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Jared Sparks, thirty-seven, and known for his editorial eye, reached Mount Vernon by carriage just before sunset on March 14, 1827. He made no note of the grounds, the house, the stables, the slope of the hill. He sought only George Washington's papers. It had taken him years to get permission to see them, finally securing it from Washington's nephew and literary executor, the Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington, by pledging discretion, and, no less important, agreeing to split the profits from publishing an edition of Washington's writings. A former chaplain of Congress, Sparks was the editor and owner of the United States' first literary magazine, the North American Review, which, under his direction, was distinguished for its judiciousness. A man better suited to the work of editing Washington's papers and writing his biography would have been hard to find, which makes it all the stranger that what Sparks did to those papers was, in his lifetime, called one of the most flagrant injuries ever inflicted by an editor upon a writer or by a biographer upon his subject—some swipe, even making allowances for hyperbole.
No one could have seen that coming when Sparks made his way from the carriage and into the house where he cloistered himself for more than a month. Diaries, notebooks, scraps, and some forty thousand letters: a biographer's harem. He wrote to a friend that he was in Paradise. No one bothered him. "I have been here entirely alone," he wrote in his journal, and you can almost hear his heart beating. In a garret, he pried open a chest: "Discovered some new and valuable papers to-day, particularly a small manuscript book containing an original journal of Washington, written in the year 1748, March and April, when he was barely sixteen years old." Everything was a find. "It is quite certain that no writer of Washington's biography has seen this book." Maybe, at long last, Washington's secrets would be revealed.
No biographer of George Washington has failed to remark on his inscrutability. In "Washington: A Life" (Penguin; $40), Ron Chernow calls Washington "the most famously elusive figure in American history." Sparks eventually published eleven volumes of Washington's writings, together with a one-volume biography. In 1893, Worthington C. Ford published the last installment of a fourteen-volume set. An edition of thirty-nine volumes was completed in 1940. Of the University of Virginia Press's magnificent "Papers of George Washington," begun in 1968, sixty-two volumes have been published so far. But, for all those papers, Washington rarely revealed himself on the page. Even his few surviving letters to his wife are formal and strained. Those diaries? Here is Washington's entire diary entry for October 24, 1774, a day that he was in Philadelphia, as a delegate to the Continental Congress, debating, among other things, a petition to be sent to the King: "Dined with Mr. Mease & Spent the Evening at the New Tavern." Here is how John Adams's diary entry for that same day begins:
In Congress, nibbling and quibbling, as usual.
There is no greater mortification than to sit with half a dozen Witts, deliberating upon a Petition, Address, or Memorial. These great Witts, these subtle Criticks, these refined Genius's, these learned Lawyers, these wise Statesmen, are so fond of shewing their Parts and Powers, as to make their Consultations very tedius.
Young Ned Rutledge is a perfect Bob o' Lincoln—a Swallow—a Sparrow—a Peacock—excessively vain, excessively weak, and excessively variable and unsteady—jejune, inane, and puerile.
Mr. Dickinson is very modest, delicate, and timid.
Aside from chucking Washington in favor of writing about Adams, what's a biographer to do?
Washington's contemporaries saw in him what they wanted to see. So have his biographers, of whom there have been many, including a delegate to the Continental Congress (David Ramsay), a U.S. senator (Henry Cabot Lodge), a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (John Marshall), and an American President (Woodrow Wilson). There have always been Washington killjoys. Abigail Adams was troubled by the beatification of Washington: "To no one Man in America belongs the Epithet of Saviour," she believed. Mark Twain once said that while Washington couldn't tell a lie, Twain could, and didn't, which made Twain the better man. The first Washington-was-a-fraud biography was published in 1926. Its author, William E. Woodward, had, in his 1923 novel, "Bunk," coined the word "debunk." Woodward argued, mostly, that the father of our country was dim-witted: "Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint." The Times called Woodward's biography tittle-tattle.
Every generation must have its Washington; ours is fated to choose among dozens. Ronald Reagan, in his first Inaugural Address, looked at the obelisk across the Mall and spoke about "the monument to a monumental man." Since 1990, major American publishing houses have brought out no fewer than eighteen Washington biographies, a couple of them very fine, to say nothing of the slew of boutique-y books about the man's military career, his moral fortitude, his friendship with Lafayette, his faith in God, his betrayal by Benedict Arnold, his "secret navy," his inspiring words, his leadership skills, his business tips, his kindness to General William Howe's dog, and his journey home to Mount Vernon for Christmas in 1783. George, a magazine of celebrity and politics featuring on its cover stars dressed up as Washington, was launched in 1995. By now, just about every Presidential historian and potboiler-maker in the business has churned out a biography of Washington. And still they keep coming. At nine hundred and twenty-eight pages, Chernow's is the longest single-volume biography of Washington ever published.
George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1732. His father died when he was eleven. When he was sixteen, he went on a surveying trip in the Shenandoah Valley—during which he kept the diary that Sparks found—and, three years later, travelled to the West Indies. At twenty, he assumed his first military command; his reckless and often failed but indisputably bold campaigns, in the seventeen-fifties, gained him a reputation for invincibility. He was tall and imposing, at once powerful and graceful, and he rode a horse exceptionally well. "Well turned" is what people said in the eighteenth century about a man like that, which makes you picture God laboring at a lathe. More recent descriptions range from the fabulous to the immoderate. Woodrow Wilson, in his 1896 biography, made it sound as if Washington had grown up in Sherwood Forest: "All the land knew him and loved him for gallantry and brave capacity; he carried himself like a prince." Chernow dwells on Washington's manliness, describing him, every few pages or so, as "a superb physical specimen, with a magnificent physique," "an exceptionally muscular and vigorous young man," with an "imposing face and virile form," "powerfully rough-hewn and endowed with matchless strength," not excepting his "wide, flaring hips with muscular thighs." (Chernow finds even Washington's prose "muscular." ) The mar to his beauty was his terrible teeth, which were replaced by unsuccessful transplant surgery and by dentures made from ivory and from teeth pulled from the mouths of his slaves.
Washington was elected to the Virginia Assembly in 1758 and was married the next year. Until the passage of the Intolerable Acts, he occupied himself managing his vast estate and wasn't much animated by the colonies' growing struggle with Parliamentary authority. But then he threw himself into it, serving as a delegate to the First Continental Congress, in 1774. The next year, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and rode to Cambridge to take command. During the war, and, even more, after it, Washington came to embody the new nation's vision of itself: virtuous, undaunted, and incorruptible. Nothing earned him deserved admiration more than his surrendering of his command at the end of the war. That resignation—relinquishing power when he could so easily have seized it—saved the republic. He returned to public life in 1787, to preside over the Constitutional Convention, where he played a largely ceremonial but nonetheless crucial role. Washington knew the difference between ceremony and pomposity, and kept to one side of it.
He was elected President by a unanimous vote of the electoral college. In his Inaugural Address (likely drafted by James Madison), he said that "the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government" were fated by "the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained" and staked, finally, deeply, "on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." Charged with leading a wholly new form of government, wherein his every decision set a precedent, he began holding, in 1791, what came to be called cabinet meetings.
His Presidency was marked by much debate about how he ought to be treated, and even how he should be addressed. (Adams had wanted to call him His Most Benign Highness, and Washington was fond of His High Mightiness.) Owen Wister began his 1907 biography of Washington with a story about what happened on Washington's sixtieth birthday: "On the 22d of February, 1792, Congress was sitting in Philadelphia, and to many came the impulse to congratulate the President. . . . Therefore a motion was made to adjourn for half an hour, that this civility might be paid. The motion was bitterly opposed, as smacking of idolatry and as leaning toward monarchy." (A century later, Washington's birthday became a national holiday, now commemorated as a great time to buy a new car.)
Washington was a very good President, and an unhappy one. Distraught by growing factionalism within and outside his Administration, especially by the squabbling of Hamilton and Jefferson and the rise of a Jeffersonian opposition, he served another term only reluctantly. His second Inaugural Address was just a hundred and thirty-five words long; he said, more or less, Please, I'm doing my best. In 1796, in his enduringly eloquent Farewell Address (written by Madison and Hamilton), he cautioned the American people about party rancor: "The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism." And then he went back to Mount Vernon. He freed his slaves in his will, possibly hoping that this, too, would set a precedent. It did not.
Washington isn't like Adams, effusively cantankerous; he's not like Jefferson, a cabinet of contradictions. He's not funny like Franklin or capacious like Madison. If critics said that his inner life glowed but faintly, Chernow, who calls him "the most interior of the founders," thinks his inner life was red hot, burning with pent-up passion. Washington wasn't a tortured man, though, nor was he enigmatic. He was a staged man, shrewd, purposeful, and effective. Not surprisingly for an eighteenth-century military man, he held himself at a considerable remove from his men. But he also held himself at this remove from just about everyone else.
He played a role, surpassingly well. He dressed for the part (he was obsessed with his clothes), and studied for it (as a boy, he copied out a set of sixteenth-century Italian "Rules of Civility," which read like stage directions: "Bedew no mans face with your Spittle by approaching too near to him when you Speak"). Washington's theatrical reserve can look, now, like mysteriousness. But what he was going for was an imperturbability that had to do with eighteenth-century notions of honor, gentility, and manliness; its closest surviving kin, today, is what's called military bearing. Chernow's aim is to make of Washington something other than a "lifeless waxwork," an "impossibly stiff and wooden figure, composed of too much marble to be quite human." That has been the aim of every Washington biographer, and none of them have achieved it. Sparks, so far from doing it, only made things worse. "Setting Washington on stilts" is what Sparks was charged with, although, really, Washington was already up there, leaning on legs of wood.
Washington retired from public life just when biography was becoming a popular middlebrow genre. Lives have been written since before Plutarch, but the word "biography" wasn't coined until the seventeenth century, and the modern genre began to take shape only with the publication, in 1791, of Boswell's "Life of Johnson." The United States was new; the Presidency was new; biography was new. How Washington's life was written would set a precedent. What would biography be, in a republic?
In June of 1799, Mason Weems, an itinerant preacher and bookseller, wrote to the Philadelphia printer Matthew Carey to tell him that he had begun writing a life of Washington: " 'Tis artfully drawn up, enliven'd with anecdotes, and in my humble opinion, marvelously fitted"; it "will sell like flax seed." That December, Washington died, quite suddenly. The nation mourned, but the timing, so far as Weems was concerned, could hardly have been better. "Washington, you know is gone!" Weems wrote Carey. "Millions are gaping to read something about him. I am very nearly prim'd and cock'd for 'em." Weems's chatty and exuberant "Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington" was first published in 1800. It sold like flaxseed.
By then, Weems was already soliciting advance subscriptions for a quite different sort of biography, a wildly hyped but ponderous five-volume set, written by John Marshall. Adams, Washington's successor, nominated Marshall as Chief Justice in 1801, in the last months of his Presidency; Marshall's "Life of Washington," a defense of Federalism and an attack on Jeffersonianism, is a testament to the party rancor that Washington despised. Its first two volumes came out in 1804, while Jefferson was running for reëlection. Federalists were disappointed in it; Republicans were disgusted by it. It was a terrible flop.
Marshall claimed to have relied "chiefly on the manuscript papers of General Washington"—those papers at Mount Vernon in the possession of Bushrod Washington, who was also an Adams appointee to the Supreme Court, and who gave Marshall permission to write an authorized biography. But it has since been discovered that Marshall actually copied a great deal from published sources, without attribution, and Jefferson liked to say that Marshall made most of it up. At the time, rules about evidence were changing. What Marshall ought to have put in quotes, by modern standards, he sometimes didn't. It was unclear how much a biographer ought to rely on anecdotes. The story about young George chopping down a cherry tree—"I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet"—comes from Weems and is generally thought to be Weems's invention (which makes a nice riddle: If "I can't tell a lie" is a lie, what's true?). But the story, Weems said, was "related to me twenty years ago by an aged lady, who was a distant relative." And maybe it was.
Sparks believed that the aim of biography was "to bring together a series of facts which should do justice to the fame and character of a man, who possessed qualities, and performed deeds, that rendered him remarkable." He first wrote to Mount Vernon in 1816, the year after he graduated from Harvard, asking for "a scrap of General Washington's handwriting." He got one. But it scarcely contented him. Beginning in the eighteen-twenties, Sparks travelled all over the United States and across Europe, gathering the lost, scattered, and junked papers of the Revolutionary generation. Sheaves of Benjamin Franklin's papers had wound up in a tail-or's shop on St. James's Street in London; some of them had been cut into sleeve patterns. "Those who established our liberty and our government are daily dropping from among us," Daniel Webster observed, at the dedication of the Bunker Hill monument, on June 17, 1825, the battle's fiftieth anniversary. Adams and Jefferson died on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, in 1826. Six months later, Sparks set out for Virginia, intending to satisfy himself about Marshall's and Weems's reliability by talking to people who knew Washington well, before the last of them died. A nephew of Washington's told him that Weems really had talked to a lot of old people, that his biography was "generally accurate as to facts," and that his use of anecdote, although embellished, "seldom misleads." Sparks visited Madison, who was seventy-six. Madison, Sparks reported, viewed Marshall's volumes as "highly respectable" but riddled with "the bias of party feeling."
At Mount Vernon, Sparks guessed that it would take him a year just to read Washington's papers. He wrote to Bushrod Washington, begging permission to take them back home, to Boston. He planned the removal down to the last detail. He would build boxes. He would buy insurance. He would keep them safe in his study, and when he was away he would deposit them in a fireproof vault in a bank. The judge agreed, and, back in Massachusetts, Sparks later moved, with eight boxes, into a house in Cambridge that had briefly served as Washington's headquarters, so that he could edit the papers where the great man had written them.
Sparks adored Washington, his courage, his character, his poise, even his handwriting, which he found "close and handsome." He did not, however, adore his literary style. "That Washington was not a scholar is certain," Adams wrote. "That he was too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation is equally past dispute." Washington was poorly educated, and—at least compared with the writing of men like Franklin, Jefferson, and Madison—a charming fluency on the page was not among his talents. On paper he could be clumsy, exactly the opposite of what he was in person. Sparks wanted to fix that, and did.
His ideas about editing came from the world of magazines, where he had a very heavy hand. One of his North American Review writers, the historian George Bancroft, was forever warning him, "You must not make any alterations or omissions without consulting me," and Sparks was forever ignoring him. Sparks corrected Washington's spelling and punctuation. What he found badly expressed, he rewrote. Where Washington called Israel Putnam "Old Put," Sparks had him call him "General Putnam." (Putnam was the general who is supposed to have told the Americans facing the British at the Battle of Bunker Hill not to fire till they saw "the whites of their eyes.") When Washington called a small amount of money a "flea-bite," Sparks changed this to an amount "totally inadequate to our demands." Passages in which Washington criticized New England men, as when he remarked on the "unaccountable kind of stupidity in the lower class of these people," Sparks simply struck out—silently, despite having been advised that any alterations should at least be marked with an asterisk.
The work of selecting, copying, and editing took ten years; Sparks's "Writings of Washington" was completed in 1837. The next year, Sparks joined the faculty at Harvard, as its first professor of history. In 1849, a year after the cornerstone was laid for the Washington Monument, Sparks became president of Harvard. He had also published Franklin's papers, along with Franklin's autobiography, and launched a popular book series, the Library of American Biography. People called him the American Plutarch.
No one noticed Sparks's changes to Washington's prose until 1851, when several of them were separately observed by a British historian and by a contributor to the New York Evening Post. In a flurry of charges and rebuttals, Sparks was accused of exceeding "the limits of an editor's license," and told that he, of all people, ought to have understood "the power of even a comma to alter the complexion of a sentence." The Democratic Review concluded, "Mr. Jared Sparks has made biography what it never was before—the lie to history." (It was certainly bad, but was it that bad? The fuss had less to do with fleabites than with the stature of the man whose words had been messed with.)
As to the specifics, Sparks defended himself by pointing out that he had, after all, supplied a preface, describing, at least in part, his editorial methods. And, as to the principle, he invoked "the dignity of history": Washington would not have wanted to be seen, exposed (which is doubtless true); these were his private writings, and if he had intended them to be published he would have hired someone just like Sparks to fix them up first (also true). The Literary World answered back that the point wasn't what Washington wanted but what the reading public wanted:
Washington, we may be sure, will bear to be looked at in undress. His figure is a good one without the tailor. The public has seen him too exclusively on horseback and in his regimentals. We want to be nearer to the man. Every reader has felt this—and the biographer who will best supply this by personal anecdotes, even if they fall below that excessive bugbear, the dignity of history, will be the truest and best biographer.
This, of course, is exactly what the public has been given: celebrity intimacy. We want to be nearer the great. It sells like flaxseed.
Monumental biography is different today from what it was in Sparks's day: the great used to be revered from afar; now they're revered up close. Aside from Weems, Washington's early biographers barely mentioned his childhood. Even the gossipy Weems ignored Washington's mother, Mary, about whom little is known, calling her only a "charming girl." Marshall dispensed with Washington's childhood in a page and a half. Ramsay covered the first nineteen years of the man's life in a sentence of twelve words.
When Sparks was in Virginia, he rummaged around, and asked, but didn't find out much, except that Mary Washington was "little polished by education," and "remarkable for taking good care of her ducks and chickens." In print, he was circumspect: "Her good sense, assiduity, tenderness, and vigilance overcame every obstacle." Chernow, having almost nothing more to go on, builds a character out of a stack of adjectives. On page 5, his Mary Washington is "pious," "headstrong," "feisty," and "indomitable." On the next, she is "crusty," "anxious," "stubborn," "flinty," "thrifty," "plain," "homespun," and "unlettered." Four pages later, she is "strong-willed" and "unbending, even shrewish," as well as "frugal," "demanding," "forbidding," and, in sum if not conclusion, a "trying woman." One page further along, she persists in being "crude and illiterate," and is now "slovenly." In Chapter 2, we are reminded that George suffered from a "difficult mother," alerted about "his mother's domination," and alarmed to hear that she was not only "self-interested"—surely a sign of wickedness in the female sex—but also "strangely indifferent" toward her eldest son's towering ambition. Chernow elaborates:
The hypercritical mother produced a son who was overly sensitive to criticism and suffered from a lifelong need for approval. One suspects that, in dealing with this querulous woman, George became an overly controlled personality and learned to master his temper and curb his tongue. It was the extreme self-control of a deeply emotional young man who feared the fatal vehemence of his own feelings, if left unchecked. Anything pertaining to Mary Ball Washington stirred up an emotional tempest that George quelled only with difficulty. Never able to express these forbidden feelings of rage, he learned to equate silence and a certain manly stolidity with strength. This boyhood struggle was, in all likelihood, the genesis of the stoical personality that would later define him so indelibly.
The diagnosis has supplanted the document. Sparks thought he knew how Washington wanted to be remembered, but he never supposed he knew what it felt like to be Washington. Chernow does, not because he knows more than Sparks did but because he thinks differently than Sparks did about what it is to understand someone, which means that he also thinks a whole lot differently about feeling and understanding than Washington did—and that, right there, is the problem. "Washington: A Life" is a prodigious biography, expertly narrated and full of remarkable detail. But it is a psychological profile of a man who lived and died long before our psychological age, a romantic portrait of a man who was not a Romantic: Washington lies upon the analyst's couch, teeth clenched, tormented by his mother, the madwoman in Mount Vernon's cobwebby attic. All Sparks ever found up there was a diary.
In the end, "Mr. Jared Sparks's Liberties with George Washington," as one critic dubbed the affair, had less to do with gussying up the President's prose than with editorial presumption set loose in an archive. A great deal that survives today of the founding era of American history survives because Sparks—in an extraordinary quest to which he devoted his life—found it and saved it. But much of what has been lost has been lost because Sparks never looked for it, or found it and didn't bother to keep it. Sparks believed that "the machinery of society and government is kept in motion by the agency of a few powerful minds." He kept only what he valued: the worthy political writings of great men. Papers he didn't find interesting he cut up, handing the scraps out as mementos. In the margin of a seventy-three-page draft of Washington's first Inaugural Address, he wrote, "Washington's handwriting but not his composition," and then cut it up, and gave the cuttings to friends. Correspondence with nobodies he threw away.
The papers of the obscure: are they garbage? About the time that Sparks was defending himself against charges of bowdlerizing Washington's letters, Herman Melville was reading a "tattered copy, rescued by the merest chance from the rag-pickers," of an out-of-print book called "Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter," the memoir of a poor Rhode Island farmer who claimed to have been wounded at Bunker Hill and taken to England as a prisoner of war, where, a beggar on the streets of London, he scraped by, mending broken chairs. The "Life of Potter" is a cheap, tiny book, "forlornly published on sleazy gray paper," about a very unimportant person—just the kind of book Sparks hated. "The present unfortunate propensity of filling tomes of quartos and octavos with marvellous accounts of the lives of men and women, who, during their existence, produced no impression on the publick mind, and who were not known beyond the circle of their immediate friends, or the mountains, which bounded the horizon of their native villages, is preposterous and absurd," Sparks wrote. "Why should the world be called off from its busy occupations to listen to an ill told story of their little concerns?"
Melville knew what it meant to watch one's writing reduced to wastepaper. "Though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter," he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1851, predicting, rightly, that "Moby-Dick" would be a disaster. (The North American didn't even run a review.) The next year, a Boston newspaper called "Pierre," Melville's bitterly satirical novel about the literary marketplace, "utter trash." In 1854, Melville produced a difficult and messy comic novel based on Potter's failed, forgotten, and pathetic memoir, thereby willfully defying, in about six different ways, popular taste. Like "Orlando" and "Edwin Mullhouse," Melville's "Israel Potter" is a parody of biography; it upends every convention of Sparks's Library of American Biography. The glory of war? Melville skips over the Battle of Bunker Hill as a story too boring to tell: "Suffice it, that Israel was one of those marksmen whom Putnam harangued as touching the enemy's eyes." The rewards of patriotic virtue? After fifty years of indigence in England, Potter, a pitiful old man, returns to Boston on the Fourth of July, 1826, and a parade, passing by Faneuil Hall, nearly runs him over.
Melville, signing himself "THE EDITOR," dedicated his bizarre and doomed novel about the Revolution and the American biographical tradition
His Highness
Bunker-Hill Monument
and, in that dedication, apologized—to two hundred and twenty-one feet of granite—that Israel Potter's name had never "appeared in the volumes of Sparks."
The life of Potter is the story of a man fated, at death, to be buried in a potter's field. To the American Plutarch, it was rubbish. There is no humility in monumental biography. But there is humility in nature, in time, and in history. The same sun that shines on the Bunker Hill monument, Melville pointed out, shines on Potter's unmarked grave. Come winter, the same snow falls, dusting us all. ♦


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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- World No. 1 Serena Williams overcame an early deficit before claiming a second-round win Tuesday at the WTA's Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
Williams dropped her serve twice in the first set, including the match's opening game, before taking a 7-6 (10-8), 6-0 decision over Ekaterina Makarova.
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We all have our fetishes. We computer powerusers even have our own software fetishes. C'mon, just admit it! My personal favorite programming fetish is the live searching mechanism that is becoming more and more prevalent in several applications. I call it the Live Search feature but it goes by many names:
* Live search (I think I made this one up)
* Find-as-you-type
* Search-as-you-type
* Lighting fast searching (I noticed that a couple of programs use "lighting fast" to distinguish this feature as opposed to "quick search" or "fast find" which usually just means a regular searching mechanism)
* Incremental search
* Real time filter
I'm sure many of you are familiar with this feature, and if you've read any of my posts you'll know how obsessed I am with it. Here's a basic description of what this feature does:
When searching for something in a program, you simply start typing the search criteria, and the list of results will change as each character is typed. The difference between this and a regular search engine is that you can see (in "real time") the list getting shorter and shorter as more characters are typed.
Now, while I love this, I will admit that in most cases it is not the most important feature in the world, but it just makes using a program so much more enjoyable. As far as efficiency, I wouldn't say it saves a huge amount of time (essentially, it saves you whatever time it takes to hit "Enter"). But the bottom line is that it is definitely more efficient, visually more pleasing, has better feedback (since the user can see the results in real-time), and it's just really cool.
In the rest of this article, I will present a list of several applications that use this feature, and rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best, of course). I'm sure there are more programs that have the live search feature, but these are the ones I am familiar with. While I write this mostly just for fun, I hope it helps programmers and software developers get a detailed look on the various implementations of this feature. Hopefully, more and more applications will eventually include this feature if it is applicable to their function.
Let's take a look!
{List is presented in alphabetical order}
Addza is a brand new player in the addressbook (contact manager) field. Incidentally, one of my other software fetishes is good addressbook software (see my posts on the subject). Addza was on Bits du Jour one day and even though I don't think it's the best addressbook software, I bought it simply because it included the live search feature. That, and it is also one of the very few strictly addressbook applications that is still being actively developed. I have a lot of hope for Addza.
Now, as far it's live search feature, it's actually pretty excellent. I took off one point for it only because it's still in the beginning stages and not a lot of options are available. For example, it would be nice to be able to pick which fields are searched (All fields, just names, just numbers, or some combo of a bunch of different fields). Other than that, the searching is awesome. It even highlights (in real-time!) the matching characters as you type. Of all addressbook or contact manager applications, Addza has the best implementation of the live search feature.
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The Bat!
The Bat!, one of DC's favorite applications, has a pseudo-live search feature called "Quick Search". It resides on the main toolbar and it functions both as a sort of live search and a filter simultaneously. It's actually a terrible implementation of the live search feature; it should just be called "live jump". When you type something in it and DON'T press "Enter", it will just jump to the first match. If you do press "Enter", it acts like a filter and will remove anything from the window that doesn't match. During the "jump" there is no filtering, it just goes to the first match. Also, it doesn't really react "as-you-type", it just waits until you stop typing before it jumps to the match. Kind of useless for the most part. It's basically just a conveniently placed filter/search, so calling it "Quick Search" is actually very accurate.
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CardScan is another addressbook program. Most of you won't be able to try it out because you can only use the software if you buy their card scanning hardware, which is pretty expensive. But I've used it and it has a nifty live search box. Like Addza, it searches every single field in the contacts (names, phone numbers, zip codes,...anything). Unfortunately, like Addza, you can't set or customize which fields to limit the search to, but that's not a big deal. Personally, I prefer these live searches to just search everything, anyway, so it's fine with me if you can't fiddle with it. But I'm sure some people will just want to limit it to names only, or something along those lines. I would give it a 9, but Addza's live search is better because it highlights the matching results, so I couldn't make them exactly equal.
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Directory Opus
Directory Opus is a file manager and Windows Explorer replacement (the best one at that!). In one of it's more recent updates to its v8 line, it introduced a feature it calls a "Filter". The filter will filter a window showing files down to just the files matching whatever is in the filter. The filter is lighting fast and is true search-as-you-type (i.e. no pause like in the Bat!). Like anything else in DOpus, you can customize the filter to your heart's desire, and it accepts certain regex commands, for those that like that sort of thing. This gets perfect scores because it made a great program even better and should satisfy the entire range of its userbase.
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EssentialPIM is a typical do-it-all PIM software. It includes a live search feature in the addressbook portion of the application. Like Addza and Cardscan, it searches as-you-type, except the response isn't as fast as the really good live search implementations. Like the Bat!, there seems to be a pause before the results list actually responds to each character typed. Ideally, you want to see the list shorten immediately after pressing each key. So, that's the main complaint for EssentialPIM. I will give it bonus points for including a drop-down box to customize which field the live search will use (All Fields is the default and best option).
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EverNote is a great notetaking program. One of its more prominent features is a live search box in the upper right-hand corner of the application. It works wonderfully well, I can't think of one complaint about it. It's lightning fast, it's well-integrated with the rest of the program, and it is vital to the program's function. For those that aren't familiar with EverNote, it doesn't use a heirarchy to organize the notes, but a long chronological toilet-paper-like scroll. The live search is crucial to finding the right note in that big scroll. So, it's not just a nice, fancy feature, but one of the few live searches that is essential to the program's task. As an added bonus, the matching terms get highlighted in real-time as you type in the live search box. Perfect!
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FindAndRunRobot (FARR) is a product of DC and it's gracious owner, mouser. It's the best program launching program in the history of software, and if I'm not mistaken, the most popular DC appplication. The live search feature is essentially the entire program, making it one of the few programs that make the live search the focal point of the software (even more so than EverNote). In FARR, you use the live search to find the program you want to launch, and with the upcoming v2, you will be able to do all sorts of fancy things, like search through directories using certain special tags and expressions. It is probably the most advanced and sophisticated implementation of the live search that is currently available in the software world right now. If it seems like I am saying this tongue-in-cheek, I'm not. It's actually true. I would actually like to give it an 11/10, but I hate it when people do that.
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MP3rat is a mp3 cataloging program. Its live search is also the central feature of it. MP3rat is unique in that it doesn't organize your mp3 collection using album, artist, or some kind of folder structure. Everything is dumped into one big list, and you use the live search box to filter the list down to whatever you are trying to find. The search is lightning fast and doesn't leave much to be desired. It can also be tweaked so that it searches only the fields you want (all fields, or only certain fields); it is probably the best implementation of this of all the programs because you can pick all fields, or individually check off the fields you want. Unfortunately, it seems like the program hasn't been actively developed for a while, but it still works great.
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myBase is another great notetaking program. In it's latest v5, it introduced what it calls "Find As-you-type". It functions as a live search box that will search through the notes and return a list of matching notes. I was excited when I learned that this feature was being implemented in one of my favorite notetaking applications. Unfortunately, the implementation of it isn't all that great. For one thing, it's not a "true" live search. Like the Bat! and EssentialPIM, it doesn't search as each character is typed, but, instead, it waits for the typing to end, and after a short pause, a list appears of the resulting matches. What's worse is that the new results window that appears scrunches down the current active window, and after you close the results window, the current window remains scrunched. So, after using the search, you always have to maximize the current window to get it back the way it was. The whole thing is just a little klunky. On the positive side, the results window gives some good detailed information about the results, such as how many times the term appears in that specific note. But it doesn't highlight the matches like in EverNote and Addza. Overall, it's a decent feature but in the end, I didn't like using much at all. Live searching is supposed to make searching faster, easier, and cooler, but in this case, they're both sort of the same.
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Powermarks is an alternative bookmarking application for IE or Firefox. It is made by the same author as MP3rat, and the two programs are essentially identical except for the different purpose that they serve. The keyword, live search, basic interface, and most everything else is exactly the same. What I like about this author is that he's basically created a live search engine, and built two applications around it. As a sidenote, for those of you who can't seem to figure out a way to effectively organize your internet bookmarks, I highly recommend Powermarks. [For more details about the live search features, please read the MP3rat section above, it works the same way.]
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Zoot is yet another notetaking application (notice a trend here?). Zoot is a program that some can say was ahead of its time. It used the live search feature long before EverNote did. Unfortunately, development on the program has stalled and all we are left with is a severely outdated 16-bit notetaking program. However, this is about it's live search engine, and it's pretty darn good. The searching is lighting fast, as with all of the other top scorers, and you have the ability to customize what is and what isn't searched. Also, in a very old-fashioned kind of way, the matching terms are highlighted once you choose a matching result and jump to that particular note. I took off a half-point because it only highlights the first match and not all of the matches (if there are multiple ones). No big deal.
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Concluding Remarks
As you can see, there are a large variety of applications making use of this realtively new feature in software. Clearly, some specific types of applications (i.e. notetaking) naturally gravitate towards including the live search in their programs because of its efficiency and usefulness. However, it's also good to see some authors taking this idea and building very creative applications around it (FindAndRunRobot, MP3rat, Powermarks). As an avid software fanatic, I welcome the inclusion of the live search whenever possible. If nothing else, it's just fun to play with it!
I know that this is a probably much too long-winded of an article for such a seemingly insignificant little feature. Part of my reason for doing this is to highlight the subtle differences that can make a good program great. Sometimes, the little features are ignored when there are larger and more important things to worry about. I hope that the software developers find the analysis here useful for their current and future projects, that's really what all this is for.
Until next time,
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Self-promotion warning: A major motivation for my writing my clipboard tool (Clipboard Help+Spell) was wanting to add a live search feature :)
Nice post! Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) features find-as-you-type too, very helpful indeed. :up:
Opera browser has it in most of its features, such as Opera mail, bookmarks and i'm sure other places.
i had no idea about Directory Opus have 'live search' going to set it up right now.
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The RH+ Kinox base layer has become one of my favourite go-to products since summer has (intermittently) arrived, as it feels comfortable and shifts moisture really well.
It's mostly polypropylene (78%, if you're taking notes) with the remainder polyamide (nylon) and elastane. Sometimes polypropylene can feel scratchy but not here – this is comfy stuff.
The fabric itself is very stretchy thanks to the elastane, and the mesh construction gives even more stretch so you get a close, form fit without tightness or ridges.
The body is completely seamless while the seams of the raglan shoulders are about as flat as it's possible to be. You'd have to be hypersensitive to feel them, and you certainly won't be troubled by them.
The best thing about the Kinox base layer is the way that it deals with sweat. The weave next to your body does an excellent job of sucking up moisture from your skin and transporting it away, while all those holes allow plenty of air to circulate. Plus, polypropylene doesn't retain water, it dries really fast, so you don't tend to get cold on the descents.
You get strips of solid fabric down the front and back, and similar panels on each of the sides. I don't think this makes any difference to the breathability, although it might help a bit with the fit.
After several weeks of use the only signs of wear are a couple of small fluffy areas inside, I think where the fabric has rubbed against my heart rate monitor strap. Whatever, you can barely see them and they make no difference to the performance.
The Kinox doesn't resist odours like merino, for example, but any smells wash out easily in the machine.
Very comfortable base layer that transports moisture well.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: RH+ Kinox base layer
Size tested: M/L, white
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
RH+ say, "Pre-formed anatomic construction
Seamless construction"
Short and sweet, there's not a lot to argue with there.
I'd say this is for performance-orientated riders - anyone who's likely to work up a sweat.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
RH+ call the fabric Firedry and this is what they say about it:
"Characteristics: These fabrics ensure a high degree of breathability, lightness, quick drying and softness to the touch.
"Function: They keep the body cool and dry while providing comfort even in the most intense heat."
I'd agree with all of that.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
It has quickly become one of my favourite summer base layers.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The fact that it shifts sweat well and dries fast.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
It's only available in white.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes, certainly.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
About the tester
Age: 41 Height: 190cm Weight: 75kg
I usually ride: My best bike is:
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, club rides, sportives, general fitness riding,
Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now pushing 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.


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UMBC Women's Lacrosse 2014 Schedule
BALTIMORE – UMBC Women's Lacrosse Co-Head Coaches Amy Appelt and Tony Giro have announced the Retrievers' 2014 schedule. The 16-game slate features matchups against four squads that won their respective conferences a year ago, including national tournament runner-up Maryland.
"We are eager to take the next step in the progression of UMBC women's lacrosse," Giro said. "Our schedule is filled with tough challenges and benchmarks – six ranked opponents and four NCAA Tournament qualifiers – but we have a young, competitive bunch that is desperate to take the program where it needs to be.
"For four months, we don't have any easy days – in or out of conference play – and that's the way we like it. We can't wait to find out who we are in 2014," explained Giro.
The Retrievers open their second campaign under the direction of Appelt and Giro in tough fashion, taking on a pair of local 2013 NCAA Tournament participants in Maryland and Towson during the first week of the season. The black and gold start with a tough matchup against the powerhouse Terrapins at UMBC Stadium on Thursday, Feb. 13, marking the first trip to UMBC for the Terps since 2007,followed by a trip to the defending Colonial Athletic Association champs on Feb. 19.
The Retrievers return home to take on American on Feb. 22, in the nightcap of a UMBC lacrosse doubleheader, which follows the UMBC men's lacrosse contest against Monmouth. UMBC travels for another challenging contest for its first-ever meeting with La Salle (March 1), a program that is coming off a season in which it tied the program's all-time wins record with a 10-6 overall mark.
UMBC returns home to take on the defending Big South Tournament champions in High Point on Wednesday, March 5, before hitting the road for back-to-back games for the only time in 2014 with match-ups against Drexel (March 8) and Mount St. Mary's (March 15).
The Retrievers return home for back-to-back games, taking on Temple (March 22) for the first time since 1988 and following with a match-up versus Wagner on March 25. UMBC opens America East action on March 29 when it travels to the defending AEC champions, Stony Brook Seawolves. The black and gold's league home-opener is the following Saturday, April 5 when the Retrievers host New Hampshire.
UMBC travels to New York, N.Y., for its first-ever meeting versus Columbia on April 9, before rounding out its schedule by taking on America East opponents in three of the last four games of the season. The Retrievers host Vermont in the first of two games at the UMBC Stadium on April 12, and then hit the road to take on Johns Hopkins (April 16). UMBC celebrates Senior Day on April 19 versus Albany before concluding the regular-season at Binghamton on April 26.
The Retrievers return 18 letterwinners and 10 starters from a season ago and look to get back to the America East Championships after missing out on the tournament last season, snapping a streak of three straight appearances. The AEC Championships open with semifinal action on May 1, followed by the championship game on May 3, which will be hosted by the highest remaining seed.


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The Mentalist Series Finale Recap: A Serial Killer Crashes Jane and Lisbon's Wedding
Feb 18, 2015 10:31 PM EST
[Warning: This article contains major spoilers about the series finale of The Mentalist. Read at your own risk!] Well, it finally happened. Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) put a ring on it. The Mentalist ended its seven-season run Wednesday night with a s… Read more


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Lights Out has everything you wish to see in a horror movie. But there are instants herein that stop it from reaching petrifying levels of a great riveting horror flick. It doesn't retain the flair of a slow paced scare. However, within its nimble charisma lies its true heart throbbing dread. Also, Alexander DiPersia is a pleasant discovery in the movie. He encounters its ghost in the most thrilling setup ever.
Plot of Lights Out
The video project of the same name that had gone viral three years ago, has been finally moulded into an artistic piece. Augmenting it further is a thrilling story to tell an imaginative tale that walks on a thin edge of palpability. Still the magic works!
After making a series of shorts, David F. Sandberg finally gets a fully-fledged project under the aegis of James Wan. What's reassuring is that he delivers too. He includes Lotta Losten to the tale giving her a cameo of sorts, trying to revive the lost lights out video and then furthers the tale with new elements.
Direction of Lights Out Movie
David F. Sandberg's inexperience transpires at a lot of junctions, wherein you could point, "He didn't think this through!" It is like you can almost taste the lack of percipience in his work. There is passion in his job alright, the love for horror so loud and clear, that you can find it lurking at weird corners. But there is always a sense of thoughtful trepidation missing from his cinema that seemed to have primped down his work into a mere 1 hour 21 minute affair.
You can feel as if he was on a constant canter to reach the end. Maybe the short in him will take some time to wear off. Even though his direction barely reached the levels of horror veterans, he still manages to weave out something above mediocrity, and that is what counts.
Characters (Spoilers in the Dark Ahead)
Sandberg's entry into the horror world receives three cheers from people all across the globe, owing to his unpredictability. He breaks horror clichés in many ways.
Alexander DiPersia as Bret Owns it
The first coming straight from a character like Bret. Alexander DiPersia who plays boyfriend to Rebecca, cannot be simply ignored. Breaking banality profusely the character fits like a rare gem in the movie. He isn't a hero exactly, and yet he survives Diana's attack on three occasions with sheer presence of mind. We generally tend to think boyfriends die first, because they are not important to the tale, but Sandberg decides to break the chains of platitude by keeping Bret alive and breathing. Within his limited screen-time, Alexander DiPersia delivers too.
There is this rare moment where Alexander DiPersia's Bret is almost a dead guy, and yet he revives himself twice or thrice with his sheer presence of mind. Watch out for that bit!
Teresa Palmer's Rebecca
The second most important character is that of Rebecca played by Teresa Palmer. She has this constant confident mien that she wears like a pro at odd hours. The only problem is that she condescends and patronizes Bret beyond limit, so much that you begin to wonder why Bret's with her in the first place. Yet she packs in an uncommon poise that seems to fill you up with pluck too.
Martin, played by Gabriel Bateman, her brother isn't a wuss either. He is scared, terrified, but he always comes around. He has peerless tricks in his pockets that he comes up with to stay safe.
Billy Burke has a small cameo too in the prologue of Lights Out Movie.
Apart from the directorial issues Lights Out had, there were other things that don't go ignored either. Screenplay of the movie was terrible. At one point Martin drops a truism as if it was jostled out with originality. It seemed kind of stupid and forced needless to say.
When Rebecca is engaged in a face-off with Diana, she asks Bret to take Martin away. But when there's a gunshot you see Bret still holding onto Martin unperturbed by what's going on in the house. There was a gunshot for crying out loud. Why didn't he come up with dozens of searchlights, or even better if he was short on time, light up the car lights and point it towards the house so there was at least some light that could save the inmates.
Another question that miffs you is how come Diana plays with lights sometimes moulding them to her will, and then sometimes forgets to switch them off. The constant disconnect in the plot like that makes Lights Out like a sieve of implausibility.
Also, you cannot completely overlook the fact that despite knowing that Diana is in the house, characters give in to sleeping in the house with Sophie. They were all so unprepared even though they knew the truth. That was a tad too much.
The Final Verdict
Darkness has forever intrigued us. There is something about its still aura that has us questioning us our sanity. A topic that will forever haunt us, just by its sheer fancy. David F. Sandberg milks the fact enough. I am afraid, not properly but he still manages to fabricate us a good horror flick.
If we don't look in the direction of the downside-darkness of the Lights Out movie we still have something that is way above thousands of pointless horror movies. To that we nod him welcome.
A must-watch horror fans.
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Katadyn MyBottle Water Purifier - Green
Size: 10" x 2.5"
Weight: 10 oz.
Ships From: TX
The Katadyn MyBottle Water Purifier in the Blue Splash color is an advanced personal water bottle filtration system. The MyBottle is the only personal water bottle purification system on the entire water filter market that is registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). To use this water bottle purifier all you have to do is fill the bottle with the water you want purified, insert the specially-designed Katadyn purification system, and drink from virtually any fresh water source.
Using the Advanced Katadyn Virustat Filter (8011555) as well as a Katadyn Cyst Filter (8011553), this personal water bottle filter removes all viruses, bacteria, cysts, and other impurities from nearly all freshwater sources. The integral carbon cartridge also reduces chemicals and makes the filtered water taste better.
Katadyn MyBottle personal water bottle purifiers are for use with untreated fresh water sources such as lakes, ponds, springs, rivers, streams, and so on. It also provides protection against most waterborne pathogens that could still be present in the drinking water of many foreign nations. The MyBottle is great for use in emergencies and natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc., or when the water service from your local water treatment plant is interrupted.
With the use of Katadyn MyBottle personal water filters, you will no longer have to carry or locate safe drinking water when hiking, traveling, fishing, boating, camping, or during emergencies. Katadyn MyBottles are the only water bottle purifiers on the market that includes the technology of a microbial purification filter cartridge in a standard water bottle.
Katadyn MyBottle Water Purifier (Blue Splash Color) Specifications:
- Height: 10"
- Weight: 8 ounces (unfilled)
- Bottle Capacity: 24 ounces after cartridge displacement
- Cartridge Capacity: up to 26 gallons (100 liters) depending on specific water quality
- Filter Media: 3 Stage Katadyn 8011555 Virustat purification cartridge, including granular activated carbon (GAC) and a Katadyn 8011553 Cyst Filter
According to U.S. EPA microbiological water purifier testing, the included iodide resin Virustat microbial purification cartridge removed the following contaminants:
- 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria such as Klebsiella terrigena
- 99.99% of waterborne viruses including Poliovirus Type 1 and Type 1 Rotavirus Strain SA-11
- 99.9% of waterborne protozoa such as Giardia
- Other impurities and contaminants, as well as bad tastes and odors
The Virustat filter cartridge uses a patented ion-release technology that reduces residual iodine along with a specialized layer of coconut-carbon that further reduces any further residue. The Virustat cartridge is preceded by a replaceable 1-micron filter that removes 99.9% of pathogenic cysts (Giardia, etc). Additionally, a prefilter is installed below the cyst filter in order to remove sediment, dirt, and other potentially harmful organic contaminants.
Katadyn MyBottle personal water bottle purifiers provide a convenient alternative to larger pump-style water purifiers. Because they are designed for personal small-scale water filtration, MyBottle systems are not for use in situations where large volumes of water must be treated.
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Full detailed instructions for the initial set-up and use of this Katadyn MyBottle personal water purifier are included.
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Hawkeye52245 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 46 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
I need a logo to be used on website and magazine ads - high res format desired.
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Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)
Introduction to Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)
Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) is a process for assessing learning gained outside a traditional academic environment. This could be learning acquired through military service, employer training programs, independent study, non-credit courses, open courseware, or volunteer or community service. Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) is a means of evaluating what a student already knows at the college-level derived from these experiences for college credit, certification, or advanced standing toward further education or training.
Your Knowledge + Expertise Equals College Credit!
For more information
Six Alternative Pathways for Prior Learning Assessment
HCC is committed to ensuring our military service members and veterans receive credit for their college-level knowledge gained through their service to our country. Military service members and veterans may contact the HCC District Office of Veteran Affairs (firstname.lastname@example.com) for all necessary information.
Note: All military students seeking Prior Learning Assessment need to complete the Application for Prior Learning Assessment Form (p. 17). The $25 fee is waived for all military students.
Credit By Exam
HCC encourages students to use for-credit examinations to demonstrate subject matter knowledge. These exams cover a wide-range of topics and disciplines. A complete listing of exams is included in the Resources Section of this Guide. Taking exams for credit is one of the most affordable ways to accelerate degree completion.
It is recommended that students who are fluent in Spanish take CLEP exams to demonstrate their knowledge. A Spanish-speaking student could earn up to fourteen credits through CLEP which will save time and money while moving that student fourteen credits closer to degree completion.
The following exams may be taken for credit or transferred into HCC if the student has already taken an exam:
- Accepted Exams
- AP (Advanced Placement) / IB (International Baccalaureate) Exam
- External Exam Flow Chart
- Internal Exam Flow Chart
Procedures for National Exam
- Any student interested in demonstrating his/her knowledge by passing an exam needs to be advised first if the exam (s) are applicable to the student's degree plan.
- The student needs to register and pay for the exam.
- The student needs to take the exam.
- The test scores will be sent directly to the HCC Registrar. Passing scores are accepted and posted to the student's transcript.
- CLEP exams can be taken at each college. For a schedule of testing dates, contact your campus counselor.
Note: The Application for Prior Learning Assessment Form and $25 fee is not required for national exams.
Procedures for Internal Exam
- Any student interested in demonstrating her/his knowledge by passing an exam needs to be advised first if the exam(s) are applicable to the student's degree plan.
- Provide the student with an Application for Prior Learning Assessment form.
- Students may request through the appropriate department chair, permission to take final exams for certain courses.
- The student needs to pay a $25 fee to the Business Office at campus upon submission of the Application for Prior Learning Assessment form to the campus advisor.
- The student is then approved to take the exam. At this point, the student needs to register for the exam or make arrangements to take a proctored exam with the appropriate HCC Chair of the department that would recognize the credit (such as Business, English, Humanities, etc.). In cases where the exam of a course is skills based, the student coordinates a time and place with the department chair to take the exam. Students must not have previously enrolled in the course.
- Test scores are reviewed by the Instructional Dean and/or Department Chair. Passing scores are then accepted, submitted to Registrar, and credit is posted as "AP" on the student's transcript.
Note: All students seeking Prior Learning Assessment by department final or challenge exam need to complete the Application for Prior Learning Assessment form and pay the $25 fee.
Mirror Classes
A Mirror course is the articulation of a CEU or non-credit course in to a for-credit course applicable toward a certificate or associate's degree. The continuing education courses must meet the same rigor, evaluation process, and faculty guidelines as the equivalent for-credit courses. The documentation must demonstrate that individual continuing education students have met the same competencies as the successful for-credit students prior to making the decision to award credit for a course taken as continuing education
CEU Mirror SCH Classes Description
A Mirror Course is the articulation of a CEU or non-credit course into a for-credit course applicable toward a certificate or associate's degree. The continuing education courses must meet the same rigor, evaluation process, and faculty guidelines as the equivalent for-credit courses. The documentation must demonstrate that individual continuing education students have met the same competencies as the successful for-credit students prior to making the decision to award credit for a course taken as continuing education.
- To start this process, the student must see her/his advisor at the college to obtain the Application for Prior Learning Assessment form for CEU to Credit. At this time the advisor will review the student's records to verify the course was taken. If a CEU to Credit articulation agreement is in effect, only students who have earned CEU's with a grade of "P" may apply for articulated credit. Verification of available articulated courses can be done by going to the ACC website at www.hccs.edu/acc and following the "Articulated Credit" tab.
- The student completes the Application for Prior Learning Assessment Form and submits the $25 fee. All signatures are required before the application can be processed.
- The advisor reviews the application, approves it, and signs the form. The advisor should also make a copy of the form for her/his files and submit the original signed form to the registrar.
- The Registrar will then apply the credit to the student's transcript and notify the student of the credit award.
Many adult students attend college while in the workforce or after working for many years. They find themselves in a position to either earn a certificate or degree to continue employment or to retrain for another career altogether. In either case, the adult may have completed industry or corporate training programs or certifications that may count as college credit toward a degree or certificate at HCC. These completed trainings and/or certification programs can be evaluated by ACE (The American Council on Education) and may be equivalent to courses required in a selected degree or certificate program.
Industry Certificate Description
Adult learners should be asked if they have taken any training programs that they may have been told were evaluated for college credit. This will sometimes remind students that for training they had a number of years ago, they were told it was worth college credits. If this is the case, we want to ensure this college-level learning is recognized at HCC.
- Typically, training programs that have been evaluated by the American Council in Education (ACE) are in major industry sectors sand industry competences certifications and licenses, such as in automotive, accounting, Microsoft, CompTia, and of course documented military training.
- Another important question to ask any adult learner is "Do you have any certifications, such as IT (Information Technology) Certifications?" If so, and they are current, these may be worth college credit as well.
- If the student knows when the training was taken and from whom, you can assist the student by looking up that training in the ACE Credit Recommendations Guide at http://www2.acenet.edu/credit/?fuseaction=content.getEvaluatedOrganizations.
- Students who have certifications or training that they think may be worthy of college credits should be advised to order official ACE Transcripts be sent to the:
HCC Office of Admissions and Records.
HCC Office of Student Records
P.O. Box 667517
Houston, Texas 77266-7517
- Students may order their ACE transcripts at www.acenet.edu.
Work Experience
For students with significant professional experience, military experience or trade experience, portfolio assessment is a rewarding process that teaches you to document your learning from experience. Portfolio Assessment provides the opportunity to earn college credits and much more. A portfolio is built by matching a college course (such as any course from the HCC Schedule of Courses or Catalog) with the knowledge and skills gained by work or profession, through civic, community and volunteer work, or through independent selfdirected study or travel. Successful students tend to have these skills and qualities:
- Significant learning gained through work experience and training.
- Understands the time commitment involved in building a portfolio.
- Has talked with their campus advisor about portfolio assessment.
- Strong writing skills.
- Access to a computer with internet access and is a good candidate for online learning.
There are two options for pursuing a portfolio that will demonstrate skills learned by work or professional experience, community or volunteer work, or through travel or selfdirected study.
Option 1: Dean Approval
Dean Approval Work Experience Flow Chart
- Meet with the Dean to discuss what is required to demonstrate mastery of the course.
- Determine the evidence that needs to be submitted to prove that learning outcomes of the course are aligned with the evidence submitted that will prove the student has mastered the skills and knowlege required of the course. The evidence should show that college level learning has occurred.
Examples of proof may include:
- Letters from prior supervisors/employers validating specific skill sets aligned with course learning outcomes were being used in the workplace proficiently.
- Samples of work that substantiate examples of work required in the course and validated as own work.
- Video showing individual performing learning outcomes.
- Personal interview with Dean to describe learning outcomes and evidence needed.
- A written narrative (comparable to an end-of-semester term paper) that describes how the student meets the learning objectives through his/her experience, what has been done, how the student knows what he/she knows, and how he/she links theory and application. Include all documentation in this paper.
- Other evidence determined by Dean and Department Chair as proper documentation.
Option 2: Learning Counts Portfolio
Learning Counts Work Experience Flow Chart
- Students who are interested in portfolio assessment should be referred to the Council for Adult & Experiential Learning (CAEL) website: www.LearningCounts.org . The student can try the College Credit Predictor to get an Action Plan or contact a College Credit Specialist to get specific advice.
- After receiving the advising, the student will register for "Build Your Portfolio For College Credit". This workshop taken through www.LearningCounts.org is an online course and will teach students critical thinking reflection skills to rethink the value of learning from experience. The course also teaches the student how to build a Learning Portfolio. This is a non-credit, interactive and self-paced workshop. Busy students can go through the whole course in a weekend or take their time, stopping and starting as needed (the course bookmarks progress). The cost of the workshop is $149.00 and remitted to CAEL through the website. Download the first two modules for free -- ask a Learning Counts advisor how.
- To build the electronic portfolio at www.LearningCounts.org , the student will:
- Identify courses based upon their descriptions and syllabi that best match the student's expertise. The student will determine if what she/he knows is the same as the learning outcomes for the course.
- Prepare a narrative (comparable to an end-of-semester term paper) that describes how the student meets the course learning objectives through his/her experience, what has been done, how the student knows what she/he knows, and how she/he links theory and application.
- Provide documentation to prove that what the student says is supported by evidence. This could include letters from supervisors, videos, work product examples, certificates of completion, and more.
- The Portfolio Assessment Fee is $125 per portfolio and each portfolio contains one course. Students may submit multiple portfolios for evaluation depending upon the student's depth and breadth of experience and willingness to do the work associated with portfolio preparation.
- The completed portfolio(s) is submitted to LearningCounts.org where it is reviewed and assigned to a faculty assessor with specific subject matter expertise. Students will learn how to do this in the workshop. Assessors are faculty members at colleges and universities all over the U.S. They have been trained by CAEL to review the portfolios with consistency and academic integrity. The assessor reviews the portfolio and provides feedback. The assessor evaluates the portfolio and determines if credit is awarded.
- The credits approved for the course or courses earned by portfolio are documented on an NCCRS Transcript and sent to the HCC Office of Admissions and Records .
- Student must complete Application for Prior Learning Assessment form (p. 17) with all required signatures and pay $25 application fee.
- The credits are posted to the student's transcript.
Articulated Credit
HCC has articulation agreements with several agencies and/or institutions. An articulation agreement permits credits/CEU's/certificates that are earned at one institution or agency to be transferred as a college credit toward a specific degree or certificate at HCC. The specific recognized articulated agreements are listed under Articulated Credit.
CEU to SCH Program
CEU to SCH Programs: An internal HCC instructional department agreement to accept certain CE courses as semester credit hour (SCH) courses. As of June 15, 2013, the list of internal articulated courses follows:
HITT 1005 Medical Terminology I HITT 1305
NURA 1001 Nurse Aide for Health Care PLAB 1323 or NUPC 1320
(Additional requirements apply-must complete State Certification, have work experience, etc.)
The student must see his/her advisor to obtain the Prior Learning Assessment Form. At this time the advisor will review the student's record to verify that the articulation agreement applies.
The student completes the Application for Prior Learning Assessment Form. All signatures are required before the application can be processed. This agreement requires the department chair and advisor's signatures.
The advisor reviews, approves, and signs the form. The advisor should also make a copy for the college records and submit the original signed form to the registrar.
The registrar will apply the credit to the student's transcript and notify the student of the credit award.
Notice – No Fee Applies to Articulated Agreements
HCC to City of Houston Cape Center
An articulation agreement between the City of Houston and HCC to receive HCC credit for completing training modules from the approved course assessment guide list of Cape Center. The student must meet other requirements as stipulated in the Appendix.
The student must see his/her college advisor to obtain the Prior Learning Assessment form. At this time the advisor will review the student's record and verify that the articulation agreement applies.
The advisor uses the Cape Center Course Assessment Guide to align articulated courses for HCC. This can be found in the Appendix section of the manual.
Only the advisor's signature is required to verify this agreement.
The college advisor reviews, approves, and signs the form. The advisor should also make a copy for the college records and submit the original signed form to the registrar.
The registrar will apply the credit to the student's transcript and notify the student of the credit award.
Advanced Technical Credits/Tech Prep
ATC – formerly Statewide Articulation): A state- level process that identifies commonly articulated secondary career and technical courses, requires enhancement of their curriculum to align with postsecondary courses, and sets common standards for the award of college credit for these courses statewide. State- approved professional development provides information to teachers on articulated course methodology and expectations of college Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM) courses. The statewide articulation process allows students who successfully complete these career and technical courses, graduate from any secondary school in the state, and meet the requirements outlined for ATC, to receive articulated credit from any participating public postsecondary two-year degree granting institution in the state that offers the corresponding course(s).
- Upon completion of high school, students must follow the steps below to ensure they receive HCC Tech Prep articulated credit. Students are responsible for delivering the following items to the Workforce Program Initiatives Office:
- Copy of high school transcript
- Petition for Award of Tech Prep Credit form (see Appendix p. 19), filled in and signed by all appropriate persons.
- Students can mail, fax, or email documents to:
Workforce Program Initiatives Office
P.O. Box 6678517
Houston, Texas 77266-7517
Fax: 713-718-5018
Email: email@example.com
- After forms are submitted, the Workforce Program Initiatives Office will contact the appropriate department head and registrar to facilitate awarding the appropriate college credit.
- Students must successfully complete 9 to 12 semester credit hours (non- developmental) at HCC to receive full-articulated credit.
Note: No fee applies for articulated agreements.
Prior Learning Assessment Information
Eligibility Criteria
1. Student Eligibility. To be eligible to earn PLA credit, a student must be currently or previously enrolled at HCC for the past 12 months and meet all Houston Community College admissions requirements. They should not have previously taken or attempted the course (by title that is the same as the PLA credit for which they are applying).
- PLA credit is only awarded when it applies to the HCC programs of study.
- Six hours of HCC credit must be successfully completed prior to posting PLA credit. The exception to this criteria is all standardized exams may be posted to the student's transcript immediately upon receipt by the Registrar.
NOTE: A minimum of 25% of the credits for the HCC certificate or degree must be completed at HCC. (Residency Requirement). Please note that credit earned by Advanced Placement (AP) exams does not count toward the six hour requirement.
HCC seeks to provide access to advanced college credit and PLA credit opportunities for all students. In doing so, fees are kept as low as possible. Every student who applies for Prior Learning Assessment credit must work with an advisor to complete the appropriate Prior Learning Assessment requirements and submit a $25 fee per course. Students submitting multiple options on one application (due to multiple sources of credit) must pay $25 per course. The fee is waived for military students. There is no fee for national exams or articulated agreements.
|HCC Prior Learning Assessment
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|Portfolio Evaluation
|$125.00 (paid to www.LearningCounts.org)
This fee is only paid upon submission of the portfolio for review to determine if college credits can be awarded for the college-level learning acquired outside of the traditional college setting, such as learning gained at work.
|For College Credit
|$149.00 (paid to www.LearningCounts.org)
This is a non-credit, interactive and self-paced workshop.
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|External Standardized Exam
|Check specific exam website
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Covering the Bases: Game 109
FIRST: As much criticism as Kevin Gregg has faced this season, it seems only right to take a moment to give the closer some credit.
Sure there's been plenty of suspense — there was again in Friday's 2-1 win over the Rays — but Gregg has converted 25 saves in 29 chances with a 3.59 ERA.
I'd say that's as good, or perhaps better, than people expected when he was named Toronto's closer.
The last time he faced the Rays in Toronto, Gregg endured a 40-pitch disaster. It was June 1 and he surrendered four runs on one hit with five walks. And he was ejected from the game. Talk about forgettable.
This time around, Gregg allowed a leadoff single (panic!), but retired the next three Rays hitters in order. He caught Willy Aybar looking at a 3-2 pitch to end a 9-pitch at-bat. He then induced a flyout off the bat of Ben Zobrist and got Jason Bartlett to ground into a game-ending fielder's choice.
Since that June 1 meltdown, Gregg has posted a 2.41 ERA over 19 games, picking up 11 saves in 12 opportunities. Really, has it been that bad?
SECOND: The key moment in this victory came in the sixth inning, when Cecil put the first two hitters on base in a 1-1 game. He walked B.J. Upton and then gave up a single to Sean Rodrigues. No worries, though.
Evan Longoria followed with a 5-4-3 groundout, finished off with a nice scoop by Lyle Overbay at first base.
"If you get the ball up to [Longoria]," Cecil said, "he's going to drive it to right-center or left center, depending on where the pitch is. They key with him is really staying down. It was a back-door cutter. It got a little bit more over the plate, but it had that good tilt to it and ended up getting a ground ball."
After walking Aybar to put runners on the corners with two outs, Cecil then struck out Zobrist on a 3-2 fastball. Inning over. Tie game preserved.
"I've had good success in the past throwing him chest-high fastballs," Cecil explained. "It was a fastball right below his hands and that's where he swings at it the most. That's where he likes it. He doesn't necessarily always hit it. It got the job done."
Over his last six starts, Cecil is now 2-0 with a 2.06 ERA. Could be 6-0 with a little more run support.
THIRD: Twice, the Blue Jays scored shortly after the Rays made a costly throwing error. In the third inning, Edwin Encarnacion scored from second base when Rodriguez caught a line drive and threw wildly to second, trying to double Edwin up.
In the seventh inning, it was Matt Garza's turn to make a gaffe. Jose Bautista hit a pitch back to the mound, and Garza misfired to Zobrist at first base. Bautista reached and later in the inning Overbay delivered a two-out double to left field to put Toronto up, 2-1.
From the "Who knew?" department… Overbay has been a consistent threat for the Jays in late and close situations this year. That's when Toronto is tied, ahead by one run or the tying run is on-deck circle in the seventh inning or later. In such scenarios, Overbay has hit .357 (25-for-70) with two homers, four doubles and eight RBIs this season.
HOME: So where was catching prospect J.P. Arencibia? Don't fret, Jays fans. He'll be behind the dish on Saturday afternoon to catch lefty Brad Mills. Manager Cito Gaston is keeping Brandon Morrow paired with Jose Molina, and that means Molina will start Sunday. With Saturday being a day game after a night game — a situation Gaston won't use the same catcher twice — Molina got the nod Friday and Arencibia Saturday. Gaston noted that Arencibia will likely get the bulk of the playing time behind the plate until veteran catcher John Buck (right thumb) returns from the disabled list.
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The Jays played well tonight. They kept it together in a close game and capitalized on some Ray errors. This is the type of game the Jays would have lost last year, but now they seem to have the confidence to play to the bitter end and come up with the W.
Go Jays!
They were saying that the Jays have been outscored by the Rays 30-3 in late innings this year, so it's nice to see the bullpen step up and hold this one. It's also nice to see them scoring runs off the other team's mistakes. They played like a good team last night.


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WALTHAM, Mass.- This afternoon the Brandeis University baseball team split a double-header in non-conference play at Stein Diamond against Springfield College. Both contests featured excellent pitching as the Judges rallied to win game one 4-3 behind junior 1B Dan Gad (Mansfield, Mass./ Mansfield) before the Pride took the nightcap 3-0. Brandeis moves to 10-19 while Springfield goes to 12-17.
In the first contest, the Pride jumped on sophomore starter Kyle Brenner (Brookfield, Mass./ St. Peter-Marian) early, scoring two runs on four hits in the top of the first. The Judges got one back in the bottom of the frame when Gad doubled into the left-center field gap bringing senior left fielder Nick Cortese (Guaynabo, P.R./ Baldwin School of Puerto Rico) all the way home from first.
Springfield tacked another run on in the top of the fifth to go up 3-1 but Brandeis would respond in a big way. With one out in the bottom of the inning, junior 3B Dominic Schwartz (San Francisco, Calif./ Lowell) began the rally with an infield single. Sophomore SS Brian Allen (Salem, N.H./ Central Catholic) followed with a base knock to right field before senior catcher Chris Ferro (Walpole, Mass./ Walpole) snuck the ball between the first and second basemen to score Schwartz and make it a 3-2 game. After a Cortese ground out moved both runners into scoring position, Gad delivered. With two outs and an 0-1 count, Gad ripped the ball into right, scoring Allen and Ferro, to give the Judges their first lead of the game at 4-3.
Brandeis would hold on as Brenner (2-5) finished off the complete game for the narrow victory. He hurled seven strong innings allowing three earned runs on 11 hits while walking one and striking out five. The Judges had three batters with multiple hits. Gad led the way going 2-for-3 with a double and three RBI. Ferro was also 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI while Schwartz went 2-for-3 with a run.
Springfield featured four players with two hits. Sophomore SS Shane O'Leary (Kings Park, N.Y./ Kings Park) and junior 3B Frank Calabrese (E. Longmeadow, Mass./ E. Longmeadow) each went 2-for-4 with a run while junior 1B Mike McGowan (Franklin, Mass./ Franklin) and sophomore left fielder Brent Poulin (Atascadero, Calif./ Cuesta CC) both went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Sophomore starter Oliver Collette (Spencer, Mass./ St. John's) fell to 2-1 on the year after 5 2/3 innings where he allowed four runs on 10 hits with a walk and two strikeouts.
In the second game, Brandeis found themselves in a pitchers' duel. Senior starter Mike Swerdloff (Scarsdale, N.Y./ Ardsley) was excellent through seven innings but the Pride's senior starter Greg Marakovits (Rocky Hill, Conn./ Stonehill) was just a little better. Swerdloff (2-5) scattered nine hits over his complete game while allowing three runs (two earned) with one walk and six strikeouts. Unfortunately, Marakovits (1-4) was masterful in his seven innings of work allowing just two hits while walking one and striking out four in his complete game shutout. Runs in the first, third, and fifth would be all Springfield would need in the 3-0 victory.
The Judges were led offensively by Ferro and sophomore 2B Tom McCarthy (Yonkers, N.Y./ Fieldston School) who each recorded a base knock.
The Pride were led by Poulin who went 2-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs while O'Leary went 2-for-3 with a run scored and junior DH Matt Artigliere (Washington, N.J./ Warren Hills) went 2-for-3 with a double.
Brandeis returns to action on Wednesday April 24th at Bowdoin with first pitch scheduled for 4:00 p.m. Springfield returns home to face Amherst on Monday April 22nd at 4:00 p.m.


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