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John Lee and Sarah Ann Lever (Tysoe) had a a total of twelve children. As a reminder, these are the parents of Thomas Henry Lee (Henry Lee-Thomas). The first six brith records are posted here. These children are the siblings of Thomas Henry Lee (Henry Lee-Thomas). Grandma Ruby Thredgold (Henry's wife) is the one responsible to these records. I didn't want to post too much at once so the other six will be forthcoming. Here is the link:
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I don't know if you have this but this is the death notice for Henry Lee-Thomas from his Lee family.
LEE - Killed in action somewhere in France, after three years active service in Galli[olli and France, Sgt. Harry Lee, beloved 5th son of John and Sarah Lee,Narrogin, loving brother of the late nurse Field, Mrs Hughie Murray, Mrs McAsh,Will, Syd, Maurice (East Narrogin), Hugh (Lake Grace) Leslie on active service, aged 30 years 9 months.
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- February 22, 2012 at 5:20 AM
- MM said...
I did not have that death notice. Thank you for sharing.
- March 2, 2012 at 4:06 PM
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Archaeologists excavating near Cambridge have stumbled upon a rare and mysterious find: The skeleton of a 7th-century teenager buried in an ornamental bed along with a gold-and-garnet cross, an iron knife and a purse full of glass beads.
Experts say the grave is an example of an unusual Anglo-Saxon funerary practice of which very little is known. Just over a dozen of these "bed burials" have been found in Britain, and it's one of only two in which a pectoral cross — meant to be worn over the chest — has been discovered.
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Carb Face and Pageant Girl: back to work
Been ages since Nick Lachey and his paqeant girl Vanessa Minnillo have been seen on the scene. But you know how these things work, right?
Nick is the host of ABC's High School Musical Get in the Picture. The show premieres on Sunday... amazingly enough, Nick and Nessa turned up at Katsuya for dinner last night, greeted by the paparazzi.
Like clockwork, see?
Have to admire though that Nick isn't too proud to earn a living. Instead of persisting with a recording career, he's now content to host cheesy variety programs that will keep him front and centre and put money in the bank. It's humble, it's flexible, slightly embarrassing but the key message: Nick Lachey is not an overreacher.
Jessica Alba, Biel, Sarah Michelle Gellar...it's a lesson they could all stand to learn. But those tv girls do not know their limits.
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Obituary: Edward Adler (1920-2012)
June 15, 2012
Edward Adler, a television writer who lived in and wrote about New York City for most of his career, died on June 8, in Jenkinstown, Pennsylvania, at the age of 91. Adler, who was born in Brooklyn on November 17, 1920, had suffered from dementia in recent years.
Adler's early work ran the gamut of sixties New York dramas, from an initial feint on The Nurses to a quick pass at Mr. Broadway to significant contributions to East Side / West Side, Hawk, and N.Y.P.D. Fittingly, he capped his career in the eighties with producing stints on two hard-boiled street shows, the vigilante drama The Equalizer and Night Heat (which was lensed in Toronto, but liked to pretend it was a New York cop show).
"He was the most lovable guy I guess I ever met in my life," said Buck Henry, a friend for nearly fifty years. "I don't know anyone who knew Eddie that didn't want to protect him, because he always seemed like an innocent. Eddie was a great example of someone who always lived close to the ground, so to speak. He wandered through life with his eye and his ear on a kind of New York that doesn't exist any more."
Past forty before he ever typed a script page, Adler was something of a literary sensation in the early sixties. After a succession of odd jobs – short order cook, furrier's assistant, Catskills chauffeur, numbers runner for a Brooklyn pool hall owner – Adler spent eight years as a New York City cab driver. During that time, he produced a novel that was published in early 1962. Notes From a Dark Street was a Joycean compendium of Lower East Side eccentrics, and it was mentioned in the New York Times, favorably or neutrally, no less than six times during the first half of 1962. One review compared the book to Hieronymous Bosch; another declared it "a carnival of the senses" and proclaimed Adler "the literary find of the year."
"Most of the greater New York writers of the twentieth century recognized how good it was. Philip Roth was always ready to lay a quote on it, and Mailer read it and liked it," recalled Henry.
Adler was not of the intellectual class – his parents were Eastern European immigrants and shopkeepers in Brooklyn, and Adler himself only had two years of college on the G.I. Bill – and the press made much of his self-taught talent, cultivated through avid wartime reading of Dante, Conrad, and Beckett. Years later, Adler told me how ridiculous he felt when a Time magazine photographer posed him atop a Checker Cab – holding his typewriter.
Notes From a Dark Street sold fewer than three thousand copies and it looked like it was back to the garage for Eddie Adler, until television came calling. Adler palled around with musicians and writers and Greenwich Village characters; two of his friends were George Bellak, a television writer who was then story editor of The Nurses, and beat scenester David Padwa, whose ex-wife, Audrey Gellen, was developing the new social work drama East Side / West Side for David Susskind.
The Nurses fizzled out – his script, "Many a Sullivan," was rewritten by Albert Ruben, possibly among others, and the New York Times described Adler's experience as "bitter." But he kept pounding the keys because, as he told the reporter, "Things were not going so good on the hack."
Fortunately, Adler was a perfect match for East Side / West Side and, in particular, for its initial executive producer Arnold Perl, a blacklist survivor who wanted the series to be as bluntly progressive as possible. Adler wrote three terrific, tone-setting scripts for East Side / West Side, all of which number among the most downbeat and street-literate tales mounted by that series. "The Passion of the Nickel Player" covers the world of small-time numbers runners, which Adler knew well. "One Drink at a Time," about a pair of truly desperate, derelict Bowery binge drinkers, may be one of the most depressing and sordid hours of television ever made. (That's a compliment.)
But the most important was the first, "Not Bad For Openers," which drew upon Adler's inside knowledge of the hack racket. Curiously, he bypassed this obvious subject for his novel and saved it for his first fully realized television story, a study of a cab driver (Norman Fell, probably an apt Adler surrogate) with a gambling addiction. Adler, who hung around the Long Island City location (a garage out of which he himself had worked) as a technical advisor, was cagey about how autobiographical the script was. "I knew a couple of people like the lead in the show," Adler told me, but also conceded that much of his own experience made it into "Not Bad For Openers" (originally, and more vividly, titled "An Arm-Job to Oblivion," an arm-job being a taxi ride for which the driver doesn't turn on the meter).
Adler continued writing his slice-of-life stories for Hawk and N.Y.P.D., both late-sixties time capsules of the New York streets. A fast writer, he served as an uncredited rewrite man on the first series and an official story editor on the second. "Larry Arrick [a producer of East Side / West Side] used to say, 'Here comes the fireman,' which meant that I rewrote very fast, and that carried over into another series that Susskind did, a half-hour cop show called N.Y.P.D.," Adler said when I interviewed him in 1996.
"There's a goddamn episode [of Hawk] that I wrote over a weekend. Paul Henreid directed this episode, and there wasn't a script for him ready to shoot. They called me up and I came in and I wrote a script in twenty-four hours," added Adler. But he had left his glasses at the summer cabin where his family was vacationing. "By middle of the afternoon, I couldn't take it anymore. They ran me down to Delancey Street and I got an emergency pair of glasses in fifteen minutes. And finished the sceenplay and was blind for about three weeks!"
"The big thing about Eddie was that he came through all the time," said Bob Markell, the producer of N.Y.P.D. "His writing was kind of Group Theatre writing. He was the working man's writer. It was tough and gritty. Great sense of humor; very biting. I loved some of the things that he did."
Adler left N.Y.P.D. at the end of its first season to work on a screenplay for Susskind's company, a daring story about race and the police based on Paul Tyner's novel Shoot It. The film's director and star would have been George C. Scott and Al Pacino, respectively, but it fell apart at the last minute. In the early seventies, Adler partnered with his friend Buck Henry – whom he had met during East Side / West Side, when Henry and Mel Brooks were creating Get Smart in a nearby office – on two other movie projects, during the period after Catch-22 and Milos Forman's Taking Off made Henry an especially hot property. One, Seven Footprints to Satan (later renamed Cells), was a generally indescribable effort that the New York Times attempted to describe in 1970 as "a black comedy about kidnapping and assassination" ("more of a melodrama," Henry says now); the second, Bullet Proof, was, as Henry told the Times,
about an 18 year-old boy and his relationship with his girl and with other citizens of a Long Island community – particularly the members of the local branch of the American Legion who give him a bang-up going away party when he's drafted . . . . The title refers to the bullet-proof Bibles that are issued to G.I.'s.
"It was fun to write with him, because we spent an awful lot of time, like writers do, goofing off and laughing and watching the ballgame," Henry told me yesterday. "I've never had many partners; I don't write well with partners. But sometimes when we were working together, because we were both highly pretentious literature fans, we would stumble onto something that made us laugh for a day or two. We wrote a script once in which we were really stuck for a series of pieces of pretentious monologues, so we just got a copy of [Sartre's] Being and Nothingness, turned to whatever page our fingers went to and copied a paragraph from it."
The "director of record" for Bullet Proof was Milos Forman, but neither that nor Cells was made. In the end, Adler never had a feature credit, just the tell-tale gaps that turnaround projects and unsold pilots leave amid a writer's credits.
"He was always going toward jobs that he was completely unsuited for," Henry said. "He got a job on a soap about ten years ago. He came out here to L.A. to write the bible, as they say, on it. The first day he was here he opened his car door into traffic and saw it ripped off and dragged a mile away. Eddie never was able to figure out Los Angeles. It was a mystery to him, as it is to many hardcore New Yorkers."
Adler held out in New York as most of the other television writers moved west. He made the pilgrimage to Los Angeles twice a year, to pitch stories, but drew the line at a permanent relocation – even when a lucrative offer to head-write a soap opera was made. His credits from the seventies are thin – Gibbsville, a portion of the Benjamin Franklin miniseries, several unsold pilots, and Death Penalty, a made-for-television movie about Salvador Agron, the "Capeman" killer – in part because Adler devoted more and more of his time to his union, the Writers Guild of America, East. Adler served on the Guild's council for thirty-two years and was its president from 1983-1991.
Adler's wife, Elaine Lipton, died in 2003. (The main character in Death Penalty, played by Colleen Dewhurst, is named for her.) He is survived by two sons, Tony (a first assistant director) and Joe, and one novel, which "should be always in print, but it isn't," as Buck Henry pointed out. You can buy a copy of Notes From a Dark Street from Amazon for a penny.
And what of a second novel? True one-book writers – as opposed to writers who wrote only one famous book, or one good one – are rare (and there's a great documentary about them, in particular one named Dow Mossman, called Stone Reader, by Mark Moskowitz). Edward Adler is a member of that small fraternity. There were notes, scraps, various false starts, according to Joe Adler, but nothing ever came together.
5 Responses to "Obituary: Edward Adler (1920-2012)"
June 15, 2012 at 2:57 pm
First-rate tribute, Stephen. A good obituary always imparts information of which the reader was not aware. and while I did know Adler's name from East Side/West Side and NYPD the Henry anecdotes were amazing.
June 16, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Simply superb, informative, evocative and alive. At least he had three "East Side / West Side" segments that will be a small testament, a novel and now this obit. Thanks you
February 6, 2013 at 8:26 pm
I collaborated w/Eddie on "Shoot It," the screenplay, and I will not forget his gentle cynicism, his gritty street smarts, his Runyonesque energy. I remember he called me "the kid," and I came torecognize that he was one of a kind, caring deeply about the work even as he railed against the compromises, (the multiplicity) of voices that held sway in the making of a movie. He was a guy I grew to love. I will miss him though I will alwayshave my memories of our time together.
July 9, 2013 at 6:52 pm
I read this shortly after my grandfather past, I don't think it affected me as much as it does now. I really never knew much about the work he did or his book, but i knew him as this silly guy who showed me my first ever computer game. He was a great man, but I never saw him much since my family moved to LA when I was 5.
I think now is a great time to visit the Paley Center for Media and watch the programs he worked on.


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Specific to obtaining a degree and license your age may cause you difficulty in 2 areas, and I am not trying to be cute here: (1) LSAC will need your undergraduate transcripts and GPA, asuming that was 40 some years ago, that could be a problem?and (2) the bar application typically requires a complete and accurate accounting of addresses and employers - for me that was tough going back 25 years, I cant imagine going back 40 some years.Question: ok- here is where I show my ignorance- will someone please explain LSAC. I know what it stands for but how do I use this website? John 4040, Now, you can color ME stupid.
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I just reviewed GPA and ran it through the LSDAS conversion. It's not very good. Just average for back in dark ages. 2.77 . My practice tests have been running around 165. Do you think I have a chance of getting in to U of H?


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Like Loyale's Fall 2008 collection, this spring's line is inspired by an exemplary figure of the past. This season's collection is entitled "organic beatnik" and celebrates the life of Wallace Berman, "a relatively unknown artist and custodian of talent who laid the foundation for counterculture, trippy hippy expressionism in California," according to the Loyale website. Thus, the prevalence of pleated flower prints and carefully-crafted volume sleeves in many of the pieces represent the bloom of spring as much as it does the bloom of creative expression.


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What is my role as a parent?
Help your student compare their personal and family values to the values of each chapter. Greek-lettered organizations were founded to create better people through membership in values-based organizations. Understanding this is a key component to helping your student choose which organization to join.
Be a consultant. Listen and learn about your student's experience. Make suggestions and ask thought provoking questions, but encourage your student to take the lead on decision making.
Set expectations regarding membership before the recruitment/intake process begins. Discuss who will be responsible for financial obligations and consider discussing how your student will balance their time and how they might respond to peers' influence.
Be open minded. There is a lot of myth and legend surrounding fraternities and sororities. Know that your perception or fraternity/sorority experience will be somewhat different from the experience of your student. Each Greek-lettered organizations differ from campus to campus, as campus culture and climate impact the overall fraternity/sorority life experience of students. Listen and let your student make the choice that is right for them.
Keep our office information handy. We are happy to help and committed to providing our students and their families with the best holistic learning experience possible.
Get involved! Wofford has many opportunities for parents and family members to learn more about and contribute to the college. Visit the Parent Programs website for more information.
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Fraternities and sororities are rooted in founding principles that foster academic achievement, student involvement, community service, and life-long friendships. Advantages include:
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Historically, Greek-letter organizations were founded on the principles of academic success and camaraderie. Today is no different. Our members realize that academic achievement is the main priority of Wofford students. Greek-letter organizations continue to strive for academic excellence and promote scholarship by providing academic resources for their members including tutoring, academic advisors, study groups, scholarships, and awards. Chapter members know the importance of helping new students to adjust to College academics. Many chapters have a rewards system based on GPA. Prospective members must meet a minimum GPA in order to be initiated and then must maintain a minimum GPA to remain an active member. In fact, Greek members GPA(s) are traditionally higher than their non-Greek colleagues.
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Wofford College has a zero-tolerance policy regarding hazing and enforces all South Carolina state laws as well as Federal laws regarding hazing. Hazing may include any person or activity causing or permitting a person, incident to initiation or membership in a society, club or similar organized group, to participate in any activity that subjects that person or others to risks of physical injury or mental distress or personal indignities of any offensive nature. Whether or not such persons have consented to participation in the activity, it is strictly prohibited. Please refer to our Hazing Policy for more information, including how to report hazing incidents.
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Like some opportunities for involvement in college there is a financial commitment associated with a joining a fraternity or sorority. The costs go toward the Inter/National fees, chapter operating expenses, and social functions. Financial obligations differ among individual chapters, as well as living in or out of a chapter house. New members can expect to pay higher dues their first semester than in subsequent ones. While your son or daughter is participating in the recruitment process, make sure that he or she asks about the financial obligations of membership.
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My daughter's fourth grade class is using iPads to play the Stock Market Game. So far she's invested in the movie company behind Hunger Games, Apple computer and Procter and Gamble. She uses my iPad at home to check her stock performance.
As with my daughter's classroom, iPads are being used by students in the classroom for learning purposes.
Educators find ways that technology can aid learning. For example, students are using iPads for literature circles using books on Kindle, iBooks, and Google Books. Presentation app, Prezi is making a big impact in classrooms, too. And, interactive whiteboards are gaining in popularity with apps like Screen Chomp and Show Me.
Karen Bosch shares how classrooms are using iPads for learning in an online slideshow with examples such as using the FaceJack app to create biography reports or retelling a story with the Puppet Pals apps. In another article, Mind/Shift shows us A Day in the Life of the iPad Classroom.
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As part of Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, with the help of some editing, took a short jog around the White House.
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It has come to my attention, in the past three to four months, that Landscape Companies on the Central Coast have left themselves wide open to Clients taking Lawsuits against them for the following reasons:
Case 1: A young Landscaper from Kariong, employing other staff, had taken on a contract, way too big for his experience & is currently facing the Department of Fair Trading, for a $27,000 debt. About three months ago he was recommended to speak with me and upon early investigation he had no Terms and Conditions of Trade, legal contracts or variation documents in place, which ended up causing him massive grief, both physically and financially.
About three quarters of the way through the contract, he was evicted from the job. Within three weeks, the Department of Fair Trading called him back to the jobsite and threatened him with loss of licence for not having surveying experience for setting the job out correctly, not having co-workers legally covered and other matters that related to the quality of his work. Four conciliation meetings were held with himself, his Father-in-law and the Department of Fair Trading.
I immediately introduced Terms of Trade into his business, which was paid by the Father-in-law and assisted in clearing up most of his problems. If I didn't intervene at the time, he would have lost his business, causing financial and family grief as well as other related dramas.
The matter is currently before tribunal hearing and will get a satisfactory result with the advice I have given him. The Client has relied on EC Credit Control documentation and my guidance to make sure this will not reoccur in the future.
Case 2 and Case 3: Are very similar, both Central Coast Landscapers, with no Terms of Trade or signed contracts, prior to our meeting. In each case the final payments of the amounts being $8,000 & $6,000 respectively, were held up by the clients over trivial matters. Again both of these cases have had delivered, by myself, Terms of Trade and proper contract documents related to the value of future jobs and to ensure these scenarios don't happen again in the future.
The importance of these experiences, proves that no matter if you are a plumber, electrician, landscaper or any tradesman type business on the Central Coast, it is vital to have the proper legal documentation proofed and signed by the Client and themselves before any work or variations commence.


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This activity demonstrates Lenz's Law, which states that an induced electromotive force generates a current that induces a counter magnetic field that opposes the magnetic field generating the current. In the demonstration, an empty aluminum can... (View More) floats on water in a tray, such as a Petri dish. Students spin a magnet just inside the can without touching the can. The can begins to spin. Understanding what happens can be explained in steps: first, the twirling magnet creates an alternating magnetic field. Students can use a nearby compass to observe that the magnetic field is really changing. Second, the changing magnetic field permeates most things around it, including the aluminum can itself. A changing magnetic field will cause an electric current to flow when there is a closed loop of an electrically conducting material. Even though the aluminum can is not magnetic, it is metal and will conduct electricity. So the twirling magnet causes an electrical current to flow in the aluminum can. This is called an "induced current." Third, all electric currents create magnetic fields. So, in essence, the induced electrical current running through the can creates its very own magnetic field, making the aluminum can magnetic. This is activity four of "Exploring Magnetism." The guide includes science background information, student worksheets, glossary and related resources. (View Less)
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This is lesson to begin learners' thinking about magnetic influence. Learners will watch a classroom demonstration about the effect of magnets on iron filings and then complete a journal assignment to record their reactions and thoughts. This is the... (View More) first activity in the Mapping Magnetic Influence educators guide. (View Less)


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Twitter as a giant global mood ring
Twitter is either an indispensible professional and personal tool, or the downfall of humanity, depending on who you believe. But to Scott Golder and Michael Macy from Cornell University, it is something more: an unparalleled source of data. The duo has used the popular social networking site to eavesdrop upon the world's moods, as they rise and fall throughout the day and across the week. By analysing half a billion tweets from 2.4 million people in 84 different countries, they turned Twitter into a giant global mood ring.
They found that, on average, people wake up in a good mood, which falls away over the course of the day. Positive feelings peak early in the morning and again nearer midnight, while negative feelings peak between 9pm and 3am. Unsurprisingly, people get happier as the week goes on. They're most positive on Saturdays and Sundays and they tend to lie in for an extra two hours, as shown by the delayed peak in their positive feelings. The United Arab Emirates provide an interesting exception. There, people work from Sunday to Thursday, and their tweets are most positive on Friday and Saturday.
This might seem obvious, but previous studies have arrived at conflicting results about our mood cycles. For example, psychologists have variously said that positive feelings peak: just once, 8 to 10 hours after waking; once at noon and once in the evening; and once in the afternoon and again in the evening. Different studies have also claimed that negative feelings are most common in the morning, afternoon or evening… or don't have any daily cycles all!
Most of these studies involved small numbers of American undergraduates, who were asked to remember their feelings hours or days ago. These small samples and imprecise measures might explain why the results have been so inconsistent. On top of that, students are hardly representative of the wider population, especially since they're constrained by academic schedules.
Twitter was an obvious way of circumventing these problems. It's popular around the world, people use it to voluntarily report their feelings without any reminders, and they do so in a timely (and time-stamped) way. The experimenters don't ever have to prompt or even meet their volunteers. They just sit back and collect the data.
This is the second study to use Twitter to track broad changes in mood. The first focused solely on the United States and although widely reported last year, it has not been published yet. Golder and Macy's attempt is larger in scope. They sampled 400 English tweets from every Twitter account created between February 2008 and April 2009. The messages – around 509 million of them – spanned two years.
The duo analysed them with a programme called Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), which hunted for words that betray a number of different positive and negative feelings. The programme's vocabulary is calibrated using texts from journals, novels, conversation recordings, blog posts and more, in both American and British English. It may not be up-to-date with the latest internet slang, but it's certainly diverse in its scope.
You might think that counting positive and negative words is a fairly crude way of looking at tweets. For example, the programmes might recognise "good" as being positive, even if it was part of a neutral phrase ("good morning") or a negative one ("not good"). But Golder and Macy found that both of these misdirecting uses are far less common than people might assume, and certainly too rare to skew the results. For example, "good" appears in 1 in 20 tweets, but it's only preceded by "not" in 1 in 2000 of them. Likewise, including smileys and emoticons did little to change the shape of the world's moods.
The mood graphs suggest that sleep gives us a chance to reboot our moods from the stress of a working day, and weekends are doubly refreshing for our emotions. And people show the same emotional cycles around the world even though they might come from different cultures and countries (including the UK, USA, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand and various African nations).
By looking at when people were most likely to tweet, Golder and Macy separated their sample into morning people, afternoon people, evening people and night owls. The first three groups were fairly similar in their mood cycles, but the night owls – who were most active between midnight and 6am – were very different. Their morning peak of positivity happened two hours after everyone else and they didn't have a second peak at night. Instead, they had two peaks of negative feelings – once in the morning when everyone else's negative feelings are ebbing, and another later at night.
Golder and Macy also looked at how the tweets varied with the seasons. The length of the days had no effect on their emotional content; instead, it's the relative change in daylight hours that matter. Our tweets are (very slightly) more positive at the spring equinox, when the days start to lengthen more quickly, than at the summer solstice when the days are actually at their longest. Negative feelings, however, don't seem to change with the seasons. The fabled "winter blues" are more due to fewer positive feelings than more negative ones.
Relying on tweets raises its own problems, but this is still a decent step beyond small, questionnaire-based studies. Twitter's users are not representative of the general population, but they certainly represent a broader spectrum of society than American college students. Tweets only show the emotions that people are willing to express, rather than the ones they actually feel, but you could say the same for the questionnaires used in most psychological experiments.
The data set is not perfect, but it compensates for that in its size and breadth. Looking at the world's moods may be a simple first step, but Golder and Macy have demonstrated how scientists can mine social networks for data on those slipperiest of experimental subjects: people.
Reference: Golder & Macy. 2011. Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures. Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1202775
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It seems to me that people who tweet might themselves not be exactly a random cross-section of the society. For instance, there is a much lower likelihood that somewhere over 40 is present on Twitter than someone under 40. And even for those, the people who are less technologically savvy are absent. There is no reason to think that the mood cycle of people over 40 is the same as the mood cycle of those under 40 though of course it may turn out to be. I think the study could possibly correct for this by checking in what proportions different sections of society are represented on Twitter and correcting for it, provided this information is individually available.
I'm curious if the medium affects the message. I use Twitter to vent/bitch/etc. It is my outlet during the day to vent. I am only one person, but my tweets would all fall into the sarcastic/angry/unhappy set. These also during occur during working hours.
Mornings and evenings I am with my family, and the tweets fall off.
My point is, this survey assumes users are always tweeting according to their overall mood. Work may piss me off, and I vent, but it doesn't mean I am unhappy. Conversely, when I am happy, I am not in the mood to tweet because I don't think my happy moments are interesting to share.
Many people use twitter like the media reports on news. Conflict is interesting, boring happiness is not.
It's cool that you can see a shift in happy feelings in counties that have their weekend on different days. It's interesting how the night owls have such a strong timeshift in their morning peak too.
Really interessing study. I think that due to the great numbers it might be as reliable as one could get, although I agree with Catelli_NOU regarding the most postitive and negative feelings being topped of. But it think those don't matter anyhow: it is the trend that is of interest, not the exeptions. I think Sebastian will be surprised how many people over 40 are on twitter: especially in the scientific community. Most of my timeline is over 40.
For me, the issue is that all of the data is self-reported. The trend seems to show that people feel better in the morning but it really shows that people say they feel better. There is an artificiality to social media, a performance aspect where people put on their best face, or their worst. I wonder if the authors considered this or if the LIWC is robust enough to take this into account.
That's fascinating and especially interesting in the way that weekend feelings correspond across cultures. I'm also interested in the differences with night owls (knowing one or two). I'm still following your blog avidly though commenting infrequently because I've been busy for some time with the publishing process. My new novel is now available for pre-order & coming out very soon, early next year! So I've also been busy revamping my website to showcase it.
Actually, it's not wrong to point out the self-reported nature of the data because the medium may exaggerate the feeling of an audience. In an experimental study, you're told your name will never be reported. Your audience is thus the research team (only a few people) and for the few-month span of the study. On twitter, your audience is dozens or even hundreds of followers, and you are invested in their opinion of you for the long haul (open-ended time span). For a large-scale study like this where people do seem to report both positive and negative moods, it probably doesn't matter, but for a more fine-grained analysis of content I would be wary.
This is very silly … not everyone tweets about their life and feelings or only that, nor is every tweeter a person . People tweet what they want to share . Statistics like these are bogus.
Just because we want to know something doesn't mean it is there to be found.
The assumption of this study is that tweeters actually tweet their moods (all of them). While true for some, that's a huge assumption. Some tweeters are tweeting about their agenda, not their feelings, be it politics, or career, or hobbies, or philosophy, or passions and interests. or where they are, or what they had for lunch. How do you pick out mood, much less accurately, in all of what is tweeted?
How and why do people use twitter and when? Is it our voice or our ears? I suspect that our use of twitter evolves.
We are trying to map the mood of the world. Starting with iPhone users and then moving to Android and the web. We have been working on this project for almost two years now, and it has been a long road. Lots of gear shifting and direction changing. We finally feel like we are making some progress.
It is nice to see that others are interested in this area too.


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Seung Hoon Park's photographic work is created using strips of 8mm or 16mm film that's woven together to form larger images. For the series Textus, he depicts well-known and iconic landmarks from all over the world. After the "tapestry" is assembled, Park photographs it using an 8×10 camera to creates a more texturally seamless surface. The result creates cognitive dissonance; We expect it to look tactile, while it only appears flat.
The discolored edges of the film provide a vintage feel to the overall work, as they tinge it in yellows, blues, and generally desaturate all of Park's landscapes. The smaller images that make up Textus fracture the larger photograph in a way that it appears as a victim of some sort of disaster. They've been pieced so that's almost put back together, but there's still part of it that's off and will always remain a little off because of it. (Via Feature Shoot)


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Simple failure-mode analysis consists of looking up the description of a failure (that's the "mode" we're talking about) in a chart and seeing the corresponding cause. For example, the chart might show "burnt winding" and list "overheating" as one of the possible causes.
However, this approach is often too simplistic. What caused the overheating? Did unbalanced voltage do the deed? Perhaps misalignment and vibration were the villains — the motor is drawing more current to do the same amount of useful work.
A complete failure-mode analysis requires going all the way back to the root cause of the condition. Solve that cause, and the entire chain of causes for that mode disappears. Use a multi-layered approach to failure-mode analysis to get at the source issue.


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Randy Yorks N-sider
To "Respond to Randy" click on the above link and choose "Randy York's N-sider" under "Area of Interest" on the new screen. Please include your name and hometown and tell us where you were and how you remember Matt Davison's miracle catch that kept top-ranked Nebraska on track for its third national championship in four years. Your ideas may be published on "Randy York's N-sider" page on Huskers.com. Please check back for updated comments.
Where were you when the Miracle in Missouri happened? I was on the edge of my seat in a red recliner in my basement in Overland Park, Kan.
I wasn't the only one glued to a 50-inch TV that seemed more like a drive-in theater screen for this nationally televised classic. My wife, Linda, a fellow Nebraska graduate, was also zeroed in on the action. So were Bill and Kathy Werner, Missouri alums who live a few houses up the street.
The Huskers, 29-point favorites, had just fallen behind, 38-31 with 62 seconds left and 67 yards of Faurot Field to cover.
"Nebraska's going to win," Bill predicted.
"Bill," I said, "we're a run-oriented team, and we don't have any timeouts left."
"Mark my words," he replied. "Nebraska will go right down the field because that's what they do."
The Catch In Pictures More on Davison's Catch Rivals.com Davison Interview (2006): Book Link: Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys: Dennis Dodd calls it the "Best game he has ever seen." Wikipedia's emtry "Flea Kicker": Scout.com Lists it as the No. 25 Greatest Finish of All Time: ESPN.com ranked it as the No. 44 Greatest Finish of the Decade of the 1990's
The Catch In Pictures
More on Davison's Catch
Rivals.com Davison Interview (2006):
Book Link: Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys:
Dennis Dodd calls it the "Best game he has ever seen."
Wikipedia's emtry "Flea Kicker":
Scout.com Lists it as the No. 25 Greatest Finish of All Time:
ESPN.com ranked it as the No. 44 Greatest Finish of the Decade of the 1990's
Scott Frost threw into a crowd of Nebraska and Mizzou players, and the Huskers' Shevin Wiggins kept the ball alive with a desperation kick that fell into the hands of a diving Davison. This is the 10th anniversary of that famous play, and I remember it like it was yesterday.
"I'm leaving," my neighbor told me the instant he figured out what had happened.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because the game is over," he said.
"We haven't even tied you guys yet," I reminded him. "What about overtime?"
My usually mild-mannered friend got up from his chair and stopped at the bottom of the steps. Sensing a volcanic reaction from the Army Ranger that's still part of his DNA, his wife persuaded Bill to wait. Once Nebraska scored in overtime, he looked at me, shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, Randy. I need to go home. I don't want to hear Brent Musburger describe something I never want to see or hear again."
Sorry, Bill. Here's another chance . . . for you and everyone else to remember the call.
Again, the question of the week awaits your response: Where were you when the Miracle in Missouri happened? Davison says he gets asked about the catch six to 10 times a week.
"If everyone who says they were at Faurot Field that day was really there, the crowd would have been about 200,000 people," said Davison, who won an ESPY Award for that play.
So fess up. I did. And while you're at it, do you think Fox Sports did Davison's catch justice by ranking the "kick play" as the fourth best among the 50 Most Spectacular Plays of all time? Four other Nebraska plays made that list, so check it out.
That's not all, folks. For this N-sider, we had the chance to sit down with Davison and get his thoughts on his memorable catch. We also talked to him about Saturday's showdown in Columbia and here's what he had to say about Missouri's home-field advantage.
Husker Q and A: Matt Davision
RY: Heading into that final drive, you had not caught a pass in the previous 17 quarters. Did you know going in how much of a role you would eventually play in that drive? How much did you work on the 2-minute offense in practice each week? (Davison).
RY: Going 67 yards in 62 seconds without a timeout. One of the things people forget is that you had to convert a pair of third-downs to keep the drive alive. In fact, your first catch of the day was a 13-yarder on 3rd-and-10. Talk about what was said in the huddle going into that drive and the play you made to help set up the final play. (Davison)
RY:Describe the final play...and is it true that the play (99 double slant) had not been run all season until Scott Frost called it in the huddle? (Davison)
RY:In the days following the catch, you said, "It doesn't seem as big to me as everybody else. If we go on to win the national championship, then it will be a bigger thing." When did you realize how special a moment the catch truly was? Could you have ever imagined that your first college touchdown would be a play that would be one of the greatest plays in college football history? (Davison)
RY: Rumor has it that when Nebraska went back to Missouri two years later, the first place you went was to the same end zone during the team walk-through. Tell us what that was like to be back on that field, and then to score your second touchdown in the same end zone the next day. (Davison)
RY: You've probably heard from college fans across the country about that play, especially when is replayed on ESPN Classic. How does it feel to be associated with a play that is etched in the minds of college football fans? (Davison)
RY: People don't remember that you also hold the school record for most receiving yards in a game and that you finished your career with 93 catches in a run-based offense. Admit it, how many catches would you have if NU ran the West Coast Offense in your playing days? (Davison)
RY: One of the off-chutes of the play was the media attention you received from it. How did that help you eventually turn your career interests to broadcasting and your work now in the broadcast booth? (Davison)
RY: As someone who has gone down to Faurot Field and won twice during your career, what is it going to take for the Huskers to be successful on Saturday? (Davison)
RY:With the 10-year anniversary of the 1997 national championship team next weekend, how special was it to be a freshman and play such a part in not only a national title team, but also the last team that Tom Osborne coached at Nebraska? (Davison)
We also spoke with Husker Sports Network engineer Mike Elliott about his role in that classic contest and the delivery that helped make Davison's catch possible. If you're looking for the funniest darn story about where someone was when the miracle in Missouri happened, check out Nebraska Media Relations Director Keith Mann and his account. He remembers something that's going to be hard for anyone to top.
Mike Elliott
I was the chief engineer for the former Pinnacle Sports Network when Matt made his catch, and traveled to all road football games to produce and engineer the game broadcast. Friday afternoon before the Missouri game I was standing in line at the Lincoln airport to check in for a (I believe it was Frontier Airlines) flight to Columbia. A twin engine prop Convair 580 plane. While I was standing in line, Joni Duff (NU football secretary) walked into the terminal, carrying a box...with a sense of urgency on her face. Joni told the airline agent she needed to send the box as air freight on the next flight to Columbia, Mo. They told her the flight was full, therefore there probably wouldn't be room for extra air freight. They couldn't guarantee it would get out on that flight...or even that day. I overheard the conversation and got Joni's attention. I asked the airline agent if I could take the box with me (luckily this was before 9/11 so it was not forbidden to take baggage that had not been in your posession). I only had one bag to check and a small carry on bag...so the agent let me take the box. Joni told me it contained special gloves that the football equipment managers ordered and had overnighted into Lincoln, but the package arrived at the Athletic Department too late to go on the team equipment truck, or any busses...so her option was to get it on a commercial flight as air freight.
Joni made sure she knew my flight number, and arrival time. I told her I was staying at the team hotel, so would take the gloves to the hotel with me. I carried the box on instead of checking it as luggage as my flight made a stop in Kansas City enroute to Columbia...so I didn't want the box to be lost in K.C.
I got off the plane at the Jefferson City/Columbia airport, walked across the tarmac and into the terminal. As soon as I was inside the terminal...here was equipment manager Glenn Abbott, anxiously awaiting my arrival...or more accurately...the arrival of the gloves. He thanked me, and promptly left the airport and headed back to the team hotel.
Matt wore those special gloves to make "The Catch", and has saved them and never worn them since. We all know it was Matt's talent that caught the ball...but I have a little pride in knowing my glove delivery may have contributed a little to "The Catch" and that season's national championship.
Joni Duff
I totally forgot about this, but Mike Elliott was correct in his story. The one thing I remember vividly was when I got to the airport there were several hunters with their dogs and guns in line trying to get on the flight and the line was very long. I was getting nervous because this was the only flight we could get anything on. I had a long conversation with the ticket agent when I finally got to her about what I needed, and she proceeded to tell me (like Mike said) they couldn't guarantee me that it would get to Columbia. I know I had the look of panic that Mike described because I had no clue what I was going to do if they couldn't get that box on the flight. I also had no idea who Mike was, so when I handed him the box I just hoped that he wasn't just giving me a line. I even remember the airline agent looking at me like I was crazy giving this box to a total stranger. Well, the rest is history.
Keith Mann
In 1997, I was working as an assistant SID at Nebraska and part of my regular duty was to travel to road games with the football team. I knew well in advance that I would not be traveling to Mizzou that season, and instead would be serving as a groomsman in the wedding of one of my closest friends, Darin Johnson.
With an evening wedding, several of us in the wedding party watched the first quarter of the game before heading to the church. Of course, no wedding on a fall Saturday in Nebraska is complete without a television at the church. So, as we were taking pictures leading up to the ceremony, the guys in the wedding party were more than a little distracted by the developments in Columbia. The wedding actually started with the game early in the fourth quarter and things not looking good for the Big Red. A couple of the groomsmen may have been guilty of receiving updates by hand signals from the ushers in the back of the church during the ceremony. It is also true that the bride's uncle was sitting in the third row with a radio and headset on, but he will remain nameless.
Anyway, like any good Methodist wedding, the ceremony was very nice, but also very brief. As the wedding party was dismissed and allowed to proceed to the back of the church, we found our favorite 13-inch television. The Blackshirts had just stopped Missouri, and the offense was getting the ball back with one last chance to tie the game. As the drive continued and the bride and groom dismissed the large crowd of guests in the church, the crowd around the TV quickly grew (the pastor and I were front and center). A few minutes later, the loudest cheers in years were heard at Rockbrook Community Church in Omaha. Yes, everyone was very happy for Darin and Kari, but the uproar was because an 18-year-old freshman had just made himself famous.
As overtime started, the uncle with the radio came in handy. The ABC feed had technical problems, so he provided us with his play-by-play of the first couple plays of the winning scoring drive. As overtime continued, the crowd around the TV and the cheers from the back of the church continued to grow. It may have been record time for a bride and groom to dismiss 400 guests from a wedding.
The strange coincidence in all of this is that Darin and Matt Davison bear a remarkable resemblance to each other. Darin, in fact, has actually been congratulated by more than one fan for his great catch at Missouri.
"Ten years ago my 9-year-old son was watching the Nebraska-Missouri game with disbelief and sadness. His Huskers were losing to the Tigers and he suddenly realized that it would cost Nebraska the national championship. He looked at me with tears in his eyes: 'All I want is one miracle, Dad, just one!' The next play, Frost, Wiggins, Davison. Touchdown Nebraska. We've joked about Zach giving up his once-in-a-lifetime request for a miracle for Tom Osborne and a national championship over the years, and it came up on our way to the stadium this past weekend. I pointed out that he might want that wish back someday for his dear old Dad nearing the end of my life. Zach's response was all Husker, 'You had a great run Dad! Go Big Red! Go Huskers, tame the Tigers again.' - Rusty Hardy, BS, Nebraska 1988; MS, Nebraska, 1991
"I was in the car with my family listening to the final offensive drive of the Huskers. We pulled into the drive way I jumped out of my car, ran inside, turned the TV on and saw the final play and "The Catch." I jumped and started running around like a mad-man. I ran outside waving my hands yelling 'TOUCHDOWN! TOUCHDOWN! TOUCHDOWN!' My parents thought I had lost my mind, but I will never forget that great moment in Nebraska history." - Zach Bowman (not Nebraska's current football captain)
"I enjoyed reading your account of Matt Davidson's catch. I still believe that Shevin Wiggins deserves the accolades for his "kick" as Matt continues to get for his catch. I joined some students in watching the game at the Alumni Center. When we were still behind at the 5:00 mark, I decided to go home and sulk alone. I was driving down Capitol Parkway when the Huskers made this last minute drive. I drove slow enough to catch the light at Hwy 77. Just as the light was turning green, Davidson made the catch! I just laid on the car horn as I drove through the intersection knowing that the drivers in the cars around me gave me dirty looks. Had they been listening to the game, I'm sure that they would have joined me." - Chuck van Rossum, Lincoln
"OK, you had to get my Black & Gold blood pressure up yet again. My roots are with Devine and Devaney football and the wonderful, enjoyable and with class games played with those two men in charge. Since that time Nebraska sports went on and upward...MU stalled at best. You are right on in your assessment 10 years ago. You obviously understood the cursed nature of Tiger athletics even then. If you think about it, the Tigers were on the wrong end of three of the most (in)famous endings in the history of NCAA athletics: the Tyus Edney drive, the Colorado 5th down, and the aforementioned kicked TD pass. Add to this Norm's failings in the tournament, the Woody Woodenhofer/Bob Stull era, Quin Snyder, the Ricky Clemons debacle, Mike Alden's bizarre hiring of Mike Anderson, and the fact that the Missouri athletic program is the only Big 12 program to never win a league title in ANYTHING, and you get a sense of how excruciatingly painful it is to follow Mizzou athletics. After a weak opening set of games, I fully expect that they will find a way to lose to Nebraska Saturday night in the Big 12 North. And - to compound things - they will probably lose to KU and KSU this season also.... now that is a downer." - Bill Werner, Missouri Fan
"I went to the Top 50 Spectacular Football Plays, and Nebraska is in there five times. (4) Matt Davison at Missouri, (7) Tommie Frazier in the Fiesta Bowl, (28) Dean Steinkuhler's fumblerooski, (34) 2005 NU-Michigan Alamo Bowl final play and (46) Eric Crouch's run at Missouri. The only one I saw in person was the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, and that play was amazing. The stadium was deafening afterwards, as well as at the end of the game. I was watching the 1997 Missouri game at home in Omaha and yelling so loud at Matt's play, and the plays in overtime, that the cat went and hid in another room." - Lennae Seevers
"I drove up to NAPI (Navajo Agriculture Products Industries), the mesa above Farmington, N.M. where the radio reception was tolerable and I sat back for the game. This particular untelevised day, the reception was fading in the fourth quarter, so I headed south toward Albuquerque in order to hear the broadcast. I was getting about every third word, but it was enough to tell what happened...Thanks Matt....I was half way to Albuquerque (160 miles)." - Bill Freimuth
"I remember as the game seemed to be slipping away in the fourth quarter, my wife (whose dad is a HUGE Missouri fan) gave up on the game and went to sort through some shoes in the closet. As I watched the game from the edge of my seat in the living room (we had no kids yet) I was screaming, sweating, and cheering ever play. Since we had been married for five years prior to this game, I had gradually converted my wife to be a fan of the Big Red. As that last drive was unfolding, and NU was marching down the field, my wife kept trying to come into the living room to watch the drama unfold. Me being rather superstitious when it comes to NU football, made her stay in the bedroom (and keep organizing her shoes). I went berzerk when Matt caught that ball in the end zone, and knew that we would pull it off in OT. You could sense from the TV coverage, the life of the MU fans just totally deflated. The rest of the season followed typical mid-1990's NU football and they cruised to the national championship. I live in Michigan now, and still root for the Mighty Big Red!" - Tom Sorensen
"Well, I guess I'm one of those 200,000 fans who were at the NU/MU game in 1997 where "The Kick" happened. I relocated to Springfield, Mo., in 1987, and a Nebraska Fan Club started in 1997 due to a large number of Husker fans living in the Ozarks. That Nebraska football game to Columbia was our only Road Trip. I still get butterflies when I think about it. Standing there in the crowd thinking, "' don't believe it, we're going to get beat by Missouri! How are we going to get out of this Stadium alive?' That whole drive and score was SO unbelievable! Then to win in overtime! Again I thought, 'How are we going to get out of this stadium alive?' I think the whole Tiger crowd was so stunned we were able to leave the stadium before they came to. Of course, trying to leave the campus in our Husker-clad bus was a different story! A particular group of Tiger faithful didn't show very good sportsmanship. Our bus took a few beer bottles to the side, but we finally got outta Dodge. Yes that was a game and moment to remember and I'm glad and proud I was there. Go Huskers!" - Russ Jankovitz, 1983 Nebraska Graduate
"I was watching the game at my grandfather's farm house outside of Pender, Neb. I remember when Frost had an incomplete pass and Missouri thought it was a fumble. My grandpa said 'that's it - the game is over.' I told him the refs said it was incomplete. A later play, I remember Frost back and throwing into both Nebraska and Missouri players. Once I saw Wiggins going down I thought the game was over. Instanly, I remember him kicking it up in the air and out of nowhere Matt Davison dove and caught the football. I got up from the couch and started yelling in excitement. I will never forget that. It was one of the last Husker football games I got to watch with my grandfather." - Luke McQuistan
"I remember where I was when Matt Davison made "The Catch" - I had just finished pulling up my old carpet in my living room. I had spent the day doing some remodeling and watching the Huskers at the same time. The Huskers had to climb back into the game when Scott Frost shot-putted the game winner off of Shevin Wiggins to Davison. I went absolutely crazy, screaming that we had tied the score up. Once it went into overtime, I knew the Huskers would win." - James Ysebaert
"As a diehard Husker, I can honestly say, I was at the "Flea Kicker" game. It was by far the greatest game I have ever been at in my life, and I have been to hundreds, if not thousands of sporting events. I was sitting at the opposite 15-yard line from where the play happened and I thought I saw the catch, but didn't know exactly what happened until the radio announcers were trying to explain. There was so much excitement and confusion. The fans were rushing toward the North goalposts, and then had to run back up the hill to watch the extra point and overtime. There was no way the Huskers were gonna lose after that play. I am also thrilled that I was at the Nebraska-Michigan Alamo Bowl, which is also in my top 10 games of all time, and I did witness the final play, all of the way until the tackle. I knew the ball was still in play. I was also fortunate to watch Tommie Frazier's run at the Fiesta Bowl, which could have been the most dominating performance in the history of college football. And finally, Eric Crouch's Heisman Trophy-winning run at Mizzou in 2001. I think the only one of the great plays I missed was Dean Steinkuhler's fumblerooski. I am a proud Husker and hope to witness more of the greatness, starting with this Saturday night." - Alan Widman
"I was sitting above the student section at Mizzou for the game with my parents, who are Husker fans, and a bunch of friends, who are Mizzou fans. They were giving me and my folks a hard time all night. I remember feeling sick, until we got the ball on that final drive of regulation. Me and Dad felt we could score. Mom was just nervous. When Scott chucked it to Shevin, I thought it was imcomplete at first, and then, I actually saw the ball in the air and then Matt dove. After that, all the Mizzou people were going nuts, and I at the top of my lungs was screaming, "He caught it!" Then when the refs signaled touchdown, all of us Husker fans went crazy. I knew then, we would win. I could feel the air come out of Faurot Field. When Grant Wistrom (whom I played against in high school in Missouri) and Mike Rucker (another native Missourian) sacked Corby Jones to seal it in OT, I hugged and kissed everyone in red in the whole stadium, hollered until I was hoarse, then collapsed. I was exhausted. That night means more to me as time goes on. Former Huskers, thanks for the wonderful times, and memories. GO HUSKERS!" - Joshua Reed
"The Papillion LaVista volleyball team had a bonding party that day in Bellevue and stuck around to cheer on our Huskers. We screamed loud throughout the game as only young girls can. The parents laughed and told us to quiet down many times. However after the catch, we led the whole household outside to dance in the streets. Neighbors joined as we laughed, danced, and dove into a dogpile in the yard. Ironically, All-American volleyball player Alllison Weston grew up next door. Her parents joined our celebration of HuskerNation." - Tiffany Long


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NWSB Insider and Portland Trailblazers blogger Blair Thomas weighs in with the impact of the LaMarcus Aldridge injury on the team and RIP City in general. Purely, from a financial perspective, the team will lose money with a minimal drop in ticket sales for the last two games. Despite the "sell-outs" there were a plethora of empty seats at the Rose Garden on Wednesday night.
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It's Monday, it's March and the new kid on the block is SQL Developer! Yup, SQL Developer 1.0 is now production. If you haven't seen this product yet, try it. Download it from Oracle Technology Network (OTN) unzip it into a directory and you're set.
The product was announced at Oracle World (OraTransplant Blog) last year, we released the first early access release on the 28th Dec 2005 and followed with a number of releases after that. If you'd like to see all the releases take a look at Eddie's blog. The key thing about all these releases is that we've been able to respond to requests and feedback from the community. I might have said this on Groundside before, it's been an exciting few months.Part of the reason we were able to get the product out to the community so quickly is that is is built using the JDeveloper IDE. Written in Java, it installs on platforms that will run a JVM. So we offer support for Windows, the Mac OS X and Linux. Overheard in a friend's office the other day... "Hey, have you seen this new SQL tool from Oracle? It's great and it installs on Linux!" (or words similar, the sentiment is there)
As someone who was involved with Oracle Designer for many years, I know the frustration users have when they are looking for new features in a product and we either can't respond or it takes many months, if not years, to respond. SQL Developer is a much smaller product, with none of the dependencies Designer and many other Oracle products have, so the flexibility of being able to respond to needs is there. I have loved this interaction and know the team have enjoyed it too. Again referring to Designer, we started a community source project, where a team of users worked on and supplied code and input to the Designer team to add functionality to the product. It was good. It brough the community closer to the product. It's not open source, in that we still own the ocde and write the code, but these past few months before SQL Developer's 1.0 production release have been like a community project, with the community getting involved and responding in a really positive manner. Being involved means you, the users get the product youreally want.
Many folk in the community have already started reviewing and using the product, so I won't say more, let's tip-toe across a few more blogs and articles out there...
- ITToolbox (First impressions, early Feb)
- Amis (starting to look at extensions)
- Andrew Clark (Starting to change his ideas on SQL Developer and happy to get things fixed quickly)
- Dan Hotka has written a long review in the Oracle Professional newsletter
- OTN Techblog (This one is a little closer to home)
- Jeff Hunter (First Impressions)
- For ongoing and regular SQL Developer updates, you do need to keep a link to Kris' blog....
Aah, you'll be wanting know about support. Ask questions on the Forum, talk to mates and of course, if you have a Database Support license, you also have SQL Developer Support.
The next bit to look at is the extsnion API. There are already a few folk out there getting down to writing extensions (plugins) so now that it's production, the race is on. Let's get writing. What extension are you going to build?


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What I baked today-All day!
This is what I baked today! I started out this morning making some sourdough waffles for the freezer. Mike likes to have a ready snack of frozen waffles. While I was making some of J.H. Vermont sourdough bread I spotted a couple of pears that were just perfect for poaching, aahhh a pear tart for dessert tonight. Since I was going to busy baking, I saved one portion of the bread dough for a pizza dinner tonight..the oven and the stone all would be nice and hot and it would be an easy dinner so I could tend to my baking.
Pear Tart with Amaretto Liqueur
J. H. Vermont Sourdough
One very large Pepperoni Pizza made from some saved bread dough!


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Stars and fashion shows go hand-in-hand. See which international designers your...View gallery
It was all mesh, minis and barely there dresses at Betsey Johnson, as Michael Kors got his audience California Dreamin' on a winter's day.
Jenny Packham offered a runway ode to '70s glam and Bianca Jagger. Tory Burch cited inspiration from the suits of armor. And Badgley Mischka went for big city glam.
Rodarte designer-sisters Laura and Kate Mulleavy ended their New York Fashion Week presentation with a selection of gowns inspired by events that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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It was once again winter — cold, cold winter — that dominated the mood on the fifth day of New York Fashion Week. Carolina Herrera, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's The Row, Kenneth Cole, Tommy Hilfiger, Thom Browne...
"New York is what I stand for — the past, the present, the future," said the designer, who marked her company's 30th anniversary with a catwalk show that looked back on some of her iconic elements.
Alexander Wang held his show in the unlikely setting of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Donna Karan sent real people down the runway, and Chelsea Clinton popped up at the show for Edun, the Africa-focused line...
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The Big U, by Neal Stephenson
In the late 1980s, I was in High School. A friend of mine named Matt Lawsky, browsing through the remainder bin at a local bookstore, found a strange-looking paperback he'd never heard of. He bought it and took it home to read. Shortly thereafter, he pressed his new favorite book on me, insisting that I have a look at it.
It might be overstatement to say that The Big U changed my life, but it certainly helped gel my already-forming perspective. The Big U careens between soap-opera, adventure novel, venomous satire, and pure silliness--often in the course of a couple pages. Though the book is of average length, it feels like a big novel due to the accumulation of characters, groups, and events. It is never less than entertaining, and often hilarious and moving--sometimes at once.
The first half of the book is a sharp and nasty description of a large college called American Megaversity. Though we get some looks at classes and faculty members, the real concern is the students and the groups they belong to. Important groups include the Megaversity Association for Reenactments and Simulations (MARS), which is the gaming club, later renamed the Grand Army of Shekondhar the Fearsome. The student left is represented by the Stalinist Underground Battalion (SUB), and the student religious right is the Temple of Unlimited Godhead (TUG), an "outlaw breakaway Mormon sect." As with all subsequent Stephenson novels, characters recieve ludicrous Dickensian names: the geeky protaganist is Casmir Radon; the hallucinogen-addled Stalinist leader is Dex Fresser; the president of the school is Septimus Severius Krupp. Other names, though as jokey, are a little subtler. the uberhacker with godlike powers over the school mainframe and master-key access to every building on campus is named Virgil Gabrielson.
Interestingly, the drunken and violent yahoos who are the primary cause of suffering for some of the main characters are identified neither with the fraternities or the sports teams, but are simply their own group, initially the Wild and Crazy Guys, and later, the Terrorists. Their female counterparts, the Airheads, over the course of the first half of the book take up wearing ski masks to informal public gatherings (like cafeteria meals) since it saves them so much time applying makeup.
Though this is all mostly played for laughs, a few scenes of grief and violence (including a horrifying attempted rape) emphasize that the environment is no joke for some of the students trying to live in it.
In the second half, faculty and maintenance workers go on strike, and a number of the students revert to bicamerality.
What am I talking about? In brief: In The Origin of Conciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, author Julian Jaynes asserts that until about 3000 years ago, people weren't concious in the way that we are, but instead were something like schitzophrenic robots who heard divine voices speaking to them from the right hemispheres of their brains. Some characters in The Big U use their conciousnesses little enough that they begin to revert to this state, and begin hearing voices coming out advertising billboards and washing machines. You'll find other ideas cribbed from Jaynes in Snow Crash. A good summary of Jaynes in the context of The Big U can be found here.
I can't particularly reccommend Bicameral, by the way, except to conniseurs of kooklit. Though immensely clever, his evidence mostly comes from idiosyncratic interpertation of fine points of the wording in the Old Testament and the Illiad. While the observation that people seem to have talked to the gods a lot more frequently back then is prety reasonable, Jaynes generally comes across as someone so in love with the hammer he built that he can't resist declaring everything he sees a nail.
Where was I? Oh, soon, civilization utterly collapses when the maintenance workers (Crotobaltslavonian refugees) sieze comtrol of the nuclear waste disposal site beneath the school. This breakdown percipitates, and Stephenson lovingly describes the process with his characteristic gusto for any scene of mass mayhem. The semester progresses from the live-ammo foodfight in the cafeteria (sample quote: "Unfortunately a stray weapons burst had struck a pressure vat by the exit. The top of the vat exploded off, blasting a neat hole throught the ceiling, and the vat, torn loose by the recoil, tumbled over and spilled thousands of gallons of Cheezy Surprise Tetrazzini onto the floor.") to the complex territorial divisions as several armed gangs stake out different areas of strategic value.
Did I mention the giant mutant sewer rats? There are giant mutant sewer rats.
Eventually the protaganists manage to effect a mass evacuation, end the Crotobaltslavonian nuclear threat, and bring the story to a satisfying conclusion. I shall close my summary with words from the book's introduction: "What you are about to read is not an abberration: it can happen in your local university too. The Big U, simply, was a few years ahead of the rest."
AvailabilityOkay, okay I admit it. Some of my affection for The Big U derives from the way I first read it Matt and I watched the growing Cult of Stephenson with a little dismay, as the pioneers of any wildeness are saddened as their forests becomes farms and then bedroom communities.
Now comes the bad news: this book is incredibly rare. Copies online go for $200 to $500. Rumors have circulated that Stephenson had been suppressing the book, but sources close to him deny this. I'm not sure who has the rights to the damn thing now, so I'm not sure who you should be bugging to reprint it. If Stephenson holds the rights, perhaps we can persuade him to make it freely available. Anyone know his e-mail address?
AnalysisThere are numerous bad people in The Big U; the Terrorists are cruel, stupid, and violent; the trustees are selfish and hypocritical; the Crotobaltslavonians are ruthless killers. The villain of the story, however, is arguably the building itself. American Megaversity is one enormous cinderblock-and-florescent-tube structure, called the Plexus--a portmanteau, presumably, of complex and campus. "The Plex's environmental control system was designed so that anyone could spend four years there wearing only a jockstrap and a pair of welding goggles and yet never feel chilly or find the place too dimly lit." Eight identical dormitory towers loom over the main structure. The building is therefore uniform and impersonal in style throughout, with no real privacy or comfort. This anonymity and affectlessness of dormitory life under these conditions, Stephenson suggests, are deeply dehumanizing and promote irresponsibility. He makes it clear, though that the madness does not end at the walls of the American Megaversity, taking swipes along the way at the news media and AM's board of trustees.
GeeksThe role of geeks in all this is interesting. The story's sort-of-protagonist, Casmir Radon, is a resumed-ed physics student in his 30s, with no social skills. He's an anomaly at American Megaversity, since he's there hoping to learn things by attending classes, an agenda alien to the partiers, zealots, time-markers and wheeler-dealers who make up the bulk of the school's population.
Fred Fine, the head of MARS, has a flimsy grasp on reality (brought on, Stephenson fashionably hints, by too much life-action D&D), but, interestingly, is exceptionally suited to the post-collapse plex, and his Grand Army of Shekondar the Fearsome becomes a major power, primarily due to their posession of the All-Purpose Plex Armed Strife Mobile Unit (APPASMU), a tank designed for dormitory hallways, a project originally built as a joke.
One subplot concerns the battles of Virgil Gabrielson with the Worm, a malicious program written by the previous maintaner of the school mainframe, which Gabrielson describes at one point as "probably the greatest intellectual achievement of the ninteen-eighties."
After civilization has collapsed, down in the science departments, "research and classes continued obliviously. Most of the [math/science] folks regarded the whole war/riot as a challenge to their ingenuity."
The computer use in The Big U is a glimpse into the twilight of the Mainframe Age. Some students write their papers on PCs, but all hacking is centered on the Janus 64 mainframe, with its custom OS, the Operator, mastery of which gives Virgil Gabrielson demiurgic power in the school's little universe.
In general, Stephenson mocks the nerds of American Megaversity quite sharply, particularly the members of MARS, but he also presents their isolation from reality as a psychological and practical survival skill when reality is an inhospitable place.
Discussion Questions:
- What are Stephenson's views on relativism? How does his assesment of its results compare with that in The Diamond Age?
- Compare and contrast AM President S.S. Krupp with Uncle Enzo in Snow Crash.
- What American college is AM a parody of?
- Does Ephram Klein's carefully-plotted murder of his ex-roommate make him a less sympathetic character? Does his vindication on the issue of bicamerality indicate that he is also correct on the role of the building in the breakdown of Plex civilization?
- Were the giant rats really necessary? I mean, really?
- Which character(s) are autobiographical?


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T. Dale Luke, 69, passed away Dec. 21, 2012, after a lengthy and courageous battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis.
T. Dale Luke, 69, passed away Dec. 21, 2012, after a lengthy and courageous battle with Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Dale was born June 18, 1943, to E. E. and Crystal Luke in Tulia, Texas. Dale grew up in Amarillo, Texas, graduating from Amarillo High School in 1961. He began his career with Farmland Industries in Amarillo moving to Denver in 1971 as assistant manager of warehousing and transportation. As his career advanced he held various managerial positions in Des Moines, Iowa, Kansas City, Mo., and McPherson, Kan. He retired in 2005 moving to Grand Lake of the Cherokees in N. E. Oklahoma.
Dale was a well-loved member of The Coves community on Bird Island serving on the Men's Golf Association Board since 2007. He was an active member of Church on the Lake serving on their board and preparing their budgets for the past several years. Dale was a member of the Optimist Club while in McPherson. He loved basketball and enjoyed in recent years supporting his 4 youngest grandchildren in their basketball endeavors. He loved football and was perhaps one of the Dallas Cowboys most loyal and dedicated fans. They were his team win or lose. He was passionate in his role as husband, dad, and papa, always there for his wife, kids, and grandkids. He will be greatly missed.
Preceded in death by one son, Scott Alexander, his parents, E. E. and Crystal Luke and brother, Dwane Luke.
Survived by his wife Barbara, son Mark Alexander and wife Susan, daughters Kristy Lewis and husband Craig, Maria McGoldrick and husband Brian, Terri Thiessen and husband Chad as well as 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
A celebration of life and memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan 5, 2013, at Church on the Lake, 1.5 miles East of Ketchum, Oklahoma on Hwy 85.
In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Research Program at National Jewish Hospital in Denver, Colo. www.njhealth.org or 1-800-423-8891 ext. 6560


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- Main article: Balrog
Valarauco pl. Valaraucar[1][2] is the Quenya name for the Maiarin followers of Morgoth better known in their Sindarin form: Balrogs.
[edit] Etymology
It is formed from words vala, 'power' and rauco, 'monster'.[3][4]
[edit] Other versions of the legendarium
In The Etymologies, the word Balrog is derived from ñgwalaraukô[4] displaying a derivation from root ñgwal- (referring to "torment, cruelty") instead of val-.[5] This derivation would produce the Quenya word **Nwalarauco.
In The Book of Lost Tales, the Qenya term is Malcarauce.
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Valarauco is not forming a regular plural **Valaraucor but changing the final vowel in the plural (-o > -ar). Helge Fauskanger suggests that the singular form uses the variant rauco, while the plural form uses the variant rauca for some reason.[3]
Another Quenya word which displays similar properties is perhaps sundo.
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels p.415
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "From Quendi and Eldar, Appendix D" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 39, July 1998 p.10
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Helge Fauskanger, "Quettaparma Quenyallo" dated 25 December 2008, Ardalambion (accessed 22 February 2019)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies", RUK
- ↑ Conrad Dunkerson, "The Truth About Balrogs - What is the etymology of 'balrog'?", Tolkien Meta-FAQ (accessed 22 February 2019)


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The girl, aged about 16, had been trafficked and sold as a bride to a Chinese man. Although we've mentioned this rescue in our social media, we haven't given all the details because the trafficker is now on the run and has yet to be caught.
The social worker, rightly enough, asked me about how Blue Dragon justifies the cost of such rescue trips. Given our limited resources, and the seemingly endless needs of children and families in Vietnam, how do we decide to allocate money to sending staff on risky trips into China to find individual girls (or sometimes groups of girls) and bring them home?
It was a good question, and thinking later I felt that my explanation deserves also to be blogged. So here goes.
First, it's worth pointing out that Blue Dragon rarely journeys into China to find trafficked girls; most of our rescue work is done within Vietnam. But when we are contacted by girls who are in China, or their family members here in Vietnam, pleading for help, it's very difficult to decline. In the most recent case, we were in direct contact with the girl who was desperate to escape but had no idea where she was or how to get home. She was there against her will, and it was within our power to find her and get her home.
In such a situation, it would be almost inhumane to tell her that we thought that helping her would be too expensive..
In the western world, how much would we consider "too much" to rescue a teenage girl who has been abducted? Such cases do some up reasonably frequently, although they might not be trafficking as such. In recent months in Australia there have been cases of Australians detained in Libya; in one case, the Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, flew to Libya to intervene on behalf of the detained woman.
Can you imagine how much that cost? A bill of half a million dollars would not be out of the question.
By contrast, a typical rescue of trafficked children within Vietnam costs around $400 per child; a rescue trip into China can cost $2000 - $4000 per rescued person.
In the grand scheme, $4000 isn't a lot of money, and yet the point stands that the same $4000 to help one person might seem excessive when you consider how many others it could help.
However, when Blue Dragon organises a rescue trip, we are doing much more than bringing home a single person.
In the last few months, 10 individual traffickers from cases we've been involved with have been sentenced in court. That's 10 men and women who would otherwise be trafficking girls, right now, into China.
How have they been sentenced? The starting point in each case has been the evidence provided by the girls Blue Dragon brought back from China. Without their testimony, there was no case against the traffickers.
Put simply: To stop the traffickers, we first need to bring their victims home.
Our experience so far has been that each trafficker has several girls 'in the wings' at any one time. In one case, the trafficker had groomed a girl over the course of a whole year before finally taking her into China and selling her. We know that the same man had trafficked at least 2 other girls, but it's reasonable to suspect that there could have been at least another 5 to 10 victims already; and it's also a reasonable assumption that he had several other victims lined up ready to go.
Unless he was arrested, how many more girls would he have trafficked? Five more? One hundred?
So part of the value of our rescue work, in addition to bringing home individual girls, is that we follow up with the prosecution in order to put a complete stop to the same traffickers taking even more girls.
And there's one more effect of this work: with stories being published in the local media, other traffickers and would-be traffickers must see that they cannot get away with this forever. The prosecutions act as a deterrent to others. This in itself will not stop trafficking, and it's unlikely that scores of traffickers will go out and get a real job just because they've heard of someone else getting caught. But if the traffickers had free reign, and nobody was challenging them, how much worse would the situation be?
It's definitely worth stopping to count the cost of rescuing trafficked girls and boys. When we do so, we see that the cost of NOT rescuing them is even higher.


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Cardiac Conditions Associated With the Highest Risk of Adverse Outcome From Endocarditis for Which Prophylaxis With Dental Procedures Is Recommended:Likewise, the antibiotic regimen has remained simplified, requiring only a single pre-procedure dose 30 to 60 minutes before dental work, with Ampicillin 2 grams orally (kids 50mg/kg) being the main antibiotic and Clindamycin (600 mg; kids 20 mg/kg) or Azithromycin or Clarithromycin (500 mg; kids 15 mg/kg) being suitable alternatives. Remarkably, gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary (GU) procedures no longer require antibiotic prophylaxis:
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- Prosthetic cardiac valve
- Previous IE
- Congenital heart disease (CHD)*
- Unrepaired cyanotic CHD, including palliative shunts and conduits
- Completely repaired congenital heart defect with prosthetic material or device, whether placed by surgery or by catheter intervention, during the first 6 months after the procedure†
- Repaired CHD with residual defects at the site or adjacent to the site of a prosthetic patch or prosthetic device (which inhibit endothelialization)
- Cardiac transplantation recipients who develop cardiac valve abnormalities
*Except for the conditions listed above, antibiotic prophylaxis is no longer recommended for any other form of CHD.
†Prophylaxis is recommended because endothelialization of prosthetic material occurs within 6 months after the procedure.
The administration of prophylactic antibiotics solely to prevent endocarditis is not recommended for patients who undergo GU or GI tract procedures, including diagnostic esophagogastroduodenoscopy or colonoscopy (Class III, Level of Evidence B). This is in contrast to previous AHA guidelines that listed GI or GU tract procedures for which infective endocarditis prophylaxis was recommended and those for which prophylaxis was not recommended.You can find a full pdf file of the recommendations here.