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Then remembered my subscription to Fold3 that I get with my Connecticut Society of Genealogists subscription, which I had never used before. See post about my Fold3 subscription. My search words were: William Frederick Poole + pallbearers. It was so easy and wow, what results. A nice long report about his funeral and the names of all 14 honorary pallbearers.
The deceased was my 2nd great-grandfather, and the person of whom I wrote about in the Longest Obituary I've Ever Seen.
From The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1894, Page 8
From The Chicago Tribune, March 4, 1894, Page 3
They Pay the Last Meed of Affection to
Librarian W. F. Poole.
Funeral services for Dr. William F. Poole, librarian of the Newberry Library, were held yesterday afternoon at
, where he had
lived for many years. A short service of prayer and song was held at the family
residence preliminary to the more formal rites held at the First Congregational
Church at 3 o'clock. At that hour the large edifice was crowded, distinguished
men from all ranks in life, professors from both the Northwestern and Chicago
Universities, officials of both the Newberry and Chicago public libraries, as
well as members of the many literary and cultured organizations with whom Dr.
Poole had been associated, uniting to show their respect for him by their
presence. Evanston
At 3 o'clock the funeral procession entered the church to the strains of Beethoven's funeral march. The honorary pallbearers preceded the casket. They were President Henry Wade Rogers of
Northwestern University,
Dr. Daniel Bonbright, President William R. Harper of Chicago University; H. J.
Willing, trustee of the Newberry Library; Daniel L. Shorey and James L. High of
the Chicago Literary club; Edward G. Mason, President of the Chicago Historical
Society; Norman Williams, trustee of the Crerar Library; Emil G. Hirsch,
President of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Library; Librarian Frederick
H. Hild; and Edward S. Isham, Franklin MacVeagh, George E. Adams, and John P.
Wilson, the present Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library. Representatives
of the Public Library Board who were present were: John G. Shortall, Pliny B.
Smith, Bernhard Moos, and Secretary W. B. Wickersham. The active pallbearers
were Charles Evans, Dr. Carl Pietssch, and Dr. G. F. Wire, assistants of Dr.
Poole in the Newberry Library, and J. R. Patterson, W. A. Purer, and Reidar
Arentz, who had formerly been assistants in the Chicago Public Library.
The services were opened by the church choir with the hymn, "Beyond the Sighing and the Weeping." Dr. J. F. Loba read the scripture funeral service and offered prayer. When "The Homeland" had been sun by the choir Dr. Loba said in part:
"Every man lives a twofold life; one is that inner life of the heart with the aims and hopes, the sorrows and joys, the godward life which no one can see. The other is the manward life, the fruit, the product which the man gives to the world and on which his reputation rests. These two do not always coincide—sometimes lack much of it. But the perfect harmony of the two gives to the whole life the force of truth, harmony in the soul, and power to the work of man. The life of our dear friend was peculiarly great in the
Harmony between the ideal and the real. He was a great worker on the highest plane of human activities. He enriched the world of thought, he ruled in the realm of books, and like some great spirit he presided over the very source of human learning. In the midst of our sorrows and through our cares we may thank God for such a man."
Dr. Franklin Fisk's Tribute.
Following Dr. Loba an address was given by Dr. Franklin Fisk, President of the Chicago Theological Seminary and a former classmate of Dr. Poole at Yale. He said:
"The sorrowful event that has brought together this large congregation of friends to do honor to one who has for years occupied so large a place in our thoughts and in our esteem is to me peculiarly sad. Dr. Poole was my classmate at Yale. Our acquaintance, which began when we entered that ancient university in 1845, ripened long since into affectionate reward, and through nearly half a century has borne delightful fruitage. When he joined our class a few months after we entered college I well remember the marked impression he made. Although somewhat reserved in manner he had a genial nature and soon made many warm friends. He was old enough when he entered college to appreciate the value of a liberal education, and addressed himself to his studies in a manly way. But while faithful and successful in the studies of the college curriculum, he did not limit himself to them, but pushed his reading and study in all directions, especially in the domain of periodical literature. He early evinced a great love of books and revealed in libraries, and his love and knowledge of books led to his selection by 'Brothers in Unity,' a literary society in the college, as librarian of its library of some 12,000 volumes. In this capacity he early discovered a great need of an indeed to general periodical literature—for the supply of which he even then, while yet a college student, addressed himself, and persisted in the great work with marvelous industry and energy through nearly half a century to the very close of his life. The development of his index from its inception is a genuine instance of evolution.
His Work for the Public Library.
"In 1873 he was called to take charge of and to form the Public Library that had just then been organized amidst the ashes of
He fulfilled expectation. Under his supervision the Public Library of Chicago
rapidly increased in well-selected volumes and in adaptation to public use till
it became an equal of the foremost public libraries of our land. The eminence
of Dr. Poole as a librarian led to his selection by the trustees of the
Newberry Library fund when they sought for a competent person into whose hands
to commit the great task of organizing and selecting a reference library that
should stand through the ages; at once a monument to the generosity and
foresight of its founder and a perpetual blessing to the millions who shall
live in the great central city of the continent. Chicago
"Of Dr. Poole's personal characteristics as a man and a Christian I need not speak at length, for he lived among you many years. In heart he was a true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and in life he tried faithfully to follow him. He was most highly esteemed and most loved by those who knew him best. This is a sad day for
when two such eminent, honored, and
beloved citizens as the Rev. Dr. Patterson and Dr. Poole and Dr. Poole are
borne away to their burial. But though they will not again walk these beautiful
streets and go in and out among you, yet the thought of what they were will
abide with you and be a constant inspiration to noble living. Had Dr. Poole
lived till next summer it was his purpose and my own to meet with our classmates
at Evanston to
celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of our graduation from Yale. More than
on-half of our class of nearly 100 have passed from earth, and now this dear
classmate and friend has joined those who had gone before him. With a sore
heart the 'Farewell' must be spoken in the sure hope of a blessed greeting at
no distant day." New Haven
The services closed with the hymn "My Jesus as Thou Wilt," by the choir. The remains were taken last evening to
for interment. Salem, Mass.
At a meeting of the members of the Newberry Library staff resolutions were unanimously adopted expressive of the esteem in which they held Dr. Poole.


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defensewinsgames wrote:Couldn't disagree more. No division except maybe the NFC West has ever been open enough for a team to win in 2 offseasons. The only one who is delusional around here is you. Winner is completely right on this. The Vikings, Rams, Colts, and Jaguars are a long way from winning their divisions.
NFC South
From 2003 to 2009, the team that placed last in the division the previous year would improve enough to reach the playoffs, usually by winning the division. Tampa Bay almost continued this trend in 2010, stopped only by losing a tiebreaker to Green Bay.
Carolina finished last in 2002 (7–9) and finished first in 2003 (11–5).
Atlanta finished last in 2003 (5–11) and finished first in 2004 (11–5).
Tampa Bay finished last in 2004 (5–11) and finished first in 2005 (11–5).
New Orleans finished last in 2005 (3–13) and finished first in 2006 (10–6).
Tampa Bay finished last in 2006 (4–12) and finished first in 2007 (9–7).
Atlanta finished last in 2007 (4–12) and finished second with a playoff berth in 2008 (11–5).
New Orleans finished last in 2008 (8–8) and finished first in 2009 (13–3).
Tampa Bay finished last in 2009 (3-13) but despite finishing third in 2010 with a 10-6 record, did not make the playoffs, due to Green Bay holding the wild-card tiebreakers.
Carolina finished last in 2010 (2-14) and was eliminated from playoff contention in week 14 of the 2011 season after going 4-9, becoming the first NFC South team to have a losing season after placing last in the division.


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Issue #15 of the James Bond 007 magazine MI6 Confidential
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Not only will James Bond be keeping the British
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the upcoming adventure 'Skyfall'. It was an unprecedented wait
for the first proper look at the film: an astonishing five months
between the start of shooting and the first set photographs emerging.
But the wait has been worth it. In this issue we catch up with
the cast and crew in Istanbul, a city that has a special bond
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Also in this issue of MI6
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Istanbul, discover how 007 made his way to the small screen,
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JT in 60 – Who Will be the First Quarterback Taken in the NFL Draft?
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The Houston Dynamo have selected architecture firm Populous to design a new $80 million Major League Soccer stadium. The 22,000-seat facility will feature soccer and accommodate multi-use events such as football, lacrosse, rugby, and concerts. It is planned to open for the 2012 MLS season.
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Sony apologizes for faulty PS3 update, investigating cause
Sony has issued an apology for last night's firmware update problems, and said it is investigating the cause.
Sony has apologized for last night's firmware update issue, and says it is currently investigating the cause. A new version of firmware 4.45 update will be made available once the problem has been rooted out.
"We are aware of reports that the recent PlayStation 3 system software update (version 4.45) has caused the XMB to not display on a small number of PS3 systems," a PlayStation spokesperson told Kotaku. "We have temporarily taken 4.45 offline and are investigating the cause of the problem. We will announce when the system update is available for download as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience."
The update, which went live last night, was supposed to add trophy notification options and improve overall system stability. Some members of the PlayStation forums, however, said the update made their consoles completely unresponsive. It was subsequently pulled.
Regarding systems that have been bricked by the update, Sony said: "We kindly ask PS3 users to wait for further details. We will announce when ready." Meanwhile, a thread on Reddit claims that downloading a patch and restarting the PlayStation 3 in safe mode will work. The purported patch isn't available yet, however, so Sony should give more information when it's ready. We'll update as more information becomes available.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Sony apologizes for faulty PS3 update, investigating cause.
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Here's one of the feedsacks I found at the show. I love the lime green flowers and I think I may have buttons that match them exactly so it's going to be fun to work with. If I can cut it, that is.
You see, this feedsack is still in bag form. In five years of collecting them I've only come across two or three that are still intact and I really have to think about whether I want to cut this. But it does provide a rare opportunity to show you what a feedsack originally looked like.
Each sack was made by folding the fabric in half with right sides together and then sewing (with heavy string) along the open side and curving around to the bottom. The sack shown here measures 37" x 21-1/2" so, when opened up, it will be 43" wide. When removed, the braid-like stitching leaves a row of small holes all around the edge. And that's one way to determine whether something is a feedsack —look for that rows of holes.
Here's another one from my collection that's quite small—about the size of a 10-pound bag of flour. It has the same stitching.
Feedsacks also have a unique texture and feel to the cloth. Once you see and handle them enough you can usually spot them pretty easily. And I love how some still have that clean, sweet farm smell—like hay—from the grains they once held. Sometimes that doesn't wash out—I have several feedsacks that, when ironed, release the scent again and again.
7 comments:
- Home Deconomics said...
So lovely! It seems so novel now, that something as lowly as the modest grain, was packaged in such beautiful fabric!
- August 18, 2009 10:11 AM
- arkie said...
I love the old feedsacks and flour sacks from days gone by. My grandmother would make quilts, aprons,bonnets,and dresses for me out of them.
- August 18, 2009 11:14 AM
- blushing rose said...
OMG! How many do you have, are you collecting them? I love that print, we've had several of them. I got another 300 this weekend that I am working on now. Don't yo just LOVE THEM, the feel of the fabric, the designs ... I can't get enough of them. TTFN ~Marydon
- August 18, 2009 11:23 AM
- janet said...
Marydon, I think I must have about 50 of them by now. I started out buying them on Ebay, then began finding them at flea markets and antique malls. I'm afraid they were already getting popular at this point because I often had to pass up ones that were just too expensive. Like the Ebay one that sold to a Japanese buyer for $122! I don't think I realized that you sold them.
- August 18, 2009 3:12 PM
- janet said...
Oh, never mind. I've had your website bookmarked forever - just didn't realize it was you :)
- August 18, 2009 3:17 PM
- {kimmymade} said...
Great find, Janet!!
- August 18, 2009 7:30 PM
- Unknown said...
What wonderful examples of feedsacks! Ones I find around here are way too expensive. Love the dotted rose sack.
- August 19, 2009 2:58 PM


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As we did in the past with Romance of the Three Kingdoms X, we have launched a Development Project page for collecting biographies from Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI. The goal is simple and anyone with an English copy of Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI can contribute. The collected biographies will be displayed on Kongming's Archives (in a stand-alone project and, later, in a biography project featuring content from many Koei Three Kingdoms games), and will also be converted into a plain text 'FAQ'.
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If you don't see it automatically, select it from the top right-hand drop down menu. This menu features all the Development Projects you have the ability to edit—there are now about four or five public development projects.
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Here biographies you enter will be displayed, in real time, for all to see! As soon as you edit or add a biography it will show up on this page. When we have a decent collection of biographies the page will be linked to the main site and officially announced.
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Leaving Botswana was a bit stressful as Lisa had to go to hospital. She has been sick since Victoria Falls and no one seems to be able to determine what was wrong with her. So after a visit to the local clinic we hit the road and crossed over the border into Namibia. Namibia is a… Continue reading Ending our Overland Trip in Namibia and South Africa
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Botswana: Our Elephant Paradise
We left Victoria Falls and made our way to the border of Botswana. At the border we saw warthogs running around and within half an hour of crossing into Botswana we had seen our first elephant. Botswana is home to approximately two million people and has therefore been named as one of the most sparsely… Continue reading Botswana: Our Elephant Paradise
Discovering Zimbabwe
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The Beautiful Lake Malawi
Malawi is a small landlocked country in southeast Africa. It's famous for its beautiful fresh water lake, Lake Malawi, and its beautiful landscape. Malawi is home to some of the friendliest people I have ever met and hence the country has the nickname "The Warm Heart of Africa". This country is ranked as one as… Continue reading The Beautiful Lake Malawi
The Serengeti, Lake Victoria and Zanzibar: Tanzania Had It All…
We crossed the border from Rwanda into Tanzania. Straight away we could see the change in vegetation. The banana and eucalyptus trees were replaced by a savanna landscape and the roads went back to having a lot of potholes. Tanzania is well known for its wilderness, amongst which is one of the worlds most famous… Continue reading The Serengeti, Lake Victoria and Zanzibar: Tanzania Had It All…
Exploring Kenya and its Wildlife
Kenya was the first stop in my 54 day adventure around Africa. This was a great way to start the trip as we saw so many animal. Kenya was unreal in terms of wildlife such as warthogs and zebra casually grazing on the side of the road. The landscape was covered in acacia trees and… Continue reading Exploring Kenya and its Wildlife
After we finished our trek with the gorillas in Uganda we wasted no time and headed straight to the border and crossed over into Rwanda. This was interesting because when we arrived at the border three of our group members discovered that they hadn't been given entry stamps for Uganda. This caused a bit of… Continue reading Rwanda
Uganda: Gorillas, Chimpanzees and the Nile River
We spent a week in Uganda and I loved every second of it! Our time was spilt into three sections, we spent three nights in Jinja, one night in Kampala and two nights in Kabale. Uganda is a landlocked country in Eastern Africa with a diverse landscape due to it lying on both sides of… Continue reading Uganda: Gorillas, Chimpanzees and the Nile River
My Trip with Oasis Overland
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Gold prices may jump further by 20 per cent to touch Rs 32,500 per 10 gram here on 'Dhanteras', a day considered auspicious for buying the precious metal, bullion traders said today.
Bullion traders expect that high prices would hit sales in volume terms by up to 30 per cent compared to the last 'Dhanteras' sales, but jewellers like Geetanjali and P P Jewellers are hopeful of rise in sales by about 10 per cent on Dhanteras which is falling on Sunday.
"Gold rates have increased by Rs 270 to Rs 32,040 per ten gram today taking strong global cues. Domestic prices are expected to rise by at least Rs 200-300 to touch Rs 32,500 per ten gram on Dhanteras day on Sunday," All India Sarafa Association Vice President Surinder Jain told PTI.
Gold prices were ruling at Rs 27,130 per 10 gram and Rs 19,740 per 10 gram on the Dhanteras day in 2011 and 2010, respectively, the trade data showed.
Mr Jain, who also heads Chandni Chowk Jewellery Association, noted that domestic prices are expected to rally in the coming months and might even touch Rs 35,000-mark anytime this year.
Echoing views, Bombay Bullion Association President Prithviraj Kothari said: "Prices are expected to be around Rs 32,500 per ten gram on Dhanteras day."
Because of firm prices, gold buying could drop by up to 30 per cent in volume terms on the Dhanteras day, when jewellers normally register the highest gold sales in a year, Mr Kothari said.
Stating that gold as an investment asset has given positive returns in the last few years, SMC Comtrade Chairman and Managing Director D K Aggarwal said, "Gold rate has risen by Rs 4,000-8,000 per ten gram on each Dhanteras day in last five years. Despite high rates, consumers continue to buy."
In the short-term, gold rates are, however, unlikely to decline below Rs 30,000 per 10 gram, he added.
Geetanjali Group Chairman and Managing Director Mehul Chowksi said, "High prices will not be a barrier for Indian consumers. We expect 10 per cent increase in sales in volume terms on Dhanteras."
P P Jewellers Director Pawan Gupta expressed similar views on sales front. "We are expecting better sales on Sunday despite prices remaining high. We see demand for Hallmark jewellery to surpass gold and silver coins because of greater awareness about quality certificate."
India, the world's largest consumer of gold, is expected to import 750-800 tonnes in 2012 calendar year, down from 969 tonnes in the last year.


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Scott Rasmussen finds that most Americans, and especially most parents of school-age children, view the idea of armed guards in schools positively:
Fifty-four percent (54%) of American adults would feel safer if their child's school had an armed security guard. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% would feel safer if their child attended a school where no adults were allowed to have guns. Another 20% are undecided.
Among parents of school-aged children, support for armed guards is even higher. Sixty-two percent (62%) of such parents would feel safer with an armed security guard at the school, while 22% would feel safer if their child attended a gun-free school.
Feeling safer and being willing to pay for all those armed guards–there are somewhere around 100,000 public schools in the United States–are two different questions, of course. My own view is that authorizing and systematically encouraging teachers, administrators and custodians to be trained and armed makes much more sense. But in any event, it is noteworthy that most Americans do not share liberals' outrage at the suggestion that the cure for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.


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This month we're going to mix it up a bit and have a "Coffee and Chic Flick" night. We'll meet at the Cafe next to the Southbank Cinemas for a coffee and chat and follow it up with a movie.
Thanks to Lisa for suggesting Australia - AUSTRALIA is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (NICOLE KIDMAN) travels to the faraway continent where she meets a rough-hewn local (HUGH JACKMAN) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited.
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text: St. Joseph Hospital and Local Salon Team Up to Cut for a Cure May 16, 2012 Contributor: Carmen Morales, Cut for a Cure Committee Chair, and Cindy Tran, D.O., Circles of Life Committee Chair. St. Joseph Hospital of Orange, Calif. and the Joshua Christopher Salon in Fullerton came together on May 6, for a day of pampering, food and fun at the fifth annual Cut for a Cure event. Nearly $3,200 was raised for The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment at St. Joseph Hospital. Stylists from the Joshua Christopher Salon donated their time and talent to offer discounted hair and beauty services to the community. Attendees included St. Joseph Hospital cancer survivors and their friends and family, in addition to hospital physicians and staff. "We are so grateful to the Joshua Christopher Salon and to everyone who came out to support this wonderful event," said Carmen Morales, Cut for a Cure committee lead. "The stylists and staff of the Joshua Christopher Salon spend countless hours contributing to the cancer fight in our community through event partnerships like these." Karissa Benjamin, getting her hair styled in support of The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment. The Joshua Christopher Salon will also be donating cut and color services for all of the models at the upcoming St. Joseph Hospital Circle of Life Fashion Show, which will be held at the Hilton Anaheim Hotel on July 1, 2012. The fashion show models are nominated by St. Joseph Hospital physicians and staff to share their amazing stories of survival through their cancer journeys. For more information on the Circles of Life Fashion Show, please visit: http://www.sjo.org/For-Community/Ways-to-Give. Mary Jacobson, Campaign Director for the St. Joseph Hospital Foundation and Joshua Christopher Salon stylist, Eddie. The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment at St. Joseph Hospital was recently recognized for a second time with a distinguished, three-year Accreditation with Commendation by the American College of Surgeon's Commission on Cancer (ACoS-CoC) and is the sole California participant in the National Cancer Institute Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP). The Center is the first of its kind in Orange County and one of only a few in the nation offering the latest in preventative care, diagnostics, treatment and clinical trials and its cutting-edge facility and cancer programs allow our specially trained physicians to perform research and discover new treatments and therapies for cancer. One of the most recent additions to The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment is The Center for Breast Imaging and Diagnosis, which provides a full range of breast health services – from annual mammogram screenings to diagnostic services. Designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology, the Center offers fully digital screening and diagnostic mammograms, dedicated breast ultrasounds and minimally invasive biopsy techniques using ultrasound and stereotactic guidance. For more information about St. Joseph Hospital's comprehensive cancer services visit: www.sjo.org.


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This can be a void, this can be a portal, this can be everything ... OMG, it's like OurChart. JK. It's absolutely nothing like OurChart. If it was, I'd have 100 million readers and webisodes starring Rose Rollins and cute professional lesbians in hoodies. JK, they don't have 100 million readers. Also, I'm a professional lesbian in a hoodie.
Also, there was a time when I only wrote about funny things on here, when I was illusive to the point of almost complete disassociation. I just made jokes! Wanna know what happened? [Also: There are still mostly jokes, obvs, even in this post, if you look closely!]
OK, I'll tell you: I surrendered to my computer. There was a fight. My computer just sat there, like a sleeping bunny in the shape of a machine, and so I didn't want to fight it anymore, it was so kind and white and fluffy. I was tired.
Here's what else happened: I had this rule when I started Auto-Win never to say who I was dating, and I figured, always, you can read between the lines, it's clear, usually, if you care enough to pay attention -- not that anyone should. But if you want to. There are photographs, and comments, and allusions, whatever.
And then that rule done brizoke. And then it just kept gathering speed and things played out and fell apart ... and in between meeting and finally leaving is falling in love and then also all this other stuff; I had So Many Secrets, I was a professional tongue-holder, there were so many things I wasn't allowed [permitted] to talk about and that I still have not talked about. So I had to say something real, some kind of half-truth, to someone otherwise I would've died. But still, I think I mostly still stick to jokes. Here I go: ME MEMEMEME. ME.
[I feel like I'm repeating myself all the time now!! Am I?! I have so many conversations in different formats these days I cannot keep track!]
On Monday night, I stayed up all night talking to someone I'd never spoken to before, a commenter who's always been superior at reading between the lines. Extraordinary, really, this girl, compelling: building new geometry. I was bad at geometry. If I knew how to prove things in numbered lists, I'd probably be more successful in general than I am.
We talked about this; this whole blog-i-verse. How the real becomes so much chaos and feels nothing like the reality you were informed of when you first got yourself born and were told life was a certain thing; it involved eating and sleeping, giving love and getting it back, having dreams and then realizing them, etc., etc.
Then Dana died.
JK. Then you woke up. Then you sank into a little hole and then you realised that hole had a keyboard.
Who are you, all of you who read every post but never say anything? You don't have to say anything, of course. It's fine. I am totes contentified by the ones that do. But still, I'm intrigued just the same. Are you hot? Do you work for HBO? Are you gay? Are you fun? Are you a boy? Are you a weirdo? Have we slept together?
So this is what I'm doing right now for the first time since like, '06. I am just going to write some stuff and then post it. No editing, no second-guessing, no thematic whatever. Just: here. Ramble ramble. Remarkable that the other shit I post is actually edited, yeah? Because it still goes ramble ramble ramble.
Dear New York City: They call you "the city that never sleeps." I think that might be why you are so bat-shit crazy. Some call you "The Big Apple," which doesn't make sense. There is nothing about you that reminds me of apples.
I don't stay up all night, that's not my thing. I don't sleep very often either, but I like at least 4-5 hours a night.
Question for All Readers, Please Answer in Comments: How many hours a night do you sleep, usually? Do you ever go without? How's that working out for ya, being clever? (JK, that's a movie reference, who knows it?)
Other people pull all-nighters all the time, because other people are cooler than me. It's a contest: whomever sleeps the least wins. The less you sleep, the more important you are. Haven't you seen "The West Wing"? No one sleeps on that show and they run the country. Does that scare you? That everyone in charge of this country hasn't slept?
Have you seen "Hey Paula"?
iii. "Neighbourhoods will try to dream while you and me we hold and lean." (Stars)
We are always asking each other "Shouldn't you be asleep?" "Have you slept?" We chug Red Bull and coffee and popping pills and doing whatever it takes to stay awake, to do everything we can before the roof caves in or it floods. We stand before our beds and wonder why there is so much stuff on them and not our bodies.
I have moved my office from the living room to the roof. [And took these photos there, obvs] I should have a party up here. This is the best part of the city; roofs. Like in the movies. I haven't been up here in so long because the last time I was here, I was given a pretty stern lecture about my position in the Kingdom of Heaven and my apparent denial of Eternal Life. Really? Eternal life? You mean we can do this FOREVER? 'Cause it's really fun right now, let's please keep going. Push me. No wait. Don't. I'm jumping. Wait. I can't. This is the opposite of jumping, whatever this is. Hold me.
I am right now reclaiming the roof, just like I had to reclaim my life and Depeche Mode. And my lines.
2007 has been the Year That Never Sleeps, I've seen the sun rise too many times as it's been nothing if not unstable:
-Monday mornings when I'd still be pounding out an "L Word" recap in my imaginary race with scribegrrl.
-Team Rebound, up all night on iChat: "can't sleep, should sleep, wired," the early insomniac days, wanting a cure but also I think just wanting light. Waiting for it but not knowing or remembering that it always comes at the same time, like clockwork. Obvs.
-Writing that goddamn article for [redacted] magazine.
-[her] love, love, love, mania, love, mania, mania, love, love, love, mania, mania, love, mania, love, love, love, love, maninamanaiamania
-Maggie would be in the kitchen too by the coffee-maker, fucking Folgers. I hate the smell of coffee in an NYC apartment. It turns something awful.
So Monday night, I was on the phone for six hours and afterwards all I could do was lie in bed and think over the conversation. Then I had to get up and actually Go Places, Be Places, and kept waiting for the moment when I'd start to hallucinate or become some kind of manic genius. That never happened. Sometimes I felt like my throat was going to swallow my face. That didn't actually happen either. Actually I still feel like that.
[Sometimes I think sometimes this blog is an exercise in passive aggressiveness, 'cause in real life, I'm pretty passive-passive or aggressive-aggressive. Unless I'm in some kind of special situation that somehow prevents my freedom of speech. So maybe I'm being passive aggressive. OMG someone should start a blog and call it "passive aggressive blog."]]
I am Riese and this is my heart.
It reminded me of the old days when I couldn't sleep and I'd stay up all night watching Undressed marathons on MTV and writing letters. I could sleep in then, though, because I was 15 and lived at home with my Mom and worked at Dana's Deli at 3pm for $4.75/hour. I wish that show was still on.


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Got an AED? Group pushing defibrillator awareness
A new partnership between the Charlottesville Fire Department and the Chamber of Commerce wants to elevate awareness of Automatic External Defibrillators, or AEDs, in order to save lives when hearts stop.
"Operation Kickstarter," was the brainchild of Leadership Charlottesville, a Chamber enterprise that volunteered to take an inventory of every workplace AED in Charlottesville, one step toward the goals of raising awareness and, in turn, saving lives during cardiac arrest.
Anyone who wants to register their AED can visit cvilleaed.com and potentially help save a life. However, Charlottesville Fire Chief Charles Werner, who helped announce the new database May 17, says that the data is just a start.
"Even though we're making great progress in getting AEDs into buildings," says Werner, "people are reluctant to use them. So we've got to change the culture."
Operation Kickstarter plans to create an AED-finding application that will help instantly pinpoint the nearest AED when someone's heart stops beating.
"That's the next step," says Werner, estimating that app development might begin as soon as six months.Read more on: AEDs
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GREAT IDEA! I just saw that this group is offering AEDs below Distributor cost for one week only (starting Friday June 1) as part of their National CPR & AED Awareness Week Promotions.
AED Defibrillators Available at Discount
In honor of National CPR & AED Awareness Week, AED Supply Store is offering the lowest pricing available for AED's. This company was formed by Harvard Reynolds in response to the sudden cardiac arrest death of his father in 1999 - and they offer the lowest pricing available for AED's. A leading national Certified Training Center for the American Heart Association, AED Supply Store has the corporate mission "To Help Save Lives".
Toll-Free Phone: (866) 932-2331
Contact Name: Harvard Reynolds, Principal
Contact E-Mail: email@example.com
Website Address: www.AEDSupplyStore.com
I compared, and www.First-Aid-Product was offering AEDs for about $400 less per unit - But the lowest were through an application and approval process at www.AedGrant.com (recommended by First-Aid-Product.com, surprisingly. for Individuals, Groups, and even businesses looking to deploy these lifesaving devices but not pay high retail prices)
OOPs - here's a better link http://www.first-aid-product.com/industrial/aed-automated-external-defib...


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Screw Alterac Valley with their faction leader bosses, they are Hogger to the new BG boss.
The DC boss.
He takes many forms, changing to meet the desire utmost of your heart.
- Mage food – he looks like a Mage table.
- Health stones – she looks like a Lock candy fountain
- Buff food – he looks like the oh-so desirable fish feast, or great feast, in fact any feast that gets your characters mouth watering is the DC boss.
- As for those noobs fighting for the flag in EotS when there are bases yet uncapped… Welcome to your greatest desire… THE DC BOSS!
If course if you do manage to grab the flag without meeting the DC boss, don't take it to Fel Reaver Ruins, cause that's bugged (won a few EotS this weekend while the Horde tried in a futile attempt to cap it there).
Of course your greatest desire when in a BG is recovering from a quick death, letting that spirit healer fill you full of health and mana so you can sacrifice your body and soul for the cause.
Deathwing's minion, the spirit healer laughs upon you and you remain, Rez spawn after Rez spawn a helpless spirit.
Kind of makes it hard to bring your best to BGs, even if you are now fully geared in Wrathful.
Tell people not to summon the good stuff.
If they do, keep your mouse away from it.
The flag is a bugger, you just need to take your chances with that.
FFR – You do own more than one base don't you?
Spirit non-Healer… Run away little Gnome! Then when out of Rez range, hit the big Return to Graveyard button… Works most of the time.
Getting Nasty
Of course, if you have a nasty streak, you can use this to your advantage.
I wouldn't and haven't, but I have heard of those nasty Horde leaving a feast at the flag, so people get two chances at disconnecting when trying for the flag… even running past if was enough.
Or if you can't take all 4 bases in Eye of the Storm, why not leave Fel Reaver Ruins to your flag running opponents.
If they don't DC when they try to pick it up, they have no where to plant it.
Of course it could all be fixed tonight…
I'm off to ride my new horse… maybe I'll ride it in the BGs!
Gnomer and Out!
PS: Did you see the Raid from the Heart Video?
Last year's Swingers soundtrack is one of my favorites.. this years another favorite, made all the better by the excessive presence of a certain hyperactive Gnome that you all know, and hopefully love.
Now I just have to work out how to get 40mb of screenshots to BBB…
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SPRINGFIELD — Gay marriage supporters said today they have moved to "within striking distance" of collecting enough votes to pass a bill in early January.
Sen. Heather Steans and Rep. Greg Harris unveiled plans to take up the measure in the closing days of the current General Assembly before a new set of lawmakers are sworn in Jan. 9.
The legislation would allow same-sex marriage and protect the right of religious institutions to either consecrate or not consecrate such weddings, but church leaders from a variety of faiths have rallied staunch opposition.
Nine states allow gay marriage, including three states --- Maine, Maryland and Washington --- that approved legalizing gay marriage.
Both Steans and Harris said the ballot-box victories elsewhere last month represent a "sea change" that they are seeing among colleagues in Illinois. The two Chicago Democrats said they plan to put up the same-sex marriage bill for a vote and indicated they wouldn't do that without believing it would pass. Still, they remained cautious.
Steans said the two "don't want to lose the momentum" and "we want to do it now."
"Public sentiment is moving fast on this," Steans said, pointing out support from Gov. Pat Quinn, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and President Barack Obama. "It's just a wave now. It's moving very quickly."
The two have to muster 60 House votes and 30 Senate votes. If that happens, Quinn has indicated he would sign the bill into law. Such a measure would take effect in the summer, the lawmakers said. The measure also would recognize gay marriages performed in other states, they said.
Harris said constituents have made arguments to a growing number of lawmakers, raising questions like, "Why would our state treat our lesbian granddaughter with less respect than our straight grandson?"
The gay marriage push comes after the state first allowed civil unions for same-sex and heterosexual partners in 2011. Opponents of civil unions predicted that fight would open the door to making gay marriage legal in only a matter of time, but the timetable for action is moving quicker than many foes may have anticipated.
Opponents cite religious concerns, saying the sanctity of marriage should be protected and the institution be defined as between a man and a woman. But Harris has said the question for Illinois has turned from whether the state would pass gay marriage to when.
On Monday, Quinn said he hopes lawmakers would send him the gay marriage bill in January. But Harris had cautioned that the legislative agenda is filling up with so many big-ticket items like pension reform and casino expansion proposals that there might not be enough time and room for gay marriage to be taken up. Harris also wanted to make sure he had the votes to pass the bill before going forward on such a contentious issue.
But with dozens of lame-duck lawmakers available to cast votes more freely as they prepare to walk out the door, they may be able to provide enough support to pick up the final votes needed to pass the gay marriage bill.
Quinn called the House the "key arena at this time" and urged lawmakers sitting on the fence to "vote their conscience."
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Prepare yourself for the successfully comedic pairing of Bender and his ventriloquist dummy friend...Small Fry. However, things go awry when big and real Fry believes the dummy plans to take over his life. Meanwhile, Leela looks for a way to remove stress from her life and attain inner peace.
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When the Internet exploded this week with word topless photos of Dame Helen Mirren were published in New York magazine, the brouhaha might have had fans expecting the 64-year old Mirren to be stark naked, riding a unicorn side-saddle and eating a Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich with Elvis.
Not exactly.
All that raucous was over a little flash of murky areola under water in a bathtub. What a snooze of a "controversy." At press day for her new film, "Love Ranch," Mirren scoffed at the free-for-all the photos had ignited.
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"I know. Please! Idiotic. What can you do?" she said with a dismissive wave of the hand before continuing.
"Those photographs were taken by a very great art photographer, one of the best in Europe. Whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's how you get the best work, or, at least, the most interesting work. I gave [photographer Juergen Teller] his freedom and that was the result. I like the photos because I thought they were naked in the proper sense of the word: I've got very little makeup, there's no elaborate lighting and it's simple and real. They weren't intended to be sexy. I think sex and nudity are two different things. People tend to get the two mixed up."
When asked if she felt that people were upset because the actress is willing to flaunt her body at an age beyond the Hollywood norm , she quietly replied, "Well, too bad," cracked a knowing smile and started to laugh.
Take that haters.
"Love Ranch" opens June 30.


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A Pythagorean triplet is a set of three natural numbers, a b c, for which,
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
For example,
3^2 + 4^2 = 9 + 16 = 5^2 = 25.
There exists exactly one Pythagorean triplet for which a + b + c = N (the input).
Find the product abc.
Thank you to Project Euler Problem 9.
The description should be 9 + 16 = 5^2 and not 9+16 = 2^5 ?
Thanks Aurelien! Fixed it.
This is an interesting problem. Apparently everyone (including me) had to solve it by a basic brute force method with oly very slight variations. I did manage to use my MATLAB copy to use solve from the symbolic toolbox to get the answers, but the version of MATLAB on which Cody runs doesn't have access to a license for the symbolic toolbox.
@ Doug Hall, I have solved all the problems in the series. However, I have not received the badge and the associated scores on completion of the series. Can you please help me with this?
Doug: Just wondering if the last test case is incorrect. It seems like for the input of 3200, the p-triplet should be (700, 1152, 1348) and y_correct should be 1087027200. Please do let me know if I am wrong. Cheers, VL.
There is another one: (640,1200,1360). y_correct = 1044480000.
I just noticed that. I had thrown in a new test suite because someone had hardcoded the solutions in. I guess I did not test it right. Problem solved and submissions are being rescored now.
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Top 10 Holiday Celebrations
From boat parades to a holiday train, these coastal attractions celebrate the season right.
Holidays on the Harbor, Punta Gorda, Florida
No white Christmas here. Instead, this town hosts a county-wide outdoor party with numerous activities throughout the month that take advantage of December's mid-70s temperatures. Take a canal cruise to view docks and homes lit up for the season. Enjoy the annual Christmas parade and don't miss downtown's Holly Days celebration; 800/652-6090 or charlotteharbortravel.com.
Christmas Boat Parade, Newport Beach, California
Thousands head to Balboa Island every year for this century-old maritime tradition. Swanky yachts, small schooners, and even kayaks deck their hulls and parade through Newport Harbor. Landlubbers can catch the action from almost anywhere on shore. Reserve a table at Balboa Bay Club & Resort, The Chart House, or another waterfront restaurant for an evening of "light" dining. And be sure to catch the fireworks show on the final night of the parade, beginning at 9 p.m.; December 14–18; 949/729-4400 or christmasboatparade.com.
Christmas New Orleans Style, Louisiana
This monthlong Creole Christmas offers something for everyone: cooking demonstrations with area chefs, caroling in Jackson Square, Cirque du Soleil's Cirque Dreams Holidaze show , holiday home tours, and Reveillon dinners (an 1800s Creole tradition) at classic New Orleans restaurants. Christmas Eve highlights include a cruise on the steamboat Natchez and a Christmas Eve Bonfire Adventure. Insider's tip: Look for "Papa Noel" discounted room rates at area hotels throughout the month; 504/522-5730, fqfi.org/christmas, or neworleansonline.com.
Christmas in Edgartown, Massachusetts
Visit this Martha's Vineyard town and you can't help but get in the holiday spirit. Victorian inns trimmed in red and green hold open-house tours. Donaroma's Nursery holds a wreath-making workshop for long-lasting holiday accents. Warm up with a hearty bowl at the annual chowder contest. Other highlights include the parade down Main Street, and tree lighting and carols at the Village Green. Special events take place December 09–11; edgartownboardoftrade.com.
Christmas Ship Festival, Seattle, Washington
Each night from the end of November through December 23, Argosy Cruises takes passengers on a tour filled with music and cheer. Aboard the Christmas Ship, Argosy's Spirit of Seattle, passengers visit with the man in red and sing along with carolers. The ship leads a fleet of parading vessels, broadcasting carols along the way. Visitors can also catch the concert on land at one of several viewing areas along Puget Sound; 888/623-1445 or argosycruises.com.
Christmas Tree Ship, Vermilion, Ohio
On December 3, this town on the southern shore of Lake Erie re-creates a Great Lakes tradition. The Christmas Tree Ship completes a voyage that ended in disaster in 1887 when a fishing schooner sank in a December storm. A local icebreaker unloads its cut-spruce cargo in historic Harbour Town. Pick out the perfect tree, then enjoy live music, lunch with Santa, and a snack of pumpkin rolls, a local delicacy made with pumpkin bread rolled around a sweet cream-cheese filling; 440/522-0433 or vermilionohio.com.
Holiday Train, Alaska
The Alaska Railroad welcomes the season with this excursion through Anchorage. Mr. and Mrs. Claus, carolers, and elves entertain passengers on their way from Anchorage to Indian. This year, world champion teen magician, Eric Gillam will be aboard to entertain kids and kids at heart.; 907/265-2494 or alaskarailroad.com.
Holiday Festival of Lights, Charleston, South Carolina
James Island County Park lights up for this Lowcountry celebration running from November 11 through January 1. A three-mile driving tour passes millions of twinkling lights. Park your car and roast marshmallows around one of the fire pits, visit Santa's Village for the Enchanted Walking Trail and a 50-ton sand sculpture, or take a ride on the old-fashioned carousel; 843/795-4386 or holidayfestivaloflights.com.
St. Augustine, Florida
There's no better time to visit the nation's oldest city. Climb the St. Augustine Lighthouse for a bird's-eye view of the town lit for Nights of Lights, a display of 2 million twinkling bulbs that remains through December. Enjoy caroling, hot apple cider and homemade cookies as you take in the glimmering show. On December 3, catch the 57th Annual Christmas parade. It's one of the largest parades in North Florida complete with floats, marching bands, horses, and of course, Santa's arrival; 800/653-2489 or getaway4florida.com.
Holiday Lights, Shore Acres State Park, Oregon
Friends of Shore Acres had no idea they were starting a tradition 21 years ago when they strung a few lights on a blufftop park overlooking the Pacific. Today tens of thousands visit Coos Bay, touring gardens filled with holiday and maritime luminarias open from Thanksgiving to New Year's Eve. Among the highlights, an animated life-size whale and a formal landscaping display; 541/888-3732 or shoreacres.net.


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Who is Jane Addams?
Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois. Her mother died when she was two, and she was raised by her father and, later, a stepmother. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, among the first students to take a course of study equivalent to that of men at other institutions. Her father, whom she admired tremendously, died that same year, 1881.
Jane Addams attended Woman's Medical College in Pennsylvania, but she left the college, probably due to her ill health and her chronic back pain. Jane Addams toured Europe 1883-5 and then lived in Baltimore 1885-7, but did not figure out what she wanted to do with her education and her skills.
In 1888, on a visit to England with her Rockford classmate Ellen Gates Starr, Jane Addams visited Toynbee Settlement Hall and London's East End. Jane Addams and Ellen Starr planned to start an American equivalent of that settlement house. After their return they chose Hull mansion, a building which had, though originally built at the edge of the city, become surrounded by an immigrant neighborhood and had been used as a warehouse.
Using an experimental model of reform -- trying solutions to see what would work -- and committed to full- and part-time residents to keep in touch with the neighborhood's real needs, Jane Addams built Hull-House into an institution known worldwide. Addams wrote articles, lectured widely and did most of the fund-raising personally and served on many social work, social welfare and settlement house boards and commissions.
Jane Addams also became involved in wider efforts for social reform, including housing and sanitation issues, factory inspection, rights of immigrants, women and children, pacifism and the 8-hour day. She served as a Vice President of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1911-1914.
In 1912, Jane Addams campaigned for the Progressive Party and its presidential candidate, Teddy Roosevelt. She worked with the Peace Party, helped found and served as president (1919-1935) of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
In 1931 Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Nicholas Murray Butler, but her health was too fragile to attend the European ceremonies to accept the prize. She was the second woman to be awarded that honor. Jane Addams died in 1935.


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A lot of great pieces have been written about the (relatively) recent surge in interest in "big data" and "data science", but in this piece I want to address the importance of deep data analysis: what we can learn from the statistical outliers by drilling down and asking, "What's different here? What's special about these outliers and what do they tell us about our models and assumptions?"
The reason that big data proponents are so excited about the burgeoning data revolution isn't just because of the math. Don't get me wrong, the math is fun, but we're excited because we can begin to distill patterns that were previously invisible to us due to a lack of information.
That's big data.
Of course, data are just a collection of facts; bits of information that are only given context--assigned meaning and importance--by human minds. It's not until we do something with the data that any of it matters. You can have the best machine learning algorithms, the tightest statistics, and the smartest people working on them, but none of that means anything until someone makes a story out of the results.
And therein lies the rub.
Do all these data tell us a story about ourselves and the universe in which we live, or are we simply hallucinating patterns that we want to see?
(Semi)Automated Science
In 2010, Cornell researchers Michael Schmidt and Hod Lipson published a groundbreaking paper in Science titled, "Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data". The premise was simple, and it essentially boiled down to the question, "can we algorithmically extract models to fit our data?"
So they hooked up a double pendulum--a seemingly chaotic system whose movements are governed by classical mechanics--and trained a machine learning algorithm on the motion data.
Their results were astounding.
In a matter of minutes the algorithm converged on Newton's second law of motion: f = ma. What took humanity tens of thousands of years to accomplish was completed on 32-cores in essentially no time at all.
In 2011 some neuroscience colleagues of mine, lead by Tal Yarkoni, published a paper in Nature Methods titled "Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data". In this paper the authors sought to extract patterns from the overwhelming flood of brain imaging research.
To do this they algorithmically extracted the 3D coordinates of significant brain activations from thousands of neuroimaging studies, along with words that frequently appeared in each study. Using these two pieces of data along with some simple (but clever) mathematical tools, they were able to create probabilistic maps of brain activation for any given term.
In other words, you type in a word such as "learning" on their website search and visualization tool, NeuroSynth, and they give you back a pattern of brain activity that you should expect to see during a learning task.
But that's not all. Given a pattern of brain activation, the system can perform a reverse inference, asking, "given the data that I'm observing, what is the most probable behavioral state that this brain is in?"
Similarly, in late 2010, my wife (Jessica Voytek) and I undertook a project to algorithmically discover associations between concepts in the peer-reviewed neuroscience literature. As a neuroscientist, the goal of my research is to understand relationships between the human brain, behavior, physiology, and disease. Unfortunately, the facts that tie all that information together are locked away in more than 21 million static peer-reviewed scientific publications.
How many undergrads would I need to hire to read through that many papers? Any volunteers?
Even more mind-boggling, each year more than 30,000 neuroscientists attend the annual Society for Neuroscience conference. If we assume that only two-thirds of those people actually do research, and if we assume that they only work a meager (for the sciences) 40 hours a week, that's around 40 million person-hours dedicated to but one branch of the sciences.
This means that in the 10 years I've been attending that conference, more than 400 million person-hours have gone toward the pursuit of understanding the brain. Humanity built the pyramids in 30 years. The Apollo Project got us to the moon in about 8.
So my wife and I said to ourselves, "there has to be a better way".
Which lead us to create brainSCANr, a simple (simplistic?) tool (currently itself under peer review) that makes the assumption that the more often that two concepts appear together in the titles or abstracts of published papers, the more likely they are to be associated with one another.
For example, if 10,000 papers mention "Alzheimer's disease" that also mention "dementia", then Alzheimer's disease is probably related to dementia. In fact, there are 17087 papers that mention Alzheimer's and dementia, whereas there are only 14 papers that mention Alzheimer's and, for example, creativity.
From this, we built what we're calling the "cognome", a mapping between brain structure, function, and disease.
Big data, data mining, and machine learning are becoming critical tools in the modern scientific arsenal. Examples abound: text mining recipes to find cultural food taste preferences, analyzing cultural trends via word use in books ("culturomics"), identifying seasonality of mood from tweets, and so on.
But so what?
Deep Data
What those three studies show us is that it's possible to automate, or at least semi-automate, critical aspects of the scientific method itself. Schmidt and Lipson show that it is possible to extract equations that perfectly model even seemingly chaotic systems. Yarkoni and colleagues show that it is possible to infer a complex behavioral state given input brian data.
My wife and I wanted to show that brainSCANr could be put to work for something more useful than just quantifying relationships between terms. So we created a simple algorithm to perform what we're calling "semi-automated hypothesis generation", which is predicated on a basic "the friend of a friend should be a friend" concept.
In the example below, the neurotransmitter "serotonin" has thousands of shared publications with "migraine", as well as with the brain region "striatum". However migraine and striatum only share 16 publications.
That's very odd. Because in medicine there is a serotonin hypothesis for the root cause of migraines. And we (neuroscientists) know that serotonin is released in the striatum to modulate brain activity in that region. Given that those two things are true, why is there so little research regarding the role of the striatum in migraines?
Perhaps there's a missing connection?
Such missing links and other outliers in our models are the essence of deep data analytics. Sure, any data scientist worth their salt can take a mountain of data and reduce it down to a few simple plots. And such plots are important because they tell a story. But those aren't the only stories that our data can tell us.
For example, in my geoanalytics work as the Data Evangelist for Uber, I put some of my (definitely rudimentary) neuroscience network analytic skills to work to figure out how people move from neighborhood to neighborhood in San Francisco.
At one point, I checked to see if men and women moved around the city differently. A very simple regression model showed that the number of men who go to any given neighborhood significantly predicts the number of woman who go to that same neighborhood.
No big deal.
But what's cool was seeing where the outliers were. When I looked at the models' residuals, that's where I found the far more interesting story. While it's good to have a model that fits your data, knowing where the model breaks down is not only important for internal metrics, but it also makes for a more interesting story:
What's happening in the Marina district that so many more women want to go there? And why are there so many more men in SoMa?
The Paradox of Information
The interpretation of big data analytics can be a messy game. Maybe there are more men in SoMa because that's where AT&T Park is. But maybe there are just 5 guys who live in SoMa who happen to take Uber 100 times more often than average.
While data-driven posts make for fun reading (and writing), in the sciences we need to be more careful that we don't fall prey to ad hoc, just-so stories that sound perfectly reasonable and plausible, but which we cannot conclusively prove.
In 2008, psychologists David McCabe and Alan Castel published a paper in the journal Cognition titled, "Seeing is believing: The effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning". In that paper, they showed that summaries of cognitive neuroscience findings that are accompanied by an image of a brain scan were rated as more credible by the readers.
This should cause any data scientist serious concern. In fact, I've formulated three laws of statistical analyses:
- The more advanced the statistical methods used, the fewer critics are available to be properly skeptical.
- The more advanced the statistical methods used, the more likely the data analyst will be to use math as a shield.
- Any sufficiently advanced statistics can trick people into believing the results reflect truth.
The first law is closely related to the "bike shed effect" (also known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality) which states that, "the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
In other words, if you try to build a simple thing such as a public bike shed, there will be endless town hall discussions wherein people argue over trivial details such as the color of the door. But if you want to build a nuclear power plant--a project so vast and complicated that most people can't understand it--people will defer to expert opinion.
Such is the case with statistics.
If you make the mistake of going into the comments section of any news piece discussing a scientific finding, invariably someone will leave the comment, "correlation does not equal causation".
We'll go ahead and call that truism Voytek's fourth law.
But people rarely have the capacity to argue against the methods and models used by, say, neuroscientists or cosmologists.
But sometimes we get perfect models without any understanding of the underlying processes. What do we learn from that?
The always fantastic Radiolab did a followup story on the Schmidt and Lipson "automated science" research in an episode titled "Limits of Science". It turns out, a biologist contacted Schmidt and Lipson and gave them data to run their algorithm on. They wanted to figure out the principles governing the dynamics of a single-celled bacterium. Their result?
Well sometimes the stories we tell with data... they just don't make sense to us.
They found, "two equations that describe the data."
But they didn't know what the equations meant. They had no context. Their variables had no meaning. Or, as Radiolab co-host Jad Abumrad put it, "the more we turn to computers with these big questions, the more they'll give us answers that we just don't understand."
So while big data projects are creating ridiculously exciting new vistas for scientific exploration and collaboration, we have to take care to avoid the Paradox of Information wherein we can know too many things without knowing what those "things" are.
Because at some point, we'll have so much data that we'll stop being able to discern the map from the territory. Our goal as (data) scientists should be to distill the essence of the data into something that tells as true a story as possible while being as simple as possible to understand. Or, to operationalize that sentence better, we should aim to find balance between minimizing the residuals of our models and maximizing our ability to make sense of those models.
Recently Stephen Wolfram released the results of a 20-year long experiment in personal data collection, including every keystroke he's typed and every email he's sent. In response, Robert Krulwich, the other co-host of Radiolab, concludes by saying "I'm looking at your data [Dr. Wolfram], and you know what's amazing to me? How much of you is missing."
Personally, I disagree; I believe that there's a humanity in those numbers and that Mr. Krulwich is falling prey to the idea that science somehow ruins the magic of the universe. Quoth Dr. Sagan:
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works--that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
So go forth and create beautiful stories, my statistical friends. See you after peer-review.
Schmidt, M., & Lipson, H. (2009). Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data Science, 324 (5923), 81-85 DOI: 10.1126/science.1165893
Yarkoni, T., Poldrack, R., Nichols, T., Van Essen, D., & Wager, T. (2011). Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data Nature Methods, 8 (8), 665-670 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1635
Ahn, Y., Ahnert, S., Bagrow, J., & Barabási, A. (2011). Flavor network and the principles of food pairing Scientific Reports, 1 DOI: 10.1038/srep00196
Michel, J., Shen, Y., Aiden, A., Veres, A., Gray, M., , ., Pickett, J., Hoiberg, D., Clancy, D., Norvig, P., Orwant, J., Pinker, S., Nowak, M., & Aiden, E. (2010). Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books Science, 331 (6014), 176-182 DOI: 10.1126/science.1199644
Golder, S., & Macy, M. (2011). Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures Science, 333 (6051), 1878-1881 DOI: 10.1126/science.1202775
McCabe, D., & Castel, A. (2008). Seeing is believing: The effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning Cognition, 107 (1), 343-352 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.07.017


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Hi There,
I am writing this email with regards to the above publication you have on your website regarding the good samaritian.
I am in need of some advice with my case, I have sent my compliant to the Ombudsmand and the Local Authority.
I took on my nephew in December 2010 till September 2011. I was living in a one bedroom flat with my partner and daughter at the time was 3 years old. I was also pregnant with my second daughter. The local authority had seen how small my living situation was and still allowed for my nephew to stay with me.
I was initially going for a Kingship order but was informed by the social worker at the time that If I got a residency order first as this process was much quicker and would help me with my housing situation, and I could then go back and do the SGO. I was completely mislead and done what they had said as i thought this would help me get moved quicker. This was not the case. I then went onto do the SGO and the local authority had refused to support the application as they thought it was sufficient enough that I had the Residency Order even though this is not what i wanted. I was not informed with regards to financial help or that it would be means tested. This had completely thrown me that hey had not supported me. From the day I took my nephew on till now I have had no support whatsoever financially, emotionally and my nephew has had no support either. I now see why they talked me into the Residency Order, as they knew they would not have to help me financially or with any needs that my nephew may have.
Before my sisters children were taken it has already been proved by the Local Authority that they was already in the stages of having the children removed.
We have saved the local authority thousands of pounds, I am not asking for much, I just want what is right for my nephew and his future, he deserves to have a good start in life as this local authority have failed these children.
The local authority have given me a backdated figure based on the national minimum fostering allowance less any benefits I received and informed me that going forward I would received a certain amount.
They have now back tracked and said they are only willing to back date payments from December 2012 from when I got the court order and this will be means tested, which i was not informed of from the start.
From December 2010 till when I got the court order surely I should have been seen as a friends and family carer so should be entitled to be backdated from December 2010. And I am sure my nephew was a looked after child from when I took him on till when I got the court order as my sister was not present at any meetings and did not give her permission for me to take my nephew. I am not sure if they means test on friends and family? My nephew was on child protection register.
I would also like to know if my nephew is not related to my partner why I should be means tested under his earnings too, he is not his child and we are not married. I have never been able to claim child tax for my nephew either.
Also would my nephew be entitled to any long term support package going forward? he did not have the best start in life and although he seems to be ok now who is to say that in the future he will not need support with regards to any issues that may arise. I just want my nephew to have the support he should be entitled to and any help he may be entitled to once at the age of living on his own.
I really hope you can give me some advice going forward. I am at my wits end as they have just mucked me around for nearly 7 years now and just wont do what is right by the child.
Thank you
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Dear R123,
Thank you for your post. I can see that you have also posted on our Family and Friends Carers Board. As you are an aunt and that is a more suitable place for your post, I won't reply to your questions here but a reply will be posted as soon as possible on that board.
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Thank you for your post. I can see that you have also posted on our Family and Friends Carers Board. As you are an aunt and that is a more suitable place for your post, I won't reply to your questions here but a reply will be posted as soon as possible on that board.
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Two Arkansas baseball player arrested; charged with shoplifting
Two Arkansas baseball players were arrested by Fayetteville police Sunday and charged with shoplifting.
Colin Poche, 19, and Adam Meyer, 19, were booked in the Washington County jail around 7 p.m. Sunday night. Both were later released on a $565 bond.
According to the arrest report, Meyer and Poche attempted to steal two cases of beer and sandwiches from the Walmart Supercenter on Martin Luther King Blvd.
Brandon Meredith, one of the store's loss prevention officers, told police he saw Poche conceal two cases of beer in a tote bag in their shopping cart on the alcohol aisle.
Merideth said he saw the suspects remove the price labels from their sandwiches and then leave the store without paying for the items.
Poche and Meyer were confronted by Meredith and another loss prevention officer outside the store. The stolen items were recovered before they were taken to jail.
Both have hearings scheduled for Wednesday.
Both players are freshmen at the the University of Arkansas and left-handed pitchers for the Razorbacks.


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Wis. Republicans address convention crowd
Gov. Scott Walker among speakers
Wisconsin Republicans addressed delegates Saturday at the state GOP Convention in downtown Milwaukee.
Gov. Scott Walker was among the speakers.
Walker still hasn't committed to serving a full second term, but Republicans at the convention didn't seem to care.
Walker faces re-election in November, but he's pondering a presidential run in 2016 and hasn't committed to serving a full second term as governor. If Walker were to leave office, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, a former TV news anchor, would take over.
Marinette County GOP Chairwoman Shirley Kaufman said Walker should commit to a full term, but other Republican leaders said Walker's hesitancy is understandable, and delegates gave him a standing ovation as he took the stage at the convention Saturday.
Walker made no mention of running for president, but did ask delegates to give him and Kleefisch four more years.
Ryan to Republicans: Time to unify
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan told delegates at the convention that the party must unify.
Ryan spoke as delegates prepared to debate a tea party resolution affirming Wisconsin's right to secede. GOP leaders want to defeat it.
Ryan didn't mention the resolution but called on the party to unify so it can win elections.
Ryan complained about Lois Lerner, a former Internal Revenue Service official who has refused to answer questions about agents singling out tea party tax-exempt applications for scrutiny. He also promised answers about the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead in 2012.
House Speaker John Boehner said Friday he would create a committee to investigate the attack.
Ryan was the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee and is considered a possible presidential contender in 2016.
Petri, Van Hollen bid farewell
U.S. Rep. Tom Petri said goodbye at the convention.
Petri, a moderate, has held the 6th Congressional District seat for 35 years. He decided in April to retire rather than face a primary challenge this fall from state Sen. Glenn Grothman, one of the most conservative lawmakers in the Legislature.
Sen. Joe Leibham, a Sheboygan Republican, and Rep. Duey Stroebel, a Saukville Republican, have since jumped into the race. So have Democrats Gary Wetzel and Mark Harris.
Petri sounded broad themes during his farewell speech at the convention Saturday. He called on Republicans to embrace diversity, noting the party was founded by people of varied political stripes. He left the stage to a standing ovation.
Outgoing Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen also bid farewell through a video at the convention.
Van Hollen announced in 2013 he would not seek re-election this fall. Ismael Ozanne, Susan Happ and Jon Richards all are vying for the Democratic nomination. Brad Schimel is the only Republican in the race.
Van Hollen apologized for not appearing in person but promised he would attend the convention's prayer breakfast on Sunday. He didn't offer any explanation for his absence, and a state Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.
Van Hollen told delegates he has worked to protect their freedom and uphold the rule of law. He implored delegates to support Schimel.