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@lindseyvonn I had mine done 9/1/23 and Was skiing January, then mid Feb. 15ish days and back to bumps and skiing as you like. I’m 42 so early but def worth it. The meds are important initially for pain relief and then for pain from ongoing rehab. You’ll love it 🤙💪
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What John Mayer did on Althea last night was absolutely ridiculous.
I’ve watched this like five times since last night and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
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What an amazing story.
“In Washington DC, at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
After about four minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule.
About four minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.
At six minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.
At ten minutes, a three-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly.
At forty-five minutes: The musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short while. About twenty gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.
After one hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music.
This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.
This experiment raised several questions:
In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
If so, do we stop to appreciate it?
Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made…
How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?”
Show Time.
#JsOnGameDay
Folks, it was a long weekend with @TuftsSoftball and @TuftsLacrosse at home for NCAA's!
It couldn't be done without the help of these people below. With rain, long days, these are the people behind the scenes.
We thank them for everything!
#JumboPride // #GoJumbos
In 1954, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey investigated the question everyone was asking, "Why can't children read?"
Hersey found the answer and then wrote about it in a piece published in Life Magazine.
Which led to one of the bestselling children's books of all time.
For 2 years, John Hersey read children's books, met with experts, and attended schools to observe how reading was taught.
"It became obvious," Hersey writes, what the problem was:
Children's books were terribly boring.
"Some children read very well indeed," Hersey writes. But…
"Reading troubles come from a failure to help children to *want* to read."
Remember, Hersey says, "reading has to compete for the interest of children with television, radio, movies, comic books, magazines, and sports."
So to be able to compete and to help children to *want* to read, Hersey says, children's books need to be more interesting and entertaining.
The article was read by an editor at Houghton Mifflin.
The editor called the illustrator Dr. Seuss and challenged him to "write me a story that first graders can't put down."
"There was a catch," Dr. Seuss' biographer writes.
In this book for first graders, Dr. Seuss had to use a vocabulary list of 300 "accepted" words.
Dr. Seuss played around with the list of 300 words, he'd recall, "and said, 'If I find two words that rhyme and make sense to me, that's the title.'"
As Dr. Seuss scanned the list, two words caught his attention:
Cat and Hat.
A little over a year later, on April 19, 1957, Dr. Seuss released...
"The Cat in the Hat."
Using just 236 unique words, Dr. Seuss wrote a blockbuster. The book was called "the biggest event in children's reading for centuries."
John Hersey said the book was a "masterpiece" ... a "gift to the art of reading."
"It's the book I'm proudest of," Dr. Seuss said, "because [it] proved to a number of million kids that reading is not a disagreeable task."
Takeaway 1:
Dr. Angela Duckworth talks about how intelligence follows interest.
"This is why,” Duckworth said, “I can be very dumb about things I don’t care about and I can be extremely smart about the things I do care about.”
And this is why the simple solution to the nation's reading problem was to make children's books more interesting.
Takeaway 2:
Constraints boost creativity.
Dr. Seuss used just 236 unique words to write "The Cat in the Hat." Following the book's success, Dr. Seuss' publisher bet him $50 that he couldn't write a book using only 50 unique words.
Dr. Seuss won the bet delivering "Green Eggs and Ham" to his publisher in 1960, which would go on to sell more than 8 million copies—his bestselling book of all time.
- - -
As Jack White, the lead singer and guitarist of The White Stripes, said,
"[Constraints] make you creative...Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want—that just kills creativity."
Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!
![bpoppenheimer's tweet photo. In 1954, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey investigated the question everyone was asking, "Why can't children read?"
Hersey found the answer and then wrote about it in a piece published in Life Magazine.
Which led to one of the bestselling children's books of all time.
For 2 years, John Hersey read children's books, met with experts, and attended schools to observe how reading was taught.
"It became obvious," Hersey writes, what the problem was:
Children's books were terribly boring.
"Some children read very well indeed," Hersey writes. But…
"Reading troubles come from a failure to help children to *want* to read."
Remember, Hersey says, "reading has to compete for the interest of children with television, radio, movies, comic books, magazines, and sports."
So to be able to compete and to help children to *want* to read, Hersey says, children's books need to be more interesting and entertaining.
The article was read by an editor at Houghton Mifflin.
The editor called the illustrator Dr. Seuss and challenged him to "write me a story that first graders can't put down."
"There was a catch," Dr. Seuss' biographer writes.
In this book for first graders, Dr. Seuss had to use a vocabulary list of 300 "accepted" words.
Dr. Seuss played around with the list of 300 words, he'd recall, "and said, 'If I find two words that rhyme and make sense to me, that's the title.'"
As Dr. Seuss scanned the list, two words caught his attention:
Cat and Hat.
A little over a year later, on April 19, 1957, Dr. Seuss released...
"The Cat in the Hat."
Using just 236 unique words, Dr. Seuss wrote a blockbuster. The book was called "the biggest event in children's reading for centuries."
John Hersey said the book was a "masterpiece" ... a "gift to the art of reading."
"It's the book I'm proudest of," Dr. Seuss said, "because [it] proved to a number of million kids that reading is not a disagreeable task."
Takeaway 1:
Dr. Angela Duckworth talks about how intelligence follows interest.
"This is why,” Duckworth said, “I can be very dumb about things I don’t care about and I can be extremely smart about the things I do care about.”
And this is why the simple solution to the nation's reading problem was to make children's books more interesting.
Takeaway 2:
Constraints boost creativity.
Dr. Seuss used just 236 unique words to write "The Cat in the Hat." Following the book's success, Dr. Seuss' publisher bet him $50 that he couldn't write a book using only 50 unique words.
Dr. Seuss won the bet delivering "Green Eggs and Ham" to his publisher in 1960, which would go on to sell more than 8 million copies—his bestselling book of all time.
- - -
As Jack White, the lead singer and guitarist of The White Stripes, said,
"[Constraints] make you creative...Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want—that just kills creativity."
Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ft3XEEVWcAUo55q.jpg)
@jasonlevinthal J ski to the rescue
Holy smokes….hero shit 🙏
In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited an N.Y.U. music production class to critique student songs.
After he listened to a song called “Alaska” by a student named Maggie Rogers, he explained why “I have zero, zero, zero notes for that:”
I’m riding the Red Line this morning as a new speed limit of 10-25mph gets put in place.
After waiting 20+ minutes for a train, I got on at Quincy Center at 6:21am.
At the same time, we had a car leave the same station.
Arrival at South Station…
Car: 23 minutes
Us:
Still one of the greatest shows I've seen! I was 16 at the time.
At night, the peace on the mountain is of a different kind. 🏔️ 🌙
Photo: David D'Amour, Intermediate Snowmaker 1/31/23
#stowemt
Last weekend my kids asked me what it was like growing up in the '80s. So, I took their phones and tablets off them, locked them outside and told them not to come back till the street lamps came on 😂
@lemieuxdavid @686 @GratefulDead Hey David. Big Fan and love what you are doing for music. Do you know who to talk to about GD licensing and a contact? Got a good idea that will bring joy the the world
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Yes!! #rhcp
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