaths.
Each metric is given a weighted portion of a top possible score, and then states are compared to the national mean score. A score of zero means a state is even with the mean. Scores ranged from .92 above the mean for Hawaii, to .89 below it for Mississippi. States scoring closest to the mean were Arizona, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
Among the states with the biggest decline in rank from 2012 to 2013, is Wisconsin, which fell from 13th to 20th. Wisconsin saw an increase in both obesity and violent crime, coupled with a decline in adolescent immunizations.
Wyoming saw the greatest year-on-year improvement in rank, from 25th to 17th. The report says greater levels of physical activity and childhood immunization, plus a decline in low birth weight babies helped boost the Cowboy state's numbers.
Despite what the report identifies as positive new metrics and potential trends nationwide, Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the nonprofit Institute of Medicine, concludes in a commentary accompanying the report that, 'America's health system is neither successful nor sustainable. If we as a nation are going to achieve our potential for health we will have to face up to three great tasks: 'provide care at lower cost, foster a culture of health and invest in research in prevention and treatment.'
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Esther Cepeda: Chasing diversity in education
?Back when I was oblivious about what went on in underperforming public schools, I had fanciful notions that the key to encouraging social mobility was college access.
And not the kind of access that would diversify the ranks of college graduates by race, mind you, but access based on the only relatively colorblind assessment: family income.
Now that it's becoming a popular idea -- a recent editorial in The Economist declared that "affirmative-action programmes should give way to schemes to help students based on the poverty of the applicant rather than the colour of his skin" -- I find that it's a flawed, imaginary silver bullet.
I'm not the only one who's turned on the heir to raced-based affirmative action.
In a recent Huffington Post column, "If Not Race, Then Wealth: Why Universities Should Avoid Income as Proxy for Race-Based Admissions Policy," Alan A. Aja, along with William A. Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton, wrote: "If class is to replace race in selective college admissions, then at the very least, wealth should serve as the indicator of class status rather than income. ... [It] is a far superior measure of socioeconomic position and provides a far better class measure as proxy for race or ethnicity than income."
Aja, a professor in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College, contends that income -- and therefore the amount a family is expected to kick in for tuition as calculated for a student seeking a federal or school-based financial aid package -- can be precarious and fleeting.
"'Expected family contribution' is one of those questions that assumes a number of variables also exist at the same time: good economy, employment, a non-discriminatory labor market, etc., all of which are conditions that are more likely to favor whites," Aja told me. "If a member of a typical white family loses their income for myriad reasons, such families are more likely to have 'wealth', i.e. assets of value that could be used for rainy-day necessities such as tuition support, books, etc., for a student family member, giving that student an advantage over the typical black or Latino student who has less wealth. By using wealth, you assess the actual need in more effective ways as opposed to income."
Agreed. As we crawl our way out of the lingering after-effects of the recession, no one could argue that whites aren't doing better on most financial measures compared to Hispanics and blacks.
Still, even Aja has concerns about the repercussions of using either wealth or income in determining preferred admission into universities.
"We're trying to use a financial measure as an imperfect proxy for class, which really can't be adequately measured," Aja said. "Yet, it still doesn't address the issue that is fundamental to both the attainment and the intergenerational transfer of wealth, which is race.
"In fact, in a scenario where income or wealth is taken into account in admissions, we could see even fewer black and Latino students on campuses because there are simply more white people in the United States than everyone else -- which is why I believe we still need race-based affirmative action."
And that's where Aja and I part ways.
Sure, we both agree that income-based affirmative action could have a negative effect on the number of minority students entering into college. But he goes on to lament that such a situation would present "a fundamental question: Do we, as a nation, want our kids to be in highly segregated institutions?"
Neither of us wants that. Yet the reality for too many families, mine included, is that we already live in that nation. Millions of poor students in America attend underperforming neighborhood schools where they are relegated to interact only with members of their own race and a slight minority of equally under-resourced white students.
After seeing the heart-wrenching struggles and failures of countless first-generation college students who had a leg up in getting into a college or university because of their race or income, I've come to believe that simply expecting universities to provide access on such measures is a false promise.
Relying on universities to diversify their populations this way lets them appear to be progressive, despite poor graduation rates for these students. Unfortunately that lulls the rest of society into the fantasy that it's all right to allow our K-12 educational system to keep graduating countless high school students who aren't prepared to gain admission into -- much less succeed in -- college on their own merits.
Esther Cepeda's email address is email@example.com.
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SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) – Newlyweds just three weeks removed from their wedding day lured a Pennsylvania man to his death with a Craigslist ad because they wanted to kill someone together, police said.
Elytte Barbour told officers before his arrest Friday night that he and his wife, Miranda, had planned to kill before but their plans never worked out until last month when Troy LaFerrara responded to an online posting that promised companionship in return for money.
Elytte Barbour, 22, and Miranda Barbour, 18, both face criminal homicide charges in LaFerrara's death. His body was found Nov. 12 in an alley in Sunbury, a small city about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The couple recently moved to nearby Selinsgrove from North Carolina.
According to Sunbury police, Elytte Barbour told investigators he hid in the backseat of the couple's SUV as his wife picked up LaFerrara at a mall on Nov. 11. He told police that, on his wife's signal, he wrapped a cord around LaFerrara's neck, restraining him while Miranda Barbour stabbed him.
The 42-year-old Port Trevorton man was stabbed 20 times, police said.
Miranda Barbour was charged Wednesday. She initially denied knowing LaFerrara, but her story evolved as investigators gathered evidence, including the discovery that the last call received by the victim's cellphone was made from her number, according to a police affidavit.
The affidavit said Miranda Barbour acknowledged meeting the victim in Selinsgrove then driving with him to Sunbury, where they parked. She said LaFerrara groped her and she took a knife from between the front seats and stabbed him after he put his hand around her throat, according to the affidavit.
Police said Miranda Barbour had told them she purchased cleaning supplies at a department store after stabbing LaFerrara, then picked up her husband and took him to a strip club for his birthday. On Friday, police said Elytte Barbour told them it was he that had purchased the cleaning products, an account investigators said was backed up by surveillance footage.
Following his wife's arrest, Elytte Barbour told The Daily Item of Sunbury his wife, whom he married on Oct. 22, regularly hired herself out as a "companion" to men she met on various websites, a business venture he said he supported because it did not involve sexual contact.
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Anyone who still believes that Ishmael Beah was boy soldier may have doubts after reading the first comprehensive investigation by a Sierra Leonean journalist of the story told in A Long Way Gone, a book billed by its publisher as "a memoir" of Beah's years as a fighter in his government's army. Muctaru Wurie investigated Beah's claims for a report published in the quarterly Sierra Eye and elsewhere. He concluded that A Long Way Gone is "a long way from truth."
Wurie based his report on an analysis of the book and on interviews with experts on the civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s, including representatives of the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, founded to bring "reconciliation and healing" to victims of the conflict. Beah says he was one of those victims and, based on that claim, and has had a lucrative writing and speaking career in the United States and elsewhere.
Sierra Eye has published a long list of mistakes and other disturbing flaws in A Long Way Gone that have created "serious doubts" among Sierra Leoneans about the book and add to and deepen the questions raised in the Australian by Shelley Gare, David Nason and Peter Wilson. In the West African magazine, Wurie says that Beah describes some events that "never happened." A list of links to other articles that have challenged or raised questions related to Beah's claims appears at the end of this post.
Wurie tried to speak with Beah or a representative of his publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, but hit the stone wall faced by Graham Rayman of the Village Voice and others when he sought answers to questions about the book.
The most serious problems found by Wurie include:
Ishmael Beah says that when he was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in May 1997: "Someone came on the radio and announced himself as the new president of Sierra Leone. His name, he said, was Johnny Paul Koroma, and he was the leader of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council …"
Muctaru Wurie says in Sierra Eye: " … everyone who was here at that time knew that what was described as the most embarrassing coup broadcast of all time was delivered by the late Corporal [Tamba] Gborie, who was later convicted of treason and shot by firing squad."
Lansana Gberie, a Sierra Leonean scholar and journalist who has written regularly for Africa Week other publications, confirms that Gborie did the broadcast in his book A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone (Indiana Universiy Press, 2005).
Ishmael Beah says that after he arrived at a UNICEF camp for former child soldiers in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1996, a fight broke out between those who had fought for the government and for rebels of Revolutionary United Front (RUF): "Six people were killed: two on our side and four on the rebel side; and several were wounded, including two of the men who had brought us [to the camp]. The military ambulances took off, wailing into the still newborn night with the dead and wounded."
Muctaru Wurie says in Sierra Eye: "This never happened. I checked newspaper clippings at the Sierra Leone section library at the renowned Fourah Bay College and spoke to many journalists and NGO officials at the time, they all said they had no doubts such an incident never occurred.
"The fact that Ishmael wilfully omitted the name or location of the said centre in Freetown raised further doubts about an event no one here seems to recall."
Wurie's contention that the camp fight "never happened" meshes with a UNICEF statement to the Village Voice that it couldn't confirm that the fight occurred.
Ishmael Beah says: "The first time I was touched by war I was twelve. It was in January of 1993."
Alhaji Samura, who was a transcriber for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is quoted as saying in Sierra Eye: "I have read reviews of A Long Way Gone and from what I can see, the book appears to be fictional. I can't recall a time when someone gave a testimony that they saw the national army recruiting children openly in a town to fight along with them before 1997."
Ishmael Beah says: "One evening, a neighbor who lived a few doors down from my uncle's house was listening to a pirate radio station that accused the new government of crimes against civilians. A few minutes later, a truck full of soldiers stopped in front of the man's house, dragged him, his wife, and his two older sons outside, shot them, and kicked their bodies into the nearby gutter."
Muctaru Wurie says in Sierra Eye that the incident "never happened":
"The incident that actually happened (but not mentioned in Ishmael's book) and caught the attention of the public and international media was the one concerning the woman at Kissy who was listening to FM 98.1 and was later confronted by a soldier whom she defiantly challenged before she was shot. It was the talk of the town and several people flocked to see the dead woman lay on the ground bleeding profusely.
"An incident whereby a whole family was massacred would have raised more public notice –if it did happen. To ascertain this, I called former minister of information, Dr Julius Spencer who was the then head of FM 98.1. He told me clearly that there was not a time he recalled anything like that happened. Spencer, who also happens to be one of the leading literature scholars in the country, said though he has not read Ishmael's book, the reviews he read makes him doubt if Ishmael depicted the truth in his work."
Ishmael Beah says that when he left Sierra Leone for Guinea after being removed from the fighting: "The immigration officers were asking for three hundred leones, almost two months' pay, to put a departure stamp on passports."
Muctaru Wurie says in Sierra Eye: "The fact is that the average monthly salary was far above that. Le 300 could only get you a pint of soft drink by the time. In fact, a US dollar is exchanged for around Le 800."
Wurie said he wanted to ask Beah or his publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, how "someone who claims to be a native of the country, and also participated in the war, could have gotten it so wrong on so many aspects." But he hit a stone wall at the firm that issued the book.
"I called twice and mailed them thrice but I only got a promise that they will get back to me which they never did," he writes. "In fact, I'm still waiting today."
You may also want to read these articles that raise questions about A Long Way Gone:
"Boy Soldier of Fortune," the Village Voice, March 18, 2008.
"Ishmael Beah Foundation Didn't File Tax Returns for 3 Years, IRS Says," One-Minute Book Reviews, April 8, 2012.
"UNICEF Can't Confirm Beah's Camp Brawl Claim," the Village Voice, March 19, 2008.
"An Open Letter to Ishmael Beah About Questions Recently Raised About His Memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' by Reporters for the Australian," One-Minute Book Reviews, Jan. 24, 2o08.
"Ishmael Beah Says He Was Shot 'Three Times in My Left Foot' But Suffered No Serious Damage," One-Minute Book Reviews, Feb. 12, 2008.
"More Questions About Ishmael Beah's 'A Long Way Gone," One-Minute Book Reviews, Jan. 29, 2008.
"Ishmael Beah Ducks Question About Whether He Used Composite Characters or Passed Off Others' Experiences as His Own," One-Minute Book Reviews, Apr. 18, 2008.
"Wikipedia Claims Laura Simms Is Ishmael Beah's 'Foster Mother,' Not His 'Adoptive Mother,' As He Claims," One-Minute Book Reviews, March 11, 2008.
"Ishmael Beah's Wikipedia Entry – a Point-by-Point Response for Reporters, Producers and Book Groups and Others Seeking Facts About the Author of 'A Long Way Gone,'" One-Minute Book Reviews, Feb. 14, 2008.
"Ex-child soldier's literary best seller is 'factually flawed,'" The Observer (UK), Jan. 20, 2008.
"School Report Shoots Holes in Child Soldier's Bloody Tale," the Sunday Times (London), Feb. 3, 2008.
"Australian Newspaper Questions Ishmael Beah's Memory," GalleyCat, Jan. 21, 2008.
"The OTHER Book About Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone," One-Minute Book Reviews, Feb. 4, 2008.
"Ishmael Beah's Parents May Be Alive and 'No One Knows Where They Are,' Wikipedia Says — Entry Contradicts Author's Statements in the New York Times and Elsewhere," One-Minute Book Reviews, March 10, 2008.
"Does the Cover of 'A Long Way' Gone Show a Soldier in Niger or Another African Country Instead of Sierra Leone? Why Isn't the Location Identified?," One-Minute Book Reviews, Feb. 27, 2008.
"Out of the Mouth of a Babe Soldier" (Quotes from Ishmael Beah's book and interviews that appear contradictory), One-Minute Book Reviews, Feb. 5, 2008.
"Whitewash on ABC's 'Nightline' — Cynthia McFadden Wimps Out in Interviewing Ishmael Beah About the Truthfulness of his 'A Long Way Gone,'" One-Minute Book Reviews, Aug. 7, 2008.
"Ishmael Beah May Have Had 'Nagging Doubts' About His Story, Wikipedia Reports — A World Exclusive for the Online Encyclopedia? Or Was It Sucker-Punched?" One-Minute Book Reviews, March 2, 2008.
"New Paperback Edition Doesn't Ease Concerns About 'A Long Way Gone' — Questions Reporters, Producers and You, the Reader Should Ask Ishmael Beah," One-Minute Book Reviews, Aug. 3, 2008.
"Chasing Ishmael – Truth, Racism, the US Media and Blockbuster Publishing," The Sydney Papers, Autumn 2008.
The links to the articles below in the Australian have expired. Many of the points they make are covered in the articles listed above:
"Beah's Credibility a Long Way Gone," the Australian, Feb. 2, 2008.
"Ishmael Beah's Flaws Poetic License," the Australian, Jan. 21, 2008.
"Web of Facts Unravel Child Soldier's Tale," the Australian, January 21, 2008.
"Child Soldier Questions Beah's Tale," the Australian, January 25, 2008.
"US Critics 'Wanted to Believe' Child Soldier's Tale," the Australian, Jan. 30, 2008.
Janice Harayda is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has been the book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland and has written for many American newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. She is a former vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle who lives in New Jersey.


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Why are women winning fewer Caldecott medals than at any point in the 74-year history of the ALA's top prize for picture books?
By Janice Harayda
Four out of five librarians are women, but when it comes to children's book awards, nobody could accuse them of an excess of sisterhood. For decades the American Library Association has had a dismal record of honoring female artists with its Caldecott medal, given each year to "the most distinguished American picture book for children." That record just got worse.
Last week the ALA named the winners of the 2012 Caldecott medal and three Honor books, all four of whom were men. Long before that shutout for women, the number of female winners had sunk to its lowest level in the 74-year history of the prize. Women won 10 percent the Caldecott medals from 2000-2009 compared with 30 percent in the 1950s and 40 percent in the 1960s. They are also doing worse than men by virtually every other measure of the award. Male artists have won roughly twice as many Caldecott medals and Honor awards overall as their female counterparts. They have won all the Honor awards four times as often. And the women whom librarians have passed over aren't second-rate artists: They include some of the greatest illustrators, living and dead, who have worked in the field.
This neglect of women is startling given the wealth of female talent that has existed in picture books since Dorothy Lathrop won the first Caldecott medal in 1938 and Virginia Lee Burton soon earned one for The Little House. It is that much harder to understand because women are claiming more awards from others, including 75 percent of the 2011 National Book Awards and 83 percent of the most recent National Book Critics Circle prizes. And outside of library sites, the trend has received little notice, perhaps because it is to some extent masked by the profusion of ALA prizes added since the Caldecott, including the Coretta Scott King (for black authors and illustrators) and Pura Belpré (for Latinos and Latinas). Many of the newer awards have gone to female artists and allow the library association to say that it honors women while denying them its showpiece award for picture books, which has more prestige and impact on sales.
Caldecott judges snub women's books on other year's-best lists
Librarians have defended their Caldecott record with arguments that collapse under scrutiny. Some have suggested that women win fewer Caldecotts because they are staying home and having babies instead of working on the next Where the Wild Things Are. If only female artists were all gay and childless like Maurice Sendak! Never mind that in the 1950s – when far more women stayed home – women won twice as many Caldecotts as in the past 13 years. And never mind that in England, where women also have babies, they won 60 percent of the Kate Greenaway medals ("the British Caldecott") between 2000–2009 compared with 10 percent of Caldecotts.
Other librarians blame publishers for the medal gap. They speculate that fewer picture books by women get published, although they cite no evidence of it. Roger Sutton, editor-in-chief of children's literature magazine The Horn Book, punted when he heard in 2007 that men had won four times as many Caldecott medals as women in the past two decades. "I wouldn't argue that sexism is at work here without a lot more information – what percentage of picture books are illustrated by women, for starters," he said.
The publishing industry offers much to blame in how it treats women, but it isn't causing the medal gap. Consider the best-picture-books-of-the-year lists in major newspapers and trade magazines. In late 2011 virtually all lists included multiple books by female artists. Every year their editors and reviewers find outstanding books by women: It's the Caldecott judges who have trouble. Then perhaps librarians have higher standards than the critics for the New York Times or Publishers Weekly? Not likely: This year School Library Journal had several female artists on its best-picture-books list.
The idea that publishers are causing the medals gap loses more ground when you consider the books spurned by Caldecott judges. This year the also-rans included a book that made the New York Times' Best Illustrated Books list: Brother Sun, Sister Moon, which has unique and beautiful paper cuts by Pam Dalton and a text by Katherine Paterson, who has won the National Book Award and Newbery medal twice each. Librarians also rejected a book named one of the year's best by School Library Journal and other publications: Mouse & Lion, illustrated by 1973 Caldecott Honor artist Nancy Ekholm Burkert, whose work has appeared in the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and who is one of the greatest living picture-book artists. The judges instead gave a second Caldecott medal to Chris Raschka for his A Ball for Daisy, which has a bright crowd-pleasing appeal but lacks the depth and originality of Brother Sun, Sister Moon and Mouse & Lion. Past Caldecott committees have withheld the top prize from Carin Berger, Meilo So, Natalie Babbitt, Rosemary Wells, M.B. (Brooke) Goffstein and others, often honoring less deserving books by men.
Favoring books because they're by men … or because they're about boys?
Some librarians counter the accusations of favoritism by saying that the Caldecott committees change annually. But rotating the judges doesn't help if a long-term institutional bias affects decisions. And ALA judges have shown such a pattern: They lean toward artists who are popular with children or who they think should be, so their awards may reflect children's well-documented prejudices about sex roles. Many librarians are also desperate to promote reading among boys and may honor books by men because they are more likely to depict male characters. This idea gains plausibility from the medal count for Newbery awards for books for older children, which skews in other direction: Consciously or not, the Caldecott judges may be favoring visual images of boys as much as male artists.
None of these reasons is acceptable. If the librarians want to reward books that they believe will interest boys without slighting women, they have a simple way do it: Give more medals. The Caldecott committee has often named four or five Honor Books but this year listed only three.
Whatever the reason for the medals gap, the ALA is sending a message to children that women are second best. Librarians can't say "We want children to see that Caldecott medals on books have meaning" and, at the same time, "We don't want that meaning to be: Women are also-rans." Children will see in the medals what they see.
Caldecott judges don't discuss their deliberations, so we may never know why they found all women unworthy this year and honored a male artist's book about a dog that lost its favorite red ball. But judge Michele Farley offered a clue on Twitter soon after the ALA denied the medal to a woman for 11th time in 13 years. Farley tweeted: "I am so happy it was a dog book!"
A note about the sources for this article: The U.S. Census Bureau says that 4 in 5 librarians are women. The 2-to-1 ratio of male-to-female Caldecott medalists came to my attention through a comment by Peter, editor of the Printz Picks blog, on the Fuse #8 blog at School Library Journal, and my math confirmed it. All percentages and ratios come from my calculations and can be confirmed through the winners' lists on the prize-givers' sites or on Wikipedia. Some comments grow out of my conversations with librarians and publishing executives.
This is the second of two posts on the 2012 Caldecott awards. The first dealt with the scarcity of Caldecott medals for black artists.
Janice Harayda is a novelist award-winning critic who has been book editor the Plain Dealer and vice-president for awards of the National Book Critics Circle. She has been reviewing books for children and adults for two decades. Jan tweets about books for all ages at @janiceharayda.
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I'm a huge rtorrent fan. I can't imagine why anyone would use anything else, unless there's something funky the big-name programs can do, that rtorrent just doesn't handle yet.
This time, instead of introducing you to rtorrent nice and easy, like I did with cplay, I'm going to give you a brief tour, and then I'll show you something very cool you can do with it. rtorrent is an amazing, complex, powerful program that is at the same time sleek, clean, comprehensive and ultralight — and I'm giving you just one small idea of its potential.
But first, let's scratch the surface. Like a lot of console-driven programs, the startup screen for rtorrent is … rather dry.
That's all you get. Exciting, isn't it? 🙄
To add a torrent, press return and navigate to the torrent file. In this example, I'm using one of my favorite Revolution Void albums, "Increase the Dosage," from Jamendo. I can't guarantee you'll like it, but it's a free and legal download and it makes for a good example.
You can use tab completion to make your way to it. Double-tab shows a list of available path options that match the path you've already started. Your path starts in your home directory (unless you started it in a lower directory than that), so you don't have to give it the full root path if you don't want to. Press enter when you've found the one you want, and rtorrent will add it to the list.
Note that it's still labeled as "INACTIVE." rtorrent won't start downloading until you tell it to. Use the arrow up and down keys to highlight the torrent (it will be marked with a bar of asterisks) and press CTRL+S.
Now we're moving. The torrent is marked as active, the tracker will be contacted, and provided there are adequate seeds, downloading will start.
That's about it, in a nutshell. There are some customary points that you'd expect from a torrent client. Press the right arrow while a torrent is highlighted, to see a detailed breakdown of the information available.
To get back to the main list, use the left arrow. Bandwidth throttling might be important to you too. If you're used to capping your bandwidth (I choke my upload speeds to keep my wireless router from having a nervous breakdown), try using the a-s-d, A-S-D, z-x-c and Z-X-C keys to trim the speed to your liking.
If you take a few moments to experiment, you'll find that pressing the numbers 1-6 gives you a revised view, with different filters applied. That can be useful if you've got 10 or 12 torrents running at a time, and you want a clear list of finished torrents, or stopped torrents. And most important, you can quit the program with CTRL+Q.
This is where you can stop if you just wanted the short tour. The next part is for people who really want to put rtorrent to work, and don't mind getting their hands dirty. 😈
When you started rtorrent for the very first time, you probably saw a warning message that told you there wasn't a .rtorrent.rc file to follow. That configuration file is what morphs rtorrent from a mild-mannered, law-abiding console gimmick into an unholy torrent-wrangling banshee.
In Ubuntu, the sample rtorrent configuration file is hiding at
/usr/share/doc/rtorrent/examples/rtorrent.rc. Copy one for your own perusal, and give it the proper hidden file prefix.
cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/examples/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc
Edit, 2010-05-07: Please remember that this post was written a few years ago, and the configuration file for the current, vanilla rtorrent may be different from what you see here. — K.Mandla
Now open that file in your favorite text editor. Take a minute or two to peruse the guts. (I've copied one to the Ubuntu-nl pastebin for reference, or if you're reading this at work on your $3,000 DRM-crippled Vista rig. 😛 )
You should get an idea of what the file can do; setting max uploads and downloads, default throttling and IP masking are all options. But take a closer look at some of these settings.
# Watch a directory for new torrents, and stop those that have been
# deleted.
#schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=./watch/*.torrent
#schedule = untied_directory,5,5,stop_untied=
What's that mean, you say? Well, it means rtorrent can watch a directory and add torrents to its list automatically, and stop torrents if the corresponding file disappears. Now look at this:
# Stop torrents when reaching upload ratio in percent,
# when also reaching total upload in bytes, or when
# reaching final upload ratio in percent.
# example: stop at ratio 2.0 with at least 200 MB uploaded, or else ratio 20.0
#schedule = ratio,60,60,stop_on_ratio=200,200M,2000
You can also allow seeding to a specific ratio, a specific total uploaded or both. So if you get tired of carrying the weight of the Internets on your shoulders, you can limit your sharing on any number of criteria.
That's nothing new, you might say. Azureus does all that, plus it has a feature-rich GUI, is proof of the viability of Java applications and has a cool blue frog as a mascot.
Well, please allow me to retort … with a case study: Imagine you've got two machines: Your $3,000 dual-core, dual SATA-drive, LED-bespeckled laptop straight from Dell, with an array of glossy sheen snap covers, eight USB ports, a gigabit connection and a built-in 802.11a-wireless card.
Your other machine is the lowly 166Mhz Pentium laptop. The one with 64Mb of PC66 and a 3Gb hard drive. The one you got from work in 1997 and never took back, even when you left them for another company during the dot-com boom. Burnt-out pixels, loose hinges and one scratchy speaker. The one with the Stone Temple Pilots sticker peeling off the lid. You know what I'm talking about.
Set up your main rig with a shared network folder (NFS would be perfect for this) on a static IP address. Set up your lowly Pentium machine with a hard line to your router, maybe with a PCMCIA LAN card — something that at least gives you decent access speeds.
Now mount that shared folder directly into your slave's home directory, maybe under ./watch. Set up the configuration file. Trigger rtorrent on bootup, and tell it to watch that folder.
Now you surf away in the comfort of your shiny dual-core desktop-replacement laptop, and when you find a torrent you like, save it into the local networked folder — perhaps even sending it to that folder automatically, through Firefox's file extension preferences.
When you save it, rtorrent snaps it up and adds it to its list. It starts downloading it automatically, saving the file locally or perhaps on an external drive. You can set it to follow a certain bandwidth schedule so it doesn't overwhelm the network, or you could hold all the torrents until the middle of the night, and do all your downloading during the wee hours.
It continues to download until it's finished, then seeds for as long as you allow it. If it reaches the seeding ratio you set, it stops. If it reaches the upload limit, it stops. And best of all, if you delete the control torrent file out of your local download directory, it halts all the activity on that torrent and subtracts it from the list. Download the torrent, and it starts immediately. Change your mind and delete it, and rtorrent cuts it loose. Clean and neat, all handled automatically and without the least amount of effort on your part. It's almost like a torrent daemon.
(In my experience, rtorrent never deletes the product files it has already created. So if you start downloading and change your mind an hour later, rtorrent might take the torrent out of the list, but the target files are still available. Conceivably, you could change your mind again and re-download the torrent file, and rtorrent would pick up the already downloaded fraction and get back to work on it. But I'm not 100 percent sure on that because I don't recall ever doing it, so don't hold me to that. 🙂 )
I'll be honest and say I haven't used Azureus in more than a year, and so it's possible that you could create the same arrangement with Azureus. But can Azureus run on your leftover Pentium Pro laptop?
rtorrent is highlighted in yellow in that htop window. CPU usage is roughly 1.0 percent of my 300Mhz and the memory profile around 10 percent of my 64Mb, and that's while it actively downloads the album I started with when I began writing this. Add a few more torrents and of course the profile will go up, but the benefit of running without Java, without the X interface and without two dozen Gnome dependencies should be blatantly obvious. I'm willing to bet your old Pentium could do it.
Spacewise, rtorrent is going to cost you 314Kb for the download and 860Kb to install. libtorrent9 is necessary, so that's another 284Kb to download and 788Kb on your drive, so you're looking at less than 600Kb of bandwidth and maybe 1.6Mb installed. Again, I've written letters to Mom that took up more space than that.
I hope this is convincing enough to get you to try rtorrent, and maybe even use it on a regular basis. I really believe it's a better option than most of the prevailing torrent clients, even if it is console-based. If you want to delve even deeper into this amazing little program, take a spin past the rtorrent wiki, which is one of the best-composed and best-written I've seen in a long time. The project is very active, and it has the look of it.
Next time: Give up on the Gecko, and browse with elinks instead.
Edit, 2008-02-14: dodger has been kind enough to translate this howto into Spanish; it's on his blog here. Please remember that my blog is GFDL 1.2, which means you're free to use or translate this post as you like, so long as you redistribute the content with the same license, or a later version. For more details, see my About page.
Edit, 2008-08-04: If you'd like to see a working example and configuration files for the systems I described here, take a look at this post.
Edit, 2009-01-23: If you'd like to see this setup on exceptionally low-end hardware, consider this example. Even at 100Mhz with only 16Mb for system memory and a lethargic 810Mb hard drive, it's possible to use rtorrent in a networked arrangement and feed it the work of downloading and seeding.
Edit, 2009-11-14: This post is more than two years old now, but is still one of the heaviest draws to this site. I had to re-upload photos for this page, and likewise had to edit the text slightly to make sure what you saw in the pictures was what you were reading in the text. My apologies if I overlooked any discrepancies. Cheers and enjoy.
Edit, 2010-05-07: It's ironic that almost exactly on the third birthday of this post, a second image host has expired and I've had to reupload the images again. I suppose it's a testimonial to either this post or to rtorrent (or maybe Revolution Void), take your pick. 😉 Once again, if you see something different from what's in the pictures, please let me know. It might be around for a couple more years still. 😯
P.S., 2010-05-07: Just for the record, the screenshots that you see currently are of the rtorrent-extended package available in Arch's AUR. The system is a 300Mhz Celeron laptop running only framebuffer applications on Arch Linux, writing downloads directly over USB1.1 to an external hard drive, accessed across a wireless network with ssh and nfs, and managed by a 120Mhz Pentium laptop running Crux. This is the part where you try to out-geek me. 😈


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Last month we told you we had acquired Manuel Arellano's 1691 painting Virgin of Guadalupe. Now we can report that it's on view in our Latin American galleries. You may have seen Christopher Knight's post at Culture Monster earlier this week, which also included a video of the original Virgin of Guadalupe, hanging in the Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City.
You can see the Virgin of Guadalupe as soon as you enter the top floor of the Art of the Americas Building. It practically calls out to you, asking you to pass through three other galleries on your way to view it up close. But don't pass too quickly! On your way you'll pass Diego Rivera's masterpiece Flower Day and our other recent acquisition, Roberto Matta's Burn, Baby, Burn.
Speaking personally, probably one of the most valuable things I've gotten from working at LACMA in the last few years has been an appreciation for Latin American art—all eras and all varieties. It started, for me, with the mesmerizing Arts in Latin America, 1492–1820, a special exhibition from 2007. It was one of those rare exhibitions that knocked me off my feet precisely because I walked in with no expectations—I didn't think it would be "my thing." I was wrong. Then we reinstalled the ancient American galleries with the help of a gallery design by Jorge Pardo. The installation was controversial —does the design distract from the objects? Mine is just one opinion, but if you ask me, no. Pardo's gallery design made me look at the objects with fresh eyes, made me consider the stylistic choices these ancient artists were making compared to those working at the same time in, say, Europe or the Middle East. Sure, you could make that comparison without Pardo's help—the differences were always there—but I hadn't taken the time before. Again, it wasn't "my thing" until I saw it in this new light.
At the same time, we reinstalled our permanent collection of Latin American art from the Spanish colonial era to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Walking through these galleries again yesterday, on the way to see the Virgin of Guadalupe, I was reminded again how much this collection impresses me. The Matta, the paintings by Rivera and Tamayo, the religious-themed paintings sharing the gallery with Arellano's Virgin. And then there's the contemporary gallery, which features probably three or four of my favorite twentieth and twenty-first–century works in the whole museum, including works by Francis Alÿs, Cildo Meireles, Mathias Goeritz, and Jesús Rafael Soto (visitors to the museum making a point to hit up BCAM and the Ahmanson Building's modern galleries would do well not to forget about this gallery).
The new acquisition of the Arellano's Virgin of Guadalupe is reason enough to come up to these galleries—just be sure you take in everything else while you're here.


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Grand Central entrance named after ex-first lady
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NEW YORK (AP) — A newly renovated entrance to Grand Central Terminal has been dedicated to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who led the historic fight to save the terminal.
The entrance at Park Avenue and East 42nd Street was dedicated to the former first lady on Monday.
It's now called the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Foyer. A large plaque features a bronze relief of Onassis and describes her role in saving the terminal.
Her efforts led to the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the city's Landmark Law in 1978 and saving Grand Central from having a 53-story tower built atop it.
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Easy Ways to Boost Curb Appeal
Plant close to home
Design garden spaces close to the house so they connect to—and become extensions of—interior rooms. At the home of Ohio garden designer Kevin Reiner, bushy green boxwood, cactus-filled urns and tall canna with orange blooms frame the short distance from the sidewalk to the front steps of the Greek Revival-style home.
Little touches add up
Container plants, a pretty ruffled wreath, summery blue paint on the door and a rocking chair all create a welcoming front door area.
Mid-century reimagined
A complete remodel included a reimagined entry to this 1959 Chicago-area ranch house. The wood, stone and stained brick on the new wider porch create a cabinesque feel that continues into the foyer.Related Links
Flowers galore
Flowers give a home instant warmth and personality. The porch of this Illinois house brims with hanging baskets of begonias, while a long planter chock-full of flowers and foliage substitutes for a window box on the porch railing. More flowers and foliage of varying heights fill the front yard.
Color pops
Pops of red on the garage and two large containers add just enough color to this entrance. The wood railing, decorative planks above the porch and wood shingles share a basic neutral color but have intriguingly different shapes and lines. A path curves through garden-like landscaping to the front porch.
Bench decor
Benches aren't just for sitting. Here, a bench serves as a display area for container plants, watering cans and other gardening tools, lending an earthy, casual feel to the front entrance.
Light the way
Just because lighting is basic doesn't mean the lights have to be. These elaborate beauties blend form and function.
Hang a window box
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A cottage-style Dutch door swings open at the top to let in fresh air and create a connection between inside and outside. The vibrant yellow color makes an eye-catching statement on the otherwise all-white home. A bench, large wall lamp and assortment of plants give the entrance more welcoming touches.
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Country or classic, choose a mailbox style that matches your home's architecture. Large house numbers ensure first-time guests find you easily. Pretty plantings at the base finish the look.
Screen door charm
A wooden screen door adds old-fashioned charm, but the spicy hue keeps the look from being tame.
Walkway lighting
Walkway lighting adds a soft glow at night while safely leading visitors to your door. If you use solar versions, there is no wiring.
All-American appeal
A large American flag, lush hanging ferns and front porch rockers combine for a welcoming entrance.
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Changing out the hardware—even in subtle places like on shutters—enhances a home's exterior. Renewed locks, bells or knockers revitalize a look.
Stair-step plants
Container plants climbing the steps draw eyes to your door. Art tucked in adds whimsy.
Sturdy statement
Solid and safe, railings also add beauty when they are dressed as smart as these. Pristine white contrasts sharply with the wood steps and darker door.
Address yourself
Let everyone know where you are. This bold sign is easy to see even among lush plantings. Or hang the numbers under a light by the front door or on the mailbox.
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Welcome mats come in all shapes and sizes. Make sure the one you put down fits your style. This wood one is engraved with the homeowner's name, others come with initials, images of favorite pets, and more.
Add a splash of color
The front door is the perfect spot for a jolt of color that might otherwise overwhelm your home.
Get a handle on it
This detailed handle might not match your home style, but there is one out there that will. Don't settle for blah.
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A front porch, even on a small house, can boost your home's curb appeal. Here, an eye-catching geometric motif gives charm to a basic porch railing, and curtains add to the feel of a welcoming outdoor room.
Add antique shutters
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Happy hellos
Hanging artwork in bright shades says welcome in a happy way.
Charming details
Contrasting green trim and log-lattice porch railings add charming cottage character to this cabin's facade.
Ornate touch
For added elegance on an old door, add an ornate screen or carving as the homeowner's did over this mirrored door.
Paint a doormat
Personalize your entry with a hand-painted doormat! We used a 24x36" sisal doormat, stencils and white matte outdoor spray paint to create our design.
Monogram your door
Use your initials to monogram your front door. Not only is the initial on the planters and hanging, it's also etched into the glass.
Fun door knocker
A simple upgrade is to add a door knocker reflecting your hobby.
Extra elements
Birdbaths, fountains, bubblers—water elements add a cooling touch of nature to a sunny front.
Old-fashioned charm
A white picket fence and breezy porch lend old-fashioned appeal to this home.
Personalize your space
A driftwood hanger to the side of the door makes a pretty—and practical—personal addition to the entrance. The bright red door pops against the neutral tones on the rest of the exterior.
Classy details
A formal pendant light and gold house numbers set a classic mood. Make sure yours suit your home's style.
Patriotic flair
Red, white and blue goes with every home style!
Say hello
Here, the hanging container says it all. Flowers along the walk and in the container finish the look.
Wall planters
Wall planters provide a welcome touch of greenery at eye level outside this home's door, while a garden bench and potted flowers create a cozy space to relax.
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An assortment of pumpkins and two tall container gardens add eyecatching seasonal appeal to this home's entrance.


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For all the talk about a "post-PC" world, most people use smartphones or tablets as an addition to their existing technological arsenal, rather than a replacement for a standard laptop or desktop. In fact, there are a number of ways to combine the capabilities of your PC and mobile device that can make your tablet or smartphone an even more powerful tool. Last week, we took a look at an app that would let you use your iPad as a second monitor; this week, we'll talk about ways to use your iPad and iPhone as mobile file servers.
One of the useful features of the original iPod line was that the media players could also be used as external hard drives to transfer files between computers, a feature not to be discounted in those pre-Dropbox days. The iOS-equipped descendants of the iPod have shed those features, presumably to keep people from messing around with the devices' filesystems—iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches will be recognized as digital cameras by file explorers and most other programs, but you can't use them to move any old file around as you could with iPods of yore, at least not natively.
Luckily, apps exist to circumvent this limitation: there are a few, like Phone Disk, that will let you mount your iOS devices as external drives just as you could before, which is fine if you can install the client software on every computer you interact with, but what if you're trying to get your files on to a computer on which you don't have administrative access? In this case, turning your phone into a mobile file server makes it much easier to connect to from any computer.
Installing Air Sharing
One of the most versatile mobile file server apps is Avatron's Air Sharing, an app which essentially turns your iPhone or iPad into a mobile file server. At $6.99 for the iPhone version, $7.99 for the iPad version, or $9.99 for a universal app, it's a little pricey, though there's nothing to prevent you from running the iPhone version on your iPad to save a few bucks as far as I can tell. Once purchased and set up, the app will let you use your device to move basically any type of file between computers and other devices running Air Sharing, either by connecting to the phone from a computer using WebDAV or Bonjour, or by connecting from the phone to a computer capable of running both SSH and SFTP (available natively in OS X and via third parties in Windows). Support for cloud storage servers like Dropbox, Box, and Google Docs is also included—directions for connecting to these various service and operating systems is included in the app's extensive documentation.
Starting up Air Sharing for the first time will show you an impressive and thorough list of documentation that will walk you through connecting to computers with Air Sharing, and connecting to your phone from just about every desktop OS and Web browser under the sun. Press "Done" to show the phone's file structure and expose the app's controls.
The app is ready to use out of the box. Pressing the wireless icon at the bottom of the screen will show your phone's Bonjour name and IP address for your convenience. It doesn't require a password by default, so you'll probably want to go to Settings to change that before you start using it. Here, you can assign a username and password to be used when connecting to your "server," set a passcode to be entered when the app is launched (independent of the screen lock passcode), enable and disable access to the app's Public folder, and change the view settings for its file browser.
Once you've added a username and password, you can map the phone or tablet as you would any WebDAV server—the exact method varies from OS to OS, but the extremely thorough documentation lays it out in detail for you. Even more useful is Air Sharing's Web client, accessible by typing your device's IP address into any browser—you can easily download and upload files quickly and easily from any operating system.
When copying files, be aware of how much free space you've actually got on your phone or tablet—the software isn't particularly good at relaying your device's amount of free space to your desktop operating systems. Connected via WebDAV, OS X saw 22.52GB free and Windows saw 40GB free on a phone that actually had 20.2GB free.
The software has a few other caveats as well: for one, the app needs to be actively running on your phone or tablet for your computers to see it—if the phone goes to sleep or if you start using another app, Air Sharing will be suspended to save memory and your computers will lose their connection (in the app's settings, you can set it so that your device will never sleep while the app is running, though this is obviously done at the expense of battery life). Also, since the file transfers are happening over WiFi, your transfer speeds will typically be worse than they would be over USB. If these minor annoyances don't discourage you, your iPhone or iPad can make for a decent external drive in a pinch.


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According to the US Department of Labor, it's possible that Labor Day began with one Peter J. McGuire, leader of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, who advocated a day to honor workers "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold." The same might be said of artists. This Labor Day, you can visit LACMA for free and, while you're here, see images of workers through the ages.
Winslow Homer's Cotton Pickers (1876) depicts women working in a cotton field, silhouetted against the sky. He painted them at a tenuous moment in American history, as African Americans struggled to claim the right to control their own labor where slavery had recently flourished. Homer depicts the two women as monumental and majestic, the figure on the right looking into the distance with a resolute expression. It's a powerful portrait of labor and determination.
From the Spanish colonial period, we get The Twelve Months of the Year, hanging in our Latin American galleries. Painted in the latter half of the seventeenth century, the series depicts all sorts of seasonal work, and serves as a reminder that work was once tied more to the weather than to a job description. Each painting depicts two months, indicated in Spanish. The scene showing July and August shows farmers working in fields of golden wheat, surrounded by people lunching and kicking back on the grass. September/October,which hangs just next to it in the gallery, invites a post-Labor Day autumnal mood.
This Korean scholar, depicted in a nineteenth century scroll painting, suggests that thinking was working, long before we spoke of "knowledge workers". You can't fully appreciate the realism and detail of the portrait—the moles on his nose, the wrinkles of his forehead—without seeing it firsthand in the Korean art galleries. The portrait suggests not only the intense discipline required of a scholar-official, but also the rigorous working process of a professional artist who has mastered techniques characteristic of both Eastern and Western art, and who must have made numerous detailed studies before executing the final painting. (By the way, apparently the pink robe was typical of a high-ranking official, and would have been the type of casual outfit worn for studying at home.)
Is working out really working? If so, don't miss the dual exhibitions Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins, side-by-side with Catherine Opie's Figure and Landscape. Rowing, boxing, swimming, wrestling, sailing, hunting, and football-ing…there's plenty here to wear you out, and much that serves as a metaphor for the trials of other kinds of work.
And if you want to see the fruits of LACMA's current labors, peek into the Resnick Pavilion, which opens in just a few weeks. Curators, conservators, guards, electricians, and carpenters are all hard at work assembling upcoming exhibitions.


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Source: Britney Spears out of 'X Factor'
LOS ANGELES - Britney Spears is out of "The X Factor" after a season in which the pop star failed to deliver a ratings boost for the singing contest, a person familiar with the show's plans said Thursday.
Creator Simon Cowell and fellow producers are discussing replacements for Spears and another panelist, record producer Antonio "L.A." Reid, said the person, who lacked authority to comment publicly and insisted on anonymity.
Reid previously announced he was leaving after two seasons. Demi Lovato appears likely to return, joining Cowell on the revamped panel. The show is due to return in the fall.
Fox declined comment. Jeff Raymond, a publicist for Spears, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
The departures are yet another shake-up for "The X Factor," Cowell's attempt to strike magic with a U.S. version of his successful U.K. series. Cowell replaced panelists Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger and host Steve Jones after a disappointing first season, and ratings dropped in the second season.
The December season finale drew 9.7 million viewers, compared to more than 12 million for the first year's season-ender. Although the series has failed to match Cowell's bold pre-debut predictions, and certainly hasn't eclipsed sister Fox show "American Idol," it's helped shore up the network's fall schedule.
Pop star Spears, however, proved less than a one-season wonder.
Combining fame and a history of erratic behavior, she was seen as a potential spark for better ratings. But reviewers faulted her for appearing inexpressive to the point of boredom and for a repetitively dull use of the word "awesome."
On Tuesday, Fox network chief Kevin Reilly defended Spears, saying she was doing "a really good job" during a Q&A with the Television Critics Association.
"She came on, people remain fascinated with her and always will be," he said. "Maybe some people were waiting for more drastic displays of some nature that never came, so for those expecting that, it didn't happen."
Asked whether Fox would be on board to bring Spears back, Reilly replied "yeah" - this despite the fact producers have been talking since Christmas about substitutes for her and Reid.
Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian joined the show as co-hosts this season.


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McMurtry Revisits West In Latest Book
Standing among the towering shelves in his bookstore in the small Texas town where he grew up, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry says he has a need to be among books.
"I'm very attached to the books. I need them. I need to be among them," said McMurtry, 77, whose rare and used bookstore in Archer City contains about 200,000 volumes while the library in his nearby home holds about 28,000.
McMurtry is the author of almost 50 books including the novels "Lonesome Dove," "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endearment," and biographies and essay collections. He has had simultaneous careers as a screenwriter and bookseller.
In his new novel, "The Last Kind Words Saloon," he again takes readers to the American West — this time peeking into the lives of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday as they ramble through Texas, Colorado and Arizona.
"I usually start a book with some notion about a character that I'm curious about or interested in," McMurtry said in an interview. "And I think that's what I did here. I kind of wanted to demythologize" Earp and Holliday.
"'Lonesome Dove' was an effort to kind of demythologize the myth of the Old West, but it kind of came to people won't let you. They're going to twist it into something romantic no matter what you do."
McMurtry was to speak Wednesday night — in what likely will be his only public appearance for the book — as part of the Dallas Museum of Art's "Arts & Letters Live" speakers series.
He divides his time between Tucson, Arizona, and Archer City, a wind-swept town with a population of about 1,800 located about 140 miles northwest of Dallas. "My gig in Dallas is my book tour for this one," he said.
"The Last Kind Words Saloon" features historical figures including Earp, Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody and Charles Goodnight, along with fictional characters such as journalist Nellie Courtright, who appeared in his novel "Telegraph Days." McMurtry said he enjoys revisiting characters, including Earp and Holliday.
"That's fun, to go back and see your characters at different stages of their lives," he said, noting that he followed the characters from "The Last Picture Show" through several books, marking their transformation from teenagers to old men.
Andrew Graybill, director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, said McMurtry cleverly brings together famous characters of the American West in his new book. "Putting them on the stage together at the same time — I think it's a wonderful way to undercut and subvert these myths," said Graybill, who was to offer comments before the Dallas event.
McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Lonesome Dove," which later became a miniseries. Several films have been based on his novels, including "Hud," "The Last Picture Show," "Texasville" and the Oscar-winning "Terms of Endearment."
Both "The Last Picture Show" and its sequel, "Texasville," were filmed in Archer City.
Don Graham, a professor of English and American literature at the University of Texas in Austin, said McMurtry is "preeminently a storyteller."
"He's a great creator of characters and dialogue. That's one of the reasons he's had so much success in Hollywood," Graham said.
McMurtry, who along with writing partner Diana Ossana won the Academy Award for writing the screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain," said they are now working on television screenplays. They have collaborated since 1992, co-writing more than 40 screenplays.


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Game of Thrones Hit List: Who Should Die Next? Vote!
"Joffrey... Cersei... Ilyn Payne... the Hound... Polliver... the Mountain..."
Every night, Game of Thrones' bloodthirsty Arya Stark recites a "prayer" of names to remind her who she'd like to wreak vengeance upon someday. You killed her dad? Your name goes on the list.
Will there be a Game of Thrones movie?
Chances are that you have your own list of characters you wouldn't mind killing off, especially after last season's horrifying Red Wedding. Before the fourth season of HBO's Game of Thrones kicks off (Sunday, April 6, 9/8c), check out our hit list of people we want to die this year and then share your top pick below.
[A note to the fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire books: Let's keep the comments section spoiler-free! Check back with TVGuide.com for a By the Book forum where you can discuss freely. Thanks!]
Walder Frey (David Bradley)
Why he deserves to die: The elderly Lord of the Crossing hosted the infamous Red Wedding in which Robb Stark (Richard Madden), his pregnant wife, his mother Catelyn (Michelle Fairley) and their bannermen were brutally massacred. Worse yet, Frey violated guest right, betrayed an ally and is kind of an oversexed perv.
Roose Bolton (Michael McElhatton)
Why he deserves to die: He conspired with Walder Frey on the Red Wedding and personally wielded the dagger to kill Robb Stark. He's so cold-blooded, he even told Robb mid-stab, "Jaime Lannister sends his regards." Who does that?! But what else do you expect from a guy descended from men who like to flay people alive?
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Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance)
Why he deserves to die: Tywin was the mastermind behind the Red Wedding, which is merely a drop in the bloody bucket of his career carnage. In his youth, he completely exterminated the entire House Reyne for insulting his father, which was immortalized in the warning song "The Rains of Castamere."
Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson)
Why he deserves to die: Although it's easy to dismiss this little brat with a crossbow, let's not forget that this brat has power. The sniveling, egotistical and cruel child of privilege gave the order to behead Ned Stark (Sean Bean) and has shown a sadistic streak when it comes to torturing and even murdering prostitutes. His uncle Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) should do more than just slap him!
Ramsay Snow (Iwan Rheon)
Why he deserves to die: The bastard child of Roose Bolton shares his father's penchant for violence and treachery. Not only did he sack the Stark home of Winterfell, but he also kidnapped Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) and has been subjecting him to various tortures and mutilations, including castration ... for fun!
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Melisandre (Carice van Houten)
Why she deserves to die: First of all, that ability to give birth to ashadow baby that killed Renly Baratheon (Gethin Anthony) is completely unnerving and unnatural. When she's not spreading the lethal fruits of her womb, the Red Woman counsels the powerful Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane), and inevitably that advice boils down to burning people alive as a sacrifice to the Lord of Light. One of her intended sacrifices -- the royal bastard Gendry (Joe Dempsie) -- fortunately escapes, but that just means other Westerosi lambs will have to be slaughtered.
Have we missed any? Vote for who you want to die next on Game of Thrones and discuss in the comments.
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It's been rumored that Stan Kasten is considering adding more presidents to the presidents race at Nationals Park in 2008. Could this be part of The Plan to make the team younger as they seek to build a champion? Teddy Roosevelt is currently the youngest of the racing presidents, but he was born 149 years ago, so none of them are exactly spring chickens.
But seriously, the team did get younger this week. The question on fans' minds is did they also get better?
At the recently-concluded winter meetings, Washington Nationals GM Jim Bowden made several big moves. When the dust cleared, the Nationals had said goodbye to Brian Schneider, Ryan Church, Jonathan Albaledejo, Billy Traber, Justin Jones, and Glen Gibson.
The new faces on the Nationals include Lastings Milledge, Elijah Dukes, Tyler Clippard, Aaron Boone, Matt Whitney, Garrett Guzman, and as has been reported by Barry Svrugla., catcher Paul LoDuca.
Followers of the Washington Nationals such as Mark Zuckerman and Chris Needham seem to agree that the team made a lot of progress this week. But while I applaud Bowden for executing against The Plan, I'm not ready to greet the moves with anything other than a little cautious optimism.
Did the Nationals address needs? Yes.
Did they get younger? Absolutely.
Did they acquire some upside potential on the cheap? Without question.
On the flip side, they also created some holes that have yet to be filled. There are no left-handed bats to speak of, and more importantly, they left themselves with only Jesus Flores at the catcher position. The signing of LoDuca doesn't fill that hole. It only puts an exclamation point on the fact that they couldn't fill it. LoDuca's 1-year contract is a stopgap until a long-term solution is found.
At some point, when the Nationals acquire their catcher of the future, let's take a look at what they had to give up to get him, and then we can do the math. If it turns out that another year of seasoning is all Jesus Flores needs to become an all star behind the plate, then Bowden looks like a genius.


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Word of the Day
Armistice AHR-muh-stus (noun) Temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement between the opponents; truce - www.merriam-webster.com
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78: Percent of real Christmas trees that are bought precut, according to www.christmastree.org.
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Dec. 11, 2008: Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
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Sen. John Kerry (68)
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"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time." - Laura Ingalls Wilder


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